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Hey guys,
Wonder if there is any way to move the task bar from bottom to top?
I found the some time I accidently hit the back button...moving top will be best holding position
It would be nice to have some control over that. At least if it was possible to set when it shows and hides - if not move it altogether.
I agree. The location and ease of hitting by mistake is VERY annoying. Not to mention it takes up display real-estate. I would rather have physical buttons, but Honeycomb is apparently designed this way. Google is trying to force streamlining of hardware. One of the reasons external storage was rough at first and still not on the Xoom. Google did not want external storage with HC, but OEMs pushed back.
I too would love to see at least the option to have it moved to the top.
I have had the Gtablet, Xoom, Transformer, and now the A500, and I can say that I love the the way the Gtablet notification bar was at the top. Especially after rooting it and installing Vegan on it. All of the naviagation keys were then located in the notification bar. Makes navigating much easier.
I think about how I use my tablet, and most of the time it's either setting in my lap, or on my stomach/chest while laying in bed. Try hitting the nav buttons on the bottom while doing this, and you quickly miss the option to have it on the top where it would be much easier to access.
tarheel23 said:
I too would love to see at least the option to have it moved to the top.
I have had the Gtablet, Xoom, Transformer, and now the A500, and I can say that I love the the way the Gtablet notification bar was at the top. Especially after rooting it and installing Vegan on it. All of the naviagation keys were then located in the notification bar. Makes navigating much easier.
I think about how I use my tablet, and most of the time it's either setting in my lap, or on my stomach/chest while laying in bed. Try hitting the nav buttons on the bottom while doing this, and you quickly miss the option to have it on the top where it would be much easier to access.
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I believe there is an oprion in vegan tab for it
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I wonder if it's a good idea to port the softkey in Kindle Fire to CM7 for Nook color. I feel the softkey on Kindle fire is quite nice, not disturbing but easy to call up when you need it. I use CM7 on my NC now but feel the soft key there is not as friendly as KF's.
I don't know whether someone would do that, or interested enough to do that. I know nothing about cooking a rom and porting features to a rom. Just think it's quite a nice piece for device without hard keys.
Anyway, I think I will use Honeycomb or ICS soon on my NC, so probably it will not be a problem there.
I'm curious. What exactly do you dislike about the cm7 soft keys?
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I wish you could have the menu button come up after the back button.
back button seems to be the button you use 8-10 times.
also, a larger width, spacing and more vertical pixels on the button and softbutton taskbar would be ideal. CM7 softkeys are too small on 7 inch tablet device
I can click them just fine and think the size is comfortable.
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with cm9 just around the corner and nativ soft key support....well it wilk not happen
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I'm not familiar with the Kindle Fire, or its interface, but what you're describing sounds a lot like SoftKeys, Button Savior or Virtual Button Bar.
Alternately, if interface elements are too small, crank up your screen density to 190 dpi or higher. At 240, they're REAL easy to hit.
bobstro said:
I'm not familiar with the Kindle Fire, or its interface, but what you're describing sounds a lot like SoftKeys, Button Savior or Virtual Button Bar.
Alternately, if interface elements are too small, crank up your screen density to 190 dpi or higher. At 240, they're REAL easy to hit.
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I used the Fire for a little bit, and I believe the soft-buttons were part of a collapsible interface. That may be their main draw.
They weren't "always there" like with CyanogenMod or ICS. You tap some thin-strip with a graphic at the bottom of the screen to get the Back/Menu/Home button, or you tap the thin-strip at the top of the screen to get the Volume/brightness/WiFi toggle buttons.
I like the idea of having all those there, but I'm also a big fan of physical buttons, especially for Volume.
MrColdbird said:
I'm curious. What exactly do you dislike about the cm7 soft keys?
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It's not I don't like CM7 soft keys. I just feel Fire's soft key is quite different and and more simple
BitingChaos said:
I used the Fire for a little bit, and I believe the soft-buttons were part of a collapsible interface. That may be their main draw.
They weren't "always there" like with CyanogenMod or ICS. You tap some thin-strip with a graphic at the bottom of the screen to get the Back/Menu/Home button, or you tap the thin-strip at the top of the screen to get the Volume/brightness/WiFi toggle buttons.
I like the idea of having all those there, but I'm also a big fan of physical buttons, especially for Volume.
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Yes, the deal for me is the collapsible interface, the thin-line doesn't take too much space on the screen but also easy to be called up when needed.
Talking about physical buttons, I love the keyboard on T-mobile G1, still using it for message.
OK, the fixed buttons to the right of the screen. 2 things. is there a way to put them on the title bar like on other android tabs? I figure it must just be something I'm missing but I'm not sure. there must be some way. without them being backlit if it's dark I can't seem them obviously. TIA.
Look for Button Savior in the android market, it can be placed anywhere on any edge of the screen
Hey, thanks. not bad but not exactly what I was looking for. I have an older generic crap-tab running 2.2, it has only one hard button and all the buttons are on the status bar at the top let of the screen. I really like that and was hoping to be able to do it here. maybe it's not possible but I can't see why. it's a good place for a few buttons, they are out of the way and such. I am wondering also if there is a way to disable the hard buttons on the A7 because somtimes I accidently activate them "sliding" a bit off the screen.
What you are describing is just a status bar modification. It is unique to that particular device, because it involves heavy modification of the Google framework library.
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I have found all kinds of widgets for controlling brightness, but they all have one disadvantage - you have to first go to the home screen and then click on the widget. I really want a way to control brightness from any application without having to leave the application to go back to the home screen. The CM9 based rom I'm using (Paranoid Android) actually has something like this ... but I don't like it for two reasons. The first is that it takes two taps to bring up the brightness slider. (One tap to open the notification window, and a second tape to bring up the toggle screen). The 2nd reason (and more significant) is that the slider is quite small and for me it does not feel very responsive or easy to control. The brightness slider control from some of the widgets I have tried are much easier to use.
Ideally I could bring up a brightness widget by long pressing on the physical home button. Currently this long press on my note will bring up the recently used apps, but this function is already served by a soft button provided by CM9. I've read that the ADWlauncherEX will allow you to reprogram the function of the long press - although installing and learning how to use a launcher seems like overkill, especially since I have a rom that already includes quite a sophisticated launcher.
I found an app that would bring up a brightness slider when you clicked on the vol up or down buttons. This worked well for brightness although was a major drag when all I wanted to do was adjust the volume. I also found an application that would allow you to call an app or a widget in response to a double or triple click of the volume buttons. That seemed ideal because it would give me quick access to a brightness control without interfering with the main use of the volume rocker. Unfortunately that application seems to have been discontinued (why!) and I couldn't even seem to find an old verison of that.
Another idea would be to reassign one of the soft keys provided by CM9. Since these soft keys merely duplicate the functions of the existing galaxy note keys (the physical home button and the two buttons on either side of it). Unfortunately I have yet to find an application that can remap one of those buttons. Another idea would be to add another soft button near the 3 soft buttons that are already there. (Are their any applications that can do that?)
And finally I figured that brightness could be controlled via screen gestures. I did find some applications that claimed to be able to do this, although I couldn't get them to work on my Note.
If you know of any application or method that can provide a brightness control button, please let me know as this is the only remaining aspect of the note's user interface that is still driving me nuts.
Thanks
~Paul
Wasn't there a feature in CyanogenMod 7 that would allow to change brightness via sliding sideways in notification area? Too bad it never worked for me in any of the phones I tried CM7 in. I understood it should have worked with no slider? Just sliding your finger accross the notifications area? That would be better than a slider imo.
I've not used paranoid android, I'm using the RC of CM9 and that does have status bar brightness control. To turn it on you go to system, then Status bar and there is a tick box. Maybe that is still included in PA if it is CM9 based? It lets you control the brightness from anywhere just by swiping left and right on the status bar.
It is not as nice as the notification tray slider you can find in AOKP roms, and there used to be a mod for CM9 that did this, but it no longer works, but it is better than nothing.
Ekreed said:
I've not used paranoid android, I'm using the RC of CM9 and that does have status bar brightness control. To turn it on you go to system, then Status bar and there is a tick box. It lets you control the brightness from anywhere just by swiping left and right on the status bar.
It is not as nice as the notification tray slider you can find in AOKP roms, and there used to be a mod for CM9 that did this, but it no longer works, but it is better than nothing.
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Exactly what I meant.
I use QBright it works great.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...Bright&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
John.
hi bro,
i m using switchpro widget. u can put the widget inside notification bar. and can set the brightness level.
Tinderbox (UK) said:
I use QBright it works great.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...Bright&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
John.
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Thanks for the tip John. Qbright certainly has one of the best brightness slider bars I've seen and the configurable buttons are great. However I have to say I'm somewhat mystified about how you use it. Qbright says you can activate it by long pressing on the search button. Search button? Do we have such a thing? On either side of the physical home button I only have the menu and back buttons. By long pressing the menu button I do get the search menu ... but it doesn't bring up Qbright. There is also a "Google" button at the top of the launcher. Pressing on that also brings up the search menu, but again it can't bring up Qbright. I'm running Paranoid Android. Maybe that's the problem. Does the stock ICS have a search button?
Thanks
~Paul
To edit the setting.
Open the QBright app and then press the hard menu button left of the home key.
John.
Tinderbox (UK) said:
To edit the setting.
Open the QBright app and then press the hard menu button left of the home key.
John.
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Hi Tinderbox. Thanks for your reply but I think you seriously misinterpreted my question. I mentioned that I like that the Qbright buttons are configurable so I obviously found the preferences menu. But I was asking how you bring up the Qbright widget (other than clicking on its icon from the home screen of course). The documentation suggests this can be done by "long pressing on the search button". (There is no preference item related to this). I couldn't bring up the Qbright widget by long pressing on anything, so I'm wondering how you do this. If you actually have to go back to the home screen to start the widget, that would greatly detract from the beauty of the widget (which I'm sure is why they put the search long press capability into Qbright). But as I indicated in my previous message, it seems that the galaxy note does not have a dedicated search button, so this feature may not work. There are so many ways one could start such a widget I'm somewhat amazed that no one has figured out how to do it. (Or maybe they have and I am just in the dark or very confused). One way would be to long press on the back button. As far as I know, this currently does nothing so there would be no drawback what so ever. Perhaps a long press on the volume up or down button could also work for such a thing. Or an extra item could be added to the menu that appears when you press the power button. Or since I have a CM9 derived rom, it gives me three more soft keys (back, home, and recent apps). A long press on any of those could be used to bring up the widget. Or even a regular press on the first two could be used since they are duplicates for buttons I already have elsewhere.
Is this a valid question, or am I out in left field somewhere?
~Paul
I once accidentally set my brightness so low that I couldn't see the screen AT ALL.
I found myself really wishing there was some foolproof way to reset the screen to 100% brightness.
For example, rebooting the phone auto-resets the brightness to 100% or something.
I also tried using tasker so some obscure combination like volume+home could also reset the brightness.
I don't recall how I managed to reset my phone - i couldn't see anything. I think I just flailed about on it.
- Frank
Paul...i am lookingforthis too...qbright should have an option to change that... So you can ise the long oress menu button for us note users wjo dont havr a search butto
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Try kimi's.15 toggles. Gives you 15toggles in the notification bar, brightness being one of them. Need to flash it via recovery though.
Can i flash that in temprary cwn? I have a stock rom with the temp.cwm root.method
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I think it should beok to flash via temp cwm. Ask in the kim's thread just to be sure.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rubberbigpepper.DisplayBrightness&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsInJ1YmJlcmJpZ3BlcHBlci5EaXNwbGF5QnJpZ2h0bmVzcyJd
I use this you can put it anywhere on the screen.
Download Slider Widget and add it to home screen.
Alexanderbooth said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rubberbigpepper.DisplayBrightness&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsInJ1YmJlcmJpZ3BlcHBlci5EaXNwbGF5QnJpZ2h0bmVzcyJd
I use this you can put it anywhere on the screen.
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At first I thought that might be the answer, but I ran into two problems with it. The main one was that I would accidently change the brightness pretty often when I was just trying to click on an icon for instance. (Unless I made the slider very thin ... but then it was too hard to grab the slider). The other problem was that some of my full screen applications would force themselves on top and the slider would not activate.
Someone in another thread suggested what I now feel is the ultimate solution:
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Oh my gosh!!! You weren't kidding. Such an application does really exist
This solves all my problems with the galaxy note.
I can't believe this was so hard to find. I can't imagine that anyone would uninstall this application after trying it. It's like getting 3 extra hardware buttons for free!
I'm using:
- Home,Home to bring up Qbright.
- Home,Back to bring up papyrus (you never know when you need to scribble a note)
- Home,Menu to bring up a toggle widget (haven't decided which one yet, although I'm sure it will be easier to use than the built in PA one).
Thanks a million.
~Paul
Paul what is this app called the link doesnt work
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asf58967 said:
Paul what is this app called the link doesnt work
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Type in "Home2 Shortcut" into the play store. Or you could probably type in the author's name which is "Hideki Kato".
~Paul
You can adjust the brightness on most Note ROMs by deactivating auto brightness and tap + hold on the statusbar and slide the finger.
Left = Decrease the brightness
Right = Increase the brightness
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To put simply after rooting with the NookManager does the simple touch still glow? I'd picked one up but figured before rooting poke around see what the best noob friendly method is and whie at first I thought the whole glowlight thing was a gimmick after using I actually like having the option.
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To put simply after rooting with the NookManager does the simple touch still glow? I'd picked one up but figured before rooting poke around see what the best noob friendly method is and whie at first I thought the whole glowlight thing was a gimmick after using I actually like having the option.
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Anything special i should know or does buttonsavior have the glow thing in it's options list?
By default the "long press nook button to turn it on" and "short press, click glowlight, tick checkbox and/or adjust level" methods still work. I know at least the long press, and possibly the on screen button, can be remapped to other things if you wish in the "Nook Touch Mod Manager" app, but as I said the defaults for those match stock. Just checked, there are options to remap both.
Groovy. Borrowing a card to root/backup as i type this. Not expecting a whole lot. Mostly just expanded/better PDF reading and the ability for light note-taking (mostly due to touch screeen keypads blowing major chunks.)
If I can get a mush app running that'd be pretty neat, but for now it's PDF's and lite mail and RSS reading. Glad to know I'll be able to do all that even in the dark.