[Q] Help! My Softkeys are gone! - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So i was playing with this new application called softkeyz and i'd accidently hit the button at the top right, my phone restarted and my softkeys disappeared!

aman9991 said:
So i was playing with this new application called softkeyz and i'd accidently hit the button at the top right, my phone restarted and my softkeys disappeared!
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look in the settings of that app and see you can regain them or do a data factory reset. Look in Softkeys service and untick Run Service and Run service at Boot and reboot.

I had the same problem recently. If this method above won't work, just reflash your Rom and will appear normally. That's what I did.
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Just a shot since I haven't ran any custom Roms yet but in the past long pressing the power button and in that menu expanded desktop used to add/remove the soft keys I think.
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On have aplication button on home screen.

My phone only shows an application button at the button of he screen as of this morning. It use to display phone, message, email, and something else. Anybody know how to get these buttons back?
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noreboy said:
My phone only shows an application button at the button of he screen as of this morning. It use to display phone, message, email, and something else. Anybody know how to get these buttons back?
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Go into your apps, hit the menu button, choose edit, find what other three apps you want and drag. Them into the bottom bar, hit menu and selete save.
And next time questions go in q&a.
Go into the app drawer, click menu, edit. Move whichever apps you want into the dock.
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Thanks guys, that helped!
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Looking for App. Push+Hold Power also gives option to go home

I think my title explains everything. I removed the navbar on the bottom and with Button Savior everything is running perfectly but I am worried when Button Savior crashes I will need a backup to get to my home screen. What I am looking for is when I push+hold the power I would like a extra option to go home.
Is this possible? Is there already an app that does this?
Bump.
Maybe tasker can do something? Not sure..
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What did I do to my home button?

When I press and hold my home button I dont get the background app list anymore.
Now I get the dialog box asking for the default behavior and my only choices are google now and my screen off app.
I tried resetting my defaults in application manager but that didnt do it.
Anyone know how to return this back to the background app list?
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billinaz said:
When I press and hold my home button I dont get the background app list anymore.
Now I get the dialog box asking for the default behavior and my only choices are google now and my screen off app.
I tried resetting my defaults in application manager but that didnt do it.
Anyone know how to return this back to the background app list?
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Did you do any remapping of the keys with Xposed?

You can turn off hard keys. (sm-p600 mk1)

Sorry if this is old news but I seen a few people asking if you could disable these especially over at the clean Rom thread cause the developer included soft keys in the rom. Anyways again I'm sorry if this is old news but you go to accessibility/access control. It then walks you through a series of steps like if you want certain parts of the screen to not be affected by touch and so on. I thought this was pretty sweet. Not sure if it's for all models and firmware but worth a shot!
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I'm on stock and I can't find Access Control in Accessibility. Is this a CleanRom only feature?
Zrutisan said:
I'm on stock and I can't find Access Control in Accessibility. Is this a CleanRom only feature?
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No... I'm stock right now. I don't remember seeing it before so not sure how I got it there. Maybe from exposed?
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Again not sure how it got here...
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Zrutisan said:
I'm on stock and I can't find Access Control in Accessibility. Is this a CleanRom only feature?
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It's all the way at the very bottom of Accessibility. It is listed under Recognition. Turn it on. Then hold down the home button and and volume down to enter the wizard.
It should be helpful for when I do note taking at a meeting so I don't have to worry about touching the physical buttons. But for Button Savior Pro it disables the Home, Menu and Back so it's not something I can have on all the time. Plus the notification drawer cannot be interacted with anymore while this mode is on.
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It's all the way at the very bottom of Accessibility. It is listed under Recognition. Turn it on. Then hold down the home button and and volume down to enter the wizard.
It should be helpful for when I do note taking at a meeting so I don't have to worry about touching the physical buttons. But for Button Savior Pro it disables the Home, Menu and Back so it's not something I can have on all the time. Plus the notification drawer cannot be interacted with anymore while this mode is on.
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It can if you have nova launcher pro. With a gesture. The notification drawer that is...
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I can open the drawer just fine. You just can't touch any of the notifications after you open the drawer.
Stocklone said:
I can open the drawer just fine. You just can't touch any of the notifications after you open the drawer.
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Weird... Did you x out of the past that says disable parts of the screen with touch? Wonder why it does that.
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Xda app no menu button

Ok so i got my edge plus yesterday. Been using the regular s6 for a few months now and in the xda app there is a actual menu button with 3 dots that kinda hovers down at the bottom. Well on my plus it isnt there. Cant figure out how to being up the menu. If i hold back with a longpress it just starts backing out. Holding home brings up google now. And holding the task brings up multiwindow.
My problem is i cant bring up the menu to create a new thread. Thats why im posting this on my s6 rather than my edge.
Is it something simple im just overlooking?
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I'm having the same issue! I've yet to figure out a workaround. I have a lot of threads I want to start!
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Has any one figured it out?
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Dis you guys try to uninstall and install again? Im using XDA premium 4 and everything is awesome here
Yeah I have the same issue. One thing you can do though (not a permanent solution) is to go to accessibility settings and then add that hovering extra button and in that way you can access the menu button.
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Long press back button?
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I wrote about this over in the Note 5 forum. Nonfiction except to use the XDA premium app, which I think is inferior.
Actually the sad thing is that there's so little one can do to the locked device that I stuck to the free version and it doesnt matter as I hardly have a need to create new forums like the old days (where are you now, HD2???).
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Jensa76 said:
Long press back button?
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Ya that just backs u out. No menu longpress as of right now which sucks
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Here is the temp fix guys the problem is a lot of apps detect if there is a hardware menu button and omit showing the soft 3 dot button common in a lot of apps. The S5 has no dedicated menu button but it does have the long press home button option to launch the More options/Menu button, however out Galaxy S6 models do not have this option. BUT some apps still detect it and delete their in app button.
Here is the fix I figured out that works in this situation and it would be good to pass this on or write up a document.
Go to phone settings => Accessibility => Dexterity and interaction => Assistant Menu.
At the top right slide the off button to on to enable the Assistant menu icon on all screens. Then click on the Edit option. In the edit menu deselect all the buttons you do not need by hitting the red negative on the icons (-) in the upper part of the screen. (note it has two buttons that you cannot remove Home Screen, and Menu Settings) on the bottom half of the page hit the green plus sign (+) on the More Options button (It has 3 dots).
Now on all screens is a little round button with 4 dots on it, it appears on all screens in all programs and is floating. There is the More options button now which is the software menu button we are missing =). You can just go back and disable Assistant menu afterward or like me leave this handy button on because I have multiple programs that do this.
Hope this helps guys Cheers!
Long pressing back key brings up menu in most of the Apps
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Yeah I tried that it did not work in the app that I run that I could not get to the menu with, I will try another program and see if I can get that to work. I also tried many of the other options I could find through the searches. See the reply above mine in this thread.

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