Is anyone having issues with the home button? I will tap the home button to go to the home screen, but instead, it will take me to the recent apps menu about half the time. This is getting really annoying, and I'd like to get it fixed.
Does anyone else have this issue/know how to fix it? Is this a software or hardware issue?
lathamc said:
Is anyone having issues with the home button? I will tap the home button to go to the home screen, but instead, it will take me to the recent apps menu about half the time. This is getting really annoying, and I'd like to get it fixed.
Does anyone else have this issue/know how to fix it? Is this a software or hardware issue?
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Sounds like a mix of software / user issue to me.
I was doing the same thing so try this and see if it feels better.
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With default settings a quick tap will bring you home after about 1.5 seconds
holding it brings up your recent apps, it sounds like you're holding it for the 1.5 seconds as you're expecting a delay for it to go to the home screen and its causing it to open up recent apps.
To remove this 1.5 second delay double tap home quickly and open up S-Voice, when S-Voice opens hit your menu button and turn off the double tap home to open, then close the app.
Now when you hit home there will be no delay as the system doesn't pause to wait for a second tap to open up s-voice and it just goes home. it also means you won't feel the need to hold it until it goes home inadvertently causing you to open up multitasking instead.
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Since upgrading to a stock Jelly Bean firmware, I noticed that pressing the home button causes a short 1 second delay before it actually does anything. It's enough to be annoying since it slows down returning to the home screen or moving to the default home screen.
The reason for the delay appears to be that it's waiting to see if you're going to make it a double-click. A double click launches the dreaded Vlingo voice control app or Google search dial by voice.
You can remove the delay by installing Advanced Home Button from the play store, and following the "Galaxy S2 hack" instructions within that app.
Now, pressing home instantly takes you to the home screen without the one-second delay.
The downside to this solution is that you lose the double-click functionality on the home button, but most people probably see that as a benefit anyway.
I am not the author of that app, nor do I know how it works or how to reverse it.
Or you can delete both and no more 1sec delay
I multi-task a lot and switch between apps often. Instead of using the physical home button of the S4, is there a way I can have a feature that maps the function to either the menu or the back button and access it only when I long-press it? I feel like I would wear down the physical button and it takes more effort.
Thanks!
mindstormer said:
I multi-task a lot and switch between apps often. Instead of using the physical home button of the S4, is there a way I can have a feature that maps the function to either the menu or the back button and access it only when I long-press it? I feel like I would wear down the physical button and it takes more effort.
Thanks!
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I know how you feel when using the home button. After long searching, I found an app that uses swipe gestures on screen to activate actions like going to home screen and bringing up the recent app. This is a $0.99 app called Swipe Home Button in the Play Store. For what it is worth, definitely a buy. There is also a trial for you to try, so it can't hurt to check it out!
I've seen few threads about this here but none of them had a conclusive answer. Is there a way to change the home button hold duration, holding it for 2 seconds to open the recent apps is really annoying. I've seen some ROMs have this as a setting, so there's probably a way to do it on stock Android, or not?
bump!! There must be a way somehow
Don't know about home button delay setting, but I prefer Xposed Addition. So you can tap and hold menu key for recent apps compared using physical home button
I have a stock Nexus 6P with Marshmallow's February update.
Is there any key that will allow me to exit an app that isn't working proprely? Previously I had an HTC One M8 with ViperOneM8 ROM. That allowed me to long press the back button to close an app.
I have a game that has gotten stuck after their update. This happened in the past. The game says Touch Screen, but it doesn't respond. If I hit the back button it gives me the open that No I don't want to quit or Yes I want to quit, but it's unresponsive.
If the Recent apps button isn't working maybe long-pressing the power button will have some impact.
I thought the square button was just a list of recent apps, not a list of apps currently running, so I never thought to use it. I just figured that button is to clear stuff out of history. I mean, because there's a ton of stuff in there and I know 100% not all that is running at one time.
The home button.
siren_shadows said:
The home button.
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The home button doesn't CLOSE the app, though, like a force close or whatever you want to call it. That just minimizes the app so you can see your home screen or open other apps, but the app is still running in the background. If you re-open the app you're still stick at the screen that didn't work in the first place.
What the previous person said works, though..
Well of you can hit the home button and then get into settings, just go to apps tap on the app and hit force close
Hit the recent apps button (square one lol) and just swipe the app away... It will close it.
After updating to Pie when I tap at the home button pill it goes to the recent apps view instead of the home screen, is this something you've noticed or just me?
Alxhn said:
After updating to Pie when I tap at the home button pill it goes to the recent apps view instead of the home screen, is this something you've noticed or just me?
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You are probably dragging your finger a bit so it thinks you are swelling up. (turn off "swipe up on home button" if you don't like this)