My 3 year old loves playing on the nexus 7 but keeps hitting the software buttons and exiting the games. Anyone know if it possible to lock the software buttons (back, home and tasklist) while playing?
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When I had my Galaxy Tab 10.1, I ran the AOKP ROM on it and in the power menu was an option to hide or show the software buttons. It was very handy to me for this exact reason. I now have a Nexus 7 that I would like to keep stock (rooted of course) and I haven't found a solution yet. I'm hoping Nova or some other launcher will get this functionality.
I'm pretty sure AOKP supports the Nexus 7 if you want to go that route.
jeslas said:
My 3 year old loves playing on the nexus 7 but keeps hitting the software buttons and exiting the games. Anyone know if it possible to lock the software buttons (back, home and tasklist) while playing?
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How would you do to quit the game if everything is locked ?
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How would you do to quit the game if everything is locked ?
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You could long press recent apps to lock the buttons
To unlock, you could do a combo like press home, back, recent apps, home to unlock the buttons or just do a long press again.
You could also hide the buttons altogether. I have no idea if an app has the ability to do this kind of thing but apps that have full-screen video are able to remove the buttons so there must be some way to trigger the buttons to hide when you want. Maybe hide the buttons by long pressing recent apps and then they come back when the power button is pressed?
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You could long press recent apps to lock the buttons
To unlock, you could do a combo like press home, back, recent apps, home to unlock the buttons or just do a long press again.
You could also hide the buttons altogether. I have no idea if an app has the ability to do this kind of thing but apps that have full-screen video are able to remove the buttons so there must be some way to trigger the buttons to hide when you want. Maybe hide the buttons by long pressing recent apps and then they come back when the power button is pressed?
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On a custom rom yes but on stock...
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Thanks for the answers.
Just to clarify its not stock its rooted and running a custom ROM.
The hardware buttons could trigger the return to unlocked state and the idea of combo lock and unlock is also an option.
Gonna try AOKP and see if they implemented the feature in the powermenu for the nexus 7.
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Not a fix but something I'm hoping for!
With all the rumors floating around about Android 4.2, one of the more interesting ones is user profiles. If we do in fact get user profiles, I"m hoping app locking is part of that!
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Not sure about AOKP but I know ParanoidAndroid has an "expanded desktop" option available on the power menu that hides the navigation buttons on the fly.
Any idea whether this is possible? I know you can do it on cm roms, but can't seem to find a way to do it on tw
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Any ideas?
Correct me if im wrong but button saviour pro allows remapping of hardware buttons? What's wrong with thr home button?
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Just tried it, it doesn't seem to allow hardware remapping
I want to change the menu button to recents, and holding down home to menu
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there must be a way to do this...
Funny, what you want to do is exactly how mine works, and I can't avoid it!
Home button pulse from suspend, inevitably launches recents apps.
I want to use home button for wake up, letting me on home screen, and I can't. I must everytime close recents apps. Annoying!!
On my n7 i press the right hand side button and it opens a task manager on the g2 it opens an options menu.
how do i kill tasks or better still get more of a stock android experience without rooting?
Long press home button.
Or you can mod the nav bar to do it the old way. Or you can use hide soft keys app to do it and more
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Hey everyone, is it possible to use the back button to pull up the recent apps? Rather than just using the home. I don't like pushing down on the home button for to long
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PhatMunch said:
Hey everyone, is it possible to use the back button to pull up the recent apps? Rather than just using the home. I don't like pushing down on the home button for to long
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It is possible to map certain hardware keys (if your rom allows it). For example, Task650 AoKP has a hardware key menu, however you cannot customize the back button for recent apps, but you can throw recent apps onto the menu button as a hold down. So you can press it for settings as normal, or hold down on it for recent apps. If you cannot find a rom that allows custom hardware button mappings than you can always use a navigation bar (Like a tablet) to access the recent apps.
I'm running cyanogenmod 10.2 on my sprint g2 and I love the recent app switcher and having the menu button however I don't like having both buttons, is there a way to make holding the home button go to the event app switcher?
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