I have a 9505G rooted, and I'd like to change the funcitons of the home button. Specificaly, there are two changes I'd like to make.
1. Disable the home button while the phone is locked. While the phone is locked and asleep, I can use either the power button or the home button to wake the phone. I want to disable the home button here, so that only the power button can wake the phone. I find that while my phone is in my pocket, it often wakes up "on its own", presumably because I'm accidnetally pressing the home button against my hip, chair, whatever...
2. Launch the recently-used apps list by holding the home button. On previous devices I've used (such as the Galaxy Nexus), holding down the home button would bring up the list of recently-used apps. With the S4GE, the long-press brings up Google Now, and a double-click is required for the recently-used apps list. I'd like to change this behavior so that a long-press brings up the recent app list, and double-click does nothing.
Can this be done, and if so, how? Thanks for your help.
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Hi all
is there a way to map the power button long press functionality to a power control button or a simple widget on the home screen?
u know i usually don't touch power button to prevent it from getting broken; but now in CM7 the long press opens a box to choose the user profiles, and i need to have that option
thanks in advance
I have perm rooted my myTouch 4G and have a novice amount of experience with roms (i.e. overclocking and mild customization). I am using the stock rom.
Has anyone created anything that allows for conditional button programming? What I want to do specifically is map the Home button to turn off the screen (currently performed by the Power button) when I am viewing my home page ONLY. When not viewing my home page (i.e. actively using an app) I would like it to still function normally, taking me back to the home page. The end result would be that if I want to close/reduce an app and turn off my screen, I would just press the Home button twice, instead of pressing the Home button then the Power button. Currently, when the Home button is pressed it zooms out to an all-screen view where I can select which of my seven screens to go to, rather than just scrolling...which I never use.
Any help? Thank you.
It's a change that has to be hard-coded into your launcher.
Or in other words: the probability for you to have it without making it yourself is very low, and if you're not into decompiling APKs and digging in smali code - you're out of luck...
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
Hi
I bought galaxy s4 last month but I am not happy with functionality of the home and sensor buttons. In my opinion switch application (the list of all previously opened apps) is very important button and I am not happy to wait whole second holding down home button to get simple alt+tab feature. At all this big hardware button does not fit in the whole picture and its the biggest mistake of this phone. Now I cannot remove it but at least I want to use it as much as little I can. So I want to switch menu button and "hold home" buttons. Its far more sensible to make separate sensor button for switching app than use it for menu functionality. I didn't root my phone and I don't want to root it but if its needed to get rid of this stupidness I will make it. So is there any way to switch menu button and "hold home" button?
thx
Hi fellow Mi5 users,
as most of you know, or at least ones who are (still) using MIUI, there is an option called "Tap Home button to go back to home screen", which if toggled turns your Home button into capacitive one, so you don't have to physically push the button in order to go to home screen, but only to tap fingerprint sensor.
The problem is, this applies ONLY to short press action and going to home screen. But what about long press action (or double press action, if it cared enought to exist as a feature in MIUI)? If I set "Launch Google Assistant", or "Turn off the screen" to long press action, I still need to physically push and hold the button, instead of just tapping and holding, which is just inconsistent and throws me off. Why would I want to push the button for long action if I'm tapping it for short one?
Lineage OS handles this well and as it always should've been in MIUI: by only choosing whether I want to use Home button as capacitive or not, but as a whole, not only for going to Home screen. This is both more sensible and semantically cleaner. God knows how many times I have entered the Settings menu just to copy this option's full sentence when I'm ranting about it. I mean what makes more sense: "Home button style: Physical / Capacitive" (or "Capacitive home button: On / Off"), which is both cleaner and makes more sense (both functional and semantical), or "Tap Home button to go back to home screen: On / Off", which is both unnecessarily long and also doesn't take into consideration all use cases (such as long press and double press).
My question is: Is there a way to modify this inside the ROM itself by making some modifications to it, or is there some file we can just simply change from 0 to 1, similar to enable_wakeup file and always awake fingerprint sensor? Or is there some flashable zip or Magisk module which solves this?
Thanks in advance