App to trigger one handed operation? - Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Does anyone know of an app or widget that can trigger one handed operation.
The swiping motion does not work 100% or even 80% of the time.

polo2883 said:
Does anyone know of an app or widget that can trigger one handed operation.
The swiping motion does not work 100% or even 80% of the time.
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The swiping motion just needs to be exaggerated. Personally it seems most successful for me rubbing right above the Dock icons instead of elsewhere on the screen.

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stock launcher home screen rotation?

does anyone know if there is a way to get the stock launcher home screen to rotate to landscape mode? i have spare parts installed and couldnt find a way to enable it. i didnt want to use another launcher just for this, i would love the landscape mode for tv out (yes phone is rooted) help muh help muh
There's no way to get the homescreen to rotate unless you download launchers such as launcher pro or adw.
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Tairen said:
There's no way to get the homescreen to rotate unless you download launchers such as launcher pro or adw.
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hmmm i guess ill have to go with another launcher, thanks!
the captive has the home screen rotation?
When I launch avatar it automatically rotates the screen and then stays that way to display the drm warning. Not really a fix, more of a bug you could take advantage of of you just want it rotated for games. As a real solution I would recommend launcher pro.
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How does one benefit from swiping through their home screens in landscape mode?
Another thing that proves people like what they like. I hate my homescreen to rotate. I use LauncherPro and disabled it.
^ that could have been my post exactly.
To each his own, I guess. This really bothered me, so I started using Launcherpro and can't see myself going back...Touchwiz is pretty good, but coming from my G1 running CM6, it made me feel too locked down.
flying_squirrel42 said:
To each his own, I guess. This really bothered me, so I started using Launcherpro and can't see myself going back...Touchwiz is pretty good, but coming from my G1 running CM6, it made me feel too locked down.
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Technically speaking, TouchWiz changes much more than just the launcher and home screen.
Using a custom launcher only overwrites the TouchWiz launcher, it doesn't remove TouchWiz altogether.
Honestly I really like the fact that the home screen does not rotate. It was one thing that used to drive me a little bonkers with some of the G1 builds. Do I flip it left or do I flip it down.
Of course that was just my opinion of course.
Well, for me personally it would be nice if it rotated while I have it sitting on my desk dock. That would be about the only time I would want it to.
HOME screen Rotation
I am running froyo Jpm on the S and I am really missing the HOME screen rotation, Really. And was hoping and hoping with all my heart that someone from xda dev could come up with a home screen rotation fix.. If someone has please point me in the right direction and also one more thing Home Screen rotation Rocks!haha. And it should be there when you wont it.. So please help us home screen rotation Lovers. Thanks
Reason to have landscape.
I have a phone case that has a kickstand allowing for my phone to be set long ways (on its left hand side, so the cable is coming out of the left at the bottom of the phone) because when I stand it up and plug it in it jsut falls over all the time. (The USB cable that came with the phone is REALLY stiff, compared to the MTS3GSlide/Cliq/G1) So it would be really nice if it would go to landscape mode allowing for horizontal scrolling across screens ( I guess that the widgets would also have to be able to handle on the fly the switch betweens[ can that even work?] or be removed) And also have the status bar be across the top (like normal) while it sets sideways. I mean most of the games, video players etc already auto switch to landscape so you can have the width to handle the frames anyway. And so that when my phone is on its side (which is roughly 9 hrs/day minus lunch and smoke breaks) I can still read the stuff properly. I guess that the pulldown on the status bar would also have to work and so on. I wish I knew enough programming to make this happen myself. But that is the ONE biggest thing I miss the most about the G1, landscape homescreens. I'd seriously take that over a lag fix any day.

Cool honeycomb ui idea

So this has happened to me a couple of times where the notification bar would crash and I'd be left with a full screen app so I wonder what if when the source code drops you could set it to where a gesture could bring up the bar and just run everything full screen until the bars was needed
So like the Playbook?
Lets say your playing a game and you want to bring the bar up but the game keeps reacting to the gesture that your doing and the bar isn't popping up?
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msavic6 said:
So like the Playbook?
Lets say your playing a game and you want to bring the bar up but the game keeps reacting to the gesture that your doing and the bar isn't popping up?
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In fact isn't this exactly what ADW does? I used to use this all the time in CM6 on my nexus one, swipe up hide the notification bar, swipe up brought it back.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the issue with the be the fact you are hiding the main operation buttons. I realize you could just drag it back up, but if the app were to crash and say freeze up the system, you wouldn't have a shot and getting out to the home screen. Just a thought. Otherwise, yeah sounds like a cool idea.
D1cey said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the issue with the be the fact you are hiding the main operation buttons. I realize you could just drag it back up, but if the app were to crash and say freeze up the system, you wouldn't have a shot and getting out to the home screen. Just a thought. Otherwise, yeah sounds like a cool idea.
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If the system freezes the nav buttons go with it.... in any case where the system actually freezes, you'll have to do a reboot, which is with the physical buttons anyway
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I'll admit, I'm not thrilled with the persistent nav/notification bar either. I get the reasoning (ever-present soft buttons), but there are graceful ways to hide this area when it isn't necessary.
Personally, I'm a big fan of gestures originating off-screen, like the Playbook and WebOS before that. Add bezel swipes to control OS functions and I'd be a happy camper.
Slightly off topic but I'd love to see a 'dual column' mode, wherein you can have 2 separate apps running side-by-side on the screen. These would be running in phone mode to accommodate the smaller screen estate, but would give productivity a massive boost I feel. Perhaps each side could utilise one of the two cores. Would be a neat UI change.
PS. Think Notion Ink Adam leaves, just native Honeycomb.

Screen off gestures

I was just wondering if the screen off gestures on the Oneplus One were based on hardware or software? In other words, is there any chance of them coming to this phone with a custom rom? I miss drawing sideways triangles without having to look at my phone while driving to change the music. About the only thing I miss from that phone in upgrading to this really.
Also, anyone else by chance have the Google play store crashing every once in a while?
Many of the third party launchers support gestures. I am using Apex and Screen Lock Pro (which supports Marshmallow/Imprint) to lock my screen when I double-tap the home screen and go to Google Now when I swipe up.
danguyf said:
Many of the third party launchers support gestures. I am using Apex and Screen Lock Pro (which supports Marshmallow/Imprint) to lock my screen when I double-tap the home screen and go to Google Now when I swipe up.
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He's talking about using gestures while the screen is off, like on the OnePlus One.
Heisenberg said:
He's talking about using gestures while the screen is off, like on the OnePlus One.
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Ah. I never had an OPO. I thought he meant gestures to turn the screen off, not gestures used while the screen is off.
I won't try to be helpful next time!
danguyf said:
Ah. I never had an OPO. I thought he meant gestures to turn the screen off, not gestures used while the screen is off.
I won't try to be helpful next time!
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You should always try to be helpful, at least you tried.
ElementalX kernel allows single swipes in four directions and double tap off screen gestures. It's pretty cool. No customizable gestures though (such as drawing arrows or an 'S', etc).
danguyf said:
Ah. I never had an OPO. I thought he meant gestures to turn the screen off, not gestures used while the screen is off.
I won't try to be helpful next time!
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Always try...its the XDA way!
would be awesome as an xposed module!

J Touch app for navigation rocks

Hey friends
I really don't like the navbar which is reducing the screen to much, so I decided to install J Touch app from playstore.
Loaded a nice looking home button jpeg picture from the web. Give the button a one hit back function, a long press home function and a swipe up for recents.
Please see attached pictures navigating is nice and I whish I could even eliminate the navbar on the homescreen
FridrufHau said:
Hey friends
I really don't like the navbar which is reducing the screen to much, so I decided to install J Touch app from playstore.
Loaded a nice looking home button jpeg picture from the web. Give the button a one hit back function, a long press home function and a swipe up for recents.
Please see attached pictures navigating is nice and I whish I could even eliminate the navbar on the homescreen
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Keeping one icon appear on the screen all the time may cause burn in I'd be worried about that
big_b0sss said:
Keeping one icon appear on the screen all the time may cause burn in I'd be worried about that
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No I don't think so. There is transparency setted, the button is popping if hitted and it is shifting up on home screen. You could be as scared or even more about a status bar burn in...
and look how much time is needed:
"Test Results
The iPhone X displayed burn-ins before the Galaxy Note 8 at 17 hours. However, it took 510 hours for the images to become permanently etched on its display which also marked the end of the test.
Compared to that, the Note 8 took 62 hours to show first signs of display burn-in, which is impressive. However, it had permanent marks way before the end of the test. The Galaxy S7 Edge showed signs of burn-in sooner than the iPhone X, however, it showed permanent burn-ins much later than the Note 8 and almost at iPhone X’s 510 hour mark."
From page:
https://propakistani.pk/2018/01/05/iphone-xs-screen-shows-burn-marks-just-17-hours-test/
Ok so would you recommend the app over navigation gesture? The gesture is not polished at the moment I'll give the app a go
big_b0sss said:
Ok so would you recommend the app over navigation gesture? The gesture is not polished at the moment I'll give the app a go
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I think so, you can also activate temporary move, which is helpful is s.th. is hided by the button. So you can move the button away for two seconds. You can hide button always in landscape, it is hiding when you are keyboard typing... it is perfect for 18:9 displays.
If navbar would have a one button control too, I wouldn't use J Touch.
You can also give it an iPhone look but ok I guess everybody is hating apple .
Edit: Ah ok you mean gesture. Sorry I didn't have this option until now.... don't know what is better
Looks like a nice app. I prefer LMT Launcher though as you can set it to do almost any task and only comes on the screen when you activate it so creates a really clean look with extra functionality.
Or you could try Gesture Control from Conena.. I'm very happy with the way the gestures work
es0tericcha0s said:
Looks like a nice app. I prefer LMT Launcher though as you can set it to do almost any task and only comes on the screen when you activate it so creates a really clean look with extra functionality.
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Have you been able to use lmt with stock os? If so, I'd like to know the secret for getting rid of the nav bar
Not sure. Not really a fan of stock. From other forum members, it's possible to disable it with the joneplustool app. Both that and LMT require root.
I've been using Swipe Navigation. It even has long press functionality. Loving it so far.
That looks bat **** ugly, why don't you just download https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.suphi.swipenavigation&hl=en ?
In my kg g6 its eating battery like elephant ??
Xposed Edge anyone?

curved display corners blocking app content

Since the four corners of the screen are not square as with my old phone, it appears certain apps are not taking that into account and as a result, information is being cut off from view. See attached screenshot... does anyone have any suggestions or do I need to consider returning this phone because that is just crazy
To be more clear particularly the bottom left corner(in this example) nearly half of the time information is blocked from view
Yeah, I see that as well in apps that try to use the whole screen
Is it because you are using navigation gestures?
rmaathuis said:
Is it because you are using navigation gestures?
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In that specific example, I suppose yes. But even with nav bar enabled, watching a video in landscape the same thing happens.. it's pretty annoying

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