Does anyone know the Key (script, activity, or whatever else it may be called) to activate the smaller screen function the Note 3 has? Usually it's activated by performing a gesture on the side of the screen. But I want to assign it as a command in the LMT Pie Launcher so I can use my phone with one hand more often.
The gesture is a swipe from the edge and back from the side you want the one hand mode to use.
Works best if the return swipe is fast back to the edge of the screen.
Not sure you can assign it to anything though.
I do it one handed all the time.
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If you're like me and you don't really like the soft-keys, you should also like this workaround. So I absolutely dislike having to press the physical home button especially since I'm coming from a history of Nexus devices and the fact that it throws off the balance of the device annoys me. (Yes, I know it's an extremely shallow problem haha)
My workaround was to use on-screen buttons. However, the screen is already 5 inches so I didn't want to use any screen real estate for buttons. Came across an app called All-In-One Gestures that lets you create gesture actions. If it's something that sounds interesting to you, you should give it a try as it makes navigating much more intuitive (opinion, of course).
My setup is currently a swipe up from the bottom of the screen in the middle for home, swipe diagonally from the left edge for back, and swipe diagonally from the right for multitasking. So if I'm using it left handed, a swipe will go back and a touch of the closest button will be multitasking, and if I'm using it right handed, a swipe will open the multitasking tray while a touch to the closest button will go back. It's proven really efficient for me!
devon4786 said:
If you're like me and you don't really like the soft-keys, you should also like this workaround. So I absolutely dislike having to press the physical home button especially since I'm coming from a history of Nexus devices and the fact that it throws off the balance of the device annoys me. (Yes, I know it's an extremely shallow problem haha)
My workaround was to use on-screen buttons. However, the screen is already 5 inches so I didn't want to use any screen real estate for buttons. Came across an app called All-In-One Gestures that lets you create gesture actions. If it's something that sounds interesting to you, you should give it a try as it makes navigating much more intuitive (opinion, of course).
My setup is currently a swipe up from the bottom of the screen in the middle for home, swipe diagonally from the left edge for back, and swipe diagonally from the right for multitasking. So if I'm using it left handed, a swipe will go back and a touch of the closest button will be multitasking, and if I'm using it right handed, a swipe will open the multitasking tray while a touch to the closest button will go back. It's proven really efficient for me!
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There is also an option for an on screen button(s) under settings >accessibility >dexterity and interaction>assistant menu. It sits as an button over the top of everything on screen and you can edit it to set different options and order of buttons. It might not have the gesture option but still pretty useful.
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One more alternative, fingerprint sensor as touch home key.
poolmaker said:
One more alternative, fingerprint sensor as touch home key.
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There's a reason why the S7 didn't come with Soft-Keys, it's because it uses an AMOLED Panel. Prolonged display of bright colors causes burn in, ( you can try checking the S7s at the retail store as those have burned in displays ). Hardware keys would be better to avoid this. Its also the reason why the objects on the Always On Display move around every now and then, its to preven't burnins
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There's a reason why the S7 didn't come with Soft-Keys, it's because it uses an AMOLED Panel. Prolonged display of bright colors causes burn in, ( you can try checking the S7s at the retail store as those have burned in displays ). Hardware keys would be better to avoid this. Its also the reason why the objects on the Always On Display move around every now and then, its to preven't burnins
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1. Easyhome doesnt causes amoled burn-in.
Fingerprint sensor short touch is registered as home key.
Once again, fingerprint sensor.
2. Method described in OP is also burn-in free, in settings is possible to adjust transparency of "home area" to zero, therefore no object is permanently displayed.
I have my V20 navigation controls hidden for almost all apps because I like the full 5.7" screen always displayed, but it's a pain sometime to swipe up to get access to them. Is there any way to get a 3rd party app that you can put into the Second Screen as an app shortcut, and when you click the app shortcut icon it will navigate DIRECTLY with the one press on the second screen (i.e. go to home screen and back button, mainly)? I don't think it could be a widget because you can't load widgets as a app shortcut on the 2nd screen. Note that I am NOT rooted.
Probably not but I just thought I'd ask.
This actually works in the nav bar as a return to home button, although will not appear on recent apps when used. Now looking for a back button
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devjackey.homebutton
If you have any sort of experience with Tasker I'm sure you can create a simple task that goes back, and just assign it to a button that you throw on the 2nd screen though I just checked and some widgets don't actually work in the 2nd screen. Greenify works fine but my mobile payment app doesnt't.
Seems like it can't be a widget or floating button. Can't find a back button that works by clicking the app shortcut icon like the home button does above (i.e. no app options - click and executes the one function directly). Oh well at least I have half what i need.
A pain to swipe up but easier to reach all the to the top of the screen? Smh. Doesn't make sense.
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A pain to swipe up but easier to reach all the to the top of the screen? Smh. Doesn't make sense.
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I'm often at the top of my screen switching apps and want to get to the home screen. Plus ONE press on a button instead of a swipe up and press and have it hide again. My thumb is on average in the middle of the screen so up and down or the same. Plus if holding the phone in my left hand it's easier to get at the top with my right hand index finger. Just tried the home button above and definitely faster and less annoying then the hidden nav bar. Doesn't seem like there is a similar back button anywhere that i can find.
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All I have to say is software nav FTW!
hey all, just moved from iphone 7 to galaxy s7 edge and loving it so far. the only thing i cant get over is the physical home button. coming from iphone 7 which had a capacitive pressure sensitive home button that didnt require almost any pressure, i find it a real nuisance how hard i have to press the home button on the physical button on the S7Edge and i still cant get used to it. Are there any apps out there that can add a bar on the bottom of the screen with multitask/home/back software keys? i once tried some edge swipe gesture apps and set them to Home or Back, but they dont work on marshmallow on the edge. i would ideally like something that just adds software keys on the bottom of the screen, i know it would make my viewing area smaller maybe but dont care about that at the moment
Hello all
I just picked up a AT&T S5e last night and was setting it up as much as I could the same as my AT&T Note 9, and for the most part everything worked fine, but in the section for Display>Home screen, there were two options I was trying to get working that would not.
The first was the Home Screen grid layout which for every time I tap on it, it just takes me to the regular full-size home screen and not the screen one that shows it smaller and with the few options below to change the grid layout.
Oddly it does this for the next option down of the Apps grid screen, but not the Home screen grid.
Then the second issue is the selection slider for the Apps button to have that button shown on the Home screen and for that the selector actually slides to the right an goes blue, but when I close this setting page and open it back up, its back to the left again as in that it did not save that selection.
Needless to say the Apps button is not on my Home screen either.
Oddly both of these work correctly on my AT&T Note 9 phone and both when it had Android 9 and now with the 10 upgrade, but they won’t do this on my S5e.
Also btw, I did do the One UI Home upgrade and its now showing it as version 10.0.35.14, and that it’s the latest version.
So has any one else had these same problems?
Thanks
I noticed that the on-screen gestures for going back (swiping in from the left or right) are not working in the keyboard area. For example if i'm typing something in Whatsapp and want to go back then I have to swipe ABOVE the keyboard for it to work. Otherwise it registers as a keyboard input. The keyboard location is ergonomically the perfect spot to swipe so it's very annoying that this doesn't work.
I never had this problem with my previous phone, a Oneplus 7T Pro, and I am using the same keyboard (Swiftkey).
Anyone with the same problem, or better, the solution?
For new Samsung Devices like S23 series
One Hand Operation +
That's the name of the Samsung app you need. Open its Advanced Settings and disable Fit To Keyboard option.
The app's and OS's gesture systems can coexist without a problem.