I am running the stock LG Rom and i really hate the fact i need to hold down the home key to access recent apps. Is there any way to replace the menu button and get the recent task/apps button without installing any custom rom?
Root, xposed, and a module like G2.
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lastdeadmouse said:
Root, xposed, and a module like G2.
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The only thing i understood is that you asked me to root.
Please be a bit more descriptive. Or give me a link to a thread if it exists.
Thank You
You need to, of course, root your device. Then, you can install something called Xposed. You will have to search to figure the xposed installer out. Xposed has several components that can be added, one of which is the G2 module (there are lots of modules that do different things). The G2 module has options to switch your softkey layout.
Of course a complete tutorial is beyond the scope of this brief response. But it should get you started.
Good luck! (it isn't hard...)
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Hey guys,
I'm new here and had a couple of questions regarding installing Xposed Framework on my I-337 on MF3. I rooted my S4 previous to being informed the bootloader could not be unlocked.
Since I can't flash any custom roms, Xposed sounds like a good idea but I'm still concerned about installing anything without being able to back anything up.
Is it safe to install the Xposed framework on an S4 running MF3?
Thanks.
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First, this should have been posted in q&a. But you might try here too http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45557002
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First, this should have been posted in q&a. But you might try here too http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45557002
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Oh...
Ok, thanks.
#Mike.G# said:
Hey guys,
I'm new here and had a couple of questions regarding installing Xposed Framework on my I-337 on MF3. I rooted my S4 previous to being informed the bootloader could not be unlocked.
Since I can't flash any custom roms, Xposed sounds like a good idea but I'm still concerned about installing anything without being able to back anything up.
Is it safe to install the Xposed framework on an S4 running MF3?
Thanks.
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I've been researching this as well, one forum that I've found helpful is http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2383484 I have the Xposed framework downloaded, but like to read up on everything before I do anything that could lead to an issue. Obviously, most things that you do to your device involve a certain degree of risk, but if you fully prepare yourself, you minimize that risk. From what I've seen, it looks fairly safe, but I'm still reading. I'd imagine that you've seen this forum as well or you wouldn't be asking about this.....http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401 Anyway, I'll most likely be installing soon, if I do so before you, I'll let you know how it goes for me anyway.
Ok, yeah... If you could keep me updated that would be awesome. I'm itching to just try it but I think I'm gonna hold off.
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I'd like to install xposed as well. Can you guys update this thread when you find out if we can or not?
Much appreciated.
Thanks.
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I installed it without reading any info (I was in noob mode)
It installed just fine as I used it to apply Master Key Dual Fix, then later
Android Tuner Module
Greenify
Wanam Xposed
I am new so maybe you want a season veteran to comment.... but it works just fine
Quick and painless
*To cover my butt - I do not give this FACT that it works for me without any issue as a reason to blame me if it does not work for you
#Mike.G# said:
Hey guys,
I'm new here and had a couple of questions regarding installing Xposed Framework on my I-337 on MF3. I rooted my S4 previous to being informed the bootloader could not be unlocked.
Since I can't flash any custom roms, Xposed sounds like a good idea but I'm still concerned about installing anything without being able to back anything up.
Is it safe to install the Xposed framework on an S4 running MF3?
Thanks.
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I installed it and everything worked fine for me. I had a problem once, when I installed xthemes a module one of the themes i installed using the module was not compatable and my phone then didn't boot up and just got stuck on the att logo. This point I was able to go into stock recovery and wipe everything and do a factory reset and phone worked just fine again. I still had root but all my data was gone.
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OK, Just installed it and Wanam Xposed with no issues.
dwanhala said:
OK, Just installed it and Wanam Xposed with no issues.
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Good stuff.
Can you share the link to the installer apk?
Thanks again!
#Mike.G# said:
Good stuff.
Can you share the link to the installer apk?
Thanks again!
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You can find the Xposed framework installer in the links that I posted earlier. You can download Wanam Xposed from the Play store. Just follow the instructions and everything should go well.....did for me anyway.
dwanhala said:
You can find the Xposed framework installer in the links that I posted earlier. You can download Wanam Xposed from the Play store. Just follow the instructions and everything should go well.....did for me anyway.
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Greenify is a good one too
It allows you to hibernate applications (not to be confused with FREEZING) which frees memory and states "increases battery duration".
It does appear to do this. I have been using Greenify for 3 days and I am getting 18 hrs of charge on this
*Normal phone calls - a few heavy games from time to time
battery life is incredible
Have fun fellas
Any framework out there allow you to add lockscreen widgets while having a pattern lock? or able to access the camera from the lockscreen with a pattern? If this is possible ill root i a heart beat
Great, thanks again.
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blackguy101 said:
Any framework out there allow you to add lockscreen widgets while having a pattern lock? or able to access the camera from the lockscreen with a pattern? If this is possible ill root i a heart beat
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There is one, in fact. If you have the newest version of xposed, you can get it from the download tab in the app (Galaxy S4 Multiple Widgets). I've been running xposed with Wanam, Maximize Lockscreen Widgets, and App Settings, and it works just fine as long as you don't install tweaks made for AOSP or that say they aren't compatible.
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Hi,
I recently rooted my VS980, and installed a cleaned rom (no VZW apps) of the stock VS98012BOTA update. I would really like to replace the default onscreen menu button with the standard recent apps button. I found two mods in the G2 (Verizon) thread that did exactly this, but unfortunately both of them boot-looped my phone. My guess is that it's because I'm running the most recent VS98012B version of the stock rom, which was released after both the mods I found.
Does anyone know if there is a mod that would work with this stock rom version? Thanks.
As you say, you got root! Just install xposed and there's for sure a module that can let you customize the navbar just as you wish
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I love my device (802) but one thing is really bugging me about it in it's present state.......I hate the fact that the navigation buttons take up a large portion of my beautiful screen in most applications
Firstly, I like to keep my phone unrooted so that I can enjoy skygo, meaning custom roms and mods which require root are out of the question for me and, secondly, I have tried the hide navbar mod which is included in the stock Korean rom and I think it is an excellent solution and one which LG has successfully developed and implemented for those lucky few.
There is an app in the playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.ppareit.immersivemode which attempts to achieve immersive mode across many kitkat devices enabling the user to enable immersive mode for any selected app just like the implementation on the Korean rom without the necessity for root. This app achieves what I require but, unfortunately, is very buggy.
I would like to appeal to the devs and those many others here with more nouse than me to look at the above playstore apk and also the official LG implementation and see if it may be possible to implement this efficiently on a non-rooted device.
Whilst I am rambling on, could somebody tell me what would happen if I rooted my stock rom, made a small system adjustment then unrooted my device again? Would my system mod still work and would skygo detect my device as not rooted? The reason that I ask this is I wondered if it was impossible to somehow implement the Korean 'hide nav bars' mod on a rooted stock rom, unroot the device and still have this modification working?
Any thoughts on this (and investigation perhaps ) would be very much appreciated.
bobsie41 said:
I love my device (802) but one thing is really bugging me about it in it's present state.......I hate the fact that the navigation buttons take up a large portion of my beautiful screen in most applications
Firstly, I like to keep my phone unrooted so that I can enjoy skygo, meaning custom roms and mods which require root are out of the question for me and, secondly, I have tried the hide navbar mod which is included in the stock Korean rom and I think it is an excellent solution and one which LG has successfully developed and implemented for those lucky few.
There is an app in the playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.ppareit.immersivemode which attempts to achieve immersive mode across many kitkat devices enabling the user to enable immersive mode for any selected app just like the implementation on the Korean rom without the necessity for root. This app achieves what I require but, unfortunately, is very buggy.
I would like to appeal to the devs and those many others here with more nouse than me to look at the above playstore apk and also the official LG implementation and see if it may be possible to implement this efficiently on a non-rooted device.
Whilst I am rambling on, could somebody tell me what would happen if I rooted my stock rom, made a small system adjustment then unrooted my device again? Would my system mod still work and would skygo detect my device as not rooted? The reason that I ask this is I wondered if it was impossible to somehow implement the Korean 'hide nav bars' mod on a rooted stock rom, unroot the device and still have this modification working?
Any thoughts on this (and investigation perhaps ) would be very much appreciated.
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Why don't you try something like this ??
http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.devadvance.rootcloak
I use it on some other apps and it works for me, and it looks like your app might be also supported. Check in the XDA thread if it is.
If it works for you, use then G2 Tweaksbox for the NavBar customization.
PAGOT said:
Why don't you try something like this ??
http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.devadvance.rootcloak
I use it on some other apps and it works for me, and it looks like your app might be also supported. Check in the XDA thread if it is.
If it works for you, use then G2 Tweaksbox for the NavBar customization.
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Thanks but skygo doesn't work with this . The checking procedure that it employs seems to be very thorough and, to my knowledge, nobody has ever cracked this properly to work on a rooted or un-supported device. The same being the case when trying to enable hdmi out with it.
I was hoping that there would be some way of implementing hiding of nav bars on a non-rooted device as the play store app that I mentioned in my previous post proves that this can be implemented to quite a large degree, so I thought, if somebody was to work on this device specifically, they may be able to make it bug free.
You could remove the navbar altogether but then you would have to rely 100% on things such as LMT.
For info, I am now very happy. I have installed Cloudystock Rom then unrooted it with superSU pro. To my great surprise, the Rom still works flawlessly and my sky apps do too.
I wasn't aware this was possible. I am now going to work on stock Rom zip with the hide navigation button feature added.
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Wait wait wait...Sky Go works when you just unroot... Even on a custom ROM? I'm on cloudyflex I need to try this. ROM has a hide keys option per app anyway
Do you still have custom recovery??
OK unrooted play store says SkyGo is not compatible with my device. Got a feeling that's related to something in my build.prop can you upload yours please mate from your ROM so I can make some changes to mine to get it working? Thanks.
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Wait wait wait...Sky Go works when you just unroot... Even on a custom ROM? I'm on cloudyflex I need to try this. ROM has a hide keys option per app anyway
Do you still have custom recovery??
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I've just un-rooted cloudystock with supersSU pro and kept custom recovery and everything else the same and, yes, the sky apps worked fine as did the rom . For me, this is just what I wanted and I was very surprised that it works, including hide nav keys.
Now I want to try to create a completely stock 80220d but with the navbar mod included then unroot it. I have pm'd cloudya about which files from the cloudy stock rom that I require but haven't had a reply yet.
....didn't you create a flashable 80220d zip somewhere? I can't seem to find it. I am not very experienced at this and I guess by your response that you are interested in the same thing and perhaps you will be better at this than me?
EDIT I changed ro.build.target_country from COM to EU for another reason. Perhaps this might help?
I changed fingerprint and a few other bits back to d802 in build.prop, removed root. Now running cloudyflex. Can hide keys per app in options. And can watch sky go. Perfect.
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Hello, I am just upgrading my phone from the galaxy note 1 to the lg g2.
I have used roms on my note where the home screen keys are on the screen and they tend to get in the way a lot when I am trying to use the keyboard.
I notice the lg g2's keys HAVE to be on the screen, so I am looking for ways to either shrink the bar or move it to a different place all together. ....or maybe even hide the buttons.
And if it wasnt to much to ask for, I would like to beable to so this without rooting
Thank you
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mrcarlxx said:
Hello, I am just upgrading my phone from the galaxy note 1 to the lg g2.
I have used roms on my note where the home screen keys are on the screen and they tend to get in the way a lot when I am trying to use the keyboard.
I notice the lg g2's keys HAVE to be on the screen, so I am looking for ways to either shrink the bar or move it to a different place all together. ....or maybe even hide the buttons.
And if it wasnt to much to ask for, I would like to beable to so this without rooting
Thank you
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Sorry but none of that can be done without root...
AyDee said:
Sorry but none of that can be done without root...
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Thats a pain
I dont really want to root. I have rooted all my phones, I bricked my g note...and even though I successfully rooted my replacement I am genuinely worried about bricking the g2
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mrcarlxx said:
Thats a pain
I dont really want to root. I have rooted all my phones, I bricked my g note...and even though I successfully rooted my replacement I am genuinely worried about bricking the g2
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it's actually quite easy..
ota to the latest kitkat
use the ioroot25r1 tool to root
install and run busybox from the play store
install lmt launcher for pie controls
install xposed framework
install hide navbar module for g2 in exposed, it's called 'lg pie support'
.. tip, don't try the method of editing the build.prop with qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 to get rid of the navbar..it makes things go very screwy on g2
meangreenie said:
it's actually quite easy..
ota to the latest kitkat
use the ioroot25r1 tool to root
install and run busybox from the play store
install lmt launcher for pie controls
install xposed framework
install hide navbar module for g2 in exposed, it's called 'lg pie support'
.. tip, don't try the method of editing the build.prop with qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 to get rid of the navbar..it makes things go very screwy on g2
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Its sounds easy to you lol, I am used to rooting and chaging roms etc, but with the g note you can root it easy, with no need for a computer. You just download and open the files in recovery.
But I have just been reading a few threads and I see a few people are having issues with drivers, roms, full root, and broken screens. Which is making me a little nervous to be honest lol
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you're right to be cautious, sorry I was a bit gungho previously
methods do vary depending on which variant g2 you have
I was lucky having a d802 which is straight forward
meangreenie said:
you're right to be cautious, sorry I was a bit gungho previously
methods do vary depending on which variant g2 you have
I was lucky having a d802 which is straight forward
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How will I find out which version I will have? Sorry for all the noob questions
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Should be written on the side of the box. Also you can check your firmware version in settings/general/about
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Should be written on the side of the box. Also you can check your firmware version in settings/general/about
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Is there a way to do this with partial root? If such a thing exists with this device?
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I have an AT&T LG G2 D800 running Lollipop 5.0.2. I managed to root it and install BusyBox and TWRP, and I've made a full backup. Now I'd like to install Xposed so I can get some other apps running that require it.
My concern is that in my research I found out that installing Xposed specifically on LG G2 phones causes "force close" errors because of the G2's smart cover and weather components. Apparently there are ways to disable those components to get Xposed working without the force close errors. But for this particular phone, I need those components enabled and working. Either that or I need seamless alternatives.
So my question is, does the current version of Xposed (v80 at the time of writing) support these troublesome LG components yet? I'd just like an answer to that before I risk it myself.
I'm new here and I can't code, but as thanks for any help I might receive I'm willing to do a nice write-up on the entire process for this specific phone from root to TWRP to Xposed. No such thing exists as far as I can tell. I've just been finding all the info I need up to this point scattered around the net, and it would be nice to have it all in one place.
Much obliged.
d800d00d said:
I have an AT&T LG G2 D800 running Lollipop 5.0.2. I managed to root it and install BusyBox and TWRP, and I've made a full backup. Now I'd like to install Xposed so I can get some other apps running that require it.
My concern is that in my research I found out that installing Xposed specifically on LG G2 phones causes "force close" errors because of the G2's smart cover and weather components. Apparently there are ways to disable those components to get Xposed working without the force close errors. But for this particular phone, I need those components enabled and working. Either that or I need seamless alternatives.
So my question is, does the current version of Xposed (v80 at the time of writing) support these troublesome LG components yet? I'd just like an answer to that before I risk it myself.
I'm new here and I can't code, but as thanks for any help I might receive I'm willing to do a nice write-up on the entire process for this specific phone from root to TWRP to Xposed. No such thing exists as far as I can tell. I've just been finding all the info I need up to this point scattered around the net, and it would be nice to have it all in one place.
Much obliged.
P.S. Mods: I posted this same thread over here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/att-g2/help/help-lg-g2-d800-lollipop-5-0-2-xposed-t3340431
But it's not really AT&T-specific, and it should get more views in this forum, so I'd like to keep it here if you please. The other thread can be deleted it necessary. Thank you!
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been using xposed never had a problem..
raptorddd said:
been using xposed never had a problem..
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Maybe I've just been reading old information. That's what I was wondering.
Just to confirm, you're running Lollipop, not Kitkat? And your smart cover/quick cover and weather components still work? Did you run into those force close errors at all? If not, then you probably have no idea what I'm talking about, haha. See here:
orville87 said:
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Q: LG Has Weather and Smartcover Force closes. What to do?
A: You need to disable these before flashing. You can disable them after, please see this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=59929667&postcount=5122
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d800d00d said:
Maybe I've just been reading old information. That's what I was wondering.
Just to confirm, you're running Lollipop, not Kitkat? And your smart cover/quick cover and weather components still work? Did you run into those force close errors at all? If not, then you probably have no idea what I'm talking about, haha. See here:
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As far as I know, these issues should be solved with newer Xposed versions. But as this has only been stated by rovo89 and not confirmed (at least to my knowledge) by any affected user, I still have this in the FAQ.
You can flash Xposed and check if the issue still persist. If yes, reboot back to recovery and flash the uninstaller.zip to uninstall Xposed.
orville87 said:
As far as I know, these issues should be solved with newer Xposed versions. But as this has only been stated by rovo89 and not confirmed (at least to my knowledge) by any affected user, I still have this in the FAQ.
You can flash Xposed and check if the issue still persist. If yes, reboot back to recovery and flash the uninstaller.zip to uninstall Xposed.
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Right on, I'll give it a go and report back. :good:
Sweet, no issues to report orville87. Weather still works, but I can't confirm smart cover works until I get a new case. No bootloops or force close errors, though. :good:
d800d00d said:
Sweet, no issues to report orville87. Weather still works, but I can't confirm smart cover works until I get a new case. No bootloops or force close errors, though. :good:
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Great Could you report back when you got a new case? Then I will adjust the guide in the official Xposed thread.
Write-up available here: [GUIDE] AT&T LG G2 D800 Lollipop 5.0.2 Root TWRP Xposed
Portgas D. Ace said:
Great Could you report back when you got a new case? Then I will adjust the guide in the official Xposed thread.
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I can confirm that the Xposed Framework as of v80 no longer breaks the LG Weather widget or the Smart Cover component on the D800. :good: