Double tap home button to open GNow? - Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Is it possible to open Google now instead of crappy s voice when you double tap the home button? I've tried home2 but it's not a great solution. Eventually my phone started redrawing my launcher when going back to the homescreens.

Yes .
Of course.
Use wanam xposed.
Yiu can select any app you want
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RomanHelmet said:
Is it possible to open Google now instead of crappy s voice when you double tap the home button? I've tried home2 but it's not a great solution. Eventually my phone started redrawing my launcher when going back to the homescreens.
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Not sure if you're using any other launcher, but Nova lets you do this

firasusman said:
Yes .
Of course.
Use wanam xposed.
Yiu can select any app you want
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In wanam all I see is an option to change the longpress behavior. It does open gnow, but I have no way to open recents with that function reassigned.
mikesnav said:
Not sure if you're using any other launcher, but Nova lets you do this
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Thanks for the suggestion. I've used Nova, I just don't like it personally.

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{REQ} Hold Search Opens Camera {REQ}

With all the made skillz here at XDA.
Do you think someone can whip up an app that when you hold the Search button, instead of picking voice search, it can open up the Camera app?
gracias
Krad said:
With all the made skillz here at XDA.
Do you think someone can whip up an app that when you hold the Search button, instead of picking voice search, it can open up the Camera app?
gracias
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I believe long presses are handled by the kernal so it should be possible but I am not sure how.
Currently, long press on the search opens google talk...maybe long press on the menu or something?
Good idea though
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You get the option for powerstrip or chompsms to take over that button.
I would love an app to launch whatever you want, like the camera or the phone app.
Surely this should be super easy to make
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I would like it to be used for voice input in emails/texts. The tiny mic button is hard to hit on the Android keyboard.
I use LaunchPro and setup the app drawer swipe up gesture to open camera, works well for me.
great suggestion.. using that now
Use the android market app called 'Button Shortcut' i made the long-press search open camera instead of google search.
saint168 said:
I use LaunchPro and setup the app drawer swipe up gesture to open camera, works well for me.
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Not seeing how to get to the swipe features. How can I do that?
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I don't know about launcher pro but I do exactly the same in ADW. I took LP off after I discovered this in ADW, I never saw this in LP, did I miss it?
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Press and hold one of the apps in the app drawer until the menu pops up. Select 'Swipe Gesture Action'
justflorin said:
Use the android market app called 'Button Shortcut' i made the long-press search open camera instead of google search.
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I took the advice. Since I already had handcent SMS assigned to the button and voice search had been assigned before that I got a nice little menu out of it. I think its more useful w/o selecting a default
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justflorin said:
Use the android market app called 'Button Shortcut' i made the long-press search open camera instead of google search.
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Thanks! That application did the trick 8)
xfosx said:
Thanks! That application did the trick 8)
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button shortcut worked once for me and then did nothing. uninstalled. Anyone got anything better?

[Q] Nova Launcher double tap to lock

Double tap to unlock works with Nova Launcher if the device is locked via the back button. What I am looking to do is double tap to turn off.
Any ideas or help in configuring the Nova double tap function to execute this action?
FynxSyndct said:
Double tap to unlock works with Nova Launcher if the device is locked via the back button. What I am looking to do is double tap to turn off.
Any ideas or help in configuring the Nova double tap function to execute this action?
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Double tap the notification bar. You can probably set it up to shut off home screen taps too with gestures - i'd assume.
Darkestred said:
Double tap the notification bar.
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- works great
Darkestred said:
You can probably set it up to shut off home screen taps too with gestures - i'd assume.
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I guess this is what I'm looking for. Which setting it is to assign to the gesture of double tap in NL settings.
For now, the double tap of the notification bar works great.
FynxSyndct said:
Double tap to unlock works with Nova Launcher if the device is locked via the back button. What I am looking to do is double tap to turn off.
Any ideas or help in configuring the Nova double tap function to execute this action?
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Here, I made a topic, but it got forgotten in the spam of people buying the phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2441027
FynxSyndct said:
- works great
I guess this is what I'm looking for. Which setting it is to assign to the gesture of double tap in NL settings.
For now, the double tap of the notification bar works great.
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and i see someone beat me to it...
What you could do is get screen off and on from the playstore and then assign that to the double-tap gesture. Hope that helps.
Thanks wargreymon89 - installing now. seems like a perfect fix.
In Nova launcher you can assign an activity for a double tap...anyone know what activity "knock knock" is? Ive went through the list a few times and couldn't figure it out.
jmill75 said:
In Nova launcher you can assign an activity for a double tap...anyone know what activity "knock knock" is? Ive went through the list a few times and couldn't figure it out.
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Tried a few things, ended up using Screen Off and Lock from play store. Works like a champ. Just set double tap to shortcut, activity, then screen off and Lock.
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truckroot said:
Tried a few things, ended up using Screen Off and Lock from play store. Works like a champ. Just set double tap to shortcut, activity, then screen off and Lock.
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Cool I will give it a go. Thanks
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truckroot said:
Tried a few things, ended up using Screen Off and Lock from play store. Works like a champ. Just set double tap to shortcut, activity, then screen off and Lock.
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Truck,
I assume you have Nova Launcher Prime then? I just have the regular version. Please confirm. I would love to have double tap capability again on my HTC One M8 like I did with my previous phone, the LG G2.
My M8 has double tap to WAKE already installed. Will doing this disrupt that, or just add to it? Please confirm.
Thanks,
RockStar2005
RockStar2005 said:
Truck,
I assume you have Nova Launcher Prime then? I just have the regular version. Please confirm. I would love to have double tap capability again on my HTC One M8 like I did with my previous phone, the LG G2.
My M8 has double tap to WAKE already installed. Will doing this disrupt that, or just add to it? Please confirm.
Thanks,
RockStar2005
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No, you should be fine. The double tap to sleep works on the homescreen of Nova Prime, and then you already have double tap to wake on the M8. There won't be any disruptions.
Is it still not native within Nova Launcher like KKLauncher or Smart Launcher?
Do we still need third party app?
Quick question, are you guys just turning off your screen, or turning off AND locking? I'm looking to JUST turn off.

Recents button to Menu button

I got tired of long pressing to get to menu so I made a flashable zip to make recents button the menu button.Make a backup to go back to undo this mod if you want to go back.This only tested on T-Mobile N910T
https://mega.co.nz/#!Mk5DzIrQ!jcQKkwThNIht14UkmRCiwh0eJsu13z4oD05TUtwHudo
Flash in TWRP and ur done [emoji4]
Tap-menu, Long press-recents?
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charlieb620 said:
Tap-menu, Long press-recents?
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depends on launcher Im using nova and have search button long press for recents.
Gravity box will allow you to change the recents key also
raw2000j said:
depends on launcher Im using nova and have search button long press for recents.
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I'm relatively new to Nova, is there a way to swap the menu and recent apps with Nova. I can't seem access the menu function with this launcher.
swap without this mod or swap with this mod u mean?
Sorry I meant without the MOD, since I'm not rooted. I thought nova might have this, but I can't seem to find it.
to swap it no way thats y I made the mod most things you have to root.
James62370 said:
I'm relatively new to Nova, is there a way to swap the menu and recent apps with Nova. I can't seem access the menu function with this launcher.
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Gravity box (navigation keys), I run nova and the single tap of recent = menu. Long press = recent apps
Amd4life said:
Gravity box (navigation keys), I run nova and the single tap of recent = menu. Long press = recent apps
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true but some people dont want to run xposed
raw2000j said:
depends on launcher Im using nova and have search button long press for recents.
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Thanks for making this! I still haven't gotten used to tap-recents, long press-menu
but a few questions
1. For stock Touchwiz is it tap - menu and long press-recents yeah?
2. Could I just back up the Generic.kl file in the device and take the one from the zip to replace? And vice versa if I wanted to go back to just replace it with the old one?
3. Also can you/I just replace the generic.kl file in the zip with the one on the device to make a flashable version to go back? Or is making flashable zips not as easy or simple as I thought? Lol
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touchwiz i dont think they have a way to assign long button behavior so dont think long press would bring recents and second yes if u replace after u flash my zip and want the old way back yes switch the generic file and u should be back or u can backup rom and restore.
raw2000j said:
touchwiz i dont think they have a way to assign long button behavior so dont think long press would bring recents and second yes if u replace after u flash my zip and want the old way back yes switch the generic file and u should be back or u can backup rom and restore.
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Wait so the mod only makes the button the menu button a single option button? If so how do you get to the recent apps?
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BlueNinja712 said:
Wait so the mod only makes the button the menu button a single option button? If so how do you get to the recent apps?
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i installed nova launcher and assigned long press for recents
raw2000j said:
i installed nova launcher and assigned long press for recents
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Ah I tried other launchers before didn't really like them but will check out nova again
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Is there anyway now to make short hold menu the multitasking I didn't want to lose it completely
raw2000j said:
i installed nova launcher and assigned long press for recents
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I did that for a while but the downside is you have to be already on the homescreen for it to work... At least on beta 4. I looked into doing this mod myself but just decided on Gravitybox vs Wanam. You get way more options for customization. But this is cool for those with issues with xposed or who prefer Wanam module Good work!
I used Gravitybox to remap the recents button to short press=menu, long press=recents. Needs root & Xposed obvs, but it works. I also have long press back to launch google.
Weird thing though- I can't find any options for button remapping in Nova. I can set the home button to whatever I want but no others.
kabuk1 said:
I used Gravitybox to remap the recents button to short press=menu, long press=recents. Needs root & Xposed obvs, but it works. I also have long press back to launch google.
Weird thing though- I can't find any options for button remapping in Nova. I can set the home button to whatever I want but no others.
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thats where I found it.Thougj its only the menu button
raw2000j said:
thats where I found it.Thougj its only the menu button
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Wow, I literally do not have that option at all. Then again, I'm on the latest beta so maybe they removed it for some reason...?

*NOVA LAUNCHER* Double tap to lock

Here is a work around to the popular double tap to lock when using Nova Launcher.
All you need to do is to download "screen off and lock" from the Google Play store, then go into Nova's "gestures and buttons" settings menu and tie double tap to the screen off and lock app.
Then it should work as it does with the standard launcher.
Thank for the tip
Or if you have greenify you can tie the double tap to hibernate and it does exactly he same. Actually I prefer since, I use greenify on my phone anyways.
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Hgneto said:
Or if you have greenify you can tie the double tap to hibernate and it does exactly he same. Actually I prefer since, I use greenify on my phone anyways.
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Nice tip! Thanks!
What shortcut you use on Greenify? Hibernate or Hibernate+Lock Screen?
Or you can just double tap the top of the status bar works with any launcher
Thanks for that dude
tallman43 said:
Or you can just double tap the top of the status bar works with any launcher
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No it doesn't.
stevemiddie said:
No it doesn't.
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Or yes it does you are doing it wrong! Do you think I would post a tip if it didnt work! Tap the status bar twice anywhere along the top near the battery/wifi icons etc
tallman43 said:
Or yes it does you are doing it wrong! Do you think I would post a tip if it didnt work! Tap the status bar twice anywhere along the top near the battery/wifi icons etc
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Apex Launcher Pro.............Galaxy Note 4 and it definitely does NOT.
stevemiddie said:
Apex Launcher Pro.............Galaxy Note 4 and it definitely does NOT.
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Lol This is LG G3 Thread my friend how was I to know you had a Galaxy note 4 i'm not psychic It works perfectly on the LG G3. . . . .Post in the right thread next time here is a link in case you are lost >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4 <<
tallman43 said:
Lol This is LG G3 Thread my friend how was I to know you had a Galaxy note 4 i'm not psychic It works perfectly on the LG G3. . . . .Post in the right thread next time here is a link in case you are lost >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4 <<
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Oooops! :crying:
I have the Note 4 and the LG G3 and was switching between forums.
My sincere apologies.
Scrren Off app + Nova Launcher Pro with the gesture option (double tap executing the screen off)
Just works! :good:
With 3rd party lock apps I had issues with the keylock activating even though i had smartlock set to deactivate my pin when my phone is connected to my pebble watch. So i now use tasker to double tap off with nova from anywhere on the screen.
In tasker set up a new task to mimic a press of the power button:
New task>code > run shell> Command> input keyevent 26
Tick use root access.
Then point novas double tap gesture to the task. Because its mimicking the power button press it doesn't interfere with smartlock.
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jimsey said:
With 3rd party lock apps I had issues with the keylock activating even though i had smartlock set to deactivate my pin when my phone is connected to my pebble watch. So i now use tasker to double tap off with nova from anywhere on the screen.
In tasker set up a new task to mimic a press of the power button:
New task>code > run shell> Command> input keyevent 26
Tick use root access.
Then point novas double tap gesture to the task. Because its mimicking the power button press it doesn't interfere with smartlock.
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Can you please explain how to "point novas double tap gesture to the task"? Thank you very much!
Hi
In nova settings > gestures> double tap> shortcuts> task shortcuts> select the name you gave to the task you created.
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jimsey said:
Hi
In nova settings > gestures> double tap> shortcuts> task shortcuts> select the name you gave to the task you created.
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Hi and thank you. I did that and it interacts with tasker on double tap, as i see the message from super su. I guess i didn't set up tasker as it should.. Any ideas?
Not sure but you might need to give the task in tasker an icon for it to work?
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jimsey said:
Not sure but you might need to give the task in tasker an icon for it to work?
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Did that also
Awesome Tip...!!!!!
Awesome Tip dude...!!!!!
Really helped.:good:
You can even use Greenify for this trick.

How to disable the back and menu buttons?

The back and menu buttons are useless since i use the gestures all the time.
How to disable them without rooted?
nde123456 said:
The back and menu buttons are useless since i use the gestures all the time.
How to disable them without rooted?
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try 'simple control' app in the play store.
nde123456 said:
The back and menu buttons are useless since i use the gestures all the time.
How to disable them without rooted?
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What gestures do you speak of? I am interested
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hagba said:
try 'simple control' app in the play store.
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Thank you. But I tried it and did not find any settings to disable back and menu buttons in Simple Control.
Brava27 said:
What gestures do you speak of? I am interested
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An app named Floating Menu, similar to Pie control, but is in Chinese language only. I can use it for back/home/menu/lock screen/capture screen.
And nova launcher gestures for quick settings and notifications.

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