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
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Hello,
I don't like this Home button on the Touch HD. I can get back to the today screen with the normal End Call button.
I am missing a startmenu button which I got used to over the last years. And the startmenu on this display is so far away from my thumb, that it makes one handed usage difficult.
Is there an easy way to reassign the Home buttion to the startmenu? The default Settings-->Buttons dialog offers only one long press customization. Can I enable the other buttons to get changed there?
Use aebuttons or mobilemagic, search a little for
A tool to change the buttons is AEButton Plus.
But the home key cannot be changed so far.
I concur with AE Button plus not being able to assign/reassign the home button
This is bad.
So we have to wait for a solution. I hope someone works on this.
The end call button and the home button are redundant.
Why have 2 buttons that primarily do the same thing? I know that the home button takes you to the main screen during a call where as pressing the end call will end it. But you could easily press the on-screen end call button, thus freeing up the home button to something more useful or customisable.
I guess HTC need to keep thier devices "conventional" looking to avoid scaring off potential pda newcomers!
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.
Hi All
I've just got a S5 today. Overall I like it a lot however the bloody button res-assignments is soooooooo annoying!
Is there any to re-map the button layout back to the older galaxy versions? I.E.
Press the left button and the menu will activate (I know if I hold it down it will work but I keep forgetting and it brings up the tasker)
Hold the home button to bring up the tasker.
Frustrating yours
Paul
jokerni said:
Hi All
I've just got a S5 today. Overall I like it a lot however the bloody button res-assignments is soooooooo annoying!
Is there any to re-map the button layout back to the older galaxy versions? I.E.
Press the left button and the menu will activate (I know if I hold it down it will work but I keep forgetting and it brings up the tasker)
Hold the home button to bring up the tasker.
Frustrating yours
Paul
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Root it -> Install Xposed -> Install GravityBox
Thanks, I had thought about it but its a new fone and you know what Samsung are like... I'm leaving towards re-mapping the key.
/system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl
Anyone know the key number for the left button (Is it 138), what would I need to change to make the default option a menu. I suppose thinking out loud I want to swap the commands over. I.e. I press the key once I get the menu, press and hold I get the tasker.
Thanks
P.
Just long press the left button and the options come up
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jokerni said:
Thanks, I had thought about it but its a new fone and you know what Samsung are like... I'm leaving towards re-mapping the key.
/system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl
Anyone know the key number for the left button (Is it 138), what would I need to change to make the default option a menu. I suppose thinking out loud I want to swap the commands over. I.e. I press the key once I get the menu, press and hold I get the tasker.
Thanks
P.
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Your best bet is to use gravity box, as suggested above. You can only change the recents function to menu via the file you mentioned. I believe the rest of the options you want are smali edits.
Since the early days of android, I used long press back to kill my application. One of the best customization features. But now samsung also has a good feature for the long press back option, multiwindow.
I want to use both, but my finger muscles are hardcorded to pressing this button for killing applications Is it possible to change the key for multiwindow for example long pressing the menu button? Perhaps trough a xposed module maybe?
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