Hi, I have rooted my Samsung Galaxy S4 and prefer to use the on screen navigation buttons that can be enabled in CyanogenMod. Therefore, I have no need for the physical hardware home button. Is there an easy way to disable it? Thanks!
-Chris
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2407233
I only skimmed the thread, but it looks like the instructions there will let you do what you want.
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Hello all! I was wondering if its possible to modify the software to add controls to turn the touch sensitive buttons off and on? Maybe a widget? It seems I am always touching them and knocking myself out of apps. Maybe even remapping the sleep/power button to home instead of sleep and deactivating the buttons all together?
Hi,
I'd be interested in this also!!
Jim
Hi,
Just found this:
http://lifehacker.com/5705224/buttonremapper-reassigns-your-android-phones-buttons
which may or may not be helpful...
Jim
I have rooted my Note 3 and remapped the navigation buttons to match the galaxy nexus I came from. Now that I don't have the menu button is there a way (maybe in the build.prop) to enable the onscreen menu button? If not is there a way to enable all onscreen navigation buttons for the note 3? I tried the "qemu.hw.mainkeys=0" approach but it caused system ui to crash. Thanks.
Looking for this as well. Got the same UI crash when adding that kind.
Why would you want to when we have hardware buttons?
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Gvaz said:
Why would you want to when we have hardware buttons?
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I remapped my hardware buttons to match my galaxy nexus onscreen buttons (from left to right: Back, Home, Recent Apps). As you can see I don't have a menu button mapped. A lot of apps have the menu button in the UI but it doesn't show up if your device thinks it has a hardware menu button. So what I am looking for is a way to tell android that I do not have a hardware menu button. Thanks.
could you keep us updated if you find anything? could you make a quick tutorial how you were able to remap the buttons, or does it work exactly like on the s3:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34848407
smoothjeff said:
could you keep us updated if you find anything? could you make a quick tutorial how you were able to remap the buttons, or does it work exactly like on the s3:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34848407
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Yes it looks like it is exactly the same. Wish I could have found that guide when I was searching lol.
Do the correct icons appear to the right and left of the home button with this mod?
chhaggerty said:
Do the correct icons appear to the right and left of the home button with this mod?
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Unfortunately not. I just turned the touch key lights off in display settings.
Has anyone figured this out yet?
Hi all
I am wondering about something. Is There a way to disable the onscreen buttons, when the keyboard is open? But now can the main question is can the back button be left enabled so you can close the keyboard. I find that I am constantly hitting the home button when using the keyboard, and would love to have that disabled while the keyboard is open.
Thanks to any help.
Regards
Roars
Hi I coming from the nexus 5 and I love the on screen buttons. I love everything about the s5 but I not a fan of the buttons. I wanted to know if can turn them off or remap then so that they do nothing. Also maybe get home button to turn on and off the phone so that I don't have to use the power button on the side. Let me know if you have a way to do it. I prefer not to have to go and edit some XML file. If there is an app or setting I can use to do that for me that would be great.
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Android6190 said:
Hi I coming from the nexus 5 and I love the on screen buttons. I love everything about the s5 but I not a fan of the buttons. I wanted to know if can turn them off or remap then so that they do nothing. Also maybe get home button to turn on and off the phone so that I don't have to use the power button on the side. Let me know if you have a way to do it. I prefer not to have to go and edit some XML file. If there is an app or setting I can use to do that for me that would be great.
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Turn the backlights off in the display menu, install Gravity Box and set up the NavBar options etc, regarding re-mapping the home button, it's available on Custom ROMS but not sure if an Xposed module can/would work.
radicalisto said:
Turn the backlights off in the display menu, install Gravity Box and set up the NavBar options etc, regarding re-mapping the home button, it's available on Custom ROMS but not sure if an Xposed module can/would work.
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Thanks. Now I need to see if I can remap the buttons. I currently have infinity ROM which doesn't give the option for it.
Wanam Xpose should all need that options.
im desperately looking for a modification that disable the 2 soft buttons (left and right centre home button), and create 3x on screen buttons? so it will be like nexus or LG with just one centre hard button like apple kind of thing. i have galaxy note 3 N9005, rooted.
at the moment i used x-note custom rom with this feature built in, but looking to flash another custom rom but i really want to retain this feature.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/development/rom-x-note-build-21-nj4-t2947649
So surprise no other custom rom ever have this feature....
please help? thank you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2163932
found something:
All you have to do is add this to /system/build.prop and reboot.
# enable soft navigation keys
qemu.hw.mainkeys=0
will try after flashing new rom, i hope it will also disable hardware keys