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[Q] Nav buttons on left

Which custom ROMs support having the Nav buttons on the left side. I'm using PA and I like it, but I'd like to try some others as well. I'd really like a battery icon that shows the percentage.

toricred said:
Which custom ROMs support having the Nav buttons on the left side. ...
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For the option of Nav buttons on the left I am fairly sure I read that this custom ROM has that feature:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1998585

I'm a huge fan of the true tablet UI (single bar at the bottom with clock and notifications on the right, and navigation buttons on the left) so I'm using SGT7 ROM here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2065049. Its based on CM 10.1
It also has the option for battery percentage.
EDIT: just released today is a pure AOSP ROM with tablet ui. I haven't tested it but I'm sure its solid: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2078315

[Q] Paranoid Android 3+: Can I display status bar with Pie Controls?

I'm really digging Paranoid Android and the extended dekstop mode... That being said, I really miss my status bar. While the Pie control is a fantastic replacement for the bottom control bar, it's much less functional and efficient when it comes to displaying information and notifications.
I miss seeing my time, reception and notifications all the time.
I'd like to get the best of both worlds - Pie Control, with a Status Bar, but so far I haven't had any luck with settings. Is this possible at this point at all?

Komladov said:
I'm really digging Paranoid Android and the extended dekstop mode... That being said, I really miss my status bar. While the Pie control is a fantastic replacement for the bottom control bar, it's much less functional and efficient when it comes to displaying information and notifications.
I miss seeing my time, reception and notifications all the time.
I'd like to get the best of both worlds - Pie Control, with a Status Bar, but so far I haven't had any luck with settings. Is this possible at this point at all?
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Yep, just set navbar to 0% in hybrid properties>interface>workspace
Just FYI, the paranoid android team is working on improving the pie so notifications show up as a "tickler" even in pie mode
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brodern said:
Yep, just set navbar to 0% in hybrid settings
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Well, that's that.
Thanks!
Exactly what I wanted.

Komladov said:
Well, that's that.
Thanks!
Exactly what I wanted.
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I must be missing something. I set navbar to 0% as instructed, but the status bar still doesn't show up.
Also, I would like to have a customizable PIE control. There is currently no way to add buttons to PIE. When I'm on AOKP, I always add two buttons to the navbar - menu and search. The menu button is very handy as I can hit it and it shows "Nova Settings" and "System Settings," the two setting menus I use very frequently.
While the search button is on PIE, the menu isn't. Unfortunately, I can't live without it.
[EDIT] Nevermind... you do allow the menu button to show up in PIE. The position can't be changed, but it's a lot better than I mistakenly thought. Sorry!

Make sure not to enable expanded desktop if you're just trying to hide the navbar, if you just set the navbar to 0% it'll hide it and you won't need expanded desktop.

And make sure to press the "apply" button.
Forgot it myself ^^

brodern said:
Yep, just set navbar to 0% in hybrid properties>interface>workspace
Just FYI, the paranoid android team is working on improving the pie so notifications show up as a "tickler" even in pie mode
Sent from my Nexus 4
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Yo thanks so much for this. Just like the OP I love the pie control but always need the constant status bar. My man!
Sent from my 3rd Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

brodern said:
Yep, just set navbar to 0% in hybrid properties>interface>workspace
Just FYI, the paranoid android team is working on improving the pie so notifications show up as a "tickler" even in pie mode
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Yeah, but now the second ring (date, time etc) never shows up. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong ?

I posted this in another thread a while ago but didn't get an answer.
Is there a way to get the Notification bar AND the notifications in the PIE format too? Let me explain. Right now, I have full-screen PIE controls and in the settings I have the Pie type set to "Quick" which brings up the notifications right when Pie gets activated. I really like that functionality and I want to keep it. Is there any way to get that when using the above-posted solution? I can get the Notification bar and Pie controls just like what was posted, but I also want the notifications to pop up when I activate Pie. Anyone get that to work?

Had the same issue
aaronbrako said:
Yeah, but now the second ring (date, time etc) never shows up. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong ?
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Had the same problem as I switched back from using JellyBam to Paranoid Android. As the Paranoid Settings are persistent on the SD card I figured that was where the problem was. I had set the Nav bar to 0% in the Paranoid Settings as that was the only way to hide it in JellyBam, which meant that upon launch already it was set like that. My Pie menu was also not displaying the second ring, however when I set the Nav bar back to 100% and then enabled Expanded Desktop it all of a sudden started working again.
I'm not sure if it was because of the change in the Nav bar size or that I played with the different layouts, but it made the Pie menu work as per usual again. One more thing to mention is that despite where I had tried to set the Pie gravity to before doing all this it never took effect, even after a restart. Now all is fine again.
So play with your layout setting (tablet, phablet, phone) and then set them back to your preferred ones and see if that works.
I know it's most likely not exactly your scenario but am hoping that somehow this helps.

aaronbrako said:
Yeah, but now the second ring (date, time etc) never shows up. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong ?
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It is not possible to have the full pie and status bar at the same time because it is redundant as said by moles the dev of pa. But they are working on pie2 as of now.
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brodern said:
Yep, just set navbar to 0% in hybrid properties>interface>workspace
Just FYI, the paranoid android team is working on improving the pie so notifications show up as a "tickler" even in pie mode
Sent from my Nexus 4
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Thanks! Exactly what I wanted! Works like a charm.

brodern said:
Yep, just set navbar to 0% in hybrid properties>interface>workspace
Just FYI, the paranoid android team is working on improving the pie so notifications show up as a "tickler" even in pie mode
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For some reason I see my status bar everywhere except my home screen(._.) Paranoid 3.6 with Nova Launcher...
Any idea why ?

danielzyy said:
For some reason I see my status bar everywhere except my home screen(._.) Paranoid 3.6 with Nova Launcher...
Any idea why ?
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Check under your nova settings, you probably checked hide status bar
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Shyju
Use your 2 finger and pinch your home screen to enable status bar/ navigation bar.
Komladov said:
I'm really digging Paranoid Android and the extended dekstop mode... That being said, I really miss my status bar. While the Pie control is a fantastic replacement for the bottom control bar, it's much less functional and efficient when it comes to displaying information and notifications.
I miss seeing my time, reception and notifications all the time.
I'd like to get the best of both worlds - Pie Control, with a Status Bar, but so far I haven't had any luck with settings. Is this possible at this point at all?
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Hey guys I just flashed paranoid android and I can't get my status bar to come back with these instructions.. any advice? This is driving me nuts.

used paranoid android for a month.
I used paranoid android for a month on my note 2, and from my short experience I know messing with it's settings kinda sucks... I would recommend taking the nav bar to 0%. And then to download LMT launcher and put it in the bottom of the screen. Don't forget to leave full screen mode. Hope I helped :cyclops:

Randomsanity said:
Hey guys I just flashed paranoid android and I can't get my status bar to come back with these instructions.. any advice? This is driving me nuts.
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Hope its not too late, just hold down the off-button and unselect "fullscreen", this will bring your notification bar back

JimWest7997 said:
Hope its not too late, just hold down the off-button and unselect "fullscreen", this will bring your notification bar back
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Life saver! thank you, it worked for me. I was just about to re-install the ROM !

JimWest7997 said:
Hope its not too late, just hold down the off-button and unselect "fullscreen", this will bring your notification bar back
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thank you so much

[Q] Recommend a 4.4 ROM with stock LG features? (e.g. knock on, etc)

Hi there,
Seeking some advice on a ROM. Hate the look of stock LG G2, just installed stock-like kitkat on my old GNex and saw the google experience launcher with transparent everything, DO WANT. However I'm afraid of losing some features of stock LG software. Maybe you guys can recommend some ROMs, or if it's best to stay stock to get all the features I want, recommend some mods that will give me all the ROM features I want?
Things I NEED
Knock On/ Knock Off (LG feature)
4.4 Stock "Look and Feel" (fonts, transparent bars all around, appearance of time and battery and notifications bar, black instead of white setting menu, etc, you get the picture)
Always listening on the home screen, possibly the lock-screen, pretty much anywhere I can have it all over the UI (as per 4.4, not LG)
Recent Apps button instead of a menu button (as per 4.4, not LG)
Open apps from the lockscreen with apps icons already visible when looking at lockscreen (not the style where you hold finger over lock icon to see a choice of apps in a circle, and then have to swipe a specific direction. I used to have that and didnt like it as much as I like LG stock way of actually showing icons without you touching anything, and you swipe the icons, not a lock towards the icons)
Circle battery type thing on status bar that shows percentage
Things I haven't tried/am not sure about but might want from stock LG software, and might not want to lose flashing to custom ROM
Better stock camera?
SmartShare from the gallery app? (says it uses wifi/bluetooth to stream content to other devices)
Beam/DNLA/I don't even remember what it's called or what app I found it in?
Quickremote
You tell me please? I'm sure there's a bunch of stuff I've yet to discover that I might want (are any of LG's apps e.g. notebook useful?)
Things that are cool but not really necessary
Themes and a ton of extra features -- used to use AOKP and they had a decent amount of extra feature, not too few like CM, not too many like other ROMs where my head just starts spinning from all the features
Other
I'd really prefer not to have to wipe all the time, CM's OTA update feature was awesssooome when I had CM on my GNex, but CM is a little feature-lite for me, I mean it was good though, that's just a minor complaint. But if there's something better fitting my criteria above I'll put up with having to wipe to flash updates of the same ROM in the future if its necessary. I just never understood why OEMs can push OTAs to people and never make them wipe, but for custom ROMs (updating new versions of same ROM) I have to re-set-up everything every time

A lot of this stuff has been addressed already. Most ROMs have knock on built in, but not knock off. The work around is downloading an app that turns the screen off, and using a gesture control in another app (such as Nova Launcher) to double tap the home screen to turn the screen off. Though personally, I just have screen off set to my nav ring so I can access it from any page I'm on.
There's a flashable install here on the forums some where for Quick Remote. Works fine on AOSP ROMs.
As for 4.4 stuff, I have no idea.
Sent from CAMACHO, my Verizon G2 (VS980) running PAC ROM 4.3.

get an Iphone

Vepaot said:
Though personally, I just have screen off set to my nav ring so I can access it from any page I'm on.
How did you do that? I nowhere find a setting to change anything in the navigation ring.
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How to get a simple freaking Nav Bar

So yeah, both my back and menu capacitive buttons are broken, I need some way to add a nav bar to my phone.
I tried the "qemu.hw.mainkeys=0" on build.prop and it does not work.
Tried Resurrection Remix and some other roms which do offer a nav bar, but my phone gets overheated as **** and battery lasts no longer than half a day with normal use.
Is there any other way to add a nav bar ? I could be running kitkat or lollipop, i dont really care, all I want is to have a nav bar on the bottom of my screen.
Help please.

Try the SlimPie feature. It's that thing where you drag from the edge of the screen and various buttons pop up.
Resurrection Remix has it. And Slim roms too. Other roms that combine features should also have it.
It's your best bet if the actual nav bar doesn't work.

GDReaper said:
Try the SlimPie feature. It's that thing where you drag from the edge of the screen and various buttons pop up.
Resurrection Remix has it. And Slim roms too. Other roms that combine features should also have it.
It's your best bet if the actual nav bar doesn't work.
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I did tried RR, but the overheating and battery drain on there was simply incredible, plus google play services along with other processes kept crashing.
Would you mind linking me to other roms which I should try?
I'm currently testing GearCM to see if it overheats or not.
Isn't there any way to add a nav bar to a stock OS? I mean I don't want any fancy features other than the nav bar, thats all i want.

Poroto said:
I did tried RR, but the overheating and battery drain on there was simply incredible, plus google play services along with other processes kept crashing.
Would you mind linking me to other roms which I should try?
I'm currently testing GearCM to see if it overheats or not.
Isn't there any way to add a nav bar to a stock OS? I mean I don't want any fancy features other than the nav bar, thats all i want.
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Oh, you have a I9500. I have an I9505. So I can't suggest any roms, sorry.
Try finding a rom which has the SlimPie feature I was talking about. It's not a nav bar, but it's the closest you will get.
I don't know if there are any nav bar apps, but google can surely give you some answers.

Cm 12.1 already offers that,not satisfied?
Download slimpie (note: its not available in the play store, so search in google for its apk)
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Poroto said:
So yeah, both my back and menu capacitive buttons are broken, I need some way to add a nav bar to my phone.
I tried the "qemu.hw.mainkeys=0" on build.prop and it does not work.
Tried Resurrection Remix and some other roms which do offer a nav bar, but my phone gets overheated as **** and battery lasts no longer than half a day with normal use.
Is there any other way to add a nav bar ? I could be running kitkat or lollipop, i dont really care, all I want is to have a nav bar on the bottom of my screen.
Help please.
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Use gravity box my friend. Have your phone rooted, install gravity box and enjoy. Feel the power

Rom features most important features to your needs

I am asking this as I am about to start my own rom project for nexus 6p
I am also open to rom bases
What are the most important Rom features to you?
What special features do you like?
What version of root do you prefer?
Do you prefer certain kernel features?

Professional flashaholic here, so here I go:
Must have:
Long press power button for torch
Double tap to sleep anywhere in lockscreen
Battery light (led)
Do not wake screen when plugging charger
Animation speed control (all possible values, not just 1x, 0.5x, etc...)
Status bar ticker
Playback control using volume rocker
Reorient volume buttons on screen rotation
Ambient display advanced customization (especially brightness)
Fingerprint authentication optional vibration
Status bar clock customization
Quick pulldown in quick settings
Fingerprint unlock after reboot
Really nice to have:
Pulse visualization (both in navbar and lockscreen)
Volume panel customization (especially timeout)
Quick unlock
Navigation bar settings (DUI)
Full substratum support (especially if using default teal AOSP color)
All the Pixel goodies (nav bar animations, sounds, wallpapers, launcher, etc)
Root: I say let the user decide, some people prefer SuperSU, some prefer Magisk.
I've used almost all of the Roms here in XDA and other places, and right now, Resurrection Remix is the one that has everything I want, which is not to say that the other roms are bad. In fact, I've enjoyed every single one of them, and I'm immensely grateful to all of the developers here. I usually donate to them when I'm especially happy with a rom. It's like having a new phone every two weeks or so.

redsmith said:
Professional flashaholic here, so here I go:
Must have:
Long press power button for torch
Double tap to sleep anywhere in lockscreen
Battery light (led)
Do not wake screen when plugging charger
Animation speed control (all possible values, not just 1x, 0.5x, etc...)
Status bar ticker
Playback control using volume rocker
Reorient volume buttons on screen rotation
Ambient display advanced customization (especially brightness)
Fingerprint authentication optional vibration
Status bar clock customization
Quick pulldown in quick settings
Fingerprint unlock after reboot
Really nice to have:
Pulse visualization (both in navbar and lockscreen)
Volume panel customization (especially timeout)
Quick unlock
Navigation bar settings (DUI)
Full substratum support (especially if using default teal AOSP color)
All the Pixel goodies (nav bar animations, sounds, wallpapers, launcher, etc)
Root: I say let the user decide, some people prefer SuperSU, some prefer Magisk.
I've used almost all of the Roms here in XDA and other places, and right now, Resurrection Remix is the one that has everything I want, which is not to say that the other roms are bad. In fact, I've enjoyed every single one of them, and I'm immensely grateful to all of the developers here. I usually donate to them when I'm especially happy with a rom. It's like having a new phone every two weeks or so.
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I will reach out to you when I have a a beta release of. My rom

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What version of root do you prefer?
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Don't include any root! That way is easy for user to stay unrooted if they wish, or to easily flash supersu, magisk, or whatever else.

Redsmith pretty much covered all the bases on a good rom. I'm currently on nitrogen rom 7.1.1 and using substratum. So theming is important to me
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Dopamin3 said:
Don't include any root! That way is easy for user to stay unrooted if they wish, or to easily flash supersu, magisk, or whatever else.
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bigmatt503 said:
Redsmith pretty much covered all the bases on a good rom. I'm currently on nitrogen rom 7.1.1 and using substratum. So theming is important to me
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I will leave it unrooted with stock kernel & substratum support

Battery charge led, volume rocker change tracks, oms ?

I was also going to ask does anyone want viper mod baked into the rom?

I wouldn't, but that's just me. I'm not a big audiophile. My $8 earbuds from Walmart sound amazing to me.

Wozdoesitbest said:
I was also going to ask does anyone want viper mod baked into the rom?
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I mean it would be cool to have viper arise . But I can always flash it afterwards. Can you make the ROM 7.1.2 based or can u make it the 8.0 Dev preview rooted?
Also pulse on the lockscreen like back in the cm days. Flashlight hold power button.. immersion status and nav bars

AndrewM3 said:
I mean it would be cool to have viper arise . But I can always flash it afterwards. Can you make the ROM 7.1.2 based or can u make it the 8.0 Dev preview rooted?
Also pulse on the lockscreen like back in the cm days. Flashlight hold power button.. immersion status and nav bars
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To base it on 7.1.2 the source code needs to be released. Since it's still in beta I highly doubt the source has been released yet. If you want 8.0 rooted, why not just install the preview and flash SuperSU?

AndrewM3 said:
I mean it would be cool to have viper arise . But I can always flash it afterwards. Can you make the ROM 7.1.2 based or can u make it the 8.0 Dev preview rooted?
Also pulse on the lockscreen like back in the cm days. Flashlight hold power button.. immersion status and nav bars
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I have my developers account with Google so. I'm. Looking to build this. Up for 8.0 I want to make sure it's a daily driver I don't want to. Be releasing a bug filled rom.

Face_Plant said:
I wouldn't, but that's just me. I'm not a big audiophile. My $8 earbuds from Walmart sound amazing to me.
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Ok. Sounds good I will. Be looking into a few aspects I may look into a few different methods for. Picking & choosing installation methods

Wozdoesitbest said:
Ok. Sounds good I will. Be looking into a few aspects I may look into a few different methods for. Picking & choosing installation methods
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I might as well actually answer your question in the OP while I'm here. Must have features for me:
- AOSP base
- Long press power for torch with screen off
- Adjustable screen time out settings for lift to wake gesture
- Ability to adjust nav bar height
- Double tap lock screen to sleep
- Volume rocker media control
- Custom quick settings rows/columns (ex: 4x4 layout rather than the stock 3x3)
Anything else is just a bonus but would still be appreciated. I think things that can be flashed like like root, Viper, etc should be left up to the user.

Face_Plant said:
I might as well actually answer your question in the OP while I'm here. Must have features for me:
- AOSP base
- Long press power for torch with screen off
- Adjustable screen time out settings for lift to wake gesture
- Ability to adjust nav bar height
- Double tap lock screen to sleep
- Volume rocker media control
- Custom quick settings rows/columns (ex: 4x4 layout rather than the stock 3x3)
Anything else is just a bonus but would still be appreciated. I think things that can be flashed like like root, Viper, etc should be left up to the user.
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I appreciate all The feedback from all of you this is a great start
When I get a stable version I will.mesaage the guys interested in helping me. Test

As you can make a rom do you think you could possibly help me out with a mka bacon issue. How much ram do you use? As for features/apps I would say include adaway, wakeblock, supersu, viper4arise, substratum and oms support and camera nx and ex kernel manager and for features just copy Resurrection Remix.

I will pm you

I guess I'll throw my hat into the time, as I'm always down to test new ROMs!
Some must haves for me:
- Alarm/Wakelock Blocker
- Navbar dimension tuner
- Pixel icons / Color (I think it's a framework thing)
- Lock screen double tap to sleep
- Lock screen font change
If you need an additional tester I'd be down! Flashaholic, so I could give it a good run through. If somehow you were able to bake a lot of the features mentioned into 7.1.2 I'd download in a heartbeat and donate what I could. Easily

HTC_Phone said:
I guess I'll throw my hat into the time, as I'm always down to test new ROMs!
Some must haves for me:
- Alarm/Wakelock Blocker
- Navbar dimension tuner
- Pixel icons / Color (I think it's a framework thing)
- Lock screen double tap to sleep
- Lock screen font change
If you need an additional tester I'd be down! Flashaholic, so I could give it a good run through. If somehow you were able to bake a lot of the features mentioned into 7.1.2 I'd download in a heartbeat and donate what I could. Easily
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Working on 8.0 alpha right now I am running my own version of a 7.1.1 rom I might take a run at 7.1.2 I will keep you in mind good sir thank you
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Speed and battery. Idc about making my battery into a circle or changing the size of my lock screen clock