New to Nexus Tablet.
Unlocked and Rooted, still on stock ROM and kernal.
Just wondering if there's a way to move the keyboard from the bottom of the screen to the top. Because of the way I hold the tablet, it would be easier for me to sometimes have a keyboard accessible on the top of the screen. Are there any apps that can change the keyboard location? I want to avoid flashing a new ROM because I'm actually liking the stock experience.
I'm using a SWYPE keyboard but would totally switch if needed.
Thanks!
Rooting the mobile looks so complex compared to my GS2 where It is all automatic and simple. I've read the guide and it's way over my head, I'm sorry but stupid people exist and the guide is not easy to follow in the slightest.
I just want to make it so if I have two fingers side by side and I swipe up and down, it hides and reveals the on screen buttons. Obviously I don't want it to be one finger as you use one finger for many things on the screen, however two would be perfect for this function.
I don't understand why google haven't done or just built hardware buttons in the bottom part that has no function other than a tiny led which should be at the top really. I just want to be able to hide them simply like this without any cumbersome apps installed or having to root and use some crazy rom which is so complex to do on this phone.
Is it possible at all to make the phone function like this?
As far as I know, there's no way to do that on the stock ROM.
You could use either of these toolkits to unlock and root this phone. They're both really easy to use and the instructions are precise.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2015469
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1995688
After unlocking, rooting and installing a custom recovery, you can then flash a ROM that supports expanded desktop. I know paranoidandroid does and perhaps other ROMs do as well. I'm not sure of any of them allow the nav buttons to be hidden by a gesture but there's usually an option in the power menu to expand the desktop and maybe there's even a way to allow gestures to do it with a mod or launcher or something. But that would only be possible on a custom ROM that allows this in the first place.
Edit: Here's another even simpler root solution
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2025274
What is the difference between unlock and root and do you have to do both?
Ain't there no way just to like download a registry file like Windows and suddenly it'll have the function?
People always go on about Stock Android but it's ****, touchwiz would never have these stupid onscreen buttons and not let you hide them.
Rooting Nexus devices is literally the SIMPLEST thing to do. Quite simply, if you don't know how to root a Nexus device, you shouldn't have one.
tatltael said:
As far as I know, there's no way to do that on the stock ROM.
You could use either of these toolkits to unlock and root this phone. They're both really easy to use and the instructions are precise.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2015469
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1995688
After unlocking, rooting and installing a custom recovery, you can then flash a ROM that supports expanded desktop. I know paranoidandroid does and perhaps other ROMs do as well. I'm not sure of any of them allow the nav buttons to be hidden by a gesture but there's usually an option in the power menu to expand the desktop and maybe there's even a way to allow gestures to do it with a mod or launcher or something. But that would only be possible on a custom ROM that allows this in the first place.
Edit: Here's another even simpler root solution
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2025274
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I've used your second link which was easy enough.
However I have no idea how to install a Rom on this device.
Seriously with the GS2 the only thing I can remember doing was using Odin, it was so easy.
Is there nothing easy I can install after this instead of having to load Paranoid Android which I have no clue how to do?
expand desktop
I use secure settings and tasker to hide them while in car dock mode. Works pretty well. Make sure you have the option in the power menu though or you will not be getting out of it unless you have an exit task haha.
Venekor said:
However I have no idea how to install a Rom on this device.
Seriously with the GS2 the only thing I can remember doing was using Odin, it was so easy.
Is there nothing easy I can install after this instead of having to load Paranoid Android which I have no clue how to do?
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I used to have a galaxy s and a galaxy s2. I used to use odin and flash ROMs the way you claim is 'easy'. Trust me, ever since i got my galaxy nexus, and now the N4, the thought of going back to the odin days makes me shudder.
Flashing roms and kernels on nexus devices is so much easier and hassle free. All you need is the custom recovery on your phone and you'll never need to hook it up to a PC again to flash anything. Just download the required ROM files from the thread. Boot into recovery, make a nandroid backup and then flash the ROM zips. Do a full data/cache wipe if needed and you're set.
And by the way, there are much more detailed instructions available in this forum if you care to use the search function.
knx2 said:
I use secure settings and tasker to hide them while in car dock mode. Works pretty well. Make sure you have the option in the power menu though or you will not be getting out of it unless you have an exit task haha.
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in secure setting it falls under "custom ROM" category so there is no way to do it in stock?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium
tatltael said:
I used to have a galaxy s and a galaxy s2. I used to use odin and flash ROMs the way you claim is 'easy'. Trust me, ever since i got my galaxy nexus, and now the N4, the thought of going back to the odin days makes me shudder.
Flashing roms and kernels on nexus devices is so much easier and hassle free. All you need is the custom recovery on your phone and you'll never need to hook it up to a PC again to flash anything. Just download the required ROM files from the thread. Boot into recovery, make a nandroid backup and then flash the ROM zips. Do a full data/cache wipe if needed and you're set.
And by the way, there are much more detailed instructions available in this forum if you care to use the search function.
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Do I need to make a Backup? Just this phone has such small storage.
Can't I just flash a stock rom later if I need to send it back?
Trust downloading a file, loading it in Odin and clicking a button is much easier than this lol. Never even knew what Custom Recovery was or any of this stuff lol.
Start learning and reading rather than throwing your hands up exclaiming "it's hard" and walking away.
The info is literally all available in the stickied guide at the top of this forum.
If you try as you read...you'll have no problem doing it.
I've literally sat my incompetent mother down...the woman who didn't realize you had to SWIPE to answer a phone call...and was unable to answercalls for over a year on her Droid X because of it...
I opened my guide and told her to take my stock phone and unlock and get a ROM running on it.
Took her less than an hour.
And touch wiz wouldn't have this stupid implementation?
On screen keys are going to be on more than just nexus devices someday.
You're the one who doesn't understand it.
Post two of the guide.
Get your learn on.
If you think stock android is ****, why bother buying the phone and not an S3? Odin is such a pain in the ass because you have to be tied to a computer and Odin files are upwards of 600mb. How you had an S2 and never used anything other than Odin is amazing because any ROM worth flashing on the i9100 was flashed through recovery.
There is no way to hide the buttons with a gesture. Follow the toolkit to root and unlock, then spend five minutes learning to flash a ROM and flash one with expanded desktop.
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Curious about that as well.
SIII is an excellent phone.
I suggest OP returns this one and picks the SIII up.
But actually...
There kind of is a NavBar toggle gesture possibility.
AOKP has a navbar toggle as an "AOKP Action."
You can then use a LMTPie gesture to set that action.
Or wait a couple weeks until the upcoming NavRing without NavBar is finished and use the custom NavRing action to set the toggle...
You can currently do this, really. But turning it back on would require a long press of the power button and tapping the toggle.
Venekor said:
Rooting the mobile looks so complex compared to my GS2 where It is all automatic and simple. I've read the guide and it's way over my head, I'm sorry but stupid people exist and the guide is not easy to follow in the slightest.
I just want to make it so if I have two fingers side by side and I swipe up and down, it hides and reveals the on screen buttons. Obviously I don't want it to be one finger as you use one finger for many things on the screen, however two would be perfect for this function.
I don't understand why google haven't done or just built hardware buttons in the bottom part that has no function other than a tiny led which should be at the top really. I just want to be able to hide them simply like this without any cumbersome apps installed or having to root and use some crazy rom which is so complex to do on this phone.
Is it possible at all to make the phone function like this?
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I hope you must have learned to root your phone now.
This app - GMD GestureControl will give you an option to use the entire screen, and use various multi-finger gestures instead. However, I am not aware of any single ROM/APP which will give you an option to hide on screen buttons based on gesture.
Your options are:
1. Use an app [forgot the name, will let you know if you are interested], which will disable your onscreen buttons, and then use GMD GestureControl for interacting with the screen.
2. Custom ROM's such as Cyanogenmod, AOKP, PA etc, which have an option to hide your onscreen buttons on long pressing the power button. [ pressing the power button shows the on-screen buttons again].
3. PA additionally has an option to disable/enable on-screen buttons based on the application. [for eg. you can disable it for all games/image viewer etc.]
PS: Please note I am using Galaxy SII and am yet to receive the device. So, whatever I stated is based on reading about it. Haven't really tried any of those stuffs. So, others please correct me if I am wrong.
the aokp rom has aokp actions. nova prime launcher has getsure control that can use the aokp action to toggle dock.
im using the stock samsung keyboard on my att s4 for texting inside google hangouts. i got the autocorrect feture a while back where it gives the sweeping replacement arrow on the left of the suggestions box then the two other suggested words on the center and right boxes, one day the arrow disappeared and the whole system acted more like the apple set up and i had three suggestions words and no arrow and the spacebar would auto replace with a spelling correction. now out of nowhere it has switched back to the sweeping arrow again. what am i missing here? i liked the three word setup much more. is this a setting im missing somehow of what??? or some sort of updated happening behind the scenes??
AT&T Galaxy i337 S4 MK2 rooted.
Did not like the original samsung s4 keyboard but that is my own thought as I was so used to using the Google Keyboard on Nexus 4
I currently use the SwiftKey beta keyboard app for my S4 and it working great
Before that I had the Google Keyboard which you can download from Playstore and give it a try
hey thanks for the reply, and sorry im so late getting back. thanks for the tip on the different keyboards. ive tried the google keyboard which i really like the simplicity of but i really like the dedicated number row on the stock s4 board. ive also tried the swift beta and its so close to perfect but ive really gotten used to the long press punctuation on the s4 also. i also dont care for the way i have to swype for the question mark on the swift beta keyboard.
my original question is a wierd one though and i dont think i asked it well. i think my issue is more with the auto correct feature than they keyboard. there is an arrow that shows up to dismiss the autocorrected word. that disappeared for a while and then it came back. i kinda liked the three word replacement better than the two words and the arrow. i was just curious why it switched and then switched back. and if i could choose it somehow.
Hi,
I was hoping that by updating my Galaxy S4 to Lilipop, it would get the same hardware-button behaviour that the galaxy S5 has, especially when starting the taskmanager: on the S5, you only need to click the menu button once to get it, but on the S4, you always need to long-click the home-button, which is sooooo anoying Is there any way to change this, for example using another launcher? I'd prefer doing it without root.
Shouldn't this be a Touchwiz-setting?
Jackie78 said:
Hi,
I was hoping that by updating my Galaxy S4 to Lilipop, it would get the same hardware-button behaviour that the galaxy S5 has, especially when starting the taskmanager: on the S5, you only need to click the menu button once to get it, but on the S4, you always need to long-click the home-button, which is sooooo anoying Is there any way to change this, for example using another launcher? I'd prefer doing it without root.
Shouldn't this be a Touchwiz-setting?
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You can use another launcher to do it. Problem is that it will only work when you are on the home screen.
You can't do it without root.
I have only seen one rom that has the "One tap menu to recents" feature. The rom is Danvdh's GPE rom. It has the option you're looking for.
Other roms only have the option to bind short-press and long-press to the menu button.
Another option is to use On-Screen buttons. But this will reduce the display area of your screen.
Since updating to Nougat, I can't find a way to change my default keyboard. I've gone to Language and Input - > Virtual Keyboard but after that, selecting a keyboard doesn't switch to it. Where is the setting to specify the default keyboard?
You might find your answer here:
http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/158966/how-to-change-default-keyboard-on-android-n
sent from a galaxy far far away
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, none of the suggestions worked. Makes me think the keyboards are not Nougat compatible yet, at least with switching your keyboards.
The only way I can make this work is to go to Settings->Language and Input->Virtual Keyboard->Manage Keyboards
From there, I have to set all the keyboards off that I DON'T want to us. Very aggravating but it's the only way it works. Before, there was an menu that displayed what the current keyboard is, and selecting it would give you a Choose Keyboard menu where you could change the default keyboard. That is gone now under Nougat.
SwiftKey is the ONLY keyboard that actually senses when you haven't set it yet, and it will pop up the Choose Keyboard option. GBoard and the Samsung default keyboard do NOT do this at all. Guess that's why I continue to stick with SwiftKey. I only download GBoard to see what the latest updates were like. Still not completely impressed. The only saving grace the GBoard and Samsung keyboard is the ability to move the cursor. In GBoard, it's swiping across the spacebar, and with Samsung, it's swiping left or right across the keyboard itself. I know SwiftKey has the arrow keys, but they place them in the worst spot: right below the spacebar. I am constantly hitting them when I mean to tap the spacebar, so I turn them off.
I found that Samsung has a thread in their forums for discussing issues people are having with the update and they are apparently monitoring it continuously. I also contacted Samsung support via Facebook Messenger and they have noted the issue and also referred me to the same thread. Not too bad as far as response and assistance. Pretty pleased with that. Just hope they fix this issue. Sounds like it's an issue with how they have modified the stock Android Nougat settings. There should be a gear icon next to each keyboard in the Language and Input->Virtual keyboard section, but there isn't. Hopefully, they'll fix this with a later OTA update.
Here's the link to their thread for reporting issues with the latest Nougat update:
https://us.community.samsung.com/t5...e/board-id/ProductUpdates/page/1/thread-id/61
Well this stinks for alot of people, hope to see it fixed soon! I had forgotten about Perfect Keyboard Pro having the same type of instructional screen when it installs. It gave me the ability to bring up the switch keyboard screen!
Finally figured out how to quickly switch between keyboards. When your keyboard is up, just swipe down in your notifications area to bring up the notifications section. In it, you should see a notification from Android System stating Switch keyboard. Select that notification and you will be able to easily switch to another keyboard.
Too bad that wasn't documented by Samsung, but at least you don't have to go to Settings->Language and input->Virtual keyboard->Manage keyboards and then have to manually shut off all the keyboards you don't want to use in order to enable the one you want to use.