I want to get the Nexus 4 but only if I can disable those buttons as all the videos I see they turn invisible in full screen apps but you're left with a black bar instead of the full screen working. I'm worried that it is at a hardware level and you'll never be able to disable them so you can have the full use of the screen. It's such a big downer seeing the phone compared to other phones and how much space those buttons take.
Thanx.
Edit: I don't want it where I have to go into a menu to switch them on or off. I want them to hide themselves when I haven't got my finger in the area so I can quickly use them, otherwise it would get annoying having to keep manually turning them on and off.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1983710
Not built into Android? You'd have thought it would be a feature that would be one of the first to make it in.
In some roms you can make them smaller, but disabling doesn't make sense because you cannot control your phone without them.
Maybe a toggle in the powermenu(longpress power) would be a compromise.
You can use GMD Gesture control from the play store if you dont want to have to flash a ROM to do this. All you do is swipe with three fingers up from the bottom of the screen and BOOM they disappear. You can make your own gesture to do this too!
I use LMT Launcher on my Galaxy Nexus, my navbar is enabled like 95% of the time. Hopefully someone can come up with a mod to hide the navbar.
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This is very easy to do. Not sure in JB 4.2, but in JB 4.1.2 all you have to do is remove these lines out of the build.prop:
launcher.force_enable_rotation=true
qemu.hw.mainkeys=0
Make sure to use something like LMT Launcher pie control to replace the on screen buttons. This is by far my favorite setup as I can not stand on-screen buttons taking up screen real estate.
Edit... Someone may want to confirm this on a stock rom as I'm not seeing this in AOKP.
Why does everyone feel the need to create a thread for one question? There is a help threa stickied for a reason, so i'd appreciate if questions were asked there, especially such general questions like this one. Please help us keep this forum cleaner guys.
The camera and YouTube app have a very nice feature that they eliminate the navbar so you could get the entire screen real estate, but when you touch the screen, the navbar immediately comes back.
This could be very handy if applicable to gps navigation apps and other apps. Is there a way to do this?
I wish if it could do this in games also
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmd.hidesoftkeys
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmd.hidesoftkeys
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This is not the same. When you touch the screen it doesn't come back. It also be programmed to specific apps only.
Do you like pie? (;
If the softkeys are anoying to you and you enjoiy the full 5.2 inch display look into flashing a custom rom with PIE CONTROLS have them on my droid razr m and found it very convenient
an answer is right beside you (i meant the feed from the xda portal stories):
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/ultimate-dynamic-navbar-given-substantial-overhaul/
Is there some way (Cyanogenmod or other CustomROM...?) to modify Nexus7 to get more real screen estate (especially in landscape mode) in modern android versions (Jelly Bean, Kitkat)?
I think that the best way to do this would be
1. in portrait mode combine virtual navigation buttons and status bar into one bar that is in lower edge of the screen (Honeycomb style).
2. in landscape mode have a vertical navigation bar (Nexus4, Nexus5, Xperia Z style) in right edge of the screen
3. for even more estate in landscape mode integrate status bar into the vertical navigation bar (modded Honeycomb style. Otherwise pretty simle but displaying time numbers vertically might seem and odd solution but in the long run it is the most efficient solution).
I did even a feature request of this to Android in code.google.com:
"More real screen estate for android tablets by virtual navigation button / status bar customizations"
It is just such a pity. Nexus7, a tablet with so much potential becomes so much an unfinished product when turning it into landscape. Even this tablet (Procaster Mid 007) that costs only 70eur utilizes space better than Nexus7:
And Galaxy Tab3 7.0 is way ahead in real screen estate/usability.
Just get xposed with gravity box and LMT. Done. If you're rooted anyway.
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Just get xposed with gravity box and LMT. Done. If you're rooted anyway.
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This seems to be far too complicated "hacker's solution" (and does not officially work with 4.4. kitkat). Is there any simpler way to prevent navigation bar from rotating?
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This seems to be far too complicated "hacker's solution" (and does not officially work with 4.4. kitkat). Is there any simpler way to prevent navigation bar from rotating?
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I'm not sure what you mean by rotating?
And no....if you're rooted...installing xposed and gravity box is simple. Installing lmt is simple....hide navigation bar with gravity box....gain real estate at bottom of screen (as OP was asking about) and lmt is like pie. And its nice once you get used to it.
Whole process (assuming you're rooted) takes about 7 minutes.
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I'm not sure what you mean by rotating?
And no....if you're rooted...installing xposed and gravity box is simple. Installing lmt is simple....hide navigation bar with gravity box....gain real estate at bottom of screen (as OP was asking about) and lmt is like pie. And its nice once you get used to it.
Whole process (assuming you're rooted) takes about 7 minutes.
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Yep. Agreed.
@golemus...
Xposed is really simple to install (see link in my sig)... assuming your rooted of course. GravityBox is then installed via the Xposed app itself... and future updates are maintained accordingly. Think of the Xposed app as a sort of repository of all Xposed modules, of which GravityBox is just one. Easy to install, and easy to maintain... and it does work on KitKat 4.4.2... I have it running on my Nexus 7.
IMHO, Xposed framework is the best thing to happen to Android... and GravityBox is just terrific. It offers a whole plethora of great tweaks.
I'm not familiar with LMT though... definitely going to have to have a tinker with that.
Rgrds,
Ged.
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Yep. Agreed.
@golemus...
Xposed is really simple to install (see link in my sig)... assuming your rooted of course. GravityBox is then installed via the Xposed app itself... and future updates are maintained accordingly. Think of the Xposed app as a sort of repository of all Xposed modules, of which GravityBox is just one. Easy to install, and easy to maintain... and it does work on KitKat 4.4.2... I have it running on my Nexus 7.
IMHO, Xposed framework is the best thing to happen to Android... and GravityBox is just terrific. It offers a whole plethora of great tweaks.
I'm not familiar with LMT though... definitely going to have to have a tinker with that.
Rgrds,
Ged.
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I don't like installing anything that you can't get from Google Play store, and I didn't find gravitybox or lmt from there (although I did find some xposed thing from there).
And also I found another (partial) solution, I installed a program called "Auto Hide Soft Keys". Although it was not exactly the solution I wanted, now I have virtual navigation bar in right side of the screen but it is invisible by default and when you swipe it to be visible it will cover something else from the right edge of the screen. You can choose it to be all the time visible but then it will all the time cover content from the right edge. So I have to hide it, which causes that for me to press home, back or multitask buttons I need to acts (first swipe from right edge to get the bar to appear and then press a button in the bar).
A bit offtopic but every time I post something i need to fill a captcha, it is very annoying. Is there any way to get rid of them?
Try it the 4.3 roms. Most of them supports full screen mode with PIE.
Go xposed. You won't go back.
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Go xposed. You won't go back.
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Absolutely. Never was a truer phrase written.
Rgrds,
Ged.
I found gravity box, and installed id successfully. However, the only option is to force navbar into tablet like mode, so horizontal when landscape, there is no inverse option to keep it vertical when landscape. How can I approach this?
Also, what is LMT and where to find it? I didn't find it in xposed repository.
Type "LMT xda" in Google. Boom.
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I found gravity box, and installed id successfully. However, the only option is to force navbar into tablet like mode, so horizontal when landscape, there is no inverse option to keep it vertical when landscape. How can I approach this?
Also, what is LMT and where to find it? I didn't find it in xposed repository.
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Just get xposed with gravity box and LMT. Done. If you're rooted anyway.
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I also put gravity box but cannot get a vertical navbar in landscape. Somebody claims in topic below that it is not possible. Can somebody confirm if it is possible or not?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2316070&page=537
issak42 said:
I found gravity box, and installed id successfully. However, the only option is to force navbar into tablet like mode, so horizontal when landscape, there is no inverse option to keep it vertical when landscape. How can I approach this?
Also, what is LMT and where to find it? I didn't find it in xposed repository.
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i would like the same thing, have the navigation bar be on the side of the screen when in landscape mode, already using LMT and all the other things mentioned in the thread, i still prefer a navigation bar
bumping this. has a solution been found yet?
Another bump...really would like navbar on the side in landscape! GB does not do it for me...
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Another bump...really would like navbar on the side in landscape! GB does not do it for me...
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For stock... GB is the only way.
But many Roms will have options for this, or by default even. ?
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For stock... GB is the only way.
But many Roms will have options for this, or by default even. ?
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I'm on stock 4.4.4 and the GB op said yesterday GB is not designed to put the navbar on the right side in landscape...
galaxys said:
I'm on stock 4.4.4 and the GB op said yesterday GB is not designed to put the navbar on the right side in landscape...
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That pretty much means you'll need a custom Rom that supports it.
Not sure which do though... I run stock 4.2.2
Hi, Is there anyway to make capacitive buttons backlight as a notification light?
Must need this feature on it.
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Like led notification ?
indeed this would be handy ... should be possible with custom kernel as not a new concept.
Anyone any luck with this?
Yeah i'm looking for this too, like the function with cm roms.
Looked on xposedmod ditectory, tried 'xled, gravity box, wanam(xposed modules)' ... can't get it to work
The strange thing is this function already exists... when we get a notification the screen comes on and the 'back lights' come on. So, the problem is that it's not adjustable.
Can get the correct function using gravity box but the led stays flashing and won't stop until reboot.
Only two custom kernels available, tried both, no luck...
But there is new hope, with the development of custom roms. :thumbup:
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In my quest to make my S7 Edge as much like stock Android as possible, I went looking for an app that would give me an onscreen navbar at the bottom of my phone. Simple Control does this very nicely, but the problem is that it overlays over what's already on the screen, making certain elements untouchable. Is there a way for me to sort of squash the screen so that the navbar will fit nicely underneath everything else on the screen? I guess changing the dpi or resolution or something?
I know that if you have root (which is super buggy and not worth it atm) there's a build.prop edit that adds a navbar but it's pretty ugly imo but it can be edited via third party apps
RileyIssKing said:
I know that if you have root (which is super buggy and not worth it atm) there's a build.prop edit that adds a navbar but it's pretty ugly imo but it can be edited via third party apps
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Yeah I've heard that root is not reliable and I've been holding off on that. I hate that Samsung has locked down this phone so much...
Anyway, what I've done for now is disabled the hardware keys using All In One Gestures, and made the virtual keys accessible by swiping up from the bottom of the screen, and they disappear after about a second.
I must say that I rooted my s7 edge with the Eng boot and I really haven't had any problems at all with it. No restarts using lspeed and everything is smooth and snappy. Battery life hasn't been a problem, but I got a trianium battery charging case just in case I ever need more power. I'd say if you are on the edge about rooting with Eng boot method it's definitely worth it just to get rid of the bloat alone. Hope this was helpful although not exactly what you were asking about.