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task manager and home button

would it be possible to download a task manager and modify the behavior of the home button so that a long press brings it up like on the GSII?

If you get ADW launcher EX, it has this functionality.
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I wish I could get ADW or launcher pro to work. Only go launcher will work on my Fire. All the others FC!
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blauciel said:
If you get ADW launcher EX, it has this functionality.
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Cant find this setting. Can you tell me where it is?
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Menu - More - ADWSettings - General behavior - Gestures - Home key binding.
Then select "Open app..." I imagine any app is selectable there. (tbh i think Gestures is an odd place)
Though I now realize that's not long press, but simple tap of the home key. However, you have swipe down and swipe up to use as well.
I sideloaded ADW Launcher without any trouble. Are you rooted, BriDroid?
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As an alternative, you can download and an app called Task Switcher in the market. It essentially replaces the initial function of pressing the Home button. Once installed if you press the home button it brings up a task manager similar to the default on most phones and tablets. One of the choices is the standard home app, in my case Go Launcher but it works for any Home screen app. Press home a second time and it will bring up a choice menu where I press Go Launcher.
Next time you press the home button twice takes you to your desktop top.
So effectively it provided the task manager function with the only caveat, that I've found, is you have to press it twice if you want to go to the actual home screen, which for me is no big deal. I'm already used to pressing the home button twice quickly to get to the desktop.

So I hate svoice and the long press to open recent apps.

Is there a way to swap the double home tap to open recent apps and long press to open Google voice actions which is just so much better than svoice. It would be far more convenient than having to long press to get into my recent apps which is such a great feature but goes unused because I really hate long pressing.

you can disable s-voice launching by going into s-voice and going to settings -> launch s voice and uncheck it.
as for search, the best i can say is use nova launcher and set the long-press menu to voice search.

that is a great idea, i also wonder if this type of mod is possible, i will look into it

Ahh I use apex. I will check for this setting. Thanks for the tip, will report back

, okay, so for anyone who cares. I change the apex launcher home button key function so that it launches my recent apps. This makes it so when I double tap the home key it will go home and then to reset apps. So that is done. I could not change the long home press button binding to anything at all so I created a short cut and put it in my dock so I just created a voice search shortcut and placed it next to the dialer in my dock. This makes it much easier to access the voice search menu. It also lets me not use svoice which sucks. And lastly, I use to place my camera app next to the dialer in my dock, I have now changed it to the pinch in gesture in apex launcher which makes the camera app load really fast and it is very very convenient. I recommend anybody using apex launcher to try this method to open up the camera, you will not regret it

Reboot button/widget on Home screen - Tasker

Some of you might already have this but I thought I would share for those who didn't. I added a Reboot button/widget to my Homescreen with Tasker which eliminates the need to hold down the Power button to turn off and then pushing it again to turn on. Saves your Power button from unnecessary use and this is a shortcut to rebooting your phone. Enjoy.
Long press on empty space on the desired home screen and select Widget.
Select New Task
Title it Reboot
Add new Action
Near the bottom, In the Filter section, search for Reboot
Type: Make sure it says Normal
Hit the Back button twice, it will then ask you to select an Icon
Select Built-in Icon
Choose whichever Icon you want for the widget
Hit the Back button (do not hit the Home button or else it will cancel/delete everything that you just did)
Confirm that the new widget is on the screen that you selected and you are done
Credit goes to zeppler for initially helping me set up a nightly reboot task which then gave me this idea to create Reboot widget

Nice work!
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Thanks for sharing. Is there a way to add a widget for extended reboot?
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I've got one even better. Go to play store and install auto reboot widget. If you use a launcher with gestures like nova then edit your app drawer icon or any other convenient icon and set swipe action to auto reboot widget. It mimics advanced power menu but faster and easier.

[Q] Navbar behaving strangely with Nova launcher

I have been struggling with this issue for long time now and this is my last shot here. My phone is rooted, stock KitKat and I use Nova launcher.
The issue:
When I turn my phone on there is not navbar in the home screen. When I open some app the navbar doesn't appear like it should. However if I press power button when some app is open (phone screen goes off) and press it again (lock screen appears) and slide to open my phone then the navbar is there. So now when the navbar is there it also stays there (even in the home screen) as long as press power button in the home screen. So every time I press power button in the home screen navbar disappear and every time I press power button when some app is open I get navbar back.
If I change back to TouchWiz everything works great. I mean navbar goes off when I'm in home screen and come back when I open some app. So far I have tried to fix this with these methods:
- Tried Apex launcher: No difference to Nova
- Installed "SoftKey Enabler" from Play Store: No effect expect when I disable it I lose navbar for good
- Manually change qemu.hw.mainkeys value 0 or 1 in build.prop: No effect expect when I put value 1 I lose navbar for good
- Installed Xposed and "App settings" module. In the "App settings" I choose Nova and then tap the option "force full screen" but there is not any effect
- Installed Gravity Box and Tasker: I used this guide here. Now navbar goes off automatic when I go to home screen and come back when I open some app but if I press power button in the home screen I lose navbar. I can get navbar back only if open app and press power button again. When I get navbar back it works great as long as I press power button home screen. Also this method is little bit laggy and Opera mini browser keeps crashing when expended desktop is on.
The reason why I want to use Nova is that with Nova my phone works very fast and smooth and I can custom many things. Also Nova support to rotate home screen in landscape what TouchWiz doesn't support. I use Sliding Bluetooth Keyboard with my phone so mostly I use my phone in landscape. I would be happy even I can get solution to keep navbar there always (even in the home screen) but best solution would be navbar to automatic disappear in home screen.
I really hope that someone could help me with issue.

help!
Anyone?

Check out my fling settings

All I got to do is hit home once and the button responds, with this setup the home button responds on the first time period, eveytime( you need nova launcher) If i hit home button from the home screen my 3T sleeps & hibernates my phone. Get a app called tiles, it has a density tile, set (right side swipe up) in fling settings to brings up (settings panel) and put your most convenient tiles in the bottom right so you'll be able to change screen size quick. Get opera browser & set in hardware button (long press brings up search assistant) now you hold home down and it brings up Google search & the keyboard automatically opens, now your searching quick. It's operas search page but is Googles engine and the exact same search suggestions as Google. With this setup there's no lag with the home button either, just don't assign a third action. So you get 3 functions of the home button but with no 1 second lag, cause one of the functions is set in Nova

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All I got to do is hit home once and the button responds, with this setup the home button responds on the first time period, eveytime( you need nova launcher) If i hit home button from the home screen my 3T sleeps & hibernates my phone. Get a app called tiles, it has a density tile, set (right side swipe up) in fling settings to brings up (settings panel) and put your most convenient tiles in the bottom right so you'll be able to change screen size quick. Get opera browser & set in hardware button (long press brings up search assistant) now you hold home down and it brings up Google search & the keyboard automatically opens, now your searching quick. It's operas search page but is Googles engine and the exact same search suggestions as Google. With this setup there's no lag with the home button either, just don't assign a third action. So you get 3 functions of the home button but with no 1 second lag, cause one of the functions is set in Nova
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Thanks for the tips.. where do you find fling settings, sleep and hibernate settingd" I cannot find them within Nova settings, oneplus settings or tiles settings..

mazubo said:
Thanks for the tips.. where do you find fling settings, sleep and hibernate settingd" I cannot find them within Nova settings, oneplus settings or tiles settings..
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Fling comes with roms like resurrection remix & AOSP extended. You need greenify installed on your phone to get sleep & hibernate, you'll see the option when your changing your buttons

Rebel7022 said:
Fling comes with roms like resurrection remix & AOSP extended. You need greenify installed on your phone to get sleep & hibernate, you'll see the option when your changing your buttons
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Gotcha, ok thanks. That explains why the options aren't there for me as I'm using oos . Cheers!

Rebel7022 said:
Fling comes with roms like resurrection remix & AOSP extended. You need greenify installed on your phone to get sleep & hibernate, you'll see the option when your changing your buttons
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.when i set a custom icon in fling . . It doesn't change colour unlike the the default icon which adapts to background . .
I want my custom fling icon to change colour . . Just As the default fling icon changes to Black/white depending upon the background . .
Is there any solution ?? Plzz help