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Tap notification bar to scroll to top in any app

Ever since my switch over to Android a few years back from my iPhone 3G, I've always been waiting for such a feature in Android that will give me the ability to tap the notification bar and instantly scroll back to the top in any app that requires scrolling. I've never once asked for this feature once until now. I've Googled it and it seems to be a rare topic. Do Android users know if this such feature? Because it seems like an easy concept and assuming wouldn't be difficult to incorporate a mod into Android... or would it?
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dEris said:
Ever since my switch over to Android a few years back from my iPhone 3G, I've always been waiting for such a feature in Android that will give me the ability to tap the notification bar and instantly scroll back to the top in any app that requires scrolling. I've never once asked for this feature once until now. I've Googled it and it seems to be a rare topic. Do Android users know if this such feature? Because it seems like an easy concept and assuming wouldn't be difficult to incorporate a mod into Android... or would it?
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Used to like that feature on the iphone a year back. But don't you think that it is also possible to just flung one time and the whole page goes up? In iOS the flings are not continuous. To me at least. I would love to have this though.
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I agree, that's one feature that android is sorely lacking.

shockem said:
Used to like that feature on the iphone a year back. But don't you think that it is also possible to just flung one time and the whole page goes up? In iOS the flings are not continuous. To me at least. I would love to have this though.
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Yes, that is what I have to do now. But when I'm reading a long article, flinging up on the page 20 times gets old.

I think Apple would sue Google if that feature was intriduced to Android

I think the new Samsung Galaxy S 3 has an gesture with scrolls in any list to the top. You just tap the top of the phone twice.

It's weird that just few people care of this feature, which is very cool, I miss it so much

benxiro said:
It's weird that just few people care of this feature, which is very cool, I miss it so much
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Yea, I would love for this feature to be implemented.
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nope. i'd never use this if it were rolled into android. it seems very un-natural to tap the notification bar to go to the top. let iOS have this one....we don't want it anyway.

Well, some of us do. Seems like it would be something fairly easy to do with some dev knowledge.

hp420 said:
nope. i'd never use this if it were rolled into android. it seems very un-natural to tap the notification bar to go to the top. let iOS have this one....we don't want it anyway.
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So you would rather swipe over and over to reach the top of a loooonnng list rather than tapping the status bar once? Oooooooook.
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hp420 said:
nope. i'd never use this if it were rolled into android. it seems very un-natural to tap the notification bar to go to the top. let iOS have this one....we don't want it anyway.
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you better try to experience this feature, then decide it's natural or un-natural.
in general, 1 side: users have to swipe many many times to come to the top of the page; another side: just a tap then done(just like the home key on PC) - smooth and easy. Think and compare

you can use dolphin browser and gesture control, it works well

migueldbr said:
you can use dolphin browser and gesture control, it works well
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I think it would be cool if it could be implemented to a long press menu button, when I tap the top it tries to change brightness..

Setting.Out said:
I think it would be cool if it could be implemented to a long press menu button, when I tap the top it tries to change brightness..
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my case also, i love to use the status bar to control brightness=p

[SOLVED] Can someone plz explain what this is?

Hey everyone,
I recently got my Samsung galaxy s4 and I keep getting this weird looking car mode / notification screen. I'm not sure how it happens I just lock my phone I get that
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I've been getting it for days but its only there for about two seconds its been driving me crazy. Today i I finally took a screenshot and it disappeared right after
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Its part of Google Now. You probably searched some directions or have your home or work programmed in there, so when it knows you are away from that area it will show you how much time to get back to home or work, or the directions you searched for.
Pull down the notification bar and you should see it there like "Time to get Home xx mins" or similar. Just swipe it away if you don't want to see it.
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aka12345 said:
Hey everyone,
I recently got my Samsung galaxy s4 and I keep getting this weird looking car mode / notification screen. I'm not sure how it happens I just lock my phone I get that
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I've been getting it for days but its only there for about two seconds its been driving me crazy. Today i I finally took a screenshot and it disappeared right after
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That is part of the air gesture stuff, turn it off in the motions and gestures, air gestures, quick glance. This is the correct procedure.
I like it.

TheAxman said:
That is part of the air gesture stuff, turn it off in the motions and gestures, air gestures, quick glance.
I like it.
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Yeap he's right,
I thought he was referring to the driving notification icon.

TheAxman said:
That is part of the air gesture stuff, turn it off in the motions and gestures, air gestures, quick glance. This is the correct procedure.
I like it.
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Ok how do I make it appear? Im not sure what gesture im making for the phone to show this?
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aka12345 said:
Ok how do I make it appear? Im not sure what gesture im making for the phone to show this?
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When the phone is on a flat surface like a desk, you wave your hand over the top where the LED is, the LED will light up shortly and then screen will come on for a few seconds to show you the notification screen you attached earlier
Dixit

dixit said:
When the phone is on a flat surface like a desk, you wave your hand over the top where the LED is, the LED will light up shortly and then screen will come on for a few seconds to show you the notification screen you attached earlier
Dixit
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Just to add - the idea is to show you why the LED is flashing without unlocking your phone. If the light is blinking it could be from missed call, text, email, etc. That screen shows you but it also has icons for weather, driving directions, etc.
I have been using this feature, but i am not sure it is any better then tapping the home button - since that wakes up the phone, and you will see notification icons in the top to tell why the LED is flashing. Now that i think about it, i may turn this off

your welcome

TheAxman said:
your welcome
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Thank you, if you just waited a bit longer I would've thanked you lol.
Finally figured it out this thing is being driving me crazy. its a stupid feature pressing the home button is much quicker and more convenient. It would be nice if it works when your driving while the phone is on a stand but being on a flat surface I don't see any use of it.

aka12345 said:
Thank you, if you just waited a bit longer I would've thanked you lol.
Finally figured it out this thing is being driving me crazy. its a stupid feature pressing the home button is much quicker and more convenient. It would be nice if it works when your driving while the phone is on a stand but being on a flat surface I don't see any use of it.
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Given that it took you days to figure out what it even is, you might want to give it more time before you conclude it is a stupid feature.

GeorgeP said:
Given that it took you days to figure out what it even is, you might want to give it more time before you conclude it is a stupid feature.
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Hahaha then enlighten us Mr. George !! it takes a millisecond to press the home button and figure out what notifications you have , how long does it take for the sensor to see your hand motion?

Ok, question was asked and I gave you the answer, it is now solved, OP you need to say Solved in the header, and close this before it becomes a bashing event. There are enough of these threads already.
Thanks

adding soft buttons/disable hard buttons?

does anyone know how to enable the on screen soft keys and disable the hard keys

This.
I have been wondering this since I picked up my note 3. Coming from a galaxy nexus, I'm missing my on screen button navigation. I really hate clicking a button to go home.
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chadrehmet said:
This.
I have been wondering this since I picked up my note 3. Coming from a galaxy nexus, I'm missing my on screen button navigation. I really hate clicking a button to go home.
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same here i had the nexus then got so used to it so I added them to the Note 2. But unfortunately I tried the same method by editing the build.prop on the note 2 to get the soft buttons to work on the note 3 but it crashes the system ui. Hopefully someone know a way.

If you are rooted, you can add LMT / Pie Control but not sure on disabling the hard buttons.
If you are not rooted, I was thinking there was an app similar to Pie in the market but I did not find it with a quick search.

same here.
And change the build prop because it will give you a bunch of force closures.
Closes I came to a navigation was floating soft keys in the market.

why would you? you lose screen space and they are already built in so you lose more then you gain

I would recommend to use Ultimate Navbar for softkeys
And Xposed Additions to disable/remap hardware keys

I use LMT an have the activation point just above the home button. I've been using it since the day I rooted and like it a lot.
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lmike6453 said:
I would recommend to use Ultimate Navbar for softkeys
And Xposed Additions to disable/remap hardware keys
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Which module disables the hardware keys?

i heard that the same way as the note 2 in which you edit the build.prop works but there is an addtional step needing requring editing framework. If anyone is familiar please share. thanks

airmaxx23 said:
I use LMT an have the activation point just above the home button. I've been using it since the day I rooted and like it a lot.
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Which module disables the hardware keys?
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Xposed Additions here

lmike6453 said:
Xposed Additions here
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Once installed the only additional button settings I found in the ROM settings was which buttons to use to turn the screen on.

oneandroidnut said:
why would you? you lose screen space and they are already built in so you lose more then you gain
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This...

airmaxx23 said:
Once installed the only additional button settings I found in the ROM settings was which buttons to use to turn the screen on.
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Be sure to install version 2.2 and not the attached .apk in the OP which is only 1.x for some reason. 1.x version .apk doesn't even have an interface lol, he just updated it the other day.

ManOfBusiness said:
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You don't lose any screen area with pie control. There is nothing on the screen for buttons until you touch the area you've set as the activation area in the settings. The activation area is not visible at all.

Wow, I can't imagine taking up a tenth of my screen over nav bar. That's just me, it's just weird when the keys are right under. Its just awkward imo. I love the nav bar on nexus devices, or any devices that don't have soft keys and a physical home button.
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Brandonrz said:
Wow, I can't imagine taking up a tenth of my screen over nav bar. That's just me, it's just weird when the keys are right under. Its just awkward imo. I love the nav bar on nexus devices, or any devices that don't have soft keys and a physical home button.
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what i did for the note 2 was buy a skin that would cover the home button and the whole bottom bezel. it was a beauty. i hate the hardware buttons.

Brandonrz said:
Wow, I can't imagine taking up a tenth of my screen over nav bar. That's just me, it's just weird when the keys are right under. Its just awkward imo. I love the nav bar on nexus devices, or any devices that don't have soft keys and a physical home button.
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Imagine disabling the status bar completely and being able to reduce the navbar size by about 25% while still being able to see notifications and expand the drawer
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qman66 said:
what i did for the note 2 was buy a skin that would cover the home button and the whole bottom bezel. it was a beauty. i hate the hardware buttons.
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That's such a good idea. But is the skin lifted from the home button.
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Brandonrz said:
That's such a good idea. But is the skin lifted from the home button.
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the skin would stick on the whole bottom of the phone including the button. you could see the outline of if you were to press on the area where the button is.

I just installed the Hyperdrive ROM and it has support for softkeys that do not cover up the bottom of most apps. Does anyone know of any other ROMs that have successfully implemented this?

[Q] notification panel - how to remove S Finder and Quick connect string?

Notification panel - how to remove S Finder and Quick connect string?

I was actually wanting to know this myself. I figured it would be a setting somewhere but I could not find it. Wastes too much space.
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really annoying to have that there

Pull the notification bar down with 2 fingers and you can edit what's in your normal notification bar
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accrews2001 said:
Pull the notification bar down with 2 fingers and you can edit what's in your normal notification bar
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I am not able to get rid of those two buttons in that editor. Am I missing something?

therainsofcastamere said:
I am not able to get rid of those two buttons in that editor. Am I missing something?
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Same. Seems like such an utter waste.

I like the s-finder there, but not quick connect
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accrews2001 said:
Pull the notification bar down with 2 fingers and you can edit what's in your normal notification bar
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I'm sad that it won't let me remove those two buttons but otherwise that's actually pretty helpful, thank you.

Not sure why you can't replace them. It lets me do it just fine. If you're talking about just getting rid of them and having empty spots then I don't think it will let you
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accrews2001 said:
Not sure why you can't replace them. It lets me do it just fine. If you're talking about just getting rid of them and having empty spots then I don't think it will let you
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You do realize we aren't just talking about some notification toggles, right? These are below them, I see no way to remove or change them.
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Really hoping someone finds a way to get rid of that sht.

Deleting 'S Finder', "Quick connect', and 'Quick Connect Interaction Service' leaves the 'S Finder' button doing nothing, though you can still click it, and the 'Quick Connect' button disabled (after a reboot). They're still occupying the same space.
As I posted in this topic's threat in the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5 area:
This is annoying me as well. I think those not yet able to craft their own ROMs (like me), are gonna need to wait. If you're feeling adventurous, you maybe try installing [ROM][G900F][4.4.2]-AllianceROM-OTA Nightlies (the F and T models are similar I believe) and providing the developers with feedback.
There's also the possibility that [APPS][4.1+] Google Experience Launcher (GEL App + Google Search App) will work, as described by the article How to get the Google Experience Launcher on the Galaxy S5 which I found via this post (go thank him if it works).

would be great if xposed modual came out for this there very annoying

See Echoe Rom thread, find a mod to remove that string

if you want to get rid of that thing root your phone, edit the xml of statusbar expanded in apktool

Brent212 said:
Really hoping someone finds a way to get rid of that sht.
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rooting your phone and then download from google store "root app delete"
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DimonVideo said:
Notification panel - how to remove S Finder and Quick connect string?
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You could try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2714390 Post 27 i believe. Worked for my Sprint S5.
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rooting your phone and then download from google store "root app delete"
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it removes the apps but not the notifications... notifications stays

ex-28 said:
would be great if xposed modual came out for this there very annoying
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There IS an xposed module that does this.......but I'm running 4.4.2......don't know if it's sorted for lollipop yet.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2755920
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Invert Colors Icon Randomly Appears

Did anyone else magically get this?
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I didn't even receive an update... creepy
I don't really want it...

I got it when looking at the options and activating it to see what it did... now it won't go away...
Anyone knows how to get rid of it?
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Mine randomly appeared today too! Very confused.

Yeah. Me too. Randomly appeared the icon, and the last few days mi X2 freezed several times but not anymore. Could this mean something?
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Same here! I thought my phone auto updated to 5.1 or something. LOL

D_wolf said:
Did anyone else magically get this?
I didn't even receive an update... creepy
I don't really want it...
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If you hold down the icon for a couple seconds it will give you the option to hide it.
It shows up there because you must have used it. it will show back up after each time you use it.
I just leave it there and use the short cut from time to time to help eliminate burn in.

D_wolf said:
Did anyone else magically get this?
I didn't even receive an update... creepy
I don't really want it...
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I just got this today. Tried the trick to get rid of it and it still is there.
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wolfu11 said:
If you hold down the icon for a couple seconds it will give you the option to hide it.
It shows up there because you must have used it. it will show back up after each time you use it.
I just leave it there and use the short cut from time to time to help eliminate burn in.
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Mine showed up out of the blue as well today and I never touched invert colors. I tried the roll back method and forward to get rid of it after I tried it once but it won't go away. And there is no option to hide it. Hold on it for ten minutes and nothing happens
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motcher41 said:
I just got this today. Tried the trick to get rid of it and it still is there.
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Mine showed up out of the blue as well today and I never touched invert colors. I tried the roll back method and forward to get rid of it after I tried it once but it won't go away. And there is no option to hide it. Hold on it for ten minutes and nothing happens
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That's weird mined gives the option to hide it. I'm on the XT1095 pure edition latest 5.1 soak.

Lool yes this magically apeared on my x2 too.
5.1 has the option to hide it while touching and holding for a few sec. 5.0 doesnt have this option. People on 5.0 should do this
1. Change your date to more than a month back.
2. Now toggle invert colour option on and toggle it off right after
3. Now change the date back to todays date
Now you wont be seeing this option.
Cheers

wolfu11 said:
If you hold down the icon for a couple seconds it will give you the option to hide it.
It shows up there because you must have used it. it will show back up after each time you use it.
I just leave it there and use the short cut from time to time to help eliminate burn in.
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Where can I find this setting? Is this on stock rom? I don't have the toggle, nor can I find it anywhere in settings.

Zinken said:
Where can I find this setting? Is this on stock rom? I don't have the toggle, nor can I find it anywhere in settings.
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If you're on 5.1 go to settings scroll down to accessibility once there scroll down to the bottom and you'll see display/ Color inversion.
Turn on on and off and then check your toggles from the drop down.

Mine went away. I forgot to toggle it on and off before I changed date back lpl
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I got it too. Thought it was because I flashed the retde image two days back. Weird that we're all getting it
You can also get rid of it with adb (no root needed).
Just connect the phone and type in a terminal: adb shell pm clear com.android.systemui
(and then reboot the phone)

No update just appeared this morning. I have never used this setting and done nothing other than use my phone. It's straight stock. I wonder if it's a google services thing. Very Strange.

I got it randomly yesterday, too. If you aren't on 5.1, the setting the date back trick is the only way to make it go away.