I'm running an unrooted Amazon Fire HD8 tablet with nova launcher. Yesterday, I noticed that the navigation bar at the bottom of the tablet (with the back button, home button and recent tabs button) was not disappearing from the screen like it has previously done, with the buttons being constantly on. Previously, these soft keys would only appear when the bottom of the tablet was pressed.
I've performed soft resets and restored to factory settings, before using a backup to restore but had no luck hiding these buttons.
Can anyone help get these soft keys hidden, as they are permanently on screen!
Try this, maybe it will do.
Get into an ADB command prompt, and type, "adb shell settings put global policy_control immersive.navigation=*" (Remove the quotes)
This will enable permanent immersive mode with only navigation bar hiding. You will have to swipe up from bottom to access navigation bar.
Good Luck!
Will this also work with the fire hd 10.1 2017 model??
fleebleflam said:
Will this also work with the fire hd 10.1 2017 model??
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You can try it. But I think not
Ok, i don't really want to mess anything up, so need to know for sure, its brand new, and wanted a sure way of doing this mod. Just curious, but Why do you think not?
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hmm, how 's the way i should ask.....forgive my language not so well......
my problem is: when i full screen for gaming, the cm7's status bar will hide down, and when i want to exit the game but the game dont have exit button. i dont know how to get back the status bar (back) from hidden.......
and every times exit the game i have to press on/off button and release the ram memory by 360* (*a widget from china made anti virus) then the game will erase and exit.
Install a app such a zmooth. It puts a little touchpad at the bottom of your screen, where you can use 3 gestures for home, menu and back. Works in all windows, such as fullscreen games or apps.
Takenover83 said:
Install a app such a zmooth. It puts a little touchpad at the bottom of your screen, where you can use 3 gestures for home, menu and back. Works in all windows, such as fullscreen games or apps.
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thx to you~!!! dude, it's working~
Menu> settings> cyanogenmod settings> tablet tweaks> disable fullscreen
Choose the other softbuttons you want here too, like a home button on the notification bar!
Otherwise, choose power buttons menu and add a back button... Home button is on the power screen by default.
sladehawke said:
Menu> settings> cyanogenmod settings> tablet tweaks> disable fullscreen
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Be aware that disabling fullscreen may cause UI issues on some games and apps where the controls and text get mashed together. Real Racing 2 on mine had the controls and menu selections all mashed up on top of each other until I re-enabled fullscreen.
Another way is to add back button to power button settings
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I really like this here https://market.android.com/details?id=com.smart.swkey for a few reasons. I can have it almost completely hidden (I watch a lot of videos and want the least amount of distraction) and you can also long press on them (which also works with cm's mods) so if you have the option set to kill foreground app via long pressing back button, it will work with button savoir, another example would be... I have holding menu button hides/shows the status bar via cm settings, that works with button savoir (actually that does not even work with cm's built in soft keys) I'm thinking about buying the license key so i can remove/customize the buttons but I haven't yet. I'm kinda holding out for cm 9/ICS. My experience with the unstable builds are that navigation is very well done and I might not feel the need for any third party navigation method.
foxdog66 said:
I really like this here https://market.android.com/details?id=com.smart.swkey for a few reasons. I can have it almost completely hidden (I watch a lot of videos and want the least amount of distraction) and you can also long press on them (which also works with cm's mods) so if you have the option set to kill foreground app via long pressing back button, it will work with button savoir, another example would be... I have holding menu button hides/shows the status bar via cm settings, that works with button savoir (actually that does not even work with cm's built in soft keys) I'm thinking about buying the license key so i can remove/customize the buttons but I haven't yet. I'm kinda holding out for cm 9/ICS. My experience with the unstable builds are that navigation is very well done and I might not feel the need for any third party navigation method.
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That would be my choice as well yes, I've had it running on my KF since day one. Havn't bought a license key more for the fact that the only time I need it is when I need a back or menu button from within a fullscreen app
I have Button Savior on MIUI rom on Kindle fire the only small issue is that the buttons shrink after some time or reboot any simple fixes?
Try Virtual Button instead. It's awesome. It allows you to set up to 8 different commands including recent app, back, volume up and down, show notification screen, search, and home. You can size both the buttons and the main trigger icon and move it around. Can even change the color.
I still have button savior on my Kindle, but stopped updating it because it seems to take root access away from Virtual Button, which makes no sense. VB does not take root accessed away from BS. So just install Virtual Button second and all works great.
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Well there is nothing you can do about reboot you have to hit the tab to bring the buttons out, but there is a setting for auto hide you can set to never. That should keep the buttons out most of the time but some programs that take over the screen like games can make the buttons hide again.
Hey, I own a nexus 4 16gb, its rooted.
Anyone knows about a good navigation bar alternative ? i can make it disappear with the qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 thing but i couldn't find a way to replace it.
I tried the LMT pie, worked pretty well until i got into a game.. for some reason it doesn't work in games, so i just needed to reboot my phone to quit the game.
I remember that i saw somewhere someone with a navigation bar appearing in the menu of long pressing the power key. anyone know how to do that or have another good alternative for a navigation bar ? Thanks
Aokp rom has buttons in the power menu, or you could use gestures; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goodmooddroid.gesturecontroldemo
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Thanks, are there any more alternatives ?
You can try to add a ribbon to a edge of the screen.
Generally I put pie on the right side and a empty ribbon on the bottom which activate the "application window" ribbon when swiping from the bottom to the center of screen.
This option is present in many roms, including one I'm testing right now the Axiom rom.
Also, I activate Pie only in expanded desktop. You can add this action to the power menu, but I don't know how if you're on stock.
That's all I can do since I use LMT on my tablet with Pie installed too, I've never encountered problems.
So I found it really annoying when watching Netflix and accidentally hitting back or recent apps softkeys. Which pauses or exits out of movie everytime I do. Because of placement of soft keys (Navigation buttons) on Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4. (Which is where I hold the tab in landscape)
So I found a way to disable back/ recent apps and Home buttons. Temporarily
Settings /Device /Accessibility
Scroll to very bottom
Enable interaction control
Use volume down and home at same time to enable
Uncheck all checkboxes
Now soft keys (Navigation buttons) and home are disabled.
Usefully when watching a movie and holding with your hand on softkeys.
(Have to disable multi window to enable this feature)
If helped, thanks would be appreciated.
trevor7428 said:
So I found it really annoying when watching Netflix and accidentally hitting back or recent apps softkeys. Which pauses or exits out of movie everytime I do. Because of placement of soft keys (Navigation buttons) on Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4. (Which is where I hold the tab in landscape)
So I found a way to disable back/ recent apps and Home buttons. Temporarily
Settings /Device /Accessibility
Scroll to very bottom
Enable interaction control
Use volume down and home at same time to enable
Uncheck all checkboxes
Now soft keys (Navigation buttons) and home are disabled.
Usefully when watching a movie and holding with your hand on softkeys.
(Have to disable multi window to enable this feature)
If helped, thanks would be appreciated.
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I tried to do this on the demo units in Best Buy but I couldn't get it to work. Could it be the demo software they had on it?
dimcorner said:
I tried to do this on the demo units in Best Buy but I couldn't get it to work. Could it be the demo software they had on it?
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Possibly idk? Works on mine. Sometimes tablets/ TV have a retail firmware on them which isn't the same as what you take home. So could be possible
This worked for me.
http://brandtkrueger.wordpress.com/...ation-buttons-on-the-galaxy-s3-requires-root/
Home key had to be disabled in both of the below locations. This completely disables the hardware keys so make sure to enable the on screen keys first.
Note: The onscreen keys don't show up in landscape mode for some reason so I use LMT launcher for the few times I need navigation keys in landscape.
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kirbo20 said:
This worked for me.
http://brandtkrueger.wordpress.com/...ation-buttons-on-the-galaxy-s3-requires-root/
Home key had to be disabled in both of the below locations. This completely disables the hardware keys so make sure to enable the on screen keys first.
Note: The onscreen keys don't show up in landscape mode for some reason so I use LMT launcher for the few times I need navigation keys in landscape.
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gpio-keys.kl
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Does anyone know how to disable the back light on the capacitive keys? I've been able to disable the buttons from functioning and I've got LMT launcher installed but I'd really like to stop them from lighting up if possible.
The only thing that stops me from buying the tab pro 8.4 at the moment are the hardware keys. I am used to on screen buttons and as I can see in some review-videos and as some of you already mentioned, if you hold the tablet in landscape you could accidentally come in touch with the capacitive keys or the home button. Therefore I am very interested in how you can handle the tab pro 8.4 with hardware-keys disabled and on screen keys enabled. Can anyone share some screenshots how it looks like?
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Note: The onscreen keys don't show up in landscape mode for some reason so I use LMT launcher for the few times I need navigation keys in landscape.
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So at the moment there is no way to have googles on screen buttons in landscape mode?
I use xposed additions to remap buttons from single click to long press on my son's 8.4 since he kept accidentally hitting buttons and getting frustrated. Not exactly what you are looking for but it has helped us here. Take a look at button Savior on the play store as well. You could use xposed additions to disable buttons and then use button Savior buttons.
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I have the Fire HD 10 11th generation running Fire OS 7.3.2.3. I used Fire Toolbox v28.2 to assign custom Launcher Action to the Home Button. The problem that I have is that upon restarting the system, the Home Button is missing and I cannot recover it. The back and recent buttons work just fine. Regardless of the launcher used (I tried Nova Launcher and the system default), the Home Button will not appear. I have searched this forum but did not find an effective way to recover the Home Button (There was the suggestion to use Device Setup App, but I cannot find a version of the app that will run on my device). I do not want to do a Factor Update as it would mean reinstalling all of my data. Any assistance is appreciated in getting the Home Button back. Thanks.
No sure if you solved the problem.
I had got the same problem with you, and got solved by using Fire Toolbox client Installer (.exe) instead of Portable (.zip).
My Home Button now shows in screen.