Hi
I've just bought a S8 last week and I was wondering if there's a way to map the navbar buttons. I did that on my s7 edge and it was soooo useful (I set the home button to turn off the screen) but it seems there's no way to do the same without root
Also any gesture I can apply (for example with all in one gesture) can't work on lock screen as the home button on my s7 edge did.
There's any solution?
misscandy said:
Hi
I've just bought a S8 last week and I was wondering if there's a way to map the navbar buttons. I did that on my s7 edge and it was soooo useful (I set the home button to turn off the screen) but it seems there's no way to do the same without root
Also any gesture I can apply (for example with all in one gesture) can't work on lock screen as the home button on my s7 edge did.
There's any solution?
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I think you can do it with navbar gesture mod (installation with adb).
Vulgarisons said:
I think you can do it with navbar gesture mod (installation with adb).
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I already tried it and while I can create new shortcuts they didn't work on lockscreen so the problem is not really solved
Thanks for the answer
misscandy said:
Hi
I've just bought a S8 last week and I was wondering if there's a way to map the navbar buttons. I did that on my s7 edge and it was soooo useful (I set the home button to turn off the screen) but it seems there's no way to do the same without root
Also any gesture I can apply (for example with all in one gesture) can't work on lock screen as the home button on my s7 edge did.
There's any solution?
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With root and Xposed it is easy. Does that work for you?
No because I don't have root
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Hi all,
I have order the N4 today and I'm starting to think about it.
There is a way by a Mod or something else, to remove the softkey from the screen to use the full 4.7" screen ?
My idea is to made a mod that permit for exemple by pressing the Vol + and Vol - at the same time, to remove the softkey from the screen.
What do you think about it ?
As I'm not a dev, is there anyone that can have a look on it ?
Regards.
Haven't seen this for stock roms, but AOKP has this feature. You can adjust the size of the navbar and hide it completely. Additionally, you can add the softkeys to the power options (hold power and you can go home, back, etc.). How I set mine up is using NovaLauncher. If I swipe up on the home screen with 2 fingers, it will hide/unhide the navbar.
You can also use the PAROM with PIE, so the nav keys will be shown after a gesture, or if you don't want to flash a ROM, just use LMT.
remczar69 said:
You can also use the PAROM with PIE, so the nav keys will be shown after a gesture, or if you don't want to flash a ROM, just use LMT.
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Yes, thank you I have just found it and I'm testing it (LMT).
This is so sexy !
just wondering if there's a way to implement these features
Similar to LG G2 KnockOn Gestures
Double Tap screen to Screen Off
Double Tap screen to Screen On
Similar to Stock Android/CM?
Swipe up from Home Button to get access to Google Now/Recent Apps/Etc
I am using SwipePad now... but wondering if there's any other solutions
wilflare said:
just wondering if there's a way to implement these features
Similar to LG G2 KnockOn Gestures
Double Tap screen to Screen Off
Double Tap screen to Screen On
Similar to Stock Android/CM?
Swipe up from Home Button to get access to Google Now/Recent Apps/Etc
I am using SwipePad now... but wondering if there's any other solutions
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not yet but maybe someone will do it one day
I have a galaxy tab 2 and just bought a galaxy tab 4 (mainly for mirroring). I hate using the push button on the 4 to get to my home screen. Is there a launcher or some work around where I can find a way not to have to push a button to get to my home screen? An improvement, but not an ideal one, would be to be able to put the home icon permanently in what I will call the "double box" screen to the left of the start button.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
JD
You could use nova launcher to help remap the three buttons at the bottom and it also has a setting to use custom gestures along with twin finger swiping. Somehow mine is set that if I swipe downward it goes directly to home screen. It is a really adaptive launcher with a lot if customizing I haven't unlocked yet..lol
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decijp said:
I have a galaxy tab 2 and just bought a galaxy tab 4 (mainly for mirroring). I hate using the push button on the 4 to get to my home screen. Is there a launcher or some work around where I can find a way not to have to push a button to get to my home screen? An improvement, but not an ideal one, would be to be able to put the home icon permanently in what I will call the "double box" screen to the left of the start button.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
JD
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Root your tablet and install SOFTKEY ENABLER from Play Store!
krakenthor said:
You could use nova launcher to help remap the three buttons at the bottom and it also has a setting to use custom gestures along with twin finger swiping. Somehow mine is set that if I swipe downward it goes directly to home screen. It is a really adaptive launcher with a lot if customizing I haven't unlocked yet..lol
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Thanks to K and M for the suggestions. It turns out that I found a great product called button savior that does everything I want with the home button. Now I need to find a way to move Google Search from the bottom to the top of my screen, and I will be completely happy.
JD
My Elephone S7 on screen button is not working(home, back and windows) . I tried to find the settings to hide and unhide button, but i cant find any. I also tried swiping from bottom of screen up, but no response.
Plz help
I cant do most of my stuff without the back button.
zchew1 said:
My Elephone S7 on screen button is not working(home, back and windows) . I tried to find the settings to hide and unhide button, but i cant find any. I also tried swiping from bottom of screen up, but no response.
Plz help
I cant do most of my stuff without the back button.
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Go into settings and buttons, you can set navigation bar to on all the time.
Also look for what might happen with home button
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Same problem happened to me two days ago. Home and navigation options disappeared from the settings. No way to change anything.
I have a Note 9 SM-N960W and have found a few different ways of doing screenshots. Method 1... Palm swipe is annoying, method 2... power + vol down is hard to time and triggers volume sliders that ruin the screenshot, and method 3... there is a screenshot option in the edge pannel and also smart select.
The Problem with all these is the edge pannel Handel always shows on the resulting image. Is there an easy way to somehow use the built in screenshot app/apk maybe through an activities manager shortcut?
Right now I'm using Button Mapper and have disabled edge pannel but would love a quick & easy way to capture the full screen, no adb, and no edge pannels or palm swipes because they are just annoying! Any helpful suggestions or ideas? I've tried all I could find.
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I have a Note 9 SM-N960W and have found a few different ways of doing screenshots. Method 1... Palm swipe is annoying, method 2... power + vol down is hard to time and triggers volume sliders that ruin the screenshot, and method 3... there is a screenshot option in the edge pannel and also smart select.
The Problem with all these is the edge pannel Handel always shows on the resulting image. Is there an easy way to somehow use the built in screenshot app/apk maybe through an activities manager shortcut?
Right now I'm using Button Mapper and have disabled edge pannel but would love a quick & easy way to capture the full screen, no adb, and no edge pannels or palm swipes because they are just annoying! Any helpful suggestions or ideas? I've tried all I could find.
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You can try installing standalone apk NavStar (Samsung) from ApkMirror website.
Then download free app "Activity Manager" app
from Play store.
Open Activity Manager, search for NavStar, tap on NavStar and another window will open.
You will see two options.
First option, tap 3 dot menu and create shortcut for
NavStar to configure it, as NavStar
won't show in your app drawer.
NavStar is part of Samsung, Good Lock 2018 app.
However Good Lock 2018 is not available for some markets /users
With NavStar you can customize your navigation bar
to choose your own selection from options available.
You can choose "screenshot" etc.
See attached
You don't have to do any ADB /root/etc
It's a straight forward "sideload /install manually"
app.
Safe, no issues.
TWiiTCH said:
I have a Note 9 SM-N960W and have found a few different ways of doing screenshots. Method 1... Palm swipe is annoying, method 2... power + vol down is hard to time and triggers volume sliders that ruin the screenshot, and method 3... there is a screenshot option in the edge pannel and also smart select.
The Problem with all these is the edge pannel Handel always shows on the resulting image. Is there an easy way to somehow use the built in screenshot app/apk maybe through an activities manager shortcut?
Right now I'm using Button Mapper and have disabled edge pannel but would love a quick & easy way to capture the full screen, no adb, and no edge pannels or palm swipes because they are just annoying! Any helpful suggestions or ideas? I've tried all I could find.
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I use Buttonmapper to set "single tap" volume down for screen shots. Works perfect..
I use an app called "Softkey Edge App". It's an app panel that you slide out from the side like other edge apps and it has several shortcut keys, screenshot is one of them.
Nice thing is, it takes the screenshot WITHOUT the edge panel, so you actually get what you want.
You can find it on the Samsung App Store.
4 option Will be " Hi! Bixby" take a screen shot
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5 will be using Good lock 2018 and on the NavStar add the option for screen shot
depends if you want to save a screenshot or just share it to someone.
When sharing a screenshot (which I don't necessarily want to keep), I'll hold the home button to trigger google assistant. Then just send a screenshot from there. Nice and simple and no messing with buttons.
Hold Bixby button and say "Take screenshot" ...
Works brilliantly...
Thanks everyone, some great ideas! I decided to go with button Mapper because I don't use edge pannel, I hate the handle showing on my screenshots even though it is transparent to a certain degree. Button mapper takes the screenshot basically instantly and there are no icons or any sort of idea that an extra app is being used. The only downside is my phone is not rooted so I cannot reboot without having to run ADB Commands again, but no biggie since my phone is always on. Thanks for all the help full suggestions everyone!!!