Hey guys, I just got my G tab and installed Vegan ginger edition, everything was going along fine, and suddenly my hard home key started taking me to the dock home screen instead of the normal one. The soft home key in the notification tray still takes me to the normal home screen, it's just the hard key that is screwy. Is there a setting for this somewhere that I'm missing? I can't remember doing anything at the time that would have caused it. Any help?
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Now that several of us have keyboards attached to our gtablets, I thought it mught be useful to share a list of which keys do what. I've discovered that HOME does take you home and that ESC seems to be the back key. Others?
With mine, the End button puts the tablet in Sleep mode. Pretty cool.
Some more keys
I picked up a Gearhead KB1500U usb keyboard at Frys for $7.95. It's pretty nice, metal back, regular keys although slightly cramped netbookish layout. Its about an inch longer then the G, and about 1.5inches narrower. Playing around while typing this up I get the following:
ESC is back
Backspace works normally but delete does nothing
Windows key is preferences/menu as is F1
Home is Home (but I cant hold to bring up all running apps, and I get a weird minus sign when I try)
Application Key brings up recent pages and search choices if pressed again (at least in Firefox4)
End is sleep and wakes it back up, also F3 and F4
Space bar moves down one page in Firefox, but PgUp and PgDn do nothing (again in Firefox)
Alt-Right or Left arrow blanks the screen (it just goes black but is still back-lit) do it again and it returns, this happens instantaneously, no delay like Home
First off I'm new to the Gtab. I'm currently running Vegan 5.1. Everytime I hit my hard home button it takes me to a switchboard with four buttons. In order to get go my actual home screen I have to select the home icon. This is becoming extremely annoying hitting two buttons every time to get home. Is this normal or am I missing a setting?
What launcher are you using? There is usually a tab in the settings menu for what tapping the home key does.
I'm currently using the VLT launcher just released, but it does the same thing for stock launcher and launcher pro. I scoured the settings and can't find the home button setting. Saw it in Launcher pro but it didn't change anything. Not sure what else to try at this point.
The screen it sends me to appears to be the screen you see when you would place your phone on the dock. It has the alarm clock button, music, home, and gallery button on the bottom with only the time showing.
Button savior works correctly. Unfortunately I'm not a button savior fan. This its the only bug on my tab and its driving me nuts.
Just wanted to update. I read a lot of other Vegan users having this same issue. I ended up freezing the Clock app using Titanium and that corrected the issue. Not sure what other adverse effects that will cause but it worked for me.
Anybody have any other ideas how to fix this? I'm using TNT Lite 4.4 with Launcher Pro. I've set the home button to "Do nothing" in Launcher Pro preferences, and also checked the option that says "Home key to default screen" but neither one of those seems to have had an effect. Thanks!
Update: Never mind, apparently all it needed was a little time to think. Mods, you can delete this. Sorry folks.
Long time (but sparse) reader, first time poster... So forgive me if this problem has been brought up before, I wasn't able to find it anywhere by searching.
I have a Viewsonic gtablet running CyanogenMod 7.0.3-Harmony with LauncherPro Plus v0.8.6.
I just rebooted my device and now my home button (the one on the side, not the one on the screen) is acting funny. It will show me my recent apps if I hold it down, but it won't take me back to my home screens if I'm in an app (or somewhere that's not a home screen). It also won't show the home screen previews if I'm on the home screen and I press it.
The home button on the screen (in the status bar) works perfectly fine. All of the other buttons (on the side, and in the status bar) work perfectly fine as well.
I have downloaded apps recently, but nothing too unusual. Certainly nothing that would mess with the home button settings.
Thanks so much for your help!
Edit: I have rebooted the device.
I was on a long drive today w1th the phone in the dock running navigation and most of Pandora as well. Stopped and tried to take a screenshot using Power+Down but only changed volume to took the phone out of dock and t worked like should. NOW, however, home button doesn't work, top bar doesn't have any running apps/voice mail icons anymore. If you drop the notification bar down with running apps, no icon shows no matter how many's running. When powering down, there isn't an option to do anything else.Also when in camera mode, there is a lock in the preview in the little box.
Anyone know how what would cause these issues on a stock/rooted 4.1.2 912 cdma short of factory restoring it? Going back to home screen is a pain in the butt now.
Thanks for any help
So I downloaded launcher hijack and nova launcher for a new Amazon fire hd 8 tablet because I thought the home menu was kinda confusing and I wanted a traditional Android home screen instead. All was fine in the beginning but then whenever I would hit the home button to get out of an app it show the home menu for a second but then would send me to the tabs menu instead, even though I didn't tell it to do that. Then once it's in the tabs menu no matter what buttons I push it just keeps sending me back to the tabs menu. One workaround that only works like 25% of the time is that once it sends me to the tabs menu if I click the tabs button to go to the last opened app and then hit the home button it will let me go to the home screen, but like I said, that rarely works. So I was wondering if anybody else has experienced this bug and if anybody could help me fix it as I'm not sure what I did wrong. Thank you for your time.