I use the S Pen a lot. I'm trying to figure out a way to incorporate the back, home and settings button into my launcher (ADW)
The same way ICS does it basically to eliminate the need for the Capcative buttons.
Does anyone know of an app or way to put those shortcuts on your home screen? Its really annoying when using the S Pen to have to always go back to those buttons.
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You know you can use the s pen right?
Press pen button while swiping back to go back
Press button up and swipe up to open menu
Press button and swipe down to go home
Samsung has all these tips in the phone
Menu.settings.spen
There is also a s pen tips app in the market...and lots of cool stuff on the facebook page.
If that doesnt work out for you there are a few apps on the maeket for "soft buttons"
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edit: uh what they said ^^^^ lol
jthornton71707 said:
I use the S Pen a lot. I'm trying to figure out a way to incorporate the back, home and settings button into my launcher (ADW)
The same way ICS does it basically to eliminate the need for the Capcative buttons.
Does anyone know of an app or way to put those shortcuts on your home screen? Its really annoying when using the S Pen to have to always go back to those buttons.
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You can use the S-Pen for going back, home, and menu. Hold the button and drag left for back, Button+down for home and button+up for menu.
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Is this possible at all? Or already done, maybe? would it be an app that could possibly run and replace this action or does it require a rom modification to do it?
I'd prefer specific apps to always be in my home long-press popup than just the most recent ones (ex: mail, web browser, twitter, facebook etc the ones that i am typically trying to get to )
Any thoughts?
I wouldn't mind having menu long press go to the dialer app so we can have a dedicated dialer button we can use when we have other apps open. Long pressing the menu button brings up the quick search bar which we already have a button for.
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long pressing the menu button brings up the keyboard ... not the search...
Long press of menu brings up search on the vibrant, try it. (i read another thread that this isn't the same on other devices)
I assume that given that Vlingo can take over the long press of the search and home replacements can take over the long press of home, an app could be written to take over the long press of home to change its action as well?
I'm not a programer so I wouldn't have a clue of how to write an app that replaces that home/recent apps pop up to allow your own choice of shortcuts
Oh yeah, I guess I was wrong... I have to many devices to keep track of the differences...
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I *kind-of* got what I wanted via the app "App Launcher" (link: http://www.appbrain.com/app/net.talondesigns.quicklaunch - $1.99)
It looks identical to the popup that you get with a long press of the home button - you can select the shortcuts you want to be in it, BUT it is a long press of the search key instead. Functionally, it is what I want, but I'd prefer to take over the home button action rather than using the search button, as I had that one assigned to Vlingo.
Hi,
I love my Nook Tablet, and have rooted it using Indirect's method, and have added the SystemUI.apk published by revcompgeek.
However, I'm not quite where I want to be...I am really hoping for some tweaks or app(s) that will make my "n" button truly act like the home button in Button Savior, or the home button on my iphone - I want to double-click or long-click on it and get a list of running apps, with the option to switch to another one directly or to close one or more.
Does anyone know how I can do that?
Thanks,
ST
natively no possible, apps will do
~ Veronica
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Look for Multitasking Lite on the market. You can get a running list of appear by single press, double press, or by search button.
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arclite00 said:
Look for Multitasking Lite on the market. You can get a running list of appear by single press, double press, or by search button.
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Multitaking Lite did the trick! I also tried TaskXP and that does the trick as well. My problem with them is I didn't realize I needed them to catch the home page button press. Now that I figured that out everything's working the way I want.
Thanks for everyone's help, this noob appreciates it!
ST
Thanks for the info, just downloaded taskXP
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Does anyone know of a multitasker that actually catches a home button hold rather than a double or single press? I want a single press to go home and dislike the delay that setting the multitasker to double press introduces.
FergyA said:
Does anyone know of a multitasker that actually catches a home button hold rather than a double or single press? I want a single press to go home and dislike the delay that setting the multitasker to double press introduces.
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You can disable the double tap function in TaskXP and have the multitasker popup on one click. I tried it on mine and it works.
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kcpaynev1 said:
You can disable the double tap function in TaskXP and have the multitasker popup on one click. I tried it on mine and it works.
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Yeah, that doesn't quite solve my problem unfortunately, thanks though. I've gotten used to the single click for home, hold for MRU from other devices and was hoping to find something that would make this the same. I guess that's probably unlikely though since that's default android behavior and the whole purpose of these apps is to change it.
ok so i just got the evo 4g lte.. coming from the 3d.. on the 3d we had a menu botton.. where or how do i get into the menu on the lte!!??? i dont see it in the lil book either!!!! lol i goingf craqzy!!! plaese help!!!!! thanks
Pull down the notification bar, find the settings button at the top right.
ICS did away with the menu button, now apps have their own built-in menu button (looks like three dots, usually).
SilverZero said:
Pull down the notification bar, find the settings button at the top right.
ICS did away with the menu button, now apps have their own built-in menu button (looks like three dots, usually).[/Q aight sweet! thanks for getin back bro..
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I think it's stupid how they did it. I found the menu key much more useful then the recent apps physical button. Some apps the menu key spans across the entire screen on the bottom. Not sure what they were thinkin, I'm getting used to it but holding home to bring up all your recent apps and clicking one was much better than swiping back and forth.
Go to this thread, I believe it has a mod to do what you want.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681034
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Hello guys, i was wondering if there is any mod or hack for the s2 where u can use the soft key back button to eventually get back to the home screen after going past the previous action?
I prefer not to use the hard key to get to the home. My htc desire s allowed the back soft key button to end up on the home screen after all past actions which was very efficient in a way.
Im on stock ICS 4.0.4, Siyaah Kernal 4.1.5.
Thanks
As far as I know, pressing the soft back key enough times, will eventually take you to the home screen.
Sorry man, but i believe there is no such mod for that feature
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If you dont wanna use your h/w home button, use the navigation bar. Its available with most ROMs.
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23732 said:
As far as I know, pressing the soft back key enough times, will eventually take you to the home screen.
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It does take you back to your last visited screen, but if you was not on your main home screen then it does not take you there.
I'm not looking for soft keys, I want to change the buttons on the bottom of the phone to do different things. Like this (nexus layout):
Left Menu Button ---> Back Button
Middle Home Button <---> Home Button
Right Back Button ---> Recent Apps (multitasking)
Is this possible?
Many custom Roms support this
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=galaxy+s3+remap+buttons
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=galaxy+s3+remap+buttons
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This is the best answer ever.
xD
Those are terrible answers....
Anyway, if I manage to do what I want with the buttons then there's no more "menu button".
Will apps automatically have the "3 dot" menu or will there be no menu at all?
In light of the fact that the links I provided you with (even if it is in a humorous manner) are of no interest to you, I don't really see I can do anything else for you
It is easy, just edit some files
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leeznon said:
Those are terrible answers....
Anyway, if I manage to do what I want with the buttons then there's no more "menu button".
Will apps automatically have the "3 dot" menu or will there be no menu at all?
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That's could be a problem.
1. Change to AOSP
2. Keep menu button and long home for recent
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