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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Hi guys,
Does anybody knows where is the menu button in ICS... it looks it has 3 button, back, home and multitask...
I hope that the menu won't be in each app becasude that will mean no old app until huge upgrade...
They said the buttons change as you need then I'm sure a menu button will pop up if needed.
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odst0016 said:
They said the buttons change as you need then I'm sure a menu button will pop up if needed.
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Yes but I saw all the videos and sometimes 3 dots appear next to the multitask button but is not clear if that is the menu button or what it does. I think they should have left multitask to the longpress home and give us a menu button always there... It will be a pain in the ass for older apps and for cooking. For now this is a fail as for the absence of smart dialing
my questions is this -> will it be able to remove the on screen buttons and use the hardware ones for older phones?
I had the ask loaded and built am ICS emulator, I'll test on one of my apps this morning and report back.
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I would hope so...that would take up some much needed screen real estate on a smaller screen.
Just tried in the emulator and I had no buttons, I will have to look into updating my app for ICS.
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So my fears are real... no menu button for third party apps... that is so wrong
Right, a have to update the apps to show the buttons.
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So my fears are real... no menu button for third party apps... that is so wrong
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Nonono, the way it works (based on my understanding and playing with the 4.0 emulator) is this:
On a device with no hardware buttons (Galaxy Nexus):
Menu button shows up if the app has a menu (makes sense)
On a device with hardware buttons (most devices):
Soft keys don't show up, multitasking comes up by long-pressing home button (confirmed in emulator)
That's how it works I believe
The soft-keys don't show up in the emulator because it's emulating a device with hardware keys
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The one big UI change you could make to your apps to really take advantage of 4.0 is adding an Action Bar to your app (they demonstrated this in the Gmail app I believe).
No action would be needed to support regular menus though
What about the search button? I always use it. sigh.
And I'm guessing on older phones, they can access the multitask menu by holding down home?
Question - I installed the ICS SDK and was trying to tinker with it to make the soft buttons appear, but it's not happening. What settings do you use for an instance of the emulator to force the soft buttons to exist?
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Just tried in the emulator and I had no buttons, I will have to look into updating my app for ICS.
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How'd you get the emulator to show the soft buttons?
I have not figured out how to get the soft buttons to appear, the emulator still shows the hard buttons from previous versions.
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Yes but I saw all the videos and sometimes 3 dots appear next to the multitask button but is not clear if that is the menu button or what it does. I think they should have left multitask to the longpress home and give us a menu button always there... It will be a pain in the ass for older apps and for cooking. For now this is a fail as for the absence of smart dialing
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How? if older apps have Menu button functionality, the Menu button will appear. Not really that hard to understand.
they should do away with the menu button. i've personally found the best apps don't utilize it or utilize it very little. the more you have to dig into menus and settings the worse it is for user experience. if i recall, the new native google apps have the equivalent menu function in the top right corner. iOS apps essentially have the settings button in the same spot too. if ICS is all about UI and user experience, we need to see some consistency. for non-native android users, the menu button is not intuitive.
long press
does the soft keys have long press ?? if yes may be long press on multi task button gives u menus
Hey guys,
I guess this question is answered with this video ...
dipito31 said:
Hey guys,
I guess this question is answered with this video ...
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And what video might that be?
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they should do away with the menu button. i've personally found the best apps don't utilize it or utilize it very little. the more you have to dig into menus and settings the worse it is for user experience. if i recall, the new native google apps have the equivalent menu function in the top right corner. iOS apps essentially have the settings button in the same spot too. if ICS is all about UI and user experience, we need to see some consistency. for non-native android users, the menu button is not intuitive.
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Why should they do away with the menu button? Who cares if it's not intuitive for non-native Android users? Why take the menu button and all of the options that come with it away from the people who are smart enough to use it because some people aren't smart enough to use it? The people who don't know it's there wouldn't know any difference in the first place if it was done away with. The rest of us would.
Has anyone figured anything else out about this now that there are videos everywhere? I still haven't seen any evidence that the menu button exists. Google added the menu button to all of their apps, are all the other apps left out?
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
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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.
Do any roms have the 3 dot bar removed and remapped the multitask key to the menu instead.
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no buddy not yet.
but you know there isnt yet, but you still made a thread to ask. there are only 3 roms out. give it some time man
There's a mod for exactly that. No ROM with it baked on. It's too polarizing an issue.
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im not a dev so i dont post in those forums, rather ask here in general.
but thank you man
flex360 said:
no buddy not yet.
but you know there isnt yet, but you still made a thread to ask. there are only 3 roms out. give it some time man
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Do any roms have the 3 dot bar removed and remapped the multitask key to the menu instead.
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No ROMS do but you can flash this mod found here. He has one for stock and viperROM. It will remove the three dots, remap menu to recents, and remap long home press to recents. If you aren't unlocked you can extract the apk, jar, and kl files and push them to your phone and set permissions to rw-r--r-- if you have root.
I kinda want a mod where you just long press the recent apps key to get the menu. I don't really like remapping the menu button to the recent apps and longing pressing home for recent apps.
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I kinda want a mod where you just long press the recent apps key to get the menu. I don't really like remapping the menu button to the recent apps and longing pressing home for recent apps.
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+1 I could get behind that one.
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I kinda want a mod where you just long press the recent apps key to get the menu. I don't really like remapping the menu button to the recent apps and longing pressing home for recent apps.
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I believe there is something in the works that let's you choose what you want the buttons to do..as of right now I beleieve the current remapped keys were just what the majority were looking for.
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In a couple weeks, the Developer section for the HTC EVO 4G LTE should be overflowing with mods. I'm sure at least one of them will do what I want.
But I'm really hoping for a AOSP themed ROM though.
Flashing both in the dev section remap buttons worked for me
Flashing vipers first http://db.tt/xlvj8foG
Than http://db.tt/CW6nSF9V the stock one from the op removed dots and allows long press home recent apps .
If you want a step further flash vipers newest update i did it it changed battery icon size but that's about it anf noe enabled the recent app button to long press search and still has menu option
I'm on freezas Rom twrp recovery
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You can easily do that in Sense. Go to Settings > Display, gestures & buttons > Recent apps button and select how you want the multitask button to act
Back in June, which is when this thread is from, that wasn't an option on the stock ROM.
It wasn't added in until the first ota update.
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there were three buttoms on our phone
back home and menu
but the ics's three buttom is back home and multitask
i am wondering that can someone mod menu buttom to multitask buttom?
when i press menu and i will open multitasking screen just like original ics
and sorry for my poor engliah
Here you can see what has happend to the menu button.
There where you need it, it is a little button on the right corner or on playstore right left corner.
But the optiones are not away, in ICS you've got more options!
You still need that menu button for legacy apps, otherwise you couldn't access the menu.
Long-pressing home button still acts as a multitask button.
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You still need that menu button for legacy apps, otherwise you couldn't access the menu.
Long-pressing home button still acts as a multitask button.
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I'd prefer the option to use the menu button as a multitasking button, get the settings icon in proper ics apps, and long press for menu in legacy apps. Is that option available?
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I'd prefer the option to use the menu button as a multitasking button, get the settings icon in proper ics apps, and long press for menu in legacy apps. Is that option available?
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You can search on my profile- My posts, I did that Mod already, im on my phone and is hard to copy and paste the Link but you can still search in my profile
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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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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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