I came across this thread in the HD2 forum, it is an app for a software sidebar-styled soft keys for the hd2. Downloaded and tested on a rooted nook and it works brilliantly! This seems to be a great replacement for not having hardware keys for back/home/search/so on... Here is the link to the original thread and the apk I used is attached below. All credits go to the developer of this app jerryfan2000.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865525
This is great. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks. I actually prefer this to softkeys (though really appreciate the effort on softkeys!) Also, you can install this via the market - just search for "button savior", and then you'll be notified of any updates...
I'm a convert from Softkeys to this ( button savior). It's not as easy to accidentally press the shortcut button. Also doesn't require any setup to make it function as it should.
Wow...I liked Softkeys and really appreciate the hard work of the dev...but like this more. Especially because it seems to work great in landscape. Thanks for the post!
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I'm using Zeam launcher. In landscape mode, the little arrow is directly on top of the dock icons. Really wish if we can configure the position separately between portrait and landscape mode.
I sent a pm to the dev asking if it would be possible to add an option to set the position of the dock. Maybe using sliders for horizontal and vertical positioning. The app is great though and is really streamlined with the rest of the interface imo. Glad I could help.
This thing is fantastic. Almost like it doesn't exist, until you need.
Yes, and..
Much better than SoftKeys (less obtrusive). Also, the developer of SoftKeys doesn't seem to be responding to issues raised!
I just talked to the developer, jerryfan2000...the next release should hit the market in a day or so and will include the ability to choose the placement of the sidebar using sliders. Seems he was already on top of it, and is just waiting for some graphics to be finished.
This is awesome, head and shoulders above the softkeys for me.
Thanks man, this is great.
Latest version is out. 1.0.5. Button saviour. You can move the button now. Although slightly limited to where.
Love the minimal UI. It's practically invisible.
Hey everyone. I'm trying to make contacts look the way they do in some 3.5 and, from what I hear, older Sense builds. As an example, when creating a shortcut to a contact and let's say, making it a 'quick contact', there is no icon covering their face (like in AOSP, CM7 or SoaB), which I prefer. I'm trying to see if there's a way to get that effect in other Sense Roms where the shortcut type covers a quarter of the icon. I've tried pulling the contact app out of the system folder, and deleting the quick contact icon, also the black button png, but still no dice. So I'm hoping someone with some knowledge can point me in the right direction here. Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Hey guys, I'm building a ICS themed ROM that is themed to look like JB (with some JB apps included and such)
For some reason I can not decompile/recompile my Framework-res apk as it will neve rwork. With APKTool, decompiling gives FALSE values and recompiling always exceptions. Ninjamorph editing sent me into a bootloop, obv. the Jellybean Framework sent a bootloop also on the first boot. That, or I wasn't patient enough to get to the Start.
Second, I donloaded a Jelly Bean UI/Theme and used that Framework, but the lockscreen buttons are too small and I do not need the Nav bar on the bottom, as the device has 4 hard buttons. (Settings, Home, Back, Search) and the ICS Rom im basing it off lacks these buttons also. The screen is small and feels really cramped with these buttons there. Also, how do I generate a normal build.prop without having to manually put in random information into the file via Notepad++?
I'm extremely new to Android Development though it appears so far that this ROM is looking okay for what it's supposed to be. Generally smooth running and pretty aside from these few things which are holding me back from any release or w/e
Thanks in advance to anyone who answers.
hello, so I've been searching and searching for a way to move the status bar down to the bottom so I can flick it up to open it. I've seen it before in cm7 roms and reloaded ics for older nightlies of cm9 roms. I'm wondering how they do it... it seems like it's some BIG secret, because no one seems to know anything about this type of mod or where to start to create it. It's built in to the cm7 roms, and Reloaded ICS doesn't work for newer cm9 roms.
So here's my request.
1. Someone point me in the right direction of where to find the right xml files and values to edit to recompile a rom with a bottom status bar!
or
2. Someone help me port Reloaded ICS to either newer ICS builds or maybe even JB!
or
3. Someone tell me some kind of good news about finding any way of moving the status bar down and reversing the pulldown so it slides up! cuz I'm really getting sick of searching for guidance on this issue...
I swear, it's the final and only thing I desire to change about my phone...
I love AOKP so if we could integrate this status bar trick/mod into an aokp build, that'd be the best rom ever!
again...why is this so hard? this search has gone on long enough, I'm really starting to get fed up with people creating roms just because the source is new... I'd like to see more customizations with current roms, like a bottom status bar option! why was this left in the dust in cm7? why not keep the mod going in cm9 or 10? bahhh!
I've started to decompile framework-res.apk and systemUI.apk but I don't understand what to change to make this happen, there are several places where in certain xmls it specifies the gravity or position of things that sound like they'd have to do with where the status bar is and how it acts, but I really don't know where to start...
Please help! It sucks knowing what I want, having the available technology to create it, but no guidance or any info to start with!
I have attached a couple pics that i made from screenshots i took while running Full throttle's and Licorice's Fuzion Rom
My background is my wonton symbol and the little android at the bottom is my app drawer, there are other icons/folders beside him but they're invisible, haha!
So if anyone could help me with creating a rom that looks like these pics, I'd be eternally grateful!!!
I don't know if I posted this in the correct section so please move it as needed.
A few years ago I was successful at adding some entries to the Power Menu by following a tutorial that I can no longer find. I want to try something similar again, but this time it is for the LP Quick Settings tiles. I have two ROMs I bounce back and forth between, crDroid and XenonHD. The crDroid ROM has a quick Settings tile that brings up the Power Menu so I don't have to press the power button. I love that tile, but I prefer to use the XenonHD rom because it has the RRO Layers theme engine. Problem is, the XenonHD rom doesn't have the Power Menu quick settings tile. So I want to try and add it.
I compared both ROMs and I think to do this I need to edit the SystemUI.apk and add an entry for the Power Menu tile in the XenonHD SystemUI.apk. I found references to that tile in the smali folder for the crDroid ROM that don't exist in the XenonHD smali folder. I admit that I'm not sure I would even be considered a newbie at this stuff, but I am very good at figuring things out so I feel like I could possibly do this by looking at how it is done in the crDroid rom. The thing is, I don't want to waste the time if it is something that is not possible.
So the most important question would be, is it possible to do this simply by editing the SystemUI.apk (assuming I can figure out what codes to add) or is this something that needs to be done at the ROM development end and I would be wasting my time trying? I don't mind trying to figure it out as long as I know it's possible.
Thanks