Hey guys-
This mod (flashable in recovery) will remap your recent apps button to a menu button and remove the on-screen 3 dot menu. Most people prefer this.
Unfortunately, I haven't had time to edit your android.policy.jar yet so you won't be able to longpress anything for recent apps menu.
So basically you lose access to the recent apps menu, but this gets rid of the 3-dot on-screen menu button and makes your recent app hardware button a menu button. In the future, this limitation will be fixed.
To revert, flash the UNDO.zip
Think we could flash one from the Evo 4g LTE? Or is the .Jar file different.
jar is probably different.
Lovin this one Con, great job.
This 3 button remap is key...I'm playing around flashing different test builds and this damn mod should be factory.
I'm using Nova Launcher, which has the option to use gestures for accessing recent apps. If I install this 3 Button Remap mod, my recent apps softkey will act as a menu button, but will the gesture I've set for accessing recent apps work as designed or will it also be remapped and act as a menu button?
Pandalero said:
I'm using Nova Launcher, which has the option to use gestures for accessing recent apps. If I install this 3 Button Remap mod, my recent apps softkey will act as a menu button, but will the gesture I've set for accessing recent apps work as designed or will it also be remapped and act as a menu button?
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Probably. It won't break recent apps. If there is something else that can trigger it, it will still work. It just disables your ability to get into it via hardware buttons.
con247 said:
Probably. It won't break recent apps. If there is something else that can trigger it, it will still work. It just disables your ability to get into it via hardware buttons.
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Sweet, thanks. I'm gonna root and install this mod tonight... I'll post a definitive answer in case anyone else wants to know.
I forgot to include an Undo.zp
I will make that shortly.
con247 said:
Probably. It won't break recent apps. If there is something else that can trigger it, it will still work. It just disables your ability to get into it via hardware buttons.
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Just installed the 3 button mod... all is well. In Nova Launcher, the gesture to bring up recent apps still works. But this only applies to when you're on your home screen.For viewing recent apps while you're in an app, I've set the menu button (formerly recent apps button), the open recent apps with a long press.
Love this mod.
Any chance you can create a mod like this to remap recent apps to search?
scott8357 said:
Any chance you can create a mod like this to remap recent apps to search?
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I would say yes,
but don't hold me to it.
sounds very cool! thanks!
andybones said:
I would say yes,
but don't hold me to it.
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was guna ask the same thing,, use the recent apps button for menu and long hold recent apps for search? would be tha bomb! ps, thanks again )
thatexan said:
was guna ask the same thing,, use the recent apps button for menu and long hold recent apps for search? would be tha bomb! ps, thanks again )
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its in ukb lte rom...if you dont want to use that rom for it...you can use hans"s stock deodexed rom and pull android.policy.jar...but you need to be deodexed so either rom is necessary
Has there been any more development made on this? I really want to remap the buttons, but I don't want to lose my Recent Apps either.
Platypus222 said:
Has there been any more development made on this? I really want to remap the buttons, but I don't want to lose my Recent Apps either.
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I'm using ukb lte rom. Recent apps button is now "settings". And long pressing the home button brings up "recent apps". Its perfect, I think.
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joeyd27 said:
I'm using ukb lte rom. Recent apps button is now "settings". And long pressing the home button brings up "recent apps". Its perfect, I think.
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I'm not really interested in flashing a new ROM right now, as I'm pretty happy with Sense as it is. Also, I'm not sure what use Settings is like that. I'd rather have the Recent Apps button do Menu.
Platypus222 said:
I'm not really interested in flashing a new ROM right now, as I'm pretty happy with Sense as it is. Also, I'm not sure what use Settings is like that. I'd rather have the Recent Apps button do Menu.
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UKB is a Sense ROM and it has the recent apps button as the menu. Plus it has a bunch of other features stock does not come with.
Platypus222 said:
I'm not really interested in flashing a new ROM right now, as I'm pretty happy with Sense as it is. Also, I'm not sure what use Settings is like that. I'd rather have the Recent Apps button do Menu.
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essentially the difference between ukb and stock sense is
advanced power menu (reboot recovery, hboot, hot boot)
remove htc linkify (app associations)
button remapping (back button is same, but long press home key is recent apps, and recent apps button is a menu key)
edit: and extended quick settings of course
theres a ton of other stuff but id consider those the main differences
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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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Endr1 said:
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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substance12 said:
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?
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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j0ser said:
Do any roms have the 3 dot bar removed and remapped the multitask key to the menu instead.
Thx
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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.
WiFi_N said:
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.
WiFi_N said:
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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Since Android 4.0, Google has declared war on the menu button and all devices come out with Recents - Home - Back buttons.
Samsung for some reason decided to move forward with the menu button.
Would it be easy to remap the left capacitive button and make it show the recents instead of the menu action?
Does it really bother you that much to keep the hardware-button pressed down for like 1 second to display the 'Recent' list?
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Does it really bother you that much to keep the hardware-button pressed down for like 1 second to display the 'Recent' list?
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It bothers me, that much
It bother me that much as well - it's just slow.
I think I'd prefer the mod to be double-click home button though, since I rarely use S Voice and it's no hassle to find and click the icon for it whenever I want to use it.
This bothers me too
Would be nice to have it on the menu button. Even an app/shortcut on the homescreen for it would be nice.
I wonder also if there is a way to limit the recent lists as well, if I don't check it sometimes the list can be massive - would be nice to limit this to like 5 items or something.
Olywa
Anyone who used the CM10 on screen nav buttons, knows how much better it is to have the recents key available on a beast like the sgs3.
I wish we could change it but I am afraid this will never be possible on a samsung rom
jastonas said:
Anyone who used the CM10 on screen nav buttons, knows how much better it is to have the recents key available on a beast like the sgs3.
I wish we could change it but I am afraid this will never be possible on a samsung rom
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open up Generic.kl in /system/usr/keylayout
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key 139 MENU
to
key 139 APP_SWITCH
that should work
graffixnyc said:
open up Generic.kl in /system/usr/keylayout
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key 139 MENU
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key 139 APP_SWITCH
that should work
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That's half working. It does work as APP_SWITCH but Android doesn't recognize the lack of the MENU button so it's doesn't show the settings buttons that are needed in most applications.
cm10 has implemented the button remap feature. now you can easily change the menu button long press to recent apps in cm10
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That's half working. It does work as APP_SWITCH but Android doesn't recognize the lack of the MENU button so it's doesn't show the settings buttons that are needed in most applications.
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Yeah, how do we let android recognize lack of menu button?
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wednesday13 said:
Yeah, how do we let android recognize lack of menu button?
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If you disable the hardware buttons, it just does.
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If you disable the hardware buttons, it just does.
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Damn, I guess I have to sacrifice without menu button
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hi.
I currently have a Samsung Vibrant. It has home, return, menu and search keys.
Now I look at the One, and I can see it has only the home and return keys, and doesn't have the menu key which is important for most apps.
Am I missing something?
Also the search key, I know some apps that don't have a search button and only way to search is to use the capacitive key. Would it make a problem with the One?
Thanks.
romitkin said:
hi.
I currently have a Samsung Vibrant. It has home, return, menu and search keys.
Now I look at the One, and I can see it has only the home and return keys, and doesn't have the menu key which is important for most apps.
Am I missing something?
Also the search key, I know some apps that don't have a search button and only way to search is to use the capacitive key. Would it make a problem with the One?
Thanks.
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They are pushing to get rid of the menu button and have Devs incorporate it into their apps some way
If it doesn't have one you can hold down back to open the menu
Most apps already have a search bar if needed anyway
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romitkin said:
hi.
I currently have a Samsung Vibrant. It has home, return, menu and search keys.
Now I look at the One, and I can see it has only the home and return keys, and doesn't have the menu key which is important for most apps.
Am I missing something?
Also the search key, I know some apps that don't have a search button and only way to search is to use the capacitive key. Would it make a problem with the One?
Thanks.
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I take it you haven't seen any new smartphone since ICS came out. Google got rid of the menu and search keys, and instead added a multitasking key. However, in what seems like the most ridiculous move since the LG Optimus Vu, HTC decided to get rid of the multitasking key, which can now be emulated by double tapping home.
Also I heard you can initiate the menu key by doing a pull down gesture. Just don't include the notifications bar on your pull down.
Anyone know if it is possible to swap the mapping of the home/back buttons? I use the back button more often than the home button and find the location of the home button easier to reach in general. I realize I can't change the actual hardware icon ... looking for a software fix.
seattlecard said:
Anyone know if it is possible to swap the mapping of the home/back buttons? I use the back button more often than the home button and find the location of the home button easier to reach in general. I realize I can't change the actual hardware icon ... looking for a software fix.
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You can try the "Xposed Additions" module that remaps hardware keys but not positive if it will work, never used it on this phone.
seattlecard said:
Anyone know if it is possible to swap the mapping of the home/back buttons? I use the back button more often than the home button and find the location of the home button easier to reach in general. I realize I can't change the actual hardware icon ... looking for a software fix.
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There are some options that can help with this in the ViperMAX ROM:
1. In tweaks you can set custom mappings for short press, double press, long press and swipe action for the home hardware key. The same can be done for the back key (except for the swipe action, if I'm not mistaken).
2. You can enable PIE, which basically allows you to slide your finger from the side of the screen to pop-up customizable software buttons on the screen. I use this for the same reason you describe (to make my most common actions easily accessible with my right thumb). In-fact I use PIE to pop-up software buttons to do things like "back", "pull down notifications" and "home"...
If you take advantage of those tweaks, it is easily enough to suite your needs and more.
seattlecard said:
Anyone know if it is possible to swap the mapping of the home/back buttons? I use the back button more often than the home button and find the location of the home button easier to reach in general. I realize I can't change the actual hardware icon ... looking for a software fix.
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Yes, it possible software wise. I'll pm how to. File explorer needed with root access.
It can be done with Sence or Aosp, stock or custom ROMs. I edit this ever device I have to suit my needs. I like running full screen, no status bar nor navigation bar. One reason I like my Max. Full 5.9 viewing area.
jerrycycle said:
Yes, it possible software wise. I'll pm how to. File explorer needed with root access.
It can be done with Sence or Aosp, stock or custom ROMs. I edit this ever device I have to suit my needs. I like running full screen, no status bar nor navigation bar. One reason I like my Max. Full 5.9 viewing area.
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Could you PM me with your solution? Thanks.