[Q] Bad ergonomy of the back button in Android 4.0 - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
I just found a complain here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1820551 but not with not interesting answer.
My question is : Why Google change the way that back button is working when you come from a notification. Everything is writing down here :
http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/navigation.html
Before, when a notification fire, and you open it. Pressing back button take you back to the application you was one before you open the notification.
For example : You are browsing the web. Someone talk to you on GTalk, and you decide to answer. You open the notification, respond, and press back. The difference between Android 4.X and Android 2.3 is here :
On Android 2.3, you go back to your browser, continue to read your article
On Android 4.X, you go to the contact list of GTalk !!! It's just illogical ! If I press back button, I want to return to what I was going just before ! Most of the time, you press Back multiple times, goes back to multiple old conversation. Then finaly, annoyed, press Home, search for the browser icon, waiting for the reloading, and continue to read your article.
I made a little picture to explain the problem

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Ok there is multitasking in WP 7.5 instead pressing back button each time U leave a app press the home button the middle one and then if you have more then one app that U opened up U can press and hold the back button the left one and it brings up all current running apps and it will instanly pick up where U left of.
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Also when U have enoug apps on ur phone in the scrol menu will apear letters a b c on so forth where all Apps are listed when U press on the letter a for exsample a checker board comes up where U select letters a to z for fast app access also U can just do voice search. Also folders are available when you root your phone. It is a homebrew app.
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I started a very similar thread, its stickied. How did you miss that!!!
Please re-post in that thread. That's why i started it, i don't want lots of threads relating to the same thing!
Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1379120
Peace!

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Back softkey changed functionality

I have an Lg G2 running Cloudy G2(4.4.2). Phone was working fine until 2 days ago. Now the "back" soft key does not work like it used to in many apps. For just a few examples:
Chrome
Before: back key took you to the previous web page
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Lets say I was in a post,
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Before: when hitting share it would take you to the app in which to share the post. Then hitting back key would cycle through all the screens and you would end up back in the reddit post
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Hangouts
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What could have caused the back soft key functionality to change like that?
Thanks,
Craig
Maybe a bit of a simple solution which you probably already tried but did you reboot?
caelin99 said:
Maybe a bit of a simple solution which you probably already tried but did you reboot?
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Many times
Maybe you could backup your data and factory reset.
Always works for me.

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