Do you accidentally press the back button in a day when in apps, etc!???????
I stopped counting.... actually my main issue is trying to hit it and hitting the recent apps button. on my HTC M8 they were swapped places...
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Update: Never mind, apparently all it needed was a little time to think. Mods, you can delete this. Sorry folks.
Long time (but sparse) reader, first time poster... So forgive me if this problem has been brought up before, I wasn't able to find it anywhere by searching.
I have a Viewsonic gtablet running CyanogenMod 7.0.3-Harmony with LauncherPro Plus v0.8.6.
I just rebooted my device and now my home button (the one on the side, not the one on the screen) is acting funny. It will show me my recent apps if I hold it down, but it won't take me back to my home screens if I'm in an app (or somewhere that's not a home screen). It also won't show the home screen previews if I'm on the home screen and I press it.
The home button on the screen (in the status bar) works perfectly fine. All of the other buttons (on the side, and in the status bar) work perfectly fine as well.
I have downloaded apps recently, but nothing too unusual. Certainly nothing that would mess with the home button settings.
Thanks so much for your help!
Edit: I have rebooted the device.
Is there a way you can hard-coded, let say the left capacitive button to act as a home button when you long-pressed it? especially on ICS roms that for let say you want to see the recent apps(home button long-pressed) alternatively you'll just long-press the left capacitive button = profit?
My home button is being quirky nowadays(6 months owner) and I don't want to bring it to Service Center just to repair that.. The problem is not groundbreaking(not yet) but this will save me in the future and probably others will so
It's not exactly what you want, but maybe Button Savior will do for you?
I think capacitive buttons are more likely to stop working than the physical buttons. My friend has a motorola Milestone and his back button stopped working in a month. Dont know if it is a bug
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Still need to use home-button I'm in CM9 right now and the home button is really ****ed-up especially when I'm multitasking and I really love how ICS implement the task-switching/killing "Recent app"
srivas95 said:
I think capacitive buttons are more likely to stop working than the physical buttons. My friend has a motorola Milestone and his back button stopped working in a month. Dont know if it is a bug
Sent from my GT-P7500 using XDA Premium
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Well that's a different phone but maybe that can apply to ours. What I mean is that sometimes my home button when I long press and then released it, it double registers the pressing so it's like you pressed again the home button
I am also looking forward for a solution to this. As I also want as much as possible not to use the home button. I quite feel that somehow it is already degrading. Showing press results that are not what I specify. Like for example clicking does 2 clicks thus entering 2 directories in CWM.
Button Savior could have been perfect if the recent apps it shows is the firmware's version. It shows its built-in recent apps instead.
PLEASE change the recent app button to a dedicated menu button and get rid of the stupid soft menu button that takes up screen real estate.
Long pressing the home button should bring up the recent app list instead of wasting a button on it.
I agree. This should have been done by default.
seems you should direct this at HTC and not here then....
also this has been discussed already too...and even modified too...
Sorry if this has been asked, search functions seems to be down at the moment, but I just got my Sprint S3 on Tuesday and noticed that when you press the home button while on the home screen it shows the screen previews, normal.
Now ever since yesterday when I press the home key it just goes to the home screen but does not do the screen preview. Is there something that I turned off by accident or is my phone acting up, its not really a big deal to me but I just want to make sure my phone is not defective. Has this happened to anyone else? Thanks in advance.
There's three functions for the home button so far as I know.
1) Single press, takes you back to your launcher's main screen.
2) Single press with hold, takes you to the task manager that shows you what's currently running along with previews of the apps.
3) Double press, takes you to S Voice.
I'm guessing that you are looking for number 2.
TLS2000 said:
There's three functions for the home button so far as I know.
1) Single press, takes you back to your launcher's main screen.
2) Single press with hold, takes you to the task manager that shows you what's currently running along with previews of the apps.
3) Double press, takes you to S Voice.
I'm guessing that you are looking for number 2.
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Thats really weird because like I said when I first got the phone and was on the home screen and pressed the button again it did the screen previews but now it only does what you listed. I wonder if anyone else had this happen, oh well thanks for the response.
So when I broke my s5 and self repaired it, I ripped the multitask button, so I can't force close my apps without going to one handed operation and touching the button there. I'm thinking that this might be a problem if I flash to CM11 or 12. Will I still be able to go to one handed operation, or will and is there an app that will allow me to go to my recent apps?
If you have a custom ROM on, you should be able to map another key to that function. For example, I mapped my recents key to short press - menu and long press - recent apps, and mapped long press home button for screenshots. You could try mapping long press on back key to recents.