On the Mate 10, when you have the on-screen navigation buttons, a double tap of the task button automatically switches to the last app and back and forth. I can't see how to replicate this with the single gesture key when hiding the on-screen navigation buttons.
I also wish you could customise the gestures:
Swipe to left, go back.
Press once, go to home.
Press and hold, tasks view.
I think this makes logical sense.
Btw, I love this phone.
I think its a copyright issue with regards to your second point.
Regarding your first point, switching apps with fp is not featured yet. But its a good idea and you should send it as feedback using the Hicare app. Either a double tap of fp to switch between last app, or configure the swipe left to do so (while the swipe right remains as "back") or maybe all together do a iphone x style swipe from bottom of screen to switch between apps.
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Regarding your first point, switching apps with fp is not featured yet. But its a good idea and you should send it as feedback using the Hicare app. Either a double tap of fp to switch between last app, or configure the swipe left to do so (while the swipe right remains as "back") or maybe all together do a iphone x style swipe from bottom of screen to switch between apps.
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To be honest I have no idea why we the consumer figure out this last app shortcut is a must, what happen to their software engineers, eating donuts too?
rjan22 said:
To be honest I have no idea why we the consumer figure out this last app shortcut is a must, what happen to their software engineers, eating donuts too?
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Are you aware of other manufacturers havings similar switch to last app on their fp button ? Probably all eating donuts I guess. Or maybe figure out that moving software navigation to fp guestures will have gaps and compromises.
And fyi, the switch between last app was implemented on emui first before android officially implemented it.
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Are you aware of other manufacturers havings similar switch to last app on their fp button ? Probably all eating donuts I guess. Or maybe figure out that moving software navigation to fp guestures will have gaps and compromises.
And fyi, the switch between last app was implemented on emui first before android officially implemented it.
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Are you a software engineer? Anyways I am guilty I am a regular on Krispy Kreme, Anyways I know double clicking recent app does bring you to the last app, what I am saying is there should be more easy way to do it because on Mate 10 its a lot better not showing the soft key 3 buttons on the bottom, I am asking about that they should place a shortcut on the fingerprint gesture which they don't, you can't double swipe the F sensor to go to last app, or the floating white button because it requires you to press and hold it and swipe up or left to call a command. When you have the Mate 10 you will understand what I mean, and I am not talking about other phones, I just want to remind you may be you missed it, this is the Mate 10 forum or may be I am wrong.
Did you found a solution to this "problem" because I really miss that feature. Doble tap to switch to last app.
I'm so sad because this option disappeared
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Did you found a solution to this "problem" because I really miss that feature. Doble tap to switch to last app.
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what if u wanted to zoom in on a picture on your explorer, or double tap like on instagram?
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what if u wanted to zoom in on a picture on your explorer, or double tap like on instagram?
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We talking about doble tap on the square button on the bottom.
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ivan333 said:
We talking about doble tap on the square button on the bottom.
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OHHHHHHH lmao. soz
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Do you guys think that will ever be possible to reprogram the only physical button available on the Z line to make it more useful?
Something like:
Tap = back
Long press = Home
Double tap = Multi-tasking
+1 on this. It would really be great to be able to interact more with it.
But it's not a button......
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But it's not a button......
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In that it is not a mechanical activation device, no - it's not a button. But it is a sensor that can detect the presence of a finger, which means we could perform different actions in response to such events... just like one would when "pressing" a button. Hell, assuming the APIs exist, we could even configure the sensor to execute different actions depending on the finger touching it. I'd love to have it do one thing when the thumb on my right hand touches it and another when the thumb on my left hand touches it - as different hands typically indicates different uses.
Those interested in giving the fingerprint sensor additional functionality should keep an eye on this project. It only has a few functions now but might evolve into something more useful.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-fingerprint-to-unlock-t3466549
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Check out Elephone S7, it comes with thr features as mentioned in this thread (1 press for back, double tap for home, long press for recent drawer)
MroStudios said:
Do you guys think that will ever be possible to reprogram the only physical button available on the Z line to make it more useful?
Something like:
Tap = back
Long press = Home
Double tap = Multi-tasking
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Has two functions as I know.
1. Fingerprint scanner
2. Screen off button(any finger)
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I'm not an expert, obviously, and this is why I opened this thread (thanks to the moderator that moved it in the right section) but I guess that a fingerprint reader can or could be used as a sort of button since it is definitely possible to do gestures on (many of) them.
I've found Gravitybox works well, with per finger actions and an automation app it can do quite a lot.
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I've found Gravitybox works well, with per finger actions and an automation app it can do quite a lot.
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? Really? What version of GravityBox, and where exactly do you configure the per finger actions? I've looked all through the app and cannot find anywhere to do what you're describing...
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? Really? What version of GravityBox, and where exactly do you configure the per finger actions? I've looked all through the app and cannot find anywhere to do what you're describing...
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In the latest on Xposed 3.1, Gravitybox 6.2.1. Just set it up on my Moto Z, makes the normal navigation home button temperamental but besides that works well.
(Configuration for per finger actions was in the Fingerprint Launcher section, definitely a new feature)
supacrazyguy42 said:
In the latest on Xposed 3.1, Gravitybox 6.2.1. Just set it up on my Moto Z, makes the normal navigation home button temperamental but besides that works well.
(Configuration for per finger actions was in the Fingerprint Launcher section, definitely a new feature)
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The home soft button isn't temperamental it's activation area is smaller when activating fingerprint actions.
If you test it out it's reacting to your touch from the middle on up not from the lower end already.
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The home soft button isn't temperamental it's activation area is smaller when activating fingerprint actions.
If you test it out it's reacting to your touch from the middle on up not from the lower end already.
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Aye, I did notice that but that makes it temperamental in use since it's not normal to have to carefully touch the top of the button or swipe from the sides to raise the nav bar. Gestures and full screen works grand anyway.
Does anybody know a way to enable double tape to wake/sleep?
Instead of double tap, long press on the bottom of the screen where the home button would be if the screen were on. There's no built-in double tap to sleep, but some third party launchers (like Nova) have implemented a work around. But it only works on the home screen.
The home button method is lmag, but still not great. It's nice to be able to just tap any part of the display and for it to wake up. That's one thing the iPhone definitely got right this time around compared to S9+
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The home button method is lmag, but still not great. It's nice to be able to just tap any part of the display and for it to wake up. That's one thing the iPhone definitely got right this time around compared to S9+
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There is no such thing for samsung and unfortunately there is no call answering by putting the phone to the ear!
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passatovici said:
There is no such thing for samsung and unfortunately there is no call answering by putting the phone to the ear!
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And no big photo in callui!
there is double tap pro in the playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vantinh.doubletapscontrol.paid&hl=en
whitelightning76 said:
there is double tap pro in the playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vantinh.doubletapscontrol.paid&hl=en
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Will double tap to turn off the screen work from anywhere, no matter what app is on the screen?
IT would be a nice feature to have, I use it all the time on my LG
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there is double tap pro in the playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vantinh.doubletapscontrol.paid&hl=en
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Thanks for this, work on screen off? Thanks
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whitelightning76 said:
there is double tap pro in the playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vantinh.doubletapscontrol.paid&hl=en
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the rating speaks for itself :crying:
Implementing this feature will probably add battery drain as some sensors need to be active all the time also a custom kernel could implement it. Wait and see
skivnit said:
Implementing this feature will probably add battery drain as some sensors need to be active all the time also a custom kernel could implement it. Wait and see
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It can be an option.
The S9's "always on" home button requires a sensor to be on all the time, too. But the SD 845 has a very low power mode to support these sorts of things. I don't think double tap to wake would use any more power than Samsung's approach. But I'm happy with Samsung's approach, but I wouldn't mind a double tap to sleep, like my old G3 had.
ElementalX has double-tap to wake.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...lopment/kernel-elementalx-1-00-s9-s9-t3767753
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The S9's "always on" home button requires a sensor to be on all the time, too. But the SD 845 has a very low power mode to support these sorts of things. I don't think double tap to wake would use any more power than Samsung's approach. But I'm happy with Samsung's approach, but I wouldn't mind a double tap to sleep, like my old G3 had.
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If you have nova prime you can setup double tap to sleep.
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If you have nova prime you can setup double tap to sleep.
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Well, sort of. One, it doesn't really put the phone to sleep instantly. What it does is reset the screen timeout to a very short value, so the screen goes black. Then, after the phone really goes to sleep, it resets the screen timeout in the background. Two, you can only do it from a Nova home screen. In LG's implementation, you could tap on the status bar on any screen to put the phone to sleep. (Or maybe it was the Nav bar. It's been a long time since I had my G3.)
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Well, sort of. One, it doesn't really put the phone to sleep instantly. What it does is reset the screen timeout to a very short value, so the screen goes black. Then, after the phone really goes to sleep, it resets the screen timeout in the background. Two, you can only do it from a Nova home screen. In LG's implementation, you could tap on the status bar on any screen to put the phone to sleep. (Or maybe it was the Nav bar. It's been a long time since I had my G3.)
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Yeah you are correct on both. LGs way is anywhere half way down the lock screen could be double tapped to go to sleep. That's what I'm looking for. Just grabbed the s9 and I miss the dttS on the ls. The double tap on home button isn't too bad I suppose but still also miss the full screen dttW from LG.
if you have the home button showing on always on display you can double tap it to wake(instead of pressing it hard) just double tap it
If you use Nova Launcher you can use the double tap to turn off gesture.
Bicklp said:
if you have the home button showing on always on display you can double tap it to wake(instead of pressing it hard) just double tap it
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Thanks... sometimes a long press takes a little while to work; double-tap seems instant!
This douple tap feature was available but it stopped 2 days ago. I don't know why or how to set it again.
Just got my Mate 10 Pro and notice that when i swipe right, the google now widget is showing. But i only get news... Where are all the useful cards that they used to have? Like how long until home and weather and stuff.
Cloudstrife said:
Just got my Mate 10 Pro and notice that when i swipe right, the google now widget is showing. But i only get news... Where are all the useful cards that they used to have? Like how long until home and weather and stuff.
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Long press on the home button until Google Assistant starts, then swipe up. Lots more options to customize, voice commands, etc. The icon in blue on the screenshot will also take you from the main assistant screen to this. It's also on the news screen on the bottom.
Hit the button top right gets you another way into the assistant side of things and some of the other cards that used to be in the feed.
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The battery in the M-pen doesn't seem to last that long for me - maybe a week with light use. How are others finding it?
Also the home and recent apps gestures from the bottom of the screen work fine with the M-pen, but the back gesture only seems to work maybe 1 time out of 10. Is this typical?
I'll be in a project next week with fairly heavy note-taking. I'll report in through the week.
Yes about a week sounds right. I don't use it daily bit every once in a while cos it's not as smooth as the note 8 stylus I have . (Feels weird using the pen on mate 2px screen , the contact feels unnatural to me )
So has anyone got the Back gesture to work reliably with the M-pen?
M Pen not working
My Pen Just arrived but doest seem to work, do i need to download an app o make adjustsments in my 20 x. Thanks for info
Have you charged it?
Yes fully charged, tried everyting, i guess Just dont work, thanks for the tip
Is it the m-pen specifically for the Mate 20 X? Does it say "For Huawei Mate 20 X" on the box?
20X M-Pen Battery Life
Used the pen extensively for note-taking for three days last week. I did not test the longevity, charging the pen each night. did not run out of power during the day. Since I have a spare M-Pen, I'll use one to fully drained status on my next project.
Yes, the box says specificly for mate 20 x, ill try to get a refound OR something
No-one has mentioned whether or not they can get the Back gesture to work with the M-pen?
I don't even know what these gestures are. Can anyone explain?
Moandal said:
No-one has mentioned whether or not they can get the Back gesture to work with the M-pen?
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I'm not sure your exact problem, but I was trying mine just to see if I can replicate the issue. Mine works fine. Is there a particular app or something you do that it doesn't work?
edit *My mistake, I was thinking the back button. I don't use the back gesture. Sorry.
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I don't even know what these gestures are. Can anyone explain?
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The gestures are when you go into System / System Navigation and choose Gestures instead of 3-key Navigation.
The navigation buttons disappear and you swipe up from the bottom for Home, or swipe from the left or right edge for Back.
The Home gesture works fine with the M-pen, but I have to use my finger for the Back guesture.
Moandal said:
The gestures are when you go into System / System Navigation and choose Gestures instead of 3-key Navigation.
The navigation buttons disappear and you swipe up from the bottom for Home, or swipe from the left or right edge for Back.
The Home gesture works fine with the M-pen, but I have to use my finger for the Back guesture.
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Ok. Thanks.
I just tested mine. I face the same situation. But the swipe left and right gestures are kinda hit and miss with my fingers as well.
I just stick with the navigation buttons.
My M-pen works fine with Back gesture
I got mine today and it wasn't working either. Called Huawei support. Simple, "did you activate handwriting in settings?" "Handwriting? No..."
Well... Do it... Search the option in settings... It started working immediately
Been trying to find Handwriting in settings but cant find it, I have the same problem with my m Pen, i guess i dont have it (handwriting) and this is why my Pen doesnt work
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Been trying to find Handwriting in settings but cant find it, I have the same problem with my m Pen, i guess i dont have it (handwriting) and this is why my Pen doesnt work
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It's under Smart Assistance. Or just use the search function.
Does anyone know how to turn the pen off while not in use to save battery life?
Any way to remove or hide or skin or otherwise change the look and color of the Nav Bar buttons? Im using Nova and don't see an option and don't see an option in the OS settings.
Appreciate any help.
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Any way to remove or hide or skin or otherwise change the look and color of the Nav Bar buttons? Im using Nova and don't see an option and don't see an option in the OS settings.
Appreciate any help.
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Probably only with root and then a Substratum theme, IF that even works on A12
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Probably only with root and then a Substratum theme, IF that even works on A12
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JMak00 said:
Any way to remove or hide or skin or otherwise change the look and color of the Nav Bar buttons? Im using Nova and don't see an option and don't see an option in the OS settings.
Appreciate any help.
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Settings>Accessibility>System Controls>System Navigation gives you the choice of Gesture Navigation or 3-Button Navigation. I'm using Nova also
docfreed said:
Settings>Accessibility>System Controls>System Navigation gives you the choice of Gesture Navigation or 3-Button Navigation. I'm using Nova also
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But that doesn't change the "look and color of the Nav Bar buttons" at all and that's what he wanted
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But that doesn't change the "look and color of the Nav Bar buttons" at all and that's what he wanted
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From his post "Any way to remove or hide or....."
Google, no one wants the back button on the left! after 6 years, let's go ahead and add the option to switch it already!
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Google, no one wants the back button on the left! after 6 years, let's go ahead and add the option to switch it already!
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I guess my name is "no one" then ... I'm perfectly happy with the button layout the way it is
But I do get it if someone wants it reversed ... I for one would love the option to assign my navbar buttons with different actions, for example longpress Home for screenshot like on my other devices
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I guess my name is "no one" then ... I'm perfectly happy with the button layout the way it is
But I do get it if someone wants it reversed ... I for one would love the option to assign my navbar buttons with different actions, for example longpress Home for screenshot like on my other devices
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It makes no sense. Most people are right-handed, so why put the button that gets used more often (Back) in a less accessible position than the one that hardly ever gets used (Recent apps)? Maybe take a hint from Samsung (the most popular Android phone maker) and keep the Back button on the right.
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It makes no sense. Most people are right-handed, so why put the button that gets used more often (Back) in a less accessible position than the one that hardly ever gets used (Recent apps)? Maybe take a hint from Samsung (the most popular Android phone maker) and keep the Back button on the right.
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Personal preference. I'm totally with you on giving users the option, but I personally use the recents button more often and always hated the placement on Samsung phones.
I wish I could use FNG with A12 gestures, but I'm still stuck having the useless bottom bar...
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Personal preference. I'm totally with you on giving users the option, but I personally use the recents button more often and always hated the placement on Samsung phones.
I wish I could use FNG with A12 gestures, but I'm still stuck having the useless bottom bar...
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Samsung is all tricked out...
Galaxy Store, Good lock family of apps tops off the nav bar mods.
gavingt said:
It makes no sense. Most people are right-handed, so why put the button that gets used more often (Back) in a less accessible position than the one that hardly ever gets used (Recent apps)? Maybe take a hint from Samsung (the most popular Android phone maker) and keep the Back button on the right.
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"the one that hardly gets used" - huh? I use the Recents button all the time before turning off the screen. I don't believe in having apps linger there that I only use once a week or even less often, so my Recents get cleared all the time. Plus while I am righthanded I hold my phone with the left hand and navigate/tap with my right ... I've never been someone to use a phone with only 1 hand.
And like Velcorn said - personal preference. Users should have the option to set it up the way they like it best, not have Google (or other OEMs) dictate what they have to like.
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"the one that hardly gets used" - huh? I use the Recents button all the time before turning off the screen. I don't believe in having apps linger there that I only use once a week or even less often, so my Recents get cleared all the time. Plus while I am righthanded I hold my phone with the left hand and navigate/tap with my right ... I've never been someone to use a phone with only 1 hand.
And like Velcorn said - personal preference. Users should have the option to set it up the way they like it best, not have Google (or other OEMs) dictate what they have to like.
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I completely agree that it should be an option. But if they're not going to provide an option, putting it on the right makes more sense.
Also, you know clearing your recents gives you no performance improvement, right? Android could have completely killed an app weeks ago and its most recent snapshot could still show up there.
Gesture Navigation for the WIN!!!!!
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Also, you know clearing your recents gives you no performance improvement, right?
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I don't care, I don't want the clutter in my recents. It's not so much about performance but about tidyness
I am right handed and use my P6 with my left hand. I use a wallet case on my devices with my index finger wedged behind the internal case. The thumb wins.
I always clear my recent, I don't care if you call it OCD or not.
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It makes no sense. Most people are right-handed, so why put the button that gets used more often (Back) in a less accessible position than the one that hardly ever gets used (Recent apps)? Maybe take a hint from Samsung (the most popular Android phone maker) and keep the Back button on the right.
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My LG phones let me not just switch their order but whether they were outlines or filled in, too.
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It makes no sense. Most people are right-handed, so why put the button that gets used more often (Back) in a less accessible position than the one that hardly ever gets used (Recent apps)? Maybe take a hint from Samsung (the most popular Android phone maker) and keep the Back button on the right.
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especially since third parties have made it an option for over 7 years
sic0048 said:
Gesture Navigation for the WIN!!!!!
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again... no righty has a thumb that long that you can reach the left side of the screen
Velcorn said:
Personal preference. I'm totally with you on giving users the option, but I personally use the recents button more often and always hated the placement on Samsung phones.
I wish I could use FNG with A12 gestures, but I'm still stuck having the useless bottom bar...
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I use FNG and have for a while now. Of course it takes root to get rid of the navbar.