I like to hide my navigation buttons to take advantage of the entire screen. I've been using J Touch as my navigation, swipe up for recent apps, left to go back, down for notifications, and double tap for home.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bs.smarttouch.gp
I've also tried Foo view but didn't like that I couldn't map swipe up to something else besides the apps settings.
Anyone use anything similar, or some type of gesture app for navigation?
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This is really good, thanks for mentioning it.
I'm using a fingerprint app that reads a registered finger as back and an unregistered finger as home. Haven't come up with a good way to do recents though....
MaxusValtron said:
I'm using a fingerprint app that reads a registered finger as back and an unregistered finger as home. Haven't come up with a good way to do recents though....
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That sounds great for any phone with the FPS on the back... what is the app called?
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That sounds great for any phone with the FPS on the back... what is the app called?
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Weirdly, it's actually a component of a larger app called "Gravity Screen", made to turn your screen on/off automatically when it goes into your pocket or a table. It has a separate part for fingerprint gestures and they seem to work really well, so that's what I've been using.
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That sounds great for any phone with the FPS on the back... what is the app called?
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There is an app called Finger Scanner Gestures that adds similar functionality
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Touch Blocker Beta - a simple but useful app that makes holding and using your device easier
There are two basic functions:
- create dead zones where touches do not register
- filter the screen when reading in low light
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Where can we use it for?
Eh? Im not sure i understand...
Just installed it, amazing app, i was actually looking for something like this yesterday! I wanted a way to lock my screen while watching movies so I wouldn't exit fullscreen mode accidentally.
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Zephyrot said:
Just installed it, amazing app, i was actually looking for something like this yesterday! I wanted a way to lock my screen while watching movies so I wouldn't exit fullscreen mode accidentally.
Thanks!
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Great! Any suggestions?
What would be some good other uses for this besides movies?
Downloading now. I imagine this ould be used to block palm detection for drawing like on Sketchbook Pro and the sort. I'll edit this after a review. Thanks for the opportunity.
What? Palm detection? I think it will only work on a few devices...
I wish I could use this for the soft keys on the navigation bar. It would really help cause I'm left handed (I keep hitting the back/home keys by mistake when I'm writing on my Prime).
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Great! Any suggestions?
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OK after using it today, i found it pretty straightforward and simple to use.
Found only one small bug,when playing a video, on YouTube, stock player or whatever, if you touch the screen the on-screen controls jump on, you cannot press them, but the UI do popup.
And one suggestion, the resizeable square where you select the zone to be blocked from touches should have at least a small pad or something to drag it. Once the square reaches the borders it gets really hard to pick again.
trita629 said:
I wish I could use this for the soft keys on the navigation bar. It would really help cause I'm left handed (I keep hitting the back/home keys by mistake when I'm writing on my Prime).
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On the latest ICS update. Go to settings/ASUS customized settings/system bar lock/enable system bar lock. Now you won't hit the home key or any softkey buttons.
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jjdevega said:
On the latest ICS update. Go to settings/ASUS customized settings/system bar lock/enable system bar lock. Now you won't hit the home key or any softkey buttons.
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Oh wow.. That's very handy. Thank you
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Downloading now. I imagine this ould be used to block palm detection for drawing like on Sketchbook Pro and the sort. I'll edit this after a review. Thanks for the opportunity.
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I don't think it can be used for that. You could use TouchScreenTune app, paid version can handle palm detection on our device.
This app is for blocking areas of the screen.
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A new release is imminent!
1.0.2.8
New configuration interface
Split shake and notification controls
Fixed many minor bugs from the logs
Any issues to report?
Anything to report?
Any issues or suggestions?
i have not tried it yet but i will be trying it out soon.
just thought with AOSP rom hitting our forum and loosing a lot of spen functions this would come in handy.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmdtZC5zcGVuY29udHJvbCJd
i will report back after i play with it a bit.
i take no credit in finding this app. a fellow member (guthrien) turned me on to it. THANKS
I have this app and love it. Even on tw ROMs I like it cause I have a bunch of gestures set up. No more gesture to get a box to gesture bs. It also has 5 launch pads, one center and one from each edge of the screen. Got my bottom launchpad set up like I had my nav bar set on my galaxy nexus. It does still have some conflicting issues with default s pen functions, like the default swipe from edge of screen to switch to next app makes it take a screenshot to draw on, but I solved that by turning them off and creating my own gesture to switch app. The dev is always quick to respond and says he is working on solving the conflicting issues but i use his guesture app for my tablet and have have a few conversations with him and was helpful.I highly recommend the app..
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I have this app and love it. Even on tw ROMs I like it cause I have a bunch of gestures set up. No more gesture to get a box to gesture bs. It also has 5 launch pads, one center and one from each edge of the screen. Got my bottom launchpad set up like I had my nav bar set on my galaxy nexus. It does still have some conflicting issues with default s pen functions, like the default swipe from edge of screen to switch to next app makes it take a screenshot to draw on, but I solved that by turning them off and creating my own gesture to switch app. The dev is always quick to respond and says he is working on solving the conflicting issues but i use his guesture app for my tablet and have have a few conversations with him and was helpful.I highly recommend the app..
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Tapn from the 4TH dimension........ Where their are no i-phones!!!!!!
Okay I'll just ask here....how do you gesture anyway...the only 2 that work for me are the back arrow and up arrow for menu. .what's this box you speak of?
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Okay I'll just ask here....how do you gesture anyway...the only 2 that work for me are the back arrow and up arrow for menu. .what's this box you speak of?
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The box he is referring to is when you hold button on spen and draw a line straight up. A quick comand box pops up. There is only a few gestures anyway witch is why you need this app. You can set a gesture for anything
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The bow he is referring to is when you hold button on spen and draw a line straight up. A quick com and box pops up. There is only a few gestures anyway witch is why you need this app. You can set a gesture for anything
Tapn from the 4TH dimension........ Where their are no i-phones!!!!!!
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Sweet action. Thanks.
Just bought this app, to be honest this is how spen should have been.
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icedventimocha said:
Just bought this app, to be honest this is how spen should have been.
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hi
I would like to know if is there app to Magnifying the phone screen ??
it will do follow the finger on screen with small box with Magnify
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You can toggle Magnifying Gestures in Accessibility settings. It's available in JB+ only.
GermainZ said:
You can toggle Magnifying Gestures in Accessibility settings. It's available in JB+ only.
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yes but I am disabled guy and I can't use no more 1 finger unfortunately. .
carlo67 said:
yes but I am disabled guy and I can't use no more 1 finger unfortunately. .
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One finger's enough, you just need to tap thrice quickly after enabling Magnification Gestures. It'll be harder to move, though, but you can zoom in/out.
I'm not aware of any app that provides magnification.
I posted this on the ZTE Community forums, and thought I'd add it here as well.
The notification bell on the lockscreen is a major annoyance for many of us. I was looking for some other way to manage this, but lockscreen widget apps don't work, and most lockscreen apps don't support the fingerprint reader, Smart Lock, or double tap to wake. After reading a lot of reviews, I'm cautiously optimistic about Next Lock Screen, an Android app by Microsoft, of all things! This app sort of runs "on top" of/with your built in lockscreen. It shows the notifications, right there, no bell, and it still works with the fingerprint reader and the double tap to wake feature on my ZTE Axon 7. It claims to still work with Smart Lock, but I haven't been able to try that yet.
Google Play Store Link: Next Lock Screen - Android Apps on Google Play
In the Next Lock Screen settings, set the "Screen Lock" option to "System" to keep your double tap to wake, fingerprint, PIN, etc. just as you already have them. If you do this, you will still get a glimpse of your old ZTE lockscreen now and then, when you try to go into the Next Lock Screen settings, and it shows you the ZTE screen and makes you fingerprint scan before changing settings.
The Next Lock Screen is not quite as fast as the ZTE Lockscreen, so you glimpse it briefly before your homescreen, when the device unlocks.
I like the app that you suggest, but is there a way to keep showing ZTE wallpapers? ZTEs setup keeps changing wallpapers everytime the screen wakes up. I kinda like the feature. I know the Next Lock Screen app has a similar feature with Bing wallpapers, but that is only once per day.
I've been using Next for the past week to get around the bell and it works quite well - especially with the fingerprint sensor. Very surprised that it took MS to make a very useful and intuitive lockscreen for Android. Of course, I'd rather have pure Android instead of an app work around.
That bell is truly a feature that i dont understand. So, si annoying and stupid.
Thanks for this but I'm gonna try the root way first
There's a way to remove it with root?
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toyanucci said:
There's a way to remove it with root?
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I was about to ask the same thing :highfive:
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I was about to ask the same thing :highfive:
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Basically any 3rd party lockscreen, like Next, AcDisplay, Ambient display, etc, will disable the stock lockscreen when the 3rd party app takes control. It's a work-around. People probably want some kind of interaction from the lockscreen anyway, and this is a way to get rid of the stupid bell and get that interactive display at the same time.
Edit: I missed the post before yours. I do hope that someone creates an option in settings on a future ROM to disable it directly though. After root and bootloader unlock of course.
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Basically any 3rd party lockscreen, like Next, AcDisplay, Ambient display, etc, will disable the stock lockscreen when the 3rd party app takes control. It's a work-around. People probably want some kind of interaction from the lockscreen anyway, and this is a way to get rid of the stupid bell and get that interactive display at the same time.
Edit: I missed the post before yours. I do hope that someone creates an option in settings on a future ROM to disable it directly though. After root and bootloader unlock of course.
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or just shout about it loud enough at ZTEs, so that they will make it an optional feature in coming updates... there is a bunch of optimal features they should integrate:
- optional bell on lockscreen
- optional on-screen buttons (as chinese 6gb versions have already)
- optional black/dark theme (specially with that amoled display)
... will tell more when I got the phone :silly:
I kind of defeated the bell using Tasker to simulate a touch right where the bell is. Unfortunately it simulates a touch even when I use the finger print. Not really sure which is more annoying, the bell or having a touch in the upper left every time the screen comes on. That's how ****ing annoying this bell is.
xgerryx said:
Basically any 3rd party lockscreen, like Next, AcDisplay, Ambient display, etc, will disable the stock lockscreen when the 3rd party app takes control. It's a work-around. People probably want some kind of interaction from the lockscreen anyway, and this is a way to get rid of the stupid bell and get that interactive display at the same time.
Edit: I missed the post before yours. I do hope that someone creates an option in settings on a future ROM to disable it directly though. After root and bootloader unlock of course.
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How's that a root workaround? The method you described can be used without root as well and the problem with it is that it doesn't support the fingerprint scanner.
Does anyone have a stock android lockscreen app so I can install is as a system app and delete ZTE one? Thanks
JohnnyHempseed said:
I've been using Next for the past week to get around the bell and it works quite well - especially with the fingerprint sensor. Very surprised that it took MS to make a very useful and intuitive lockscreen for Android. Of course, I'd rather have pure Android instead of an app work around.
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Are you able to use fingerprint with NEXT and the stock lockscreen disabled? For some reason the only way I can use fingerprint is if I have both lockscreens enabled at the same time.
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Are you able to use fingerprint with NEXT and the stock lockscreen disabled? For some reason the only way I can use fingerprint is if I have both lockscreens enabled at the same time.
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No, only with both on. It's slightly annoying, but less annoying than the bell.
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No, only with both on. It's slightly annoying, but less annoying than the bell.
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Yes I agree!:good:
Can someone please make an xposed mode or something similar for those who have root and would like to keep the stock lock screen? I imagine it's not that difficult of a task, but I have little to no skills when it comes to coding so can't make anything like that ? Thank you
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I like the app that you suggest, but is there a way to keep showing ZTE wallpapers? ZTEs setup keeps changing wallpapers everytime the screen wakes up. I kinda like the feature. I know the Next Lock Screen app has a similar feature with Bing wallpapers, but that is only once per day.
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Sadly, I think you're limited to setting one wallpaper or using the Bing wallpapers.
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I kind of defeated the bell using Tasker to simulate a touch right where the bell is. Unfortunately it simulates a touch even when I use the finger print. Not really sure which is more annoying, the bell or having a touch in the upper left every time the screen comes on. That's how ****ing annoying this bell is.
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Still, that was rather clever of you. :good:
I figured out how to have the bell auto open with Tasker. I uploaded the two profiles that are needed to do this. Probably not the most elegant Tasker work but meh it works. This works by simulating a touch where the bell is when you are on the lock screen but not when you use finger print unlock.
Looks like you need root for this.
To import: Save xmls to /sdcard/tasker/profiles
Load up tasker and long press profiles and hit "import".
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I figured out how to have the bell auto open with Tasker. I uploaded the two profiles that are needed to do this. Probably not the most elegant Tasker work but meh it works. This works by simulating a touch where the bell is when you are on the lock screen but not when you use finger print unlock.
Looks like you need root for this.
To import: Save xmls to /sdcard/tasker/profiles
Load up tasker and long press profiles and hit "import".
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I can confirm that this works for me as well. Thank You.
This profile works without root to auto hit the bell and is much faster than my other one. You need tasker and autoinput.
runderekrun said:
This profile works without root to auto hit the bell and is much faster than my other one. You need tasker and autoinput.
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How does one set this up?
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)
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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?
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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)
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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)
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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.