I liked the software navigation bar on my previous Honor 7. The 5.2 large display was just small enough to comfortably use the phone one handed. I find the HW home and navigation buttons on the Honor 9 to far away so I need to reposition the phone in my hand which is very uncomfortable. I know Huawei P10 has the option to enable the SW navigation bar. Any possibility the navigation bar will be also available on H9? I do not want to root the phone just because of this (and loose the possibility to update over OTA).
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I've been using AOSP roms on various phones for quite some time and have gotten hooked on using my phone in full screen while using PIE to navigate. Especially on a large phone i find this so so so much easier. Here are some tips i found out through trial and error to what i've found is an awesome experience. I'm using a rooted NF50F which makes doing this easier, though it still can be accomplished unrooted
1. To navigate around your phone use the best Pie application out there imo which is supported on these forums as well LMT
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1330150
this app is so great because of how you can customize it. there are other non root alternatives in the play store but this is the best imo if you have root.
2. fully hide the navigation bar so it never pops up - this is the only way you can use LMT on the bottom of your phone which is excellent for one handed browsing. to do this you need to add the following line to the build.prop and the nav bar is gone forever even after reboots
qemu.hw.mainkeys=1
add this line to the bottom of your build prop and save. if you ever want the keys back change the number to 0.
3. use the app SystemUI Tuner to hide the status bar. go under the immersive mode tab and select status bar. Note - you can also hide the nav bar with this app, but it is not fully hidden as it still appears with any upward swipe.
4. I turn edge lighting on so i see notifications when my phone is on. i don't want the entire message shown on my screen so edge lighting works great for me and is a great feature of this phone. you can even get edge lighting working with gmail. i also use textra pro for texting.
there are different ways to make your phone truly immersive including Xposed but if you don't want to used Xposed this is the best solution IMO.
other recommended apps:
Light Flow - to customize your led notification light
bx actions - https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...-bxactions-remap-bixby-button-double-t3673372
material notification shade - can auto expand all notifications and get dark notifications
autonotifications - you can add more buttons to gmail like mark as read, spam, etc
I moved from the V30 that had this feature therefore giving me the bottom screen but I couldn't find it on the V60. Any ideas?
If you're talking about using gestures only then: settings, display, navigation bar. then you have a choice for:
Gestures
Buttons only
selecting Gestures removes the navigation buttons
And if you're not happy with Android 10's stock navigation gestures, you can download some replacements.
On my LG V30, which at the time was still stuck on Android 8 and lacked any kind of baked-in gestures, I was using Magisk Root + Fluid Navigation Gestures to give my phone fantastic and customizable navigation gestures AND hide the Navigation Bar.
I've since installed FNG on my LG V60 and used Fastboot and ADB commands to grant it the permissions it needs to hide the Navigation Bar. It works just as well as it did on my rooted LG V30+!
I will try the external app but what I miss from the V30 is I used to have a small white dot in the button bar which I do not see on this phone, I do not care about gestures much since I am using the Nova laucher.
Hi - my tablet upgraded yesterday to One UI 2.1. I use my tablet to play games frequently and the now the navigation bar is activated differently while doing so. Before the update I had full screen gestures enabled so that when I was playing games I could just single swipe the bottom area of the screen to perform navigation functions. There were no hints or symbols. After the update with the same settings... when i swipe the same area the first swipe brings up a small navigation bar (as well as notification bar at top) and then I have to swipe again for the navigation result. It's like the have the navigation bar on auto hide like a Windows task bar.
I was really used to the single swipe gesture in these games so am looking for a way to get back to that if possible. It appears that in the android interface and other apps it works as it used to. It is only in games that it now acts different. I checked my "game booster" settings and couldn't see anything different.
Thanks in advance!
More specifically, when I use VLC to watch a video, the navigation bar is minimized, and I have to tap the screen for it to re-appear. I was wondering if there was a way to always keep it in its position, where no app will minimize it. I have already installed the Nav Bar application to customize its colour and some of its behaviour. However, I can't seem to find a modification for the navigation bar to do exactly what I want. I want the navigation bar always to be present because I have dead pixels in the bottom left corner of the screen. By keeping the navigation bar black and always on, I will never notice the dead pixels.
Hello! I'm just wondering if anyone has come across any compatible apps for tweaking gestures and the notification center on the Surface Duo?
Thanks!
FYI for those looking, FNG works well enough with left/right edge gestures. Can't seem to override bottom gestures, even when rooting and removing the 3-button bar.
Mii control center works well for notification replacement, if you set the icons to be x by 6, so that the division down the middle doesn't cut in