Hi,
I have a wierd issue, recently noticed that none of my application injected context menu (menu that appears when you long press an application icon) is visible.
The standard menu option such as 'App Info' , and 'Uuinstall' are available. But things like 'My Apps' in Google Play or 'New Tab' in Chrome are not available. None of my apps have this app specific menus.
I am sure it was there for a long time and I lost it now for all apps. Looks like something changed in a Android wide setting.
I am on Pixel Experience Oreo ROM, could you please help me bring it back.
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I just installed a ROM (Senseless ROM 1.1) and I'm liking it a lot. But I noticed something odd when pressing and holding the "home" key to bring up the "recent apps" list. Every few minutes the oldest items drop off the end of the list.
So initially maybe I have 4 apps in the list, then after a while of switching between apps 1 and 2, suddenly there are only 3 apps in the list, then 2. And eventually it even drops down to 0 so the app I'm currently running isn't even in the list. Does the stock phone do this too and I only just now noticed it or is this feature only an issue with my particular ROM? What aspect of android controls the app switcher (if that's what it's called).
I'm using launcher-pro if it matters, and I haven't installed any task switchers from the market. I might consider getting one of the market task switchers as a decent workaround, but I'm not necessarily keen on the interface they all seem to use (tap home -> task switcher; tap home twice -> home screen of your launcher that you would otherwise get to with a single tap).
I haven't yet found any settings for controlling the app switcher. Are there any, and where do they live?
I almost can't imagine that this is an intentional design feature of the "recent app" history, but after an LED "notification" light that turns off after 5 minutes, anything is possible.
For what it's worth I started using the market app "PreHome" as a task switcher and am finding it a good replacement for the default. Now I just hit [home] once to bring up the PreHome app which maintains a good history, and never use the hold [home] to get the default android task history.
Oddly enough I haven't been able to reproduce the original problem I had reported, even when I do use the default switcher for a while.
I knew this would happen.. as soon as I reported that it wasn't reproducing anymore I started hitting the problem again. At least the part where semi-old items start dropping off the history list. I still haven't yet reproduce a history list containing 0 items.
Browsing the web seems to be the most reliable way to make older apps fall off the end of the list. Specifically I was browsing m.zedge.net listening to ringtones.
Anyway the only new news is that when an item drops out of the traditional app history list, it also dropped out of the PreHome app's list.
I just installed the stock deodexed Jelly Bean ROM and I've run into a weird problem. I have GMail, Facebook, Evernote, etc installed, but they don't show up as options in the 'Share via' menu in Chrome and other apps. All I get in the 'Share via' menu are four options: Astrid Tasks, Bluetooth, chomp SMS, and Dropbox. I've tried reinstalling Chrome and the various other apps that I would like to have in the menu, but no luck. All apps show up just fine in the Gallery app's 'Share' menu, but I think that menu is specific to Gallery since it's an HTC app, not a native Android app. Anyone know how to edit the "Share via" menu or how I can get these missing options to show up?
its now a scrollable menu, should be able to scroll up and down.
steal25 said:
its now a scrollable menu, should be able to scroll up and down.
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Wow. I can't believe how dumb I am. I was going through the XML files, looking for where the share menu config settings might be. It simply didn't occur to me that the menu might be scrollable since it occupied such a small portion of the screen. D'oh. Thanks a million.
In any case, I did find an app with a good workaround for my non-existent problem:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andmadesoft.share&hl=en
The purpose of this app is that it lets you replace the standard share menu with a customizable share menu in which you can select multiple sharing options at once.
steal25 said:
its now a scrollable menu, should be able to scroll up and down.
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Wow, I am an idiot.
Hello,
The phones from Samsung, and a lot of other android phones as well, have a hardware module test. When in the dialer, you pres *#0*# for a menu to pop up. In this menu there are several tests to be done. My question is fairly simple. I'm searching for a way to make a shortcut to those test. So not the hardware module test menu, but specifically a test, let say the LED test.
I've two devices. A rooted Tab S (without dialer app) and a S7. When I'm on my Tab S, and make a shortcut in my launcher for an activity, I can scroll down to HwModuleTest and select a ton of activities ( see screenshot), but when I click on it, it says that the application is not installed. On my S7 I tried doing the same, but I didn't get as much options as on my Tab S, but if i choose the main activity, it also says application not installed.
Question: Is there another way to make this shortcut (WITHOUT ROOT)-or-is there a way to monitor all the activities the phone has. That way I can see what specific activity the HwModuleTest uses to peform these tests.
My gratitude will be great.
When I swipe either the right or left side of the screen I get this menu that pops up, it consists of a Google search bar, common apps, recent apps, settings shortcuts and an annoying ad. Is there a way to disable this? This is basically a brand new G5 with no custom launchers or anything like that.
Thanks-
Dan
I think that's a third party app. Can´t remember the name. But you should be able to uninstall it.
I don't see anything unfamiliar in my list of apps?
I did download the LG Home 4.0 app and install it. Maybe its part of that?
It's not part of LG Home, it's definitely a third party app especially given its ads for other software. Perhaps it was synced with your other apps or installed unintentionally some other way.
App drawer may not show all apps. Try to check Play Store > Sidebar > My Apps and Games > Installed tab to see if it synced an older app perhaps. To find a more comprehensive app listing, go to Settings > Apps > Select "All Apps" from the drop-down menu. Review that list carefully. Alternatively, you may try downloading a dedicated app-management app (e.g. AppMgr III) off the Play Store.
I found it! It was installed as part of ES File Explorer, it's a "feature" called ES Swipe. Its annoying and now it's gone....
Its an app I think called swipe it gets installed with ads, u can uninstall it ..
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Sorry in lack of a proper definition- how are the apps shown in the recent apps menu called (when pressing recent apps button on the bottom) and even more important- how to customize these, none of them appear to be useful to me except settings maybe.
Edit: after some more investigation I found out it seems to be the same apps list the smart bulletin uses, but still no idea how to edit it.
To answer this question myself after some days of usage, for anyone that is maybe interested - this appears to be some "most used" or "most recently used" app list- however, the way this is determined remains a riddle to me, since those are definitely not the apps I use the most. Oh well.