Settings --> Display --> Home Screen - why is it dimmed out? - Samsung Galaxy S9+ Questions & Answers

I just installed VLC on my new S9+ and the "Home Screen" and "Back" buttons are on the right hand side when in landscape mode (On my Tab S6 the buttons always stay on the bottom of the screen no matter what the orientation).
I thought this could be changed in settings but was surprised to see Settings --> Display --> Home Screen option dimmed out and not selectable.
Am I missing something?

Sorry I missedread your question.
I don't think this is possible. Navigation bar kn the bottom I believe is only possible for tablets. Just checked on my S10 and S9+ and there is no setting changing this or at least I was not able to find it.
Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk

Kruk07 said:
Sorry I missedread your question.
I don't think this is possible. Navigation bar kn the bottom I believe is only possible for tablets. Just checked on my S10 and S9+ and there is no setting changing this or at least I was not able to find it.
Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try Settings/Display/Navigation Bar
and scroll to the bottom

Reginard said:
Try Settings/Display/Navigation Bar
and scroll to the bottom
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
that only allows you to change the order of the buttons

Related

Gestures?

Is there a guide to basic gestures on TS2?
I have a lot of troble going BACK - Is it right to left or some type of diagonal gesture? I figured out the bottom left to top right brings up the menu mostly. Anything else?
Also, how the heck do you change the VOLUME of the external speaker?
Tones2 said:
Also, how the heck do you change the VOLUME of the external speaker?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
settings -device- audio profiles-generel sttings. its a pain in the ass
Tones2 said:
Also, how the heck do you change the VOLUME of the external speaker?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Settings...Audio Profiles...click the little weird icon to the right of "general" ...choose "volumes" and its in there.
Thanks. So can anyone tell me how to "officially" gesture to go the the previous screen?
Swipe left from the bezel on the right straight across the display.
sent from my note 3 running beans.
dragonfly1113 said:
Swipe left from the bezel on the right straight across the display.
sent from my note 3 running beans.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks. That's what I have been doing but it works like 20% of the time. It seems like going from the right upper corner down to the lower left corner works better, not sure why.
So hw do I get quickly get back to the "Home" screen in the stock Launcher from other pages in the launcher?
Press the Home button, down under the camera ?
If you long press that button it brings up the task list.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
I've figured out a swipe to the right from the left bezel activates the menu button if available.
speedyink said:
I've figured out a swipe to the right from the left bezel activates the menu button if available.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Daniel made a manual which I wish I'd read before trying to figure everything out. You may have to log in to google to load the pdf
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bxmcjxk_EtPSRmwyRnNIVWVXbkU/edit?hl=en-US&forcehl=1
--
Hey now, that's handy to have!
I'd also recommend getting a third party gesture application. I use the paid version of gmd gesture control and have diagonal swipes configured for volume and a few other shortcuts. There is also a recommended free module for xposed framework called all in one gestures.

[Q] HOW to disable this S6 edge feature?

My device is S6 edge tmobile. There is a circle setting button always showed up when some app's open. It''s totally useless and sometime makes the screen not working. I know some Tom disable this feature but I just want to know how to do that. Screen shot is here. Anyone knows how ?
Michael_Meng said:
My device is S6 edge tmobile. There is a circle setting button always showed up when some app's open. It''s totally useless and sometime makes the screen not working. I know some Tom disable this feature but I just want to know how to do that. Screen shot is here. Anyone knows how ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Tools toggle -swipe down, uncheck tools toggle.
S6 only has 3 buttons. Multi tasking, home and back.. Android has a 4th button for settings and the floating 3 dots is the 4th buttons and only appears when an app has it in its code for the 4 settings button.
Other android phones that have on screen buttons also has this as part of the navigation
freaksamael said:
Tools toggle -swipe down, uncheck tools toggle.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you for the reply man. But I really dont get you. Can you explain it more specifically? I cant find the seeting of the tools toggle...
Ronaldo_9 said:
S6 only has 3 buttons. Multi tasking, home and back.. Android has a 4th button for settings and the floating 3 dots is the 4th buttons and only appears when an app has it in its code for the 4 settings button.
Other android phones that have on screen buttons also has this as part of the navigation
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you for.the reply man. But you get me wrong. What I am trying to disable is the button that flaoting when some apps open. You see that small wite button at left corner of the snapshort?
Michael_Meng said:
Thank you for.the reply man. But you get me wrong. What I am trying to disable is the button that flaoting when some apps open. You see that small wite button at left corner of the snapshort?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Are you sure you don't mean the white circle with 3 dots on the right of the screen
Yeah I mean it.. Sorry. But I know some rom can disable it. like VN 3.0. This button really buzzy me.
It's part of Lollipop for apps that haven't updated to the fact phones don't have hard menu button. App needs to be updated by Dev.
Sent from my SM-G925F using Tapatalk
Not possible
This button acts as a replacement for the hardware menu button on older devices.
thats the menu button

Disabling navbar

Is there a way to disable the navbar and not just hide it? I want to be able to use gestures without having the navbar appearing when I swipe from the bottom.
sgdeux said:
Is there a way to disable the navbar and not just hide it? I want to be able to use gestures without having the navbar appearing when I swipe from the bottom.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
install Nova Launcher 5.2
Clearly not what he's looking for. Currently there's no option to disable it altogether globally. Only option to hide it on a per app basis, which not all apps support.
cazcryy said:
Clearly not what he's looking for. Currently there's no option to disable it altogether globally. Only option to hide it on a per app basis, which not all apps support.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It should be what he's looking for. He may not be aware of launchers. Who uses the stock launcher?
Wotta said:
It should be what he's looking for. He may not be aware of launchers. Who uses the stock launcher?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Because this has nothing to do with disabling the navbar which is what he asked for.
cazcryy said:
Because this has nothing to do with disabling the navbar which is what he asked for.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
He may not understand all the distinctions.
Wotta said:
He may not understand all the distinctions.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I was looking for a way to completely disable it but I don't think it's possible without root. I enabled expended mode via ADB but my ultimate goal was to not make it appear when I scroll up from the bottom so I can use apps such as all in one gesture
There are some ways, but i guess they all need root. there is an xposed module : xposed edge pro, that can remove the navbar. or you can change the build.prop hw.mainkeys=1
i did that but the thing is when you completely remove the navbar every app that is not set to 18:9 scaling will not load. just give a black screen. that is not a problem as you can just switch all apps to 18:9 scaling in settings. except some few system dialogs that will not show anymore like the longpress menu when e.g. clicking on a link in chrome or on a message to copy it.
iv been on that issue for a long time now. it is definitely related with completely removing the navbar as the system then does not scale some screens accordingly anymore.
i tried the build.prop, whereas there are more settings related with the screen and ratio (ro.lge.app_scaling=1) (ro.lge.aspect.ratio=18:9) and (qemu.hw.mainkeys=1) i dont know what the first two settings really do but i tried different settings
then there is the possibility via the xposed edge app, which does not change the build.prop. so it hast to change it in some other way, i dont know.
and i found a thread to change scaling via the service menu *#546368#*930# -svc menu -force long display mode -on from this thread.
ive tried all different settings combined in different ways and was not able to remove the navbar without that problem.
if anybody has more knowledge i would be glad to have some help
cheers DK
Wotta said:
It should be what he's looking for. He may not be aware of launchers. Who uses the stock launcher?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Wotta said:
He may not understand all the distinctions.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Agreed. I had an issue with the nav bar NOT appearing when I wanted. It kept disappearing in my corporate email and I had to force it up from the bottom to appear. I was puzzled, why is this happening only with this app? I finally figured out how to go into the nav bar settings and disable that for that app. For some reason that app (called Nine) was enabled to hide the nav bar.
I have the opposite problem. Except for when I'm watching videos, I do want to see the nav bar. This screen is tall enough that I don't need a totally "immersive" experience just reading email or looking at news articles.
And I use Nova launcher, of course. Who uses stock launcher?
There's this guide for a galaxy S8 but I haven't gotten it to work on my V30. I don't know if APKs are device specific or should work for all android devices. I have also been looking for a way to disable my nav bar.
ww w.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS8/comments/7e7bq0/how_to_completely_disable_the_navbar_and_use/
just delete the spaces in the middle of www, xda wouldn't let me add a link as a new user
ChazzMatt said:
And I use Nova launcher, of course. Who uses stock launcher?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Nobody. Except launchers still have nothing to do with what OP was looking for. I switch between Nova and action launcher and would recommend them to anyone not using as well, just baffled that he asked how to disable navbar entirely and the answer was install Nova...followed by the assertion that he needs to be told this even though its not what he asked and there was nothing to suggest he's not already using a 3rd party launcher
ktb147 said:
There's this guide for a galaxy S8 but I haven't gotten it to work on my V30. I don't know if APKs are device specific or should work for all android devices. I have also been looking for a way to disable my nav bar.
ww w.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS8/comments/7e7bq0/how_to_completely_disable_the_navbar_and_use/
just delete the spaces in the middle of www, xda wouldn't let me add a link as a new user
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Tried the apk. Does not work on v30
Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
Yeah didn't work for me either. I was hoping APKs were universal to Android.
It seems like there are ways to disable the nav bar without rooting the phone but not yet for the V30. I saw some forums on the OnPlus 5T mentioning some apps that would do it but they didn't exist in my play store for some reason
ktb147 said:
Yeah didn't work for me either. I was hoping APKs were universal to Android.
It seems like there are ways to disable the nav bar without rooting the phone but not yet for the V30. I saw some forums on the OnPlus 5T mentioning some apps that would do it but they didn't exist in my play store for some reason
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you could post the links, we could try to find them.
Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
I solved the issue
You can allow specific apps to hide the navbar, or there is a universal as well. It can be found in setting/display/Home Touch Buttons
Posi63 said:
You can allow specific apps to hide the navbar, or there is a universal as well. It can be found in setting/display/Home Touch Buttons
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, I turned that off as soon as I could find it.
Sent via open market LG US998 V30/V30+
Posi63 said:
You can allow specific apps to hide the navbar, or there is a universal as well. It can be found in setting/display/Home Touch Buttons
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ChazzMatt said:
Yeah, I turned that off as soon as I could find it.
Sent via open market LG US998 V30/V30+
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I found how to hide the nav bar for specific apps months ago (and indeed have all of the available apps flicked to off), but I cannot find the universal switch anywhere. Where exactly is it?
Under Settings/Display/Home Touch Buttons, I only see three options: Button combination, Color, and Hide Home Touch Buttons.
The Hide Home Touch Buttons screen is the one I found months ago, but I don't see a universal switch there.
Thanks.
Mejilan said:
I found how to hide the nav bar for specific apps months ago (and indeed have all of the available apps flicked to off), but I cannot find the universal switch anywhere. Where exactly is it?
Under Settings/Display/Home Touch Buttons, I only see three options: Button combination, Color, and Hide Home Touch Buttons.
The Hide Home Touch Buttons screen is the one I found months ago, but I don't see a universal switch there.
Thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
For me, when I go to Home Touch Buttons in settings and click "Hide Home Touch Buttons" it gives me a list for every app where I can toggle to hide the home buttons. There's also a toggle option at the top of this page that says "Lock/hide icon" -- that's the universal button.
Though this doesn't hide the home buttons on the home screen for me. Does it hide them on the home screen for anyone else? I can't figure out how to do that and my Nova launcher prime doesn't have the option.
ktb147 said:
For me, when I go to Home Touch Buttons in settings and click "Hide Home Touch Buttons" it gives me a list for every app where I can toggle to hide the home buttons. There's also a toggle option at the top of this page that says "Lock/hide icon" -- that's the universal button.
Though this doesn't hide the home buttons on the home screen for me. Does it hide them on the home screen for anyone else? I can't figure out how to do that and my Nova launcher prime doesn't have the option.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thought that was just the icon that shows up on the left-hand side of the nav bar when in an app where the nav bar can be hidden.
That's not a universal on/off switch for the nav bar system-wide, is it?
Mejilan said:
Thought that was just the icon that shows up on the left-hand side of the nav bar when in an app where the nav bar can be hidden.
That's not a universal on/off switch for the nav bar system-wide, is it?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ohhh I think you're right. I guess I don't know where the universal button is either.

multi windows options not showing on PIE (S9+)

Multi windows options not showing on PIE (S9+). After tapping the spacer icon the options are not showing (see screenshots). Any suggestions?
The multi windows options are explained here: https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00079048/
Yes I notice it. U have to do it the other way... Not sure why they remove it
They changed it a bit..
When your in recent apps there is a symbol that appears at the top of the app. Pressing that will show a menu, one of the options is "open in split screen view".
This is how you now access the feature. I attached a screen shot of the settings app showing the respective symbol. Yellow arrow points to the symbol you want to press (symbol will vary pending on the app).
scottusa2008 said:
They changed it a bit..
When your in recent apps there is a symbol that appears at the top of the app. Pressing that will show a menu, one of the options is "open in split screen view".
This is how you now access the feature. I attached a screen shot of the settings app showing the respective symbol. Yellow arrow points to the symbol you want to press (symbol will vary pending on the app).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for this. I was slightly confused at first, it might be easier for people to understand to say that the app's icon appears at the top of the app in the recents screen, and tapping that icon gives you the options for the app, like split screen, pop-up view etc ?
I want to creat a 'icon pair on the home screen' that option is missing from the new menu. Thats my real question. Sorry about asking it in two steps
You can creat an icon pair in the edge screen but it will not appear on the home screen. Any ideas?
pa.dieteren said:
I want to creat a 'icon pair on the home screen' that option is missing from the new menu. Thats my real question. Sorry about asking it in two steps
You can creat an icon pair in the edge screen but it will not appear on the home screen. Any ideas?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I tried it and I couldn't get it to work either, though I haven't used the feature before so I never created an app pair on my home screen. It maybe something they changed and now is (or with one UI maybe only ever was) available from the edge panel.
Update - Checking the users manual (for our phone with Android Pie) indicates the only way to natively create an app pair now is via the Edge Panel.
scottusa2008 said:
I tried it and I couldn't get it to work either, though I haven't used the feature before so I never created an app pair on my home screen. It maybe something they changed and now is (or with one UI maybe only ever was) available from the edge panel.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There is an apk called split-screen creator in the play store that allows you to create shortcuts that can be placed on the home screen.

Icons style

Is there anyway to change the icons style from the Xperia Home launcher?
I want to see the icons as they are not contained in a circle. Is there anywhere you can change this? Without installing another launcher.
Thanks
You can change the outline in launcher settings to square, teardrop, squircle etc.
augie7107 said:
You can change the outline in launcher settings to square, teardrop, squircle etc.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the quick reply. Can you please point me where are these settings located?
On the home screen I can access home settings where I cannot find anything related to launcher. In the settings I cannot find anything related to Launcher
Long press on home screen and hit "Home Settings"
augie7107 said:
Long press on home screen and hit "Home Settings"
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have only the following
Show Google App
Notifications Dots
Add icon to Home screen
Allow Home screen rotation
Show quick search box
The only configurable option from the list above is the "Notifications dots" which don't have anything to do with the launcher settings
cynk42 said:
I have only the following
Show Google App
Notifications Dots
Add icon to Home screen
Allow Home screen rotation
Show quick search box
The only configurable option from the list above is the "Notifications dots" which don't have anything to do with the launcher settings
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have change icon shape when I go into home settings.
Sent from my [device_name] using XDA-Developers Legacy app
SmokyM79 said:
I have change icon shape when I go into home settings.
Sent from my [device_name] using XDA-Developers Legacy app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Maybe I have a different software version(still I've updated it today to the last version) or it's something regional....
It wasn't on the original firmware but came in the first firmware update.
augie7107 said:
It wasn't on the original firmware but came in the first firmware update.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Can you please tell me what software version you currently have?
Mine is 55.0.A.2.278, an update was available yesterday when I got the phone, also what phone version do you have? maybe it's different because the phone versions are different, mine is J9110.
Same firmware and model. Norway regional customization.

Categories

Resources