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new to N7

yay, my dad got my a 32gb for xmas! anywho I'm really liking it and the responsiveness of AOKP so far! i have to say, i had the most frustrating time rooting it though (i'm no noob to rooting anything btw), never had so much trouble. the rootkits weren't able to adb to my tablet and were giving me problems for about 3 hours. i finally said "**** it" i'll just unlock with fastboot and put twrp on it the manual way (which only took about 3 minutes).
anywho! i've been on jelly bean for a few months now on my sprint sgs3 (4.1.2), so i'm not new to jellybean at all. but, i am new to 4.2.1. is that quick settings pulldown thingy new to 4.2.1 or is that nexus 7 feature that most roms have? i find it quite annoying since i usually use my right thumb to pull down the notification bar, but often find myself not reaching far enough left to avoid pulling down the settings bar. are there ROMs that give us the option of moving those settings widgets back to the notification menu or disabling the quick settings menu? im on AOKP and haven't seen it yet.
im really looking forward to trying out all the different roms that are available!

It's new to 4.2.1. Hope you like it.
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Yea, setting up the drivers for it were a *****, had a hard time on two computers at work then used Wug's toolkit and installed the drivers manually. I did have to manually reboot into fastboot to install the drivers and reboot after all the drivers were all installed, but in the end that was the best way I found to do it; had no errors and it did warn that I may have to reboot for all to work correctly.
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redmonke255 said:
It's new to 4.2.1. Hope you like it.
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lol, i wish there was a way to get rid of it! oh well, i'll just have to wait til a dev gets tired of it too lol.

cnstarz said:
lol, i wish there was a way to get rid of it! oh well, i'll just have to wait til a dev gets tired of it too lol.
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Go to the dev section and get the true tablet ui, and flash in custom recovery. The single notification/settimgs bar will be combined again, but at the bottom.
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Welcome to the N7. I personally love the double pull down. Give it some time, it'll grow in you. In FD AFR I have the CM10.1 settings on my Galaxy Nexus to behave the same way. It takes a day or two to get used to it though
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rebel1699 said:
Go to the dev section and get the true tablet ui, and flash in custom recovery. The single notification/settimgs bar will be combined again, but at the bottom.
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cool cool, i'll check it out, thanks!

Welcome to the club
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Paranoid Android New Halo Feature [unreleased]

Heys Peeps,
Check out the new Halo Notification system on Paranoid Android ROM. From the looks of it, it is SWEET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9vlrgCteDac
Takes the Chat Faces of Facebook and integrates to all the notifications
What do you think of it

I think if you get used to it, it will be awesome

WILLI120 said:
I think if you get used to it, it will be awesome
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Yup Even I believe so.. Vanilla androids will be much more cooler with it

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/paranoid-androids-halo-makes-its-first-appearance/
Its out Beta for Nexus devices... Can any PA Devs port it??

Rah0ol said:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/paranoid-androids-halo-makes-its-first-appearance/
Its out Beta for Nexus devices... Can any PA Devs port it??
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We havent received any official PA. What do you think?

072665995 said:
We havent received any official PA. What do you think?
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Yup Agreed on that fact, we dont have an official PA. but I wrote about a port right? We do have a PA port.. Even though its not updated from long..
Just asked here, even as u would see the Halo feature, dont you think its amazing to get it to use?
Same expression I showed too No offence to you

I can't wait for it to come to us and not just Nexus people lol
shalom to you!

Rah0ol said:
Yup Agreed on that fact, we dont have an official PA. but I wrote about a port right? We do have a PA port.. Even though its not updated from long..
Just asked here, even as u would see the Halo feature, dont you think its amazing to get it to use?
Same expression I showed too No offence to you
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I meant the fact that you said PA Devs. We dont have a PA dev for our device and we won't get any because developing jellybean for our legacy device is quite a bit more work than those other devices that support ion natively (Ion is something related to the kernel). And PACman isnt really a PA port Its PACman. Something entirely different. Next level? Possibly

I had mentioned people,.. old one.. but yeah we do have a port ..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1863862
Aint this one??
As I told, never updated, never looked into

Tried halo on my s3. IMO its useless. Facebook chat heads work better
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I want this hot stuff in next pac-man.
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Halo released as app. Says incompatible with IncS.. I tried Market helper to simulate my phone as Nexus 4 and yet it said incompatible.. Can anyone download the app??
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...halo&rdid=com.paranoid.halo&rdot=1&feature=md

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Halo released as app. Says incompatible with IncS.. I tried Market helper to simulate my phone as Nexus 4 and yet it said incompatible.. Can anyone download the app??
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...halo&rdid=com.paranoid.halo&rdot=1&feature=md
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it's not halo, it's a kind of add-on for it. It make an application be persistent in halo so you can launch it anywhere.
Anyway I managed to install it and it works but the app is in the notification bar instead of the halo.
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Carbon rom!

Check goo manager, there are 2 nightlys for carbon rom for our device. Used to run it on the Gnex. Pretty slick features.
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Great find, I wonder when they will post up a thread. Let us know your experience if you try it out!
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Tried nightly 3. Didn't notice any issues at all. The options for carbon seem practically endless.
It's now on nightly 4. He should start a thread to get the word out.
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Yea I tried it too, out just like good olé carbon
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wotandsdwys said:
Check goo manager, there are 2 nightlys for carbon rom for our device. Used to run it on the Gnex. Pretty slick features.
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I'm sure Carbon is a good rom but can anyone give an idea of what it can do that the device cannot do on the stock rom with custom launcher and third party apps? Since the Sprint S4 version does not have it's own changelog (at least I didn't see one) not sure what features are working and what doesn't. Also, don't you lose all the air gestures, eye tracking, etc when going to AOSP rom?

I tried nightly 3 and I kept getting setup wizard fc. do I have to flash an aosp kernel or does it come with one.
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sorryihaveaids said:
I tried nightly 3 and I kept getting setup wizard fc. do I have to flash an aosp kernel or does it come with one.
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you need gapps

opz187 said:
you need gapps
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I had gapps. That was the first thing to fc.should had mention it in my first post.
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CCallahan said:
I'm sure Carbon is a good rom but can anyone give an idea of what it can do that the device cannot do on the stock rom with custom launcher and third party apps? Since the Sprint S4 version does not have it's own changelog (at least I didn't see one) not sure what features are working and what doesn't. Also, don't you lose all the air gestures, eye tracking, etc when going to AOSP rom?
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Yes your going to loose the entire set of unique TW features that come with the S4 - air gestures, smart scroll, etc. A lot of people don't care for those features, me personally, I like to show them off but I don't ever really use them.
A lot of people absolutely despise the TW interface. And yes some of it can be changed with third party apps and mods but not all of it. Some people want the clean AOSP experience, you can easily theme your entire interface (dialer, messaging, unique colors, blah) with themes from the play store without the need for downloading a bunch of third party apps for each individual thing you want to change. Also native DPI changer is included in a lot of AOSP roms. It's really just personal preference. None of the Samsung bloat, Sprint bloat, awful TW colors, just check out roms like AOKP, AOSPA, CM, etc, on other devices.
I recommend checking out Slimbean for our device to get the general gist of what AOSP roms provide you with.
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Does anyone know of any good aosp kernels?
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inlineboy said:
Yes your going to loose the entire set of unique TW features that come with the S4 - air gestures, smart scroll, etc. A lot of people don't care for those features, me personally, I like to show them off but I don't ever really use them.
A lot of people absolutely despise the TW interface. And yes some of it can be changed with third party apps and mods but not all of it. Some people want the clean AOSP experience, you can easily theme your entire interface (dialer, messaging, unique colors, blah) with themes from the play store without the need for downloading a bunch of third party apps for each individual thing you want to change. Also native DPI changer is included in a lot of AOSP roms. It's really just personal preference. None of the Samsung bloat, Sprint bloat, awful TW colors, just check out roms like AOKP, AOSPA, CM, etc, on other devices.
I recommend checking out Slimbean for our device to get the general gist of what AOSP roms provide you with.
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CCallahan said:
I'm sure Carbon is a good rom but can anyone give an idea of what it can do that the device cannot do on the stock rom with custom launcher and third party apps? Since the Sprint S4 version does not have it's own changelog (at least I didn't see one) not sure what features are working and what doesn't. Also, don't you lose all the air gestures, eye tracking, etc when going to AOSP rom?
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I really liked Slimbean but ended up going back to TW, AOSP is getting there, but I ran into too many bugs that I didn't have to deal with when I was using TW. I miss just being able to switch roms as I please, but my job kind of requires me having a phone that works, all the time, and quickly. Hopefully in the next week or so those issues are fixed because they seem to be on the nightly (or in the process of being fixed on the nightly) (all my problems were with signal and calling. Ex: distorted voice, bars were all over the place and I randomly lost signal in places where I had full bars of 4G with TW)
Just a word of caution if you decide to hop ship from touchwiz.
Besides that, AOSP>Touchwiz because I sure as hell only use the features to show off, i'd much rather have a stock unified UI than having to download apps to achieve that. It's also alot quicker since you don't have the framework of TW and the features weighing it down :good:

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Does anyone know of any good aosp kernels?
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ktoonz released an aosp version of his kernel which IMHO is the absolute best. thread is in original development...

Can someone post a link I've looked for this carbon ROM but could not find it
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Check goo manager, there are 2 nightlys for carbon rom for our device. Used to run it on the Gnex. Pretty slick features.
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Carbon was ok, but... I really liked JBSourcery and wouldn't mind seeing it come to our phone. But if I had my choice I would take a Caulklin ROM in a heartbeat. Man I am all over the place.

jpkelly05 said:
Carbon was ok, but... I really liked JBSourcery and wouldn't mind seeing it come to our phone. But if I had my choice I would take a Caulklin ROM in a heartbeat. Man I am all over the place.
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I would take his rom any say over anything else. Ran his all the time on the e4gt
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So, I noticed this is the first aosp ROM where Bluetooth works for calling. Nice, my new daily.
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shizkoff777 said:
Can someone post a link I've looked for this carbon ROM but could not find it
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download goo manager. click on browse compatible ROMs...

inlineboy said:
Yes your going to loose the entire set of unique TW features that come with the S4 - air gestures, smart scroll, etc. A lot of people don't care for those features, me personally, I like to show them off but I don't ever really use them.
A lot of people absolutely despise the TW interface. And yes some of it can be changed with third party apps and mods but not all of it. Some people want the clean AOSP experience, you can easily theme your entire interface (dialer, messaging, unique colors, blah) with themes from the play store without the need for downloading a bunch of third party apps for each individual thing you want to change. Also native DPI changer is included in a lot of AOSP roms. It's really just personal preference. None of the Samsung bloat, Sprint bloat, awful TW colors, just check out roms like AOKP, AOSPA, CM, etc, on other devices.
I recommend checking out Slimbean for our device to get the general gist of what AOSP roms provide you with.
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I'm familiar with AOSP roms (ran them on many other phones) but was specifically asking about Carbon. Not bagging on AOSP roms just seems like a larger sacrifice with all the newer features of the S4. Granted I do think a lot are gimmicky and don't work that well but do use Smartstay & IR functions.
Just curiosity more than anything.

CCallahan said:
I'm familiar with AOSP roms (ran them on many other phones) but was specifically asking about Carbon. Not bagging on AOSP roms just seems like a larger sacrifice with all the newer features of the S4. Granted I do think a lot are gimmicky and don't work that well but do use Smartstay & IR functions.
Just curiosity more than anything.
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Check this link out!
http://goo.im/devs/carbon
And anyone else that wants to learn about the features of Carbon specifically!
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CCallahan said:
I'm familiar with AOSP roms (ran them on many other phones) but was specifically asking about Carbon. Not bagging on AOSP roms just seems like a larger sacrifice with all the newer features of the S4. Granted I do think a lot are gimmicky and don't work that well but do use Smartstay & IR functions.
Just curiosity more than anything.
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you wouldn't lose IR function. smart remote is compatible with sgsiv and aosp.

Have you disabled all the bells and whistles?

Mainly I did it for simplified use and less memory and CPU usage. Granted it's a pretty boring phone that way but I didn't get the phone because of the software extras.

Disabled everything but Air View cause it's the bomb!

I haven't disabled anything. I upgraded to this phone because of those features, if I wanted to run without them there are much less expensive options available.
The only feature I have no use for and will probably never use is the IR capability.

Drumrocker said:
I haven't disabled anything. I upgraded to this phone because of those features, if I wanted to run without them there are much less expensive options available.
The only feature I have no use for and will probably never use is the IR capability.
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Go to a applebees/chilis and try not to laugh your ass off at the bartender who cant figure out why the tv is going haywire its immature, but hilarious

jspsuperman said:
Go to a applebees/chilis and try not to laugh your ass off at the bartender who cant figure out why the tv is going haywire its immature, but hilarious
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Lol total win the ir is one of the best features
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i disable everything.. only thing i have on at all times is wifi if im home and data.. battery lasts for ever!

I turn them on as needed, but I disable them immediately. I signed a new contract and didn't see why I wouldn't get the latest and greatest. There almost all situational tho
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ChristianPreachr said:
I turn them on as needed, but I disable them immediately. I signed a new contract and didn't see why I wouldn't get the latest and greatest. There almost all situational tho
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This
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I leave them on and still battery lasts all day. Those are some of the things that set this phone apart from the S3 and other phones so just makes sense to get use of them.

I run and use every feature of this phone! I haven't even installed a custom rom yet because I don't want someone else to dictate which features I can use. I am rooted and have almost all the mods that work on stock odexed installed and my phone lasts from 6:00am to 11:00pm everyday with room to spare. Why limit such a powerful device by turning off what makes this phone great. Here are the mods I have installed: hotspot mod, 4 in 1 boot, Nottach Exposed, N7 Ported animations, S4 PRL write mod, and international S4 boot animation. I haven't gone with a custom kernel but that is my next step. I came from the HTC Evo LTE and love the stock feel. I was a MeanBean fan because Mikeyxda never compromised the stock feel of the phone but added tons of tweaks and mods to make the phone fly. When the 3.0 version of the Team Sonic FreeGS4 rom drops I will probably install it since clark44 seems to have the same philosophy as Mikeyxda. I just want to play with my phone a little more before I go the custom route.

All of them. There finicky. The ir is so handy I control all 3 TVs DVR DVD players in my house. Plus messing with ever TV I find! Burger king menus was the best!
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miketucky350 said:
All of them. There finicky. The ir is so handy I control all 3 TVs DVR DVD players in my house. Plus messing with ever TV I find! Burger king menus was the best!
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God forgive me...I do get pleasure out of paying with tv's at random places. I can't wait to be at a bar on super bowl Sunday...and they have the exact same tv everywhere!
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ChristianPreachr said:
God forgive me...I do get pleasure out of paying with tv's at random places. I can't wait to be at a bar on super bowl Sunday...and they have the exact same tv everywhere!
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That might be the last time you get to play with the IR blaster, so enjoy it.
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cruise350 said:
I run and use every feature of this phone! I haven't even installed a custom rom yet because I don't want someone else to dictate which features I can use. I am rooted and have almost all the mods that work on stock odexed installed and my phone lasts from 6:00am to 11:00pm everyday with room to spare. Why limit such a powerful device by turning off what makes this phone great. Here are the mods I have installed: hotspot mod, 4 in 1 boot, Nottach Exposed, N7 Ported animations, S4 PRL write mod, and international S4 boot animation. I haven't gone with a custom kernel but that is my next step. I came from the HTC Evo LTE and love the stock feel. I was a MeanBean fan because Mikeyxda never compromised the stock feel of the phone but added tons of tweaks and mods to make the phone fly. When the 3.0 version of the Team Sonic FreeGS4 rom drops I will probably install it since clark44 seems to have the same philosophy as Mikeyxda. I just want to play with my phone a little more before I go the custom route.
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This is said perfectly. I am just already running FreeGS4.
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ChristianPreachr said:
God forgive me...I do get pleasure out of paying with tv's at random places. I can't wait to be at a bar on super bowl Sunday...and they have the exact same tv everywhere!
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Sorry I did forget about the Ir blaster. I do love this and use it daily at home or messing with tvs everywhere. Love having all 3 tvs and dvr/dvd ect at home all working as good as the remote. I was basically talking about smart scroll and some hand gestures are pretty useless.

Smart rotation is actually a pretty useful feature if you ever use your phone while in bed. I also have smart stay on as well as air jump and air move. The rest I can live without. The IR beam is pretty useful as well. ..
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Most of the features are situational for me as well. The IR blaster comes in handy as does some of the gesture stuff. That's about it. (will try IR on restaurant tv's sometime :laugh: )

Now I'm looking forward to going somewhere with a public t.v.! Thanks guys!!!

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Now I'm looking forward to going somewhere with a public t.v.! Thanks guys!!!
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Lmao I'm thinking the same thing!! I can't wait to go to Best Buy/Target and mess with em' on a boring/slow day hahahaaa.

Anyway to change back button to the right?

Its to hard to reach with my bright hand. Can we change it to the right side like you can the LG phone?
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Hardcore73 said:
Its to hard to reach with my bright hand. Can we change it to the right side like you can the LG phone?
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Nope. In the future it'll be available with custom ROMs.

Kinda, in developer option click force RTL layout ? only thing I can think of.
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That works perfectly thank you. I now might keep the Nexus 6 thanks to that fix. After I installed multi Window and Nova Launcher I am very happy now! Really torn between this and the Note Edge.
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zephiK said:
Nope. In the future it'll be available with custom ROMs.
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Won't need a custom ROM is Xposed ever gets updated to work with Lollipop.

noodles2224 said:
Kinda, in developer option click force RTL layout ? only thing I can think of.
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I was totally loving your suggestion about RTL... Until I noticed the notification bar. I can't do it, lol. Thank you, though. You almost made my day. Literally one of the features I'm dying for ROMs to start implementing.

Zheranon said:
I was totally loving your suggestion about RTL... Until I noticed the notification bar. I can't do it, lol. Thank you, though. You almost made my day. Literally one of the features I'm dying for ROMs to start implementing.
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This is probably a dumb question (not a lot of rooting/dev experience here) but how do I get that RTL feature to work. I have a Nexus 6 running Android 5.0, new as can be, and looking to help my normal-sized hands by putting the back button on the right.
By the way, just to give some helpful advice for one-handed use of a phone this size: Nova Launcher, Swiftkey (right-sided mode), and I just ordered the Minisuit Tactic Handstrap Wallet (on Amazon, $8) and it looks like it'll be super thin/flush with phone (or case) and allow me to put my finger(s) through for tethering. Yes, I know that these phones are large and meant to be used that way, but Android is awesome for customization and you can do just as much with the exterior of the phone as well

I just want the option to move the buttons closer together, that would be great

If you change your dpi to 380 it forces the N6 into tablet mode and the buttons are closer together

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If you change your dpi to 380 it forces the N6 into tablet mode and the buttons are closer together
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What are you using to change your dpi?
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What are you using to change your dpi?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.texdroider.texdroider_dpi

Does anyone know where in the ROM files we would be able to edit the nav bar so that we can "hardcode" the back button to the right side?