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Soft keys are too close to main screen

Hi guys, do you have the same feeling as mine? O4x's soft keys are too close to the bottom of the main screen. As a result, sometimes during text input, home button is unintentionally hit.
Is there any solution to this?
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flanker711 said:
Hi guys, do you have the same feeling as mine? O4x's soft keys are too close to the bottom of the main screen. As a result, sometimes during text input, home button is unintentionally hit.
Is there any solution to this?
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Happens to me all the time. I have no solution this far. Maybe one could make a mod to have the on-screen buttons as Google intended and disable the hardware soft keys, but I don't have any experience in modding.

Not sure about the mechanism of the hotkeys. If they're touch panel like (or even they're just part of the main capacitive touch screen), the best solution IMO is to reduce the effective touch area of each button. Just make them slightly larger than the led icons.
But this is not what CM can do I think. It should be some driver code change from LG...
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i use swiftkey and increase the key height and it is so much easy to key now without hitting home when i use the spacebar. Another alternative is to setup the direction arrows underneath the spacebar but i feel the previous approach is suitable for me not to hit home key 99.9% all the time :cyclops:

Happen quite a lot at first,
After a mth with this phone. Seldom happen anymore.
Will get used to it
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well, u could ask lg to make their new phones bigger, so theres more space for ur fingers :silly:

Rithina said:
i use swiftkey and increase the key height and it is so much easy to key now without hitting home when i use the spacebar. Another alternative is to setup the direction arrows underneath the spacebar but i feel the previous approach is suitable for me not to hit home key 99.9% all the time :cyclops:
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Nice solution, thanks!!!

[Q] When I'm in SMS app it just switch to homescreen

When I'm in SMS app and write massage it just switches to home screen and even sometime does not save what I have written.
Can someone help me with this problem. I'm using new JB, stock keyboard, luncher and SMS app, update that was UL last week and I do not know if it was any different before because I did not use phone on ICS.
Thank you, Denis

denis1304 said:
When I'm in SMS app and write massage it just switches to home screen and even sometime does not save what I have written.
Can someone help me with this problem. I'm using new JB, stock keyboard, luncher and SMS app, update that was UL last week and I do not know if it was any different before because I did not use phone on ICS.
Thank you, Denis
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I got the same thing as you did. Turned out my freaking thumb was just too big that it accidentally pressed the home capacitive button while typing messages. I use SwiftKey and enlarge the keyboard layout and things are going just great though sometimes I still accidentally hit the home button key
Edit: try enabling touch feedback so you'll realize the second you hit the home button by accident
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hernestwisnu said:
I got the same thing as you did. Turned out my freaking thumb was just too big that it accidentally pressed the home capacitive button while typing messages. I use SwiftKey and enlarge the keyboard layout and things are going just great though sometimes I still accidentally hit the home button key
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Agree. Heck i have small thumbs and i hit that button all the time when using lg keyboard.
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problem solved.
get used to the stock lg keyboard

[Q] Just got my One. What is black bar down sides of games?

I just installed a couple of games to try and they have a black bar on the side/bottom with 3 white dots in it. How do I get rid of it so I can fill the screen completely? I tried a search but not sure what the bar is called so got no results.
Also. How do I get the running apps up so I can swipe them away? If I long hold the home button I just get Google crap.

Thats the menu button. If youre rooted install the xposed mods and the back button enabler which means you can hold down back button for menu.
Please hit thanks button rather than saying it
~ Taylor_Swift
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deadman3000 said:
Also. How do I get the running apps up so I can swipe them away? If I long hold the home button I just get Google crap.
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Double tap the home button!
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New to Z1 and can't find option/menu button

Hi guys how r u all
Am new to the Xperia Z1 and really can't find the option button anywhere
I mean in Samsung there is a menu button lower right
In Htc you long press the home button the menu appears
Where is it in the Xperia.
For example in Facebook application cant find it to set settings
In messages in facebook app for example before i press the menu button and can delete conversation and many other options
But cant find it here with Z1
Help!
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ashouhdy said:
Hi guys how r u all
Am new to the Xperia Z1 and really can't find the option button anywhere
I mean in Samsung there is a menu button lower right
In Htc you long press the home button the menu appears
Where is it in the Xperia.
For example in Facebook application cant find it to set settings
In messages in facebook app for example before i press the menu button and can delete conversation and many other options
But cant find it here with Z1
Help!
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like all nexus devices and on screen keyboard devices, in 4.0 there was a button on the apps which acts as the menu button (its called action menu or something), you only need to look for 3 vertical dots or play with the apps.
the facebook app have its settings on the left tab at the end of all the crap, there you can find the settings

Asadroid said:
like all nexus devices and on screen keyboard devices, in 4.0 there was a button on the apps which acts as the menu button (its called action menu or something), you only need to look for 3 vertical dots or play with the apps.
the facebook app have its settings on the left tab at the end of all the crap, there you can find the settings
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Yup but in messages u cant delete conversations caise no action button.
Seriously whats the use of 2 button with basically of the same function. The home and task bar button
Should be integrated in 1 button only home button one press then long press brings the task manager.
So is it the same with all launchers?
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ashouhdy said:
Yup but in messages u cant delete conversations caise no action button.
Seriously whats the use of 2 button with basically of the same function. The home and task bar button
Should be integrated in 1 button only home button one press then long press brings the task manager.
So is it the same with all launchers?
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in the messenger app and in the facebook app, you need to go to the messenger section (facebook app) long pres the conversation and then an optional menu will appear.
BLAME facebook for a poorly done app man, they should implement better ways to navigate through the damn app

Reminds me of the ios
??
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ashouhdy said:
Hi guys how r u all
Am new to the Xperia Z1 and really can't find the option button anywhere
I mean in Samsung there is a menu button lower right
In Htc you long press the home button the menu appears
Where is it in the Xperia.
For example in Facebook application cant find it to set settings
In messages in facebook app for example before i press the menu button and can delete conversation and many other options
But cant find it here with Z1
Help!
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it took me a while to get used to it too..
try to look for 3 vertical dots !!!
it's menu or setting most of the time!

choihan06 said:
it took me a while to get used to it too..
try to look for 3 vertical dots !!!
it's menu or setting most of the time!
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Yea.... thats the only thing i dislike about the phone
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ashouhdy said:
Yea.... thats the only thing i dislike about the phone
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It's the same with all Android devices that use stock or close to stock above 4.1. The real blame is with poor and lazy app development of which Facebook is a good example.
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tiny Taiwan has the elusive options button.
ashouhdy said:
Hi guys how r u all
Am new to the Xperia Z1 and really can't find the option button anywhere
I mean in Samsung there is a menu button lower right
In Htc you long press the home button the menu appears
Where is it in the Xperia.
For example in Facebook application cant find it to set settings
In messages in facebook app for example before i press the menu button and can delete conversation and many other options
But cant find it here with Z1
Help!
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That button is essential for things like search in webbrowser.
sony made in China no options button like Htc in Taiwan has.

spacelite said:
That button is essential for things like search in webbrowser.
sony made in China no options button like Htc in Taiwan has.
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Honest question. What makes a physical button "essential" for this, and an onscreen button (depending on the browser, that will be either on the navigation bar, on the rightmost part or on the title bar, besides the tab button) not fit? Specially when pressing either of them will have the exact same effect?
Yes, I was used to the TouchWiz way on my previous phones, and I thought that having the menu button fixed on the same position all the time was the only way to do so. Now I see that (a dedicated physical menu button) the same way as I see the fixed menu bar on Mac OS: it has some nice points, but overall it's a waste of good space. Note that the Android application design guidelines asks for an onscreen overflow button (the three dots button). Some manufacturers change the behaviour to remove the onscreen button and assign the same function to a physical key. Some developers screw up the design in epic fashion (Facebook). But there's no way around it: the onscreen menu button is how Android is meant to be, at least since the last major overhaul on ICS. Anything other than that is either a manufacturer's attempt at "differentiation", breaking the expected design of apps, or an app's utter failure to adhere to a very simple set of rules.

Keyboard sound

Guys - I'm back from swype to using the native keyboard on stock ROM. When you start typing, it makes a vibrate sound but I can't find the setting to turn this off. Can anybody help?
Thx

Hold the "comma" button (left of space) and then swipe towards the top, the select "android keyboard settings" , you'll find everything in there
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