This is an idea I had while trying to get use to my tablet as a head unit. I found it very annoying that I had to switch screens to change the volume or tracks.
I wanted to see if anyone would think it would be a good idea to add a few buttons to the navigation bar like a skip back, forward, play/pause, volume up/down.
I'm trying to figure it out myself but I'm not the greatest programmer so I figured if I shared my idea someone might might be able to figure it out.
This is what I was thinking!
Kuchar09 said:
This is an idea I had while trying to get use to my tablet as a head unit. I found it very annoying that I had to switch screens to change the volume or tracks.
I wanted to see if anyone would think it would be a good idea to add a few buttons to the navigation bar like a skip back, forward, play/pause, volume up/down.
I'm trying to figure it out myself but I'm not the greatest programmer so I figured if I shared my idea someone might might be able to figure it out.
This is what I was thinking!
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i'm looking for the same. i can't believe no one else wants this!
Yeah Idk, I thought someone else would have been interested... Here's what I'm using for now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23374080
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Iirc aokp can add widgets to the nav bar, cant you just add a volume/ play pause widget?
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Kuchar09 said:
Yeah Idk, I thought someone else would have been interested... Here's what I'm using for now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23374080
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I have almost finished an app which will add next/previous/play and many other things to the soft button bar. Maybe I'll add volume controls too. For the moment the app was planned with the new bar style in mind ( aka not the omni bar seen from 3.0 to 4.1 which was abandoned in 4.2) but I think a little tweak will render it compatible.
I'll keep you updated.
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I have almost finished an app which will add next/previous/play and many other things to the soft button bar. Maybe I'll add volume controls too. For the moment the app was planned with the new bar style in mind ( aka not the omni bar seen from 3.0 to 4.1 which was abandoned in 4.2) but I think a little tweak will render it compatible.
I'll keep you updated.
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That would be great!!! Defiantly keep us updated.
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CarHome Ultra is awsome for this. I will allow you to put buttons on the screen that control music play. I use it every day.
dcs3473 said:
CarHome Ultra is awsome for this. I will allow you to put buttons on the screen that control music play. I use it every day.
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But how does that help me when I'm on a different screen like Google maps?
I tried it a while back and didn't like it at all.
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@Kuchar09
LOL
Dude... I found this thread just now! ehehhe
Kookie_Monster said:
@Kuchar09
LOL
Dude... I found this thread just now! ehehhe
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Yeah I've been waiting for this for a long time lol
Nice to see someone finally figured it out
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/40701-mod-kookies-mod-shop-system-bar-mods/
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Kuchar09 said:
Yeah I've been waiting for this for a long time lol
Nice to see someone finally figured it out
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/40701-mod-kookies-mod-shop-system-bar-mods/
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Make sure you add your request on the thread. :good:
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Just noticed Pulse no longer opens panes in the Honeycomb fashion after update to 3.0.1, opens like on a phone. Anyone else have this problem?
skyyaa said:
Just noticed Pulse no longer opens panes in the Honeycomb fashion after update to 3.0.1, opens like on a phone. Anyone else have this problem?
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Same issue here.
same for me, no more fancy landscape layout
Everything is still the same on mine.
Mine changed to.
It still works in landscape and when I touch an article it shifts the whole feed down, and displays the article on top of the feed.
I actually like it better.
I hate the new setup. I liked having the side by side panes.
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mcramer19 said:
I hate the new setup. I liked having the side by side panes.
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Ditto. I doubt this was intentional. But want the layout back to the it was before.
Yep, same problem. Did the update break something with fragment handling?
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I wrote pulse an email, waiting for reply.
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Same for me.
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Pulse was updated today in the Market and it seems to be worlds improved.
cranch said:
Pulse was updated today in the Market and it seems to be worlds improved.
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I seem to be getting repeated force closes with the updated version of Pulse. Anyone else experiencing similar issues?
cranch said:
Pulse was updated today in the Market and it seems to be worlds improved.
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Yep, update fixed the problem!
Much better.
OT: Kinda wish I hadn't updated it on my lunch hour though. Now I know that the fuel rods are melting down in 3 of the reactors at Fukushima. *sigh*
Guys, saw someone else post this in the Development forum and thought I would post here. Basically the sense 3.0 Lockscreen but I cannot seem to get it to work. I'm guessing it's something within my settings but if one of you gets it working please let me know. Always nice to have options!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nanoha.SenseScreen
I like the ripple lock :-D
I have it working. Click on the app in your app drawer and then click start. Thats it! I think I may buy it that way I can adjust everything. For those who bought it, you can change the icons right?
tu3218 said:
I have it working. Click on the app in your app drawer and then click start. Thats it! I think I may buy it that way I can adjust everything. For those who bought it, you can change the icons right?
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Every time I engage the lock the phone won't wake up. Any one having this?
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thats strange...try uninstalling and reisntall it or you can try a restart of your phone. something goofy is acting up. I haven't seen too many complains like that in the reviews so I would try one of those things I mentioned.
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Every time I engage the lock the phone won't wake up. Any one having this?
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Had the same issue them I realized that I have to use the vol up button to unlock
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Had the same issue them I realized that I have to use the vol up button to unlock
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Yah I tried that before too, I'm thinking it may have something to do with my cm lock screen settings that are conflicting with this. I'm using the lense.
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Having the same issue with having to use the volume to unlock. Tried it on a fresh install of 1.3 with no luck. We've gotta figure this out, paid and free versions don't work.
dustinb17 said:
Having the same issue with having to use the volume to unlock. Tried it on a fresh install of 1.3 with no luck. We've gotta figure this out, paid and free versions don't work.
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I emailed the dev earlier today and he has yet to reply, if he does I will keep you posted.
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I emailed the dev earlier today and he has yet to reply, if he does I will keep you posted.
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Sounds great, I would love to get this to work and I'll continue to play with it.
Interestingly enough, when I disable the Status Bar in the Agile Lock settings everything works as it should. Of course this is only available in the paid version.
This work for anyone else?
v2
http://db.tt/hmSvDGfO
compatible w/ volume rocker toggle in Turl v8 and Jokersax beta2
Sweet, thanks. So I haven't flashed any cm9 yet and I'm wondering, does the search button just do nothing by default on cm9 (before flashing this fix) ?
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Sweet, thanks. So I haven't flashed any cm9 yet and I'm wondering, does the search button just do nothing by default on cm9 (before flashing this fix) ?
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its searches, like any othwr rom. but i never ever use it. i do now tho!
I posted in cm9 thread but it will quickly get buried.
I added wake volume mod to your mod. If its ok to you I will upload it.
yessir! thx..i was actually researching to work on that rt now!a
cool..thx
rickriego said:
yessir! thx..i was actually researching to work on that rt now!a
cool..thx
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Cool. Here it goes!!!....
Ops. Can upload to forum, so PMing you.
Well, no way to upload it directly so gonna put it in dropbox.
Here: http://db.tt/dn9rlbQZ
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Here: http://db.tt/dn9rlbQZ
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after i flash it illget it to joker to post on bhis website..THX!
Now is there an option to really route the home? Can we customize it to our choosing. Im looking at the options on ics but pessimistic as I don't see it.
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can someone create one with just the wake on volume mod? because I'm still accustomed to searching wit search key.
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Now is there an option to really route the home? Can we customize it to our choosing. Im looking at the options on ics but pessimistic as I don't see it.
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what u mean by route home? talkin bout remapping home? or...?
I was just looking for an app to do this very thing... I cannot express how much I appreciate this. Now if I only knew how to get something similar on my tablet... lol
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what u mean by route home? talkin bout remapping home? or...?
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Yes remap sorry. Bc now home and search do the same. And... awesome work dude. Thanks you for this. Its a helluva lot more convenient now.
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can someone create one with just the wake on volume mod? because I'm still accustomed to searching wit search key.
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+1 on this pretty please
Is it suppose to unlock the screen by pressing the menu key? Mine does, just checking.
Menu unlock is not checked, I didnt try it without wake lock so maybe its cm9 thing.
volume wake MOD only
Here: http://db.tt/66Rt7vEZ
Well... since jokersax provided mirrors to those files I will put down my mirrors tomorow.
Hopefully we wont need then soon.
great work, i do have one thought though, maybe rather change the "settings" button to the apps buttons, since ics doesnt have a settings button by itself, and the search button is quite useful at times.
Volume rocker already has its own settings switch, so sooner or later it will be built in.
Remapping soft keys switch is a good idea for older phone, since new ics guidelines are no physical buttons. But thinking more about, which apk you will assign for a button that is a house drawing? Always the launcher I think. The same for the back and search buttons. Menu is the more "plastic" button.
btw, vol MOD working good for turls v6. Didn't test it to jokers beta.
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great work, i do have one thought though, maybe rather change the "settings" button to the apps buttons, since ics doesnt have a settings button by itself, and the search button is quite useful at times.
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ICS does..the onscreen softkeys.. its there on the right
I was just playing around with my Nexus 7 and I came across a neat and convenient trick to dispose of a app from the app drawer that you may have mistakenly selected and you only get three options uninstall, app info or simply drop the app on the home screen of your Nexus device. Well, there's a fourth option! Simply long press a app from your home screen or app drawer. Then, fling your finger that's holding down the app down up and release! That's it! From the home screen you don't have to take a app all of the way up to the white x remove then red release delete. From the bottom or where ever that app is on your screen you want to remove or replace, just press and hold the app you want to remove, fling your finger in motion down then up release and watch it fly away off of your screen! I think this only works with Jelly Bean, but this my friend is very convenient!
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I can add another cool trick: slide up from the bottom of the screen where the 3 buttons are to bring up the Google search. Neat.
Another cool trick in Jelly Bean. Settings > About Tablet/Phone > Android Version (tap repeatedly for surprise)
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I can add another cool trick: slide up from the bottom of the screen where the 3 buttons are to bring up the Google search. Neat.
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guerom00 said:
I can add another cool trick: slide up from the bottom of the screen where the 3 buttons are to bring up the Google search. Neat.
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It shows a lockscreen-style circle for that. Kinda unnecessary, but cool. A quick swipe up from the home button works just as well.
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There's an easter egg in the settings app. Go into "about tablet". Tap the version number many times. After that, press and hold the Jelly Bean.
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I can add another cool trick: slide up from the bottom of the screen where the 3 buttons are to bring up the Google search. Neat.
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That is actually launching Google Now. If you do not have search history turned on for your google account, you will only see a google search.
If you have history, it will show more information cards.
I'm not quite sure if you're serious or you're really just now discovering the features marketed in the presentations.
tevinwade said:
Another cool trick in Jelly Bean. Settings > About Tablet/Phone > Android Version (tap repeatedly for surprise)
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Works in ICS too Not sure about HC or GB though, or other older OS's
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I'm not quite sure if you're serious or you're really just now discovering the features marketed in the presentations.
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It's called surprise and delight and who are you to deny him life's simple pleasures ?
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It's called surprise and delight and who are you to deny him life's simple pleasures ?
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lol +1
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I'm not quite sure if you're serious or you're really just now discovering the features marketed in the presentations.
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Not everyone watched the presentations. No reason to be unnecessarily mean. I thanked him since I didn't know about the trick at all and these types of threads are awesome.
couldnt do it for the life of me and figured it must be a N7 thing only at the moment. But then I re-read the directions on how to do it... derp:silly:
Thanks guys for your help hints!
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I watched the presentation but only recently realised the two finger trick for expanding or reducing notification sizes!
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2 finger trick? Pinch zoom doesn't seem to do anything..
Tell Google now to do a barrel roll see what happens
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TonyHoyle said:
2 finger trick? Pinch zoom doesn't seem to do anything..
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slide two fingers up or down instead. Won't work on all notifications of course
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If you long press either the back button or the multi-window button (I forget the technical name of it) and swipe up it will bring up google now as if you were holding down the home button.
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Tell Google now to do a barrel roll see what happens
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Nice one!
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If you press power + volume down at the same time, it will take a screenshot.
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Hey yall. After trying many methods of enable the soft keys which i really like my self, i finaly found out whats messing it up.
in /system in build.prop there is a bit of code which looks like that in the screenshot. my problem was i kept adding code when i simply needed to change the existing code to 0 instead of 1. as shown in the screenshot
also as you can see they work in the xda app. but the buttons dont work in any other app.
anyone know why? i tried changing resolution in build prop and nothing. so i need some help.
So again. My problem is that i cant get the nav bar to work all the time.
Okay um. Attempted to change DPI in build prop. It did work and change DPI but softkeys still only work on the xda app.
I'm thinking maybe disabling hw capatative buttons will fix the problem.
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Attempted using gravity box with xposed installer but nothing that way.
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Attempted to turn off hw buttons. That didnt work either
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Attempted to add a persist code to the soft key
Persist.qemu.he.mainkeys=0
That didn't help
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after doing some research, all i figured out was that i would have to decompile and modify the framework-res.apk...
even though i have experience with making apps, i get so lost in google's apps since they arent compiled with classes, its all pure xml and all of it doesnt make sense, so if anyone could, please, figure out what to do in the framework res, to make the nav bar work better, id be very grateful
you can find it at /system/framework
thanks
Well nice find so far! I really like the idea of on screen soft keys but what other use would it have that we can't get from the 3 hardware one's we've got? Does the screen feel crowded, because I imagine that with the thickness of them it'd be pretty cramped
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Well nice find so far! I really like the idea of on screen soft keys but what other use would it have that we can't get from the 3 hardware one's we've got? Does the screen feel crowded, because I imagine that with the thickness of them it'd be pretty cramped
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Well you could give it a go and see what its like when running the xda app. Unless it works normal.
Um..screen isn't really crowded. Its about two status bars thick. Uses? Um...I know it has a recent app button. And if you're using a keyboard it will give you the option to minimize it. Other than that its just a nexus feel. And once you enable it you can use apps or xposed installer to have them minimized and you can toggle them like a status bar when ever you need it.
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Well you could give it a go and see what its like when running the xda app. Unless it works normal.
Um..screen isn't really crowded. Its about two status bars thick. Uses? Um...I know it has a recent app button. And if you're using a keyboard it will give you the option to minimize it. Other than that its just a nexus feel. And once you enable it you can use apps or xposed installer to have them minimized and you can toggle them like a status bar when ever you need it.
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I have to be deodexed right? Because I just tried it and nothing happened.. I've got the odexed version of the ROM for the extra speed boost
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I have to be deodexed right? Because I just tried it and nothing happened.. I've got the odexed version of the ROM for the extra speed boost
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I never learned the difference but I guess. I never flashed any other ROM. I'm still on the one the phone shipped with.
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I never learned the difference but I guess. I never flashed any other ROM. I'm still on the one the phone shipped with.
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Well an odexed ROM basically prevents any modifications to the firmware or any major graphic ui change but in turn opens apps faster so I'm guessing that's the problem
That could be the problem.
Stock ROM works really well on my device so I'm not changing it till we get cm.
But I'm just wondering why it won't let the nav bar be persistent, even though I addad a persist command to it. And only works on the xda app
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I think I figured out the problem. The framework-res.apk manages the overall layout of android, I just need to figure out which if the 600 xml files does that and give the nav bar a bottom margin.
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I never learned the difference but I guess. I never flashed any other ROM. I'm still on the one the phone shipped with.
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Major find or not I've found out that the app also works with wordrefernce.com it's an old app. I found out today in French class lol but for some reason the on screen soft keys don't work with the premium xda app. Also I should say that there seems to be a 1 second lag when pressing the on screen keys. Unlike the hardware ones that are instant. I've also got lag everywhere else in the phone.. Don't know if this is a side effect
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Major find or not I've found out that the app also works with wordrefernce.com it's an old app. I found out today in French class lol but for some reason the on screen soft keys don't work with the premium xda app. Also I should say that there seems to be a 1 second lag when pressing the on screen keys. Unlike the hardware ones that are instant. I've also got lag everywhere else in the phone.. Don't know if this is a side effect
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I've managed to freeze my phone many times just going through the app drawer so...its not a side effect.
I actually get around 700ms worth of lag using hard keys so I don't feel a difference. But yeah for some reason the only work on some apps...
Personal opinion. If you want a nexus feel then you would use it. But its gonna tale a while till I figure out what's wrong. I'm still working with framework-res.apk at the moment
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Okay apps that use the soft keys include
At&t our scanner.
World conqueror 2.
Busy box.
Old xda app.
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see, i sold my broke first and when i was doing a factory reset and testing to make sure none of my info was present, the nav keys became persistent
So to make the be active 24/7 you MUST DO a factory reset....or maybe just a dalvik wipe, but i did a full reset and they worked fine.
you need to write script (i don't the commands) to enable it after qemu.hw.mainkeys=1
Auto Hide Soft Keys 's Spoof Soft Keys option can enable it via hack, so there is a way to activate it on boot when it doesn't show