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[Android 3.0+, ROOT] TabletBar Hider - fullscreen in Honeycomb without system bar!

TabletBar Hider
Want to use your honeycomb tablet in *true* fullscreen, without that pesky system bar in the way? Now you can! (REQUIRES ROOT!)
This app allows you to hide the system bar in landscape mode, where it gets in the way the most. Then, if you need to access it to leave the app, just rotate your tablet to portrait and the bar appears. When you're done, rotate it back to landscape and the bar disappears again. You can go back to the app and end that behavior at any time.
There is currently an issue with apps that prevent rotation - you may get stuck in them! But worst case, you can always reboot and everything goes back to normal. I will work on a fix for that if people like the app!
I am new to Android app development so please let me know if there are any issues! I have created a free demo version that you can run to verify that the app will properly hide and restore the system bar on your tablet. I have tested this on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 but not others yet! So please make sure to try the demo first.
Note that the demo is only for verifying that the app can kill and restore the system bar. It does not feature the automatic rotation service that the full version contains.
Screenshots of full version attached to post
Demo
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tlalexander.tabletbarhiderdemo
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Full Version
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tlalexander.tabletbarhider

Well thought! tested the demo and working well on arabic rom p7510jpkg5. Though expected demo to be a little more useful beyond just hiding and restoring the bottom bar. Couldn't revert to home screen after applying the tweak. The full version could have been free.
well done.

It's useful...thanks

Works great on my Xoom but some time in future development it would be nice to have the option of a transparent status bar too.

Bought it in hopes that you'll be further developing it. Further development on this that could really turn heads would be access to the full apps list with the ability to check mark which ones you want the taskbar hider to work with (and more importantly, which ones you don't).
Great idea. Looking forward to where this might go.

Please consider making it work with multitouch gestures.
I have my tablet set to always stay in Landscape mode (unless an app forces me into portrait mode). So the current way of hiding and restoring the status bar is a PITA.
What you could (should) do is this.
Two finger swipe down off of the screen = Hide status bar.
Two finger swipe up onto the screen = Restore status bar.
Does that make sense?
It's a great start!

arrtoodeetoo said:
Two finger swipe down off of the screen = Hide status bar.
Two finger swipe up onto the screen = Restore status bar.
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this would be really nice!

It would be great if it would work with wizz or have like a wiz type bar where i can click bottom middle during any app and bring up home and back and multi task and then even better like wizz i can add my own!
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on adw ex I have swipe down as notifications. with this thing enabled. I swipe down and my notifications dont pop up really wished that I could swipe down for my notifications with the bar off
O well, guess its good for specific apps although I would really like to see it as a more accessible thing like wizzbar

mughalgxt said:
Well thought! tested the demo and working well on arabic rom p7510jpkg5. Though expected demo to be a little more useful beyond just hiding and restoring the bottom bar. Couldn't revert to home screen after applying the tweak. The full version could have been free.
well done.
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Yes, I know its a simple app and it could be free, but this is kind of an experiment for me to see if I can make money writing apps. It also will provide the encouragement I need to keep developing it. And yeah, the demo is just to make sure people don't get stuck buying the paid app and have it not work. Its not really intended to be useful.
Psychokitty said:
Bought it in hopes that you'll be further developing it. Further development on this that could really turn heads would be access to the full apps list with the ability to check mark which ones you want the taskbar hider to work with (and more importantly, which ones you don't).
Great idea. Looking forward to where this might go.
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Hey that's a great idea! I'll look into that.
arrtoodeetoo said:
Please consider making it work with multitouch gestures.
I have my tablet set to always stay in Landscape mode (unless an app forces me into portrait mode). So the current way of hiding and restoring the status bar is a PITA.
What you could (should) do is this.
Two finger swipe down off of the screen = Hide status bar.
Two finger swipe up onto the screen = Restore status bar.
Does that make sense?
It's a great start!
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Actually I was originally going to hook into the volume buttons, and have one hide it and one restore it, but I found that background services don't have access to the volume buttons. Orientation was less ideal, but It was something I could hook into from the background. I'm not sure if background services can see the gestures, but I will look into it! One thing I know I can do is look at the accelerometer instead of the orientation. That way even if you're locked, you can still rotate to show the bar. Of course.. then its sideways, and that's weird. But thanks for the words of encouragement as well!
turtlegss said:
It would be great if it would work with wizz or have like a wiz type bar where i can click bottom middle during any app and bring up home and back and multi task and then even better like wizz i can add my own!
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on adw ex I have swipe down as notifications. with this thing enabled. I swipe down and my notifications dont pop up really wished that I could swipe down for my notifications with the bar off
O well, guess its good for specific apps although I would really like to see it as a more accessible thing like wizzbar
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Ooh, yeah the app kills the process that contains the notifications, so that is one area where it won't work. Also, I said this above but I'm not sure if I can see gestures from a background process. But I will look into it for sure! That would definitely be better.
I also realized that if I implement the suggestion above about selecting which apps to disable my app on, I could have it also disabled on the home screen. That would be nice.
-Taylor

So, I just realized that the Market app doesn't allow rotation, and it can appear that you're stuck. I will definitely have to add a way to filter which apps this is enabled for.
For the meantime, you're not actually stuck in Market. Just use the menu on the top right and go to "Contact us" and it will open the browser.
Silly, for sure. I'll try to add the fix soon. Probably not till the weekend though.
-Taylor

arrtoodeetoo said:
What you could (should) do is this.
Two finger swipe down off of the screen = Hide status bar.
Two finger swipe up onto the screen = Restore status bar.
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+1
Awesome Work!

I have Wavelauncher installed and it's a good workaround. If I'm in an app that won't rotate I just swipe for Wavelaunch. It can show recent apps and user defined apps. If the app you want isn't listed, just pick one that does portrait to get the system bar back. If this app can come up there must be a way for you to do a swipe gesture to bring the bar back,
Anyway, thanks for this app! Love watching movies without the bar at the bottom!
Sent from my Xoom using XDA Premium App

I actually found virtual button bar in the market, works like a dream. Lovin the fullscreen now!
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A nice feature would be:
Have the system bar timeout and hide itself after a set time amount of inactivity. Say... if you do not touch anything that has to do with the system bar for a whole minute, it will automatically hide itself. Swiping up could bring it back up or something like that. Would be extremely useful. Kinda like how Windows has the auto hide taskbar feature to give more screen space.
Honestly, I think auto hiding the system bar should be something Google should cook up and bring natively to the Honeycomb tablets. It makes sense to do that if you think about it. I know that the icons and such will dim down to white dots after a few seconds while using certain parts of the system apps, but something like auto hiding the entire system bar altogether will be far superior.

I still like the idea of checking off the apps this is allowed to work in on a list. I imagine that's a lot of work.
Perhaps in the mean time, you could implement a hidden button that could toggle the taskbar by tapping in the extreme upper right or left corner. That (I imagine) should be a lot simpler to do for the time being.
I wouldn't hesitate to spend $2.00-2.50 on the finished app.

I hope you could get it to work with the international 3G Xoom. MZ601

Hey guys,
Man, I don't get what the deal is with forums *not* e-mailing me even though I have notifications enabled.
But yeah, I have been brainstorming ways to make this work better. The simplest idea, and what I will try to enable this weekend, is shaking the tablet to toggle the bar.
Hooking into rotation was the simplest thing and I just wanted to get off the ground and see if people liked it. Clearly you guys do (thanks!) so I gotta make this app easier to use.
I looked up how to do swiping, and apparently background apps are not supposed to have access to touch events, for security (imagine if an app secretly waited till your banking app was running and then watched locations pressed on the screen when you typed your password). So people seem to think apps that run in the background and read swipes are using some kind of unsupported security holes, and my initial search only found people not willing to talk about it. Still, I haven't spent much time on it yet, busy week!
But I will look at it this weekend and see what I can do to improve it. I also gotta shoot a youtube videos as I have what feels like a high rate of returns - I think it would be really helpful if people saw how it worked before downloading.
And I finally got a review, yay! Of course if you have any opinions on the app I'd love a review!
john85D said:
I hope you could get it to work with the international 3G Xoom. MZ601
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Does it not? Is your tablet rooted? This app cannot work without root, unfortunately.

Let me rephrase it. According to the market, your app is not compatible with my MZ601. When i do a search through the market it doesn't come up in the list. Its strange though since I was able to download your tester and it worked. I really would like to have this on my Xoom. And yes' I am rooted and running the Hammerhead ROM.
Have you checked your spam folder? A lot of times emails get marked as spam specially ibes coming from forums.

john85D said:
Let me rephrase it. According to the market, your app is not compatible with my MZ601. When i do a search through the market it doesn't come up in the list. Its strange though since I was able to download your tester and it worked. I really would like to have this on my Xoom. And yes' I am rooted and running the Hammerhead ROM.
Have you checked your spam folder? A lot of times emails get marked as spam specially ibes coming from forums.
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Hmm... weird. I haven't purposefully hidden it from any devices. As far as I am aware it should work with every Honeycomb device.
I'll look into that this weekend.
And I checked my spam folder. Nothing there. I'll double check my notification settings.
-Taylor

Facegarden said:
Hmm... weird. I haven't purposefully hidden it from any devices. As far as I am aware it should work with every Honeycomb device.
I'll look into that this weekend.
And I checked my spam folder. Nothing there. I'll double check my notification settings.
-Taylor
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Thanks. Looking forward to having it.

[Root][App] GMD AutoHide Soft Keys

I'm developing new app that will allow to hide soft keys without loosing notification bar. it also adds auto hiding navigation bar replacement.
No systems files modifications, no reboot.
I have Nexus 7 and tested it. Now I want to test the technology on more devices. Please, help me. you will find development version and more details here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40784783

I'm sure you can just add "qemu.hw.mainkeys=1" in the build.prop to do this?
Sent from my C6603 using xda app-developers app

xL3thalTuRdZz said:
I'm sure you can just add "qemu.hw.mainkeys=1" in the build.prop to do this?
Sent from my C6603 using xda app-developers app
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Then you need to reboot device and if you mess up build.prop permissions you will get boot loop. This app will allow to hide/restore navigation bar on the fly and risk free

I have installed the all bit it isn't work. It Makes another bar on the one present net.

StupidIdea said:
Then you need to reboot device and if you mess up build.prop permissions you will get boot loop. This app will allow to hide/restore navigation bar on the fly and risk free
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True.

fer2503 said:
I have installed the all bit it isn't work. It Makes another bar on the one present net.
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Your device is rooted right? Metallijim in Nexus 4 thread confirmed that it works on Xperia Z and added screenshot too. Did you try version 'without.detection' ?

I have stock rom with root.. I have installed the apk and granted superuser permission but it doesn't work

It works for my phone, it would be perfect if the red trigger line turns transparent. Great works.
從我使用 Tapatalk 2 的 C6603 發送

It's works but what does "touch" trigger mode?

Works perfect on KA07

the application launched, but in the application when i touch the menu button "...", my phone crash and reboot.
Envoyé depuis mon C6603 avec Tapatalk

Tried the app on my ZL. The auto-hiding works and the replacement reacts, but it is rather small, like the status bar. Allowing to change the dpi of the replacement would be appreciated.

xXYoshiXx said:
Tried the app on my ZL. The auto-hiding works and the replacement reacts, but it is rather small, like the status bar. Allowing to change the dpi of the replacement would be appreciated.
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I released new update and now you can adjust bar size.

The PlayStore says it is not compatible with the Xperia ZL.

xXYoshiXx said:
The PlayStore says it is not compatible with the Xperia ZL.
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I only enable tested devices. Enabled ZL now and it should be available in a few hours, when Play Store update its cache.

Still not available, maybe you have to enable the model c6503?

Thanks alot, this is excellent, going to buy pro if I don't exeperience any weird fc's or other issues

StupidIdea said:
Hi,
I'm developing new app that will allow to hide soft keys without loosing notification bar. it also adds auto hiding navigation bar replacement.
No systems files modifications, no reboot.
I have Nexus 7 and tested it. Now I want to test the technology on more devices. Please, help me. you will find development version and more details here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40784783
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The app works great and I like it!! Only some minor issues:
-When you change to full screen the wallpaper sometimes change to the original (known issue).
-When reboot sometimes the notification bar disappear for a minute or less.
-When you hide soft keys or show soft keys the percent battery on the status bar disappear.
Thank you

xXYoshiXx said:
Still not available, maybe you have to enable the model c6503?
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Thanks. Enabled c6503 now.
incodnita said:
The app works great and I like it!! Only some minor issues:
-When you change to full screen the wallpaper sometimes change to the original (known issue).
-When reboot sometimes the notification bar disappear for a minute or less.
-When you hide soft keys or show soft keys the percent battery on the status bar disappear.
Thank you
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These are a bit tricky to fix, but I'm researching it. I hope to improve Quick NavBar enough that you won't need turn on/off stock soft keys often. I added Google Now button in latest dev version release.

StupidIdea said:
Thanks. Enabled c6503 now.
These are a bit tricky to fix, but I'm researching it. I hope to improve Quick NavBar enough that you won't need turn on/off stock soft keys often. I added Google Now button in latest dev version release.
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Could you add the possibility to change the softkey distance and the possibility to change the softkey's png in the future release?...maybe only for pro. Fantastic work

[Q] How do you remove the menu bar at the bottom of the screen?

Hello,
Do someone know how to remove the menu bar at the bottom of the screen? I mean the bar with the 'home' , 'back', and 'windows' icons. It takes a lot of space and makes the screen look a lot smaller than 5".
Help?

Noreply18 said:
Hello,
Do someone know how to remove the menu bar at the bottom of the screen? I mean the bar with the 'home' , 'back', and 'windows' icons. It takes a lot of space and makes the screen look a lot smaller than 5".
Help?
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Are you being serious?
So how do you plan to navigate around your phone, they are nav keys for your phone, they are there because there are no hardware ones, without them you phone is pretty much useless to use.
You can buy apps of playstore which hide the keys I have used GMD auto hide soft keys there is a free one to try the paid version has quite a few more settings, there are ROM's that have smaller keys

root, install xposed module and then set navigation bar to 0
Then you can use gravity box with pie controls

Lol, of course not that way. I meant that i wanted to hide the bar in some kind of way. Do you think they will make it less visible in their future updates. Especially when Iæm watching a movie its quite annoying. If they are not going to fix it, they shouldn't say that the screen is 5". It takes a lot of the user experience away. In addition the Z1's screen is way smaller than the G2, if the bar cannot be invisible of some sort.
Do you think this will be fixed in the future updates?

You can remove nav bar like Greg just said and install app from app store...
MARKET LINK
This app will hide navigation bar when you don't need it or just want to make it smaller...
Sent from my Z1

You can also use LMT as a replacement for the nav bar
Wysyłane z mojego R800i za pomocą Tapatalk 2

Like someone just said using xposed installer with gravity box you can reduce the size of the navbar, but you will need root.
There is also an app called fullscreen in the play store that allows you to get rid of it and have icons in the corners of your screen instead.
Sent from my C6903 using xda app-developers app

Just installed 4.3 and root, but cant get rid of the sony nav bar using my usual method (fullscreen toggle app).
is this a 4.3 related issue? full screen toggle requested root permissions when i launched it, but when i select disable nav bar and reboot, the sony nav bar is still present? Anyone any ideas?
I much prefer button saviour for nav buttons, so i maximise screen real estate and swipe to access nav buttons

(Guide) Enable AirView and AirGesture without root

All credit goes to Uniquebarbee for finding this method.
Install Nova Launcher from the store launch it
Hold homescreen - shortcuts- activities - settings
find Air gesture - long press - turn it on from the options
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Press back button to comeback to settings menu to find AirView.
There are a lot of hidden options there, not all of them are working.

I have my Information preview enabled on all possible AirView settings but still it doesn't recognise my finger, only the pen.

Same here, perhaps the screen is different and Samsung did not bother to port this feature. It iis clear they try to remove all the unnecessary gimmicks from note 4

Vichenec said:
Same here, perhaps the screen is different and Samsung did not bother to port this feature. It iis clear they try to remove all the unnecessary gimmicks from note 4
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Pretty sure if those features are there, doesn't matter if hidden, it is possible to make it work. Guess we'll have to wait for 5.0

quadlt said:
Pretty sure if those features are there, doesn't matter if hidden, it is possible to make it work. Guess we'll have to wait for 5.0
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I am rooted if that helps I also installed Galaxy Tools to Enable all notification Toggles Nova launch is used to create shortcut activites settings drag to home scrren air gestures and smart scroll I rebooted after turning on these settings for good measures. I can wave my hands at pictures air call accept NO QUICK GLANCE tho just Air WAKE-UP Lame but it is what it is

SO what is the point of this thread?

Yeah this is a bit pointless unless anyone has found anything that can be enabled this way!

jeccross said:
Yeah this is a bit pointless unless anyone has found anything that can be enabled this way!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/themes-apps/air-gestures-t2916882/page3
post #28 Air view, air gestures, smart scroll will work on the Note 4 Samsung has hidden the features I have enabled them.

Added this to my no-root solutions thread. Thanks! :highfive:

iridaki said:
Added this to my no-root solutions thread. Thanks! :highfive:
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False
Uniquebarb above said the b4 is rooted.
Ive tried several times and all result in failure.
This is not possible on non rooted devices.

Lol, I cannot believe there are people who still want these gimmicky features that plagued the Galaxy S4.

Vichenec said:
All credit goes to Uniquebarbee for finding this method.
Install Nova Launcher from the store launch it
Hold homescreen - shortcuts- activities - settings
find Air gesture - long press - turn it on from the options
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Press back button to comeback to settings menu to find AirView.
View attachment 2991113
There are a lot of hidden options there, not all of them are working.
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I AM ROOTED If you have international rom this may not work

evoxsin said:
False
Uniquebarb above said the b4 is rooted.
Ive tried several times and all result in failure.
This is not possible on non rooted devices.
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But Nova Launcher can be installed on non-rooted phones. The only thing that may require root is to put a quick toggle in the notification dropdown. Right?
If it doesn't work for you it may have something to do with your firmware, these are stock Samsung features, I doubt they'd require root to work.
iR¡[email protected]!* from i9505 via Tapatalk 4

I may have misunderstood the issue but I think u can just turn on air wake up gesture just by going into accessibility and than choose dexterity and interaction. You will find the air menu. Just turn it on

iridaki said:
But Nova Launcher can be installed on non-rooted phones. The only thing that may require root is to put a quick toggle in the notification dropdown. Right?
If it doesn't work for you it may have something to do with your firmware, these are stock Samsung features, I doubt they'd require root to work.
iR¡[email protected]!* from i9505 via Tapatalk 4
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You are correct I added root AFTER these steps yes notification toggles one of the reasons I added root for other reasons as well but you can use Nova Apex any third party launcher that you can add shortcuts-->activities - - >settings-->air gestures u must drag to the home screen to open - - >open air gestures turn on whatever you'd like repeat steps for smart scroll I rebooted just because and everything works. Yes I am stock rooted some custom roms include this already some of my circles are blank see my network connector and that other on. Some people use Sqlite editor to add toggles I choose Galaxy Tools
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Syd91 said:
I may have misunderstood the issue but I think u can just turn on air wake up gesture just by going into accessibility and than choose dexterity and interaction. You will find the air menu. Just turn it on
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You totally misunderstood these are air gestures like the s4/s55/Note 3 have
Wave your hand across your screen in gallery do you pictures turnleft/right can you wave your hand to answer a call can you wave your hand to skip music tracks these are air gestures

Uniquebarbee said:
You are correct I added root AFTER these steps yes notification toggles one of the reasons I added root for other reasons as well but you can use Nova Apex any third party launcher that you can add shortcuts-->activities - - >settings-->air gestures u must drag to the home screen to open - - >open air gestures turn on whatever you'd like repeat steps for smart scroll I rebooted just because and everything works. Yes I am stock rooted some custom roms include this already some of my circles are blank see my network connector and that other on. Some people use Sqlite editor to add toggles I choose Galaxy Tools
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You totally misunderstood these are air gestures like the s4/s55/Note 3 have
Wave your hand across your screen in gallery do you pictures turnleft/right can you wave your hand to answer a call can you wave your hand to skip music tracks these are air gestures
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Oh Right, I forgot about that feature I had them in my note 3, I never used them except at the beginning cuz they worked on trial and error basis and wasnt very helpful for me. I guess since the hardware for note 4 has upgraded these gestures might be more accurate.
anyway goodluck.

You are correct. I did it & it seems to work ok..............

Vichenec said:
All credit goes to Uniquebarbee for finding this method.
Install Nova Launcher from the store launch it
Hold homescreen - shortcuts- activities - settings
find Air gesture - long press - turn it on from the options
View attachment 2991101
Press back button to comeback to settings menu to find AirView.
View attachment 2991113
There are a lot of hidden options there, not all of them are working.
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Just picked up my New Note 4. Am I going to have to Run Nova Launcher as my Primary Launcher to have AIr View & Air Gesture tools (without Root)???
I love Next 3D & that is the Launcher I primarily use. I also Love the Air View, Air Gesture, & Quick Glance. I want them features but I don't want Nova. Any Advise??? I saw that the Guy up there said he was ROOTED. I thought there wasnt anyway to ROOT the VZW Note 4? If there is but it will trip Knox, Im Ok with that & can someone point me in that direction. Thanks! Jason

jasonsc1 said:
Just picked up my New Note 4. Am I going to have to Run Nova Launcher as my Primary Launcher to have AIr View & Air Gesture tools (without Root)???
I love Next 3D & that is the Launcher I primarily use. I also Love the Air View, Air Gesture, & Quick Glance. I want them features but I don't want Nova. Any Advise??? I saw that the Guy up there said he was ROOTED. I thought there wasnt anyway to ROOT the VZW Note 4? If there is but it will trip Knox, Im Ok with that & can someone point me in that direction. Thanks! Jason
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Nova launcher is used only to get to shortcuts activities if your favorite launcher has shortcuts to activities then by all means use it I don't use Nova launcher I just needed it to activate the features I don't have Verizon so I'm not sure about root on that but it will trip knox no biggie

I am not rooted and I can confirm these instructions work.

Stuck on "You're using full screen mode", swiping up does nothing

Just got an S8. When I go full screen, I get this overlay. I can't get rid of it. Nothing wrong with my touchscreen, swiping up works everywhere else, just not in full screen mode.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
You're using full screen mode. The home, back and recents buttons are hidden to minimize visual distractions and to prevent you from leaving the app accidentally.
However you're holding your phone the buttons will always be located next to the charging port. When your phone is rotated counterclockwise, swipe left from the edge of the screen as shown by the arrow.

This is the note 8 section, you say you are using a S8, but, it seems that the full screen message you are getting is related to the app you are using, not the device itself

winol said:
This is the note 8 section, you say you are using a S8, but, it seems that the full screen message you are getting is related to the app you are using, not the device itself
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Sorry, just posted it there at S8.
Thanks for your help. The full screen issue actually occurs wherever and whenever I go full screen. It's quite frustrating because I basically can't watch anything without this annoying overlay. I only found one other person who apparently fixed it, and his solution didn't work for me. I wiped the cache, restarted multiple times, toggled off then on full screen apps. To no avail.

Ok, maybe some app you use that has the inmersive function is keeping it even when not in use? Again, the message you are getting does not look like a system one

That's the tool tip you get when you choose to autohide through navbar in Oreo. But swiping up on the arrow is supposed to take you to the next tip in the little mini tutorial. If that's not working, then something is booked. Maybe a factory reset.

Mr. Orange 645 said:
That's the tool tip you get when you choose to autohide through navbar in Oreo. But swiping up on the arrow is supposed to take you to the next tip in the little mini tutorial. If that's not working, then something is booked. Maybe a factory reset.
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I reset it from the settings and also the "wipe cache/data" option. Didn't fix it, unfortunately. I also went to settings and disabled all apps (including system's) that can appear on top of others, and can change settings. When I turned on "Show touches", I can see that the touch works in that region. And I also did that touch screen test and I could fill in green all the spots there too. It's so frustrating, I can't watch anything or play a game without this stupid overlay.
I've been just thinking of waiting for Pie to come, maybe this thing will go away. But I don't know how I can seek help for this.

gladiatorland said:
I reset it from the settings and also the "wipe cache/data" option. Didn't fix it, unfortunately. I also went to settings and disabled all apps (including system's) that can appear on top of others, and can change settings. When I turned on "Show touches", I can see that the touch works in that region. And I also did that touch screen test and I could fill in green all the spots there too. It's so frustrating, I can't watch anything or play a game without this stupid overlay.
I've been just thinking of waiting for Pie to come, maybe this thing will go away. But I don't know how I can seek help for this.
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Are you using a home screen launcher app other than Samsung's own?

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Are you using a home screen launcher app other than Samsung's own?
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Nope, just plain standard mode TouchWiz. What actually ended up happening is I called Samsung. Apparently they can remote control with a mouse, so they simply swiped from their side and, boom, the message went away. So it looks like there's something on my side preventing swipes from the charging port. It's strange because I still sometimes get responses when I touch on the bottom edge; I can actually press on the navigation bar buttons and they work fine, but swiping doesn't work from that area. So now, when I'm watching a video, I'm forced to swipe the status bar down to show the navigation bar, instead of from the charging port. Also, when I go to the Notes app and begin drawing, I can see the line tracing until it reaches the bottom edge, where it just stops even when there is more space. I know that there is a crack on the bottom left. Maybe I need to replace the screen or, possibly, the digitizer.

Maybe this is a first time you are using fullscreen mode with app have function hide navbar (not using full touch gestures in stock rom).
Solution
Just disable funtion hide navbar in your third app
When you are open app full screen like youfube, this warning will appear and you just press button Got It. It will show anymore.
Then, reactive hide navbar.

Hi, I have the same problem. Any solution ?

I had this problem and fixed it by opening a YouTube video full screen. The YouTube app does allow you get rid of the message while most other apps I've tried won't.

Finally solved it by swiping from the arrow side and hit the word OK

Hive got +1 nord 2003 phone. İve got cubasis with a missing right side buttons in that. So got to the menu found screen optiin for the front camera. İts got options because the camera has a place on the screen . So that menu follows about the screen should act how for the front camera if disturbs you. Then choose the app and select dont hide its solved

gladiatorland said:
Just got an S8. When I go full screen, I get this overlay. I can't get rid of it. Nothing wrong with my touchscreen, swiping up works everywhere else, just not in full screen mode.
You're using full screen mode. The home, back and recents buttons are hidden to minimize visual distractions and to prevent you from leaving the app accidentally.
However you're holding your phone the buttons will always be located next to the charging port. When your phone is rotated counterclockwise, swipe left from the edge of the screen as shown by the arrow.
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I have the same screen on my daughter's Galaxy A54. We just configured the new phone. But now she cannot swipe to unlock the phone. Help please!