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CM7 "N" Key / Back - best options?

I'm not running any extra virtual key apps... What I want to do... is have the physical N button do a BACK on 1 click, and HOME on 2 clicks... Or normal click BACK, and LONG click HOME...
I've looked through some of the settings - can't tell how to set that up (if at all).
Any thoughts?

Why not use the soft keys built in to CM7?

Sometimes the status bar is gone... either because something causes it to hide, or because I hide it.
MHotovec said:
Why not use the soft keys built in to CM7?
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The best setup so far (imho), is to set the soft keys show up at volume button press.
Since the power button or N button tend to fail sometimes.
By doing that, you can hide soft keys with no fear and just presse volume button to bring they back to the screen, flawless.

@blauson
I hate doing that because if I need to change volume I need to leave the app, go into settings, and change it manually. :/
Somehow my "n" button got turned into a back button. Weird. Would much rather haave it be a menu button. but I dont even know how it changed in the first place! lol

DiscoPh3v3r said:
@blauson
I hate doing that because if I need to change volume I need to leave the app, go into settings, and change it manually. :/
Somehow my "n" button got turned into a back button. Weird. Would much rather haave it be a menu button. but I dont even know how it changed in the first place! lol
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I run phiremod so it's in: settings, phiremod settings, tablet tweaks, choose unhide button

DiscoPh3v3r said:
@blauson
I hate doing that because if I need to change volume I need to leave the app, go into settings, and change it manually. :/
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My volume still works when I use it to recall the status bar.
Rodney

rhester72 said:
My volume still works when I use it to recall the status bar.
Rodney
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Really? Then I will have to see what's up, last time I was always running around the settings and stuff to change the volume.
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I run phiremod so it's in: settings, phiremod settings, tablet tweaks, choose unhide button
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I am using Rooted Stock 1.2, way better battery life IMO.

rhester72 said:
My volume still works when I use it to recall the status bar.
Rodney
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I second on that.
I'm running nightly 131.
No problem to change the volume neither to show up soft keys.

I use the N key to cancel full screen. Its more comfortable to use than the volume keys for me.

Hrm.. that would work... Where do I configure what the N key does?
dalingrin said:
I use the N key to cancel full screen. Its more comfortable to use than the volume keys for me.
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dalingrin said:
I use the N key to cancel full screen. Its more comfortable to use than the volume keys for me.
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This is how I've been doing it as well, but sometimes it brings me all the way back to home after showing the status bar. Do you ever experience that? Any tips if so?
Regardless, I like my volume buttons to be... well... volume buttons.

You could use button savior to have a never-hide home only option button located on the very right side by the N button, leaving that slot unused on adw launcher and treat it as a "permanent" home button.

TheAmazingDave said:
This is how I've been doing it as well, but sometimes it brings me all the way back to home after showing the status bar. Do you ever experience that? Any tips if so?
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That's precisely why I haven't used the n button - if there is a way to avoid it, that would be fantastic!
Rodney

The best thing I ever did was install zMooth. Its a gesture bar that lets you draw the buttons. Almost like my old pre.
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jeremymahoney said:
The best thing I ever did was install zMooth. Its a gesture bar that lets you draw the buttons. Almost like my old pre.
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Looks interesting, but the only gesture I can manage to make it recognize is home. Any special tricks to this?
Rodney

It has always worked well for me. Have you used the nook screen recalibrate app? Before I ran that I had a really hard time getting the lower part of my screen to recognize my touch. I think there are some sensitivity settings in the zMooth app you can play around with too.
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[Q] long press doesnt really kill app

hi:
on cm9 or the latest cm10, a long press on the back button says app killed yet it still seems like the app is only minimized..
is there some other setting ive been missing?
no biggie, but would be really nice... plus i could apply the same thing to my wifes N7
thanx

when you say "minimized" what do you mean?

haxin said:
when you say "minimized" what do you mean?
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there are 3 buttons on bottom left :: back, home, and running apps.
long press just does about the same as pushing home ..
all long pressed apps still show as running in that button.
even using back button over and over doesnt close any app or browser..
no matter what , i have to manually close apps

amkaos said:
there are 3 buttons on bottom left :: back, home, and running apps.
long press just does about the same as pushing home ..
all long pressed apps still show as running in that button.
even using back button over and over doesnt close any app or browser..
no matter what , i have to manually close apps
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ok i'm familiar with the buttons on the notification/status bar, however the "running apps" button is not running apps button, it's "recently used apps" button. it doesnt mean that the app is still running.

well, I should probably be embarrassed.. so I am a little..
thanx for that.. Every day I understand android a little more..
if I knew of a way to automatically clear that column, I would..
thanx

amkaos said:
well, I should probably be embarrassed.. so I am a little..
thanx for that.. Every day I understand android a little more..
if I knew of a way to automatically clear that column, I would..
thanx
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you can clear the recently used apps by swiping them left or right with your finger.

amkaos said:
well, I should probably be embarrassed.. so I am a little..
thanx for that.. Every day I understand android a little more..
if I knew of a way to automatically clear that column, I would..
thanx
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I know on CM10 (for Atrix) there's a little button on top right that clears all recent apps. I didn't see it on CM9. Swiping is the only way it seems. Change it to webOS style and it's more fun!
Cheers
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amkaos said:
well, I should probably be embarrassed.. so I am a little..
thanx for that.. Every day I understand android a little more..
if I knew of a way to automatically clear that column, I would..
thanx
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I am running the latest version of cm10 and this and the previous version when you tap the recent apps button third in from the left i see 3 small horizontal lines in the bottom left hand corner, tapping this removes all the little windows in recent apps.

yees to all those things

[Q] Enable Software + Disable Hardware Buttons

So I have a general disdain for capacative buttons. I had planned to go into build.prop and add
qemu.hw.mainkeys=0
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as well as go into /system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl and comment out keys 158 and 172 (Back and Home respectively). This would disable the hardware buttons and enable software buttons. The problem is that every time I reboot, the system automatically restores the original versions of both files. Does anyone know how I could prevent this apparent safety function? It's proving far more of an annoyance than a benefit.

rougegoat said:
So I have a general disdain for capacative buttons. I had planned to go into build.prop and add
as well as go into /system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl and comment out keys 158 and 172 (Back and Home respectively). This would disable the hardware buttons and enable software buttons. The problem is that every time I reboot, the system automatically restores the original versions of both files. Does anyone know how I could prevent this apparent safety function? It's proving far more of an annoyance than a benefit.
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not until we have s-off. The emmc checks files against its last known configuration and discards any changes. Its been that way since the evo3d. its the same reason supercid wont stick also.

Well that's extremely disappointing. The buttons on here are driving me mad. Who thought it was a good idea to have the home button do three things not one of which is go directly to the homescreen? I was really hoping to get around them.
Any word on the S-Off progress?

rougegoat said:
Well that's extremely disappointing. The buttons on here are driving me mad. Who thought it was a good idea to have the home button do three things not one of which is go directly to the homescreen? I was really hoping to get around them.
Any word on the S-Off progress?
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My home button goes to the home screen maybe you're holding your lips wrong
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benmatlock said:
My home button goes to the home screen maybe you're holding your lips wrong
Sent from my rooted unlocked rommed HTC One, on the Sprint network.
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One press goes to whatever page of the launcher was last in use(not always a Homescreen, most often app drawer)
Double press goes to multi-task
Long press goes to Google Now.
There is no "always go directly to the homescreen" action associated with the home button.

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One press goes to whatever page of the launcher was last in use(not always a Homescreen, most often app drawer)
Double press goes to multi-task
Long press goes to Google Now.
There is no "always go directly to the homescreen" action associated with the home button.
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I find a 2nd press of home brings me all the way back home when app drawer, or non home blink feed was previously used...

tmuka said:
I find a 2nd press of home brings me all the way back home when app drawer, or non home blink feed was previously used...
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So now you have two very different functions tied to the same action for a total of four actions associated with the Home button, none of which is "go directly to the Homescreen". What you present here is "Go to last page used in the launcher, then go to the default homescreen."

rougegoat said:
So now you have two very different functions tied to the same action for a total of four actions associated with the Home button, none of which is "go directly to the Homescreen". What you present here is "Go to last page used in the launcher, then go to the default homescreen."
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Yeah, sorry, i realize i didn't answer your question. I hope you find the low level solution you're searching for, and that my tip helps you in the short term.

rougegoat said:
So I have a general disdain for capacative buttons. I had planned to go into build.prop and add
as well as go into /system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl and comment out keys 158 and 172 (Back and Home respectively). This would disable the hardware buttons and enable software buttons. The problem is that every time I reboot, the system automatically restores the original versions of both files. Does anyone know how I could prevent this apparent safety function? It's proving far more of an annoyance than a benefit.
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try flashing viper's zip here is the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236849
HTC ONE

luisrod03 said:
try flashing viper's zip here is the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236849
HTC ONE
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No dice. The files are editable but have no impact.

Is there now any way to disable the hardware keys? I only want to have software keys (paranoid android 4.4 rc1)
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[REQUEST] Reachability

Hey all I was wondering if there was an app where we can double tap the home button and it brings the top half of the screen down so that way we can reach buttons easier. The iPhone six has this feature and I think it would come in handy on all big phones like the iPhone six.
Sometimes when your trying to use the phone one handed you just can't reach the hamburger button on the Play Store.
Nothing major but I'm sure it'll be something that people would use.
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Maybe for Xposed once it's released for ART

I know something better. Pie
Just need one to control the hamburger.
It's been working perfectly this whole week with the menu button.

Bjray said:
I know something better. Pie
Just need one to control the hamburger.
It's been working perfectly this whole week with the menu button.
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I've tried Pie and I just don't like it. This is why Android should have never abandoned the Menu button.

Baldilocks said:
I've tried Pie and I just don't like it. This is why Android should have never abandoned the Menu button.
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Long pressing the recent apps is the new menu button.

Pilz said:
Long pressing the recent apps is the new menu button.
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That only works with Samsung devices.

Baldilocks said:
That only works with Samsung devices.
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It works on my G3 (just tested it) but I haven't felt a need to use the menu button in along time.

Swipepad with Nova launcher
when you are adding a pad,go to shortcuts then nova action and then you can pick expand notification bar or/and expand quick settings

how do you access "menu" in apps now?

on my note 7 you'd long press recent apps, and it would bring up menu, how do you access the menu button now? I came across an app today that didn't have an onscreen software menu button and couldn't figure out where Samsung buried the menu button this time.
thanks!

I only have one app that I use that is like that, on my Note 5 long pressing the back button brought up the menu. I use the same version app on my Note 8 but on the Note 8 to the right of the back button 3 dots appear to bring up the menu. I tried the long pressing the back button anyway but it doesn't do anything. That's the only app that I use where I have ever seen the 3 dots appear to the right of the back button, so far anyway.

really so it just appeared for you in that app on its own?
interesting, it isn't in my app. surely there's a way to toggle menu tho right? Samsung didn't completely remove it did they?

Yeah, I didn't do anything, it just appears on it own. Screenshot attached showing the 3 dots & the menu that it brings up.
There is another way but it's kind of annoying. Go to settings>accessibility>dexterity & interaction, then enable assistant menu. It'll put a round button on the screen, opening that & holding down the back button will bring up the hidden menu. That's the annoying part but at least you can move the button around to anywhere on the screen.
That's the weird part, long pressing the back button in that assistant menu will bring up the hidden menu just like it did for my Note 5 but long pressing the actual back button on my Note 8 doesn't do anything.

WOW, that assistant menu trick actually worked... dude that's genius, thanks! I only needed the menu for a second to adjust an important setting, can't thank you enough!

soraxd said:
WOW, that assistant menu trick actually worked... dude that's genius, thanks! I only needed the menu for a second to adjust an important setting, can't thank you enough!
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No problem. Glad it worked out for you! That's actually how I had to do it on my Note 5. There was some kind of glitch, even though the back button brought up the menu, as soon as I released the back button the menu would disappear sometimes. Using the assistant menu was the only other way I could do it.

soraxd said:
WOW, that assistant menu trick actually worked... dude that's genius, thanks! I only needed the menu for a second to adjust an important setting, can't thank you enough!
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That shouren04 is a diamond with his help. Cheers.
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