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[Q] Revert "recently used" button to "back"?

My apologies if this has already been addressed - searched but turned up nothing useful.
Call me old fashion - or just set in my ways - but I cannot get past this lack of a physical/capacitive menu button. I'm coming from the Note 2, where I'd used NOVA to set the long-hold Home key to be the recently used app list. I almost NEVER used it - yet I use the menu button in nearly every app. I cannot see how the recently used app has a higher draw than the menu, but I digress...
Has anyone figured out how to re-map the buttons?

erkme73 said:
My apologies if this has already been addressed - searched but turned up nothing useful.
Call me old fashion - or just set in my ways - but I cannot get past this lack of a physical/capacitive menu button. I'm coming from the Note 2, where I'd used NOVA to set the long-hold Home key to be the recently used app list. I almost NEVER used it - yet I use the menu button in nearly every app. I cannot see how the recently used app has a higher draw than the menu, but I digress...
Has anyone figured out how to re-map the buttons?
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I have an s5 and it took me a while to get used to this also. In most apps if you long hold the recents button it will bring up the app settings or options menu. I also just placed the phone settings icon in the drawer on the home screen for easy access to phone settings menu.

erkme73 said:
My apologies if this has already been addressed - searched but turned up nothing useful.
Call me old fashion - or just set in my ways - but I cannot get past this lack of a physical/capacitive menu button. I'm coming from the Note 2, where I'd used NOVA to set the long-hold Home key to be the recently used app list. I almost NEVER used it - yet I use the menu button in nearly every app. I cannot see how the recently used app has a higher draw than the menu, but I digress...
Has anyone figured out how to re-map the buttons?
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You need xposed, and install xposed additions! I hate the back button on the right side so I switched it around and now it's on the left side. Just turned off the hard keys lights also.

yes long press the recent apps button then the menu will pop up at the bottom
Long press the recent apps button then the menu will pop up at the bottom

btort1 said:
You need xposed, and install xposed additions! I hate the back button on the right side so I switched it around and now it's on the left side. Just turned off the hard keys lights also.
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I downloaded, installed and rebooted, but the options are greyed out on mine. Any idea why this is?
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strider5236 said:
I downloaded, installed and rebooted, but the options are greyed out on mine. Any idea why this is?
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Never mind, got it to take after a couple reboots. Thanks for the info on this.:good:

[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 i set the button on asus watch 3

How can I set the top button on the watch. I read the manual and it mentioned ....go to the button app? Me be I'm blond but I can't find if? Is there somebody who can help me ?

On the watch, scroll through the app list and search for "Button setting" app. You can only set the top button, bottom one is always eco mode.

Thanks I found it
Thanks for the help. I was in the app list before , couple of times bud never the button settings showd up. Now it did. Thanks

Button Settings app
I must have unpaired and re-paired my zenwatch 3 a dozen times already
and downloaded the latest zenwatch manager and the android wear app
from the play store several times but I never did see the "button settings"
app in my app drawer's list of apps in the watch.
Other than this button settings app issue my zenwatch 3 works perfectly.
Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks,

Misterjunky said:
I must have unpaired and re-paired my zenwatch 3 a dozen times already
and downloaded the latest zenwatch manager and the android wear app
from the play store several times but I never did see the "button settings"
app in my app drawer's list of apps in the watch.
Other than this button settings app issue my zenwatch 3 works perfectly.
Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
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same

I seen no Button Settings app in my App Drawer until I actually pressed a button.
Got a dialog saying change the Top Button with the Button Settings app.
Now I see the Button Settings App in the app drawer.

re: button settings app - zenwatch 3
AstroDigital said:
I seen no Button Settings app in my App Drawer until I actually pressed a button.
Got a dialog saying change the Top Button with the Button Settings app.
Now I see the Button Settings App in the app drawer.
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The PDF user guide for zenwatch 3 is almost useless but
I found the button settings app the same way as you did.

Misterjunky said:
The PDF user guide for zenwatch 3 is almost useless but
I found the button settings app the same way as you did.
And whoever said that only the top button is programmable
did not know what he was talking about and most likely does
not even own a zenwatch 3.
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I wouldn't be too harsh on the person saying that bottom button wasn't programmable. Initially the bottom button was not programmable. But a subsequent update to the phone Zenwatch app permitted programming to the bottom button.

re: button settings
TabGuy said:
I wouldn't be too harsh on the person saying that bottom button wasn't programmable. Initially the bottom button was not programmable. But a subsequent update to the phone Zenwatch app permitted programming to the bottom button.
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You are right, I just edited my post.......
Have a great day!

jea.most said:
How can I set the top button on the watch. I read the manual and it mentioned ....go to the button app? Me be I'm blond but I can't find if? Is there somebody who can help me ?
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the button settings are in the app menu swipe to the left when on time
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jea.most said:
How can I set the top button on the watch. I read the manual and it mentioned ....go to the button app? Me be I'm blond but I can't find if? Is there somebody who can help me ?
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the button settings are in the app menu swipe to the left when on time
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Zen watch 3
Buttons is not in my apps ,that echo setting is!! Also I noticed that Android wear is not working great on zen 3 ?,I noticed that when you go to silence phone through that app it doesn't work ,only way I can silence phone is put it on mute!! But then il probably won't get sound from watch ,iv noticed battery only lasting 4 to 5 hrs then when I go to charge it ? Its saying battery 100% fo why draining so fast also gets very hot hope someone can help Thanks

Looks like with AW 2 you set function of top and bottom buttons Under Personalisation - Customise hardware buttons

I came to the ZenWatch 3 after using the Pebble Time Round. That watch has 4 programmable buttons than each can be programmed to starts apps with press and long press.
Is there any way (perhaps an app or mod) of letting us set additional apps to be started when long pressing the top or bottom buttons.
If not, anyone up for creating such an app?

re: long press buttons
Peter Walker said:
I came to the ZenWatch 3 after using the Pebble Time Round. That watch has 4 programmable buttons than each can be programmed to starts apps with press and long press.
Is there any way (perhaps an app or mod) of letting us set additional apps to be started when long pressing the top or bottom buttons.
If not, anyone up for creating such an app?
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There is no such feature of long pressing top or bottom buttons
to open apps and there are no mods or addons which can do it.
Sorry about that.
Good luck,
Have a great day!

Thanks for the info. It would be a great idea if this could be implemented. Would this have to be done by ASUS or Google Wear team? Could a mod be written to do this? It would be a great feature and make those buttons twice as useful. Surely a no-brainer - why has nobody asked for this before?
There are apps that can remap the main central button, after all.

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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Multi window option missing after pie update

Any one else having this issue please report or am i missing something

farhanzs said:
Any one else having this issue please report or am i missing something
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no you not losing it..... after all the build up to pie.... it seems its come more dysfunctional.!
remember they removed action memo.... by the time we get to android X the s pen will become just ahead scratcher!

farhanzs said:
Any one else having this issue please report or am i missing something
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It is not missed but working differently.
You need to long press the open program button at the bottom of the screen and then choose the second window program you want.
Hope this helps
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grtmoby said:
It is not missed but working differently.
You need to long press the open program button at the bottom of the screen and then choose the second window program you want.
Hope this helps
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Thanks bro....but what about the feature where we can resize the window by swiping from top right or left

It is now only available as up and down, no right or left (at least I couldn't find it)
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When in recent menu, just click the app icon. You will see the multi-window floating app option

It is soooooo annoying that you cannot swipe down and left/right from a corner to resize it to window view. Same thing with not being able to change recent apps view for a list.
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Yeah this is totally a feature I used often. Especially when playing YouTube video and don't want to interrupt the playback I could swipe from either top corner and start using another application without interrupting the video or sound.
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edwardob said:
no you not losing it..... after all the build up to pie.... it seems its come more dysfunctional.!
remember they removed action memo.... by the time we get to android X the s pen will become just ahead scratcher!
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was having a bad day until I read this! [email protected] head scrather :laugh::laugh::laugh:
and can anyone Confirm I will suffer no " Sudden device death syndrome" if i Chose not to update until i Change this device?
really don't Understand how removing useful functions count as upgrades or Improvement. i still havent forgiven samsung for removing action Memo and easy chart. Why take away a useful function???

Glad I found this. I thought I was going mad.
Largely on the same subject, so rather than start a new thread...
Where has the button gone that swaps the top and bottom apps around when running two apps in splitscreen mode?
There used to be a few handy buttons between the two running apps, have they been ditched?

Multi window gone
My phone just updated and now my multi window feature is gone, I've gone thru every setting to find it

When viewing you're recent opened apps, each app has their icon at the top centre of it. Click on the icon. You'll get a small pop-up menu with options. You can choose: App info, open in split screen, pop up mode (where you can resize the app) and lock it.
I don't know yet what the lock functions does.
EDIT:
As mine is in Dutch, could be that the lock function has a different name in English.
The lock function: If you lock an app, and then close all recent apps, the locked app wil stay open. So if you're playing a game, you can lock it, close all recent apps and the game will stay open and running.

MSRemmert said:
Glad I found this. I thought I was going mad.
Largely on the same subject, so rather than start a new thread...
Where has the button gone that swaps the top and bottom apps around when running two apps in splitscreen mode?
There used to be a few handy buttons between the two running apps, have they been ditched?
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Yep, that was also removed. You can't popout the selected app, you can't switch app places. So, if you opened firstly viber (for example) and then youtube at the bottom and then decide to switch the apps place so you can type on viber without covering the youtube video - tough luck, now you have to close both app and open them again vs 2 taps in 1-2 seconds that will not interrupt anything. Also you miss the popout swipe from corner as said from others. You also miss the swipe up + hold for instant split screen (really useful when you play a video @ youtube, will not interrupt the video). You have the swipe up + hold for google assistant... but you don't have the same for the recents - go figure why (never mis-triggered the assistant, so it's not that). So many things are missing, half baked or straight forward broken - really disappointed. I like some aspects of the android 9 one UI, but others are just mind blow not polished at all or missing. I guess to have a "new" things for one UI 2.0 or note 10. After all, why you need a good multiwindow functionality on a phone marketed for multitasking and multiwindow? The note 9 really is more than ever an s9+ with a head scratcher.

grtmoby said:
It is not missed but working differently.
You need to long press the open program button at the bottom of the screen and then choose the second window program you want.
Hope this helps
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Just to add to this, you can switch between multi view and currently open apps by holding down on the previous apps button for 2 secs then you can choose by 2 second press if you want multi window or just currently open apps.

I don't like that if you want to choose an app not in the recent window, you have to close all to be able to choose an app. Their multi-window has taken huge steps backwards. Kinda disappointing since that has always been a defining feature.
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Well, I will correct myself, you can swipe to the home screen while choosing and select a different app that is not already in the recent window.

When you open Samsung members app the first thing that appears is something called advices... if you tap you will see some changes on the pie update ...

Other pie screwups
That's not all you've lost, my friend. The multi window setting is gone, as you know. The ability to swipe from the corner to resize and go multi window is gone, as you know. However, additionally, i noticed the following:
- The ability to enter your fingerprints to access Samsung browser secrecy mode is gone/disabled. You can only enter using iris scan or password.
- The phone optimisation edge panel is gone and nowhere to be seen.
- when you deactivate the nav bar in favour of swipe gestures, you cannot long press on the recent apps swipe area to enable split screen multitasking, as you would have with the recent apps button on the nav bar.
I hope there's a bug fix coming and soon

Try multi window app
farhanzs said:
Thanks bro....but what about the feature where we can resize the window by swiping from top right or left
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Try the edge screen app Multi Window for quick popup windows..
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farhanzs said:
Thanks bro....but what about the feature where we can resize the window by swiping from top right or left
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Bo21 said:
I don't like that if you want to choose an app not in the recent window, you have to close all to be able to choose an app. Their multi-window has taken huge steps backwards. Kinda disappointing since that has always been a defining feature.
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Well, I will correct myself, you can swipe to the home screen while choosing and select a different app that is not already in the recent window.
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You can also use the search bar for the app you want when in the app switcher multi window selecter.
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high_voltage said:
Yep, that was also removed. You can't popout the selected app, you can't switch app places. So, if you opened firstly viber (for example) and then youtube at the bottom and then decide to switch the apps place so you can type on viber without covering the youtube video - tough luck, now you have to close both app and open them again vs 2 taps in 1-2 seconds that will not interrupt anything. Also you miss the popout swipe from corner as said from others. You also miss the swipe up + hold for instant split screen (really useful when you play a video @ youtube, will not interrupt the video). You have the swipe up + hold for google assistant... but you don't have the same for the recents - go figure why (never mis-triggered the assistant, so it's not that). So many things are missing, half baked or straight forward broken - really disappointed. I like some aspects of the android 9 one UI, but others are just mind blow not polished at all or missing. I guess to have a "new" things for one UI 2.0 or note 10. After all, why you need a good multiwindow functionality on a phone marketed for multitasking and multiwindow? The note 9 really is more than ever an s9+ with a head scratcher.
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You can also swipe the multi screen spliter inbetween each app to fully open the bottom app and then select a different app for the bottom... it's still hokey but quicker than exiting out of both apps

Instructions...
https://www.sammobile.com/2019/01/04/how-to-open-apps-in-multi-window-one-ui-android-pie/amp/

grtmoby said:
It is not missed but working differently.
You need to long press the open program button at the bottom of the screen and then choose the second window program you want.
Hope this helps
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This is not working for me. I'm holding the 3 line open app navigation bar button....nothing.