Hardware Menu Button obsolete? - Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello xda'rs! I just upgraded to the note 5 64gb verizon from an antique galaxy s3. Huge technology boost for me so a bit slow on the learning curve coming to the note series.
On my s3 I had an options button just left of the home button that I could tap while in certain apps and access app options. On the note 5 that button is now a "recent apps" button. I'm sorry if this is a noob question but I have tried playing with multiple settings all day to change this "recent apps" button to a "menu" button.

Menu buttons have been eliminated most apps have a touch "menu" usually composed of 3 dots. I don't typically find myself frequently accessing said menus anymore

pooladdict247 said:
Hello xda'rs! I just upgraded to the note 5 64gb verizon from an antique galaxy s3. Huge technology boost for me so a bit slow on the learning curve coming to the note series.
On my s3 I had an options button just left of the home button that I could tap while in certain apps and access app options. On the note 5 that button is now a "recent apps" button. I'm sorry if this is a noob question but I have tried playing with multiple settings all day to change this "recent apps" button to a "menu" button.
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Just hold your back key for about 2 Sec, Menu will pop up. ?
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Since the launch of the Galaxy S5, Samsung has done away with the Menu Button. Me having had a GS2, a GS4, and an M8, I found it a little awkward as well, even though I knew of the changes. Muscle Memory kept screwing me up LOL. Now I don't screw up as much anymore since having the Note 5 for a few days.

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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:

Note 5 Long Press Back Button for Side Bar

Hi all,
Note 5 Long Press Back Button for Side Bar feature is missing or any settings to Enable that. I am using Note 5 after Note 2 so m confused if Samsung has removed that option !!
I also came from a Note 2, and I'm fairly certain that they changed the way multiwindow is used. First you have to have the apps you want to use open so they chow up in recent apps. Then you click the recent apps button and there will be a set of rectangles to the left of the "x" button on the top right of any multi-window enabled apps, click the rectangles icon and it will open in the one side, then you select the other app from the list that remains.
Edit: Well I stand corrected, you now long press the recent apps button to access that, but its not a sidebar.
Ohk so they have removed the sidebar feature !!

"Recent" button not working with apps on my new Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 Tablet

"Recent" button not working with apps on my new Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 Tablet
Hey guys,
My first post here.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7" Tablet. The problem I'm having has to do with the "recent" button. (That's the button to the left of the Home button). When I launch apps, such as Wolfram Alpha, and press the Recent button, the tablet goes into double window mode. It's supposed to bring up a sub menu in the app. It does this with all other apps as well. I've contacted Samsung tech support and all of the agents told me that I had to reset the tablet to factory default settings. I'm reluctant to do that...
Has anyone encountered this problem? If so, please tell me how you resolved it.
Cheers,
grecinos
Maybe you should do a shorter push? Long press should do this double window thing.
Huib
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The button is not designed to give menu items, as with some versions of android previously. This button only controls multi window with a long press, or quick press gives running apps to select from the carousel. Any menu buttons in lollipop will be via on screen menu icons such as material design horizontal lines.
My Note 5 gives recent on short push and "double window" on long press.
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Or am I wrong? I thought he needed recents.
"or quick press gives running apps to select from the carousel"
Is dat not equal to recent?
Huib
Try long-press BACK button (right from the home button) - the long press of the back button should open the menu, just like tapping on the 3 dots.
I think long press function is there for older apps without the 3-dots in the UI - on other devices long press of recent (left) button does this, Sammy may changed the assignment...

pop up apps?

Does anyone know how to bring up the side menu when holding down the back button like on the note 4? or is that just not a feature on the note 5?
On Note 5 you have to press and hold the Menu button. And is showing on the bottom on lollipop 5.1.1 Is the multiwindow app.
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If the menu button is the long hold on the back button then it doesn't work for my phone. There used to be a setting on the Note 4 where I could turn that feature on/off but I can't seem to find that feature on the Note 5..
Please Help!

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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