Missing navigation bar button icons - Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers

Has anyone else had this weird issue? Recently I applied a Samsung theme from the store and the navigation bar button icons dissappeared but the buttons are still there and functionable. Tried re enabling all disabled apps, wiping cache from bootloader, rebooting, applying stock themes, just about everything. Factory reset fixed the problem but than it reoccurred. Going to follow up with a screenshot.

Did you double tap the dot in the left corner of the nav bar?
If so, swipe up from the bottom, the nav bar should appear, double tap the dot again.

pool_shark said:
Did you double tap the dot in the left corner of the nav bar?
If so, swipe up from the bottom, the nav bar should appear, double tap th
e dot again.
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Thanks for the reply, I'm not missing the navigation bar. It's just not displaying anything in it. Just looks like a transparent bar. The only thing I can see is the little dot on the left to lock it. Screenshot below.
drive.google.com/file/d/0B5iBQqUsbrkuTlR3VmJKRzdBbzA/view?usp=drivesdk

So, it now does it without applying a theme?

SiNJiN76 said:
So, it now does it without applying a theme?
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I can't get the icons to show up again without factory resetting the device, soft reset does nothing.. Tried restoring from backup that occurred before applying the theme, and it's still broken. Re enabled all disabled packages, no luck..

Ok, that is an odd one.
Hope you get it worked out. I'll keep looking.

rschneberger said:
I can't get the icons to show up again without factory resetting the device, soft reset does nothing.. Tried restoring from backup that occurred before applying the theme, and it's still broken. Re enabled all disabled packages, no luck..
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How about in Safe Mode? If it doesn't there... youll know it's an app... or something after your initial setup.

SiNJiN76 said:
How about in Safe Mode? If it doesn't there... youll know it's an app... or something after your initial setup.
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Still occurs in safe mode Thanks for the suggestion though.

Same thing happened to me when I installed one of the black navigation apks on here. Factory reset was the only way I was able to get them to reappear.

are u using transparent navbar overlay apk ?
u can just uninstall the apk app from settings then reboot. icons will show

crayonyes said:
are u using transparent navbar overlay apk ?
u can just uninstall the apk app from settings then reboot. icons will show
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I was using a black navbar overlay apk, however I tried removing it and rebooting without any success. What's interesting is that I just Factory reset my phone and the black option for navigation bar still persists. Did they add that back in or something?

rschneberger said:
I was using a black navbar overlay apk, however I tried removing it and rebooting without any success. What's interesting is that I just Factory reset my phone and the black option for navigation bar still persists. Did they add that back in or something?
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they had black in factory rom, but when u update firmware it'll be gone. i think.

Sometimes my nav bar icons would dissapear when my blue light filter was turned up very high.

rschneberger said:
Thanks for the reply, I'm not missing the navigation bar. It's just not displaying anything in it. Just looks like a transparent bar. The only thing I can see is the little dot on the left to lock it. Screenshot below.
drive.google.com/file/d/0B5iBQqUsbrkuTlR3VmJKRzdBbzA/view?usp=drivesdk
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Did you by any chance install a transparent navigation bar apk? I found one and installed it and this same thing happened. I went onto Settings/apps and found the com file, Uninstalled it and rebooted and it went back to stock.

It's possible one of the overlays I installed in substratum contained a transparent nav bar and I didn't notice or something, so maybe by removing the black navbar and rebooting I wasn't addressing the real problem. That sounds feasible, in the end I ended up just doing another factory reset and all is good. Thank you guys for all of the suggestions, I'm fairly certain this was the issue. So maybe avoid transparent nav bars for now

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CM7 Status Bar Force Close

The past few days I've been getting a "Status Bar" force close which means the notifications bar completely disappears, including the main Android buttons in Tablet Tweaks.
Going into the settings and toggling top status bar or bottom status bar doesn't bring it back, nor does going into Manage Applications and clicking Force Stop on the status bar.
Has anyone run into this issue and been able to fix it without rebooting?
Haven't had the issue in a while (knock on wood), but it always recovered pretty quick (a few seconds later). Have you tried disabling "disable fullscreen"? That seems to have helped out. I found toggling all the buttons in the Tablet Tweaks area fixed a lot of things...
I had the same issue yesterday. After playing with WIFI setting several times, the status bar suddenly force closed and was not able to recover. I had to reboot the Nook.
Same issue here. My status bar will occasionally force close when playing around with one specific widget (Pure Messenger). Sometimes it will come right back and sometimes it doesn't and nothing outside of rebooting will fix the problem.
Has anyone come up with a solution that doesn't require a reboot?
Same, restarts sometimes, other tines it doesn't come back. You could use Hot Restart rather than reboot but otherwise...
khaytsus said:
Same, restarts sometimes, other tines it doesn't come back. You could use Hot Restart rather than reboot but otherwise...
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I have experienced thus as well. what's a hot restart?
moSess said:
I have experienced thus as well. what's a hot restart?
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App in the market, it's a widget that you tap and it'll offer to "hot restart", ie: Restart Android. It's a little faster than a full reboot.
You could try adding the open/close status bar shortcut to your homescreen. Long press on home screen->launcher actions->open /close status bar.
I've started using Taker on my NC and I've found every time I open it, Status Bar crashes, and about half the time doesn't come back... Meh.
JT75 said:
You could try adding the open/close status bar shortcut to your homescreen. Long press on home screen->launcher actions->open /close status bar.
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Thanks. Which launcher? I had one fc lastnight, but fixed right away by rotating to landscape.
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akenis said:
Thanks. Which launcher? I had one fc lastnight, but fixed right away by rotating to landscape.
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Sorry I should been more specific I use the stock ADW launcher that comes with cm7.
akenis said:
Thanks. Which launcher? I had one fc lastnight, but fixed right away by rotating to landscape.
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Doubt that.. It fixes itself sometimes after a few seconds. Other times a reboot is required.
akenis said:
Thanks. Which launcher? I had one fc lastnight, but fixed right away by rotating to landscape.
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The default ADWLauncher has it, although it interacts very strangely with the double-chevron "allow fullscreen" soft-button control (diddles the same API, perhaps?). Just added it, so I haven't had time for a status bar crash since.
Rotating never worked for me, but the "Notification Restart" app worked maybe a couple of times, but hasn't the last few instances.
Dennis
stolenmoment said:
The default ADWLauncher has it, although it interacts very strangely with the double-chevron "allow fullscreen" soft-button control (diddles the same API, perhaps?). Just added it, so I haven't had time for a status bar crash since.
Rotating never worked for me, but the "Notification Restart" app worked maybe a couple of times, but hasn't the last few instances.
Dennis
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Unfortunately the status bar show/hide shortcut trick doesn't work if the status bar itself is well and truly gone. So far only a reboot has brought it back reliably.
In other news though, I've recently removed the Elixir widget from my home screen and gone to manually turning on/off the WiFi and that seems to have improved things for me. YMMV
fuul4nook said:
Unfortunately the status bar show/hide shortcut trick doesn't work if the status bar itself is well and truly gone. So far only a reboot has brought it back reliably.
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I just upgraded to n102, no OC, and almost immediately got three instances of the status bar turning invisible, but still working (the screen space is still reserved but blank, the buttons work, you just can't see them), and rotating the screen fixes that problem. Smells like a missed repaint of some kind.
No complete crashes yet.

[Q] Accessing Statusbar with broken touch

Hello
My glas is broken and I'm gonna change it in the next weeks.
Right now my touchscreen works everywhere perfectly, beside the statusbar. The touchscreen just starts to react under the statusbar (even in recovery mode).
Is it possible to access the statusbar instead of pulling it down? maybe with a button?
Installed rom is CM10.2.
I ask for it, because I don't want always to reboot to clear the statusbar, some notifications doesn't disappear from itself and I can't pull down the status bar to clear it.
Jediritter said:
Hello
My glas is broken and I'm gonna change it in the next weeks.
Right now my touchscreen works everywhere perfectly, beside the statusbar. The touchscreen just starts to react under the statusbar (even in recovery mode).
Is it possible to access the statusbar instead of pulling it down? maybe with a button?
Installed rom is CM10.2.
I ask for it, because I don't want always to reboot to clear the statusbar, some notifications doesn't disappear from itself and I can't pull down the status bar to clear it.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.friedflow.statusbarexpander
ridder215215 said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.friedflow.statusbarexpander
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Awesome, thanks

Problem with statusbar

Hello guys, I dont know why but like 10 after every reboot my status bar stops showing things but keeps working, this happened (I'm not sure that this is the cause) after installing and unistalling this application, I wanted to try how it works, when I pull down my status bar I can tap notification but i cant see it, I just see homescreen like I haven't pulled down. I'm actually on status bar but it didnt show nothing
EmeraldTimer said:
Hello guys, I dont know why but like 10 after every reboot my status bar stops showing things but keeps working, this happened (I'm not sure that this is the cause) after installing and unistalling this application, I wanted to try how it works, when I pull down my status bar I can tap notification but i cant see it, I just see homescreen like I haven't pulled down. I'm actually on status bar but it didnt show nothing
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If you're running a custom ROM you could try reflashing it without wiping anything.
SuperHanss said:
If you're running a custom ROM you could try reflashing it without wiping anything.
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4.3 stock
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[Q] Nav and stat bar translucency

Is there a way to force apps to look like this for the bottom and top bar with Xposed?
kentexcitebot said:
Is there a way to force apps to look like this for the bottom and top bar with Xposed?
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I don't think so. But there are apps which can force the status & navigation bar dissappear (like immersive mod) if you are interested.
mitsosJL said:
I don't think so. But there are apps which can force the status & navigation bar dissappear (like immersive mod) if you are interested.
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I was hoping for a different answer
Tinted Status plugin and build.prop wont help? Is the translucency part of the app?
kentexcitebot said:
I was hoping for a different answer
Tinted Status plugin and build.prop wont help? Is the translucency part of the app?
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I don't know :|. . Basically it will force the bars to pull down and you can bring them back with swipe(it's more like full screen with instant access to the bars) . (you activate the feature from power menu)
I hope that I helped
kentexcitebot said:
Is there a way to force apps to look like this for the bottom and top bar with Xposed?
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Yes you can. There's an Xposed module called force kitkat traslucent bars os something like, however I have tested it and disabled. Yes apps look awesome, but the problem is that as the bars become traslucent, the app doesn't detect they are there, what makes it impossible to press some buttons and creates some inconsistency on the notification bar. In my opinion even though it looks much better than black bars, I wouldn't enable it because of functionality, but it's up to you, you should try and see if it is worth

Navigation bar glitch (solved)

Hi,
I acquired a brand new Samsung Galaxy S20FE last week and updated it to Android 12 with OneUI 4.1, unfortunately I can't seem to remove this thing appearing on top of the navigation bar.
I tried to change the navigation bar to swipe gestures and it stays more or less in the same place. I also tried to disable the side menu and to change the launcher to Nova and pretty much explored all the settings without success, which let me believe that it is a glitch.
Could somebody tell me how I may be able to remove this please?
Thanks a lot!
maybe it's indicator for which homescreen you're on ??
if it is you can turn that off.
3mel said:
maybe it's indicator for which homescreen you're on ??
if it is you can turn that off.
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Unfortunately it is not, there is another indicator for the homescreen page that shows up on top of the dock icons. It tried to put only one page on the homescreen as I figured it would be an indicator and it was still there.
When I reboot the phone, this little thing does not appear right away, it comes up after a couple minutes using the phone, if it helps finding the source of the problem.
Factory reset?
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Unfortunately it is not, there is another indicator for the homescreen page that shows up on top of the dock icons. It tried to put only one page on the homescreen as I figured it would be an indicator and it was still there.
When I reboot the phone, this little thing does not appear right away, it comes up after a couple minutes using the phone, if it helps finding the source of the problem.
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it looks like it a cut off transparent toast message but those shouldn't hang around. when you switch to gesture navigation is it the same amount of it that you see ?
it kinda looks like the navigation bar is on top of it obscuring most of it.
that's Samsung Pay, you can disable it from the Samsung Pay's Quick access settings
Post Nine said:
that's Samsung Pay, you can disable it from the Samsung Pay's Quick access settings
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Yes, at long last, the mystery has been solved! Thanks a lot, I had to update and configure Samsung Pay, it was a non-functioning feature of the application.

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