I've been searching for an hour now but I can't seem to find a way to change the NavBar icons to (for example) the Pixel ones without the home-button changing back while it't being pressed, breaking the illusion.
Every method advertises as being prossible without root, but as I am already rooted I am totally fine with using a root-method as long as it doesn't switch back like the rootless methods do.
Does anyone know a way of doing this?
Have you tried the Substratum method?
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Hey guys is there any way to get a lg g3-like Notification dropdown softkey ?? Really appreciate the answer !
Some Custom ROMs have this feature.
There are a few ways you can approach this.
If you are rooted, I imagine there are Xposed modules that can offer this. I am guessing here, as I don't know of one. GravityBox perhaps.
There are probably some apps that can accomplish this, maybe one of the navbar replacements. These likely require root as well.
There are some custom ROMs that offer more options for adding/customizing the navbar buttons, which was mentioned above.
Not exactly what you are asking, but you can probably put it on the navring as well with one of the above also (Xposed, app, or custom ROM).
I prefer to use my phone with a hiding navbar of none at all. I used to root my previous phones to achieve this but this phone doesn't have that. Is it possible even if it takes paid apps?
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I installed some mod that made my navbar look and act weird. Basically, after installing a certain mod (can't tell which one actually), the navbar looks like this:
I wouldn't mind it too much but the fact the home softkey is not perfectly centered annoys me. Also, on this navbar, clicking the home softkey plays the little animation with the four google dots, another thing that I don't really like.
If I go to Settings, Apps & Notifications, Default Apps, Assist & Voice Input, and change it say to Firefox, and then back to None, the navbar becomes normal again.
But at reboot I get the crappy misaligned one again. I don't use any Assist&Voice Input app, so I set it to none. I also deleted the Google App and Assistant and everything else related to it, because I don't use that stuff.
Like I said, I think a mod that I installed caused this issue. It could have been Pix3lify or the modded Xperia Home with the pill navbar. I removed both mods but the navbar goes back to the weird one after any reboot, so maybe a leftover from one of these mods is still in my system, but I can't find it. How can I restore the default navbar without doing a factory reset? Unfortunately I don't have a backup and I would rather avoid the factory reset. Again it's not a big deal, but I would like to fix it.
While this might not be a perfect solution, you can modify the looks of the navbar with a substratum theme.
Such as this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rc.navigate
This is the substratum theme engine, and it requires root on android 9 and up:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=projekt.substratum
If you need more info about substratum look in the app's description or just ask here.
Ephesus said:
While this might not be a perfect solution, you can modify the looks of the navbar with a substratum theme.
Such as this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rc.navigate
This is the substratum theme engine, and it requires root on android 9 and up:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=projekt.substratum
If you need more info about substratum look in the app's description or just ask here.
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Could be a solution, but I don't feel like installing more stuff on my phone. Do you know which file is responsible for the navbar's appearance?
MarkMRL said:
Could be a solution, but I don't feel like installing more stuff on my phone. Do you know which file is responsible for the navbar's appearance?
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Sorry, I don't know that.
Maybe this article about modifying the stock navbar can be useful?
https://www.xda-developers.com/add-custom-buttons-to-nav-bar-on-samsung-galaxy-s8-galaxy-s8/
Or this one:
https://www.xda-developers.com/how-...icons-or-re-arrange-the-buttons-without-root/
They might mention it somewhere.
Weirdly enough, if I use Substratum, the theme I set appears on top of the crappy navbar, and by that I mean that I see both at once once. Guess I'll have to factory reset huh
I was bored today so I came back to this issue. I reflashed System with flashtool, which brought back all the bloatware obviously, but the navbar stays in its weird mode. If I create a new user, the new user gets a normal navbar. If I enable Google and the search assistant, the navbar stays weird on reboot but as soon as I start Google, the navbar becomes normal again.
Anyone know a possible solution to this puzzle?
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Anyone know a possible solution to this puzzle?
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Just do a full reset and start from scratch. No one likes doing them, but sometimes it's the only option.
Hi,
I had the phone for a bit more than a week and yesterday I installed the xiaomi EU ROM. Until now I was using the navigation bar buttons because I hate Xiaomi's launcher, and I thought that with the EU rom the gestures would work with nova like in my previous Oneplus phone. It seems that that's not the case, and if I install Fluid Navigation gestures, even if I give the application root acces the "hide navigation bar" feature does not work. Does anyone else use nova/another third-party launcher and managed to make it work with the vanilla gestures or FNG?
On the other hand, I've seen that that "force dark mode" thing does more harm than benefit, since a lot of times I get dark fonts over dark backgrounds or it even turns some of my dark mode applications to light mode by inverting the colors. I had to go to the dark mode settings and disable every app individually, and if I install a new app I have to go there and disable it. Is there any way (even if it need root or a magisk module) to disable that globally?
Many thanks for your help!
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Hi,
I had the phone for a bit more than a week and yesterday I installed the xiaomi EU ROM. Until now I was using the navigation bar buttons because I hate Xiaomi's launcher, and I thought that with the EU rom the gestures would work with nova like in my previous Oneplus phone. It seems that that's not the case, and if I install Fluid Navigation gestures, even if I give the application root acces the "hide navigation bar" feature does not work. Does anyone else use nova/another third-party launcher and managed to make it work with the vanilla gestures or FNG?
On the other hand, I've seen that that "force dark mode" thing does more harm than benefit, since a lot of times I get dark fonts over dark backgrounds or it even turns some of my dark mode applications to light mode by inverting the colors. I had to go to the dark mode settings and disable every app individually, and if I install a new app I have to go there and disable it. Is there any way (even if it need root or a magisk module) to disable that globally?
Many thanks for your help!
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Under settings/display/more dark mode options you have additional settings for each app separately. For some of Google or other apps you have to disable dark mode options because the original dark + miui cast sometimes gives weird results.
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Until now I was using the navigation bar buttons because I hate Xiaomi's launcher, and I thought that with the EU rom the gestures would work with nova like in my previous Oneplus phone. It seems that that's not the case, and if I install Fluid Navigation gestures, even if I give the application root acces the "hide navigation bar" feature does not work. Does anyone else use nova/another third-party launcher and managed to make it work with the vanilla gestures or FNG?
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That'a a bummer. I'm currently waiting until I can unlock my device and was hoping that the gestures issue would be solved by installing the EU rom as well. I'm currently using FNG + the nav bar but would really like to be able to ditch the bar entirely.
Hoping there will be a fix soon.
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Problem solved!
The confounding variable was NOT Xposed Framework, but conena's Gesture Control app that was set up to use Immersive Mode to hide the navigation bar. And according to this post that I landed on purely by chance, if you don't exempt the Lockscreen Settings app, it causes all these problems.
Note that this problem has nothing to do with the app, it's the Immersive Mode setting to blame, on which any setting change at all will cause these same problems (to be fair, conena's app does preemptively discourage this)
Solution
Use a Substratum overlay to hide the navbar instead; do NOT use GravityBox to do that by setting navbar height to 0, or qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 in build.prop (which doesn't work, BTW). Next, backup your gesture bar data and wipe the data of the app, then restore the bar data – just don't fiddle with that Immersive Mode setting again!
Well, some explanation is in order because it wouldn't make for a great thread title:
I am running the last stock Oreo build on this G8441, which is 47.1.A.12.20, for the primary reason of being able to use rovo89's Xposed Framework because the original XPrivacy module that's vitally important to me does not run on any of the EdXposeds or LSPoseds.
Using systemless Xposed with the latest Magisk version (and older ones too, nothing changes) I find that if I were to set a lockscreen to anything other than "None" and reboot, I will have times where I simply can't see the display when pressing the power button -- but weirdly enough the touchscreen still keeps taking touch input! The only way around is to remove the lockscreen, reboot, then set your locking method and try not to have it restart for any reason.
It's quite obvious that systemless Xposed is causing this problem (Xposed can't be installed normally on this firmware version) because this problem can be reproduced even without any modules active. But I'm at a complete loss as to what's actually causing this lockscreen interference, because I've tried taking system logs with and without Xposed and there's simply nothing at all different except it taking insanely long times for the display to activate upon unlock (but the touch input working just fine for some reason?) and there's a small, dim red LED near the proximity sensor that stays stuck as long as the display is.
Please help me, I'm absolutely out of ideas -- and no, I can't upgrade to Pie, I have to stay on Oreo for the sake of the XPrivacy module.
So it seems like 47.1.A.12.75 is the last problem-free Oreo version for normal Xposed Framework, and I wouldn't mind using that, if it weren't for the fact that there doesn't seem to be any VoLTE-activating SIN file for India for it below 47.1.A.12.270. There's a 2G phaseout in progress with the largest carrier and it's only a matter of time before there'll be no fallback network and I'll have to have VoLTE at any cost.