Hi guys, i recently bought note 3. I have already disabled home button - s voice short cut. I am wondering is there any way i can set some shortcuts like, double click of home screen will take me back to previously used app or to any specific app.
Thanks
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I remeber on my old S2 that there was an application probably called home button or something like that. It allowed to change this shortcut. Now i sold it. Go check it in there. Search for it.
I'm not sure you can do it with the stock launcher. But I know with nova launcher you can assign the home and menu button to certain actions.
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If its possible with any launcher app, then there would be some way to customise the home button.
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So holding down the menu key functions as a search key in many apps, however on my home Page of the launcher I get "app not installed". I have Google search installed so I'm not sure what I did, as my Nephew's phone opens it up fine. Any suggestions? Thanks
What carrier is your phone with? Who's your nephews phone carrier? Maybe one carrier doesn't have it?
I use Sprint and it pulls up search.
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You can use an other launcher, for example Nova Launcher. There you can customize the button I think. You can rest it and download the free launcher at Google Play.
I use Nova Prime and I press the Menu Button and the camera opens on my Samsung Galaxy S3.
So if you use Apex and possibly other launchers you can set the home key action to recent apps when at the home screen. Don't know how useful it is for everyone but I find it more useful than having to hold on to it at the home screen. Just found it interesting.
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Agreed. Wish Go launcher would do this.
On Nova, a long-press of the Home button does this and it must be default since I don't recall setting it up that way. I love it.
wideasleep1 said:
On Nova, a long-press of the Home button does this and it must be default since I don't recall setting it up that way. I love it.
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That's default of touchwiz....
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Actually, default settings in apex appear to be show previews with a short press of home and show recent with a long press.. been using the long press for a while now.. and the previews is kinda neat as well..
you can also set gestures for the apex actions button too. I have the app drawer on the bottom of the screen but if I swipe up from it, it changes to the default screen..
there are lots of neat tweaks I am slowly finding.. Very impressed with this over my old iphone4...
So much good information on this forum.. keep the info flowing!
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On Nova, a long-press of the Home button does this and it must be default since I don't recall setting it up that way. I love it.
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Yeah, system default is that long-press of home button brings up recent apps. In Nova settings you can make it so Home button brings you to default screen when you're on any other screen, or opens up the recent apps if you press home while on the default screen.
In Gestures and Buttons in settings, set Home Button action to Recent Apps, then check the Only on Default Screen setting.
I have a galaxy tab 2 and just bought a galaxy tab 4 (mainly for mirroring). I hate using the push button on the 4 to get to my home screen. Is there a launcher or some work around where I can find a way not to have to push a button to get to my home screen? An improvement, but not an ideal one, would be to be able to put the home icon permanently in what I will call the "double box" screen to the left of the start button.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
JD
You could use nova launcher to help remap the three buttons at the bottom and it also has a setting to use custom gestures along with twin finger swiping. Somehow mine is set that if I swipe downward it goes directly to home screen. It is a really adaptive launcher with a lot if customizing I haven't unlocked yet..lol
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decijp said:
I have a galaxy tab 2 and just bought a galaxy tab 4 (mainly for mirroring). I hate using the push button on the 4 to get to my home screen. Is there a launcher or some work around where I can find a way not to have to push a button to get to my home screen? An improvement, but not an ideal one, would be to be able to put the home icon permanently in what I will call the "double box" screen to the left of the start button.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
JD
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Root your tablet and install SOFTKEY ENABLER from Play Store!
krakenthor said:
You could use nova launcher to help remap the three buttons at the bottom and it also has a setting to use custom gestures along with twin finger swiping. Somehow mine is set that if I swipe downward it goes directly to home screen. It is a really adaptive launcher with a lot if customizing I haven't unlocked yet..lol
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Thanks to K and M for the suggestions. It turns out that I found a great product called button savior that does everything I want with the home button. Now I need to find a way to move Google Search from the bottom to the top of my screen, and I will be completely happy.
JD
So I got an app and there is no dedicated settings button in it and I was thinking if there is on the phone a way like long press or double tap a specific key to open the settings menu like the note 3 had a settings button instead of the recent app.
I really need to go in the settings otherwise I can't use the app if someone knows a way how to it!
Thanks
Long press back key to get to the settings menu.
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Long press back key to get to the settings menu.
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Thanks but unfortunately it doesn't work, it closes the app and opens the settings menu of Nova launcher..
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Have you tried it on some other launcher?
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I am not a big fan of giving Google its own button when I have a google search bar on my home screen and can just say "ok Google"
On my Note 4, I was able to program long press "home" to link to a shortcut - all I had to do was disable s-voice and i was prompted to select an action. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to do this on the S7 Edge.
For what its worth, the app shortcut I run is called "last app switcher" that allows you to toggle back and forth between two apps (very useful for apps that do not support split display). It even ignores the home screen, so you can go App1, home screen, app2 and then use long press home to get back to app1.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abhi.lastappswitcher
Get an app called All in one gestures. It can remap the home button
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darock159 said:
Get an app called All in one gestures. It can remap the home button
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Yup, and Home 2 Shortcut for the double tap.
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Only problem is the phone might slow down and get chuggy if you enable any accessibility options.