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What is the offical name of the third on-screen button?
It's called Overview button. I originally came to know about this from the Screen Pinning settings' description.
Google on Get around on your device (see Get around with navigation buttons) has noted:...
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Home Screen and Recent Apps buttons don't work
I was facing a similar error with the Nexus 5. Safe mode and wiping the cache partition were not working for me. People also complaining about not be able to use the adb commands because the phone ...
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Hide buttons overlay (e.g. 5 second burst) on Google Camera
I recently had the same issue with my 6P, running 6.0.1 and the latest Google Camera version 3.1.021. It turned out to be a result of having the Screenwise Trends Panel app installed on all my phones. ...
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Google Pixel 6 sceenshot function has been replaced by Google Assistant
Your problem is in two parts:
Unable to get power menu, which you could solve thanks to Andrew's answer
You have a non-functional Google assistant (why do they even roll it out to countries where it ...
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Long-pressing power button shows Assistant, how to restart the device?
Long pressing the power button is still the standard gesture to show the power menu, including the restart option. However, the Assistant is likely due to the system gesture setting.
At least for ...
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Google Pixel 6 sceenshot function has been replaced by Google Assistant
The screenshot shortcut has not changed. I have my suspicions that your issue stems from not pressing power+volume down simultaneously (at nearly the same time), but that instead you are likely ...
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Home Screen and Recent Apps buttons don't work
AFAIK, there are 3 solutions for this issue (try it in below order): (2 & 3 need adb drivers or terminal app)
Switch to guest and come back
Settings->Users->Guest (or)
Swipe down the ...
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Bind action to hardware key combination
I've come close but I still can't launch an action at the same time when two keys are pressed in combination like the way we do for taking a screenshot. Anyhow, you would need:
AutoInput (for Android ...
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Reconfiguring volume up and down buttons?
For Android 4.3 and above, I would recommend using Auto-Input by joaomgcd.
It allows you to
create a series of input actions, including physical button presses
and various taps and swipes, to ...
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Enable software menu without virtual keys
LMT Launcher
Requires root access.
I won't go into the details, but know that it doesn't replace your home launcher but gives you PIE navigation among other things, which comes down to this:
(...
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Hide buttons overlay (e.g. 5 second burst) on Google Camera
The buttons overlay (i.e. Z-, Z+, and 5 SECOND BURST) are part of Android's accessibility feature, TalkBack. Refer to Google Camera Help - Use TalkBack with Google Camera.
To hide the buttons, you ...
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How to send the "open menu" command to an application
You can long hold the recents button on your device and that will open the menu.
In case you have root access and the above didn't work, you can still do it without using adb. Just open a terminal ...
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Hide buttons overlay (e.g. 5 second burst) on Google Camera
I too had this menu enabled today. Later I found that, I was playing around with accessibility settings today. I've (accidentally) enabled "Switch access", so I got this menu in camera app.
Now after ...
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Long-pressing power button shows Assistant, how to restart the device?
On a Pixel Device
Power + volume up pressed simultaneously will give you options to restart amongst others
Note: You won't find the bug report option unless you enable it from developer options (...
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Turn on flashlight when volume button is held
I don't know how to detect a Volume Up/Down button press for 'n' seconds, so I would give an alternate solution. You would have to install Xposed Additions Pro and TeslaLED Flashlight. The former ...
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Is it possible to use an app to disable the power button from switching the phone off?
No, it's not possible. The functionality to turn off the device if the power button is held down is at a very low level of the system, so that even if Android gets into some broken state, the user can ...
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Activate screen buttons on the CyanogenMod
Edit /system/build.prop and add the line qemu.hw.mainkeys=0. Save and reboot. Should you want to revert, change that "0" to "1".
Alternatively, use a non-native solution such as LMT Launcher.
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How to boot with a volume button?
As mentioned here, with some charge in your battery connecting to a PC or laptop via USB should work for Motorola Moto G. If this does not work for you try the below steps/solution.
Below methods ...
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How do I change the Umi Super's shortcut button to take screenshots?
Install Xposed edge module (see the help and support section on basics of how to use this module)
Select Keys from main menu and tap to reveal the next screen which has hardware keys listed (You can ...
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restart Android phone when power button stopped working
It would appear that the only way to reboot the device in the case where the phone is not rooted and when the power button is unavailable is through adb.
As per StackOverflow, it would appear that ...
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How to disable bottom app toolbar on Samsung Tab running Android 12?
The "bottom app toolbar" is known as the Taskbar and has been introduced since Android 12L.
To disable it, go to Settings - Display, and then toggle "Taskbar" off.
Image courtesy ...
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Honor 8 : Is there a way of taking a screenshot without using the power button?
Since you mentioned that internet is censored in your country, here are two links, that describe how to take a screen shot without a power button.
Youtube, specifically for Honor 8
How to take a ...
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Is it possible to simulate a button press on an Android application from another application (Android or Desktop)?
You can use adb command to simulate touch
adb shell input tap x y
where x y are the co-ordinates of the pixels on the screen to be tapped.
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Unwanted outgoing phone calls
Depending on where the phone app icon is on your screen, it’s can be very easy to tap it twice. Once to start the phone app and a second time to select the phone instead of contacts, call logs or ...
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What can I do to fix the volume button back onto my Moto M?
Your best option is to take the phone to an Authorised Motorola Service Center to get it repaired, but it may be possible to attempt it yourself.
As there are no iFixIt guides available currently, ...
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Volume up key to answer call
Alternatively with Tasker;
Now for the Task:
Task 1 Answering the call
Create a named task :
Action: Phone >> Take Call
(click images for larger variants)
Exit out of the task.
Task 2
Ending ...
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Assign physical camera button to another app
Yes there is a way, but your device has to be rooted.
First you have to install Xposed Framework, than download and install an Xposed module called Xposed Additions or Physical Button Music Control.
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Home Screen and Recent Apps buttons don't work
apps like du saver / clean master /cm security is totally useless on Android phones
they do nth much removes Android's garbage collection causing phone to again and again collect garbage....firstly ...
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Disable hardware keys on Cyanogenmod 12.1 / SM-T800 (Samsung Galaxy Tab S)
I got an answer for this on this xda developers thread:
Isnt the key file in cm called something different sec_touchscreen.kl or something or other?
Why yes ashyx, it is! In fact, it only has two ...
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My phone's power button has gone bad. Can I use my computer to send a USB command to start the phone up?
most of flash tools have a "reboot after flash" option. here is example for Mediatek devices
install fastboot
install VCOM preloader drivers
open scatter file with SP Flash Tool
add new entry ...
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