How do you get rid of the stupid menu bar

[adriandb]

No practical sense for them to follow Google's Holo design guidelines? Remember, Google, not Samsung, makes Android.

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Don't bother, he seems to have a mental block on this one. The fact that Google stated that there shouldn't be a dedicated menu button, that HTC followed that guideline and the fact that Samsung didn't and is effectively holding back Google's plans, just doesn't register.

 

[adriandb]

Obviously if google felt it was a big deal they would put pressure on the manufacturers to switch to 2 buttons phones and pressure developers to update.

They did. They issued the spec stating exactly that.

 

[robcassman]

I rooted and installed a custom ROM that allows you to long press the back button to see the menu. Menu bar doesn't show in apps now.

There's no way to do it without a custom ROM.

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I could have Sworn I had read that the back button was to double as the menu button... Out of the box.

 

[madlaw1071]

They did. They issued the spec stating exactly that.

A spec is hardly coercive. Samsung sells 10s of millions of android phones "out of spec" and Google doesn't seem to mind and consumers gobble up "out of spec" phones. I will repeat again,HTC made a bewildering choice.

 

[Rydah805]

Root and install exposed mods framework, and then the module for it. It's on xda. I'd link and give more info, but I just woke up drunk. :/

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[JHBThree]

Not. Their are FAR more three button android phones in the wild than the handful of Ones with two buttons so it makes no practical sense for money to spent changing apps.

Practical sense is following Google's standards, not making up your own or using ones that were deprecated over a year ago. Here's a clue for you: the one is one of a small handful that actually follow Google's standards. Samsung, and others, don't.

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[JHBThree]

A spec is hardly coercive. Samsung sells 10s of millions of android phones "out of spec" and Google doesn't seem to mind and consumers gobble up "out of spec" phones. I will repeat again,HTC made a bewildering choice.

No, they didn't. The menu button was deprecated in January of 2012. Samsung is the one that made a bewildering choice.

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[madlaw1071]

No, they didn't. The menu button was deprecated in January of 2012. Samsung is the one that made a bewildering choice.

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Ooooook but 10s of millions of Samsung owners don't have the dreaded black bar chewing up precious screen space.

 

[return_0]

Ooooook but 10s of millions of Samsung owners don't have the dreaded black bar chewing up precious screen space.

And, tell me, how convenient is it to multitask on the S3? Compared top the N4, at least?

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[Cattails_r_Edible]

I have a feeling that an update will be coming, which will give us our menu button back utilizing the back button! Then all will be well! Till then, it doesn't bother me in any way!

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[JHBThree]

Ooooook but 10s of millions of Samsung owners don't have the dreaded black bar chewing up precious screen space.

That doesn't prove anything, and it has no bearing whatsoever on this discussion.

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[Danny Yang]

I have a feeling that an update will be coming, which will give us our menu button back utilizing the back button! Then all will be well! Till then, it doesn't bother me in any way!

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Hopefully that will happen soon.. They had a similar problem with the DNA, and an update solved the problem.. Cmon HTC!

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[kzibart]

Root and install exposed mods framework, and then the module for it. It's on xda. I'd link and give more info, but I just woke up drunk. :/

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Thanks, this worked great for me. I didn't care so much about apps showing the menu bar, but some widgets I have pop things up on the home screen and add a menu bar there. Even just clicking a toggle on a settings widget sometimes would flash the bar for an instant. Really annoying. But this seemed to fix all of that.

Here's a link to the instructions. (Root first, then do this)

Once both the Xposed Framework and MoDaCo Toolkit are installed, open the Xposed Installer, go to Modules and select MoDaCo Toolkit. Then tap the name to go to the actual toolkit options. Once there, scroll to the bottom and select HTC One. Then turn on "Enable button options" from there. Then go to the phone's settings, open "Display, gestures & buttons", and select the "Back button" option. Choose "Press for back, press and hold for menu" and you're all set.

 

[TourATL]

Wow I'm a bit amazed at how prevalent this is. I send a nastygram to devs everytime it shows up in one of my formerly favorite apps. Hope you guys are too.

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[Brendan Looi]

Which mod did you use? Was it on the International Variant?

 

[HalizDad]

4.2 gives you the option of turning off the black bar. All you do is long press on the home button (like you currently would for Google Now) and it will bring up the menu for those apps whose developers fail to follow instructions. Want Google Now? Swipe up on the Home Button like the N4. It'll take me about 5 minutes to get used to it, so everyone else should have it down in 30 seconds or less. It's in the video on the regular site.

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

When Apple updated iOS, old apps were letterboxed. Developers quickly fixed their apps.

When Google updated Android...

This is a real problem. Stop supporting developers who won't update their apps.

 

[PillowMetal]

4.2 gives you the option of turning off the black bar.

Is this why my "old" Evo 4G LTE has the ability to turn on a menu button via "recent apps", and my "new" HTC One doesn't. Funny thing is, if you download the HTC One manual from the HTC site, they have a section called "Miss having a menu button?" and have instructions how to turn it on. But this is not present in the Sprint variant.

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This is a real problem. Stop supporting developers who won't update their apps.

I totally agree!!