Can I disable the Long-press on the Home Button?

[Gabagool]

Long-pressing the Home Button

On the Galaxy S5, whenever you long-press the Home button, it brings up what appears to be a Google search page or something. Apparently I’m really bad at pressing buttons quickly (either that or the button is malfunctioning) because I keep accidentally bringing up this damn Google search page instead of the home screen. Needless to say, this feature is driving me absolutely insane.

Is there any possible way to disable the long-press or even just change what it does??? I’ve searched through the phone’s settings and all over the internet and haven’t found anything useful yet.

 

[punk999]

Re: Long-pressing the Home Button

I use the menu button (left) to go to the home screen, to keep the home button from wearing out. You can do that by pressing the menu button and then touching the empty space.

 

[Gabagool]

Re: Long-pressing the Home Button

Thank you for that suggestion! I’d really prefer to directly solve this issue with the Home button (it really is driving me nucking futs), but I will definitely be employing your method as a workaround to ease my frustration for the time being, lol.

 

[thecomicbookandme]

Re: Long-pressing the Home Button

Go to settings - s voice.
Make sure that "Open via the home key" box is not checked.

 

[Gabagool]

Re: Long-pressing the Home Button

S-Voice has already been turned off and isn't causing the problem. S-Voice opens with a double tap. What I'm referring to is the long-press, which opens up some kind of Google page.

 

[japark]

Re: Long-pressing the Home Button

I'd like to know how to clear that history or preferably tell Google search not to retain a search history.

 

[blain705]

Re: Long-pressing the Home Button

Go to application sesettingo and go to Google search and disable it. You will Bo be able to get into it via long preswing the home button but can stil use Google Chrome and stuff....

 

[aztonsupra]

Re: Long-pressing the Home Button

I know what you mean, it's so annoying but I found the solution.
go to settings, application manager, scroll to the right where it says "all" and look for "google app", press it and press "turn off"
hit "ok" and then "uninstall" once you do that long-press home button and select "always" on the option of "do nothing"

I hope that I didn't confuse yourself.
peace

 

[Haalcyon]

Re: Long-pressing the Home Button

I know what you mean, it's so annoying but I found the solution.
go to settings, application manager, scroll to the right where it says "all" and look for "google app", press it and press "turn off"
hit "ok" and then "uninstall" once you do that long-press home button and select "always" on the option of "do nothing"

I hope that I didn't confuse yourself.
peace

I just tried that. On my Note 4 it didn't work. A long press still brings up the Google search. Perhaps it does work on the S5.

 

[pninja1]

Go to your app list. Locate the app "google". Drag it to the "disable" icon at the top.

 

[Mlgshadow20]

I'm also becoming very frustrated with this. Sometimes when I press the home button quickly, it still brings up the search page and is extremely frustrating. I have disabled Google Search as well as S Voice. I do not see any other applications to disable in the applications manager. The settings in the search function only allow to clear search history. I am running on Android 4.4.4

 

[pninja1]

After many hours searching for solution, I restarted my phone and the problem seemed to go away. From what I've been reading, this happens when you have a lot of apps running and will eventually come back if you have apps sucking up ram on your phone. Short press gets interpreted as a long press or something.

 

[artemis_68]

I just recently updated the software on my S5 and it started doing this almost every time I hit the home key. I like the search function and use it often so I didn't want to completely disable the whole app. Then I realized the widget got removed after the software update too . Once I put the widget back on one of my screens, it was no longer super touchy. It still pops up when I do a long press, but it had to REALLY be a long press. No idea why the widget would make any difference, but I'll take it

 

[steve Sharra]

Re: Long-pressing the Home Button

What I noticed was I had Google launcher / nova/touch wiz installed that would happen to me so I deleted only Google launcher and problem solved for me

SAMSUNG S5

 

[maxburn]

After many hours searching for solution, I restarted my phone and the problem seemed to go away. From what I've been reading, this happens when you have a lot of apps running and will eventually come back if you have apps sucking up ram on your phone. Short press gets interpreted as a long press or something.

This has been my experience as well, my theory is the phone is lagging so much it interprets the short press as a long press because other processes are getting in the way of the timer function that figures out a short vs long press.

Too bad this feature can't be disabled, I really don't use it.

 

[Tonberrymagi]

Re: Long-pressing the Home Button

I know what you mean, it's so annoying but I found the solution.
go to settings, application manager, scroll to the right where it says "all" and look for "google app", press it and press "turn off"
hit "ok" and then "uninstall" once you do that long-press home button and select "always" on the option of "do nothing"

I hope that I didn't confuse yourself.
peace

Worked like a charm my sanity thanks you!

 

[DeBuiser]

Re: Long-pressing the Home Button

Wish this worked on my S5. I'm not given an option to "do nothing."

These last few updates have been really screwy. I'm just glad I can stay on WiFi for longer than 10 seconds now.

 

[Micah Livingston]

I think I've got it. Next time it pops up, go to settings-phone search-and unclick all the buttons. Worked so far for me when nothing else did.

 

[HelloMegs]

The only way to fix it permanently is to go into your app manager in your phone settings, scroll down to the Google app and then tap "uninstall updates". This will revert the Google app back to factory settings and you won't have to worry about that Google Now crap popping up when you hit your home button.

 

[fractaloon]

I found that Tasker has profile to intercept the Home button long press. I created a profile that will capture that and send me to the home page and that seems to work for me so far.