omg help this is driving me nuts! swipe to home??

[walterkurtz]

hi. i have an htc one and recently upgraded to android 4.3. since then whenever i swipe up my keyboard it takes me to a google home screen. this happens mostly using textra and swiftkey. with swiftkey there is a little button on the bottom right to insert punctuation. unfortunately this key is directly above the home button on this phone. if i don't swipe it exactly right (happens quite often) i suddenly am exiting textra or k-9 email and seeing the google home screen. is there a way to disable this?? the only option i see is two variations under 'display gestures and buttons', but no way to completely disable.

thank you!!

 

[EvilMonkey]

I'm not sure....I played around with a Nexus for a bit and had the same issue (I was constantly hitting that home button when using the keyboard). I went back my S3 with a physical home button and was glad to have it.

Strange cause i was all excited about the on-screen buttons until I actually used a phone with them.

 

[walterkurtz]

dang. may be time to return to blackberry or try iphone.

i am new to android, so i apologize for this stupid question: can i go back to the previous OS? typing is hard enough on a touch screen, i don't need my the operating system contributing to my woes.

 

[croaker68]

Change it in settings. Display gestures & buttons. It's an option to swipe up. You can change it.

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[Dave Clark]

hi. i have an htc one and recently upgraded to android 4.3. since then whenever i swipe up my keyboard it takes me to a google home screen. this happens mostly using textra and swiftkey. with swiftkey there is a little button on the bottom right to insert punctuation. unfortunately this key is directly above the home button on this phone. if i don't swipe it exactly right (happens quite often) i suddenly am exiting textra or k-9 email and seeing the google home screen. is there a way to disable this?? the only option i see is two variations under 'display gestures and buttons', but no way to completely disable.

thank you!!

Do you use Google search at all? If not then just disable it via apps, problem gone. If you do use it then your stuck.

 

[hatchex]

There's an option to make it so only holding it would bring you to Google now. But right now you have it to swipe up for Google now and holding the home button for menu

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[walterkurtz]

thanks for the help everyone. i think i found a solution. diabling google entirely is not an option yet. but it sucks i have to install an app for one simple thing. this works so far...

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...s.googlenowswipedisabler&hl=en&token=-ngOVI3D

i tried disabling it in settings but did not see an option. this is what my settings looks like on a t-mo htc one running 4.3.

 

[JBeef]

hi. i have an htc one and recently upgraded to android 4.3. since then whenever i swipe up my keyboard it takes me to a google home screen. this happens mostly using textra and swiftkey. with swiftkey there is a little button on the bottom right to insert punctuation. unfortunately this key is directly above the home button on this phone. if i don't swipe it exactly right (happens quite often) i suddenly am exiting textra or k-9 email and seeing the google home screen. is there a way to disable this?? the only option i see is two variations under 'display gestures and buttons', but no way to completely disable.


thank you!!

I can see where you are coming from. I use Swiftkey too and occasionally miss and have Google Now open. But to be fair to the phone, it's my fault. Clumsy thumbs hitting the wrong button isn't really HTC's fault. As for a solution - type in landscape mode. Chances of it happening there are literally 0%.

 

[walterkurtz]

true. but i can't type in landscape any better than portrait. i mean i can, but accuracy is ****. yes thats my fault. and its also the fault of consumers demanding touch screen phones over qwerty keyboards. that app i posted above and downloaded this morning is working like a champ so far!

 

[JBeef]

true. but i can't type in landscape any better than portrait. i mean i can, but accuracy is ****. yes thats my fault. and its also the fault of consumers demanding touch screen phones over qwerty keyboards. that app i posted above and downloaded this morning is working like a champ so far!

Awesome. That's the beauty of Android - there's usually an app to fix any gripe. I have a sticky power button and now use a couple of apps that allow me to wake phone with motion sensor and lock screen with a widget. Work brilliantly.

 

[Dave Clark]

Disable the app from the apps menu in settings. Then click on the app and disable.