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There are a lot of reasons one may have to swipe instead of poke so first things first we need know what you're swiping. Are you talking about swiping calls, answer or decline, do you mean swiping to unlock your phone or wake the screen, do you mean in general to return to home, access your quick launch apps or go back? What are you swiping and why?
Are you using a launcher other than the LG launcher? Like Nova launcher or something else?
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