soft keys disappeared

[JoeNM84]

Was using my GN and decided to wipe off the screen with my blanket just to get some finger prints off and next thing I know my Back Home and Recent Apps buttons were gone. Had to power off and power on to get them to come back. Anyone else seen this? Guess this would be considered a flaw with the idea of no real buttons.

 

[Pghdroidette]

This usually happens to me once a week or so. Most of the time I turn off the screen and turn it back on and they are there, but a couple of times I had to do a battery pull. And there is no rhyme or reason to why it happens.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

 

[cstambaugh]

I've had it happen once. I just hard booted the phone and they came back. As much as I use my nexus, for it to only happen once since release day is acceptable for me.

 

[EggoEspada]

Never experienced this before. What exactly happens? Does the buttons turn into the three dots? Or is it just completely black and pressing in the area is unresponsive?

 

[Nechasin]

This just happened to me this morning. They turn completely black and for all practical purpose do not exist. I rebooted my phone and they came back. Don't think I was doing anything odd last night.

 

[JoeNM84]

Yep turn black as if there is no button there at all and get no response when touching where the buttons would be.

 

[lostmarine]

Weird never happened here.

 

[Blitzdroid]

happened a few times. Hit the power button fixes it.
Also at the lock screen, slide left to open the camera app also fixes it.

 

[Run L1ke H3LL]

Happened to me today. Very odd.

 

[trunksy]

This is a fail. It just happened to me and Android apps are useless without the back button. You also lose all your notifications in a reboot.

 

[jafels]

never had that problem here.

 

[sec_netizen74]

This just happened to me today on my Galaxy Nexus. I was in the Dolphin HD browser. I could scroll up and down and interact with the browser, and I could get to the notification area, but even when I used the system preferences shortcut within the notification area, the software buttons did not come back.

Just a blank, black strip completely unresponsive to touch.

I had to reboot my phone to get these buttons back.

 

[DaPoets]

Just happened to me yesterday for the 1st time. Was in the stock browser on a forum and poof they were gone. Turning off and on did nothing so I had to shut down and reboot. Part of Beta!