[Q] Loss of menu buttons? - 7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Every now and then I keep getting no response when trying to nagivate the screen as the HOME, BACK and BOOKMARK buttons are no longer on the screen leaving me to restart the kindle.
Anyone experience this and know how to fix?

Sorry, it's not the menu buttons its the option buttons that appear at the bottom.
The only bypass has been to install an app called fullscreen

I've heard that happening because Gmail was installed. Not sure though
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No that's the notification bar gmail affects,
Did you freeze some stuff by chance? Try going into the kfhd 7 general thread that deals with the bottom bar they've made some modded ones, perhaps yours just got corrupted
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What status (notification) bar do you use?

I'm currently using Omega StatusBar but it's buggy at best. After enabling in accessibility settings I find that the counters are frequently incorrect, apps stick around after clearing notifications, and ongoing notifications don't play very nice.
Anyone using a statusbar with more success? Which one?
I'm looking for any which display icons for notifications rather than the vague circle with a number within it as present in the stock os. It's good to see what's going on at a glance without swiping down.
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victorlugo said:
I'm currently using Omega StatusBar but it's buggy at best. After enabling in accessibility settings I find that the counters are frequently incorrect, apps stick around after clearing notifications, and ongoing notifications don't play very nice.
Anyone using a statusbar with more success? Which one?
I'm looking for any which display icons for notifications rather than the vague circle with a number within it as present in the stock os. It's good to see what's going on at a glance without swiping down.
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+1 want to know the best bar too xD
I wasn't even able to get Omega StatusBar to display notifications on my 8.9" HD. As soon as I turned on the "accessibility" option necessary for it to intercept notifications, I got a force close.
I've tried a couple of other status bar replacements from the Play store with the same results -- all fail turning accessibility on. I've seen reports of other 8.9" users having the same problem.
I would certainly like to hear of a working status bar that doesn't have this problem.
The stock status bar works.
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Krsmqn said:
The stock status bar works.
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but want a better one xD, kinology is deodex no? so how i can put a theme to the kindle ?
http://www.wugfresh.com/guides/deodex/
Or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916814
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Krsmqn said:
http://www.wugfresh.com/guides/deodex/
Or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916814
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will wait to other that theme this first
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persano said:
will wait to other that theme this first
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Huh?
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Dr. Drax said:
I wasn't even able to get Omega StatusBar to display notifications on my 8.9" HD. As soon as I turned on the "accessibility" option necessary for it to intercept notifications, I got a force close.
I've tried a couple of other status bar replacements from the Play store with the same results -- all fail turning accessibility on. I've seen reports of other 8.9" users having the same problem.
I would certainly like to hear of a working status bar that doesn't have this problem.
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You have to go to the Kindle's settings -> accessibility -> then turn on the option for Omega Statusbar accessibility.
From there you can turn on the accessibility within Omega's app. It might force close but it will work.
At that point when you open the Omega app you will want to hit the button on the top-right-most of the screen. It turns on the status bar. You should instantly see the statusbar pop up.
It doesn't always clear notifications though. I guess this is an android limitation with what gets sent to the accessibility api.
Hope that works for you.
victorlugo said:
You have to go to the Kindle's settings -> accessibility -> then turn on the option for Omega Statusbar accessibility.
From there you can turn on the accessibility within Omega's app. It might force close but it will work.
At that point when you open the Omega app you will want to hit the button on the top-right-most of the screen. It turns on the status bar. You should instantly see the statusbar pop up.
It doesn't always clear notifications though. I guess this is an android limitation with what gets sent to the accessibility api.
Hope that works for you.
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Oh and if you're stock or stock rooted and you don't have accessibility settings within the Kindle's settings menu use KFHD Extended Settings to access it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2124384
victorlugo said:
You have to go to the Kindle's settings -> accessibility -> then turn on the option for Omega Statusbar accessibility.
From there you can turn on the accessibility within Omega's app. It might force close but it will work.
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Thanks, I got it working. It wasn't worth it, though. Wasn't much of a functional improvement, didn't look that much better, and the old status bar would show up in flashes now and then.
Maybe the stock toolbar isn't that bad...
Dr. Drax said:
Thanks, I got it working. It wasn't worth it, though. Wasn't much of a functional improvement, didn't look that much better, and the old status bar would show up in flashes now and then.
Maybe the stock toolbar isn't that bad...
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Yeah.. And even moving to /system/app doesn't make a difference unfortunately. At least when the stock toolbar says 10 notifications, its really 10 notifications. I'm confident some ROM will get something stable going though, just a matter of time.
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Is there a way to change the icons that show in the status bar without having to switch to an entire other status bar? I'm referring to the parental controls, wifi and battery icons that appear in the top right corner. I'd like to customize those. Possible?

Navbar in the lockscreen

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I'm on my phone at the moment and I'm still trying to figure out how to search just the xperia z forums using the xda app.
I don't really know what i did befofe this but suddenly my navbar started appearing in the lockscreen, I was wondering if anyone knew what might be the cause or how to fix this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Did you flash any mods?
Are you using the original slide to unlock?
If you are using the Sony lockscreen but not the slide to unlock the navi bar will appear.
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LitoNi said:
Did you flash any mods?
Are you using the original slide to unlock?
If you are using the Sony lockscreen but not the slide to unlock the navi bar will appear.
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I found out what it was just now, it was the smart key app that lets you assign the key funtions of the headphones key.
I uninstalled the app and now the navbar is hidden in yhe lock screen.
Thank you for the help anyways
always back track what you did and you will solve the issue.
tatit1011 said:
I found out what it was just now, it was the smart key app that lets you assign the key funtions of the headphones key.
I uninstalled the app and now the navbar is hidden in yhe lock screen.
Thank you for the help anyways
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I had the same problem since I buy and because of you I've solved it!
Goodbye to Smart key and thank you very much! (from Argentina)
I had the same problem (see picture attached), but not in a million years I would have thought about smartkey app to blame for. The mystery was, that the navbar appeared on lockscreen just yesterday. The app was installed for weeks. Strange.
Thank you for finding out.:highfive:

[Q] hide or disable 3 dot menu

I really hate the menu that pops up in apps such as facebook taking up space, ive tried hide bar but it also hides the status bar as well. is there anyway to hide or disable this.
also any suggestions on a button remapper that i can use to hold the back button to pull up menu, if not ill just use gmd gesture control(it just causes issue though)
Install a ROM that allows you to hold back for menu like viper, this will remove the menu pop up
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flimsy888 said:
Install a ROM that allows you to hold back for menu like viper, this will remove the menu pop up
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Adding on to this... In the display settings of the rom there should be the option to enable long press as it isn't on by default.
FrostyF7 said:
Adding on to this... In the display settings of the rom there should be the option to enable long press as it isn't on by default.
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Thanks! Got it working on viper:highfive:
How bout a thanks and a high five?
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[Q] sense based rom full screen (no status bar)

Hi. Does anybody know how to make status bar hidden while on action launcher using Sentinel rom?
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There is a Xposed module called app settings, which also have a full screen option per app
Thank you! Only downside is that when full screen mode is enabled, you can't access the quick settings or notification shade with shortcuts using pie. It will do until pie mode is made for my rom!
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SwayART said:
Thank you! Only downside is that when full screen mode is enabled, you can't access the quick settings or notification shade with shortcuts using pie. It will do until pie mode is made for my rom!
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Don't know exactly what you mean or which pie app you use. But with LMT pie, you can set pie or swipe commands for quick settings or accessing the notificationbar as far as I know.
Yes this is true, but when the status bar is hidden by the xposed module, the settings and notification shade don't come down until I open an app that doesn't have the status bar hidden. If that makes sense? Haha
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Tried it. The full screen app seems to force itself on top, so when you set a swip command for the statusbar it does come down, but because the full screen app forces itself on top it's behind the app. When you close the app it's there. That's some kind of funny

Home key actions?

Hey all-
Long time lurker, first time poster. I notice when I'm on my main homescreen and I then tap Home, I get a lil popup that says "App isn't installed." Anybody know what this is all about? Can the Home key be configured to do something else? I had my old Droid 4 set to open Browser when double-tapping Home, that was sweet.
I'm running 4.4, but the same thing happened on 4.2.2. Using Nova Launcher.
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In RAZR we could configure the double tap home launch app through
*Settings->Accessibility->Double tap home launch (last option)*
Hope it's the same with X.
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Doesn't appear as though that option carried over from the D4/RAZR. Still have no idea what's going on with this "App isn't installed" message when I tap Home (when already on the primary Home screen)...
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