No Standard Menu Button In 3.0+ / How To Get Access To It
Oct 12, 2012
I made my app compatible with both pre and post 3.0. Before 3.0 most phones had menu buttons which led to settings or other menu options. Since 3.0+ the dev guide has depreciated the menu button so phones don't need it. ICS and JB don't use them.
So how do I let users access it? In Gingerbread a user can press the menu button and then select the "Settings" link. Everyone knows what I mean but I feel I need to explain it: here's the dev guide anyway.
So if one of my users is on a 3.0+ device how can I let them get access to the settings page? I don't want to use the Action Bar like the dev guide suggests. That's a huge UI change just for one settings page.
I mean it's just one page and changing my UI to add a settings imageview would change the overall layout of main.xml which at the moment is just how i want it.
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Oct 17, 2009
If you press and hold the 'home' button for a second or two it brings up a list of your most used (I think) apps.
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Jun 3, 2009
I've been trying to include standard android icons in a menu XML file, as described in Android Icon design guidelines. However the build fails with the following errors : [2009-06-04 00:00:31 - Laser] W/ResourceType(16578): Bad XML block: header size 2475 or total size 0 is larger than data size 0 [2009-06-04 00:00:31 - Laser] /home/niko/dev/workspace/Laser/res/menu/ main.xml:4: ERROR Error: Resource is not public. (at 'icon' with value '@android:drawable/ic_menu_play_clip'). [2009-06-04 00:00:31 - Laser] Unknown error: The only threads I could find with this error were about rebuilding android platform xml files. Any idea about what I could have missed?
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Nov 7, 2012
i update ics in spice mi355 bt in my phone status in about phn only 2.3.6 only show it bt looks are change.and menu button change to option button clockwise.hw do i knw whther ics change in phn or nt?bt file is download in our forum 1ly size is 90 mb.
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Oct 6, 2010
I'm curious why anyone would use the Google Search box (and take up that home screen space) when all you have to do is press the magnifying glass for the same feature (and on any home screen, without having to scroll back to the widget). A long-press opens voice search, so I see no benefit in even using the widget at all.
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Apr 21, 2010
The android sdk offers the standard menu icons via android.R.drawable.X, however some standard icons, such as ic_menu_refresh (the refresh icon), are missing from android.R.Is there any way to get the original icons, maybe by extracting them from the applications? I already checked the Android source, but it's a bit too huge to look everywhere for the images.I know the androiddrawableexplorer website, but I would like to get the correct hdpi, mdpi and ldpi version, preferable the original ones.Do you have any idea?
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Oct 26, 2009
so i made a wonderful discovery this weekend that my phone will take a charge from my CD deck in my car that has a USB jack. my concern is, that it may end up damaging the phone somehow and i was beyond paranoid. does anyone know if it is a safe thing to do? Does the USB standard have a standard power output?
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Jul 22, 2012
API 10
/res/menu/main_app.xml
Code:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="@+id/menu_settings"
android:title="@string/menu_settings"
android:onClick="showSettingsMenu"
android:orderInCategory="100" />
</menu>
/src/com.my_app/MainActivity.java
Code:
public void showSettingsMenu(View view){
setContentView(R.layout.settings_main);
}
im supposed to go to the settings screen after pressing the menu button on the phone and pressing on the "Settings" option.but it isnt happening.
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Aug 18, 2009
I'm writing unit tests in a class derived from ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2. I know I can access anything defined in the applications XML using findViewById(), but this application defines its Menu programmatically. I'm trying to access that menu so I can fire click() events to it in my tests the same way I'm doing with Button Views etc.
To illustrate, this works fine and shows I can control/test various Views:
CODE:...................
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Jun 4, 2010
am i the only 1 with this issue when i double clik bring up another menu insted of takin me home
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Jul 22, 2010
Recently the home and menu buttons of my HTC hero broke down. I found an app, "soft home" which creates a home button in the notification bar.Does anyone know of an app which does the same thing for the menu button? While Im on it, a second question: My browser which is the default browser of the hero goes full screen. This causes the notification bar to dissappear thus making the home button app useless. Does anyone know how to turn this fullscreen feature off/know a good browser which does not do so.
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May 1, 2010
So is it just mine or does everyone have a capital E on the menu button?
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Feb 8, 2014
as the title i flashed cm11 on my device and how i can disable menu button
the three squares in the pic
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May 12, 2010
I'm having crappy reception (like most people) with -100db reception so I was wondering if I might try hybrid prl to see if that helps. Can I make the change to hybrid or do I have call or go to a vzw store?
Also, how do I access the Inc's service menu?
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Sep 2, 2010
We are building an app for a device that will have a 1024x600 screen at API level 7, 160dpi (which, by the way, is going to be very popular very shortly with the Samsung Tab and other tablets coming on the market). When we start the emulator, the touch surface takes up the entire window, and we no longer see the emulator keyboard, hard buttons, or (most importantly) the menu button on the right. The emulator's window does not scale, so it is not simply a matter of making the emulator window larger, unfortunately.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to get these very important buttons to appear in the emulator?
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Jan 18, 2014
I recently bought a Chinese Mediatek 'pbablet' phone/tablet combination; running Android 4.2.2 Model: MTK6572. Due to it being cheap, it was ideal so I thought, for flashing and development, however I maybe wrong.
However I cannot get it into recovery mode. It won't display the menu when holding down volume + and the power button when powering on.
When pressing these two buttons together on start-up, it actually remains a black screen, and it won't turn on after doing this, and I have to keep pressing the tiny reset button on the side of this device every time I attempt to enter recovery, to get it to turn on as normal again.
Pressing and holding volume - and power at the same time on start-up brings up "Factory mode" (in Chinese) and has no options available for flashing/ROM/ functions, except 'testing' the devices' hardware. This phone doesn't have any other physical buttons except power, volume + and -
I am able to successfully enter CWR by flashing it with MTKDroidTools and rebooting into the recovery mode (while powered up and in the android OS) however I still cannot get into CWR or any recovery mode at all while powering up with power and volume +
I just want to be able to enter a recovery mode on this device, to ensure no future issues and doubts upon the unfortunate events of a permanent brick. My idea is to flash this phablet with ParanoidAndroid; or cyanogenmod, and I could try doing this with a software reset, but then what if the ROM is incompatible, and totally bricks it? Then I have no way in hell to revive and reflash, because I can't access the recovery mode anyway.
I have came to the conclusion that it maybe due to the filesystem, potentially due to it's fbifs, that is the cause to no recovery mode, but what if it's ext4, does any of this make a difference.
Is there any way to make this device open the recovery menu while powering it on?
When I attempt to enter recovery mode while powering up with volume +, the device is basically a brick, until I press reset. It doesn't respond at all. The only way to enter recovery menu is by booting into android resetting the device into recovery mode via an app.
Device Info -
Hardware : MT6572
Model : MT6572
Build number : ALPS.JB3.MP.V2.0
Build date UTC : 20131104-123514
Android v : 4.2.2
Baseband v: MOLY.WR8.W1315.MD.WG.MP.V1, 2013/09/18 03:24
Kernel v : 3.4.5 (breaze@urbetter-Linux6) (gcc version 4.6.x-google 20120106 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #10 SMP Thu Dec 19 09:40:47 CST 2013
Uboot build v : -----
LCD Driver IC : 1-hsd070idw1
Scatter eMMC -
[Code] ......
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Oct 23, 2011
I have a ZTE/SFR Staraddict and it is locked to the google account request and i can't access to the menu. How can i do to reset it.
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Sep 30, 2010
I am having problems with my girls DINC. The four menu button light does not come on. Me and her both have the same phone. Both were asleep and when I wake both up mine lights up but on hers it doesnt. I am not sure if there is a setting or something that I am doing wrong. She is on stock froyo and I am using redemption rom 2.0.4 but I am not sure that has anything to do with it.
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Jul 11, 2010
I just got my white Evo and the menu button light is different than the home, back and search buttons. Is everyone's elses like this? I wonder if this is intentional but I can't see why it would be.
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Jul 27, 2010
I was wondering if it is possible to customize the icon used for the More menu option (displayed when there are more than 6 menu options)? With the stock vanilla Android UI it appears as a disclosure-type arrow and on HTC Sense UI it's an ellipsis icon. Curious if these are fixed icons only defined in the Android resources or if there is a way to programmatically set them?
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Sep 15, 2010
Is there a way for a button to call a submenu? I currently have a menu where if they select one of the options it opens a submenu, however I want to be able to start the submenu from the Button widget instead of the Menu object.
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Sep 23, 2010
Before 2.2 update I could unlock the phone using the menu button but this option seem to have disappeared since the update on tmobile anyone found out if you can still do this.
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May 16, 2010
When I press and hold the quick search button on my desire, I was given the option to chose what app i want mapped to this key (I chose quick settings - very handy)....however when I press and hold the menu button anywhere I get a keyboard popping up which is frankly useless as when I need a keyboard there is always and easy way to bring it up. Is there any way to map other apps to other buttons such as the menu button or even the optical track button?
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May 14, 2010
I am using following code to open Android Contacts
CODE:.............
Now i want to put Button at the top of this Contact activity when opened or add my own Menu in this Activity.
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Apr 15, 2010
I have HTC Hero and I've found out that dragging down on the touch is not the only way to unlock the phone. If you press the menu button, it unlocks the phone, too. I don't know whether it's problem of the HTC device, Android or bad feature definition.
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Jun 6, 2010
I m a novice in android.. i want to add a button or menu item in message inbox or email. how can i do so.
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May 4, 2010
May someone please tell me how to change the text "More" of "More Button" in an expanded menu to other strings?
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Oct 30, 2010
You need to have Internet permission. Instead of using thewebview, you are better off using the Bowser activity for this.
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May 1, 2010
Hit the power button to wake up the phone then just hit menu to unlock it. Instead of unlocking it on screen. Bug or intended?
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Nov 16, 2012
1st off, I am brand new to Android, have had this phone for 1 day.
All instructions I find say 1 of 2 things, either tap and hold the home screen until I see a "+add widgets", or swipe left to right until I see the menu button. I also read that the menu button should look like 3 vertical bars.
Tapping and holding the home screen only gives me options to add wallpapers, nothing else. I cannot find anything like a menu button. When I go into settings I can find nothing that has to do with adding widgets.
How to find this menu button, what the icon for menu will look like?
Galaxy Nexus running Jelly Bean
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