Want to get rid of the 3 dots on my HTC One X

[Shika]

I bought an HTC One X and it fell it to my hands yesterday morning. Very excited about the lovely phone. It’s been working awesomely good as of now. But there is one super annoying thing about it- the 3 stupid dots that kills the looks of every app, every game. Can anyone please fix it for me? Is there any way to do that at the first place? If not, ‘HTC, you’ve messed it up there.’

[Sasuke Uchiha]

I understand! They are extremely annoying, I know that. Especially because they appear in almost every game and app making it look like a part of the hardware. No user will like it for the simplest of reasons that people are actually looking out for complete usage of screen and even a millimeter wastage looks irritating.

However, the cause of the issue is not HTC as you are assuming it to be. It is ICS. These dots appear when the applications are not optimized for ICS and as of now, there’s no fix to this. Hope to find one soon. Will definitely report it to you if I find one.

[Anjan1990]

I so agree to both of you. It’s ridiculous to having skipped such a bug while application and OS development. Try doing this, I have not tried but I think it’ll serve your purpose. What you can probably do is remap the task manager to menu by which you can long press for task manager. I don’t really think one uses task manager very often anyways.

[Shika]

As of now, there’s no fix to this

That’s disappointing!

Is remap the task manager to menu by which you can long press for task manager. I don’t really think one uses task manager very often anyways.

It was a very generous gesture of you to trying to provide me with solution. But the problem is not task manager or opening menu. Obviously it is! But a secondary one! Right now, my prime concern is how to remove that stupid menu (3 dots) from my apps. What you said is an alternative to the 3 dots but how to remove it, at the first place?

[Anjan1990]

Oh! I see but I can’t really think of a solution to that. But I would still recommend you to try modifying system/user/keylayout/qwerty.kl so that the hardware key is changed to menu from APP_SWITCH.

I think you should also try the solution I gave in my previous post, the reason being that maybe after having a hardware key to menu, it’ll think of discarding the application disturbance key for menu. Just try, what if it works! You hardly have anything to lose.

[Donatien]

He’s right! You should definitely give it a try. Let me give you an alternate solution to this:

Make changes in the source code related to APP_SWITCH

[Shika]

If you all are insisting, I’m willing to give it a try but please tell me what do you mean by

Make changes in the source code related to APP_SWITCH

I mean, what changes are you trying to indicate by this?

[Donatien]

To Make changes in the source code related to APP_SWITCH, go to PhoneWindowManager.java and change the code:

} else if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_APP_SWITCH) {
if (down && repeatCount == 0) {
showOrHideRecentAppsDialog(RECENT_APPS_BEHAVIOR_SHOW_OR_DISMISS);
}
return -1;
}

To
} else if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_APP_SWITCH) {
if (down && repeatCount == 0 && !keyguardOn) {
try {
mStatusBarService.toggleRecentApps();
} catch (RemoteException e) {
Slog.e(TAG, "RemoteException when showing recent apps", e);
}
}
return -1;
}

[Shika]

Done deal! And agreed! I don’t really mean to be pestering you but could you please tell me how do we open this PhoneWindowManager file? Where do I find it?

[Donatien]

Simple it is, just follow the following instructions:

o Go to platform
o Click on frameworks
o Move to base
o Go to policy
o Then, src
o Followed by com
o Click on Android
o Go to internalpolicy/impl
o Open PhoneWindowManager.java