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I also prefer the soft buttons. That hard button is just something that can suffer from fatigue failure. However, saying that, I'm still using Mike S's Note 1!!!
 
BigAl-sa said:
I also prefer the soft buttons. That hard button is just something that can suffer from fatigue failure. However, saying that, I'm still using Mike S's Note 1!!!
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I like the idea of soft-mapping - *I* decide where the back button goes, for example.

Plus, it looks awesome in fullscreen mode. ;)
 
Bit of a self punt - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.viddyzoo.CWusage

This app will show you the usage on your Crystal or Web Africa accounts.

* Not an official app from either of these providers, it just uses their SSL endpoints to get the data
* The connection details are stored encrypted, and only sent to the endpoint
* Since it's not official they can block it at any time, probably when they bring out their own mobile apps
* It should work for uncapped accounts, I've tested it with capped accounts as that is all I have with them

If you have any issues just let me know.
 
Mike Smit said:
I prefer the soft buttons. You get mostly screen on the front instead of a reserved space for hard buttons.
Make the phone a bit smaller too with the same screen size.

Just my preference.
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Of course if they actually did that but all they typically do is leave the screen to phone size ratio the same, ie virtually no reduction in bezel size and still leave out the hardware buttons. Xperias are the worst, have an enormous bezel but still use soft keys, the Z phones are virtually the size of a galaxy note but have 13mm smaller diagonal screen size.

I generally have all my hardkey buttons mapped to swipes but at times they aren't terribly responsive, sometimes I don't want to **#k around and with the hardware buttons I can instantly do exact what I intend to.
 
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airborne said:
Of course if they actually did that but all they typically do is leave the screen to phone size ratio the same, ie virtually no reduction in bezel size and still leave out the hardware buttons. Xperias are the worst, have an enormous bezel but still use soft keys, the Z phones are virtually the size of a galaxy note but have 13mm smaller diagonal screen size.
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I have a OnePlus One, which can switch between off-screen and on-screen navigation buttons. I've been using on-screen navigation since the first week I got the phone. I find that Android is just so much more pleasant to use with them.
 
ph4t3 said:
Whats the fix? Changing the file system?
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That is the fastest way, but while it may work, the developer is not actively testing on samesung, as as per usual samesung decides to eff around with android and make it inferior so people have to do extra special things.
 
I disagree. I've tried quite a few launchers, removed all of them in the end. Then again, all my phones have run vanilla Android except my Z2 tablet- for which I have no desire to add a different launcher.
 
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