Are you the owner of an Honor smartphone and want to know what the navigation button is for? In this article, you will find information about the navigation button on Honor 9 and similar Android smartphones and tablets. The navigation button on Android can be enabled in two ways, the first through the quick access bar, the second through the settings. In our example, we will look at the navigation button on Honor and what it is. This feature will also be useful for those who have stopped working control buttons under the screen.
To enable the navigation button on Honor, open the quick access panel to useful Android functions by dragging your finger down from the top edge of the screen. In the panel that opens, click on the "Navigation button" icon. If your panel does not have such an icon, then you can look in the settings, below we will write the way how to enable this button. After you activate the "Navigation Button" a translucent round button will appear on the screen as shown in the attached screenshot below. Previously, when the smartphone had the Android 7 operating system, this button was semicircular and was attached to the side of the screen, but after the OS was updated to Android 8, the button became round and now it can be moved around the screen wherever you want.
The navigation button on Android 7 performed a slightly different function than on Android 8. About the navigation button: single press means back, hold and release - home screen, hold and swipe - browse, drag - move. See the attached picture below for more details on the features. If there is no "Navigation button" icon in the quick access panel, then this function may still be provided on your smartphone. You can view and enable the navigation button on Android through the settings. Open the quick access panel by dragging your finger down from the top screen and click on the gear icon. In the settings that open, select the item "System", you may have to scroll down the list of settings, then select "System navigation", then "Navigation button" and turn it on. The navigation button is disabled, as well as enabled.
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10-04-2019
20 o'clock 18 min.
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On Honor 9, the vibration of the navigation button is turned off like this: settings - sound - other sound settings - vibration of the navigation button. There are no problems with sound and vibration on my phone.
10-04-2019
17 o'clock 04 min.
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Yes, one more thing - the sound will still be present, you will definitely need to restart the phone (!) Please write to whom this information has become useful.
10-04-2019
17 o'clock 00 min.
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Hello! For a long time I was tormented by attempts to turn off the sound and vibration of the navigation buttons on honor 8x, and I succeeded. Settings - system - accessibility (at the very bottom of the screen, in small print) - there will be in the TalkBack and SwitchAccess menus, I went into each of them, there is a settings icon in the upper right corner, it has speech, sound effects - turn off the sound and vibration...
04-04-2019
06 o'clock 55 min.
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Vladimir, Natalia, did you manage to solve the problem? After the update, the sound also appeared, terribly annoying, the sound was turned off throughout the phone, the vibration is still there
20-02-2019
09 o'clock 01 min.
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I have the same problem with sound after honor10 update. Vladimir, please tell me, did you get rid of this scourge?
14-01-2019
20 o'clock 25 min.
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After the update, when you press the navigation button, back or when you exit the application, a notification sound appears, but there is no notification itself. Unable to disable honor10
One of the innovations that Google has added to its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system is the navigation bar located at the bottom of the screen of tablets and smartphones that do not have hardware Menu, Home and Recent Apps buttons.
Many people find this panel convenient, but some believe that the screen area is used irrationally. If you belong to the latter category of users, one of the independent developers from the XDA-Developers forum, known by the nickname MrBIMC, has created a very interesting and useful application. Ultimate Dynamic Navbar(or UDN).
Ultimate Dynamic Navbar allows you to hide the Android navigation bar, instead of which a slide-out bar appears that you can customize completely to your taste.
Moreover, the application works even on devices that are equipped with hardware navigation buttons and can be very useful to those owners who have one (or even all) of these buttons out of order.
The only restriction that UDN imposes on a device is the presence of root rights on it.
Using the application is quite simple and convenient. All settings are clear and you can fully customize your new navigation bar by changing the functions of the buttons, adding new buttons, changing their color, style and transparency.
In addition to the standard three buttons Menu, Home, and Recent Apps, you can add two more buttons to the panel that can be assigned to launch functions such as menu, search, screen blanking, volume up or down, close all applications, and etc. Not only that, you can assign two actions to each button (a simple and a long click).
The appearance of the panel can be changed quite widely using more than a dozen themes, such as Facebook, Xperia, Honeycomb, Zenyth, ZTE, Samsung, etc. You can change the color and transparency of the buttons, as well as the height and transparency of the panel.
The only thing that some may consider a drawback of this application is that when it appears, the new panel overlaps other elements located on the screen of your tablet or smartphone, such as application shortcuts or the quick launch bar (dock).
You can always download the latest, and free version of the application in
That Google plans to release the Android 7.1 update soon. According to preliminary data, Nexus-smartphones, which should be presented in October this year, out of the box will be based on Android 7.1. Why not 7.0.1? The reason for this is the scale of the update. In this regard, another question may arise: “What innovations are we talking about?”. And here comes the latest information received from our colleagues from android police.
So, Google is working on a wide range of customization options for the navigation bar. The settings will become part of the System UI Tuner, which was introduced with .
For now, the navbar settings are hidden in the Nougat source code. However, the craftsmen managed to modify the System UI and take screenshots of the navbar settings.
From the source it follows that all the buttons of the navigation bar can be changed, as well as moved. You can add a clipboard button, a button that will appear when the keyboard is activated and with which you can associate a specific keyboard button, be it a space or any letter. Spacer will allow you to increase the space between the buttons.
In the settings, you may have noticed a double arrow, a cross and parallel lines next to each button: the arrow changes the size of the button, the cross deletes the button, and holding the lines allows you to move the button in the list.
While some elements are inactive, for example, the clipboard button does not work, this was the reason for deactivating such an interesting functionality.
However, we repeat, it is possible that the function will be finalized by October, when new Nexus devices will be presented.
On some Huawei smartphones, in particular the Ascend D2, Mate, P6, and the Huawei Mediapad 10 FHD tablet, the familiar touch keys have been replaced with virtual ones. This technical solution is definitely very interesting, but a significant drawback is the use of part of the screen for this very virtual navigation bar. Huawei engineers found a solution to this problem and implemented the ability to minimize virtual keys (Back, Home and Menu) in firmware based on Android 4.1.2.
For your information, Google implemented this feature only in Android 4.4 KitKat, and Huawei banned its use in their firmware six months ago.
But due to the fact that this feature has already been implemented in the firmware, it can be activated quite easily.
Method one:
For this activation of minimizing the panel in this way, it is necessary that root rights are obtained on your smartphone and a file manager is installed that can work with system folders, for example, Root Explorer.
- Go to the / system / folder using Root Explorer.
- Find and open a file build.prop using the editor.
- Find line ro.config.hw_shownavisettings=false and change the value false on true .
- Save changes to file.
- Restart smartphone.
- Go to Settings->Navigation Bar->Hide Navigation Bar and enable the ability to control the panel.
Method two:
This method is suitable for those who do not have the ability or desire to get root rights on their device. Of the required software, only SQLite Database Editor is needed.
- Using the standard AllBackup application, make 2 backup copies of the System Settings of the system with encryption disabled.
- Open using ES Explorer / Root Explorer / Huawei File Manager, or any other file manager, a folder
/HuaweiBackup/backupFiles/YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS/ on the memory card, where YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS corresponds to the date and time the backup was created. - Open file system setting.db with help SQLite Database Editor.
- Table system find the hide_virtual_key variable and change its value from 0 on 1 .
- Go to the AllBackup utility and restore data from the SD card from the edited backup.
- Restart smartphone.
When resetting to factory settings, as well as after updating the firmware, these manipulations will have to be performed again.
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The tendency to push mechanical control buttons out of the front of the phone case is understandable, since it is necessary to free up space for the screen. The larger the smartphone screen, the more information the phone user can perceive in comfortable conditions.
Now the usual control buttons have moved to the phone screen and become "virtual".
But the trend goes further, and now smartphone developers offer the option of controlling a smartphone through one (also called the “Control Button”). This virtual navigation button always remains on the screen of the smartphone, and it is on top of all the pictures. If the Navigation Button obscures the necessary information, then it costs nothing to “drag” it to a new place right there.
Depending on the version of the operating system of smartphones, there is a slight difference in the location of the buttons:
- on Android 7.0 - The navigation button is always on the edge of the screen;
- on Android 8.0 - The navigation button is located anywhere on the screen.
And how to enable the Control Button on a Huawei (Honor) smartphone?
1 way: Enabling Navigation Buttons via the Notification Panel:
A white circle appears on the screen - this is it.
After that, the information “About the navigation button” will appear on the screen with a brief description of the button modes.
If desired, here you can disable the display of the Navigation Panel from the smartphone screen. To do this, enable the function "Hide navigation bar".
2 way: Enabling Navigation Buttons via Smartphone Settings:
On this screen it is possible to get acquainted with 4 operating modes. To do this, move the pictures with information about the functions of the Navigation Button to the left.
Four Functions Navigation Buttons:
- "Back": When you press the button once, the “Back” function is performed and you will go back one step.
- "Work Screen": Hold and release the button and you will go to the Run screen.
- "Review": Hold and swipe right or left to switch between applications.
- "Moving": Button dragging is moving the Navigation Button around the screen to a convenient location.
To learn how to turn off the Control Button of a HUAWEI (honor) smartphone, you need to go to the article. Click to go to the article.
