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[Nexus 7 General] ryanmfraser:
Yep, just tried this neat little mod. Hides the nav bar but not the status bar. Running stock rom/kernel rooted/unlocked. Edited the build.prop rebooted, worked. Re-edited, rebooted went back to normal.

Excellent find!
[Nexus 7 General] mwalt2:
I'd use lmt launcher if you're interested in hiding the navigation bar. It worked well when I was hiding the navigation bar on my gnex.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1330150
[Nexus 7 General] Alejandrissimo:
Paranoid android+ expanded desktop and problem solved
[Nexus 7 General] SUDroid:
You could also use a custom rom such as CM10.
[Nexus 7 General] harise100:
Team EOS Rom has an option in the power menu to hide the bar.

But beware, hide the bar before you start a game, otherwise no problems.
[Nexus 7 General] SkaldfraNorden:
I use AOKP, so I already have the function to hide nav bar, but didn't know about Button Savior...

Nice little and powerful app.

Cheers!
[Nexus 7 General] witke:
Does anybody know how to permamently hide top status bar?
[Nexus 7 General] ghostaa:
Try using GMD gestures it might help.
[Nexus 7 General] witke:
I 'm using GMD, but the status bar is always on when the device is going back from sleep.
[Nexus 7 General] Groid:
Try a custom launcher like Nova. You can choose to not display the notification bar.
[Nexus 7 General] yaroslav_s:
I use combination of FullScreen Toggle V2 and Button Savior with autohide option.

First install Button Savior and set is. And only after this FullScreen Toggle.
[Nexus 7 General] lesdense:
I use Go Launcher EX. There's a simple toggle to hide or show the Status Bar. @yaroslav_s -- you're not hiding the Status Bar in the screenshots you posted. The "Status Bar" is on top. Yours is visible. It's the "Navigation Bar" that's on the bottom. That's what's hidden in your screenshots. Perhaps you weren't illustrating hiding the Status Bar -- but just in case, FYI. BTW, what did you use to get those screenshots? I tried two different apps and neither one generated a decent image for me.
[Nexus 7 General] yaroslav_s:
The thread is about hiding Navigation bar. Status bar wasn't a problem for me - only Nav bar. To get screenshots used Power+Vol "-" buttons for 2 seconds. Screenshots are saved in Pictures folder of the Nexus 7.
[Nexus 7 General] littld:
You can turn off this behaviour in GMD settings
[Nexus 7 General] bossman137:
+1 for full screen toggle. and +1 for GMD gestures. here is the link for toggle http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1987830.

to me it was simple. I wanted my whole screen. I wanted to keep the google experience (ie no alternative launchers). GMD is a WONDERFUL app, they put a lot of thought into it and they have gestures that aren't interpereted as something else to your device, also they have custome gestures if you feel differently. I'm loving it and mark my words, gestures like this are the future, i mean apple is already doing them.
[Nexus 7 General] phatmanxxl:
My set up:

PA in tablet mode (notification bar and status bar are together ) - expand desktop ( both disappear giving me full screen) - notifications still pop up in corner, so no problem there - Nova launcher Acton swipe up, expand notifications, brings up notifications on the desktop.

LMT for navigation ( available in android software development thread), trying out button saviour now after reading this thread.

My phone is set up the same way.
[Nexus 7 General] jbird92113:
Hidebar is another great product. The developer is quick to release updates and bug fixes.
[Nexus 7 General] boboskins:
Also working on N10 & N4

Just tested this out on N10 & N4 and confirm that it works. On the N4 this is great news as it makes better use of the screen in movies.

Thanks.

B
[Nexus 7 General] costipl:
Actually, movies are not a problem as every semi-competent player can auto-hide the navigation bar. What bugs me is that there is no gallery app that can do this sort of thing.

Wysyłane z mojego Nexus 7 za pomocą Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 7 General] dr.m0x:
I just flashed Cyanogenmod 10. Now I can hide or unhide the navigation bar simply by selecting the option from the power menu.
[Nexus 7 General] spinedoc:
+1 for GMD Gestures, it blew me away. This is the program for iOS users switching over to Android, but still have the iOS gesture habits. You can replicate the same feel, and get rid of the navigation bar since you don't need it anymore.
[Nexus 7 General] jkang29:
How did you edit the build.prop to hide only the nav bar and not the status bar?
[Nexus 7 General] monkeyhitman:
Props to LMT and FullScreen Toggle. The setup for LMT went almost flawlessly, whereas I had issues with both GMD and Button Savior.
[Nexus 7 General] monkeyhitman:
Put some screenshots together to show how much space you gain when you get rid of the nav bars. It's makes a huge difference when browsing (or doing anything, really) in landscape, especially when the on-screen keyboard pops up. Totally worthwhile and easy to do with FullScreen Toggle and LMT.
[Nexus 7 General] Silesh.Nair:
Works perfectly on miui ROM. Added the value in the build.prop file using jrummy's build.prop editor and rebooted.

Using button saviour.
[Nexus 7 General] bossman137:
I used the full screen toggle for several weeks, and noticed a significant stutter and lag in a lot of instances and in some apps. I wish google would just build it into their OS to give us the option
[Nexus 7 General] diba320:
Sorry for the dumb question, whats PA? Is there another way to get tablet mode apart from changing density on N7 3G 4.2.1?

Actually use HideBar, but coming from Kindle Fire with JandyCane I miss quicknavbar ..., anyone able to make this on stockROM available?
[Nexus 7 General] murrun:
Just tried Button Savior. It's great even it's free option. But SuperUser popups are little bit annoying. Whenever i press a button it's giving me root access notifications. So i disabled access notifications in super user app.

Thanks for the tips.

@diba320, it meanns paranoidandroid rom.
[Nexus 7 General] diba320:
Button Savior is quite Close to quicknavbar, but only Close. Upgraded to PRO to hide some Buttons, unfortunaly I can not assign HideBar to the useless PhoneButton. Have to request Support from the dev.

And as soon as HideBar gives the Option to choose which bar to hide, top/bottom and /or, it is the solution I am looking for without flashing another ROM.
[Nexus 7 General] murrun:
Why can't we install quicknavbar? it seems a really nice way to handle navigation. I found a youtube video about it couldn't find an apk. :)
[Nexus 7 General] diba320:
Quicknavbar is from my opinion the best way having full-screen and all and more options of a navigation bar. There is no apk afaik, ist implemented in JandyCane ROM for Kindle FIRE.

What I did some minutes ago is adding the line from OP to my build.prop, worked and now I have the next to quicknavbar solution with buttonsavior. What is missing is the activation from anywhere of the bottom of the Screen, I put the small arrow to the lowest possible position of the right side of the screen.

Just want to mention, that HideBar and ButtonSavior are not working 100% together. Having HideBar the navbar hidden, the "Recent Task" button of ButtonSavior does not work.
[Nexus 7 General] murrun:
slidinig from anywhere from right side of the screen is working good enough for me. i think it's more natural than bottom to up swipe.
[Nexus 7 General] diba320:
Update on my configuration:

obviously modifying the build.prop has implications on some Apps. Skype i.e does work, but the Skype INTERNAL Settings do not Show up, so I have NOT the three dots in upper right Corner. Went back to original build.prop and they were back. Seems some other apps have similar issues.

Boat Browser had severeal FC as well, not sure if this is related to the same reason, but did not have this before.

Back to using HideBar, even if the app is hiding the notification bar on top as well.
[Nexus 7 General] glimmling:
Here's my configuration:

I disabled the softkeys with FullScreen Toggle and I use GMD Gestures Control to replace them.

HideBar is not an option because of hiding the top notification bar. As diba320 said, there is an implication of the missing menu softkey in some apps, but I didn't noticed apps crashing because of this till now.

I have also added a fallback solution to GMD, which was made possible by Notification Toggle:

With this app you can define setting toggles, shortcuts and your own apps in the notification bar.

The 'home', 'drawer' and 'recent apps' shortcuts are linked to Nova Launcher Actions.

The 'back', 'menu' and 'search' buttons are realized with a Tasker button input task. I exported the tasks via the Tasker App Factory to apk's, installed them and made them invisible in the app drawer. They need a rooted device to work properly. Sometimes they do not respond, but I don't know why.

As I have already mentioned, this is only a fallback solution. Sometimes I'm in an uncomfortable situation to do a multi-touch gesture, so this is my alternative.

I've attached the 'back', 'menu' and 'search' apk's and the icons, if someone is interested in this. I asked in the Notification Toogle thread, if the developer can add the standard android buttons in the app directly, but I got no answer yet.
[Nexus 7 General] diba320:
No more FCs of Boat Browser since I went back to regular setup of build.prop.
[Nexus 7 General] srelyt:
Nice solution but you cannot have the status bar solution alone because of fullscreen apps :p.
[Nexus 7 General] dsuycott:
Running LMT pie with this mod... really nice. Thanks!
[Nexus 7 General] jellymelly:
To recap: There is no way to enable

3 dots overflow menu softkey

if I want to only hide the Navbar?

Using FullScreenToggle and LMT. Have been trying to get my beloved 3 dots menu softkey back.

FullScreenToggle: Hides navbar, but disables 3 dots menu softkey

GMD Hidebar: Hides navbar + navbar, also disables 3 dots

Anyone know how to get 3 dots back if I only want to hide navbar???:confused::crying::crying::crying:
[Nexus 7 General] glimmling:
I changed my configuration to this app: full!screen+

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2056208

It hides both (status bar and navbar) in the fullscreen mode. But you can access the notifications and menu with a configurable softbutton.
[Nexus 7 General] jtc42:
I believe if you mod your framework-res.apk and set the navbar height to 0dp then you SHOULD get the in-app menu button still. Haven't tried it myself (I still need to de-odex) but that might work.
[Nexus 7 General] xdhall:
PA

deleted.. missed the earlier post answering this one.
[Nexus 7 General] explosivequack:
If on AOKP you can set navbar height to 0, if on cm10.1 when you remove navbar you should have an option in cm settings for hardware keys and you can enable it there, slim has the option in slim settings general I believe.
[Nexus 7 General] kilometers4:
On Rootbox you can enable expanded desktop. It basically hides the navbar, then you can use pie instead... It gives you the most real estate possible :)
[Nexus 7 General] jellymelly:
Sadly I'm using stock rom so both are not possible :( :crying:
[Nexus 7 General] Syk69:
I'm on the same boat looking for a way to have the overflow button while hiding the nav bar. Read somewhere that someone changed the line in build.prop "qemu.hw.mainkeys=1" to a 0 instead and disabled the soft keys service from loading and he was able to hide nav bar and still have the three dot menu (overflow button). But I haven't tried it myself.
[Nexus 7 General] jellymelly:
Would you have the exact link to this conversation? Maybe check your browser history? :fingers-crossed:
[Nexus 7 General] Syk69:
Sure it's...

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37078338&postcount=27
[Nexus 7 General] tipsek:
Well I just gave up searching for that "soft key bar service" could someone help? I couldn't find it in System Tuner.
[Nexus 7 General] jellymelly:
Thanks. Did you try this yourself? I added the line "qemu..." to build.prop and have successfully hidden the navbar, but I can't find the startup item of "softkeys" in the mentioned "system tuner" app...
[Nexus 7 General] Syk69:
No I haven't tried it myself sorry. Maybe the soft keys service only applies to the kindle but not sure.
[Nexus 7 General] jake9891:
GMD gesture controls is a must have on nexus 7 and worth paying for
[Nexus 7 General] Troopermanaic:
If you wanna keep the top bars and use LMT without the soft buttons you can add qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 to build.prop if that's what you are asking. "Sorry didn't read all the replies if this is already answered".
[Nexus 7 General] FLASHnox:
Rooted My device to do this and ended up soft briicking which nearly gave me a heart attack. For some reason build.prop would not save even after enabling r/w and all the other permissions, so I tried one last edit and decided to reboot and it gave me a black screen, hour or so later finally get my pc to pull the build.prop and it wasn't even edited which had me stumped for some time till I finally noticed that there were 2 extra lines. I didn't really think that it could have been that but decided to delete them and push it back and it worked. My goodness what a nerve wracking few hours it was just to get rid of that huge amount of wasted space.

At this point I still wanted to free that space so I went ahead and flashed a rom and guess what, it was twice as easy and it also upped my performance. Haha I know it sounds stupid that it's easier to flash a rom then to edit a simple file, but it really was. Also if it matters I was running 4.2.1, I didn't read through the whole thread so my bad if someone mentioned that it doesn't work.

TL:DR flash a rom that can get rid of the nav bar ( IMO of course )
[Nexus 7 General] old_god:
CM10.1 nightlies, added "qemu.hw.mainkeys=1" to /system/build.prop, rebooted and done =D

I use LMT pie to replace the navbar.

No problems so far. Thank you.
[Nexus 7 General] itsirfandude:
I want to auto hide this navigation bar than to permanently hide it...... Please help
[Nexus 7 General] Spl4tt:
AOKP ROMs have this abillity

I'm using that.
[Nexus 7 General] waky_xperia:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8k1s4rporel49go/FullScreenToggleV2.apk

This app will hide the Nav bar but download an app like LMT, softkeys etc first (need to be rooted)
[Nexus 7 General] donec:
Is there a way to hide the nav bar without being rooted?
[Nexus 7 General] khaotik:
Thanks! This and GMD Gesture Control fitted perfectly!
[Nexus 7 General] Nbsss:
Didn't work for me , running 4.2.1 cm
[Nexus 7 General] waky_xperia:
Well I'm running CM 10.1 4.2.2 M2 and mine is working.
[Nexus 7 General] cramamarshall:
Worked perfectly!!

I tried this on my rooted Nexus 7 and it worked perfectly!! Thank you for this post! I have a Kindle Fire HD but it is down for the moment! 9Bricked)
[Nexus 7 General] XDA Dark:
full!screen+ is good. I used GMD Gesture some times, but some times it messes up my wallpaper - blank black wallpaper.
[Nexus 7 General] dtg7:
the wallpaper issue is well documented. it's a conflict with static wallpaper. switch to live or use an app to set static. see the help menu on GMD.

I'm currently using both "full!screen" app and gmd. would not need full!screen if gmd handled notifications, which it doesn't at all. speaking of notifications, seems like no app can handle them directly if the status bar is disabled, which it is if you use apps like full!screen and gmd to disable navbar. Apps can only view notifications after they're first handled by the status bar, which so far full!screen seems better at than another I tried but abandoned for excessive ram use.

Haven't tried the build prop method as that seems to only remove the navbar and I'd also like to remove the status bar (launchers seem to remove it only in homescreen). So, using gmd for gestures and full!screen to handle the fullscreening (disabled that in gmd) and notification viewing.

Edit: full!screen does seem to handle fullscreening better.
[Nexus 7 General] dtg7:
Edit: I had earlier stated that my build.prop file seemed to have somehow been edited automatically to remove the navbar, and suspected full!screen+ of doing it.

I decided to try and replicate the situation to see what caused it. I deleted the line in build.prop and restarted. The navbar came back. Then I did everything I could think of with full!screen+ and gmd to try and trigger the build.prop edit automatically. Nothing. No luck.

So the earlier incident is a mystery and since I can't replicate it my post is meaningless. In retrospect I should have done the experiment before posting. I'll edit out the erroneous post to avoid confusing anyone.

So back to square one. Edit build.prop manually to get status bar with no navbar. thankfully that is pretty easy to do.
[Nexus 7 General] diba320:
Use fullscreen+ for several months now. But the APP hides navbar AND notification bar, no choice to hide the one or other only. At least on my N7 3G. I am in mail contact with the developer and he told me, that fullscreen+ can handle this only this way. So quite surprised to have someone reporting the possibility to just hide navbar. Will try this with modifying build.prop as well.
[Nexus 7 General] jetbruceli:
I guess cm is getting a PIE

I saw it on Google plus

Sent from a Galaxy far away!!
[Nexus 7 General] TDO:
Thats clear.

But how did you acitvate fullscreen+ and keep the status bar?
[Nexus 7 General] xstrake:
works great without being newly rooted

Thanks indeed for this tip! it works great. I was not in the mood to clean out my primary N4, so decided to try it anyway by simply adding the "qemu.hw.mainkeys=1" to Build.prop. Nothing happens as you've indicated. However simply did a reboot and voila! Installed button savior and switched it to ICS theme to get rid of the old froyo style icons and it's good to go. Great post, saves about 1/3inch of screen real estate and everything autoadjusts to use the newly freed up pixels.
[Nexus 7 General] Angelus89:
Id also Like to know...
[Nexus 7 General] PupkinV:
Guys please note that some apps (ES File Explorer for example) place menu button on the navigation bar. So if you hide navbar by patching build.prop there will be no way to get to settings. Because of that I had to return navbar.

upd: I was wrong, LMT has menu button, so there are no problems with accessing options with it.
[Nexus 7 General] diba320:
Thats exactly the reason, why I do not do t via build.prop modification but fullscreen+, I mentioned this problem with settings being not accessible somewhere quite early after this modification was published here.
[Nexus 7 General] chalger:
Or this app from the play store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.tsorn.FullScreen
[Nexus 7 General] diba320:
This is fullscreen, the + version allows to choose which apps are in fullscreen or regular displayed automatically.

Additionally the dev has included a "pie" menu.
[Nexus 7 General] TheOmen:
Thanks for this

I appreciate the info. I modified my build.prop and use LMT Pie.

No problems accessing the settings from any app so far over the past couple months.
[Nexus 7 General] PupkinV:
You're right. I tried LMT just after my previous post and it has menu button, so ES File Explorer works fine.
[Nexus 7 General] diba320:
The not accessible menu/settings was only related to the build.prop mod. Without LMT or any other app they are missing. If LMT pie would come up at the place I activate it, it would be my choice. Actually I prefer fullscreen+.
[Nexus 7 General] dtg7:
so we agree that:

* You can't keep the status bar while hiding navbar unless you modify build.prop system file

That is, you can't do it with just full!screen+ app.

If you want to run full!screen+ on top of the build.prop mod, you're basically only using the app as a button replacement and not using it for its main purpose, fullscreening. You could just as easily use any other button replacement system. And deactivating full!screen+ will not bring back your navbar, only build.prop will do that.

OK understanding that, if you still want full!screen+ running on a modified build.prop, you'll need the help of full!screen free version. here's what you do:

- With your build.prop mod hiding the navbar, you should have full!screen+ activated. Now both navbar and status bar are gone.

- Now activate then Deactivate full!screen free version. This forces the status bar back. Your navbar remains hidden because of your modified build.prop

- You'll notice full!screen+ is still running since you never deactivated it. And to reiterate, deactivating full!screen+ will not bring back navbar.

Personally I have no need for the status bar other than Notifications. And since full!screen+ handles those nicely I have no need to do the above. But maybe for some reason you do, I dunno.
[Nexus 7 General] StupidIdea:
I'm developing new root app that does just that. It allows you to hide navigation bar and keep notification bar. It also add auto hiding status bar replacement. No system modification, and no reboot required, but root is needed.

Try it here and let me know what you think. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2253770

P.S: If you hide navigation bar with mod described in this thread, you have to restore it or app will not hide/restore it. Anyway it will allow you to use auto hide status bar replacement.
[Nexus 7 General] Bob Smith42:
I tried most recommendations in this thread. I like full!screen, too.

The new version has pie configurations, left and right. I use these settings:

Left bottom corner - press = back, long press = show recent apps, swipe pie = { go back, homescreen, show recent apps }

Right bottom corner - press = homescreen, long press = restore system bar, swipe pie = { restore systembar, show notifications }

Plus in full!screen settings I check "Show notification" to toggle hide on/off.

I leave the size and opacity at default.

This one app does everything needed, free, and developer is active. Paid version available, too. Wonderful.
[Nexus 7 General] StupidIdea:
It good enough for Nexus 7 and I use similar technology in my other apps, but still some might prefer stock notifications and recent apps list. And unless something was fixed recently, you could not receive phone calls when using full!screen (on phones like Nexus 4). So I'm trying to address these issues in GMD Hide Soft Keys.
[Nexus 7 General] ales007:
Worked perfectly on stock 4.2.2, big thanks :D
[Nexus 7 General] eco_bach:
Any idea if this will work on a Nexus5?
[Nexus 7 General] popy2006:
Worked also on my HTC One with Sinless v8.3.0 (GPE Rom). thx a lot :fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
[Nexus 7 General] phantan:
awsome found

it works on my Nexus 5 Lollipop too :highfive::highfive:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bond32:
I'm on CleanRom 4.5. Every rom even stock seems to cause the hotspot to completely drop data all the time. At first I thought it had to do with the security but I have tried everything with no luck. Does anyone have a solution?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] wclark89:
Uninstalling all tethering apps from the store and then wiping the dalchek(sp?) cache in recovery fixed the built in tethering app making it work
[Off-topic] TravisBean:
Any good, or just bloatware ?

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/
[Off-topic] 063_XOBX:
Doesn't seem to do anything you couldn't do with free software.
[Off-topic] veeman:
Sounds like bloat. Not gonna download.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Off-topic] TravisBean:
(Thought so)

Watch for this program when it becomes available on givawayoftheday.com.
[Off-topic] 063_XOBX:
Or just use the free download link on the site...
[Off-topic] veeman:
Haha lol. Free software.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Off-topic] TravisBean:
Trial version...

Giveawayoftheday will have the unlocked version. (eventually)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] idevice12345:
Hi. It has been two weeks since I got the nexus 7. At first, the battery lasted for a long time. Now I'm realizing that it is draining much quicker than it is supposed to. What should I do?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Clark Joseph Kent:
Moved from XDA Gen to here....Thank you.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kilometers4:
Better battery stats to check the wake locks and cpu spy to see if your device is deep sleeping