Can you program hardware buttons via software too?🤔 Maybe I'm wrong
Yes, and sometimes no. Try turning my mother's phone off via the power button, it doesn't work, because Samsung in their infinite wisdom made that the sleep/wake button and the assistant button.
I had to literally Google how to turn it off. Gotta hold Volume Down and Power at the same time to bring up the power/reset buttons.
So yes, they can be programmed, usually by the manufacturer though. Not like you can expect your mother or most any other average citizen to install, maintain, or configure a custom firmware.
And even if you do set everything the way you want, the next forced update is likely to revert to whatever the manufacturer thinks is good for you.
Settings > advanced features > side button > press and hold?
That could be very handy the next time she has me check out her phone, I'm not a Samsung user so my settings menus are different. Thanks 👍
No problem! You're still right, though.. They should've made the power menu default but I'm not a samsung employee, they probably have a good reason 🤷♂️
Can vouch, it's the same for all three of the Samsung phones I have.
You most certainly can! You are not wrong at all.
On Android, you can alter things a lot more than on an iPhone though so you can very likely remap both to your liking if you're tech savvy.
In the early days of Android I completely revamped my UI with custom ROMS and a tool called Gravity Box. It was somewhat similar to Gestures except a menu would fan out from your thumb and you could do all sorts of shit from it.
Even though custom ROMs are an option, you shouldn't have to jump through flaming tech hoops to get the basic generic options you want. Most people don't know anything about any of that and ain't gonna bother anyways.
Can you program hardware buttons via software too?🤔 Maybe I'm wrong
Yes, and sometimes no. Try turning my mother's phone off via the power button, it doesn't work, because Samsung in their infinite wisdom made that the sleep/wake button and the assistant button.
I had to literally Google how to turn it off. Gotta hold Volume Down and Power at the same time to bring up the power/reset buttons.
So yes, they can be programmed, usually by the manufacturer though. Not like you can expect your mother or most any other average citizen to install, maintain, or configure a custom firmware.
And even if you do set everything the way you want, the next forced update is likely to revert to whatever the manufacturer thinks is good for you.
Settings > advanced features > side button > press and hold?
That could be very handy the next time she has me check out her phone, I'm not a Samsung user so my settings menus are different. Thanks 👍
No problem! You're still right, though.. They should've made the power menu default but I'm not a samsung employee, they probably have a good reason 🤷♂️
Can vouch, it's the same for all three of the Samsung phones I have.
You most certainly can! You are not wrong at all.
On Android, you can alter things a lot more than on an iPhone though so you can very likely remap both to your liking if you're tech savvy.
In the early days of Android I completely revamped my UI with custom ROMS and a tool called Gravity Box. It was somewhat similar to Gestures except a menu would fan out from your thumb and you could do all sorts of shit from it.
Even though custom ROMs are an option, you shouldn't have to jump through flaming tech hoops to get the basic generic options you want. Most people don't know anything about any of that and ain't gonna bother anyways.