As with most phones, your OnePlus One contains the usual touch navigation buttons, a volume
rocker and a power button. Where the similarities end however are with the large array of customization
options that the phone offers. These options enhance the functions of the buttons and provide
a much more enjoyable and convenient experience when interacting with your phone.
In this video I will be going through those features and will be showing how to disable,
enable or change the options that will cause your phone to better fit your needs.
These options are all hidden away under settings, which can be reached by going to your notification
centre and hitting settings. In settings scroll down until you get to buttons, underneath
the device heading. By just taking a quick look down the list
you can see that there is a large array of customization options available for your device's
buttons, heading back to the top we will see what is probably the most favourite customization
feature for a lot people, the option to enable the on-screen nav bar. Tapping this option
will disable your OnePlus One's hardware buttons and will instead display navigation buttons
on-screen. Whether you have this on or not is up to you but I will leave this on for
now as we will soon be customising these buttons before we move onto customising the hardware
ones. Skipping past the backlight options for now
lets head down to the power button options, under this heading is power menu and end call,
here you can set what options will show up when you launch the power menu by long pressing
on the power button, and you can also set the power button as a quick and easy way to
end a call. Now moving down to the Navigation bar header,
you will see all the options that allow you to customize your software navigation bar.
The first options allows you to rearrange and add buttons to your navigation bar. To
do this simply tap on the lock in the upper right hand corner of your phone window, this
should display two plus signs on either side of your navigation bar, as the prompt says
long pressing allows you to rearrange the buttons on your navigation bar and tapping
on any button allows you to change it's functionality. The areas with the pluses are areas that currently
contain no buttons and the menu button, or the button with the three dots on top of each
other, can actually be shown on the nav bar all the time by simply tapping on it and tapping
the always show option. The options will be automatically saved when moving back into
button settings. >From here we will move into quick launch settings,
this option allows us to set what will show up when you slide up from the navigation bar.
To adjust the quick launch buttons make sure that you slide up from the arrow and not your
actual nav bar, and select one of the available spaces that appear. By doing so you will bring
up a list of available actions that can be triggered when your perform that action again
using your nav bar. Options here include launching Google Now,
changing your keyboard input method, and opening or killing an app. Two other options can also
be set as quick launch options for the other spaces, once you are finished with all of
that head back to the rest of the options. Under the quick launch shortcuts you will
see that there is a left handed option to float the nav bar to the left of your screen
for better use by the lefties out there. The arrow keys while typing are a useful option
to set for displaying arrows to move your text cursor forwards or backwards.
If hardware buttons seem more appealing to you the next set of options will apply to
you, to enable them head back up to the top of this options list and disable the on-screen
nav bar option, now you will see that the backlight option is enabled and the navigation
bar options are disabled. This is because only the settings fitting to your on, or off-screen
nav bar will be shown, heading back to the backlight options you will be able to change
the brightness of your nav bar button and you will also be able to change how long the
button stay illuminated for. To change what the buttons do, head down to
the sections below the greyed out navigation bar options, here you will find options for
the home and menu buttons, the volume buttons are available with both on-screen or off-screen
navigation bars. Under the home button heading you will find the option to answer your calls
through the use of the home button and will also be able to change what double tapping
and long pressing does. First things first we will head into the long press actions,
here you can see that there are a large array of actions that can be triggered by long pressing
the home button, and just so you know the search assistant will bring up Google Now.
The double tapping options will be exactly the same. If you go down to menu button, the
exact same options will be there. Under volume buttons you will you will see that
there is the option to enable your phone to be woken up by clicking on the volume buttons this
is useful for people like me that keep forgetting which side of the phone the power button is
on although may be annoying for anyone who is also like me that likes to change the volume
of their songs while their phones are in their pockets. I guess there are just some situations
you can't win. Anyway moving down, playback control will allow you to move forward or
backward between songs by simply long pressing your volume keys, your text cursor can also
be controlled by clicking the up or down volume button, of cause your volume won't actually
change while you are doing this. Reorient will change the order of the up and down volume
buttons when your phone's volume buttons are facing down.
So that's about it, those are a lot of customization options for your navigation bar.
but they are all options that will help enhance
your phones and make it exactly how you
want it to be
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