Our friends from xda-developers.com are giving a procedure to move the lateral soft keys buttons from the right side to the notification area on your Archos Gen8. A tutorial in french is also available for this procedure.
You need Root access to your device to use this procedure.
Here is the result:
(before)
(after)
Please note that this functionnality is now built in ArcTools Settings Editor included in ArcTools latest release (0.48)
Here is a quick video showing the procedure of moving the softkeys to the notification area and restoring them back to their initial position.
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hi! i moved the softkeys on the bar, then launched gallery… and now, how i exit from it??? there’s no way!!! softkeys are hidden as gallery is full screen…
The back button should really be at the end… switched with menu button.
[…] ArcTools Settings Editor featureBy admin – 2011/03/15Posted in: Archos tablet, ArcTools ArcTools new release now includes a powerful Settings Editor to help you customize your Tablet. Among other things it can help you to move the lateral softkey buttons to the top notification bar. […]
[…] 0.48 (to be released soon) New settings updater, let you finetune your device, like moving softkeys to notification bar […]
When putting the soft keys in the notification bar it gets real ugly i think!
But that can be solved if you put:
ro.sf.lcd_density=130 and/or qemu.sf.lcd_density=130 in the local.prop file.
(The file you make to put the buttons up there)
They both work for me on my A70 250GB, not sure what the difference of the two is, if any, they both work!
You might want to include them in arctools too 🙂
Thank you Tuxen.
We’ll included that in ArcTools settings editor, to be released very soon 😉
I have set the ro.sf.lcd_density to 130 but find the bar to small (on my Archos 70it).
Does anybody know if there’s a ‘in-between’ (smaller then the deafult but bigger than the ‘130dpi’-version?
Values in between (140/150) don’t do the trick.
By the way, setting the dpi to 130 makes the bar white during webbrowsing.
http://img222.imageshack.us/i/archoshoneybar.jpg/
Did a little photoshop.
I like it!
Thanks! Hopefully they will try to realize it. Or even see this… As you might noticed I’ve deleted the search button.. Who needs it anyway?
Buchi,
Our goal with the new Settings menu in ArcTools is to implement all optionnal features that were made available by Google Android and Archos developers.
We can hardly modify the whole system to adapt a new layout.
I see … I didn’t know that its THAT much limited. How about dropping the sidebar to the bottom?
I shopped again 😉 http://img545.imageshack.us/i/archoshoneybar2.jpg/
I can understand that you want to include functions that are done by google or archos, but this would be just awesome. I dont want you to change the whole system, I want you do improve it and add some customization 😉
Make the button-icons smaller and drop the whole notification bar to the bottom of the screen just like on honeycomb and it would be AWESOME!!!!!11eleven 😉 Thanks
Please, remember that the soft keys don’t exist in the Archos 28/32 IT models. They’ve got physical touch keys.Thank you!
Please, make this function only optional. Thank you!