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Does this mean we can finally turn off the dedicated physical button or repurpose it? I'm not holding my breath.
by tk75x 8y ago
Does this mean we can finally turn off the dedicated physical button or repurpose it? I'm not holding my breath.
- ddunkin 8y agoLook at the app bxActions, you can do that today.
- darkstar999 8y agoIt's a hacky workaround.
- gmiller123456 8y agoLooking at the permissions that app requires, I would recommend not installing it at any cost.
- wvenable 8y agoOf course it needs that permissions, that's how it works. If you can't make an informed decision then don't do it but otherwise it's no different than doing anything as root or administrator on your PC. Sometimes you need to run with elevated permissions to get something done. You could always build one from source: https://github.com/wangrunz/BixbyRemap https://github.com/wangrunz/BixbyRemap
- gmiller123456 8y agoThat isn't the same application. The application you linked does not require anywhere near the number of permissions that one does[1] [1] https://github.com/wangrunz/BixbyRemap/blob/master/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml https://github.com/wangrunz/BixbyRemap/blob/master/app/src/m...
- ct0 8y agoyes it basically hijacks the phone
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- ddunkin 8y agoYou mean what Samsung did in the first place?
- stronglikedan 8y agoI turned it off in the Bixby settings on my S8. I tried repurposing, but nothing worked reliably for too long, so I decided to just nix it.
- XCSme 8y agoWere you able to turn it off without signing up for a Samsung Account and accepting hundreds of pages of ToS?
- rocqua 8y agoI was up to a point, except that a really long press of the button still goes to bixby.
- stronglikedan 8y agoYeah, the long press opens up the 'Bixby Voice' to accept voice input. Happens even when the phone is locked. A bit annoying, but thankfully rare.
- stronglikedan 8y agoTo be honest, I don't know if you can do it without a Samsung account, because I signed up when I first got the phone a year ago, but they only recently allowed disabling of the button in the settings (you had to use a third party app that would suppress it).
- ttty 8y agoI disabled Bixby and Facebook, my phone is flying, battery is amazing . Check out the ADB shell commands to uninstall/hide packages. Seriously, the phone didn't last more than 8 hours, now passed 14 hours and I will have 42 battery.