topic Re: Menu button on Home screen working differently after ICS update. Bug? in Other/General

Menu button on Home screen working differently after ICS update. Bug?

yayo — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 11:15:24 GMT

Hi,

bear with me please, complete n00b here

After installing the PC Companion, yesterday, the software informed me that there was a firmware update available for my Xperia Go. Lightheartedly I decided to upgrade to ICS and managed to turn a perfectly (for my needs) functioning phone into one functioning somewhat "unperfectly". Yup, I did read the "Good to know" info before updating (quote: Our commitment to offering you the best, means that once upgraded you will not be able to revert back to an older version of Android.), which actually prompted me to do the updating. I simply couldn't resist to the "commitment to offering the best" talk while I naturally overlooked the "you will not be able to revert back" part. Silly me...:smileyshocked:

Anyways, now I'm experiencing some of the bugs other users are complaining about and one "thing" that I haven't found mentioned anywhere. The button on the lower right side of the screen (the one with four horizontal bars depicted on the icon, right of the Home button) is the Menu button, right? Well, before the update that button, when pressed, used to bring up a nice and useful menu full of options and shortcuts. What it does now, after the update to ICS is bringing up some kind of toolbar on the top of the screen which has two small buttons on it. On the left there's a button with a paintbrush icon on it which brings up a Wallpaper/Theme menu and on the righ there's a button with a + sign which brings up an "Add to Home Screen". And that's it. No Settings shortcut, no sinchronyze, nothing else. Is this how the Menu button is supposed to behave in Android 4 or is it a bug? I found the "old" Menu button relatively useful but now it's just there with no practical purpose. Same for the long tap on an unused portion of the Home screen. It doesn't work for me, long or short tap, both only bring up the same toolbar the menu button does. I performed the installation repair too but it didn't change anything. Any thoughts or advice?

Re: Menu button on Home screen working differently after ICS update. Bug?

Francis — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 14:08:35 GMT

Hi there.

Sorry about the troubles, the ICS update does changes many little details in the way you used to open the different menus.

On your issue the ICS Update changes that function to the Slide Down menu.

So to access settings slide down the notification bar and press on the Settings icon (Wrench on top of Screwdriver icon).

The menu key (the one with the lines now brings up the "Add to home screen" (circle with a "+" symbol inside) and the "Wallpaper" and "Theme" options (Circle with a paintbrush inside).

Taping and holding an empty part of the home screen will do the same action as pressing the lines/menu key.

Now if you want we can actually revert the phone back to the previous system, but for that you would need to send the phone in to our repair center.

Hope this helps

Francis.

Re: Menu button on Home screen working differently after ICS update. Bug?

yayo — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:11:26 GMT

Thanks for the answer. It's no big trouble, I'll keep the ICS update. I just panicked that I might have somehow corrupted the phone's firmware and that it's behaviour post updating wasn't normal. You cleared that up for me.