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Button Savior: Save Your Android Device Buttons from Wear and Tear

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Android app – Button Savior

Whether you’re afraid of breaking your Galaxy phone’s buttons or unhappy that your phone’s Home button has started to become unresponsive, the Button Savior (Free/$1.96) can help.

This app creates a list of floating software buttons – Back, Recent, Home, Power, Phone, Camera and Volume – that have the similar functions of the physical buttons built around your device.

Now, instead of pressing the soon to be worn out Home button to exit to Home screen, tap the Home icon on your touch screen.

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Which version did you try ?

Button Savior Non Root (Free) – version 1.3

How to use Button Savior ?

  1. Once the installation is completed, launch the Button Savior app and you should see the Accessibility not turned on! prompt.
  2. Tap the Setup button to get to the Accessibility screen, and then switch the Button Savior toggle to enable the service.
  3. Next, you can go to General Settings to cutomize how do you want to hide and trigger the Button savior panel.
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  4. Next, you can go to Look and Feel to choose a theme, change the size of the buttons and their position (left,right, top or bottom) on the screen.
  5. The Pro (Paid) version allows you to rearrange the button order, remap the button functions and customize the number of buttons per row.
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What gadget did you use to test this app ?

Samsung Galaxy S4 (GT-I9500) – Android 4.2.2

What do you like about this app ?

  1. This app features buttons that simulate most of the hardware buttons on an Android device. The menu button is the only button being left out here, which I was told it’s available in the root version.
  2. The customization of Button Savior is great. If you’re not happy with the given themes, purchase the HD theme pack here for greater selection.
  3. Various methods are given on how would you want to trigger and hide the floating buttons.

Things you should know about this app ?

  1. The Pro (paid) version comes with additional features such as the abilities to remap and reorder the buttons and customize the number of buttons per row.
  2. As per the developer’s advice, try out the FREE version first to make sure it works on your phone before getting the Pro version.

Where can you download this app ?

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