How to Enable Soft Kwya on Rooted Android Devices

In this post, we will see the different ways to enable it on Android [Both rooted and non-rooted devices]. Let's get started.

Enable Soft Keys on Rooted Android Devices

Video Tutorial

Steps

To enable soft keys, you need to edit the build.prop file.
Open ES File Explorer app.
Go to /system. Copy the build.prop file and paste it in the SD Card. Now we have the backup of the build.prop.
Again go to /system and tap the build.prop file. Select ES Note Editor option.
Click on overflow menu at the top and select "Edit".
Add the following lines at the end

qemu.hw.mainkeys=0

Now you can see the soft keys on your Android phone.

You can disable these keys by removing the code from the build.prop file.

Alternatively, you can disable the soft keys at any time by changing the value 0 to 1.

qemu.hw.mainkeys=1

If you are a Xposed framework user, then you can use the GravityBox module to enable the soft keys. Here are the steps:

That’s all. Reboot your phone and you can see the navigation bar on your handset.

After reboot, Go to Navigation bar tweaks in GravityBox module.

There you can see many options to customize the navigation bar. I suggest you to play with the options and customize soft keys as per your wish.

You can get the soft keys on non-rooted Android devices by using this app. Here is the download link.

Install and open the app.
At the first run, it will take you to the Accessibility. Enable it for the app.
This app has a lot of customization options. You can use them to customize the navigation bar as per your liking.

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