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Gestures Program Needed

I have an 8.1 device, and was using Fluid and Wave Up. I used Fluid so that I could swipe to turn the phone on instead of wearing out the on button, and Wave Up to swipe from screen to screen. Fluid stopped working so I uninstalled both. Is there a program that will allow the user to turn on the phone by swiping, and enable swiping between apps?
 
I tried installing it, but it comes up as Nova 7. Opening it I didn't see any way to set up swiping, so I uninstalled it.
I was hoping to find a way around pressing buttons, but it's no big deal.
 
Assuming you're talking about waking the phone from lock, there are apps that will let you wake it up by waving a finger over the proximity sensor (as long as your phone has one). Actually some phones, such as my Samsung, have this built in as an accessibility feature (Easy Screen Turn On). Take a look and see if yours has something similar, otherwise look in the store for those apps.
 
I am using Fluid Navigation Gestures and Wave Up. One turns on the phone and the other allows swiping. I'm not sure which does what, and I wish I only needed one of them, but I have it working. Thanks.
 
Wave Up turns on the device when you wave over the proximity sensor or take it out of your case/pocket.

Fluid must be what allows for your swiping.
I do not like gesture controls very much, so I have never tried such an app.

Can you tell me exactly what you are swiping to and from?
Is it app to app?
 
That makes sense. I just use swiping instead of using the back button. I don't know if I am overly-worried about it, but I am concerned about wearing out buttons, and like using software, instead.
 
That makes sense. I just use swiping instead of using the back button. I don't know if I am overly-worried about it, but I am concerned about wearing out buttons, and like using software, instead.

I have a couple of devices where the power button got crud or something down in there, and made the contact almost impossible to make.

I literally had to blow warm breath into the buttons (volume and power) to make them work easily.

That is how I found Wave Up, and I used an at the time ad-free volume booster (Speakerboost) app to control the volume.

So both of those apps have been included on all of my devices since, as I am now addicted to Wave Up and because well, just in case, lol.

I even keep the old ad-free versoon of Speakerboost around even though the boost part won't work on my new devices.
The volume does, and that is well enough- considering how small the app is.

I even have an outdated but still working Brightness Control app.

I was just curious, because I never have known anyone else that was using Wave Up just out of the blue before.
 
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