Help Menu buttons no longer working

[neatheyc]

For some reason my menu buttons are no longer working. Both left and right. Rest of the phone works fine. I just cannot go back any steps or into the menu for apps. Which also means I can't use the short cut for google now.

Anyone have any ideas? Apart from an upgrade to JB yesterday, nothing else was installed. And it worked after the upgrade. Unfortunately, I was a bit hammered last night so it's possible I damaged it somehow. Although I do not remember anything like that.

 

[airtioteclint]

For some reason my menu buttons are no longer working. Both left and right. Rest of the phone works fine. I just cannot go back any steps or into the menu for apps. Which also means I can't use the short cut for google now.

Anyone have any ideas? Apart from an upgrade to JB yesterday, nothing else was installed. And it worked after the upgrade. Unfortunately, I was a bit hammered last night so it's possible I damaged it somehow. Although I do not remember anything like that.

If you are rooted then check this thread out...

http://androidforums.com/metropcs-galaxy-s3-all-things-root/639251-mod-enable-soft-keys-mod.html

It put those buttons on your screen.

 

[neatheyc]

Thanks Clint, but my phone isn't rooted. Well it was before the JB update, but I think that resets it?

This is really getting on my nerves now. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. I have done a full reset and for a while they were working ok. Then they stopped. I installed another launcher and Home Switcher. Which allows me to restart touchwiz. Then they start working again. However, when I do that, it resets all my widgets and short cuts to the defaults and have to re-do them all.

Anyone else got any ideas? Wondering if they phone is faulty or if this is a bug I have some how caught.

 

[neatheyc]

This just happened again. I have a live wallpaper, so stopped this, but didn't make a difference. Went into the task manager type thing and cleared the RAM memory. It closed 27 applications and then the menu buttons started working again.

So to me it indicates a memory / performance issue. Anyone got any ideas on how I can control this better? Is there an app out there that would show me exactly what's eating up my memory leak if there is one?