Exit browser without home button?

[killerkhatiby009]

It seems like the latest android build removes the home button ability from the start button. I was just discovering android for the first time and now i try to open the browser and view a few websites and it works fine, but when i press the back button instead of exiting the app like most apps where this isnt a problem, it goes back one page to where i was previously. Which means if i want to exit the browser and have been browsing for a while I need to press the back button a huge number of times until i get back to the first page i started at and it will finally exit the browser. Is there a way to exit differently in android? I would assume normally you could just hit the home button but I cant seem to find any other way now.

[manekineko]

Only way these days is a hack where you go into Spare Parts, and remap the End Key to Home.

[killerkhatiby009]

Originally Posted by manekineko

Only way these days is a hack where you go into Spare Parts, and remap the End Key to Home.

are there directions how to do this? I'm totally new to the android stuff on the TP2

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by killerkhatiby009

are there directions how to do this? I'm totally new to the android stuff on the TP2

He gave you directions. Go to the little app drawer, Spare Parts -> End Key Behavior. Change it to act like home.

Please search the main thread before hitting that 'new thread' button...

[killerkhatiby009]

i did read through the thread before of course but I didn't seem to find an exact fix, I had no idea what spare parts was until you just pointed out now its an app on the device (I can't believe i didn't even think of this lol I was just in the mindset that this was a much more complicated fix), I thought it may be a computer application needed to modify some of the android files and copy them back to my device or something of the sort. But also this thread is slightly different than simply trying to get the home button back, I was just asking if there are other ways to exit the browser (but really any program where the back button doesn't simply close it) due to the absence of the button. I was just reasoning that the developers wouldn't remove the button without a different way to exit apps that I didn't know about because I have not really run android on the TP2 before except the very early builds. Thank you for the clarification though I appreciate it.