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i was just wondering if there was anyway to change the key combo to unlock the keyboard, maybe a reg edit or some application.
I wish there were. I hate the combination they picked... I always miss that stupid "star" key. I think it could be possible by altering the keymap file, but then it would mess up the star key and move it somewhere else. heh
Hi,
I've been looking for an answer to this question as well, but so far no luck. I had a thread going in regards to this with a couple attempts at work-arounds if you'd like to have a look:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2099988
Here's to hoping!
OrganicM said:
I wish there were. I hate the combination they picked... I always miss that stupid "star" key. I think it could be possible by altering the keymap file, but then it would mess up the star key and move it somewhere else. heh
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What star key??
the *Z to lock the phone? it works on mine. If thats what your referring to.
kinda curious now... what key would you prefer? they all look the same cept the space bar...
gixxum said:
kinda curious now... what key would you prefer? they all look the same cept the space bar...
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In my personal case, I would like any key other than the current *Z key, as my *Z key barely works anymore making the unlock process extremely tedious
how old is the phone? Maybe it wold be best off to get a replacement from your provider. Just a thought.
Mikey1022 said:
how old is the phone? Maybe it wold be best off to get a replacement from your provider. Just a thought.
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I got mine in October of '07, but it wasn't through my provider (eBay). It worked fine and the malfunction of the *Z key is my fault (puddle ).
I would personally prefer the left softkey (like it is now), followed by a press of the second softkey... or even the spacebar
i was thinking the left softkey followed by the right softkey or maybe the left softkey in combination with the talk key or vice versa
id like the lock on my car door to be on the roof cause im tall...but its not gonna happen
gixxum said:
id like the lock on my car door to be on the roof cause im tall...but its not gonna happen
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u must have a mini...
gixxum said:
id like the lock on my car door to be on the roof cause im tall...but its not gonna happen
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But if there were keyholes everywhere, you'd still wish it.
Well don't say it's not gonna happen.... A developer could easily write a new app to do this. A keyhole in your roof is not impossible to do, it just takes money
OrganicM said:
Well don't say it's not gonna happen.... A developer could easily write a new app to do this.
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They'd have to be just about the coolest developer to ever develop!
*hint hint* *nudge nudge*
yes. any developer who could code this what be greatly appreciated and will please a lot of people.
I got an idea.. let's ask Technology. I mean, if he was able to write his super bluray, megavision, imax, 3d, etc codecs from scratch, this should be a walk in the park for him!
averyt14 said:
yes. any developer who could code this what be greatly appreciated and will please a lot of people.
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Take a look to Automatic Keylock by maniac.
1. Disable 'Automatic keylock' option
2. Enable 'Screen saver' option
3. Setup all timeouts...
Now you can unlock your phone by left softkey or home button
That's some great software and I installed it on my phoen in a heartbeat. But how did you get it to unlock using the Home key or ANY other key ? There's nothing like that in the app's settings or in their forums...
I see how it works now. You don't use the phone's keylock routine... you let the screensaver come on and then it's unlockable by using the left softkey (or any key you want) or the home key. There's a problem with that though... It only requires ONE keypress. It would be way too easy for it unlock in my pocket that way. We really need a combination of two keys, that can be customized.
I know a lot of people have been wishing for a hardware key for snapping pics and I have found that the enter key does the trick!
Question:
I've been a little annoyed with the camera speed lately so in a desperate attempt I'm wondering if copy n pasting the camera from the HTC Touch would speed things up(or break it) or is it all hardware/OS related?
It works !
Thanks for that.
Can't imagine you'll physically break your phone by installing a cab. Surely the worst that could happen is a hard reset, although I doubt it'd even get that far
Xhibtiion said:
I know a lot of people have been wishing for a hardware key for snapping pics and I have found that the enter key does the trick!
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I've been a little annoyed with the camera speed lately so in a desperate attempt I'm wondering if copy n pasting the camera from the HTC Touch would speed things up(or break it) or is it all hardware/OS related?
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Copying the camera executable from the HTC Touch wouldn't work. It's dependant on several other things, and probably would display wierd if at all, because of the drastically different screen sizes. It'd kinda be like trying to replace a car's tire with a bicycle wheel.
I've got my camera mapped to the PTT key, so I can use the key to open it and then press it again to take the pic.
newsflash40 said:
I've got my camera mapped to the PTT key, so I can use the key to open it and then press it again to take the pic.
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I'm a Verizon user so sadly(sorta) lol we dont get a push to talk key. N oh yeah I forgot about the differnt resolutions. Anyone know of any camera snapping apps for WVGA resolution? The camera is so slow and the link to HTC album is embrassing with the slow pic loading speed. I'd rather use Resco's snappier Photo Viewer
In the dumbest post ever I just today realized I spelled my username wrong when I registered. Firefox always logs me in automatically so I've never noticed
dik23 said:
It works !
Thanks for that.
Can't imagine you'll physically break your phone by installing a cab. Surely the worst that could happen is a hard reset, although I doubt it'd even get that far
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your welcome for the find! I sorta thanked myself after finding it out lol
Xhibtiion said:
I know a lot of people have been wishing for a hardware key for snapping pics and I have found that the enter key does the trick!
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So great! Now Ive got the camera app mapped to the "star" My Button and with Enter as the shutter, I can do it all from the keyboard....love it!
THANKS
kiint said:
So great! Now Ive got the camera app mapped to the "star" My Button and with Enter as the shutter, I can do it all from the keyboard....love it!
THANKS
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Oh no thank you! The star button is always forgotten lol
more keyboard camera buttons
Sorry if its already been mentioned elsewhere, but I just noticed that on my TouchPro2 the arrow buttons cycle through all the different modes (photo,video,panorama, etc)!
This, plus Star Button=start camera and Enter=shutter makes it a perfect trifecta of keyboard excellence for camera users
Thanks for the 'Enter' find!
How/Is there a way to map it to a hardware key though? I'd love to be able to just press 'volume up' to take the picture when in camera mode.
So after having my new Tilt 2 for a couple of days I was cleaning out my inbox and I realized that because there is no d-pad I cannot select an e-mail without opening it, unless I have the keyboard out and use the arrows
This means that if I want to delete an e-mail that is not at the top of the list I need to press once to open, once to open menu and again to delete. Does not seem right.
I think I saw something that allowed the zoom slider to be used as a dpad of sorts but I actually like it the way it is.
I feel really stupid asking this and I did search but could not easily find an asnwer.
click on the small letter, you will see the menu that will allow use to manage the mail without seeing it.
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So after having my new Tilt 2 for a couple of days I was cleaning out my inbox and I realized that because there is no d-pad I cannot select an e-mail without opening it, unless I have the keyboard out and use the arrows
This means that if I want to delete an e-mail that is not at the top of the list I need to press once to open, once to open menu and again to delete. Does not seem right.
I think I saw something that allowed the zoom slider to be used as a dpad of sorts but I actually like it the way it is.
I feel really stupid asking this and I did search but could not easily find an asnwer.
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Here's one hard-key solution that re-maps the volume keys on the side of the phone:
VolDpad
...from a post on another XDA board
vigohz said:
click on the small letter, you will see the menu that will allow use to manage the mail without seeing it.
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That's a great tip! I never realized that! You should put that in the wiki!
Thanks
Thanks to both vigohz and MCBrian!
You can also press and hold the message in the list you wish to do something with and you will get the same list of actions as if you tapped on the small letter.
SPL doesn't match
Hi
trying to unlock my HTC 8925 and going into rom mode it shows:
KAIS1*O
SPL-1-56.000
CPLD-8
While running the step one its doesn't let me update rom. Also my rom is 1.57.00.000 but the kaiser rom show1.00.000. Can you please help me what the problem is
Thank You
Yonzon
yonzon1 said:
Hi
trying to unlock my HTC 8925 and going into rom mode it shows:
KAIS1*O
SPL-1-56.000
CPLD-8
While running the step one its doesn't let me update rom. Also my rom is 1.57.00.000 but the kaiser rom show1.00.000. Can you please help me what the problem is
Thank You
Yonzon
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You seem to be lost...you have a Kaiser, not a Rhodium.
You should be posting in one of the Kaiser sub-forums.
bigparahandy said:
You can also press and hold the message in the list you wish to do something with and you will get the same list of actions as if you tapped on the small letter.
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Wow, I did not know either of these two tips, I had been opening the onscreen keypad and using the arrow keys to move down to the message. Thanks to both of you!
Is it possible to remap the search button so that it hangs-up while you are in a call? I find it extremely frustrating, especially when driving, to have to look at my phone to press the vurtual "hang-up" button on the screen - oh how I miss my Touch HD
I have read about physical key remap here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=683902&highlight=remap but there is no indication that what I am looking for is possible.
What would it take to make such a hack? Would it be possible with an app or does it take a custom ROM to do the trick? Does the phone need to be rooted?
Thanx all!
very interested too
Does anyone have an answer on this? Do you think it is impossible?
norad73 said:
Does anyone have an answer on this? Do you think it is impossible?
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Don't be impatient. Just wait for the right person to stumble across this and give you the answer.
Sent from my HTC Desire
wow i guess i have to look further but i am looking for the same thing for the mytouch4g. if anyone has a fix please pm me! thanks!
With CM you can end or answer calls pressing the trackball, so its possible to remap keys. It's really usefull sometimes when you call anyone by mistake and display turns off while trying to hang up
there is a app in the market called key mapper or something similar that does this and for 64p its not bad.
also you edit the rom de-compile it edit etc = hard work lol
you can definetly remap keys but you need to be rooted otherwise you cannot.
i would like to answer using a hard key.
has any solution been found?
I just found this: http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/remap-reassign-your-android-devices-keys-with-buttonremapper/
Will try it out and let you know
Thanks. It works
I have two young girls ages 6 month and almost 3 years who love to play with my EVO. There are great games to keep them occupied (mostly my older daughter).
The problem is she keeps accidentially pressing the capacitive buttons and messes up the game or learning app.
I know that Calkulin disabled the search button on his rom so I know at least that button can be disabled. Does anyone know if the others could be temporary disabled? Since its nearly impossible to accidentally press the volume button I was thinking maybe that could be a way to turn this feature on and off once the capacitive killer was running.
I bet a lot of parents would love this app.
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks!
Same!
Dear All,
I have the exact same requirement. If someone can do this, or point us to the right direction, it will be greatly appreciated by all Android owners who are parents.
Its not an app but if you really need to disable these buttons (Semi-permanently) then go into the rom.zip and edit "/system/usr/keylayout/supersonic-keypad.kl" in Notepad or Textedit. Comment out (put a # before) key 217, key 158, key 139, and key 102. I can make a flashable zip to do this, however I have no experience in android programming so I couldn't make an app. Send me a PM if you want a flashable zip for it. I'll make both a do and undo zip.
+1 This option would be nice......
anything on this? anything at all? Something tells me my 2 year old won't patiently wait while i update files manually... thanks for the tip though, i'm going to give it a try!
mbobino said:
Its not an app but if you really need to disable these buttons (Semi-permanently) then go into the rom.zip and edit "/system/usr/keylayout/supersonic-keypad.kl" in Notepad or Textedit. Comment out (put a # before) key 217, key 158, key 139, and key 102. I can make a flashable zip to do this, however I have no experience in android programming so I couldn't make an app. Send me a PM if you want a flashable zip for it. I'll make both a do and undo zip.
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has anyone else had luck with this? I tried and nothing happened.