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Hi Guys,
Ive noticed that sometimes when i use the speakerphone (either by pushing the on-screen button or flipping the phone over), it works fine. However, once the call is over, the touchscreen is deactivated it seems. Nothing works. Cant press anything. As for the hardware buttons, the windows button works, and the power button works. The volume, call, and end call buttons do nothing.
Not sure if this is relevant, but I only notice it if the phone was flipped over (with touchscreen down). If i used speakerphone with the phone facing up, doesnt seem to happen.
The only ways ive found to fix this are to soft reset with that little button under the cover, or to miss a call. (obviously, if a call comes in, I cant answer it as none of the ways you'd use to answer a call still work). After the call is missed though, the touchscreen comes back to life.
any ideas??
thanks
havent notice quite this.. but something similar...
when i wanna make a quick phone call
i open the keyboard type name of contact,
select the contact and hit enter to make the
phone call.. when i close the keyboard to turn
the phone to my ear, half of the screen looks
normal and have of it looks all MESSED UP...
im sure is not a hardware problem or anything.. ( well i hope so )
i think is not bcuz it only do it on that situation..
besides that my screen is normal..
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phone been around a while now...maybe someone else noticed this problem...
I've noticed that sometimes my phone will go into "sleep" mode like when you quickly press the power button. Maybe a quick tap of the power button to wake it up will help.
Maybe it's just me but I would like to go to my home screen when I end a call instead of back to the dialer/phone. I searched but couldn't find anything on that.
Anyone know how to do this or care to figure it out?
This is too easy....press the hardware End key?
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ohyeahar said:
This is too easy....press the hardware End key?
You may want to elaborate if this isn't what you're after...
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I take it you're like me and you spam the end key about 5 times at the end of a call?
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This is too easy....press the hardware End key?
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Ok now I feel stupid. Thanks though, I would probably never have thought of that on my own.
Is it possible to get the onscreen end key to do the same?
I made a post with a similar problem a while back and had no replies to fix it.
The contents are as follows:
Tilt2, End call, looking at contacts! Why?
Tilt2: If i get a call and hit the end call button, why am i left looking at my contacts. It ONLY happens on incoming calls. If i end call on a call i made, from within my contacts, it goes back to the main screen!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=574970
My problem is that i use spb mobile shell and after i end the call, the phone relocks. When i later unlock the phone, i am still looking at the contacts.
Ok I don't feel so stupid. Hardware key does the exact same thing as soft key. Phone isn't fast enough to hit it twice in succesion and lock the screen in one fluid motion so I go back to my original request.
Anyone know how to get it to go from end call (soft or hard butotn) directly to home screen instead of to the dialer?
carhigh said:
I made a post with a similar problem a while back and had no replies to fix it.
The contents are as follows:
Tilt2, End call, looking at contacts! Why?
Tilt2: If i get a call and hit the end call button, why am i left looking at my contacts. It ONLY happens on incoming calls. If i end call on a call i made, from within my contacts, it goes back to the main screen!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=574970
My problem is that i use spb mobile shell and after i end the call, the phone relocks. When i later unlock the phone, i am still looking at the contacts.
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Not sure if it has anythign to do with it or not, but might it have something to do with the phone asking if you want to add them to your contacts and maybe you are inadvertantly hitting somethign sending you to your contacts?
I've not had any issue with it pulling up my contacts unless I accidently hit something.
Whoops, should read:
My problem is that i use S2U2 and after i end the call, the phone relocks. When i later unlock the phone, i am still looking at the contacts.
Im am positive i am not hitting anything on the screen because sometimes i hit the talk and speaker phone, then use the end call button. We have 2 of these and both do the same thing. It only happens if the phone was locked to start with. If the phone is not locked (figured this out playing them), once i end the call, the contacts screen will go away in 10 seconds or so.
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Ok I don't feel so stupid. Hardware key does the exact same thing as soft key. Phone isn't fast enough to hit it twice in succesion and lock the screen in one fluid motion so I go back to my original request.
Anyone know how to get it to go from end call (soft or hard butotn) directly to home screen instead of to the dialer?
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Try this. Hit the End key and then the Back key in quick succession. This will bring you to your last opened window. If you didn't have any active windows, this will bring you back to your home screen.
Use this One Not Call Log Prefs from Android Market
On the latest CAB I downloaded the End button locks the screen and the power button minimizes all the programs. Is there any way to make the Power button lock the screen and the end button minimize all the programs, like it is in Win Mo? I got a T mobile TP2
The problem is that you would end calls with the lock button as well.
I see. There isn't some way they could code around this? That's weird that it's like that.
This note is from the WIKI.
Note: It's until now impossible to split 'End Call' and 'Power' function in the code, so this last function can't be linked to Power button without it being 'End Call' too. Thus for the ease of ending a call, this function is placed on the normal EndCall-button and Power button is 'Home'.
honestly I would find it easier to end calls with the power button anyway. So this seems like a perfectly good compromise to me.
I agree. I'd rather have the power button turn the backlight off than the end button. That's the most important. They should make an option or something where people can choose their preference.
i was coming to look for this. i dont mind having to end calls with the power button right now. ill be using standby and home more so id rather those be more natural.
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honestly I would find it easier to end calls with the power button anyway. So this seems like a perfectly good compromise to me.
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WHAAA???
You guys like ending a phone call using the power button??? Since when has that EVER been natural? (Other than on an Android device, where the power and the end call are the same button...) Ive had 5-6 HTC devices, don't think I ever recall thinking, "we should be using the power button to end a call.". On some HTC devices the power button isn't even very easy to access. Changing end call to the power button would be a disaster.
LOL
Reefermattness said:
WHAAA???
You guys like ending a phone call using the power button??? Since when has that EVER been natural? (Other than on an Android device, where the power and the end call are the same button...) Ive had 5-6 HTC devices, don't think I ever recall thinking, "we should be using the power button to end a call.". On some HTC devices the power button isn't even very easy to access. Changing end call to the power button would be a disaster.
LOL
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for you. obviously we want it though. i would like the end call button to be on the end call button but i want sleep on the top and home key down below more.
having it end call when youre on a call and a home key button the rest of the time would be more ideal. i kinda wish this was the hd2 because the buttons on that would be make sense in android.
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WHAAA???
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Can't stop the revolution!
Back in WinMo whenever I end a call I hit the big red button on the screen, then hit the power button to put it to sleep so I can put it in my pocket. Needless to say, being able to just double-tap the power button to accomplish the same thing would be great. The front buttons on the TP2 are so dainty it's annoying to press them honestly.
It's such a trivial thing, but I guess everyone's got their own reasons for wanting it. It would be nice to know how to swap the button assignments for myself even if it's not baked into the Rhodium builds directly.
I hit the 'power button' to turn off the screen more often than I hit the end button to 'end calls'. I rarely call. I'm a texter. Power button doing what it should > end button doing what it should.
andershizzle said:
I hit the 'power button' to turn off the screen more often than I hit the end button to 'end calls'. I rarely call. I'm a texter. Power button doing what it should > end button doing what it should.
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thats my thoughts exactly. i think even people who make calls turn the phone on and off using the power button more than the end key. i understand how one would like it the way it is, which is why a solution to change it for us would be nice.
I agree
j.action said:
Can't stop the revolution!
Back in WinMo whenever I end a call I hit the big red button on the screen, then hit the power button to put it to sleep so I can put it in my pocket. Needless to say, being able to just double-tap the power button to accomplish the same thing would be great. The front buttons on the TP2 are so dainty it's annoying to press them honestly.
It's such a trivial thing, but I guess everyone's got their own reasons for wanting it. It would be nice to know how to swap the button assignments for myself even if it's not baked into the Rhodium builds directly.
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I agree with you, whenever I try to press the EndCall button, I always fear of dropping the phone from my hand, Or if you hold the phone in your palm; you have twist your thumb all the way down, seems awkward.
I have a question ... wouldn't it be possible to reassign certain actions and not the default button functions to the hardware keys ?
On windows mobile, this seems to be possible with the rhodium keyboard controller ... it uses a modified driver to achieve that iirc ...
If someone could do that for android, we could assign "turn display off" to the power button, "home + end call" to the end key and so on ... or am I wrong ?
Sorry to double post/bump my question ...
But wouldn't it really be possible to just create a driver that is able to assign certain actions to the buttons instead of static button actions?
Or is this impossible under Android?
I would like to know about this me too...
i use the on screen button to end my calls and using the end key to turn backlight off its unnatural for me...
also it will be cool to have the screens template on end key button...
I actually agree with the idea of the power button ending a call - I hold my phone with my index finger on the top ( a habit I developed after having someone yank a phone away from me), so the power button would be very natural for hanging up as I remove the phone from my ear.
An option, or even info on the files to edit, would be awesome. Could it be as simple as a simple .conf file in the filesystem?
Reefermattness said:
WHAAA???
You guys like ending a phone call using the power button??? Since when has that EVER been natural? (Other than on an Android device, where the power and the end call are the same button...) Ive had 5-6 HTC devices, don't think I ever recall thinking, "we should be using the power button to end a call.". On some HTC devices the power button isn't even very easy to access. Changing end call to the power button would be a disaster.
LOL
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um... it has been (semi) standard on 'dumb phones' for years that the end call button is also the power button.
that being said, i think the best idea is to have some kind of option so people can choose what they prefer. i think you can get used to either way, but it can be really frustrating if you go back and forth between winmo and android to have them be different.
millmanorama said:
um... it has been (semi) standard on 'dumb phones' for years that the end call button is also the power button.
that being said, i think the best idea is to have some kind of option so people can choose what they prefer. i think you can get used to either way, but it can be really frustrating if you go back and forth between winmo and android to have them be different.
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Yes, on "dumb" phones, and android handsets the power button and the end call button are linked to the same button. The difference is, THESE BUTTONS ARE NOT ON THE TOP OF THE HANDSET. They are on the face of the phone, NEXT TO THE CALL BUTTON.
Like i have said before, switching the end call button to the power button on the Rhodium would be chaos. For the mass majority of users, making the end call button NOT end the call, is ridiculous, and confusing. If you were to go out, and buy an Android handset, you would not even have a power button other than the end call button.
Yes, the only way everyone will be happy, is if you can choose how you want the buttons mapped.
i was thinking not all android devices link the end call and standby buttons together, the nexus one and desire and legend all have them on the top. then when i looked up pictures, they had gotten rid of the send and end call buttons so of course they moved the stand by to the top. i wonder if you press that during a call, would it hand up.
Hey guys,
I'm on stock Desire ROM and have a question:
I don't know if it irks anyone else, but having to press end call on the screen (which can go away, i know it goes to notifications too, but still a little fiddly for my like) annoys me a little. I'd much rather be able to press a button on the desire to end a call quickly rather than fiddling around finding end call.
Is there any way to map a button so that it ends the current call if one is active?
I know you can assign long press of the search key to actions, can you do this with the back button? Could i long press the back button to end calls?
Thanks in advance
Just gotten your desire? 'Cause I found it a bit annoying in the beginning first, plus it was confusing the hell outta me. But I quickly adapted and now I'm used to it.
I've had it for a few months now, but every phone i've had before has had a hardware hangup so i've become quite attached.
Given that:
1) Power and End are tied together in android so that any button that does one also can do the other. (This is set in Settings-->Accessibility-->Power Button Ends Call).
2) The Power button is now Power/End, and no longer Home as of the Oct. 11 kernel.
3) There is no point in having two buttons that both bring up the power off/airplane mode/mute menu on a long press when no buttons bring up the Recent App List.
4) While it's currently possible to assign Home to End via the Spare Parts Menu, long pressing it still gives us the power off/airplane mode/mute menu instead of the Recent App List because its keycode hasn't changed.
5) During a phone call, while holding the phone one-handed, it's easier to hit the power button to end a call then it is to hit the end button.
I'd thus like to map the End button to Home by default so that long pressing it will bring up the recent app list while leaving power as both power(sleep) and end call. Before I submit a patch to do this, I'd like to poll the community of rhodium XDAndroid users as a whole on this change.
NOTE: I can't seem to edit my poll now that I've put it up. The first option in the poll at the top is the current behavior, the second option is the old behavior, and the third behavior is what I'm proposing.
There's actually a thread over on PPCG that is all about restoring the previous functionality. Power = home, end = power basically.
We talked about making long press end key as recent apps, but that would require changes to the Android base.
Nate seems pretty dedicated to support changes and pump out new kernels accordingly, and it is a pretty simple change if you have the code and don't mind building
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There's actually a thread over on PPCG that is all about restoring the previous functionality. Power = home, end = power basically.
We talked about making long press end key as recent apps, but that would require changes to the Android base.
Nate seems pretty dedicated to support changes and pump out new kernels accordingly, and it is a pretty simple change if you have the code and don't mind building
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I'd prefer that it be part of the official git. Is there a reason why we need to have two buttons that do exactly the same thing in the official build?
in the andriod settings, theres an option to change what the 'end' button does. works fine with me.
pantherzfinest said:
in the andriod settings, theres an option to change what the 'end' button does. works fine with me.
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That option doesn't fix the long press, only the short press.
arrrghhh said:
There's actually a thread over on PPCG that is all about restoring the previous functionality. Power = home, end = power basically.
We talked about making long press end key as recent apps, but that would require changes to the Android base.
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Long press as recent apps works fine for me. This isn't a problem if it's done in the navi_pad.kl files for the various rhodiums by setting end to home as the default.
Nate seems pretty dedicated to support changes and pump out new kernels accordingly, and it is a pretty simple change if you have the code and don't mind building
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Yes, I've already done it, but I dislike the idea of dealing with forks, whether mine or someone else's. Nate's change is also the opposite of what I'm suggesting and requires changes in both the kernel and the rootfs. Mine only requires changes in rootfs. In fact, now that I think about it, it would be pretty easy to set up via a new startup.txt option that init would pull from /proc/cmdline much the way it currently does the keyboard option.
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Given that:
1) Power and End are tied together in android so that any button that does one also does the other.
2) The Power button is now Power/End, and no longer Home.
3) There is no point in having two buttons that are both Power and End on a short press when there isn't a Home button.
3) There is no point in having two buttons that both bring up the power off/airplane mode/mute menu when no buttons bring up the Recent App List.
4) While it's currently possible to assign Home to End via the Spare Parts Menu, long pressing it still gives us the power off/ menu instead of the Recent App List.
I'd thus like to map the End button to Home by default so that long pressing it will bring up the recent app list. Before I submit a patch to do this, I'd like to poll the community of rhodium XDAndroid users as a whole on this change.
NOTE: I can't seem to edit my poll now that I've put it up. The first option in the poll at the top is the current behavior, the second option is the old behavior, and the third behavior is what I'm proposing.
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let me be the first to say DUH!!!
noodles21o2 said:
let me be the first to say DUH!!!
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LOL, Yup. But in my defense, let me just that I tried to edit it -before- anyone had voted. Another forum that I had dealt with extensively in the past had allowed me to edit a poll as long as nobody had voted. This one doesn't. Once it's up you're stuck with it as is.
rootfs.img
I've made available a rootfs.img for rhodiums that maps the end key to home and returns the recent apps list if you do a long press. If you have the 210 (T-Mobile US TP2), the 300 (AT&T Tilt2), the 400 (Sprint TP2), the 500 (Verizon TP2) or the Nordic version of the 100, then it also has some other keymap/layout additions baked in too like a working SYM key.
This rootfs was built from the XDAndroid rootfs git and is up to date as of the date on the file (currently Nov. 15th).
Instructions
1) Download the file from here.
2) Unzip the file via the 7zip utility
3) Rename it to rootfs.img
4) Drop it into your android boot folder.
5) Restart your phone in Android.
6) Go to to Settings->Accessibility and check the box that says: Power Button Ends Call.
7) Enjoy your new keys.
F22 said:
I've made available a rootfs.img for rhodiums that maps the end key to home and returns the recent apps list if you do a long press. If you have the 210 (T-Mobile US TP2), the 300 (AT&T Tilt2), the 400 (Sprint TP2), the 500 (Verizon TP2) or the Nordic version of the 100, then it also has some other keymap/layout additions baked in too like a working SYM key.
This rootfs was built from the XDAndroid rootfs git and is up to date as of the date on the file (currently Nov. 15th).
Instructions
1) Download the file from here.
2) Unzip the file via the 7zip utility
3) Rename it to rootfs.img
4) Drop it into your android boot folder.
5) Restart your phone.
6) Enjoy your new keys
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Thanks, but with your changes, the end key no longer ends calls! I had to revert back.
toadlife said:
Thanks, but with your changes, the end key no longer ends calls! I had to revert back.
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LOL that's a good point. I couldn't figure out how to end the call either... other than hitting menu, then end call. Perhaps we need to get the N1 in-call screen..
Thanks for the Feedback!
toadlife said:
Thanks, but with your changes, the end key no longer ends calls! I had to revert back.
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The power button was supposed to play double duty, acting as end call with a telephone call, and otherwise act as sleep on a short press. But arrrghhh informs me it isn't working. Thank you for testing this and reporting back. I'll look into it further when I get back later tonight.
End Call Problem Solved
F22 said:
The power button was supposed to play double duty, acting as end call with a telephone call, and otherwise act as sleep on a short press. But arrrghhh informs me it isn't working. Thank you for testing this and reporting back. I'll look into it further when I get back later tonight.
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I've looked into this and found an incredibly easy solution. Simply click on Settings in your launcher, go to Accessibility, and then check the box that says:
Power Button Ends Call
It's that easy. Once that's done, during a call, pressing power will end the call instead of putting the phone to sleep. Furthermore, I've tested it on my own rhodium and it works. I've updated the instructions in post #9 to include this solution.
I'm running the latest Blazn build and have the end button set up to "home, then sleep" under the Spare Parts.
Long press on the power button brings up recent apps.
bonestock said:
I'm running the latest Blazn build and have the end button set up to "home, then sleep" under the Spare Parts.
Long press on the power button brings up recent apps.
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Must not be running the newest kernel/rootfs then.
bonestock said:
I'm running the latest Blazn build and have the end button set up to "home, then sleep" under the Spare Parts.
Long press on the power button brings up recent apps.
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Your kernel is over a month old. That was changed in the kernel on Oct. 11th. The power button no longer behaves as home. It's now sleep on a short press and brings up the power menu (shutdown/airplane mode/mute) on a long press for all newer installations as well as old installations that have updated their kernels.
I think it would be a mistake to make a short press of the end button not end a call. Likewise, but of lesser impact probably, you should be able to press the power button to perform some power related function. These are pretty universal buttons on all phones and if you can't end a call by pressing the end call button, well, I think you are going to have problems with a lot of normal users.
Great work by the way!
mrc13an said:
I think it would be a mistake to make a short press of the end button not end a call. Likewise, but of lesser impact probably, you should be able to press the power button to perform some power related function. These are pretty universal buttons on all phones and if you can't end a call by pressing the end call button, well, I think you are going to have problems with a lot of normal users.
Great work by the way!
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I think what I'm going to submit is a new command line option for startup.txt that makes button 4 HOME/RecentApps instead of ENDCALL/PhoneOptions. This way people who are happy with the current behavior of the end key can continue to end their calls with it, while those of us who aren't, can add an additional "b4=HOME" argument to the command line and get the behavior that we desire as well.
These buttons are by no means universal. Many phones outside of Windows Mobile lack them, or have them sharing duties. Furthermore the "power-related function" that the power button currently performs within XDAndroid during a call is sleep/lock screen without ending the call, just as it does outside of a call. Is this in any way useful to anyone? Google decided it wasn't and the power button now acts as hangup during a telephone call on newer android phones. This makes a lot of sense given that it's a lot easier to press the power button if you're operating your phone one-handed then the end call key.
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These buttons are by no means universal. Many phones outside of Windows Mobile lack them, or have them sharing duties. Furthermore the "power-related function" that the power button currently performs within XDAndroid during a call is sleep/lock screen without ending the call, just as it does outside of a call. Is this in any way useful to anyone? Google decided it wasn't and the power button now acts as hangup during a telephone call on newer android phones. This makes a lot of sense given that it's a lot easier to press the power button if you're operating your phone one-handed then the end call key.
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Excellent points, I agree completely. As we discussed in IRC, I believe the best option is to have the buttons do what they say they do by default, so people used to WinMo don't have heart attacks.
However, the option of being able to choose which button does what from a startup.txt command is brilliant, and I think a perfect solution to the problem. That way people who know what they're doing and know what they want can change the behavior very easily.
DO EEEEEEEET
mrc13an said:
These are pretty universal buttons on all phones and if you can't end a call by pressing the end call button, well, I think you are going to have problems with a lot of normal users.
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Not at all. My mom's new LG P500 actually lacks both Call and End Call Buttons. It has four buttons at the front just like TP2, but these are Menu, Home, Back and Search. Power Button acts only as Sleep by default. As far as I can see it's the same story with Desire.
I think that Power Button acting as End Call would be perfectly fine for the most users. Only because we have a button labeled End Call on TP2 doesn't mean that this button must end calls.