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'Phone' button won't work after Blak Majik

I've installed WM6 Blak Majik and everything is great except for one thing..
When I press the 'phone' button (you know, the metal one to the left of the left soft key), nothing happens.
This means that if i want to make a call, the only way i can get to the dialer is to go through the start menu and select 'phone' which is very frustrating.
Has anyone else noticed this after installing Blak Majik and how can i fix it?
How can i re-map this button?
(I don't have 3G video calling).
Thanks.

sir_sanuk said:
I've installed WM6 Blak Majik and everything is great except for one thing..
When I press the 'phone' button (you know, the metal one to the left of the left soft key), nothing happens.
This means that if i want to make a call, the only way i can get to the dialer is to go through the start menu and select 'phone' which is very frustrating.
Has anyone else noticed this after installing Blak Majik and how can i fix it?
How can i re-map this button?
(I don't have 3G video calling).
Thanks.
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they are hardware buttons... try a reflash... you are the only one that has seen this issue.... and in future post issues about that ROM here

Same issue for me but that goes for all hardware buttons, and yes I have flashed several times

Costanza said:
Same issue for me but that goes for all hardware buttons, and yes I have flashed several times
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its not an issue with the ROM guys.... try flashing a different ROM...

walshieau said:
its not an issue with the ROM guys.... try flashing a different ROM...
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Have tried the all my friend, started off with Schaps and ended with Black Majik.
Due to anonther error I have flashed them several times. This error that I have got on all ROMS later or sooner is the white screen (i.e. the screen goes white but the phone still works). It is like an reversed screensaver.
To add to the strange list, my phone buttons are flashing more or less the whole time.
I am using Hard SPL v7 if someone is curios

Costanza said:
Have tried the all my friend, started off with Schaps and ended with Black Majik.
Due to anonther error I have flashed them several times. This error that I have got on all ROMS later or sooner is the white screen (i.e. the screen goes white but the phone still works). It is like an reversed screensaver.
To add to the strange list, my phone buttons are flashing more or less the whole time.
I am using Hard SPL v7 if someone is curios
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sounds like you have a hardware issue and not a software issue... time to flash back to the original ROM and send it back...

Thats my plan!
I am looking into the downgrade guide by mrvanx

Some people have this problem. Look at Schaps's thread.
This bug is random, so, it is not a hardware problem.
Sometimes, the buttons on the front face work, sometimes they don't. But the other buttons, around the Qtek, works always.
(sorry for my 'frenglish')

The round phone button (3G phone button) doesn't work with Black Majik, just use the green phone button to enter the phone software

rockyV said:
The round phone button (3G phone button) doesn't work with Black Majik, just use the green phone button to enter the phone software
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It didn't work neither if being in the phone software. You had to press video on-screen button...

SpH1nX said:
It didn't work neither if being in the phone software. You had to press video on-screen button...
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you do realize that black majik doesnot have a 3g dialer build it, you have to install the video dialer after flashing.
also the only hardware button on black majik that doesnt work is the 3G dialer button.(simple solution for getting to the phone software, press the green call button)
as for the other ROMs al the ones i have tryed have all hardware buttons working.
(also ive never had a ROM flash that i need to do twice coz something went wrong, i didnt think anything could go wrong, the cooks wouldnt release something that didnt work as drestically as having no hardware buttons!!)

rockyV said:
The round phone button (3G phone button) doesn't work with Black Majik, just use the green phone button to enter the phone software
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thanks!!
god, why didn't I think of that before!

db77 said:
Some people have this problem. Look at Schaps's thread.
This bug is random, so, it is not a hardware problem.
Sometimes, the buttons on the front face work, sometimes they don't. But the other buttons, around the Qtek, works always.
(sorry for my 'frenglish')
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Can you post the link to Schaps' thread? Thanks!!!

bennec83 said:
you do realize that black majik doesnot have a 3g dialer build it, you have to install the video dialer after flashing.
also the only hardware button on black majik that doesnt work is the 3G dialer button.(simple solution for getting to the phone software, press the green call button)
as for the other ROMs al the ones i have tryed have all hardware buttons working.
(also ive never had a ROM flash that i need to do twice coz something went wrong, i didnt think anything could go wrong, the cooks wouldnt release something that didnt work as drestically as having no hardware buttons!!)
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Yes obviously i know that Black Majik doesn't have a 3G dialer built-in.
Of course i'm speaking AFTER having installed...

SpH1nX said:
Yes obviously i know that Black Majik doesn't have a 3G dialer built-in.
Of course i'm speaking AFTER having installed...
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so OBVIOUSLY if you know that black majic doesnt have a 3G dialer, you know that you need to go to the black majik site abd download the add-on for 3G dialer

bennec83 said:
so OBVIOUSLY if you know that black majic doesnt have a 3G dialer, you know that you need to go to the black majik site abd download the add-on for 3G dialer
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Are you reading my post b4 posting? I've ALREADY installed 3G dialer but videocall button isn't working!

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Are you reading my post b4 posting? I've ALREADY installed 3G dialer but videocall button isn't working!
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Have you read the first 2 posts? firstly Black Majik is a NON Video Calling ROM (all of the black roms are i think), yes the hardware button is disabled, no i dont know how to remap it, i dont think you can i think it needs done before the ROM is compiled (not sure)
Also a quick fix to get to the "phone" function (which is what the button you are talking about is used for) press the green call button is launched the "phone" software!
no matter wat you do i dont think you will get the hardware button working, unless you are real good at cooking ROMs, since we are talkin i assume you wont be able to do this, as neither can i!!!
(sorry if i sound short, in wrk n not got lots of time to type this stuff!!)
However if someone does know how to remap this particular button please share!!!

Question: HTC Messaging Cursor Lag with Physical Hardware Keyboard

I'm not sure if this has been addressed in a thread before, but I've noticed that sometimes when I'm texting in HTC Messaging on my physical hardware keyboard, there's lag in the blinking cursor and it somewhat jumps slowly among my last letters when I'm typing.
Is there already a fix for this?

Sometimes I get the same thing. My last phone was the original Tilt, and there was a fix for it in the Kaiser forums (HWKeyboardSpeedup.cab, or some very similar name, cant miss it). I dont know for sure, but its possibly just a reg edit in cab form for some keyboard delay setting or sensitivity or something. I havent tried it on this device cause its not nearly as bad on my Tilt2, dont know if it would work on this device, but it might be worth a shot for ya. If it doesnt work, you can just uninstall it and do a soft-reset.
Edit: Let me know if you try it and it works so I can do it on my phone too!

If you have XT9 on while using the keyboard, your typing will lag and possibly might not recognize the space bar when you hit it and all your words can be one long word. Make sure XT9 is off when using the hardware keyboard.

AngelDeath said:
If you have XT9 on while using the keyboard, your typing will lag and possibly might not recognize the space bar when you hit it and all your words can be one long word. Make sure XT9 is off when using the hardware keyboard.
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At first, that's what I thought, but I found that regardless of being in ABC or XT9 mode, there's the same constant lag.

huggs said:
Sometimes I get the same thing. My last phone was the original Tilt, and there was a fix for it in the Kaiser forums (HWKeyboardSpeedup.cab, or some very similar name, cant miss it). I dont know for sure, but its possibly just a reg edit in cab form for some keyboard delay setting or sensitivity or something. I havent tried it on this device cause its not nearly as bad on my Tilt2, dont know if it would work on this device, but it might be worth a shot for ya. If it doesnt work, you can just uninstall it and do a soft-reset.
Edit: Let me know if you try it and it works so I can do it on my phone too!
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I did some research and found the thread for it, but the TP2 users who have tried it seemed to have issues already. I didn't want to get caught up in it either.

<Q> The keyboard is weird! Help!

I dont know since when this problem persisted but the keyboard on my desire is weird.
Everytime i try to type fast, there's other letter i don't touch appear in the screen as if i touch it. Mostly the letters appear are y, g, and v.
Knowing that, i then did some test. I tried to type fast only using the letters near my left and right thumbs like a/s and l/k and i did it continuously. As the result, i could see the letter g touched itself while i never touched it AT ALL and then it appeared on the screen.
Then i tried the other line by touching q/w and o/p and the letter y appeared just like the letter g.
That also happened with the third line with the letter v.
This happens everytime i use keyboard (messaging, notes, email, etc)
I dont know if the ROM i'm using causes this because I have tried using some ROMs (not all yet but plenty)and the only one I did not experience this is when i'm using Open Desire ROM. But I dont like Open Desire because I want Sense on it.
I also believe the applications did not cause this since this problem appears just after i flash the ROM and havent installed any application yet
Anybody knows why it happens and how to solve the problem?
FYI my Desire is rooted with Unrevoked way and right now using Lambros ROM.
Any reply is appreciated. Thanks.

Edit:
After trying using Open Desire again, it looks like the problem also occurs with it. I also have calibrated the keyboard but the problem's still there.
Still waiting for anyone can help.

Hi!
I have the exact same problem! (I'm using standard Froyo on a non-rooted Desire).
There's something else, when I type faster than usual and the random letters start appearing the backspace key stops working. I can't delete anything at all and the only solution is to retract the keyboard and then bring it up again. If I do that it works perfectly... until it starts acting up again!
My solution? Well.. I tried Swype and it seems to work just fine! Sure, it's WAY different but it's worth it. It just works flawlessly. And if I don't want to swype I can always type normally, it works for that as well and it doesn't malfunction like htc's keyboard.

Opalid said:
Hi!
I have the exact same problem! (I'm using standard Froyo on a non-rooted Desire).
There's something else, when I type faster than usual and the random letters start appearing the backspace key stops working. I can't delete anything at all and the only solution is to retract the keyboard and then bring it up again. If I do that it works perfectly... until it starts acting up again!
My solution? Well.. I tried Swype and it seems to work just fine! Sure, it's WAY different but it's worth it. It just works flawlessly. And if I don't want to swype I can always type normally, it works for that as well and it doesn't malfunction like htc's keyboard.
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Thank you very much for the reply and the solution.
Me have the same problem with the backspace either. I will try using swype although i don't use english often for text messaging or else.
Still waiting for other input which might have another solution without installing third party application or add-on.
So does the official froyo cause this? because i haven't had a problem like this when i was using eclair based custom ROM or N1 froyo based custom ROM as i recall

better keyboard is fab !!!!!! and it works very well typing fast .. the swype thing is rubbish , as I cant spell very well...

dgattenb said:
better keyboard is fab !!!!!! and it works very well typing fast .. the swype thing is rubbish , as I cant spell very well...
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Well it doesn't matter any application you want to use since that's not the main concern. I'll try Better Keyboard as well. But when I tried to search it in the market with keyword 'better keyboard', I couldn't find it because too many add-ons and the application itself was beneath them. Can anyone help me with it? I can also not find Swype since there's only one application appear when I type 'swype' on the market and it's not Swype

this is beacause desire has no real multitouch.
any keyboard will have same issue

Better keyboard is a paid app. Can't see those if you are not living in eligible country...

snudel said:
this is beacause desire has no real multitouch.
any keyboard will have same issue
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So this means that all Desire have this kind of problem?
Tenhi said:
Better keyboard is a paid app. Can't see those if you are not living in eligible country...
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I see. I tried the one in blapkmarket but it's still the same

It's been so long and i finally got the solution after all this time.
My friend told me that this problem is caused by multitouch error and that means hardware problem. He had the same problem but his is HTC Hero.
Then, I tried changing my ROM to MIUI J-Style 10.29 and unexpectedly the problem is gone. From that, I at least can conclude that this is not hardware problem. Anybody having similar problem can try having MIUI for the device's ROM. But maybe some Android-freak dislike it because it has iOS look.

[Q] Hardware Keyboard Problems -.-

Anyone esle having this Problem?
Longer time after Booting, several Buttons on the Hardware Keyboard bring me into other apps while writing SMS for example...
The following Chracters send me directly into an app:
e -> email
s -> sms (android sms, not my standard app called "handcent")
c -> contacts
b -> browser
p -> mediaplayer
Thats kinda weird Oo I can't use my hardware keyboard to type Text, cause i jump out of my actual app all the time -.-
Whut to do ?
EDIT: Everytime after rebooting, my Keyboard works well again! But 12 hours later, i will have same problem -.-
EDIT 2 : I am running Cyanogen 7.0.3

I have the same exact problem. It's irritating! Happens about 15 or 20 minutes after rebooting.
EDIT: Currently on the CM7 nightlies. Can anyone confirm if this is just a CM7 issue or widespread?

I don't have nightly, i'm using 7.0.3 stable
Never had that in ANY Mod before

Try hitting the "search" key on the keyboard. That should "unstick" it.

I had that problem yesterday. I'll repost if it comes back up.

h.nocturna said:
Try hitting the "search" key on the keyboard. That should "unstick" it.
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Ok, So this is an Hardware Bug? Or keeps the Software meaning that the button is still pressed, even when he isn't ? Oo
@ blackknightavalon: You won't need to wait a long time ^^

Hi
I also have this kind of problem on my french DZ.
I've tried almost all roms on this forum, it doesn't happen on Sense roms, only on cyanogen-like roms.
I'm actually on 7.1-RC1, I've just tried the Miui.us rom and both force me to reboot to use my physical keyboard again.
I'll try to replace the files in /system/usr/keychars and keylayout with those found on sense roms, to see if it corrects it.
Any idea/workaround I could also check ?

I'm having the same trouble now on my Desire Z with the stock rom after the update to Gingerbread 2.3.3 has been rolled out.
Any idea how to get rid of it? It really is rather irritating...! ;-)

im not sure what causes it but if you hold your Search button for about 3-4 seconds the problem will go away

It's quick launch; go into application settings and clear them all out
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This is what worked for me, too...

[Q] ics keyboard

I.tryed to.search thread but never ever works right from phone . The ics keyboard , i dont like it but trying to learn to anyways , when u spell a word wrong it underlines the word and if u press the word it gives to options to correct word well for some reason it revertes back to miss spelled word as soon as u start typing agn ??? What em i doing wrong ??? Also how come when u use the keyboard in forums like this one spelling correction dose not exist and google voice gets every single word wrong ???? But works fine for sms messaging ??

drawde40599 said:
I.tryed to.search thread but never ever works right from phone . The ics keyboard , i dont like it but trying to learn to anyways , when u spell a word wrong it underlines the word and if u press the word it gives to options to correct word well for some reason it revertes back to miss spelled word as soon as u start typing agn ??? What em i doing wrong ??? Also how come when u use the keyboard in forums like this one spelling correction dose not exist and google voice gets every single word wrong ???? But works fine for sms messaging ??
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I had the auto correct problem, too. I don't know if its from me tinkering with the settings, or because I rebooted, but it eventually went away and i never saw it happen again. I'm assuming it's a bug of some sort.
I also can't get keypress sound on the ICS keyboard to work. I have it enabled in the keyboard settings, but I don't hear any sounds when a key is pressed.

Eclypz said:
I had the auto correct problem, too. I don't know if its from me tinkering with the settings, or because I rebooted, but it eventually went away and i never saw it happen again. I'm assuming it's a bug of some sort.
I also can't get keypress sound on the ICS keyboard to work. I have it enabled in the keyboard settings, but I don't hear any sounds when a key is pressed.
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I have a few android phones running ics keyboard and they all do this , ive tried uninstalling and downloading / installing from different roms still same issue . My sound works fine

Keyboard sound is tied into notification sounds if that makes a difference to your situation at all..