Was wondering if anyone can direct me to a simple dialer skin or program with the following features:
- Keypad,
- Number being dialled, and
- Answer, Reject
and nothing else...no Start button, no shortcuts at the bottom...nothing! A plain full screen dialer without the useless crap!
Similar to iPhone. I realise that WM6 is customisable but for heaven's sake I don't want to use a stylus to dial! This is non userfriendlyness to the max!
Check out http://paulya.com/dialerskins.htm
They haven't been updated in a while, but they are truly "thumb-dial friendly"
The only other real optuion that I've seen in the "Touch dialer" here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=44097&d=1184598745
There's a variety of skins out for both. Search the forums and you'll find them...
You can try the one in this thread - select the non-3G dialpad.
Something even simpler
Thanks all for your response. I have had a look at the said options but believe me when using the phone in a cradle in the car, even such layouts are not sufficiently chunky?! What does it take to create my own dialer?
Have you thought of getting Voice Command by MS no its not free but I will never have another phone without it. Gives you voice dialing options and since you can assign a hardware button to it you'd only have to press one button.
bengrech said:
Thanks all for your response. I have had a look at the said options but believe me when using the phone in a cradle in the car, even such layouts are not sufficiently chunky?! What does it take to create my own dialer?
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Please try one of the suggested option before you discount them. You might be pleasantly surprised...
dialer
never mind
Great Touch Dialer
The touch dialer indicated is great!
can anyone fix this to work on a Spint Vogue?
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...iphone+dialer
Thanks!
Hi all,
I must admit that I am completely new in the SW development for this kind of platforms. Therefore, I would like to ask you guys to direct me to a good way to start.
I have an application in mind that i would like to do it myself, and is for a personal application, so nothing to do with what is out... but it will involve the touch screen and it has to deal with a little database.
In other words, it would be like....
The main screen should be 9 squares (similar to a numeric keyboard), and pressing any one of those squares should pop/up a different screen with a list that correspond to that specific square (exactly how the calendar works).
There should be a secondary window to enter data to the list where I shoud associate every entry with an square.
This is basically all...
I have good experience programming C/C++... but not c sharp. So any document, example code, api, that you can provide is very welcome...
Thanks you all in advance...
After some quality time with the AOSP source and a hex editor today, I've come up with modified keymap files for the G2 that make the keyboard a bit more useful. It's gone through three iterations now, and I think it covers every key you can type on a normal keyboard now. Here it is.
Changes in version 0.3 (relative to the keymap in 0.1 below):
- left softkey is now "\"/"|"/"`"
- right softkeys are now "["/"{"/"<" and "]"/"}"/">"
- alt-z is now "^", since .com is tab now
Changes in version 0.2:
- modifications to the tools used in dumping keymaps and regenerating them
Changes in version 0.1:
- make ".com" a TAB key, as it ought to be
- make first right soft key "\" (shifted is "|")
- make second right soft key "<" (shifted is ">")
Installation instructions:
NOTE: I have not tested this on the Desire Z. I have no idea what its keycharmap and keylayout files look like.
FURTHER NOTE: Use at your own risk, etc, etc. I've included the original keymap files in the .zip as (filename).orig, but it can't hurt to take your own backups
FURTHER FURTHER NOTE: I've only tested version 0.3 on Cyanogenmod 6.1-RC1 on my G2, but there's no reason it shouldn't work on stock or an alternate ROM, since the keycodes I'm actually using should be the same.
PREREQUISITES: S-OFF G2, /system mounted read-write, root, busybox for 'cp'
- download file
- unzip g2-keymap-0.3.zip
- $ adb push vision-keypad.kl /sdcard
- $ adb push vision-keypad.kcm.bin /sdcard
- $ adb shell
- $ su # (if you don't have ro.secure turned off)
- # cp -f /sdcard/vision-keypad.kl /system/usr/keylayout/
- # cp -f /sdcard/vision-keypad.kcm.bin /system/usr/keychars/
- # reboot
To uninstall, just copy the .orig files back into place (so, copy vision-keypad.kl.orig to /system/usr/keylayout/vision-keypad.kl and vision-keypad.kcm.bin.orig to /system/usr/keychars/vision-keypad.kcm.bin
Hope you find this useful!
You can find the tools I used for dumping keymaps and the keymap files themselves with history on my github at https://github.com/aglasgall/g2-keymap
Just out of fear of screwing my phone up, on the cp I'm getting:
cp: can't create '/system/usr/keylayout/vision-keypad.kl': File exists
How should I proceed from here?
Should have remembered that busybox cp refuses to overwrite files without -f. Use 'cp -f'; I'll update the instructions.
Thanks for the catch!
So the soft keys are quick keys? I thought the Home, Menu, etc are soft keys.
I really felt like remapping the left-most quick key to alt, because that's where I'm used to having it.
I think each person may feel differently about the quick keys. Is it possible you could make a customizable version of your keymap? That would be superb. In the meantime I'll check this out, because I don't use those quick keys. Thanks.
Yes, by "soft keys" I meant the shortcut keys. I could conceivably write a tool to generate customized keychar maps and keylayout maps, and maybe I will this weekend considering the long train rides I have ahead of me, but frankly it would be a lot of work and this particular itch is scratched for me, so I wouldn't get my hopes up were I you
If you're interested in editing these yourself, you'll need the following:
1) the tool 'evtest' to get keyboard scancodes
2) the Input Devices section of the Android porting guide at http://source.android.com/porting/index.html (though n.b. that a distressing amount of it is inaccurate)
3) base keylayout and keycharmap files (pull 'em off your device)
4) a keycode to keycode label translation table (there's one in the AOSP tree at frameworks/base/include/ui/KeycodeLabels.h; n.b. that it is INCOMPLETE and doesn't cover all the keycodes the G2's keylayout map generates!
Keyboard input on Android works like this:
scancodes from Linux input core (on the G2, the keyboard is /dev/input/event5) -> scancode to keycode translation (via the .kl keylayout map) -> keycode to character translation modified by any active modifiers (alt/shift/alt+shift)
You'll find the KeyLayoutMap and KeyCharacterMap classes in frameworks/base/libs/ui/ very helpful. I have a tool knocked up out of KCM to generate dumps of the compiled .kcm.bin files which I'm happy to share.
Happy hacking!
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Yes, by "soft keys" I meant the shortcut keys. I could conceivably write a tool to generate customized keychar maps and keylayout maps, and maybe I will this weekend considering the long train rides I have ahead of me, but frankly it would be a lot of work and this particular itch is scratched for me, so I wouldn't get my hopes up were I you
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This also scratched my itch. I mean, how can you do anything without | ?
Thanks bunches, man!
what we need is when you long press the number key on the physical keyboard it gives you the option for the number. Kinda like HTC_IME keyboard. I keep getting confused when i switch between the two.
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what we need is when you long press the number key on the physical keyboard it gives you the option for the number. Kinda like HTC_IME keyboard. I keep getting confused when i switch between the two.
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That would be a lot more complicated than a simple remapping. But I agree, if you use both the touch and physical keyboard, it is easy to get annoyed at the need to press alt key for numbers. They really should have had a number row, I used to love my sidekick's keyboard so much. Crappy phone though.
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After some quality time with the AOSP source and a hex editor today, I've come up with modified keymap files for the G2 that make the keyboard a bit more useful. Here it is.
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Hope you find this useful!
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Nice! I saw you on #g2root digging for this info, so I'm glad you pulled it together.
Will have to check out since the long presses don't work in a terminal, and slow the process down anyway. We really needed |, <, and >. Also dedicated tab versus alt-z is nice.
Hahaha, just hit my quick keys to see what I had programmed in (telnet, Notes Everywhere, and Shazam) since it had been so long. I seldom open the keyboard to actually use these.
-oldsk00lz
What's the likelyhood of getting some kind of graphical remake of the virtual qwerty? I really just want the spacebar to be a tad bit bigger height wise. I keep hitting the damn b key when I want to space because of the wrap around case. Is this even possible to do?
Dude, there are three shortcut keys. If you could map one of them to ^, since its completely absent, it would be AWESOME!
Yes, I third the suggestion for a ^.
It pisses me off that there is no long press to get a ^. Even the slide had that.
I should have an 0.2 up later today. I'm probably going to move "\"/"|" to the left soft key; make the two right soft keys "["/"<"/"{" and "]"/">"/"}"; and make alt-Z "^" (since we now have a dedicated Tab key).
Long-presses are way out of scope for what you can do with hacking KL/KCMs, sorry. I have no idea how that mechanism works, if it exists.
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I should have an 0.2 up later today. I'm probably going to move "\"/"|" to the left soft key; make the two right soft keys "["/"<"/"{" and "]"/">"/"}"; and make alt-Z "^" (since we now have a dedicated Tab key).
Long-presses are way out of scope for what you can do with hacking KL/KCMs, sorry. I have no idea how that mechanism works, if it exists.
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No, I didn't imply I wanted long press anything. I was simply venting on how pissed I was that HTC didn't include a ^ in anything but a virtual keyboard on this when the slide had a long press of a actual key to get a symbol ^ up.
Anyhoo, you are awesome for doing this, it makes the keyboard even better for me!
Thank you very much kind sir for taking the time to do this for the community!
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That would be a lot more complicated than a simple remapping. But I agree, if you use both the touch and physical keyboard, it is easy to get annoyed at the need to press alt key for numbers. They really should have had a number row, I used to love my sidekick's keyboard so much. Crappy phone though.
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I understand it would be more complicated, but this is something I've been hoping for this from when I first got my phone. I keep my fingers crossed that teamdouche will add long touch for alt keys as that is the ONLY thing I don't like about my G2. Coming from the G1 with the dedicated number row, long touch for numbers and symbols would make my phone experience so much more enjoyable.
Very sorely missing key... "`" (back quote), VERY important for command substitution.
Redundant keys:
menu (exists on the soft buttons by the screen),
search/magnifying_glass (wtf, does anybody EVER use this???!?! plus, also on the soft buttons),
euro (how many people really need a euro button in everyday use in north america?)
com/www (duh... pointless.)
All told, I see (including the blanks...) a total of 6.5 buttons that can be reassigned to more useful functions (the extra .5 since the other side of the non-alt version of the euro button is the letter X, without which you cannot spell xylophone).
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Very sorely missing key... "`" (back quote), VERY important for command substitution.
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Well, I know in bash/sh you can use $(...) to accomplish the same thing.
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Well, I know in bash/sh you can use $(...) to accomplish the same thing.
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And while it's one more character to type, it's also waaaay more easily nested, too.
Dude, where were you two weeks ago when I was trying to get keycodes to fix Dosbox???
Kibitzing with the other people working on getting S-OFF for the G2. I didn't feel motivated to start on this until it was going to actually be possible
Good luck finding keycode labels for the G2 keyboard. There are ones that aren't in the AOSP tree, and I think the ones in the CM tree have different names from what HTC uses...anyway, talk to me on IRC (teferi on freenode) and I'll do what I can to help.
Hi
I have a mysterious problem with one of my applications. For some reason it doesn’t work properly with Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10' (probably other devices too, this is the only one I’m sure of). Unfortunately I don’t have access to such device and sense I make no money on my application (it’s free) I was hoping that someone here could help me test this .
My application is used for education and is mostly designed to learn foreign languages. One way to practice is to use flashcard that I have implemented in OpenGL. To get this working I render bitmaps with text that is shown on the cards.
One user has reported that this doesn’t work with Tab 2, after a while the text is no longer visible. If the application is paused and then restored it works again. The bitmaps are rendered in a thread and I think that is the problem (if no threads are used it seems to work better). All devices I’m using for testing works fine so I’m really puzzled.
To test this please download and install:
http://www.pekspro.com/vokabelbeta/Vokabel1_13d.apk
Open the application, go to the files and open a file in the examples.
When the file is open, go the the tab Quiz and select Flashcard (3d).
Every second time bitmaps are generated in a thread, other times without any thread. On the top of screen there is some debug text. Please let me know what is says if cards are stopped working. Or even better send me a log from the application.
This feels like a weird request, but please please please help me solve this problem. It literally keeps me sleepless, xda is my only hope .
I can confirm that after a couple of questions, the flashcards go blank.
The debug text doesn't seem to change though
(Alive counter:nnn Duplicate request for: xxx)
It only seems to happen in landscape and it can be cured by rotating to portrait then back again...
In portrait mode the debug in this case is always just 'single thread'.
I would have a go on the emulator set to 10" landscape.
Thank you so very much . This is really interesting information for me.
I have done some testing with the emulator and some other devices but haven’t been to replicate the problem. I have reviewed my code and changed a couple of things that might cause some problems. Do you mind do a second test?
http://www.pekspro.com/vokabelbeta/Vokabel1_13e.apk
Either way I’m really thankful for this
Now the problem is solved. Thanks for all feedback
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Now the problem is solved. Thanks for all feedback
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OK good to hear.. sorry I didn't notice your second message !
Hi, I'm looking for a screenshot of S4 mini keyboard layout with special characters (the one you get with one click from the standard qwerty keyboard). My phone is bricked and one of my passwords was a pattern made out of the special characters, I remember just the moves but not the characters ... Thanks!
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Hi, I'm looking for a screenshot of S4 mini keyboard layout with special characters (the one you get with one click from the standard qwerty keyboard). My phone is bricked and one of my passwords was a pattern made out of the special characters, I remember just the moves but not the characters ... Thanks!
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which rom or update were you on? that would really make a difference. I have an extra i9195 i could restore to factory to help out
edit: with some google work ive found screenshots of the keyboard from some reviews, give these a shot:
https://i-cdn.phonearena.com/images...amsung-Galaxy-Note-3-Review-065-messaging.jpg
https://i-cdn.phonearena.com/images...amsung-Galaxy-Note-3-Review-064-messaging.jpg
http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Samsung-Galaxy-S4-VS-HTC-One-Keyboard.jpg
YES! I have a similar problem and searching the forums or even the larger internet hasn't helped...
I don't suppose either of you have a spare sound of the i9195's battery cover being removed and replaced three times in quick succession, followed by a final delayed occurrence of the sound that takes precisely as long in delay as the first three together took to make respectively, only a moment before?
I've looked everywhere for that sound, it was once included with every i9195(lte) as part of the stock functionality, which made it very convenient to hear anytime it was required.
The device is practically uselessness without it, I usually always make backups but this time, stupidly, I've recorded over the cassette I stored the audio files on accidentally with silence. When I load"" it up TWRP refuses to recognise it completely.
I think, maybe, my recovery needs to be rolled back, it worked fine in an older version I had but, unfortunately, the name of that version is written on a text document that was also stored on the same tape...
What can I do to restore the original correct sequence again, will the old Samsung keyboard character-map really help with the restore, I have several great photos of one, too. Or is my phone bricked, along with the cassette?
Thanks a lot for the screenshot, one them matched my keyboard!
I tried this method originally as well but was discouraged when first one or two keyboards did not work.