[Q] Hard keyboard .com FN key - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have tried to find a thread with this info and SORRY if there is a thread with this info about it.
I have installed CM9 A5 and i am noticing that the FN .com key does not work on the physical keyboard and seems all the rest work just fine. I don't have a problem with typing in the .com, but would like to have it working.
Is there fix for it?

u82cats said:
I have tried to find a thread with this info and SORRY if there is a thread with this info about it.
I have installed CM9 A5 and i am noticing that the FN .com key does not work on the physical keyboard and seems all the rest work just fine. I don't have a problem with typing in the .com, but would like to have it working.
Is there fix for it?
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I was reading that thread and there is a big todo about that key and that it will not be official and never be added due to cm rules... sounded pretty silly to me...bu there is your answer.
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Djinn23 said:
I was reading that thread and there is a big todo about that key and that it will not be official and never be added due to cm rules... sounded pretty silly to me...bu there is your answer.
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By that thread I meant the cm9 thread. I think zman brought it up.
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Thank you for your reply...I will have to stop being lazy and type in 4 more characters.

It works if you hold it and press the character you want. But if you flash a custom kernel I think it fixes it because I stopped having problems after flashing samurai kernel... the one for alpha 4 works for alpha 5 because they made changes in the rom itself not the kernel
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phonehunter59 said:
It works if you hold it and press the character you want. But if you flash a custom kernel I think it fixes it because I stopped having problems after flashing samurai kernel... the one for alpha 4 works for alpha 5 because they made changes in the rom itself not the kernel
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He means specifically for Sym/.com. Sym key seems to be a tab key now.
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I was actually just looking for a solution to this myself. I found this thread about key mappings. It looks to me like some people have remapped it so that buttons like fn and the emoticons do different things but still not what they are labeled to do. Perhaps I am missing something and the TouchWiz rom allows for these buttons do do what they are marked to do but CM7 does not even have the ability. I would love to get the keys working properly though if it is possible.

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Sym button issues

I've looked around, but I didn't see anyone else with this "issue."
I'm on AOKP Milestone 5.2 running Nyan Colonel 4.2. I don't know what or when it happened, but the sym button (function set .com) on the hardware keyboard doesn't work as needed. Pressing sym acts as a select type thing where it continually highlights the next selection area (Button or text). And the smiley button doesn't work either, now that I think of it. Everything else seems to work though.
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Texan Athlete said:
I've looked around, but I didn't see anyone else with this "issue."
I'm on AOKP Milestone 5.2 running Nyan Colonel 4.2. I don't know what or when it happened, but the sym button (function set .com) on the hardware keyboard doesn't work as needed. Pressing sym acts as a select type thing where it continually highlights the next selection area (Button or text). And the smiley button doesn't work either, now that I think of it. Everything else seems to work though.
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Those are features of samsung tw roms and does not work on aosp roms...
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Hahaha. Too funny
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flastnoles11 said:
Those are features of samsung tw roms and does not work on aosp roms...
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Wow. I'd say I'm disappointed at this dysfunctionality, but it just goes to show how little I use my physical keyboard. Like, never.
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Well that sucks. I use that button a lot, mainly for the .com function. Especially when trying out a new rom and logging back into everything. Guess I'll have to type it out from now on. Thanks for the info!
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Texan Athlete said:
Well that sucks. I use that button a lot, mainly for the .com function. Especially when trying out a new rom and logging back into everything. Guess I'll have to type it out from now on. Thanks for the info!
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Not a problem...

Disable part of touch screen--possible?

The backlit "search" button on the lower right of the t989 screen gives me no end of trouble. Several times a day, I'll accidentally press it with my palm while doing any number of other things. This interrupts whatever I'm actually up to and always causes me have to start over in, for example, the middle of a long forum post.
What I'm looking for is some way to disable that particular key. Is there an app for that? Or some other hack?
Thanks,
Q
It a feature in new builds of CyanogenMod. "Hardware Keys"
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-SGA- said:
It a feature in new builds of CyanogenMod. "Hardware Keys"
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I recently installed CM 9.1 on my T989. Searches during the last few days have revealed 9.1 as the most recent stable CM for this phone, and "hardware keys" isn't anywhere in these settings that I can see. What's the trick here? From what I can tell, CM10 isn't available for the T989. How new do I need?
It is most certainly available.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1803507
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quintupularity said:
The backlit "search" button on the lower right of the t989 screen gives me no end of trouble. Several times a day, I'll accidentally press it with my palm while doing any number of other things. This interrupts whatever I'm actually up to and always causes me have to start over in, for example, the middle of a long forum post.
What I'm looking for is some way to disable that particular key. Is there an app for that? Or some other hack?
Thanks,
Q
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Flashed attached zip via recovery. This will disable JUST the search key.
elesbb said:
Flashed attached zip via recovery. This will disable JUST the search key.
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That zip file did the trick. Thanks everyone, and especially Elsbb for the simplicity.
Q
quintupularity said:
That zip file did the trick. Thanks everyone, and especially Elsbb for the simplicity.
Q
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glad I can help
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CM10 Fn Key not working...

This has been touched on in the development thread, but since I just registered, I can't post or reply there so maybe someone will see this and can help me out. With the new CM10 nightly straight from get.cm on my epic, the fn key on the hardware keyboard does not work. In the web browser it just ignores that i've pressed it all together. In texting it doesn't accept any input after pressing the fn key until i press it again to turn it off. Any fixes or is this a bug that will need to be fixed through future versions? Is everyone experiencing this, or is it just a few people?
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I wiped everything and reinstalled and it is working now. I wiped every bit of stuff I could off my phone using CWM. Seems to work great now... odd. )(*&^%$#~-_+=[];:\"'><}{|[email protected]/!
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You must hold the Fn key, much like the shift key on a pc.
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epicnoob66 said:
You must hold the Fn key, much like the shift key on a pc.
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Not unless that is a new way of using the FN key
This Epic post brought to you via Tapatalk 2 and CM9
Try searching in the stock browser
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I think he is still on cm9 unless his sig is outdated. But yes, in cm10 you have to hold the fn key when searching. But I'm fine with that. Mine was not working at all. But then I cleared and reflashed everything and it works
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My Fn key doesn't work either even if I hold it.
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See my 2nd post above. I wiped everything and reflashed and it fixed the issue. Seems like we got a dirty flash... I wiped absolutely everything from within CWM. Saved stuff I wanted on SD card, went to mounts and storage and went through each wipe option, so I'm not sure which one actually fixed it.
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I have the same issue. Seemed to start after I loaded up a copy of Swift Key Flow Beta. I went back to Swype - and it sill won't let me use the Fn key.
I will try doing some wiping when I have more time, just thought I would add that one little clue to the discussion.

"software" home button

Hey guys,
First what a nice forum is XDA! EX-Iphone user here, just bought and rooted+flashed CM10 nightly on my galaxy S3. A couple of bugs for some days, but now everything is working fine.
But there is one more little thing There's any chance to "emulate" or create a "gesture" to replace galaxy S3 home button ? I hate hardware buttons, on iPhone there was a Cydia tweak called Zephyr who alowed me to create screen gestures to perform any action.
and on android ? there's any chance to do that ? something like a gesture from bottom of screen or remap Menu button to something like: Two Taps it works like Home Button, one Tap it shows menu.
Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad english and my lack ok knowledge on Android world. I just arrived :good:
possible if you flash the (older) nexus JB rom, that's the only time I came across software home button
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omar_6130 said:
possible if you flash the (older) nexus JB rom, that's the only time I came across software home button
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Thanks for answer friend, but i found a way. Look at this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29739389&postcount=122
It gives a complete solution for what i was asking. It's amazing.

cm10 keyboard fix(kind of)

hi guys, i fixed 2 keys on my keyboard tonight.
i know this is probably not the way to do it but, i modified a few things in /system/usr/keylayouts/Generic.KL
what you need
cm10 of course
root access
a text editor
i am not responsible if you break your device following the instructions here, please make a backup of your Generic.kl file before modifying it
To fix the backspace key, scroll to the line : key 111 FORWARD_DEL
replace FORWARD_DEL with DEL
To fix the blue Alt key, scroll to the line : key 464 FUNCTION
replace FUNCTION with ALT_LEFT or ALT_RIGHT, both are working
i will try to fix the other keys soon, especially the ? key
now as i said this is probably not the right way to do it, the number keys seems to toggle search in cm10 stock internet browser, i havent checked with other ones yet, everything is working fine everywhere else though
Thanks to dman3285 for all the work he has done bringing cm10 to our devices
Numbers keys are working fine in Firefox
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math_green20 said:
hi guys, i fixed 2 keys on my keyboard tonight.
i know this is probably not the way to do it but, i modified a few things in /system/usr/keylayouts/Generic.KL
what you need
cm10 of course
root access
a text editor
i am not responsible if you break your device following the instructions here, please make a backup of your Generic.kl file before modifying it
To fix the backspace key, scroll to the line : key 111 FORWARD_DEL
replace FORWARD_DEL with DEL
To fix the blue Alt key, scroll to the line : key 464 FUNCTION
replace FUNCTION with ALT_LEFT or ALT_RIGHT, both are working
i will try to fix the other keys soon, especially the ? key
now as i said this is probably not the right way to do it, the number keys seems to toggle search in cm10 stock internet browser, i havent checked with other ones yet, everything is working fine everywhere else though
Thanks to dman3285 for all the work he has done bringing cm10 to our devices
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It doesn't work btw... I tried this a lonnng time ago.
Doesn't Work!
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It doesn't work btw... I tried this a lonnng time ago.
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Yes it does work.. tested it myself.. will be in the next cm10 release.
Nice work
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dbrannon79 said:
Doesn't Work!
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It works and works well... I assure you
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I can also confirm this works using dmans PAC rom
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I forgot to say, a reboot is required for the changes to work
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math_green20 said:
I forgot to say, a reboot is required for the changes to work
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. . . now it works
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ever since i did that... Android Keyboard (AOSP) has stopped. keeps flashing...and I lost mobile service somehow...
Whenever I try to edit this file, on reboot, I lose function of my power button and none my keys work on the hard keyboard...any ideas?
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I will upload my keyboard layout file later today, maybe even 2 layouts, i got most keys working by now.
If you lose your hardware buttons it means you screwed something up while modifying the file. Keep the tabulations right, double check after modifying
Key 464 LEFT_ALT disabled every buttons
Key 464 ALT_LEFT will work
If this happens you can either restore your original generic.kl backup, reboot via an application like rom manager or something
If you had no backup you can flash back dman's rom, it did work for me after i screwed the file up the first time
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I am not sure what is going wrong? I have done it as you have explained but I keep losing the keyboard, power and volume keys? I must have something installed that is conflicting but can't figure out what
I had to reinstall dman's ROM again as the backup wouldn't get the Keys working again...I tried to edit the file again with the same results? This time at least the backup of the file restores function to the keys
Thanks again for your work, I guess I just have to wait! XD
Cheers
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I did the two edits and nothing, even after a reboot the alt button still acts as the caps lock key!
I'm running PAC Rom with covenant kernel!
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Make sure your device does not insert a . after 2 consecutive spaces at the end of a word, that made screw me up a few times. But as i said i will upload my layout file later today when i get back from work
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math_green20 said:
Make sure your device does not insert a . after 2 consecutive spaces at the end of a word, that made screw me up a few times. But as i said i will upload my layout file later today when i get back from work
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My apologies! I was making the edits using root explorer and it was not saving them! Got droid edit from the market. Works great !
Thank you
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I too had to use a different editor. Root explorer and ones in phone wouldn't work. I typed this with the keyboard! XD I was thinking that was the problem, not smart enough to figure it out myself I guess
Thanks again!!!
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Has anyone gotten the number keys working?
Thanks
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1234567890. All typed holding 'blue Alt + numbers'. So yes they are working for me now!
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thescot33 said:
1234567890. All typed holding 'blue Alt + numbers'. So yes they are working for me now!
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How did you go about the edits? Wasn't sure since I couldn't get the right key numbers with the tracker app!
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That's weird, i used root explorer editor and everything worked fine, i used KeyEventDisplay to get the codes.
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