Hi!
Since today I have a problem which makes my lovely old Desire useless. It seems like the home key is always pressed, so I cant use it.
I disassembled the whole telephone piece by piece following this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXZqIjtFoAU and cleaned it but no luck.
There's any chance I can disable hard keys and use some rom with softkeys enabled?
Thx in advance
i'm using Sandvold's ICS with a patch from mattman for softkeys. and i'm very satisfied with it.
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I'm using Virtous Sense ROM and i'm very pleased with it.
I find the user buttons on the hardware keyboard pretty useless.
Is there anybody here who modded these keys to be something else?
I'm mainly looking for someone who made button 1 a 'close' button. button 2 doesn't really matter to me.
Anyone out there who wants to share this?
(i tried to read into it myself but found i little bit out of my legeau)
Thanks in advance!
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Hey guys. I haven't been able to find any information regarding modifying the functionality of the hard buttons on the GNex, all my searches just turn up mods to the soft buttons. On my phone, the two volume buttons on the left wake up the screen. I would like to disable this, since the buttons are fairly well placed to cause lots of accidental and in-pocket presses. Its well documented that the screen is the single most battery-intensive hardware component on this device, plus I generally like to keep my lockscreen disabled.
I know similar mods exist for other devices, since I had one for my old phone (the DroidX), and I found one for the Galaxy S II
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1086526
I will be hunting for the files that control this, but figured I could potentially speed up my search with a point in the right direction. Will look into it once I get my SSH and rsync stuff up and running.
While writing this post I DID find this:
http://source.android.com/tech/input/key-layout-files.html
Looks like it may not be too tough to parse out what can and cannot be modified on the Gnex
What ROM are you on? I am sure you can just ask the rom dev to give you a zip file to disable it.. does it do this on stock? I haven't had stock in so long but I don't believe it does..
How To Disable Volume Wake
I'm having the same problem, I flashed "Rooted,De-odexed,Zip-aligned ROM With Stock Insecure Boot Image And New Radios & Bootloader" to get to 4.0.4 and now my phone wakes whenever I use the volume keys. Anyone know how to disable this? While I'm at it, anyway to disable wake when plugging/unplugging from charger too? Thanks!
Sorry for a noob comment..am I missing something here...when I lock the phone..it doesn't wake when I press volume buttons...I'm on stock rom
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What ROM are you using? As far as I know, this is not how stock ICS runs. Never did when I was on it. Certain ROMS (codename android and AOKP for example) have this as an option in the settings. If you are on a custom ROM, check your settings.
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Yeah no, doesn't do it on Stock, I'm on IMM30B...
I'm just curious from those of you who flashed, how is ICS implemented? There was some criticism of ICS replacing the 'menu' button and removing hardware buttons. Do the leaked rom builds use 'software' buttons also or are those functions coded to our hardware buttons (this is my assumption). Does the hardware menu button do anything (i.e. is it linked to 'menus' in apps still?)...how do you feel with the changes in 'search' button functionality in ICS?
I'm hoping to install the ROM myself soon and take a look but don't have the time now and was hoping someone could provide quick thoughts on these issues (I haven't found any reviews or discussions related to this...)
Thanks for any thoughts
brady747 said:
I'm just curious from those of you who flashed, how is ICS implemented? There was some criticism of ICS replacing the 'menu' button and removing hardware buttons. Do the leaked rom builds use 'software' buttons also or are those functions coded to our hardware buttons (this is my assumption). Does the hardware menu button do anything (i.e. is it linked to 'menus' in apps still?)...how do you feel with the changes in 'search' button functionality in ICS?
I'm hoping to install the ROM myself soon and take a look but don't have the time now and was hoping someone could provide quick thoughts on these issues (I haven't found any reviews or discussions related to this...)
Thanks for any thoughts
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Lol why don't you flash and find out =0 jk lol no the factory buttons are still in use I believe only new ICS phones from niw on will have on screen buttons everything as far as hardware buttons work normally only thing different is screenshot is home and volume down
Yeah, i tried to pre-empt that suggestion obviously thanks for feedback, i guess im just gonna have to try it and find out what software isnt working and how search and menu are integrated into the OS and apps. Im not really thrilled with what they did with the buttons going forward actually...we'll see. thanks
I'm still a noob at rooting so if anyone can help, gladly be appreciated. so, I rooted my device to CM9 unofficial build 4.0.4. And I've been trying to figure out how to get the home and genius button to work. if anyone can help, thanks!
just search/read the whole CM9 thread
But in my case "?" and "sym" buttons on the slide-out keyboard still not working even after applying of this patch.
Saem persun said:
just search/read the whole CM9 thread
But in my case "?" and "sym" buttons on the slide-out keyboard still not working even after applying of this patch.
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thanks.
Ok so a run down of the problem
My Mother has recently gotten the glide as she has a mobility disorder that makes using a touch screen keyboard very difficult.
The trouble is that with the glides hardware keyboard if you long press the keys, e.g. The A key, it comes up with ASCII characters aka accents.
So what I am looking for is a way to turn off long press on the hardware keyboard or at the very least set it to a 5 second delay so as to not conflict with my my Moms typing.
I have changed the tap and hold delay in the accessibility option but this has had little to no effect.
I would rather not root or load custom ROM if it all possible
Thanks in advance of any help.
If you are using ICS+ (4.04+) Try settings>accessibility>touch and hold delay>(select your prefrence)
I don't remember if its on stock but let me know if it is as im using cm 10.2!
Edit: sorry realized that your on stock :/ this overrides everything in cm 10.2 (jb 4.3) if you change your mind about flashing let me know (you don't loose any data while flashing)
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If you are using ICS+ (4.04+) Try settings>accessibility>touch and hold delay>(select your prefrence)
I don't remember if its on stock but let me know if it is as im using cm 10.2!
Edit: sorry realized that your on stock :/ this overrides everything in cm 10.2 (jb 4.3) if you change your mind about flashing let me know (you don't loose any data while flashing)
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I actually have already tried changing the accessibility setting to increase the delay but i think this only applies to the touch screen not the physical keyboard.
I am not against flashing a custom ROM just would like to avoid it if at all possible.