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[Tips]Desire buttons: undocumented features

Hey, i am going to maintain here a list of all thing which can be pressed and trigger some events in special occasions. I only know about two yet, thats where the community drops in. Post your find here and i will put it in this list.
Reboot
Hold Vol-Down, Trackpad and press Power
Reboots the system! Instant!
Prerequesite: Kernel must be loaded, so does not work the first few seconds after power on.
Warning:This does not unmount your sd-card or unlock any system files. Its basicly the same as removing the battery and should only be used in case your system crashed and does not react anymore. Think of it as a reset button on your PC, which you wouldnt press as long as windows runs fine.
Credits: myself
Bootloader/HBoot
Hold Vol-Down and press Power
Starts the phone and brings you to HBoot Menu
Prerequesite: Phone must be off for this to work
Notes: Navigate through HBoot/Fastboot with vol-up, vol-down and power as select button
Credits: myself
Bootloader during reboot
Hold Vol-Down and wait
Brings you to HBoot Menu
Prerequesite: Phone must be rebooting.
Notes: Make sure to press Vol-Down early enough. Must be pressed in before the boot-splash-image. Navigation, see above.
Credits: myself
Android safe mode
While phone boots, press and hold menu
starts up android in safe mode.only system apps are started, 3rd party apps are ignored
Prerequesite: None
Notes: You have too hold menu for a long time, from power on nearly until sim code dialogue
Depending on the rom you use, there is a small chance, it won't work, or the rom won't start.
Credits: *aliquando*
For a list of (all?) secret phone codes, see here - thanks lothaen!

Thisll be a good guide for people who have no idea, but these have been pretty basic essentials for rooted devices simce the G1.
None the less, im sure people will find this useful
Sent from my HTC Desire

Nice, I did not know about the reboot!

GANJDROID said:
Thisll be a good guide for people who have no idea, but these have been pretty basic essentials for rooted devices simce the G1.
None the less, im sure people will find this useful
Sent from my HTC Desire
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To be honest, I hope to find some more combinations than these three. I wouldn't have started this thread if I had no hope, there is more to find.is Up to you people to add here.
If there is nothing to add anymore, this thread will die pretty fast.
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Nice, the reboot trick is quite useful.
Thanks,

I know this one but I think it is common for Android. When your phone is off. Push menu button then power. Don't release menu until you see a message on bottom left of the screen. This mode is secure I.e. it loads only software of the ROM without 3rd applications.
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*aliquando* said:
I know this one but I think it is common for Android. When your phone is off. Push menu button then power. Don't release menu until you see a message on bottom left of the screen. This mode is secure I.e. it loads only software of the ROM without 3rd applications.
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Thanks for your input.pretty nice trick.added to initial post.
GIVE ME MORE
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Don't know if you want to include number codes here?
i.e. http://sefanboy.com/2010/09/05/htc-desire-tips-n-tricks-google-android-hidden-secret-codes/

Lothaen said:
Don't know if you want to include number codes here?
i.e. http://sefanboy.com/2010/09/05/htc-desire-tips-n-tricks-google-android-hidden-secret-codes/
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Even though this was not the intention if this thread, this is a VERY nice compilation of all codes. Will add this link to the first post
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*bump* - need more input

lohpsch said:
Nice, the reboot trick is quite useful.
Thanks,
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Yeah I posted about this 3 months ago
By the way that reboot is not graceful. i.e. your sdcard is not properly dismounted and open files are not closed. It is the same as a battery pull, so I would only use if your phone it totally locked up ...

st0kes said:
Yeah I posted about this 3 months ago
By the way that reboot is not graceful. i.e. your sdcard is not properly dismounted and open files are not closed. It is the same as a battery pull, so I would only use if your phone it totally locked up ...
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I would agree and would also suggest that the OP put a warning about this in the 1st post. This reboot method should really only be used as a last resort...
One more (probably well known) function is long-pressing the Menu key to bring up the soft keyboard. It used to work even on the homescreen, but it no longer does ever since Froyo. It will works elsewhere though. Really doesn't serve any purpose, though...

warning added. i am a bit surprised, there are not more combinations. seams we got them all now. wouldnt have started this topic, if i knew its only such few things.

ohyeahar said:
I would agree and would also suggest that the OP put a warning about this in the 1st post. This reboot method should really only be used as a last resort...
One more (probably well known) function is long-pressing the Menu key to bring up the soft keyboard. It used to work even on the homescreen, but it no longer does ever since Froyo. It will works elsewhere though. Really doesn't serve any purpose, though...
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It works on my unrooted froyo desire's homescreen... Maybe it's because i'm using launcher pro but i am almost sure it also worked on sense..... or maybe not!!

samsanchez88 said:
It works on my unrooted froyo desire's homescreen... Maybe it's because i'm using launcher pro but i am almost sure it also worked on sense..... or maybe not!!
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It works on a stock Froyo running sense, but only when you are in an application and not on the home screen.

The reboot could come in handy!
P.s. Mad-murdock noticed you are in Bielefeld area. Don't really hear of it too much.
Got family in and around bielefeld and will be there this christmas.
Gruße
Phil

samsanchez88 said:
It works on my unrooted froyo desire's homescreen... Maybe it's because i'm using launcher pro but i am almost sure it also worked on sense..... or maybe not!!
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Works for me (using Zeam launcher on oxygen rom)
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philje123 said:
The reboot could come in handy!
P.s. Mad-murdock noticed you are in Bielefeld area. Don't really hear of it too much.
Got family in and around bielefeld and will be there this christmas.
Gruße
Phil
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Funky! Do you bring me a nice present?
Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.

just bought htc one x.please help...

i just bought a htc one x (sh 26 model) i am facing a very different issue. when i take a picture,the brightness gradually reduces when i view it. then when i close the camera app,brightness returns bak to the original level.. why does the brightness gradually reduces wen viewing a pic which has been JUST TAKEN? any solution.. p.s. i am still on 1.28

When you open your camera app it automatically goes to full brightness, then goes back to how you had it before when you exit the app. That's how it's supposed to be so don't worry your phones not faulty
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yeah i know it goes to full brightness.but when i view the pic which i had just taken,brightness reducess gradually.why does the brightness reducess wen i view the picture??it shudnt happen this way,ryt?

mohaimed said:
yeah i know it goes to full brightness.but when i view the pic which i had just taken,brightness reducess gradually.why does the brightness reducess wen i view the picture??it shudnt happen this way,ryt?
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It's normal... don't worry

Hey everyone. Is there a substitute for the power button coz I find it difficult to reach. And I did update my brand new HOX to the latest its update I got which is 1.29.161.13.
I am still unrooted. Is this the latest OTA?

muid02 said:
Hey everyone. Is there a substitute for the power button coz I find it difficult to reach. And I did update my brand new HOX to the latest its update I got which is 1.29.161.13.
I am still unrooted. Is this the latest OTA?
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Could try Brick Kernel I believe it has a Swipe2wake feature. It works by by swiping across the screen, nt tried it myself (if i'm wrong please feel free to correct me)

i have disabled auto sync but still i receieve my facebook notifications, what to do about that? also i am having bad battery life. playing temple run for 5 mins takes up 6 percent at minimum brightness and all other things turned off. this is my first charge cycle

Can anyone please help me a bit please.
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Inside Facebook like on newsfeed page, press menue button and there untick Notifications...otherwise you are bombarded, of course depending on the activity of your friends
Now you can leave the Facebook sync active
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First thing disable the fastbbot option...settings/power I think
Then untick under Sound the three options under Incoming Calls...silent when turning done over ect...and louder ring in pocket...useless options but the sensors will eat up juice...
Then check your sync settings for each account...mail app is great with the smartsync option for different accounts like your gmail and exchange, fb doesn't need more than once an hour, better even more. Weather like every three hours ext....get a battery check app like Battery Monitor App to see how your usage is during the day...and lastly, unlock your HOX via HTC Dev, root it, put CWM on it and flash one of the awesome Sense custom ROMs...amazing develeoping going on there
BTW...the screen is sucking up juice anyways, and with playing intensive games even more...I don't play really so can't help you there...oh and unlocking voids your warranty with HTC...nothing's for free...but it is well worth it!
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I don't have the warranty. I don't care about the warranty. Today is my third charge cycle and now its preety good. Screen on for 2:32 mins and still 30% left. How's that? Good or bad. I don't wanna install the custom Rom today but I am gonna root it though. How can I save up more battery with a rooted HOX?
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muid02 said:
I don't have the warranty. I don't care about the warranty. Today is my third charge cycle and now its preety good. Screen on for 2:32 mins and still 30% left. How's that? Good or bad. I don't wanna install the custom Rom today but I am gonna root it though. How can I save up more battery with a rooted HOX?
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Try posting in one of the other battery threads. 3 hours screen on time seems.normal, depending on brightness level.
I would suggest installing the latest ARHD ROM (Android Revolution HD) by Mike. It uses the latest 2.15.401.5 base which is supposed to increase battery life and performance quite significantly.

what is the latest OTA version? my one says 1.29.161.13. i wanted to install Rosie Launcher but here it says : 1.29.401.xx http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1656201
there are no software version available for my device yet. till 18th august

Can anyone please shed some light on my question please.
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someone reply my software version is 1.29.161.13 . Is this the latest sotck version

If you don't have a notification saying there is an update available, there is not an update available for you. Simples, huh?

[Q] SILENT LOCKSCREEN (feature from Moto x)

I love the new feature from new Google-Motorola phone "Moto X". The new "Silent Lockscreen Notification" feature is so neat, nice, useful...
I just love it
Unfortunately I am not a developer, so I don't have the skills to port it to our HOX but, wouldn't it be a great feature to have?
Youtube /watch?v=lbGmfk8yaZU, sorry i am not allowed to post external links as a newbie in XDA
The lockscreen feature is presented at 2 minute 30s mark.
:fingers-crossed:
What do you think? Would you like to see this feature in your Custom ROM?
Cheers

Active display
Better example of this awesome feature review
ww.youtube.com/watch?v=5P5_yAA9xTE

Totally useless on the One X because we don't have an OLED screen.

blackalice said:
Totally useless on the One X because we don't have an OLED screen.
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Not totally useless, only a bit more power consuming because the whole display would have to be activated instead only of part of it.
But screen would only glow in intervals (you could slow down the interval) when new notification arrives and when you take it out of pocket or flip it downside up with use of proximity sensor.
Bu yes, i agree, our battery is already a bit week.. :/

Seems pretty neat

Porting it to sense is impossible duo to sense framework work.
How ever its possible to port it to aosp if the necessary sources are out....
IMO its useless because its a battery sucker
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there is an app called NoLED from the play store that does something somewhat similar. its not the same thing but it does give you a floating notification on the screen and tells you what app its from.
And yeah, LCD screens will use more power and will prevent the phone from properly sleeping. You can tune it to only turn on the screen if you flip it over.

Or you can use Active Notifications,it's verry verry similar to the Moto X:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.activenotifications

jeyml said:
Or you can use Active Notifications,it's verry verry similar to the Moto X:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.activenotifications
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Only Works on Devices with Android 4.3 for now
Edit. Looks like its experimental on 4.1.2 and 4.2.2. Anyone tried it yet?

omondisingh said:
Only Works on Devices with Android 4.3 for now.
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Works on my HOX...

jeyml said:
Works on my HOX...
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Posted without reading the app description. When this app came out it only worked on 4.3 devices but now it works on the One X. Best to use with Low brightness.

Or you can create a Tasker profile that will make your screen pulse every few minutes until you dismiss the notification...
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The app use a lot of battery. But it looks great!

Moto X Smart screen notifications

I found this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2395549
Thx to Niko001
It is a app that give you the smart notifications from the moto x :victory:
And it works great.
Is have tested it.
Works only on Google play edtion 4.3
But mabey on sens rom to. But thit not test that
Insctructions
Install like every other APK file

Any pics on what it looks like when up and running?

Since we don't have super AMOLED, wouldn't this be a huge battery drain?

jabza said:
Since we don't have super AMOLED, wouldn't this be a huge battery drain?
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not realy screen is on for a 10 or 15 sec.

this is how it looks like. When you push the icon of the notification you see from it is

The whole screen would light up as black instead of being off like Amoled. I don't think LCD's can take full advantage of this feature

I think notifierpro is the best app for this task. The free lite version works awesome.

All they need is a setting to set a timeout. I use Knock² currently and its set to 30seconds. I use it mainly at work to see if a message is worth grabbing my phone for.
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altimax98 said:
All they need is a setting to set a timeout. I use Knock² currently and its set to 30seconds. I use it mainly at work to see if a message is worth grabbing my phone for.
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does it work properly on HTC one as I've read a lot of negative reviews about not working properly on HTC one

ahmed4never said:
does it work properly on HTC one as I've read a lot of negative reviews about not working properly on HTC one
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Yeah worked fine... but it is 4.3 and above only. Meaning it only will work on the GE ROM or phone.
He needs to change his target API to hide it from those not 4.3
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I'm using knock2 and it works like a charm.
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ryanfsdf said:
The whole screen would light up as black instead of being off like Amoled. I don't think LCD's can take full advantage of this feature
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It can, the battery drain is significantly higher than an AMOLED screen.
I'm fine with keeping the extra battery life and having the LED. (Dashclock helps on the lock screen).
The Moto X benefits the most by far from this because of a few reasons.
1.) Contextual low-power processor
2.) AMOLED screen
3.) It doesn't have a notification LED to begin with.

i think it is what you personal perfer or like. I thougt nice app let's share. For those ho want it.
Just had a training for my Samsung care point to maintain my license. And had the same explanation of diferents beteween AMOLED, Super AMOLED and LCD.
I hope to get a re traing for HTC to.

I have installed it on my viper Rom. Works perfect. But then I am getting force closes error on gmail. When I disable it. Gmail works fine. But when I enable it. It gives me force close error. Any solution?
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[REQ] HTC Logo as a button

Is it possible to get one of you talented fellas to port the MOD from the ATT HTC One? I tried flashing the MOD to use the HTC Logo as a sleep/wake/menu but it bricked my phone (perhaps since we are on 4.2.2?), did a restore and that fixed me back up.
Would be nice to have this on our Verizon version
Thanks!

It didn't brick just failed to boot probably because of the kernel flash that was for 4.1
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I really want the bulletproof kernel but I am sure our devs can't get it ported until kernel source is released from HTC.

Bert336 said:
Is it possible to get one of you talented fellas to port the MOD from the ATT HTC One? I tried flashing the MOD to use the HTC Logo as a sleep/wake/menu but it bricked my phone (perhaps since we are on 4.2.2?), did a restore and that fixed me back up.
Would be nice to have this on our Verizon version
Thanks!
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the only way to get that logo to act as a button is with a custom kernel who the dev built in the option for it..
can't be done on stock rooted stock kernel.

GrayTheWolf said:
I really want the bulletproof kernel but I am sure our devs can't get it ported until kernel source is released from HTC.
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me too, i PM'ed the guy who makes bulletproof and he said he can't do anything until the source code is released.

Any idea when source code will be released? I am not a dev by any means, but aren't the manufacturers supposed to release the source since Android is open source?
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sanders539 said:
Any idea when source code will be released? I am not a dev by any means, but aren't the manufacturers supposed to release the source since Android is open source?
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Same thing happened with the dna update. It took a few weeks. They will probably release it when 4.3 is out.
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GrayTheWolf said:
I really want the bulletproof kernel but I am sure our devs can't get it ported until kernel source is released from HTC.
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Did you ever try to boot another HTC One kernel that is 4.2.2? Probably might be the first thing I do when I get my phone back.
You might be able to. Find the button map number and then add it to the list and tell it to wake the device when pressed.

Wait... You're telling me that the HTC logo on the front has a touch sensor under it? And it's disabled??
Sent from my HTC One.

josh995 said:
Wait... You're telling me that the HTC logo on the front has a touch sensor under it? And it's disabled??
Sent from my HTC One.
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Sorta. Like on the Rezound. The area between the 4 buttons. The phone registered it as "key 0". Now you can't do anything with "key 0"
But someone with CWM Touch. Go to key test in advanced options and press the HTC logo and see if it registers as anything.

Flyhalf205 said:
Sorta. Like on the Rezound. The area between the 4 buttons. The phone registered it as "key 0". Now you can't do anything with "key 0"
But someone with CWM Touch. Go to key test in advanced options and press the HTC logo and see if it registers as anything.
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This is the first I've heard if this. Why... WHY in the world would they disable it? It could be incredibly useful!
Sent from my HTC One.

josh995 said:
Wait... You're telling me that the HTC logo on the front has a touch sensor under it? And it's disabled??
Sent from my HTC One.
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It's part of the digitizer.

GrayTheWolf said:
It's part of the digitizer.
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Touch sensor, digitizer, I don't care. I just wanna know why they would disable it completely and not allow us the option of assigning something to it
Sent from my HTC One.

josh995 said:
Touch sensor, digitizer, I don't care. I just wanna know why they would disable it completely and not allow us the option of assigning something to it
Sent from my HTC One.
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It's not actually under the HTC logo, it's actually located right above it (practically on the screen). It's not built to be a button, it's a part of the touch screen digitizer that just happens to extend beyond the actual screen.

PapaSmurf6768 said:
It's not actually under the HTC logo, it's actually located right above it (practically on the screen). It's not built to be a button, it's a part of the touch screen digitizer that just happens to extend beyond the actual screen.
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Aw. Y'all had me excited for a moment. I thought they meant right under the HTC.
Sent from my HTC One.

josh995 said:
Aw. Y'all had me excited for a moment. I thought they meant right under the HTC.
Sent from my HTC One.
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It might not be right under the button but the functionality is still there, we just need a custom kernel to use it.

PapaSmurf6768 said:
It might not be right under the button but the functionality is still there, we just need a custom kernel to use it.
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I have used it and it is quite annoying. Honestly, its not worth the extra trouble because the area is so small and is practically on the screen. Most of the time I ended up opening the app drawer. However, roms should include the ability to remap the recents to be one press for menu, hold for recents. That would be 10x more useful than using the htc logo.

123421342 said:
I have used it and it is quite annoying. Honestly, its not worth the extra trouble because the area is so small and is practically on the screen. Most of the time I ended up opening the app drawer. However, roms should include the ability to remap the recents to be one press for menu, hold for recents. That would be 10x more useful than using the htc logo.
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The home button already does recents and menu
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I've always been a bit pissed off at the HTC One for having two buttons..
it' a waste of space.
at least make on screen-buttons if they are going to do this crap.
I honestly hate having two button, and wish that we had the home button in the middle and a dedicated menu button.
much like how it used to be.
HTC makes some changes I just can't stand..

andybones said:
I've always been a bit pissed off at the HTC One for having two buttons..
it' a waste of space.
at least make on screen-buttons if they are going to do this crap.
I honestly hate having two button, and wish that we had the home button in the middle and a dedicated menu button.
much like how it used to be.
HTC makes some changes I just can't stand..
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On screen buttons, I think are a waste of space.