How To Remap Search Key To Launch Camera - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989

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I've been searching for a few days and haven't come up with anything. I'm trying to remap my search key to have it launch my camera instead. I just rarely use it and very much miss my dedicate camera hard key. I've tried the button remapper on one of these threads to no avail there seems to be one dedicate to Galaxy S phones but when I launched that one it said I wasn't using a supported device ( I've got a Samsung Galaxy S2 SGH-T989), and when I downloaded the other button remapper it launched just fine but when I changed the command for the search key to camera it did nothing. Next I went into my root explorer and copied all .kl files with the 217 search key that I was lead to believe was the one I needed to edit and put them on my external sd and then preceded to modify the originals from "SEARCH" to "CAMERA." But that attempt failed as well. All that did was disable my search key all together. Not sure if I was on the right track here and just missed something or if that's just a completely idiotic attempt. Either way I've just Typically failed at my noobish attempt at Remapping my search key. If anyone can help this sad and disgraced noob please let me know.
Thanks!
P.S. My phone is rooted and I'm just running plain ole ICS 4.0.3 and I'm gonna post a screens of "about phone" section incase that helps at all. Sorry if I sound like an idiot but I'm very new to all this. Just rooted my first phone a few weeks ago. So if you could keep that in mind when you reply it would be much appreciated. Thanks again

jalight27 said:
******NOOB WARNING*****'
I've been searching for a few days and haven't come up with anything. I'm trying to remap my search key to have it launch my camera instead. I just rarely use it and very much miss my dedicate camera hard key. I've tried the button remapper on one of these threads to no avail there seems to be one dedicate to Galaxy S phones but when I launched that one it said I wasn't using a supported device ( I've got a Samsung Galaxy S2 SGH-T989), and when I downloaded the other button remapper it launched just fine but when I changed the command for the search key to camera it did nothing. Next I went into my root explorer and copied all .kl files with the 217 search key that I was lead to believe was the one I needed to edit and put them on my external sd and then preceded to modify the originals from "SEARCH" to "CAMERA." But that attempt failed as well. All that did was disable my search key all together. Not sure if I was on the right track here and just missed something or if that's just a completely idiotic attempt. Either way I've just Typically failed at my noobish attempt at Remapping my search key. If anyone can help this sad and disgraced noob please let me know.
Thanks!
P.S. My phone is rooted and I'm just running plain ole ICS 4.0.3 and I'm gonna post a screens of "about phone" section incase that helps at all. Sorry if I sound like an idiot but I'm very new to all this. Just rooted my first phone a few weeks ago. So if you could keep that in mind when you reply it would be much appreciated. Thanks again
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If you have clockworkmod recovery, or any custom recovery, flash attached file via recovery.

Did I do something wrong here?
elesbb said:
If you have clockworkmod recovery, or any custom recovery, flash attached file via recovery.
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Ok, well let me start out by saying I'm a moron. Below I posted and the whole recovery thing went way over my head. Lets just say the scapegoat there was not enough sleep and being way over worked. But anyway after writing that I realized how stupid I was. So I immediately pulled my head but of my but and went into recovery mode and installed your zip from there, reported, and still nothing for my search key. Is it because I screwed the pooh on my first attempt? Read the dribble I posted first and please lemme know:
First off, thank you very much for taking the time to reply and do all this for me. After reading your post I went out and got clockwork Rom manager which also lead me to download clockwork recovery. I then preceded to click on the zip file you provided and when it completed downloading I opened it. I took a snapshot of the screen that popped up. I clicked yes leaving the box checked that the program had checked for me (just as it is in the screen shot). Afterthat the phone preceded to do it's thing and a few minutes later the phone rebooted and now if I hit the search key it vibrates but doesn't actually do anything. Did I do something wrong along the way? Again, I really do appreciate you taking the time out for me and I'll be awaiting your response. Thanks!"
Stupid, I know. But I'll assume that that's probably the problem. If I can find some time tomorrow I'll try revolving the copy of the Rom I made before I killed my search key and then do it properly, and hopefully that'll be that and I'll FINALLY have my search key camera. Thanks again!

jalight27 said:
Ok, well let me start out by saying I'm a moron. Below I posted and the whole recovery thing went way over my head. Lets just say the scapegoat there was not enough sleep and being way over worked. But anyway after writing that I realized how stupid I was. So I immediately pulled my head but of my but and went into recovery mode and installed your zip from there, reported, and still nothing for my search key. Is it because I screwed the pooh on my first attempt? Read the dribble I posted first and please lemme know:
First off, thank you very much for taking the time to reply and do all this for me. After reading your post I went out and got clockwork Rom manager which also lead me to download clockwork recovery. I then preceded to click on the zip file you provided and when it completed downloading I opened it. I took a snapshot of the screen that popped up. I clicked yes leaving the box checked that the program had checked for me (just as it is in the screen shot). Afterthat the phone preceded to do it's thing and a few minutes later the phone rebooted and now if I hit the search key it vibrates but doesn't actually do anything. Did I do something wrong along the way? Again, I really do appreciate you taking the time out for me and I'll be awaiting your response. Thanks!"
Stupid, I know. But I'll assume that that's probably the problem. If I can find some time tomorrow I'll try revolving the copy of the Rom I made before I killed my search key and then do it properly, and hopefully that'll be that and I'll FINALLY have my search key camera. Thanks again!
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That happened to me as well. I then opened up my camera and pressed the search key while my camera was open. It took a picture. And booted, after that, pressing the search key then launched the camera. So try that.
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elesbb said:
That happened to me as well. I then opened up my camera and pressed the search key while my camera was open. It took a picture. And booted, after that, pressing the search key then launched the camera. So try that.
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Alright what I just did now, launch whatever camera app you use. Press the back button. Press and hold the search button. Should work.
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Beautiful
elesbb said:
That happened to me as well. I then opened up my camera and pressed the search key while my camera was open. It took a picture. And booted, after that, pressing the search key then launched the camera. So try that.
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Alright what I just did now, launch whatever camera app you use. Press the back button. Press and hold the search button. Should work.
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Beautiful. Just did what you said and works perfectly. Might have even been working before I just didn't hold the button when I was doing it yesterday. Thank you so much. Was kinda sceptical when I posted that I would just get a bunch of condescending remarks, but very happy to see this site isn't like some others I've been too. Anyway though, thanks a million. This is gonna be awesome for my twins. I keep missing good photos cuz it takes that extra few seconds to find my camera. Now I'll be able to get to it in a flash. Thanks again. You're awesome.

jalight27 said:
Beautiful. Just did what you said and works perfectly. Might have even been working before I just didn't hold the button when I was doing it yesterday. Thank you so much. Was kinda sceptical when I posted that I would just get a bunch of condescending remarks, but very happy to see this site isn't like some others I've been too. Anyway though, thanks a million. This is gonna be awesome for my twins. I keep missing good photos cuz it takes that extra few seconds to find my camera. Now I'll be able to get to it in a flash. Thanks again. You're awesome.
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Not a problem! I have my camera set to a short cut on the lockscreen and a gesture when I'm in my phone lol. But that's a good idea to just assign it to another button
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elesbb said:
Not a problem! I have my camera set to a short cut on the lockscreen and a gesture when I'm in my phone lol. But that's a good idea to just assign it to another button
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Hello again. I just download my first new ROM, Jedi mind trick, and I obviously lost my search button camera. Since I'm not running the stock ROM will the zip file you sent me previously still work to replace my search key with launching the camera? Thanks in advance!

The keymap files are at /system/usr/keylayout/
Different ROMs probably have different files, but I guess you can find the file(s) you need to change from "SEARCH" to "CAMERA"
Keep in mind, do a backup before change anything.

angellsl said:
The keymap files are at /system/usr/keylayout/
Different ROMs probably have different files, but I guess you can find the file(s) you need to change from "SEARCH" to "CAMERA"
Keep in mind, do a backup before change anything.
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Right, always sure to do that. I made a backup of all the files I edited last time. Edited all the keylayout files last time though and didn't do anything. Maybe I missed one though. I'll give it a try and edit it when I'm do though. Thanks for the info!
---EDIT---Totally worked. Actually I think I had it set the first time I did this on my stock ICS Cruz when I pressed the search key once in camera it took a pic but the problem I was having all along was I just wasn't holding it down. Typical noob right? Oh well, learned my lesson. Try absolutely EVERYTHING before posting and sounding like a moron, lol. Anhway, elessb, would it be possible for you to instruct me on how to get to my camera on my lock screen like you have it. That would just be beyond amazing.

jalight27 said:
Right, always sure to do that. I made a backup of all the files I edited last time. Edited all the keylayout files last time though and didn't do anything. Maybe I missed one though. I'll give it a try and edit it when I'm do though. Thanks for the info!
---EDIT---Totally worked. Actually I think I had it set the first time I did this on my stock ICS Cruz when I pressed the search key once in camera it took a pic but the problem I was having all along was I just wasn't holding it down. Typical noob right? Oh well, learned my lesson. Try absolutely EVERYTHING before posting and sounding like a moron, lol. Anhway, elessb, would it be possible for you to instruct me on how to get to my camera on my lock screen like you have it. That would just be beyond amazing.
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Which ROM are you on? The cm ROMs have custom shortcuts so that's how I got it there.
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elesbb said:
Which ROM are you on? The cm ROMs have custom shortcuts so that's how I got it there.
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I've got Jedi Mind Trick running right now. Its blazing fast but its kinda buggy. Was in love with it at first, but the longer I have it, the more it's annoying me. Programs seem to freeze up quite often and stall out the phone for 30 seconds or so, and it seems to be doing it at least 3/4 times a day. I've heard good things about the cm ROMs. I know its kinda off topic, well maybe not all that much since I'm interested in the camera shortcut, but is there a specific ROM you'd reccomend concerning the camera shortcut, and of course with overall functionality in mind as well.
Thanks!

jalight27 said:
I've got Jedi Mind Trick running right now. Its blazing fast but its kinda buggy. Was in love with it at first, but the longer I have it, the more it's annoying me. Programs seem to freeze up quite often and stall out the phone for 30 seconds or so, and it seems to be doing it at least 3/4 times a day. I've heard good things about the cm ROMs. I know its kinda off topic, well maybe not all that much since I'm interested in the camera shortcut, but is there a specific ROM you'd reccomend concerning the camera shortcut, and of course with overall functionality in mind as well.
Thanks!
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The latest jelly bean nightly from either Erick or binaryBishop is amazing. It's better than my official nightly from cyanoGen mod on my s3
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[ROM] Nytefire-MIUI-Gingerbread-1.4.29

Nytefire MIUI Gingerbread 1.4.29
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Hello all, this is my first attempt at a ROM. I usually downloaded option's work and flashed it, but I didn't feel like waiting this time. :] If anyone wants to give it a shot, I've flashed it now on three separate myTouch 4Gs without any problems. Of course, if you run into any problems, brick your device, or otherwise cause some type of calamity in your mobile world - this is no fault of mine.
For a list of changes from the previous build, check the MIUI website.
This ROM contains the latest Desire Z port of MIUI as well as the Langage Pack.
I've also included Faux123's GB kernel 2.5.2-137 LV kernel. If anyone has trouble with the LV kernel, feel free to flash over the SV version immediately after ROM flash. I'm afraid I can't do much bug fixing if there is any to be done - as this is all taken care of by the MIUI team. I've simply ported over their latest build for everyone to enjoy. If there's anything I need to change for the Glacier, let me know. :]
Edit:
I suggest doing wipes as you had been doing previously with Option's MIUI builds.
Thanks,
Nytefire
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2D8JWQVO [Fixed from previous version, I somehow had botched su.]
Been waiting for this to drop, thanks
wheeeeee more ROM chefs
Variety is the spice of life! Also my "666" thank you mark
Hm.
Uh oh, due to not testing I've botched (and just now noticed) SU in this ROM. I'll post a fix shortly, as soon as I get home to do the edits. Sorry about this everyone, I'll have it fixed as soon as possible for you all.
Thanks for that catch, just getting it installed. I'll wait for that.
Could you also, in the next update, change the phone model to MT4G?
Home now, made the necessary changes and in the process of uploading.
Wireless tether not working anymore
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Not sure if this is a miui problem or a port problem, the buttons at the bottom of the device, e.g. home menu back, do not light up. Also, long pressing the genius button does nothing.
kyuza said:
Not sure if this is a miui problem or a port problem, the buttons at the bottom of the device, e.g. home menu back, do not light up. Also, long pressing the genius button does nothing.
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does your home button work, and does normal pressing your search button work?
i had this problem before on one of options builds. Just wipe and reflash and you should be set. May take a few tries and retries of wiping and flashing (took me two times) but it fixed the issue
WIFI does not start for me, and third party access for phone calls is not working, even though it is enabled in the Call settings, and Google Voice is set to Always Ask how i want to make a call. Instead of asking if i want to make a call with my Google Voice number, it uses the real cell phone number.
I've tried wipeing and reflashing 4 times. Each time, the translation pack never installed. The buttons still didn't light up, and the genius button did nothing. I flashed on top of a fresh install, and the translation worked. However, the buttons still don't light up, and the genius button doesn't do anything. Also, can't change the brightness in the drop down menu or in settings. The slider/auto brightness does nothing.
To answer VibrantOwnr, the home button does work as it should, just doesn't light up.
kyuza said:
I've tried wipeing and reflashing 4 times. Each time, the translation pack never installed. The buttons still didn't light up, and the genius button did nothing. I flashed on top of a fresh install, and the translation worked. However, the buttons still don't light up, and the genius button doesn't do anything. Also, can't change the brightness in the drop down menu or in settings. The slider/auto brightness does nothing.
To answer VibrantOwnr, the home button does work as it should, just doesn't light up.
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Um the genius button remap to search is pretty easy you need to go to the system/ usr/ key layout edit the glacier
keys
key 102 HOME
key 139 MENU
key 158 BACK
key 231 CALL
key 211 FOCUS
key 212 CAMERA
key 217 SEARCH
key 183 SEARCH
key 107 ENDCALL WAKE_DROPPED
key 116 POWER WAKE_DROPPED
key 115 VOLUME_UP WAKE
key 114 VOLUME_DOWN WAKE
I'm on cm7 but it should be roughly the same
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DarkNytefire said:
I've flashed it now on three separate myTouch 4Gs without any problems. Of course, if you run into any problems, brick your device, or otherwise cause some type of calamity in your mobile world - this is no fault of mine.
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Not for nothing, i'm not sure what kind of testing you did, but this port is incomplete. I understand that this is your frist attempt @ porting a rom, but maybe you should do a little more research before hand.. I'm not trying to be a d*ck here, but this shouldnt of been released to general public. anyone who flashes this rom is essentially flashing a rom for the vision with a modified build.prop.. I would say use this @ your own risk, but dont be surprised when things r broken...
The key lay out is vision you need to add the files from the glacier. I haven't flashed this rom yet but use options rom as a base for your Rom. Since it for the glacier. A lot of the system files are visions.
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Killbynature said:
The key lay out is vision you need to add the files from the glacier. I haven't flashed this rom yet but use options rom as a base for your Rom. Since it for the glacier. A lot of the system files are visions.
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he is missing the correct files from and not limited to:
/system/usr/keychars
/system/usr/keylayout
/system/lib/hw
/system/etc/firmware
not to mention a total unorthodox way to create/flash a rom???
Hey, don't blame him, he's trying. I'm even thinking of creating a crazily modified version of Cyanogenmod 7. He may not be great, but a least he's making an effort.
But as said before... Warning: ROM may have minimal to serious problems.
This is a message to the op next time you decide to make a rom share with friends people that will appreciate your effort not xda this community is very self centered most of time its either there way or no way the devs are great just the public always has something to say
No one is blaming him for anything he made an incomplete port it not that big of a deal but since true s off. We can literally flash any rom. He didn't change any files in this Rom except for a few. All the files are a vision files almost. We don't mean for him to take it. As bad advice. If he would of had a vision radio we would have bricks going back and forth. Then every one would be blaming him.
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GazaIan said:
Hey, don't blame him, he's trying. I'm even thinking of creating a crazily modified version of Cyanogenmod 7. He may not be great, but a least he's making an effort.
But as said before... Warning: ROM may have minimal to serious problems.
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Don't blame him? I don't even understand what that means? There is no blame only telling how it is.. The port is incomplete and i do believe that anyone that is thinking of flashing this ROM would like to know that information, i know i would... I even went a step further and specified folder locations for of the files he need to replace with the correct ones.. So I was helping him out by giving him a little advice since he didnt want to do the research first...
daprince047 said:
This is a message to the op next time you decide to make a rom share with friends people that will appreciate your effort not xda this community is very self centered most of time its either there way or no way the devs are great just the public always has something to say
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first off punctuation is always nice :] Quite a leap by calling the entire XDA community "self-centered" and i do not believe it was my way or no way, I really think thats an over reaction. Hey i do have to agree with you, the public does always have something to say...
Killbynature said:
No one is blaming him for anything he made an incomplete port it not that big of a deal but since true s off. We can literally flash any rom. He didn't change any files in this Rom except for a few. All the files are a vision files almost. We don't mean for him to take it. As bad advice. If he would of had a vision radio we would have bricks going back and forth. Then every one would be blaming him.
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Thank you! I am glad that someone gets it the main reason the rom boots is thanks to our great friend Faux123
Freedom of speech needs to be revoked, same talk just happened at teampokerface just now, maybe I'm wrong everyone should argue and trash talk and then go out and kill each other this way we can have more English teacher's :-D
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Editing CWM on the kindle.

What would I need to try something like this. Someone had the short press is down, long press is select idea, which i thought was brilliant. I'm downloading umbuntu right now as it seems that is the preferred platform for this kinda ****. What I'm wondering is clockwork any different across different phones? Or is it the same code for every phone? I remeber on my epic someone edited CWM so the font was purple and you didn't have to scroll all the way down to select 'ok'. It seems to me like editing CWM so that short press on the power button moves down the menu, and long press selects, wouldn't be too terribly difficult and it seems like a semi-fun learning experience, and it would be nice to have a usable recovery. Anyone wanna point me in the right direction? I'm looking at you Calvin.
Never heard of umbuntu.
Also read more carefully, there is no one on the forums named Calvin doing any dev work.
Google "porting cwr to other devices". Its faily involved to get set up.
Skimp Killah said:
What would I need to try something like this. Someone had the short press is down, long press is select idea, which i thought was brilliant. I'm downloading umbuntu right now as it seems that is the preferred platform for this kinda ****. What I'm wondering is clockwork any different across different phones? Or is it the same code for every phone? I remeber on my epic someone edited CWM so the font was purple and you didn't have to scroll all the way down to select 'ok'. It seems to me like editing CWM so that short press on the power button moves down the menu, and long press selects, wouldn't be too terribly difficult and it seems like a semi-fun learning experience, and it would be nice to have a usable recovery. Anyone wanna point me in the right direction? I'm looking at you Calvin.
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You're probably best off working on Clavin's CWM, since we know his works for flashing the KF.
Be careful though - TWRP bricked the KF when they did a backup and restore.
Skimp Killah said:
What would I need to try something like this. Someone had the short press is down, long press is select idea, which i thought was brilliant. I'm downloading umbuntu right now as it seems that is the preferred platform for this kinda ****. What I'm wondering is clockwork any different across different phones? Or is it the same code for every phone? I remeber on my epic someone edited CWM so the font was purple and you didn't have to scroll all the way down to select 'ok'. It seems to me like editing CWM so that short press on the power button moves down the menu, and long press selects, wouldn't be too terribly difficult and it seems like a semi-fun learning experience, and it would be nice to have a usable recovery. Anyone wanna point me in the right direction? I'm looking at you Calvin.
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it was my idea. I can't believe someone actually listened to what I had to say.
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andTab said:
You're probably best off working on Clavin's CWM, since we know his works for flashing the KF.
Be careful though - TWRP bricked the KF when they did a backup and restore.
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It was a soft brick, we used a dongle that is the equivilent of an Atrix factory cable (google teamblackhat cable) and it got me right back into fastboot.
Thelgow said:
Never heard of umbuntu.
Also read more carefully, there is no one on the forums named Calvin doing any dev work.
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You bad man
pyrostic said:
it was my idea. I can't believe someone actually listened to what I had to say.
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It was a soft brick, we used a dongle that is the equivilent of an Atrix factory cable (google teamblackhat cable) and it got me right back into fastboot.
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I thought it was genius in its simplicity, because usually the most simple solution is the best. So it seems that editing cwm may be a bit above me at the moment, lets say I wanted to do something like editing a ROM, something simple like deleting a few apks from Calvin's cm7 and maybe changing a few XML files to affect the appetance. I'm running the latest unbuntu on my laptop, obviously the android and Java sdks, but what would I use to open the ROM files up and edit them? I've heard of the kitchen, but it says it doesn't support the kindle.
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u don't need a rom kitchen to delete some apks.
sit back n enjoy the show. at this point we need the pros, when everything works u can start llearning.
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https://github.com/pershoot/android_bootable_recovery/blob/gingerbread/default_recovery_ui.c
Looks like lines 56-102 handle key events. Looks like it would be easy to make presses on the power button return HIGHLITE_DOWN, the hard part is making long presses return SELECT_ITEM. Is there a key event called KEY_POWER_LONGPRESS or something? Anyone know where the key events are defined? If there is no predefined long press key event then code will be needed that defines one.
teookie said:
https://github.com/pershoot/android_bootable_recovery/blob/gingerbread/default_recovery_ui.c
Looks like lines 56-102 handle key events. Looks like it would be easy to make presses on the power button return HIGHLITE_DOWN, the hard part is making long presses return SELECT_ITEM. Is there a key event called KEY_POWER_LONGPRESS or something? Anyone know where the key events are defined? If there is no predefined long press key event then code will be needed that defines one.
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Alternatively, wouldn't it be possible to have an auto press HIGHLITE_DOWN every 2+ seconds (without any user input) and have the power button remain KEY_POWER_LONGPRESS as is.
What about the touchscreen? I know people are trying to get the team win recovery, but CWM will respond to the soft keys, usually by going back. Could we spoof cwm into thinking we had soft keys?
On on my Nexus menu moves down, back is back, and search is select. Would it be possible to have any screen input serve as select?
Yes, from what I can gather that is possible. The real devs are working on it. From what I can tell, me and everyone else in this particular thread are beginners who don't really know much, lol. A working recovery will most likely come from TWRP, jackpotclavin, DooMlord, or one of the other legit devs.
teookie said:
Yes, from what I can gather that is possible. The real devs are working on it. From what I can tell, me and everyone else in this particular thread are beginners who don't really know much, lol. A working recovery will most likely come from TWRP, jackpotclavin, DooMlord, or one of the other legit devs.
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I think it is really not cool to imply that the people working on this are not legit devs.
I do not now them, but they are attempting something to make people lives easier and not charging anything for it. It does not mater their experience, they are being developers to this community.
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I am not a developer, but since CWM already worked on this device I believe this solution will come sooner than others, good luck.
tex321 said:
I think it is really not cool to imply that the people working on this are not legit devs.
I do not now them, but they are attempting something to make people lives easier and not charging anything for it. It does not mater their experience, they are being developers to this community.
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I am not a developer, but since CWM already worked on this device I believe this solution will come sooner than others, good luck.
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Exactly. Thank you tex321. That's why I cant stand it when people think the only 'real devs' are ones with the 'Recognized Developer' tag under their names. Some of us other devs have lives outside of xda so we have limited time to contribute.
Oh and I *may* work on getting amon_ra.
Edit: I may try 4EXT instead. the amon_ra fork i looked at only has touch scrolling. but then again our power button would suffice for a 'select'
death2all110 said:
edit: I may try 4EXT instead. the amon_ra fork i looked at only has touch scrolling. but then again our power button would suffice for a 'select'
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That actually sounds pretty cool, touch scrolling and power button to select.... That would remove my fear of "oops, i accidentally touched wipe" and.... "yeah, i only hafta press power button about a dozen times to get to option i want"
foxdog66 said:
That actually sounds pretty cool, touch scrolling and power button to select.... That would remove my fear of "oops, i accidentally touched wipe" and.... "yeah, i only hafta press power button about a dozen times to get to option i want"
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got amon_ra to build!! testing in a few!!
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Hmm. thats odd. it didnt boot. ill mess with it after my finals.
Sorry guys, I.meant no disrespect. If you reread my post you'll see that I was talking about myself, and I guess I was projecting a little on everyone else as well. My bad. Looks like I made to big of an assumption.
Its cool man. No harm no foul
But.... in related news.... IT STILL WONT BOOT *cries*
I have an entire android dev setup and have no clue where to even start learning this stuff you guys do. That's why it amazes me with the progress you guys make
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What does it do when it doesn't boot?
Can you adb shell?
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*QUICK EASY!* Phantom Key Press Fix using Revolt JB ROM 10.2 4.3.1 settings!

This is my first time I am ever posting and I am extremely anxious and shy about doing this or if I even make myself understandable and as helpful as I can..... Please if there is something that doesn't make sense please let me know so I can try to be a little more clear....
Now........To Begin
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I had a previous Sprint Samsung Galaxy S2 SPH-D710 that did not have this problem at all but I traded it for a black one because I did not like having a white phone and that's where my problems began....I had known the phone had a pressing button problem but I did not know what it was at the time or what it was called. But I was sure there was a way to fix it somehow. As soon as I had the phobe in my hands I saw how horrible it was.....It did not let me do anything not even for 30 seconds without the menu, back buttons, and I was upset because since I had to reinstall a new ROM on this phone (which I don't mind that's the fun part) but the keys kept going off every couple of seconds so I decided to look into finding a way to fix it and I did kinda. And I will post the link to the first one too because it can be useful and work for someone else and if it wasn't fir that post I wouldn't have thought of my fix.
Anyway here is the link to the first one : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=
I followed these steps and basically what it is, is a method where you disable your hardkey that is causing you problems and switching it to the search button since most of us really don't use the search key anyway. But I won't go much into detail the post above goes more in depth. In the beginning it actually worked but then I noticed that the back key started pressing itself and then the menu still presses itself and even now and the search button which was converted to the new menu so I got upset and exasparated because to even do this method took me literally 2 hours because the damn keys wouldn't stop pressing themselves. And then I thought of another method which to me proved easier than that and does work. I simply used the same method but when I got to the General.kl instead of disabling one key I disabled all 4 and bang problem solved! But BEFORE that you need to make sure you have already installed an app where you can get your hardkeys on your screen and set it up to where you kniw your keys all work * OH AND YOU NEED TO BE ROOTED FOR THE SETTINGS FOR MENU AND BACK WORK! *. And I found a really good and free app in the market that is easy to use and wont get in the way of your screen while typing and customizable. It is called "Floating Toucher" and once installed and set up and disabled keys in General.kl and rebooted phone everything was working fine!!!! AND IT WORKED JUST FINE YOU JUST HAVE TO GET USED TO NOT TOUCHING KEYS ANYMORE AS THEY DON'T WORK BUT ITS TRUSTHWORTHY!....
Anyway I when all this happened I had GB27 4.1.2 and I wanted an upgrade so I flashed to Revolt JB ROM 4.3.1 (will post link to this ROM if you are interested in this method) and after that because the phone reset itself the hardkeys were enabled again. So because I it was a new ROM for me I looked in depth at their settings and there is where I found my solution!
1. Go to your settings and you go to Revolt Control.
2. When you are there you will see they have extra settings for the phone.
3. Scroll down to: Pie Controls
4. Click on the first setting that says: Pie Controls/ Allows navagation and status report and enable it.
5. Customize the settings how you want then to be to your liking!
6. Go back to previous menu.
7. Scroll down to: Soft Keys Options
8. Click on: Enable Soft Keys Options
9. You will notice all four of your hard keys are there including the setting when you long press them. Simply click on each one and press blank on all of them.
10. Then you go to previous screen and reboot and there! Easier than having to install over apps or disable keys! Its in the settings already and I am extemely happy now! No more Phantom Ghost Key!!!
The link for Revolt if anyone wants to change to ROM is : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2238252
And I hope this helps someone!
Man, you have a lot of patience posting a guide in a wrong device forum... You link to a ReVolt ROM for HTC Rezound, and here we have Samsung Epic 4G, which doesn't have ReVolt at all (all we have is a buggy CM10.2).
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Yes I have a Sprint Samsung Galaxy S2 SPH-D710 which is commonly known also as Epic 4G. But I see what you mean I accidently put the wrong link! I will update the proper link ASAP!!!!!
I'm not surprised I made a mistake my first post..... Thanks for letting me know!!!
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Updated Proper Link to Rom!
I have updated the proper link on my post but just in case I will post it here again!!! Thanks for pointing that out!!! How embarrassing
Revolt Rom : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2238252
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Innocent_Psycho said:
Yes I have a Sprint Samsung Galaxy S2 SPH-D710 which is commonly known also as Epic 4G. But I see what you mean I accidently put the wrong link! I will update the proper link ASAP!!!!!
I'm not surprised I made a mistake my first post..... Thanks for letting me know!!!
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Still the wrong device forum... You have an Epic 4G Touch (SPH-D710). This forum is for Epic 4G (SPH-D700), a totally different device with a slide-out keyboard. There's a separate forum for your device.
Sorry if all these sound rude, I simply wanna guide you to the right place
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OHHHHHHH I SEE I'VE ALWAYS GOTTEN CONFUSED ABOUT THE DIFFEEENT S2 MODELS AND WHAT NOW!!! Honestly it was much harder when I first trying to even learn about root and try..... Before this phone was a BOOST Samsung Galaxy S2 SPH-D710BST and proper files to flash was extremely hard to find. But I flashed it to Sprint and it was slightly easier then. But yea I do continue to get confused with these names especially cuz those 2 sound so similar. ...darnit !
Well I looked for their forum and its under maintenance so I have to wait....
Sorry for the mistake!
And no you're not being rude in the least thank you sooooo much !!!!
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[Q] Lose PhotoSphere functionality on device power cycle

Hi guys,
Every time my Sprint S3 power cycles, I lose the functionality to use PhotoSphere. I have no idea why. I've tried different recovery options, fixing permissions...nothing.
It explains why all of a sudden .zip that previously had worked for me stopped working, and why now I'm able to do it with the APK file.
Honestly, I'm OK with re-installing that APK every time I want to use PhotoSphere, but there's got to be a better fix than that! Any suggestions, ideas, avenues to explore &c would be much appreciated! Thanks!
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Hi guys,
Every time my Sprint S3 power cycles, I lose the functionality to use PhotoSphere. I have no idea why. I've tried different recovery options, fixing permissions...nothing.
It explains why all of a sudden .zip that previously had worked for me stopped working, and why now I'm able to do it with the APK file.
Honestly, I'm OK with re-installing that APK every time I want to use PhotoSphere, but there's got to be a better fix than that! Any suggestions, ideas, avenues to explore &c would be much appreciated! Thanks!
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Do you mind sharing the APK that you used to get Photosphere?
The one or two that I've tried both have the functionality, but the "window" where I'm supposed to see the image being photosphered stays blank. I'm hoping I need a newer/better APK.
Thanks.
sloheim said:
Do you mind sharing the APK that you used to get Photosphere?
The one or two that I've tried both have the functionality, but the "window" where I'm supposed to see the image being photosphered stays blank. I'm hoping I need a newer/better APK.
Thanks.
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I can try - but I was pretty sure I posted a link to the thread in which its posted in your very photosphere thread asking for it - so check there if this doesn't work (my posting a link anyway). But here you go:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mg2ud8k9rwbghhk/Android_4.3_Kamera.apk
uberSkeptic said:
I can try - but I was pretty sure I posted a link to the thread in which its posted in your very photosphere thread asking for it - so check there if this doesn't work (my posting a link anyway). But here you go:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mg2ud8k9rwbghhk/Android_4.3_Kamera.apk
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Ahh... that was you that provided the link. Thanks for the help.
I did try using that APK, but like I said... for some reason the camera image never displays in the box. I see the box and the blue circle... just no image. I dont get it. I dont have problems with any other camera app.
Thanks anyways. Good luck finding a fix for your issues.

180 degree rotation wicked x7.3 please help

I am trying to figure out how to add 180 degree rotation. I am on the wicked x7.3 Rom. I love the Rom, would like to add this for when I use navigation. I charge the phone when using nav and put the phone in my cup holder. Can't place it the right way due to the charging cord. Anyway, it did work with the xposed firmware,however I was getting SystemUI process. When making and receiving phone calls.
I don't have enough posts to post on the wicked Rom page.
Thanks for your time.
Eric
ejl2002 said:
I am trying to figure out how to add 180 degree rotation. I am on the wicked x7.3 Rom. I love the Rom, would like to add this for when I use navigation. I charge the phone when using nav and put the phone in my cup holder. Can't place it the right way due to the charging cord. Anyway, it did work with the xposed firmware,however I was getting SystemUI process. When making and receiving phone calls.
I don't have enough posts to post on the wicked Rom page.
Thanks for your time.
Eric
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you can do a bunch of BS posts like saying hi to everyone that's how i got the posts i needed to finally post in the Dev thread and im on 7.2 let me see if i can make this work for you
edit:which Module did you use?
under wanam Xposed, then under system, then under enable all rotation including upside down (about halfway down)
Not sure about wicked, but yea, xposed with wanam does 180. I'm not having any issues though, with running xposed/wanam.
You may want to try Nova launcher? That'll get you a rotating home screen...
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Again, it works when I do this, but then the phone calls get messed up. I found some old post with a file to put in the build.prop. it did nothing for me though, nothing changed.
To 180 degree
windowsmgr.support_rotation_180=true;
maybe the code is different with this ROM, I have no idea.
ejl2002 said:
Again, it works when I do this, but then the phone calls get messed up. I found some old post with a file to put in the build.prop. it did nothing for me though, nothing changed.
To 180 degree
windowsmgr.support_rotation_180=true;
maybe the code is different with this ROM, I have no idea.
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what exactly happens with your phone calls cause i have it working with wanam in xposed and my calling is good
edit: re read your OP does this happen when your phone is upside down? or in every direction?
I am currently using APEX, it also allows home screen rotation, but it only goes to landscape, not 180 degree. I will try to install NOVA later tonight or tomorrow and see. Thanks for the idea!
com.android.systemui or something like that. I can re install and let you know if you need the exact. This is when I hit the dial button or when I receive a call. I can't answer for several seconds until the screen refreshes.
It happens in any direction.
I have to wait 5 min between posts I guess, So my responses are slow, I apologize.
I am leaving work in a few also, so won't be able to respond while driving of course.
I appreciate your time by the way.
Either way, your helping me reach my 10 posts!!! So thank you for that also.
So I went back and unchecked everything I could in Wanan, then checked lock screen rotation and enable rotation, then installed with Xposed. Now all is well. I will do one thing at a time now on and test as I go.
There were several things checked by default I think? So something was corrupting the UI I guess. I will update if something changes, thanks for all the input.
Eric
ejl2002 said:
So I went back and unchecked everything I could in Wanan, then checked lock screen rotation and enable rotation, then installed with Xposed. Now all is well. I will do one thing at a time now on and test as I go.
There were several things checked by default I think? So something was corrupting the UI I guess. I will update if something changes, thanks for all the input.
Eric
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make sure your module or any other one is up to date this can help
ejl2002 said:
Either way, your helping me reach my 10 posts!!! So thank you for that also.
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Lol. Then here's another bump. I remember being desperately in need of help and not being able to post. Sucked
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g_money said:
Lol. Then here's another bump. I remember being desperately in need of help and not being able to post. Sucked
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so very true sucked so much
I have been bricking and soft bricking for a few years now (only one hard brick thankfully) So this issue is/was very minor. It is nice to have people to help out though, I do really appreciate it! I will keep messing with this and future phones, it is fun to do, and with the community help, I am sure there will always be a fix! Or a new phone!

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