Disable Capacitive Keys on FK23 - Samsung Epic 4G Touch

Does anyone know of how to disable the capacitive keys on fk23?
I just recently started getting the menu flutter hardware bug of doom and I just can't take it anymore.
I did the build prop mod to add soft keys and I'd like to now completely disable the capacitive keys but the system/usr/key layout is way different on jellybean. I'd appreciate any input...
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Never mind, figured it out. If anyone else needs this let me know.
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DEF3NDER said:
Never mind, figured it out. If anyone else needs this let me know.
currently I'm on Tim's black ICS rom. I have the menu and search keys disabled through the key layout file. I will be upgrading to jellybeans soon and would also like to disable those keys. any information you can provide on how to do that would be great. Thanks!
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DEF3NDER said:
Never mind, figured it out. If anyone else needs this let me know.
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I would like to know please, this phantom button issue is driving me fnin insane.

Woops sorry guys. I started a thread in themes and apps about this. I uploaded a file I've edited that will disable your capacitive keys in Jellybean.
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Why waste the space? It'd be like the gnex right?

Because its worth losing a little space and not having the menu constantly fluttering. If you change the dpi there is not much screen loss from the stock experience. Yeah, looks like the gnex.
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Ah my old phone did that not this one

Yeah mine was great and then out of nowhere it came with a furious vengeance of menu opening rage.
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ROM Idea/Proposal/Thing

Alright so im no developer, so this is why im offering this idea up.
Personally, im starting to hate Android...Im having some serious webOS envy. I know I know, just switch, or blah blah blah. I love the whole gesture based UI. So I was wondering..on the Inc the capacitive touch layer of the screen extends down to right around the bottom of the home-menu-back-search keys. (You can see by downloading some multi-touch tester and dragging your finger down there, it will read that your Y-Position is something like 820 or something.) So right above the trackpad in the middle of the soft keys is a blank spot. Would it be possible for you to change that so there is some sort of invisible soft button, that when you swipe up or tap it launches a user specific app? I would probably put some sort of app-switcher there, or well I dont actually know. But if this is possible, it would be really freaking awesome imho. Thoughts?
have you tried using adw or launcherpro...they have gesture ui, and you can change them also...ie, cm6. sense doesn't that I know of.
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Cm6 has lockscreen gestures. Haven't looked into them myself but may be a place to look...
I know those launchers have gestures but what I mean is a new soft key in the middle if the menu and back key
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techobsessive said:
I know those launchers have gestures but what I mean is a new soft key in the middle if the menu and back key
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I remember on stock 2.1 this invisible button did something in certain apps, I can't remember what it was though.
i see what youre saying and i think itd be pretty sweet. just to have another soft button to launch messaging or something. i'd love this in a rom
tktouch12 said:
i see what youre saying and i think itd be pretty sweet. just to have another soft button to launch messaging or something. i'd love this in a rom
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yeah exactly
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Why not remap the trackpad?
I understand maybe a invisible button could be cool, but its useless. So is the track pad, but the trackpad can be remapped
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Well what if u made it to where swypeing left or right or down or up on the optical joystick opened apps of your choice while on the homescreen... or is that what were already talking about?
Well the track pad is not use less. I use it on a normal basis. Maybe for you having an invisible button would be use less but for me it would not. To each their own.
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No that's not what I was thinking of, rather the area above the track pad. That's a good half inch Of wasted space.
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Oh I see, yea that is a good idea, yea I'd like to see that
The question is, what applications would you match to that area?
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Let's put one under the speaker too, and one on the back!
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OSully said:
Let's put one under the speaker too, and one on the back!
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dont forget under the battery!
superchilpil said:
dont forget under the battery!
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And perhaps one in the charge port?
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superchilpil said:
dont forget under the battery!
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lolz for that.

App that turns off keyboard light

Is there an app that will turn off the keyboard lights? i know about Display > Touch Key duration. Thanks
Doubt it. Why would you want to turn off the keyboard lights?
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Waste of battery in daylight
Another really great reason to turn them off is so you can watch Netflix at night. Screenfilter works, as do Keyboard backlight controller and AdjBrightness.
You can change it's duration to the lowest settings which is 1.5 seconds in the settings.I did that and trust me it's hardly on. It's in settings - display - touch key light duration.
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At some point I was running a battery saver that did this when I dropped below a certain percentage of battery life. It might have been Easy Battery Saver. Then again, it also could have been the built in Power Saver function. Has that been tried?
Did the last two posters even read the thread? Not only did OP say he knows how to reduce the time, I just gave the names of 3 apps that can do it and people are still posting suggestions to reduce the on time.
Yeesh. No need for the hostility. My suggestion was not for reducing the light timeout, but shutting the keyboard light off completely, as was requested. I did see that you posted some apps and I was merely suggesting another app.
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Did the last two posters even read the thread? Not only did OP say he knows how to reduce the time, I just gave the names of 3 apps that can do it and people are still posting suggestions to reduce the on time.
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Take it easy....I was simply stating that at 1.5 seconds it is hardly on and does not waste much battery.
Haha get the New ICS 4.0.4 Leak, There ya go, simple as that
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Haha get the New ICS 4.0.4 Leak, There ya go, simple as that
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Lol!
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Haha get the New ICS 4.0.4 Leak, There ya go, simple as that
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Hahaha
Well almost a good solution but the ICS update would switch it of permanently...
ninthsense said:
Well almost a good solution but the ICS update would switch it of permanently...
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Haha, you happen to know when its coming out? The newer version with bug fixes
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ajt1995 said:
Doubt it. Why would you want to turn off the keyboard lights?
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So that you can save battery and BTW our mind is good enough to remember where the touch captive keys are...
You can use Screen Filter app to do this (just set filter to 100% and unset Enable buttons backlight checkbox)

ROM that disables cap buttons, onscreen buttons?

Is there a ROM that basically turns our phone into a better g nexus with better hardware? I just want to disable my capacitive buttons and hard key and just have the 3 onscreen home, back and multitask buttons... or is it something that might be available in the future?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766684
Oh for real? Alright well I am in the ****ing desert for the next 40 days but as soon as my data resets at the end of the month I'll have to give your ROM a shot. Thanks. Sorry if I seemed lazy I just don't have the resources to download and try all the roms and I wasn't seeing screens.
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Hardware and software buttons?

Sorry if this has been mentioned but is it possible for me to completely disable my hardware buttons and enable software buttons?
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I know you can enable software buttons with a line in build.prop....always forget it though. To disable the hardware buttons I am not so sure. I would guess maybe a kernel woukd need to be made with the hardware buttons disabled.
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Here's so of the info I grabbed from the att forum. I don't know if it works on ours yet or not.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2022058
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keys=qemu.hw.mainkeys=0 at the end of build prop
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deeznutz1977 said:
keys=qemu.hw.mainkeys=0 at the end of build prop
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I'm still hoping that someone figures out a way so that when s pen is removed the nav buttons show up so that you can actually use nav buttons with the spen since Samsung made a complete fail by not having a way for the Spen to use the captive buttons. I don't want to have the nav buttons on the screen all the time, just when the spen is removed.
thanks alot i see that adding the softkeys mess up the camera but i dont use the camera much i just hope it doesnt mess with other apps and disabling hardware keys screw up the power button. im going to experiment on my days off
So that works forme however on main screen the apps on the bottom a d widgets are cut off by the very bottom apps... anyone else experience this
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[FIX/MOD] Capacitive key ghosting. All TW JB Builds

Even though there is a tutorial that has been posted on this before, it is somewhat old and buried.
THIS DOES WORK ON ALL BUILDS OF TW BASED JELLYBEAN
You will need to do a few things before we start.
1. Go HERE and download the latest version of LMT Launcher. It would do you justice to also read that thread to understand the installation and setup process for the Pie Controls. Do all of that and then move on to step 2.
2. Grab this file and place it on either your external or internal SD card.
3. On your device, use any root filemanager of your choice (i.e. ES File Explorer, Root File Explorer, etc.) Find the Generic.kl file I included and copy it. Navigate to system/usr/keylayout and change the file called "Generic.kl" to "Generic.kl.bak" (DO NOT DELETE IT) then paste the Generic.kl file that you copied.
4. Go back to home and then go to Settings/Display/Touch Key Light Duration and select Always off.
5.Reboot your device and enjoy.
Credits go to DEF3NDER: If you want navbar softkeys instead of pie.
DEF3NDER said:
Just add this line to the end of your build prop and reboot.
qemu.hw.mainkeys=0
The good thing about the build prop mod is it will enable screen shotting with power and volume down.
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Per app Dpi changing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37706667
Thanks Jdsingle76 for the find.
If you want a pretty awesome action bar, go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2270198
Thanks to MrBIMC for making this possible.
Also, thanks to Mattix724. Just because I believe he had something to do with something here originally.
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Wow, that was fast. Or as my NE buddies say, "wicked fast.". Thanks for this. I'll have to tinker with this when I get home. And thanks to Mattix and DEF3NDER as well. Awesome. :beer: all around
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graydiggy said:
Even though there is a tutorial that has been posted on this before, it is somewhat old and buried.
THIS DOES WORK ON ALL BUILDS OF TW BASED JELLYBEAN
You will need to do a few things before we start.
1. Go HERE and download the latest version of LMT Launcher. It would do you justice to also read that thread to understand the installation and setup process for the Pie Controls. Do all of that and then move on to step 2.
2. Grab this file and place it on either your external or internal SD card.
3. On your device, use any root filemanager of your choice (i.e. ES File Explorer, Root File Explorer, etc.) Find the Generic.kl file I included and copy it. Navigate to system/usr/keylayout and change the file called "Generic.kl" to "Generic.kl.bak" (DO NOT DELETE IT) then paste the Generic.kl file that you copied.
4. Go back to home and then go to Settings/Display/Touch Key Light Duration and select Always off.
5.Reboot your device and enjoy.
Credits go to DEF3NDER. You can follow his guide if you don't want the Pie Controls and want softkeys on screen.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2026508
Also, thanks to Mattix724. Just because I believe he had something to do with something here originally.
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All went great but I can't find the link for navbar/soft keys that DEF3NDER references that Mattix724 put together. The pie control is really cool aesthetically, but I think I would prefer keys displayed all the time. Any idea where I can find them? Guide worked perfectly btw. Thanks again.
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All went great but I can't find the link for navbar/soft keys that DEF3NDER references that Mattix724 put together. The pie control is really cool aesthetically, but I think I would prefer keys displayed all the time. Any idea where I can find them? Guide worked perfectly btw. Thanks again.
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I honestly have no idea... PM either one of them to see if they know. I will also look around to see what I can find.
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graydiggy said:
I honestly have no idea... PM either one of them to see if they know. I will also look around to see what I can find.
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I shot Mattix a PM, since its his thread. Thanks brother, hope you're having a good one
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I think disabling capacitive keys is more a workaround for the issue than a fix to the RF interference IMO. But anyways good work. :good:
jdsingle76 said:
All went great but I can't find the link for navbar/soft keys that DEF3NDER references that Mattix724 put together. The pie control is really cool aesthetically, but I think I would prefer keys displayed all the time. Any idea where I can find them? Guide worked perfectly btw. Thanks again.
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Just add this line to the end of your build prop and reboot.
qemu.hw.mainkeys=0
Gray, you should throw that in the OP.
The good thing about the build prop mod is it will enable screen shotting with power and volume down.
DEF3NDER said:
Just add this line to the end of your build prop and reboot.
qemu.hw.mainkeys=0
Gray, you should throw that in the OP.
The good thing about the build prop mod is it will enable screen shotting with power and volume down.
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Done. Thanks bro.
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DEF3NDER said:
Just add this line to the end of your build prop and reboot.
qemu.hw.mainkeys=0
Gray, you should throw that in the OP.
The good thing about the build prop mod is it will enable screen shotting with power and volume down.
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Awesome DEF3NDER. Just got a PM from Mattix724 this morning with this as well. I'll give it a go and let you know how it works out.
Edit-works great. And I took a screenshot with the power and vol down button as well. Question. When I'm on xda app, a menu button appears. Is there anyway to have that on all the time? Basically a virtual set of the cap keys, up, all the time? Thanks for this, very cool and SO easy.
Edit(again). Holy freaking crap Batman. Nevermind. I just noticed, that on every page, app, I pull up, except for the home page, the menu for that app is already in the top right corner. Oh, DEF3NDER, very cool brother, very cool indeed. Hat's off. You have changed my entire E4GT experience. Freaking awesome work man! :beer::beer::beer::beer:
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Lol awesome man. Don't thank me though, thank Google and the awesome xda community. Credits for the line of code go to a fella in the gs3 forum. That's where I found it at least. I just made the generic.kl file.
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Lol awesome man. Don't thank me though, thank Google and the awesome xda community. Credits for the line of code go to a fella in the gs3 forum. That's where I found it at least. I just made the generic.kl file.
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Do you think there's anyway I could insert a line that would hide the menu while in camera mode. At the moment, I'm stuck in video mode became the navbar covers the video/camera switch. Any thoughts, ideas?
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jdsingle76 said:
Do you think there's anyway I could insert a line that would hide the menu while in camera mode. At the moment, I'm stuck in video mode became the navbar covers the video/camera switch. Any thoughts, ideas?
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What happens when you turn your phone to the side? Lol
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graydiggy said:
What happens when you turn your phone to the side? Lol
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Ha, gray, you are such a smarta**. Navbar and onscreen buttons stay in place. See screenshot
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Lol. Well if we can get the navbar to locate itself where it should go in landscape, then you will be ok. If you hide it, then how will you get back to the home screen?
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Lol. Well if we can get the navbar to locate itself where it should go in landscape, then you will be ok. If you hide it, then how will you get back to the home screen?
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That's why you are the recognized contributor! Face palm! But yes, having the navbar locate itself in landscape would indeed allow me to see the buttons, take pics, access last pic taken, etc. Thanks for making me feel like a moron, lol. My first official face palm. Woohoo! :thumbup::beer::beer::beer:
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Sooo you are good to go then? I was just gonna say to temporarily adjust your dpi. The nav bar is to fatty for me at stock. It looks just about right on the screen at 200dpi IMO. Don't like losing that screen real estate.
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Sooo you are good to go then? I was just gonna say to temporarily adjust your dpi. The nav bar is to fatty for me at stock. It looks just about right on the screen at 200dpi IMO. Don't like losing that screen real estate.
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Actually, no. It doesn't locate itself, so I'm not able to use camera as is. Downloaded after market camera to use in the mean time, but really like the camera that came with jv. Lowering the dpi sounds like a viable option. I'll look into it this evening. Thanks for the idea DEF3NDER.
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Sooo you are good to go then? I was just gonna say to temporarily adjust your dpi. The nav bar is to fatty for me at stock. It looks just about right on the screen at 200dpi IMO. Don't like losing that screen real estate.
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I usually like around 180 with the navbar in place. Anyways, that was going to be my next suggestion.
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I usually like around 180 with the navbar in place. Anyways, that was going to be my next suggestion.
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App recommendations to change dpi?
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App recommendations to change dpi?
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If you have RTB (ROM Toolbox) you go to performance/build.prop Editor, then hit the menu button and go to build.prop Tweaks. It will be the first thing listed as shown in the screenshot I included.
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