I haven't read this anywhere, and I may have skipped it when I didn't bother to look at the manual...
But did everyone notice that in camera mode, the volume key acts as a hard camera shutter button.
Anyway, I apologize in advance if it's been posted somewhere before.
But if you didn't know, it can be pretty handy.
l0ng0ne said:
I haven't read this anywhere, and I may have skipped it when I didn't bother to look at the manual...
But did everyone notice that in camera mode, the volume key acts as a hard camera shutter button.
Anyway, I apologize in advance if it's been posted somewhere before.
But if you didn't know, it can be pretty handy.
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Yes in camera mode volume keys can as a shutter button
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l0ng0ne said:
I haven't read this anywhere, and I may have skipped it when I didn't bother to look at the manual...
But did everyone notice that in camera mode, the volume key acts as a hard camera shutter button.
Anyway, I apologize in advance if it's been posted somewhere before.
But if you didn't know, it can be pretty handy.
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Yea, much nicer than having to press the on-screen shutter button. Way easier to keep the shot framed and less motion.
And thanks a bunch for the help on IRC today, got my device downgraded and re-rooted.
Ok here is an another one.
Vol down + up opens the qmemo, but its kinda complicated to press both buttons, so you can just press them at middle
Tim4 said:
Ok here is an another one.
Vol down + up opens the qmemo, but its kinda complicated to press both buttons, so you can just press them at middle
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Ah, so that's why quick memo kept popping up. Good to know.
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Hey
I was holding my phone, taking some pictures and I though to myself, wouldn't it be a lot better if the volume up or down key could be used as a shutter release button, rather that the stiff, hard to press trackpad.
Now my question is, is it TECHNICALY posible to do this?
Is there anyway to "map" thoses keys to do something else but just in the camera app?
If you think it is possible, then I might try to document myself and hack this into the desire.
But if you are positive that it is impossible then ... I won't ^^
Bye
I'm not sure if you know that you can touch the screen for a half a second or so and then let go (wherever you want to focus) to take a picture by default already ?
Yes I know that, it was the same on the hero. The thing is, the phone focuses on whatever you are pointing at so you have to get your hand in an ackward, shacky position in order to focus on the right object/region.
On the other hand, the sound up button is easily accesible and can easily be pressed without shaking the phone to much. I going to read through the Android doc, si if I can find anything.
This would be even more awesome as the sound up/down buttons arent used for anything in the camera app
I totally agree. That would be the best way to reduce camera shake. You would get a significantly higher sharp picture ratio this way.
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Would it be somehow possible to decompile the HTC camera apk and had code to it?
I don't find the trackpad a hard to press button, in fact it's nicer than camera phones I've had in the past.
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f44/app-to-remap-physical-keys-28868/
Over here someone mentions 'Button Shortcut' on the market, haven't tried it myself but if it does what they say it does, it might be exactly what you're looking for.
EDIT: Also just from reading through this thread again, are you guys holding the camera with the trackpad button on the left? Try holding it the other way (if you're right handed).
I had found that thread before posting this question (yes I did do research beleive it or not), has it turns out it is not relevant to what I want to do.
I am holding the phone the way the camera app wants you to hold it, hence trackpad on the right. The trackpad isn't hard to press per se, but the amount of pressure you have to use to press it means that the phone is more shacky than if you had to press the volume key.
This sounds like a very good idea. Keep us posted if you find anything.
Yes, I agree with all of your aforementioned points.
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I was looking around the forum and noticed this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464 It's called ButtonRemapper. It's in Beta and it should work for your purpose if your phone is one of the supported devices and is Fully Rooted.
I too agree with all mentioned issues/drawbacks at the present and possible benefit of using vol-up key for taking photos. There are already some apps giving user a similar option to change vol rocker buttons functionality for instance some browsers have this option to scroll up-down pages whilst some keyboard apps have it to move cursor upper-lower lines within a text. You dont need to root to use those apps. So, why not?
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Hey everyone. I was using the camera app the other day, and it got me thinking that it would be incredibly convenient and practical to be able to use the volume rocker to take pictures instead of the optical trackpad. I've done a bit of searching, and I haven't seen anything about this in the Incredible forum, so if anyone has a solution or idea, feel free to let me know!
I agree. The optical jog is terrible. Almost impossible to hold the camera steady and use it.
marcmarshall said:
I agree. The optical jog is terrible. Almost impossible to hold the camera steady and use it.
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Ditto.
Maybe even be able to rotate the camera app so the volume buttons are in the traditional location of the shutter button.
its like one of three things i miss about my blackberry storm. the camera button, the way that profiles and settings were consolidated into one space, and batch actions for messages (delete all, mark all unread, etc)
i hope that someone comes up with something for this. especially allowing camera to rotate would be great.
Camera zoom fx
Check it out in the android market
It works great.
yujikaido79 said:
Check it out in the android market
It works great.
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Check what out?
mrlanrat said:
Check what out?
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its in the title of his post, which doesn't show up in most places except the main forum....camera zoom fx i think it was?
Hello all! I have recently become fascinated with the app here ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721895 ) and now have no use for my power button. i want to remap it to do absolutely nothing just like it was broken so that my pesky brother cannot get into my phone. I went to system/usr/keylayout/tuna-gpio-keypad.kl and changed key 116 which is the power button to none but nothing happened. does anyone know what to put there to do such a thing?
I just tried deleting the key 116 and it disabled the power button but then caused PGM to stop working. Still trying to figure this out.
EDIT:Someone has to know how to do this. XDA is the smartest community Ive followed
Perhaps turn it into a camera button.
butter and jelly please...
@rbiter said:
Perhaps turn it into a camera button.
butter and jelly please...
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When you turn it into another function lets say HOME. The swipes from the PGM application look at that key and do what said key says. so we need to find a way to add a fake key, say key 1000 with the function POWER for it to work. but Im not smart enough to do that. i downloaded the free app and decompiled it hoping to find A line of code that says look at key 116 for slide to wake but i have yet to see something like that. my theory is that if we change what it looks for in the app and then manually add that into ( system/usr/blah blah ) it should work. Sounds good to me at least. what do you think?
Bumpity bump bump! Someone must know!
^
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This may turn into a rom option in the future.
[Very interested]
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Hi,
If enough people will want this app Tigger31337(WildChild ROM) said he would look in to it..
Please post a reply if you're interested.
Tnx!
Camera
That would be awesome. Having to touch the screen actually makes it a little harder to snap a quick picture.
That would be great!
Yes i want it too
Me too want this cam
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Count me in.
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Me Too
Yes me too :thumbup:
Tigger is my favorite developer
And his Rom is the best
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ROM. Wildchild. v2. 0
Me tooo
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Me too
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meee tooooo :laugh:
Me too, please!
(Oh, wait... )
So, now that the WildChild Sense is 99.9% finished (look for it soon) I promise to give this some attention.
Off the top of my head, it seems trivial to remap the VolUp key to be a global Camera Shutter key (if anyone's desperate for this, I can release it in about 5 mins!) but I have the feeling that we all want the VolUp key to release the shutter only from within the Camera app itself. That will require some fancy footwork. I've yet to see it done for a Sense 2.1 ROM so... no promises, but I will take a look at it shortly.
Thank you, all, for voicing your request.
Enjoy the weekend,
Tigger31337 said:
Me too, please!
(Oh, wait... )
So, now that the WildChild Sense is 99.9% finished (look for it soon) I promise to give this some attention.
Off the top of my head, it seems trivial to remap the VolUp key to be a global Camera Shutter key (if anyone's desperate for this, I can release it in about 5 mins!) but I have the feeling that we all want the VolUp key to release the shutter only from within the Camera app itself. That will require some fancy footwork. I've yet to see it done for a Sense 2.1 ROM so... no promises, but I will take a look at it shortly.
Thank you, all, for voicing your request.
Enjoy the weekend,
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Thank you very much for this!!
We really appreciate the effort.. And looking foreword for updates..
Have a great weekend.
Hi, I can give U a temporary solution.
Download this software
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d7x58xb2orf1n1s/BR0.2.4.1.apk
Install it.
Remap the keys as you like (you can only remap volume up and volume down shown as Media next and media previous in the soft).
U just need to know what state means. 3 states are there, Wake, Wake_dropped & none. For camera button I'd prescribe U should select NONE.
Wake = Means they will work even when screenlock is on
Wake Dropped = Means will work only when screenlock is off
You can alternatively do the same by editing /system/usr/keylayout/marvel-keypad.kl
Same process but in that case u have to do it manually. Just a little more time consuming. And revert back is a click away in that software(check >Menu>Settings). or in the second process delete marvel-keypad.kl and rename marvel-keypad.kl.bak as marvel-keypad.kl!!!
finance.resat said:
Hi, I can give U a temporary solution.
Download this software
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d7x58xb2orf1n1s/BR0.2.4.1.apk
Install it.
Remap the keys as you like (you can only remap volume up and volume down shown as Media next and media previous in the soft).
U just need to know what state means. 3 states are there, Wake, Wake_dropped & none. For camera button I'd prescribe U should select NONE.
Wake = Means they will work even when screenlock is on
Wake Dropped = Means will work only when screenlock is off
You can alternatively do the same by editing /system/usr/keylayout/marvel-keypad.kl
Same process but in that case u have to do it manually. Just a little more time consuming. And revert back is a click away in that software(check >Menu>Settings). or in the second process delete marvel-keypad.kl and rename marvel-keypad.kl.bak as marvel-keypad.kl!!!
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Thanks mate ..
But I want to remap the Vol.up only for the camera app..
finance.resat said:
Hi, I can give U a temporary solution.
Download this software
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d7x58xb2orf1n1s/BR0.2.4.1.apk
Install it.
Remap the keys as you like (you can only remap volume up and volume down shown as Media next and media previous in the soft).
U just need to know what state means. 3 states are there, Wake, Wake_dropped & none. For camera button I'd prescribe U should select NONE.
Wake = Means they will work even when screenlock is on
Wake Dropped = Means will work only when screenlock is off
You can alternatively do the same by editing /system/usr/keylayout/marvel-keypad.kl
Same process but in that case u have to do it manually. Just a little more time consuming. And revert back is a click away in that software(check >Menu>Settings). or in the second process delete marvel-keypad.kl and rename marvel-keypad.kl.bak as marvel-keypad.kl!!!
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I didn't download the s/w, but if it behaves the way you say, then that won't quite work. For starters, I need to map volume to more than just WAKE or MEDIA (it has to be CAMERA). If your s/w can't do that, then I can just do it by hand (very easy). The problem, as I described earlier, is that it will be a GLOBAL change. Nobody wants that. The goal is to get Vol+Up to Shutter only from within the camera apk.
Second, your description of WAKE vs. WAKE_DROPPED isn't entirely accurate. It has nothing to do with screen on/off. It has to do with whether or not the h/w button function will be passed along to the app after the WAKE call. (WAKE sends the h/w call to the app, but WAKE_DROP does not).
Anyway, gimme another couple of days and I'll start working on this. Sorry about the delay.
Just a little teaser...
I'm able to get the HTC camera app to take a picture with the Volume rocker... but I don't like it.
I must have broken something else in the process because I (sometimes) get visual artefacts on the bottom of the picture (green bars). Also, the layout looks a bit wonky but still functional.
And finally, it's unpredictable when the camera will zoom and when it will actually take a snapshot when the vol keys are pressed. It seems like a long press will zoom and a short press will release the shutter (which is what i wanted) but it doesn't always work that way.
Now here's the real issue. I always thought that a h/w shutter button would be better than tapping the screen. But, after hacking around with it, it turns out that tapping the screen generated less shake for me! Try it yourself. If you hold your phone steady and press the Vol Up button, for me, there is a very slight movement on the camera. But if I'm holding the phone the same way (by all 4 corners) and then use the tip of my index finger to tap the shutter icon, I get practically no motion == clearer shot. (Maybe that's just me!)
In any case, I'm quite happy with the touchscreen shutter (and I'm busy as hell) so I'm not really driven to complete this project. That being said, I will glady spend a few more days on it and then release whatever I have for some other keener, smarter folks to complete.
Thanks dude..
We'll appreciate what ever release you'll give us..
A small motivation..
I was trying to take a pic of me and my gf yesterday..
It just impossible with the touch shutter..
But in the other hand.. Why ruin the view with my ugly face
It'll be fine if you simply disable the volume zoom function. Its digital zoom anyways, so we can always crop the pic later. So you can maybe map volume down to re-focus & volume up to click!
maoz59 said:
Thanks dude..
We'll appreciate what ever release you'll give us..
A small motivation..
I was trying to take a pic of me and my gf yesterday..
It just impossible with the touch shutter..
But in the other hand.. Why ruin the view with my ugly face
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HTC's self-portrait is amazing. Its got face detection, try it out!
Hi all
Tigger U r the boss and I m just a noob. I hardly know anything about android.
Anyways, here is another temporary solution... Hope U like it or hope U not But i'm using it currently so ill just post that, glad if it help anyone.
Download camera360 and this S/W
The camera is better than stock I think. Use the longpress camera key shortcut as any volume control software (I use hide it pro). And long press search key as the Aneq Equalizer free so that U can switch equalizer when u listening to music. I use vol up as next track and vol down as camera. works pretty well for me. Vol up press after remap is also used to change radio stations.. I m having good fun.:good:
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Figured it out, and updating the first post to help other out.
Seems I have found an answer from the s5... Long pressing the app switch butting gets you the menu in any app.
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So, after only a few hours of use i have found a very big issue.
No menu button means some apps are useless.
I cant even reply to topics from the XDA app, and cant change setting from others apps expecting to have a menu button on the phone. What was Samsung thinking?
I may need to return this phone if i cant find a solution. Anyone have any ideas?
Seems I have found an answer from the s5... Long pressing the app switch butting gets you the menu.
Such odd functionality.
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zanson said:
Seems I have found an answer from the s5... Long pressing the app switch butting gets you the menu.
Such odd functionality.
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What is the app switching button?
matrix2004 said:
What is the app switching button?
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The one to the left of the home button.
I don' mean no harm, but there's absolutely NO excuse for a Note 4 owner and someone who went out of their way to become an XDA member, to be so ignorant when it comes to something this simple. I don't even have my Note 4, yet, and I could school you up and down on it. There's dozens of videos online at your disposal, to tell you what features are found on your phone. Just looking at any one of them ... and as already mentioned ... you would have found out that long-pressing the recent apps button activates the menu. It's really quite simple.
Or tap the 3 dots at top right ...
You just saved me lot of pain thank you I was beyond frustrated
Cboss said:
Or tap the 3 dots at top right ...
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A lot of apps don't have the top 3 dots menu
If you long hold the app switching button, you get the menu. Take a little getting used to.
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Hold the button for recent apps down for a few seconds. The functionality is still there.
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I figured this out right after i picked up my phone
zanson said:
I cant even reply to topics from the XDA app, ...
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I know you found a way for your options button, but also if you want to reply in the xda app, just tap on the post you want to reply to, a menu pops up
Dr. Evo said:
I don' mean no harm, but there's absolutely NO excuse for a Note 4 owner and someone who went out of their way to become an XDA member, to be so ignorant when it comes to something this simple. I don't even have my Note 4, yet, and I could school you up and down on it. There's dozens of videos online at your disposal, to tell you what features are found on your phone. Just looking at any one of them ... and as already mentioned ... you would have found out that long-pressing the recent apps button activates the menu. It's really quite simple.
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wow, a little harsh.
There are a lot of people who are coming from a device that did not have the recent apps button and is not aware that you can long press it to get the menu button...especially on a device that has only been out for a day or so.
nyydynasty said:
wow, a little harsh.
There are a lot of people who are coming from a device that did not have the recent apps button and is not aware that you can long press it to get the menu button...especially on a device that has only been out for a day or so.
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Just ignore him man, not even worth feeding his immaturity.
Anyways, Thanks for the tip about the xda app as well.
Hope this thread helps others that are having that WTF moment when they first get the phone... You know, i cant remember but i don't think that first pop up tip says anything about long pressing for a menu. I could be wrong and have just hit ok after reading the title.
Don't sweat the little stuff... I asked a while ago about getting air command to pop up. Once you are used to a device that is very, very close to the device you just bought... well, you may not realize the little changes. In my case the older Note I had you held the button on the s-pen while hovering to bring up the air command menu. On the Note 4 all you have to do is hover then click (not hold). Stumped me for over an hour.. until I posted and asked.
Coming from an iPhone forces people to do more reading and learn everything.