I had a problem (unrelated with hardware keys) and needed to open my Wallaby/XDA1 (warranty already expired).
Since then all hardware keys (volume, contacts, calendar, D-Pad) functionality are gone. Only keys that work are the Send/End keys. Anyone have any ideas what I did and how to repair (I don't see any unattached cables or such).
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Recently I am having problems with my phone, and am wondering if it is a software or hardware problem.
I have tried loading the TNT4 rom & WS5SE roms (this is a g4), and there is no change (im on the Tnt4 one now).
The touchscreen works okay, but the soft key buttons do not. The right bottom one is okay, the left one triggers the right one, the send button show the letters "uytga" on the phone screen when i press them, the end button shows "mn" or something, the camera button works perfect, the comm manager button is the same as the voice button (even when i map it with a program it says "button 4").
It even happens on the soft keys on the keyboard when i slide it out.
Also I used Start-sSPL to put the roms on. Is there a way I can get the OEM one back on or fix the button problem?
Any help will be appreciated.
I'm on Eclipse. I've enabled the soft keys and tried disable the hardware keys by putting a # symbol in front of the keys in generic.kl or whatever it is. My home button is disabled. However, the menu and back keys still work. I cannot disable them. I've deleted their lines and everything. Is there another way to do it?
I have to use my phone at work and sometimes it is really unhandy, espacially in landscape mode, to write a message (using SwiftKey). The problem there is that I come in touch of the menu or back button, in fact that I have to "hold it in unnormal postions", to keep it short.
Is there a way to create a script or anything else, to disable the hardware buttons (menu, back) while using the software keyboard and then to activate them again, after fading out of the software keyboard?
As the question says, how can I disable the hardware keys at the bottom? Using soft keys and I need to disable the hardware ones.
When I used to have a Windows Mobile phone (the old kind, before "Windows Phone"), I had an app on the phone, likely obtained from this site, in which one could add more functions to hardware buttons with long presses, double and triple tap (perhaps quadruple too, don't remember), etc.
Android phones don't have as many hardware buttons as the old WM PDAs and phones, but do have some. Mine has a hardware home button, power button, and volume rocker up and down. Also the two fixed soft buttons on either side of the Home hardware button.
Mine already has some additional button functions built in. For instance, long press the home button to get Google Now.
I actually do not want to change any of the current functions, but to add more functions. to hardware buttons, and even those two soft buttons.
Is there an Android app that will do that?
Thanks in advance.