Touchkey instead of H/W buttons - XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey,
I was wondering if there is any way that one could develop an android application for X10 running constantly which replaces the physical hard keys( menu, home & back) with buttons on touch screen?
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matin_sb said:
Hey,
I was wondering if there is any way that one could develop an android application for X10 running constantly which replaces the physical hard keys( menu, home & back) with buttons on touch screen?
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And what would you do with the hard keys?

But you'll still have the physical ones.. so what's the point?

Yeah
You know its much easier to touch the screen than pressing the hard keys
Like windows mobile...
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matin_sb said:
Yeah
You know its much easier to touch the screen than pressing the hard keys
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Not really, what happens when you open an app, how would you get back to the home screen.

remove the battery?

Thats why i saying there is a need of constant running & visible application...
If u have ever used a win mobile u would know qhat exactly i mean...
There is a similar concept already as there is a task manager on android market that has all time visible button in right side of screen to lunch the task manager
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matin_sb said:
Thats why i saying there is a need of constant running & visible application...
If u have ever used a win mobile u would know qhat exactly i mean...
There is a similar concept already as there is a task manager on android market that has all time visible button in right side of screen to lunch the task manager
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I had that app, I just installed it as I forgot it was there every time the button disappeared and didn't come back till I restarted the phone...
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do u by any chance remember the name of application? i find it very usefull

matin_sb said:
do u by any chance remember the name of application? i find it very usefull
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search SOFT HOME in the market, but you need another app BarTender in order for it to work.

matin_sb said:
Yeah
You know its much easier to touch the screen than pressing the hard keys
Like windows mobile...
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Never found it hard to press a button myself lol
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I will try soft home...
also it would be very nice to have a gesture based back, home and menu functionality... any application doing that?

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Multi-Tasking

Is android as bad as apple? Iv come from a N900 and it was simple. You pressed a button and the app was sent to the background (still running) and then you press a different button to see all the apps running in little windows..
I dont even know how to close a app for good or keep it running in background and how to see whats open and whats not without a app killer app?
Am I missing something?
As bad as apple? Nope...but i am also waitin' for this "button". =)
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there's no taskswitcher built in, there's obviously lots out there, but that doesnt mean it has no multi-tasking as you can press the switch apps by going to home screen and trigger the app again which has been running in the back ground.
fards said:
there's no taskswitcher built in, there's obviously lots out there, but that doesnt mean it has no multi-tasking as you can press the switch apps by going to home screen and trigger the app again which has been running in the back ground.
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How do I do this dont get what I press? It seems to have a mind of its own and I never know how to close the app for good or keep it running..
sorry new to android..
to close most well behaving apps you use the back button, holding down back button will close whatever app you are using with just one press.
some apps will stay resident (but not active) in the background if you press the home key once which should drop you back to the homepage.
on the streak if you hold the home key down then you get the switcher screen and across the bottom there's a list of recently used apps, so you can switch between apps that way..
I'm also new to android and learning quickly
tbh I've tried a few taskswitchers etc and have jkAppswitch at the mo because it works well, but that method above works ok as well.
I wish Dell had given us a basic drop down taskswitcher..
sottyc said:
Is android as bad as apple? Iv come from a N900 and it was simple. You pressed a button and the app was sent to the background (still running) and then you press a different button to see all the apps running in little windows..
I dont even know how to close a app for good or keep it running in background and how to see whats open and whats not without a app killer app?
Am I missing something?
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Once tap to back button take you backward
tapping twise close the app
holding back button takes you to homescreen which you were on
home tap dosent close the app its just take you to homescreen

my wild idea for multitouch(game mode) in x10mini

create an app that records the touch location according to our touch(ie jump/fire buttons on screen) then assign any button(camera or left button) to that location so that when we press those buttons the phone recoganises it as a location on screen .
note::i dont know whether this is possible,if not consider this as a noob question
Mmm that would add key mapping to the equation... I really don't know if it can be done, but if it can, I believe it is pretty difficult. Anyway, me wants too! :-D
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This is what they did in Assassins Creed... We can use the camera button to jump.
loger8 said:
Mmm that would add key mapping to the equation... I really don't know if it can be done, but if it can, I believe it is pretty difficult. Anyway, me wants too! :-D
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Nope, in fact it's not so hard, ask some java dev to check this out
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5126907/how-to-get-the-pointer-cursor-location-in-android
Edit: and this
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4239880/detecting-physical-menu-key-press-in-android
but that way you need to add manually parameters
EDIT: Will help you
EDIT2: Easy part done..
EDIT3: Im stucked need to search a way to send touch Screen events from background, for now app just disable camera button default option, and sets to my custom action, if you wanna can upload app so you can start to test and get used
D4rKn3sSyS said:
Nope, in fact it's not so hard, ask some java dev to check this out
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5126907/how-to-get-the-pointer-cursor-location-in-android
Edit: and this
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4239880/detecting-physical-menu-key-press-in-android
but that way you need to add manually parameters
EDIT: Will help you
EDIT2: Easy part done..
EDIT3: Im stucked need to search a way to send touch Screen events from background, for now app just disable camera button default option, and sets to my custom action, if you wanna can upload app so you can start to test and get used
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D4rKn3sSyS plz upload ur app...thanks
lijinc said:
D4rKn3sSyS plz upload ur app...thanks
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As I said still DON'T WORK, but you said me to upload, so here it is
For now don't try with the touch thing, just press start button, minimize and try pressing camera button
as 8theo8 said there is a ver of assassinscreed(Assassin_s_Creed_QVGA_v3.4.6_jump_on_all_keys) which uses camera and option button for jump.
and also check this http://wiki.maemo.org/Preenv/FAQ#Is...working_in_Preenv.28a.k.a_Keyboard_mapping.29
D4rKn3sSyS said:
As I said still DON'T WORK, but you said me to upload, so here it is
For now don't try with the touch thing, just press start button, minimize and try pressing camera button
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Hey D, you've probably already seen this but this, might be what you're looking for, also I think the whole touch event simulation was what doixanh did for the pinch zoom module
Akath19 said:
Hey D, you've probably already seen this but this, might be what you're looking for, also I think the whole touch event simulation was what doixanh did for the pinch zoom module
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Thank you, but that wont work, because i need to send touch events to specific x,y on screen, but these commands need to be sent from a BroadcastReceiver (camera button receiver)
D4rKn3sSyS said:
Thank you, but that wont work, because i need to send touch events to specific x,y on screen, but these commands need to be sent from a BroadcastReceiver (camera button receiver)
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any progress?
project died?
shaggoth said:
project died?
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Im not really interested on this, because i see no interest from devs, so if for some reason you want to continue, this are sources
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15895570#post15876967
come on make some improvmence....
Running out of steam ?.....

[Q] [SOLVED]Screen capture

Which is the best/recommended (free) screen capture app on the market, tried one but the picture is like snow, anyone use one thats good on our phone?
Skivit said:
Which is the best/recommended (free) screen capture app on the market, tried one but the picture is like snow, anyone use one thats good on our phone?
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There s only one app that wrks on our sg3.. But u can find that in market bcs the developer thinks that app dsnt spprt sg3's configuration.. Name is "screen capture shortcut free" .. Find the apk by urself , coz I dnt hav that..
Why do you need one when "Screen Capture" feature is in-built in our phone ? IMO it takes a good enough shot
P.S. - Back Soft Key + Home button is the combination, if ya didnt know...
didnt know that one, many thanx!
Skivit said:
didnt know that one, many thanx!
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No prob mate, each of us keeps learning from this wonderful community and its exceptional developers
bit fiddly, exits or goes to task manager...
You are doing it in reverse - Hold on to the back key first and then press the Home / Menu button, you will hear the capture sound and you are done! Dont let go of the Back key !!
i'll make that a double thanks then!
it is possible to change the key?
bootsplash said:
it is possible to change the key?
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If you need app then use Andros from market
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Remove Sony Buttons on home screen?

Is their anyway to remove the 3 sony buttons that are in the middle of the home screen?
Could you please clarify: Which Sony buttons? Do you mean the Mini Apps at the bottom of the screen? Or do you have some shortcuts in the middle of the screen? What happens when you long-press them?
The "Back, Home and Recent Apps buttons" yes you can if you have a rooted tab, you can try searching Google Play for: Tags: Honeybar, Remove Honeybar, there is one app that can do this.
No you can't those are system apps, you could try it with a rooted devices but i can assure you this can give you major problems, but you can also try to block those apps except the ? app and 2 other apps ( forgotten which names ) hhmmppf,, but these 3 are links, if you block one of these apps, the other two will be blocked to so i always use sony webpage urls from the app drawer, so i can't remove the other two , this is the safest way
falcon26 said:
Is their anyway to remove the 3 sony buttons that are in the middle of the home screen?
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As mentioned before, if you are talking about the Back, Home and Recent Apps buttons, then you probably shouldn't. They are important parts of the Android OS and navigation is difficult without them.
try kill or rename /system/app/SystemUI.apk.
Corey HSU said:
try kill or rename /system/app/SystemUI.apk.
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POssibly not a great idea as SystemUI is a very important framework file and can sometimes lead to bootloops if its missing or damaged. Just my experience.
Yeah. Terrible idea. Deleting or renaming that file will knacker your tablet.
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I think he means the ir buttons and windowed app button.
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Warren_Orange said:
I think he means the ir buttons and windowed app button.
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Ah right. Don't have ICS on my Tablet yet so I'm not sure about them. However, if previous software has been any indication, there would not be any way to remove those buttons without some serious ROM modification, and a few framework changes, all of which would be quite complex on a device as locked down as the S.

[Q] Archos Gamepad suddenly has button mapping problems!

Hi, well I've searched google and this forum i cant find any fixes. Thanks in advance for your help. Hope this also helps someone out with the same problem.
Archos gamepad suddenly has button mapping issues and i dont know how to fix it.
Problem: the following buttons all map to the same value "button x". So their actual button's proper value isnt being read. So what i mean is, if i use any emulator or app (even the archos mapping tool) and if i try to map any of these following buttons, they all map to the same value. List of buttons that are giving me this problem :
Up, left, start, X, A.
So its incredibly frustrating if im in an emulator and want to map button Up to Up in the app. Because instead it thinks ive pushed the X button. The analogs still work, but this is crazy i cant figure out whats wrong.
Problem exists in the homescreen also!
Things ive tried to fix this:
Reinstalling the latest firmware
Restoring back to factory defaults
Does anyone have any advice ?
I Swear I've had it with this archos gamepad. First i thought the ghost screen touches were annoying, now this has started to happen. Just dont buy one, i dont recommend!
Update the mapping tool from google play
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some progress!
yousef8824 said:
Update the mapping tool from google play
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Hello yousef, im afraid this is not the problem. it cannot be resolved with app updates, it looks like i need to hack the device.
Ive even disabled all mapping tools and still it behaves like this.
Right now i found that if i hold down the X button, the device behaves properly and reads the buttons correctly!! What madness is this, the only way i can use the device properly is to hold down the x button?? I may have to glue it down or something? it even solves the ghost screen touching!
i have resorted to this ghetto fix for now:
img59.imageshack.us/img59/5175/6r8f.jpg
i have rooted it. i need to completely disable the Button X. can someone help me? I want to somehow edit some settings in some file to completely disable the X Button. So i dont want the button to function anymore.
i also believe the X button behaves like the Back Button in Android OS. And so maybe i should look for a way to disable the Back Button? Anyone have some advice?
thank you
Xaibatsu said:
i have rooted it. i need to completely disable the Button X. can someone help me? I want to somehow edit some settings in some file to completely disable the X Button. So i dont want the button to function anymore.
i also believe the X button behaves like the Back Button in Android OS. And so maybe i should look for a way to disable the Back Button? Anyone have some advice?
thank you
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You could modify some file /system/usr/keylayout/
You must find the right file for the buttons, and comment out line for X.
I wish you luck, because I can't help you more precisely.
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The a button is the back key
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yousef8824 said:
The a button is the back key
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Thats odd, i swear i thought the x button is back.
Ok well i need to find the key layout file and delete or conment out the entry for this button.

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