Are the backlit buttons visible? - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have been watcing many previews and have seen many pictures of the Galaxy S II. In all of them, it looks like the Menu and the Back button are only visible when in use, where on the Vibrant you could see the buttons all the time and would light up when pressed. Is it the same as the Vibrant or are the Menu and Back buttons not visible, because I like how the GS II looks with just the big button showing. Thanks

The buttons are not visible unless lit up.

You can adjust or completely disable the lighting via settings / display and adjust touch key light duration.
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[Q] How to unlock the dell streak without pressing the power button

Hi everyone,
As most of you, I am looking forward for the Froyo upgrade which is supposed to release this week.
While waiting for that, can I ask can you recommend me any application that can unlock the Streak without pressing the power button? At first, I like that way to unlock the phone but after that I discover that it makes the power button sunk, something like that button is eroded after pressing so many times.
Is there anyway to unlock the phone just by touching the screen like the Iphone.
I tried unlock v2.0 or some application like that but they all request press the power button.
I will be grateful if anyone can help me answering me this.
Thank you so much.
I second this request if anyone knows! Thanks all...
Carlos
I too would like a different way of turning the screen on without the power button, ideally I'd like an app that can allow me to turn the screen on with the camera button instead.....preferably only requiring the first level button rather than having to push it all the way in.....I'm still not 100% comfortable with where the power button is located at the moment as well as like the OP said, it kinda sits a little too far in (sunk) and makes it difficult to find or press sometimes.....plus I don't press the camera button all that much so I'd rather have that and that it'll be the first button you'll find along the top.
Do a search for remapping keys in this f forum. I believe someone reported success in mapping the camera key to wake from suspend. I don't think you'll be able to power on using the camera button, though.
I'm pretty sure when the screen times out it physically turns off, so you wouldn't be able to wake it up that way.
The camera button is certainly possible though, ill look into it.
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I just had another thought. Tasker might do this for you. Instead of suspending, tasker can shut everything off and blank the screen with maybe a button press. Then when you touch the screen, everything is turned back on, and the screen lightens up as well. You will certainly lose more battery this way, but if the iphone is doing this, it must be the same there.
i used to use widgetlocker and it gives the option to unlock from any hardware key.
However i am using nolock and hence do no have a lock screen which is even better.
Suspend wake on a swipe or one of the soft keys would be great. The hardware button on my touch hd was getting difficult to press towards the end of an 18 months contract. My girlfriends went completely she had to remove the bit on top of the button and press in with the stylus to power on.
So anything to prevent adidonal wear on the streaks button would be a warm welcome
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Using the soft keys the wake the phone is risky.
Its very easy to.press on the soft keys when they r in the pocket.
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I came across this by accident
I installed screen suite locker to replace normal lockscreen but old lock screen kept coming up too, so I downloaded no lock to disable default lockscreen completly.
Works just how I wanted it portrait lock screen no default lockscreen, but now camera, volume & normal power button wakes up the streak
"menu unlock" from the market works perfectly. Its a black icon with pale grey horizontal lines
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vuxuancamtu said:
Is there anyway to unlock the phone just by touching the screen like the Iphone.
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I have the iphone. I can't unlock the screen without touching either the home button or the power button on the top of the phone. Besides, wouldn't the phone keep turning on if touching the screen woke it up?
No because it's capacitive only your hand (ideally) would wake it up.
I'm going to try these solutions, because I do not want to cause anymore wear on the buttons.
Try the volume rockers, mine, froyo is powering up the screen. As for the lockscreen app i have simply lockscreen. It's not so fancy, but it does a simple good job. This combination, makes the Streak wake up with volume rockers, and no other key like camera or capacitive buttons. Also, incomming call screen is in portrait, even if I let the phone down on the table.
Chers,
I hate the lock screen and don't why we cannot disable it.
Anyway, I use the app calls No Lock, by Bod from Android Market. Now, I can simply use the volume up or down button to turn streak on and without the lock screen.
Instead of even the volume rockers, can we not do something with just the three capacitive buttons ?
Try "lock 2" from the market paying of fro free You can unlock with all the button and then slide with your finger.
I use it from whe I had my dream and it works very well

[Q] Capacitive buttons not lit up

Hi guys
Had my galaxy s 2 through T-Mobile for a few days now. Beats HD2 running TyphooN CyanogenMod 7 hands down.
I've debranded the phone, running KE7 XEU and rooted via chainfire's insecure kernel.
However I've noticed this morning that the capacitive buttons are no longer lit up. The power is very low and needs charging, so I was wondering is this normal? A sort of built in power saving thing perhaps?
I'm not actually running power save mode, but suddenly the buttons aren't lit, however they still work?
Any ideas.
Thanks
Yes, that's normal. Search the settings, you can customize the behaviour.
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Yes, that's normal. Search the settings, you can customize the behaviour.
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Thanks for the swift reply.
That's a relief!
I've just put on the Case Mate Tough case and suddenly the buttons didn't light up - thought maybe I'd somehow broken it!
I can see power save settings and an option under display to specify the touch key light duration, but not nothing specifically regarding turning off touch key light power saving mode when battery low. Am I missing something?
Unfortunately there isn't anything you can do. When the power is low the buttons won't light up. For me it's not the end of the world as I know where they are.
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Soft key question???????

Does your home key light your strip of soft keys when u press while phones locked?? If so are u gb or ics? Thanks for your input.
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The soft key backight is controlled by the ambient light sensor. If it is dark, the lights glow, if not, no glow. The buttons are very easy to see even in low light if the glow is off. But if you need them to light up on demand, hold your hand over the top of the phone and they will glow for you.
I know how they work. I want to know if your home key responds by lighting up the soft keys for a second while locked.... And if your using ics or gb.
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That is the behaviour of the sweep2wake script on Chad's Incredikernel beta7 for GB. Unsure if there are any scripts or settings on other kernels or ROMs that do that.
They only glow with the ambient light sensor. Touching them does nothing. Unless you have that special ROM and kernel.

[MOD?] Only be able to press capacitive buttons when they're lit up.

I was just wondering if there was a mod that would only enable the capacitive buttons to be pressed only when they're lit. For example, say I want to press the back button, i'd have to click on the capacitive button which would make the buttons light up and then i'd have to press it again (within 1.5 seconds or however many seconds you've chosen in the settings) for it to perform the action.
I believe this would be a very useful feature because the buttons on the s3 are very low and are easily pressed playing games in landscape mode.
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Capacitive Buttons

How to shut off capacitive buttons from lighting up? Did Samsung remove this feature to shut off and change duration?
Yep,,,sadly they seem to have removed this option. Annoying.
Looks like we weren't the only ones to notice
http://www.phonearena.com/news/How-...-S6-edge-capacitive-keys-backlighting_id67884
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Looks like we weren't the only ones to notice
http://www.phonearena.com/news/How-...-S6-edge-capacitive-keys-backlighting_id67884
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Thanks. At least it is something to use at night.
Hi, I have the S6 Edge. The touch key lights are not working at all. In Settings I have the Touch Key Light duration set to "Always On". Power Saving Mode is off, but they still won't come on. The keys do blink briefly during startup, so I do know they physically work. Any ideas? Thanks

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