Is there a free button remapper app, or is there anything I can flash to remap my capacitive buttons?
I just want a direct dial button since I can't change the home screen buttons on nero 5.
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I honestly think that ability has to be built into a rom not just by adding an app. I could be wrong though.
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Psyphin-X said:
Is there a free button remapper app, or is there anything I can flash to remap my capacitive buttons?
I just want a direct dial button since I can't change the home screen buttons on nero 5.
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try a app called buttonremapper? lol
Yeah, I saw the button remapper app but I literally have no money right now not even the dollar for the app.
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This is a mod how to enable navigation bar(on screen buttons) , its very simple and easy...
Add the following line at the end of buid.prop file
qemu.hw.mainkeys=0
now on reboot we will have nav-bar like on nexus 4
To disable hardware keys, I used root explorer go to system/usr/keylayout click and hold on kaypad.nl and choose from menu open in text editor and 139,158,172 edit the home to hom and do the same on all 3 lines and hit save and reboot,
Plus I went and deleted all the 139, 158, 172 lines from external_kbd.kl, Generic.kl, MHLRCP.kl, osp3-input.kl and qwerty.kl. I dont know if that helps because I deleted them first then edited the lines in kaypad.nl.
Thanx to accentuer he made a zip that works also and might be easier for some people
Here is the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36420028
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Do the keys on the phone still light up
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Dsmforlife92 said:
Do the keys on the phone still light up
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Yes. Working on Nocturnal Limited Edition v 1.1.
Nice mod.
Dsmforlife92 said:
Do the keys on the phone still light up
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If you would prefer they didn't you could always turn them off in settings>display>front key light.
As having both seems redundant.
Does this mod disable the hardware keys, I'll do it but no point in having on screen keys and hardware keys.
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Pony Express said:
Yes. Working on Nocturnal Limited Edition v 1.1.
Nice mod.
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Thanks. If possible could you provide a screen shot? Also, what are your thoughts/benefits of this mod?
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did the mod worked great thanks:good:
TangoXray said:
Thanks. If possible could you provide a screen shot? Also, what are your thoughts/benefits of this mod?
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TangoXray said:
Thanks. If possible could you provide a screen shot? Also, what are your thoughts/benefits of this mod?
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Screenshot above ^^^
Many like this from what I have read. It can come in very handy should hardkeys stop functioning.
With all due respect, for me it takes up screen space I would prefer not to give up. It is a matter of personal preference and options are always a good thing.
Edit: Inverted screenshot= nice.
Pony Express said:
Screenshot above ^^^
Many like this from what I have read. It can come in very handy should hardkeys stop functioning.
With all due respect, for me it takes up screen space I would prefer not to give up. It is a matter of personal preference and options are always a good thing.
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I would have to agree. It doesn't make too much sense to do this on our device, but I for sure appreciate the know how and option to do it.
Pony Express said:
Screenshot above ^^^
Many like this from what I have read. It can come in very handy should hardkeys stop functioning.
With all due respect, for me it takes up screen space I would prefer not to give up. It is a matter of personal preference and options are always a good thing.
Edit: Inverted screenshot= nice.
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Appreciate the feedback.
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I assume all your apps will automatically reconfigure to account for the different screen dimentions?
Hmm, tough choice: give up some screen real estate to gain a dedicated task switcher button and context menu button.
Nastybutler said:
I assume all your apps will automatically reconfigure to account for the different screen dimentions?
Hmm, tough choice: give up some screen real estate to gain a dedicated task switcher button and context menu button.
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Yes, you are correct.
I can get the virtual keys, but unable to disable the hardware keys
Well till I can get the hardware keys disabled I removed the virtual keys
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REDFOCZ said:
I can get the virtual keys, but unable to disable the hardware keys
Well till I can get the hardware keys disabled I removed the virtual keys
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If you don't mind trying something, you could open /system/usr/keylayout/keypad_8064.kl in a text editor and put a "#" (without the quotes) at the beginning of the last 3 lines.
Change:
Code:
key 158 BACK VIRTUAL
key 172 HOME VIRTUAL
key 139 MENU VIRTUAL
To
Code:
#key 158 BACK VIRTUAL
#key 172 HOME VIRTUAL
#key 139 MENU VIRTUAL
I have not tried this as I don't have any plans to use this mod... may want to do a quick backup first in case it renders your phone unnavigable.
You may also still have to turn off the backlights in settings>display>front key light.
Nice to know we can do this if our hw keys end up not working in the future
Updated read if anyone having trouble disabling the hw key's
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samomamo said:
Updated read if anyone having trouble disabling the hw key's
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Ok, so something like that would work for disabling the hw keys.
Good to know.
Did you by any chance try it the way I suggested? It may be a little cleaner, though I don't think it makes a difference.
bleached45 said:
Ok, so something like that would work for disabling the hw keys.
Good to know.
Did you by any chance try it the way I suggested? It may be a little cleaner, though I don't think it makes a difference.
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No I didnt try because its already disabled and im lazy to do the whole thing again.
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samomamo said:
No I didnt try because its already disabled and im lazy to do the whole thing again.
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HAHA!
np, I hear you and completely understand.
I know how to shut off the lights but can I actually disable the hardware keys?
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JustusIV said:
I know how to shut off the lights but can I actually disable the hardware keys?
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as far as i know it's not possible.
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Buy a nexus lol
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depends on what rom you are on.
I cannot speak for other rom's, but you can do this on Carbon, but I would assume most CM10 based rom's would have a similar setting. There is an option to change their mapping, and that can be set to none. For Carbon, it is under system > carbon > interface near the bottom under hardware keys.
You can also disable the home key from waking the phone by going to /system/usr/keylayout/ and editing gpio-keys.kl. On the line that says key 172 home wake, simply change it to # key 172 home wake and that will stop the home key from turning on the screen.
rjyoung00 said:
I cannot speak for other rom's, but you can do this on Carbon, but I would assume most CM10 based rom's would have a similar setting. There is an option to change their mapping, and that can be set to none. For Carbon, it is under system > carbon > interface near the bottom under hardware keys.
You can also disable the home key from waking the phone by going to /system/usr/keylayout/ and editing gpio-keys.kl. On the line that says key 172 home wake, simply change it to # key 172 home wake and that will stop the home key from turning on the screen.
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I want to say there is an option in VRB to do it as well, I just can't seem to find it at the moment.
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shangrila500 said:
I want to say there is an option in VRB to do it as well, I just can't seem to find it at the moment.
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Yes. It's the same. Settings-->root box settings... At the bottom under hardware keys.
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This is the method I used:
1. go to /system/usr/keylayout
2. open sec_touchkey.kl with text editor
3. Put a # before both lines for key 158 and key 139 so it looks like
# key 158 BACK VIRTUAL
# key 139 MENU VIRTUAL
4. Save and reboot
This usually works for me without issue, but sometimes the file doesn't save properly so the commented lines don't stay commented. There is also another file in that folder generic.kl that has the lines for keys 158 and 139 that you can comment out as well, but I'm not sure if it actually does anything. The sec_touchkey file is always the one that worked for me on a few different roms.
Hope that helps
hong90 said:
This is the method I used:
1. go to /system/usr/keylayout
2. open sec_touchkey.kl with text editor
3. Put a # before both lines for key 158 and key 139 so it looks like
# key 158 BACK VIRTUAL
# key 139 MENU VIRTUAL
4. Save and reboot
This usually works for me without issue, but sometimes the file doesn't save properly so the commented lines don't stay commented. There is also another file in that folder generic.kl that has the lines for keys 158 and 139 that you can comment out as well, but I'm not sure if it actually does anything. The sec_touchkey file is always the one that worked for me on a few different roms.
Hope that helps
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Theoretically can these two lines be swapped? Like use the menu button as a back button and the back button as menu? Tempted to try this on tw
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Didn't work at first but when I tried reverting to the original file it stuck with them reversed! Yay my back key is menu and my menu is back. This is awesome
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Silly me knew about that setting just didn't know I could set it to no action. Under device setting I changed no backlight and no vibration. They are gone! lol
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is anyone know if you can remap the hard buttons on stock rom. I like to be able to press the home button and bring up the Google now menu
You can press and hold and it will bring up 3 options one of them being google.
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You can press and hold and it will bring up 3 options one of them being google.
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HA! never saw those 3 options in the months of using that button to bring up the task manager
thanks.
No problem :thumbup:
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You can also get "home2 shortcut" which will allow you to use double tap to open any app. I use it to make google now my voice search
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you can also edit what the buttons do if you are rooted just edit /system/urs/keylayout/generic.kl AND /system/usr/keylayout/gpiokeys.kl to have the buttons be whatever you like the main buttons are 139 menu 158 back and 172 home. Make sure you dont erase the wake or wake_dropped if you want them to work like before. You can erase it if you want the home button to not wake up the phone.
You can also bring up the on screen keys like a tablet with one line to build.prop if you want. Just add "qemu.hw.mainkeys=0" to the end of build.prop and the on screen keys will appear on reboot
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Hi,
Is it possible to disable wakeup with home button? I am on rooted stock V20H.
maludroid said:
Hi,
Is it possible to disable wakeup with home button? I am on rooted stock V20H.
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Change key 172 HOME WAKE
To:
key 172 HOME
In /system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl,
Reboot and enjoy
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N00BY0815 said:
Change key 172 HOME WAKE
To:
key 172 HOME
In /system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl,
Reboot and enjoy
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Thanks, but it doesn't work. key 172 HOME is exactly how it looks on stock rooted V20H.
I tried to combine:
key 172 HOME WAKE_DROPPED
but it resulted in home button not working.
Regards.