Is there a setting I am missing that will turn the Home, Menu, Back and Search keys on more frequently. I thought I saw a setting but I just can't locate it if it's there. Coming from the Thunderbolt and loving this phone. My radios are much stronger and everything just works. (If I could just turn them damn keys on more often)
Thanks Vinny
You might be able to download a program, but the stock rom doesn't have that option.
Thanks for responding. Saved me time searching for something that isn't there.
Vinny
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Is there a way to disable the hardware buttons (home, search, back, menu) on the gtab? I find myself hitting them when I don't want to.
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Button remapper app.
In fact, here it is.
Thanks for the link, goodintentions. It installed and opens up great.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to figure out how to use this app to actually disable the hardware buttons on the Gtab. I'm running Vegan b5.1 (with supplement) and Clymsyn's kernel v6.
I've tried setting their state to 'none' and that didn't work... also tried searching the 'action' dropdown for a 'disable' or 'none' entry, but couldn't find one.
Any guidance would be appreciated, thanks.
You dont need to change the states, only the actions. Set it to Focus for all the home/search/back/menu you see. If you mess something up, it should allow you to restore the keys after you reboot
TyIsOwned said:
You dont need to change the states, only the actions. Set it to Focus for all the home/search/back/menu you see. If you mess something up, it should allow you to restore the keys after you reboot
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This worked! Thank you very much.
Gregsterman said:
This worked! Thank you very much.
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Button remapper works great when pared with button Savior. It gives you a placable tab that when touched brings up back, home, menu and search buttons. Really handy.
Oh and I remapped my gtabs buttons to be a dpad. It really helps when selecting links online.
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Hi all, I downloaded the app, installed and set buttons to focus.
No joy, none at all.
Using Honeycomb, could this be the issue?
Or, does anyone know any other solution?
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You dont need to change the states, only the actions. Set it to Focus for all the home/search/back/menu you see. If you mess something up, it should allow you to restore the keys after you reboot
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That worked pretty good. Them buttons were driving me nuts would always hit them when i didnt want to.
chubb16 said:
That worked pretty good. Them buttons were driving me nuts would always hit them when i didnt want to.
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can you tell me which file should I edit to do this?
How do I set a button mapping to "None"? My "back" button is faulty, i want to turn it off completely. Is there a way?
So I decided to put a password (text) on my phone. I was tinkering and flicking around with a third party keyboard (ibrahim keyboard) and my lock screen comes on.
i type in my password and its correct except when i press enter nothing happens.
it was working fine with swype. and now im locked out of my phone. i need help.
im willing to do a reset if that would help. but how would i be able to get into it if it is locked?
Reset if you can't change the input setting for the keyboard. Battery pull without powering back on press hold volume down and power then reset
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wont give me the option ot change keyboards. Imagine I had originally made an english password and accidently left a foreign language keyboard as the last one i was using? I wonder if HTC should consider that as an option during the lockscreen - the ability to change keyboards
This is a true FML moment. Truly shot myself in the foot.
Thanks for the help. Much appreciated it. Forgot all about the factory reset from that point.
Oh well. let this be a lesson to HTC and everyone else. Thank you OKCXB
No prob. Can't wait til we get a full root so we can back up all apps before a hard reset.
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if you synced to the HTC HUB all apps will reinstall once you log back in
So I just got my new SGS2 on ATT a few days ago.
I normally like to use the phone stock, without rooting or anything for a few days before doing anything, so i can base my performance off that. (battery life, speed, features, etc.)
I am sad to say this phone is horrible stock. The first and most glaring mistake that samsung made is this Vlingo bs.
I very often double tap the home button to get to the home screen (one tap to exit app, second tap to bring me to my home screen) and now all i hear is "what would you like to do"
A few times while i was in class, i had my phone on silent mode, and 3 times i heard that goddam voice.
And there is no way to turn it off!!!!! are you kidding me samsung? Not everyone (probably no one) wants this crappy app annoying the crap out of them all day. And at least give people the option to disable it if they want to.
I personally wouldn't recommend this phone to anyone who doesnt want to root their phone. You'd think with what happened with the captivate, samsung would have wisend up, but of course not.
You should probably be paying attention in class ;-)
Just because the phone has different actions to buttons doesn't make it crap. I agree though, they should allow you to disable it.
It was the first thing I removed once rooted, the thing is so annoying!
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I very often double tap the home button to get to the home screen (one tap to exit app, second tap to bring me to my home screen) and now all i hear is "what would you like to do"
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Perhaps you should answer, and tell vlingo exactly what you'd like it to do (or where it should go.)
when i was on stock this was never an issue for me. i have never hit the home button twice to get home. a friend has been on stock for a long time and never had the problem either. why hit home twice, once works
but yes being an android you should have the option to remove or customize it.
i for one like the voice talk app for when i am driving
That is indeed annoying. I am getting mine tomorrow and I am all ready to root it. In Galaxy Tab though, you have to hold down on the search button to activate vlingo. Even though I don't usually press home button twice, that can be annoying...
lol, out of habit from using crappy phones and a low patience level, I happen to hit the home button about 50 thousand times while the screens load.
I actually like the vlingo app. it is pretty competent most of the time and I haven't found a better solution yet, but I agree they should give you the option to turn it off.
My girlfriend sgs2 never had such a thing, though it was australian/telstra so perhaps it wasn't included.
But I know your pain, I used to continually bring up voice commands on my motorola milestone 2 and it would blast me with "please say a command". So annoying
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As a temporary fix, there's the option of changing the Vlingo message. Mine now says "Whaddya want now?" on the home button double-tap. Perhaps you could change it to just several spaces? I'm curious to see whether it would work, but I'd rather not annoy my cow-orkers by messing around with it. Sshhhhhhh ...
I totally forgot about this problem, lol oh man that made me mad when it popped up every time.
Just root it.
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As mentioned above, you only need to hit the home button once to return to home. Instead of yelling at Samsung for making a double tap actually do something, besides making sure Zombies are dead, just applaud that they've improved things enough that you only have to hit it once to get home.
You can disable it in the motion settings menu.
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You can disable it in the motion settings menu.
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I was almost positive I disabled it somehow but it's been a while and I wasn't sure. I remember doing it the first day because I hated that double home tap crap.
ended up just installing a custom rom, so no problem.
But for the average user, this is super annoying. And i searched around everywhere to see if i could disable it.
I for one am one of those people that presses buttons almost as a nervious tick, like tapping your feet or something like that, so thats what annoyed me the most about it.
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Yes it looks like you can disable it, but you can't.
There is a checkbox that says: "Double tap", "Automatically prepare your device for voice commands in Voice talk"
Unchecking it does not disable running Vlingo.
The only times I opened Vlingo, was accidental. It's a huge flaw of the Samsung developers to have this incredibly annoying app hardwired to a button. Even more so the HOME button! Why not attach this app to double-tapping the search button? Or a long press? At least that would never happen accidentally.
For me this is by far the biggest annoyance on this phone (also because it lags the single-tap of the home button).
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Yes it looks like you can disable it, but you can't.
There is a checkbox that says: "Double tap", "Automatically prepare your device for voice commands in Voice talk"
Unchecking it does not disable running Vlingo.
The only times I opened Vlingo, was accidental. It's a huge flaw of the Samsung developers to have this incredibly annoying app hardwired to a button. Even more so the HOME button! Why not attach this app to double-tapping the search button? Or a long press? At least that would never happen accidentally.
For me this is by far the biggest annoyance on this phone (also because it lags the single-tap of the home button).
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i guess you havent used a motoblur phone before?
the home button (on the atrix) was preconfigured to launch your browser, but could be changed in the options to open different apps.
So I just got done rooting my HTC Amaze. I'm using the BeastMod Rom. The Phone looks great and performs even better. Except I have a Wi-Fi Error preventing me from turning on Wi-Fi.
I've browsed the forums for similar issues and came across solutions like "reinstall MIUI" and really tech-savvy stuff. I'm not the most technologically gifted person so if anyone can provide solutions in layman's terms, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
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Also, the personalize function doesn't work.
flash a right kernel
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426959
Read FAQ. Look under kernel it is a worth it.
I am getting weird connection issues (sometimes it connects, sometimes doesn't both for wifi and network) and also I've been getting alottt of restarts (pretty papers flying screen), and I'm not sure why? I am using the latest beast mod
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papcoz said:
flash a right kernel
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426959
Read FAQ. Look under kernel it is a worth it.
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I love you. <3 <3.
Oh wait, the personalize function still doesn't work. I hit the Personalize option and it just takes me to the homescreen.
Personalize function button is not working with the custom rom.
But to access them, you can press setting button (second soft button) and press personalize function or just touch and hold anywhere in home screen without shortcut for 3-5 seconds and personalize function will pop up.
If you are a person who is dying for using personalize function button, download launcher app from the market.
Hello. I'm a long time lurker, first time thread creater.
I have an Evo V from VM that's rooted, s-off, hboot 1.50 that was running CM10.1
Randomly it seems out of nowhere, the bottom strip stopped working. In other words I couldn't hit the calls button, the app drawer button, or the other 3 buttons on the homescreen. The hardware buttons still worked, and directly above the line of the homescreen dock worked. When in an app like greenify I couldn't hit the button to allow an app access, or in messaging I couldn't hit the text box to bring up the keyboard and start typing. When I went to do something that automatically brought the keyboard up I couldn't hit the spacebar, etc. At first I figured it was a hardware problem but now I'm not sure. This is because I enabled the dev option that shows you the input the phone is receiving. The little white dot came up exactly where I was touching, I just wasn't getting a response and I can't figure why. Tried the DU rom and the same thing. Tried the pacman rom and had the same problem. Yet the phone says that there is input there, things just aren't happening. This is further validated with the fact that when in 4ext, anything at the bottom of the screen where the dead zone would be, still works. Restored my CM backup when nothing else worked and for now the dead zone seems to be actually gone. But Idk how long that will last. Any ideas?
I'm guessing it's the pie controls getting in the way.
Go to settings>system>pie settings>trigger area>none
See if that fixes the problem.