Floating Touch on the samsung galaxy 3 - Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps

Hey guyz, must have heard about the devices like Xperia Sola and samsung galaxy SL making a lots of buzz with an awesome feature, that lets you use the touchscreen without actually touching it. Hover your finger over the screen and you are good to go. The feature called Floating touch was dug out by Shiromman. And thanks to him, he hinted me to modify the correct values to get Floating touch working even on our galaxy 3. I've tried and tested it.
##NOTE (EDIT): NOW TRIED AND TESTED ON ALL ROMS. FROYO,GINGERBREAD,ICE CREAM SANDWICH, JELLY BEAN .##
**Very difficult to get used to. Might register touches even when not touched.
**Rebooting will restore original touch sensitivity settings.
**Might eat up more battery. Not tested.
**No other problems reported, which may potentially harm the device.
EDIT: NOW THE FOLLOWING CODE NEEDS NOT TO BE EXECUTED, THERE'S AN APP AVAILABLE FOR THIS PURPOSE, HERE http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32678618 Download the app from this thread. Version 1.2 and later supported. Thank the developer.
The app gives the liberty to change the sensitivity values on the go. Enable and disable on your wish.
The following method can also be used.
Here is the code you need to type in the terminal emulator to get Floating touch.
Code:
su
echo 7007 > sys/class/touch/switch/set_touchscreen
cat sys/class/touch/switch/set_write
NOTE: The value after echo 70XX defines the sensitivity level. Lower the value, more the sensitivity. THE VALUES BELOW 07 MAY CAUSE TOO MUCH SENSITIVITY, RESULTING IN UNREGISTERED TOUCHES. RECOMMENDED VALUE 07
Hope you guyz like it. And yeah, once again thakx to Shiromman for helping me and for finding this stuff out. Also thanks to loSconosciuto who originally discovered the property.
Just noticed an awesome thing. You can use a pen with some metal in its cap as a very easy to use stylus. It works even if you dont touch the metallic part. Here is *NOT* a good video demo. (I am actually bad at videos)

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gonna try it on cm7 lets see what happens

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FEEDBACK!
Okay, so I tried it on CM7 and it works great in it.
Also I was fiddling around a bit with the values. Tried changing it to "06" and found the floating touch to be more responsive!
However, when I tried with "05", the floating touch worked fine, however it completely messed up the normal touch and made it nearly impossible for me to use the phone! :silly:

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Interesting. Would be great for people who have cracked screens

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here is how to remove:
su
echo 7032 > sys/class/touch/switch/set_touchscreen
cat sys/class/touch/switch/set_write

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Works Fine on CM10 by marcellusbe Experimental build.
But users would need some time to get used to it.
Thanks for the tip
By the way why are we "cat" the set_write file in the given lines?

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bauxitpz said:
here is how to remove:
su
echo 7032 > sys/class/touch/switch/set_touchscreen
cat sys/class/touch/switch/set_write
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You can reboot the phone and it resets back to normal :laugh::good:

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ak700 said:
You can reboot the phone and it resets back to normal :laugh::good:
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okay, that means i have to make a init.d script to set this after each reboot.

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It work fine in cm7. Thanks
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Is it compatible on froyo. Too?
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Arjav23 said:
Is it compatible on froyo. Too?
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To test, first check whether the directory
sys/class/touch/switch/set_touchscreen is there or not. If its there, the try executing the command via terminal emulator. It shall work. Hopefully. Do report it.

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Arjav23 said:
Is it compatible on froyo. Too?
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yes it works on froyo I tested on kyrillos ROM...

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arun356y said:
yes it works on froyo I tested on kyrillos ROM...
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How about purumod
Will it work on this too
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in froyo also work fine, but sometimes the touchscreen don't work correctly and i need reboot
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It will work on every Froyo ROM. Try it.

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nishant_713 - nice to see that it worked well and thanks for the credits
oh yes nd one more thing .. it will work on any rom since its the same device once u find the location it'll work on every rom for the phone !i guess we put xperia sola to shame eh ? lol Cheers

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nishant_713 said:
##NOTE: ONLY TESTED ON SLIMBEANS JELLYBEAN ROM. NEED FEEDBACK FOR OTHER ROMS.##
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Tried & tested.........working Great in
Froyo , GB , ICS & JB.......
Works for everything.....

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raja4sure said:
Tried & tested.........working Great in
Froyo , GB , ICS & JB.......
Works for everything.....
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No touchscreen problem in froyo?
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Floating touch control app by matorno1 with support for galaxy 3 coming soon..
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Arjav23 said:
Is it compatible on froyo. Too?
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Yes, I've tried it on Kisadworx v2.3 and it works beautiful. And also, the Battery Draining is not really big!!