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Is there anyway, with an existing app - or a tweak on an xml file etc that I can change the up and down volume buttons when the phone is in landscape?
On the stock rom - when you are in landcape - pressing "left" to increase volume is so utterly counter intuitive it drives me insane!
teapea said:
Is there anyway, with an existing app - or a tweak on an xml file etc that I can change the up and down volume buttons when the phone is in landscape?
On the stock rom - when you are in landcape - pressing "left" to increase volume is so utterly counter intuitive it drives me insane!
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i have no time to search the buttons assignments, in fact it should be easy to do, if you get me how to asign buttons, i could do a script for you..
There is a button re-mapper. See if it helps you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464
Yeah it's easy enough to change the key mappings in the /system/usr/keylayout/*.kl files - the problem is that it doesn't affect the phone until a reboot.
It's also an issue of hooking into "something" so that when the phone rotates it swaps the commands over. I believe CM does this (as well as for any D-pad swapping on rotation) by hijacking the input queue in the file KeyInputQueue.java
However as I'm on a stock ROM and can't really edit this, I'm guessing it's not really possible.
So... I've just permanently swapped the buttons over for the time being. I never use volume controls unless I'm watching vids and at that point I'll always be in landscape - so I'll take the annoyance on the portrait mode instead!
teapea said:
Yeah it's easy enough to change the key mappings in the /system/usr/keylayout/*.kl files - the problem is that it doesn't affect the phone until a reboot.
It's also an issue of hooking into "something" so that when the phone rotates it swaps the commands over. I believe CM does this (as well as for any D-pad swapping on rotation) by hijacking the input queue in the file KeyInputQueue.java
However as I'm on a stock ROM and can't really edit this, I'm guessing it's not really possible.
So... I've just permanently swapped the buttons over for the time being. I never use volume controls unless I'm watching vids and at that point I'll always be in landscape - so I'll take the annoyance on the portrait mode instead!
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I just needed to know that *.kl thing wait im gonna make a script
EDIT: It's not gonna be so easy
D4rKn3sSyS said:
I just needed to know that *.kl thing wait im gonna make a script
EDIT: It's not gonna be so easy
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Yeah - got to the same point at me now
Woo and indeed Hoo!
Managed to work out what's going on, and after a bit of smali editing - it's all working.
Essentially, the DPAD rotation stuff is already in there, but since the device doesn't have the DPAD it's a bit useless. However it's possible to fool the device into thinking it's got a DPAD and using the existing rotate routine, and instead of remapping DPAD directions remap the VOLUME_UP and VOLUME_DOWN keys.
Seems to work perfectly!
I will tidy up the code (lots of debug hooks in at the moment!) and write a HowTo - but since it's hacking the internals of services.jar - my version would blat over the top of any custom theme.
any news about this?
I really don't like the hardware buttons...the home key is too slim and I always press the menu key when playing with the device in landscape, while I really appreciated the on screen navigation bar of the galaxy nexus. It's simply always there, it's a lot faster to access the app switcher and it's really better in everything (in my opinion of course).
If it isn't yet possible I'll stick with my nexus till this feature will be available because I really can't stand with those poor designed hardware keys.
Thank you very much
Marco
Wait for cm9/aokp
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I second that... on screen keys are the way forward... saves accidental presses too.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
Waiting for someone to bring out the on screen buttons on Samsung rom as well.the problem with aokp rom is that some Samsung functions are lost. I tried to enable it in Samsung rom by it freezes the phone. I can see that the Samsung onsxreen button has slightly different icon that standard ics. Hopefully someone can figure put how to do it on stock rom soon
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Waiting for someone to bring out the on screen buttons on Samsung rom as well.the problem with aokp rom is that some Samsung functions are lost. I tried to enable it in Samsung rom by it freezes the phone. I can see that the Samsung onsxreen button has slightly different icon that standard ics. Hopefully someone can figure put how to do it on stock rom soon
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You and me both... The on screen keys is the reason I'm still using my gnex as opposed to my gs3.
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why dont you try the app Button Saviour bro? Had my friend try it on his S3 and it works perfectly.
raymondswong said:
why dont you try the app Button Saviour bro? Had my friend try it on his S3 and it works perfectly.
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It's not quite the same and looks no where near as nice.... Plus I would also want to disable the capacitive buttons.
I too want to disable the home button and cap buttons and use on screen nav when I get my phone. Is it possible on a samsung based rom? I know you can enable on screen nav pretty easily and on the GS2 there was a way to disable the buttons and lights but on the Gs2 I thought it cost too much screen real estate. with a 4.8 inch screen I wouldnt mind giving up a little bit of it for on screen nav
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I too want to disable the home button and cap buttons and use on screen nav when I get my phone. Is it possible on a samsung based rom? I know you can enable on screen nav pretty easily and on the GS2 there was a way to disable the buttons and lights but on the Gs2 I thought it cost too much screen real estate. with a 4.8 inch screen I wouldnt mind giving up a little bit of it for on screen nav
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I don't mind the home button still working as I don't think I would make any accidental presses, the capacitive buttons on the other hand need to be disabled.
Lets get a dev to make it happen... I don't mind donating to the cause either.
ronak47 said:
I don't mind the home button still working as I don't think I would make any accidental presses, the capacitive buttons on the other hand need to be disabled.
Lets get a dev to make it happen... I don't mind donating to the cause either.
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Well when I get the device in a few weeks I will attempt it if its not done by then
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here is a post by GalaxyUser that shows you how to enable the lockscreen rotation on ics. following the instructions you can also enable the ics navigation bar as well as a number of other mods. the options are in the bools.xml file within framework-res.apk\res\values\bools.xml.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525045
select the line that says
<bool name="config_showNavigationBar">false</bool>
and change false to true
then follow the rest of his instructions.
also, instructions to disable or enable the capacitive menu and back keys:
(i did not come up with these instructions but found them on a search a long time ago...cant remember the thread or else I would link to it)
1) Use a program like root explorer
2) go to /system/usr/keylayout
3) create a new file named "melfas-touchkey.kl" with the following text:
#key 158 BACK VIRTUAL
#key 139 MENU VIRTUAL
4) also create a second file named "sec_touchkey.kl" with the same text
5) change the permissions of both files to "rw-r--r--" (just like the other files in the directory)
6) reboot...done!
to re-enable just remove the files you just created and reboot
good luck
thanks
hocgwai said:
here is a post by GalaxyUser that shows you how to enable the lockscreen rotation on ics. following the instructions you can also enable the ics navigation bar as well as a number of other mods. the options are in the bools.xml file within framework-res.apk\res\values\bools.xml.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525045
select the line that says
<bool name="config_showNavigationBar">false</bool>
and change false to true
then follow the rest of his instructions.
also, instructions to disable or enable the capacitive menu and back keys:
(i did not come up with these instructions but found them on a search a long time ago...cant remember the thread or else I would link to it)
1) Use a program like root explorer
2) go to /system/usr/keylayout
3) create a new file named "melfas-touchkey.kl" with the following text:
#key 158 BACK VIRTUAL
#key 139 MENU VIRTUAL
4) also create a second file named "sec_touchkey.kl" with the same text
5) change the permissions of both files to "rw-r--r--" (just like the other files in the directory)
6) reboot...done!
to re-enable just remove the files you just created and reboot
good luck
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Wow, that's the right link. I was able to disable softkeys and I already tried messing with bools.xml but my new framework-res crashed everything. I gave a look to the link you posted and it seems to be great! Tomorrow if I find some spare time I'll try.
Thank you very much!
hocgwai said:
here is a post by GalaxyUser that shows you how to enable the lockscreen rotation on ics. following the instructions you can also enable the ics navigation bar as well as a number of other mods. the options are in the bools.xml file within framework-res.apk\res\values\bools.xml.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525045
select the line that says
<bool name="config_showNavigationBar">false</bool>
and change false to true
then follow the rest of his instructions.
also, instructions to disable or enable the capacitive menu and back keys:
(i did not come up with these instructions but found them on a search a long time ago...cant remember the thread or else I would link to it)
1) Use a program like root explorer
2) go to /system/usr/keylayout
3) create a new file named "melfas-touchkey.kl" with the following text:
#key 158 BACK VIRTUAL
#key 139 MENU VIRTUAL
4) also create a second file named "sec_touchkey.kl" with the same text
5) change the permissions of both files to "rw-r--r--" (just like the other files in the directory)
6) reboot...done!
to re-enable just remove the files you just created and reboot
good luck
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Thank you so much. Those hardware buttons were driving me insane. Happy to have them disabled now. Thanks, gratefully given!
may i get a little help?
Somehow i cant change the permission of melfas_touchkey.kl
if i try Anttek explorer says the partition is read only... (i have root privileges) however i created the file with.. strange..
What i did wrong?
I take no responsibility for you breaking or causing issues on your tablet. Do this at your own risk!
Disable your Galaxy Note 8.0 Capacitive Keys
What you will need:
Root
Root explorer or similar program
and Be Careful
First:
Open your root explorer or similar app
navigate to system>usr>keylayout
Second:
Make backup of sec_touchscreen.kl
Third
This step has been, found to be not needed. Skip to step 4!
Fourth:
Open sec_touchscreen.kl
find line:
key 158 BACK WAKE_DROPPED
and place a # in front of it like:
# key 158 BACK WAKE_DROPPED
then find line:
key 139 BACK WAKE_DROPPED
and place a # in front of it like:
# key 139 BACK WAKE_DROPPED
Save your changes and close the file
reboot your tablet, and you are finished.
Your capacitive buttons will not respond to your fingers, but retain functionality with the s-pen.
ENJOY!
step 3 was not needed for this guide to work!
Hey ual4720, thanks for the great guide,this is the sort of stuff we need to get some development started for our tablet.
That's more of a how-to, a mod means flashing something
will there be custom roms coming?
Thai Damen said:
will there be custom roms coming?
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I woud say yes, considering it's the same specs powering the Galaxy Note 10.1 (at least, i'm betting on this )
I'm actually sort of surprised someone hasn't tried flashing one of the Galaxy Note 10.1 roms on the Note 8 (I'm not recommending this, i'm not a developer. Just surprised no one (big kahuna's) tried this).
I can't wait until someone figures out how to make this a quick option on the drop down menu so we can toggle the keys on and off based on what we're doing
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Just to be clear - this is only suppose to disable the capacitive function of the hardware buttons, not enable the virtual on-screen buttons or anything (the latter was what I was hoping for)? Don't mean to diminish the value of the first mod to appear on this forum - I just don't quite understand the use case for this. Thanks!
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Just to be clear - this is only suppose to disable the capacitive function of the hardware buttons, not enable the virtual on-screen buttons or anything (the latter was what I was hoping for)? Don't mean to diminish the value of the first mod to appear on this forum - I just don't quite understand the use case for this. Thanks!
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I use my tablet in landscape a lot! I found it was hard to hold the tablet with both hands because I kept hitting the Capacitive keys. this is my way of solving that! I thought I would Share it.
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I hope it didn't sound like I was criticizing the patch. I was genuinely interested in how people were using this - we all have our own ways of doing things. For example, the hardware buttons have turned out to be more convenient than I expected for me because I use the tablet in bed a lot, and I find it's easier to touch the buttons if I hold the tablet upside down, so the buttons are at the top. With virtual buttons, they'd just move themselves back to the bottom!
Thanks, working good with LMT launcher.
colhavoc said:
I woud say yes, considering it's the same specs powering the Galaxy Note 10.1 (at least, i'm betting on this )
I'm actually sort of surprised someone hasn't tried flashing one of the Galaxy Note 10.1 roms on the Note 8 (I'm not recommending this, i'm not a developer. Just surprised no one (big kahuna's) tried this).
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Similar specs, but different. If you tried flashing a ROM you'd softbrick your device. There are a number of devs working on ports and I'm sure we will be seeing customs appearing soon in the future.
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Thanks a lot for sharing detail information about the Galaxy Note. This will be helpful for me to developing stuff.
Hello all,
after disabling capacitive keys, install GMD gesture control to get the same through customized swipes.
Now SNote will work without being annoyed by keys at the end of the page
Hi all,
I kinda like the HW buttons and I wished they were real buttons rather than capacitive.
Is there a way to disable them ONLY in certain apps? I would like them to be disabled when I use S notes only.
Also,
the mod mentions "Your capacitive buttons will not respond to your fingers, but retain functionality with the s-pen."
So I can actually still use the buttons using the Spen?
Thanks!
For those who tried this, I wonder what app do you use to simulate the "back" and "menu" button WITHOUT using the Stylus?
I'd love to disable the capacitive keys, but there are times when I need to bring up the menu or go back WITHOUT taking out the Stylus and drawing the gesture.
lanwarrior said:
For those who tried this, I wonder what app do you use to simulate the "back" and "menu" button WITHOUT using the Stylus?
I'd love to disable the capacitive keys, but there are times when I need to bring up the menu or go back WITHOUT taking out the Stylus and drawing the gesture.
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i use apps gesture control. can get it from playstore. the free version is sufficient for daily use unless you want to make custom gesture. go for pro.
andrianarison said:
Hello all,
after disabling capacitive keys, install GMD gesture control to get the same through customized swipes.
Now SNote will work without being annoyed by keys at the end of the page
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Good day. Could you explain "get the same through customized swipes?"
Do you mean it's possible to toggle the editing or renaming of the "sec_touchscreen.kl" file?
Even if you do this, will you need to restart every time?
theraker007 said:
I can't wait until someone figures out how to make this a quick option on the drop down menu so we can toggle the keys on and off based on what we're doing
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using xda premium
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I 2nd this.:good:
I'm using the unofficial CM 10.2 for the note and have deactivated both buttons, but they are still glowing. Is there a way to deactivate this too?
kingofcomedy said:
I'm using the unofficial CM 10.2 for the note and have deactivated both buttons, but they are still glowing. Is there a way to deactivate this too?
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Try in the Setting, where you can disable it.
I take no credit for this. This is a carryover from Note 2 and I got the info from some thread in one of the forums.
The method does work for N3s.
Sometimes I keep my phone in my back pocket and I do not want the screen to wake if the home button is inadvertently pressed. This method prevents the home key from waking the screen. Only the side key will wake the screen when applied.
Root is required, remount /system as r/w.
Go to system/usr/keylayout and edit "gpio-keys.kl".
Scroll down, look for the "key 172 HOME WAKE" line. Remove "WAKE" from the line and save, reboot.
YMMV, do at own risk, make file backup, etc.
Enjoy...
snovvman said:
I take no credit for this. This is a carryover from Note 2 and I got the info from some thread in one of the forums.
The method does work for N3s.
Sometimes I keep my phone in my back pocket and I do not want the screen to wake if the home button is inadvertently pressed. This method prevents the home key from waking the screen. Only the side key will wake the screen when applied.
Root is required, remount /system as r/w.
Go to system/usr/keylayout and edit "gpio-keys.kl".
Scroll down, look for the "key 172 HOME WAKE" line. Remove "WAKE" from the line and save, reboot.
YMMV, do at own risk, make file backup, etc.
Enjoy...
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Awesome!!
As an alternative you can always install Xposed framework / Wanam and that is also an option that works as well as many other options.
tt281gt said:
Awesome!!
As an alternative you can always install Xposed framework / Wanam and that is also an option that works as well as many other options.
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Thanks. Do you know if Xposed can enable the on-screen soft key? The qemu.hw.mainkeys=0 method doesn't work.
snovvman said:
Thanks. Do you know if Xposed can enable the on-screen soft key? The qemu.hw.mainkeys=0 method doesn't work.
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Part of what you said sounds foreign to me LOL. I have not seen an option to use the soft keys to turn the screen on. I think xpo sed is just the framework to allow for things like wanam to make changes to rom.
The actual app I use for those changes is called wanam which uses the Xposed frameowrk.
I'm an android noob sorry if I wasn't much help @[email protected]
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snovvman said:
I take no credit for this. This is a carryover from Note 2 and I got the info from some thread in one of the forums.
The method does work for N3s.
Sometimes I keep my phone in my back pocket and I do not want the screen to wake if the home button is inadvertently pressed. This method prevents the home key from waking the screen. Only the side key will wake the screen when applied.
Root is required, remount /system as r/w.
Go to system/usr/keylayout and edit "gpio-keys.kl".
Scroll down, look for the "key 172 HOME WAKE" line. Remove "WAKE" from the line and save, reboot.
YMMV, do at own risk, make file backup, etc.
Enjoy...
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it used to work on 4.3, but since i upgraded to 4.4 , its not working anymore, i checked the gpio-keys.kl, and already all the keys like Volume up/down/home/focus/camera /power all now have WAKE_DROPPED, tried taking wake out of it. still no effect. Any help , may be its different in 4.4
swagatsourav said:
it used to work on 4.3, but since i upgraded to 4.4 , its not working anymore, i checked the gpio-keys.kl, and already all the keys like Volume up/down/home/focus/camera /power all now have WAKE_DROPPED, tried taking wake out of it. still no effect. Any help , may be its different in 4.4
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I'm in the same boat. I just upgraded from 4.3 to 4.4 and now my home button wakes my phone and I can't disable it by editing gpio-keys.kl anymore. I tried a bunch of different edits but to no avail.
As an alternative, a bunch of threads (like this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2673347) state that you can disable the wake-on-home functionality using the Xposed framework and Wanam, but that seems like overkill if all you want is to make one minor tweak.
Maybe as of 4.4 there's a different key layout file that needs to be edited. Here's a decent resource that describes how key layout files are used by the OS and in what order.
http://source.android.com/devices/tech/input/key-layout-files.html
It hasn't led me to a solution yet but maybe it will help point someone else in the right direction...
@dwitherell made an awesome mod that I have used in other ROMs and have not seen for the V20. So, I asked him if he could make it for the V20. All credit goes to him.
The mod lets you use your volume keys to move the cursor back and forth while you are in a txt field. It is very helpful when you type a long txt, for instance, and you realize you need to edit it. It's much easier to use the volume keys than to try to get the cursor where you need it with your finger. The mod involves some changes to the framework.jar file in /system/framework/. To make it work, you just need to replace the current framework.jar file with the one you DL from the following link and reboot. The first reboot takes a long time. It will go to the "Android is starting" screen and take a while to complete. Be patient. It is a good idea to keep a backup of the original framework.jar file.
I have only tested this on the WETA ROM for TMO. However, it should work on any TMO ROM where the framework.jar has not already been modified. I confirmed with @NotATreoFan that his ROM has an unmodifed framework.jar file. So, this should work on his ROM, at least on TMO.
I do not know if the mod will work on v20 ROMs for other carriers other than TMO. You could probably do a CRC compare of the stock TMO framework.jar and the one in your ROM to be sure. If the files are the same, the mod should work.
If it works on your non-TMO ROM, let me know.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz2LTeGg4ZTHeGpFY1BMZEVRNGM/view?usp=drivesdk
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@dwitherell made an awesome mod that I have used in other ROMs and have not seen for the V20. So, I asked him if he could make it for the V20. All credit goes to him.
The mod lets you use your volume keys to move the cursor back and forth while you are in a txt field. It is very helpful when you type a long txt, for instance, and you realize you need to edit it. It's much easier to use the volume keys than to try to get the cursor where you need it with your finger.
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This kinda cool to know, quick Q... How do the volume buttons behave outside of a text...do they still control volume? Does the mod work in web based message boards like here?
2muchspl said:
This kinda cool to know, quick Q... How do the volume buttons behave outside of a text...do they still control volume? Does the mod work in web based message boards like here?
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I had the same question before I first used it. When not in a txt field,. which is most of the time, volume controls work totally normally. It should work any time you are able to type. It just works. Note that you will need to re-replace the framework.jar file every time you flash your rom (unless the dev decides to bake in the modified jar file).
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I had the same question before I first used it. When not in a txt field,. which is most of the time, volume controls work totally normally. It should work any time you are able to type. It just works. Note that you will need to re-replace the framework.jar file every time you flash your rom (unless the dev decides to bake in the modified jar file).
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Definitely gone give this a spin
I appreciate the mod from Dwitherell so I'm definitely not trying to downplay it or anything, but just thought I'd mention this for anyone who uses SwiftKey and doesn't know about it already (or anyone else who might want to try it)..
SwiftKey keyboard has an option in it's settings called "arrow keys" (which is not enabled by default) that adds a row of up, down, left, and right arrow keys across the bottom of the keyboard, which allow you to navigate the cursor throughout your text.
I know everyone has their own preferences so to each their own of course but imho it basically eliminates the problem this mod was made for, and for me at least whenever I try different keyboards always wind up switching back to SwiftKey because I'm so use to having the arrows. Anyway hope it helps
Sent from a ridiculously modified ColecoVision
jeep447 said:
SwiftKey keyboard has an option in it's settings called "arrow keys" (which is not enabled by default) that adds a row of up, down, left, and right arrow keys across the bottom of the keyboard, which allow you to navigate the cursor throughout your text.
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Google Board (G-Board) allows you to use wipe gestures on the space bar to move around quite a bit, quite fast. Just throwing that out there too.
jeep447 said:
I appreciate the mod from Dwitherell so I'm definitely not trying to downplay it or anything, but just thought I'd mention this for anyone who uses SwiftKey and doesn't know about it already (or anyone else who might want to try it)..
SwiftKey keyboard has an option in it's settings called "arrow keys" (which is not enabled by default) that adds a row of up, down, left, and right arrow keys across the bottom of the keyboard, which allow you to navigate the cursor throughout your text.
I know everyone has their own preferences so to each their own of course but imho it basically eliminates the problem this mod was made for, and for me at least whenever I try different keyboards always wind up switching back to SwiftKey because I'm so use to having the arrows. Anyway hope it helps
Sent from a ridiculously modified ColecoVision
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Yes. I have used the arrows on swiftkey before. I like the volume keys better because you can use your left hand to quickly move back and forth, while you can swype type with your right, without having to peck around with a finger on the arrow keys. Install the mod and see what I mean.
Vuciz said:
Google Board (G-Board) allows you to use wipe gestures on the space bar to move around quite a bit, quite fast. Just throwing that out there too.
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Yes and the stock LG keyboard lets you swipe in the space bar to move the cursor. For me, it is more precise to move one space at a time with each click of the volume key. Try it an you'll see.
mcdavid said:
Yes and the stock LG keyboard lets you swipe in the space bar to move the cursor. For me, it is more precise to move one space at a time with each click of the volume key. Try it an you'll see.
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I've used that mod before. I agree it's useful. However I prefer on screen controls.
My new app Cursor Control lets you use the volume keys to easily move the cursor in text fields and works without Root.