Hello,
Short summary: Flashed 6.0.1 stock rom then 6.0.1 custom rom and somewhere in the middle both of the HW keys stopped working. (recent apps and back) Home button works fine...
Sometimes...but only sometimes recent apps button works. Back button is totally dead. When recent apps button response to touch I can see the key backlight switches on for back button as well. However, It does not respond to touch.
I have flashed few 925F kernels, bootloaders and recoveries, no luck at all
I am looking for a possible solution or a workaround which would be AOSP like soft keys, with resized UI, just like all other vendor has. (pls see picture)
http://www.gizmobolt.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/gl2.png
Thank you!
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Recently I am having problems with my phone, and am wondering if it is a software or hardware problem.
I have tried loading the TNT4 rom & WS5SE roms (this is a g4), and there is no change (im on the Tnt4 one now).
The touchscreen works okay, but the soft key buttons do not. The right bottom one is okay, the left one triggers the right one, the send button show the letters "uytga" on the phone screen when i press them, the end button shows "mn" or something, the camera button works perfect, the comm manager button is the same as the voice button (even when i map it with a program it says "button 4").
It even happens on the soft keys on the keyboard when i slide it out.
Also I used Start-sSPL to put the roms on. Is there a way I can get the OEM one back on or fix the button problem?
Any help will be appreciated.
Hi all.
My Galaxy S2 is working fine (since 3 years now) but my home button works bad (some times yes, some times not). The problem comes from the button, not from my firmware ( i have tested many ROMs).
So, to buypass the problem, i activate the navigation bar to navigate like a Nexus. This mod of navigation is easy and i like it.
My question is : how to desactivate home button and hardware keys (and backlight keys) to just use navigation bar?
Thanks for your responses :good:
For more info, my actual ROM is Slimkat build 6.4 (Android 4.4.4) with sotck kernel
Nobody knows?
Any file system to edit?
It's been a while since I posted a question about my HOX+ but this is weird.
I was on the phone, after a wet shower (it was an emergency call). My cheeks were a bit wet. Anyway once I finished with the phone call, I tried using my navigation buttons, but none of them would light up/vibrate/ do anything. I couldn't press on the home button, or back, or menu/recents. But the volume and power buttons worked. I went to the Recovery, then went to "Advanced" "Key test" , Pressed volume up and down and it wrote "Key: 114/115" and then I pressed on power button "Key: 116" but pressing on the home button/back/recents buttons doesn't return any response even in recovery. Pressing everywhere on the screen works totally fine too saying "Key: -216545121646" EXCEPT about 1 cm above the physical area.
Since I am on Carbon Rom, I was able to add a navigation bar, but even that doesnt work! I can't press on any buttons in that onscreen navigation bar. But holding it and swiping up reveals the "Ring" .
ROM: CarbonRom 4.4.4
Recovery: CWM Touch
Help?
install a customs aosp style rom (idk i didnt try stock so dont burn me) then add qemu.hw.mainkeys=0, if it doesnt work with your rom, ust check to to see if xtana will work, if not, try an aosp rom
Hey there
this is not my phone, its my friends phone
So phone's back button and recent apps aren't working.
He said he didn't do anything nor did the phone fall.
Phone is not rooted.
Any idea on how to fix it ?
Or any alternative softwares for recent apps and back button ?
@MJ999:
Back-function by tap on right capacitive button?
Recents by long tap on hardware-home-button?
So simple home and left menu-button work?
rp158 said:
@MJ999:
Back-function by tap on right capacitive button?
Recents by long tap on hardware-home-button?
So simple home and left menu-button work?
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Oops sorry got confused with new samsung layout
Recent apps is hardware home button
His phone's capacitive soft keys are both gone.
MJ999 said:
Hey there
this is not my phone, its my friends phone
So phone's back button and recent apps aren't working.
He said he didn't do anything nor did the phone fall.
Phone is not rooted.
Any idea on how to fix it ?
Or any alternative softwares for recent apps and back button ?
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To ask again: One swift tap on the hardware home button (= home) works fine?
I'm not aware of any app to replace these functions that work without root. With root you could use e.g. LMT Launcher and use it to simulate the button pushes.
Hawaiihemd said:
To ask again: One swift tap on the hardware home button (= home) works fine?
I'm not aware of any app to replace these functions that work without root. With root you could use e.g. LMT Launcher and use it to simulate the button pushes.
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Hardware home button works fine
It's the capacitive touch that isn't working, it doesn't illuminate.
He is saying he got an app from Play store, but only limited to back button.
On the keypad type *#0*# to open the factory test menu and press "subkey". The screen will go black. Now press the menu and back capacitive buttons. If the screen changes colour you have an os issue. If the screen stays black you have a hardware fault.
I wish I stole my HTC M9.
Hello Leecoers!
I have an x820 which is flashed with latest snapshot of LineageOS 17.1. Very nice too! Thank you to the developers who have ported it to this device, in particular Marc Bourgoin.
One nagging issue which only cropped up recently:
The hardware navigation buttons along the screen footer have mysteriously reversed function.
The right button which previously was [Back] now behaves as the [Recent] button.
And vice-versa for the [Recent] button. It now behaves as the [Back] button.
No amount of tinkering in Settings will return the buttons to their normal function.
Remapping with an ADB command throws an error too in LineageOS 17.1.
Please guys, how can I remap these hardware navigation buttons in LineageOS 17.1?
Thanks
Eddie Clout
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.irishin.buttonsremapper
Thanks, takeastand! That is the app i used in the end, cheers. Though still baffled over why the hardware buttons suddenly remapped themselves?!