I haven't been able to figure out a way to remap the physical power button. There was an xposed module that worked great long ago, but hasn't been updated to work with oreo. I want to be able to press/long press/double tap/whatever the power key to take me to the home screen. I've used the fingerprint sensor apps, but they're hit or miss at different times, which is more frustrating than not having it. The other button mapper programs seem to work for volume keys only. Rooted/Running LOS ROM
Remapping the power button seems like such a bad idea to me. What happens if you need to reboot?
nola mike said:
I want to be able to press/long press/double tap/whatever the power key to take me to the home screen.
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Why? What does your "home" button do? On my Nova launcher, home button takes me immediately to home screen and much easier/faster than trying to double tap fingerprint sensor, which currently turns off/on display.
Or long tapping, which currently gives you reboot options.
Remapping power button seems like an answer in search of a problem, which would cause more problems?
ChazzMatt said:
Why? What does your "home" button do? On my Nova launcher, home button takes me immediately to home screen and much easier/faster than trying to double tap fingerprint sensor, which currently turns off/on display.
Or long tapping, which currently gives you reboot options.
Remapping power button seems like an answer in search of a problem, which would cause more problems.
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Home button takes me to home screen as well, which is usually where I want to go. If I'm holding the phone it's much easier to press a physical button to get back. I rarely reboot, so could do away with that. On my G3, I had all the buttons on the back mapped to pull up assistant, go back, go to home screen using single/double/short/long taps. It was MUCH faster to do that. Anyway, I like it, it existed before, I want to know if I can get it back.
nola mike said:
Home button takes me to home screen as well, which is usually where I want to go. If I'm holding the phone it's much easier to press a physical button to get back. I rarely reboot, so could do away with that. On my G3, I had all the buttons on the back mapped to pull up assistant, go back, go to home screen using single/double/short/long taps. It was MUCH faster to do that. Anyway, I like it, it existed before, I want to know if I can get it back.
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So found a program called "powy". It can intercept the power button keypress and then trigger tasker. It can't distinguish long v. short press, but you can program power button to trigger by pressing 1x/2x/3x/etc. Not as good as xposed additions (which hasn't been updated since MM), but functional and better than nothing.
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I'm running DCD 3.0.1 rom, is this normal that my phone will wake up from standby whenever I push any button on it like a call or anything button? I don't really like that cause I'm always hitting keys and changing stuff while my phone is in my pocket and I rather just have it be the power button on the side like it used to work...is there a simple fix for this?
t0mmyr said:
I'm running DCD 3.0.1 rom, is this normal that my phone will wake up from standby whenever I push any button on it like a call or anything button? I don't really like that cause I'm always hitting keys and changing stuff while my phone is in my pocket and I rather just have it be the power button on the side like it used to work...is there a simple fix for this?
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Hit Start, Settings then System Tab. Click Key Lock and make sure "Lock all buttons expect Power button" is selected.
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choose "lock all buttons except power button."
thank you both! that fixed it, funny i never opened that settings option to look what was in there, i always thought that had to do with the stock sprint lock feature that i never used
Need help remapping power key. Someone made awesome app called screen off & lock that does crt shutdown. It would be epic if we could remap power key to launch app.
whoa awesome i just downloaded it. the power button remapping would be awesome, but the long press search button isn't half bad. that's what i'm doing now.
ravigodhwani said:
but the long press search button isn't half bad. that's what i'm doing now.
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I use voice search all the time. I would think the coding couldn't be to hard but I don't know where to look. It would be awesome if anybody could get this to work.
yeah i'm sure a lot of people use the search button, for some reason i never really need it.
with the camera hack that allows photos to be taken with the power button, and while watching videos, the power button locks the screen while keeping it on, so i know there's gotta be a way to get it to launch this activity. i just don't have any experience with this kind of stuff.
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saw an app called galaxy tuner that apparently remaps buttons, but i am unable to mess with my phone while at work. give it a shot maybe?
Any thoughts on whether it's possible to implement a dedicated camera button? It seems superfluous to have both the home button and the power button able to wake the screen, and it'd be great to have one be able to unlock to camera.
That wud be cool like assign pressing both volume up and volume down at the same time as the button
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Yes, this would be great. don't let the thread die.
tekhna said:
Any thoughts on whether it's possible to implement a dedicated camera button? It seems superfluous to have both the home button and the power button able to wake the screen, and it'd be great to have one be able to unlock to camera.
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I think in theory that would be great, but what button would you replace?
The home and power buttons both have functionality that the other doesn't do. Both can unlock the screen (as you pointed out), but they don't both lock the screen. Also, only one of them actually performs the "home button" functions. So both are really needed.
I think matrixzone5's suggestion of a two-button action would probably be required.
Someone's already implemented on screen ICS buttons on the SGSIII, so for me ideally I'd have the power button as the camera button and the home button as the wake/lock button. Works for me because my case makes the power button hard to press.
Is it possible to change the response time for long pressing the home button? Cutting it in half would be ideal
peachpuff said:
Is it possible to change the response time for long pressing the home button? Cutting it in half would be ideal
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My understanding is that sammy based ROMs are intentionally hardcoded by Sammy to include a delay after pressing the home button once so as to wait for another press, to cater for a two button press gesture. This gesture is meant to activate voice command.
Therefore, this delay must have been embedded deep within some framework of sorts.
Take a look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1227479
That is the reason why I like the rom AOSK have tactile buttons at the bottom as is the nexus, it is like pressing the home button
happily1986 said:
My understanding is that sammy based ROMs are intentionally hardcoded by Sammy to include a delay after pressing the home button once so as to wait for another press, to cater for a two button press gesture. This gesture is meant to activate voice command.
Therefore, this delay must have been embedded deep within some framework of sorts.
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GaboWinter said:
Take a look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1227479
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Im talking about the delay from long pressing the home button, not just single pressing it. Long pressing it brings up the recent apps menu, i want that menu to come up quicker.
darito30 said:
That is the reason why I like the rom AOSK have tactile buttons at the bottom as is the nexus, it is like pressing the home button
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I'll give that a try since im on aokp, not sure if i want to lose any screen space due to the buttons but we'll see how it affects it.
TL: DR the only way to get rid of the lag is to flash specific Sammy/CM/AOKP roms that have the decreased lag fix implemented (almost all do).
Prior to running ViperDNA I could have swore that when I long pressed the home button I was able to add or remove home screens (I know I could at least remove them). I like to use one home screen on my phone and put shortcuts in folders instead of using multiple screens.
Since going to Viper I had changed my home button long press to screenshot and I am not sure how to eliminate my home screens now. Is there a long press option or another way all together that I am missing to get to where I can eliminate my additional home screens?
If I tap my home button from my home screen I am able to delete by long pressing on a screen I want to remove
cenobite138 said:
If I tap my home button from my home screen I am able to delete by long pressing on a screen I want to remove
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Yup that worked. I feel like a big dummy. All of these options in Viper I guess I assumed it was a long press.