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One handed-operation with TyTn

Always looking for ways to customize my windows mobile device to increase its usability.
Here are a couple of small changes that work really well in my opinion.
1) set the left soft key on the today screen to launch contacts
2) set the voice dial button to launch "left soft key".
Result?
Holding the phone in your left hand you can:
a) launch contacts (use the voice dial button) browse and call using the scrollweel.
b) browse web sites (scroll wheel to navigate and launch links, voice dial button to go 'BACK'.).
c) explore files using file explorer (speed dial button will move 'UP').
Not anything revolutionary, but these two small changes really improve one-handed operation.
PS: The subject line should say "one-handed operation" and not "one handed-operation"

Stupid question .. why cant you just set the voice dial button to launch the contacts?

The whole point is that you can use the voice dial to hit BACK in internet explorer (one-handed browsing) UP in file explorer (one-handed exploration) and so forth...
As well as to load the contacts obviously, when you are on the today screen.

You can also map Button 5 "press and hold" (same key as voice dial) to the other (right in your case) soft key.
That way will you have access to all softkey functions/menus.

excellent suggestion thinksmart!

1 button 2 function app?

hi i remeber there was a free app that allowed to set one hardware button to have 2 functions ie short press and long press, does anyone know where the link/post is for the app? or even a app i can buy?

AeButton Plus
http://ae.inc.ru/aebplus.php

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AeButton Plus
http://ae.inc.ru/aebplus.php
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cheers mate

Wow - this aebplus is the most useful app I have found for the xperia.. definitely worth the $7 i paid for registration. i hate relying on the touchscreen since one, it is more difficult to find the buttons, and two, the touchscreen doesn't always respond immediately or accurately. navigating using the crappy windows media interface is a thing of the past and works better than inconsistent navigation of the touchflo or spb shell interfaces.
here's how i've set mine up so that i almost never have to use the touchscreen and can do everything in a few button presses
left silver key - press once - opens up messaging to get to e-mails
left silver key - press twice - opens up start menu (can get to the five or so programs stickied there or go to programs and settings with the d-pad)
left silver key - long press - opens up comm manager (not needed much since i can toggle wifi and bluetooth with the action list)
right silver key - press once - MS voice command
right silver key - press twice - open task manager to switch b/w apps
ok button - press twice - opens up action list (rotate screen, toggle bluetooth/wifi, soft reset, turn off
end button - press twice - close active application

Hello,
I also bought this usful application. But I have problems to configure the "panel" button.
I added the panel button and configure it. When I press the button, the configured action is executed, but the panel is also still executed
Any ideas?
stefan
SCtud said:
Wow - this aebplus is the most useful app I have found for the xperia.. definitely worth the $7 i paid for registration. i hate relying on the touchscreen since one, it is more difficult to find the buttons, and two, the touchscreen doesn't always respond immediately or accurately. navigating using the crappy windows media interface is a thing of the past and works better than inconsistent navigation of the touchflo or spb shell interfaces.
here's how i've set mine up so that i almost never have to use the touchscreen and can do everything in a few button presses
left silver key - press once - opens up messaging to get to e-mails
left silver key - press twice - opens up start menu (can get to the five or so programs stickied there or go to programs and settings with the d-pad)
left silver key - long press - opens up comm manager (not needed much since i can toggle wifi and bluetooth with the action list)
right silver key - press once - MS voice command
right silver key - press twice - open task manager to switch b/w apps
ok button - press twice - opens up action list (rotate screen, toggle bluetooth/wifi, soft reset, turn off
end button - press twice - close active application
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i think you may be stuck with the panels button being unmappable right now. let's hope someone can figure it out though.

might be best to speak to the apps developers to get X1 support built in to allow the panel button remapping.

I sent Alexander an email and he answered yesterday. I got the following answer:
My understanding is, that he is not able to solve the problem because the button is processed on driver level. So we have to find a solution to disable this part of the driver which sounds not so easy to handle....
Bad news for me because I didn't use the panels...
stefan
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Hello Stefan,
Thanks, it is always nice to know if you find this utility useful.
As for the “panel” button. The behaviour you describe most likely caused by “panel” button is processed on a driver level. This makes it impossible to disable original functionality by method BPlus uses.
So you could just search for another solution and it probably is in forums already. I have no X1 somewhere around to play with (unfortunately) but could suggest 2 ideas:
- Usually this “driver-level” functionality finally starts an application placed in /Windows/ folder. You could find this application (or link sometimes) and overwrite with “empty” application or link. Sometime it will require .CAB file creation due to ROM file protection.
- or default application to run on “panel” press could be specified in registry. Just search the registry for it and change to do nothing.
There are other approaches for “default” action possible but above are most simple and well-known.
Regards,
Alexander
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fards said:
might be best to speak to the apps developers to get X1 support built in to allow the panel button remapping.
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SCtud said:
right silver key - press once - MS voice command
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I can't see Voice Command showing up as a possible mapping. I had it mapped to the right silver key before I installed AEBPlus but it does not show in the dropdowns of AEBPlus as an app or anything else. Have I missed something?

http://chomikuj.pl/xcoom/HTC+Touch+Diamond/Programy/HButton/HButton_2.3_WM5.CAB
HButton
1 button 5 app

norm2002 said:
I can't see Voice Command showing up as a possible mapping. I had it mapped to the right silver key before I installed AEBPlus but it does not show in the dropdowns of AEBPlus as an app or anything else. Have I missed something?
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you gotta have the setting for single click to run the application. the file you want to run is in \Program Files\MS Voice Command\voicecmd.exe

SCtud said:
Wow - this aebplus is the most useful app I have found for the xperia.. definitely worth the $7 i paid for registration. i hate relying on the touchscreen since one, it is more difficult to find the buttons, and two, the touchscreen doesn't always respond immediately or accurately. navigating using the crappy windows media interface is a thing of the past and works better than inconsistent navigation of the touchflo or spb shell interfaces.
here's how i've set mine up so that i almost never have to use the touchscreen and can do everything in a few button presses
left silver key - press once - opens up messaging to get to e-mails
left silver key - press twice - opens up start menu (can get to the five or so programs stickied there or go to programs and settings with the d-pad)
left silver key - long press - opens up comm manager (not needed much since i can toggle wifi and bluetooth with the action list)
right silver key - press once - MS voice command
right silver key - press twice - open task manager to switch b/w apps
ok button - press twice - opens up action list (rotate screen, toggle bluetooth/wifi, soft reset, turn off
end button - press twice - close active application
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HI,
What is the version of MS voice command are you using?

SCtud said:
Wow - this aebplus is the most useful app I have found for the xperia.. definitely worth the $7 i paid for registration. i hate relying on the touchscreen since one, it is more difficult to find the buttons, and two, the touchscreen doesn't always respond immediately or accurately. navigating using the crappy windows media interface is a thing of the past and works better than inconsistent navigation of the touchflo or spb shell interfaces.
here's how i've set mine up so that i almost never have to use the touchscreen and can do everything in a few button presses
left silver key - press once - opens up messaging to get to e-mails
left silver key - press twice - opens up start menu (can get to the five or so programs stickied there or go to programs and settings with the d-pad)
left silver key - long press - opens up comm manager (not needed much since i can toggle wifi and bluetooth with the action list)
right silver key - press once - MS voice command
right silver key - press twice - open task manager to switch b/w apps
ok button - press twice - opens up action list (rotate screen, toggle bluetooth/wifi, soft reset, turn off
end button - press twice - close active application
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How're you doing with battery life? Some people notice their battery dies quicker, some don't and I unfortunately fall into the former group. It's definitely one of the most useful thing I have ever bought but had to uninstall as my battery was draining fairly quicker than usual, shame though.

You can also try my X1ButtonMapper app that can be found in this forum. It allows for assigning long press actions for softkey and volume rocker. Besides that, it allows for Ok short and long press remapping, mapping missing Fn+Key, Setting Ctrl on keyboard and some more. It is for free and I haven't had and heard about any battery drain issue.

I recommend X1ButtonMapper it extends the keyboard and other buttons. Check it out!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=464595

Remap the Button on the headset

Is there a possibility to program the button, which is integrated in the headset?
If I push it, nothing happens. If I push it twice, the caller dials the number I last called in the callhistory.
It would be nice if the caller would popup if I push the button one time, and maybe, if I hold the button for 3 secs, my player (Conduits) would stop playing or something like that.

Pressing it ones is for answering and hanging up a call

jeah, but on my samsung omnia which i had before the TD2, i pressed the button once and the dialer opened up, i liked that in some way, it must be possible to make this on the TD2 too.
and it would be simply nice if i could stop the song i am playing with pressing the button for 3 seks or something like that.

I installed the voice dialler software. Now when I press it, I can say 'home' and it dials home etc. or use it to fire up software.

cottonpickers said:
I installed the voice dialler software. Now when I press it, I can say 'home' and it dials home etc. or use it to fire up software.
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Which voice dialer software are you refering to?
The forum is al about sharing knowledge.

Cyberon voice speed dial -normally its built in to ppcs but for some reason ist on the td2.

quick click voice record

Hi all
How can i set my hd2 to use one of the keys at the botton of my phone to voice record on a double tap of a button while phone is locked.
Cheers
Ricco

Quick press to start voice record
Hi again
Anyone got ANY ideas of how I can use any of the buttons to activate voice record immediately?
I want to be able to use a key press to start record rather then use touch screen.
Regards
Ricco

You can install and create a mort script (start voice recorder, start recording), put it in startmenü and assign it to long press sendkey... but im actually not able to do that as i dont know the exact commands... furthermore it wont work when device is locked (maybe if you use AEButtons Plus for the volume rockers as they are not locked on many ROMs). Good luck, will be complicated...

Instant voice record...
Any other ideas of how to make a quick record?
Other Programs?

perhaps..
Maybe mapping a key (with AE Button Plus for example)
Find the .exe which execute the soft you want and assign it to a key of your phone .

How do you emulate key press of "Talk" button?

How do you emulate key press of "Talk" button?
Here is my situation. I've assigned the dialer (cprog.exe) to the talk button using the wonderful keyboard config app from the XDA forum. The reason for doing this was to prevent accidentally dialing the wrong person. For example, while reading an email or text, I may want to dial a person other than the sender of the email or the text. But pressing the talk button while an email/text is open results in automatically dialing the sender, which has put me in an awkward situation too many times. (Sometimes I wanted to call my colleague to talk about a dumb email my boss had just sent.)
Reassigning the talk button to the dialer, instead of "talk", has solved this problem but begot another problem. I can't use the voice recognition within google maps search. Google maps' voice search is initiated by the pressing of the talk button, but now, all it does is bringing up the dialer window.
How do I catch two birds with one stone?

You can try a mortscript to do it (you need mortscript for this to work). Assign the mortscript to a soft-button or something.
This should simulate the call button push:
Sendspecial(114)
Here's a list of some of the other codes for button pushes, just for posterity:
# 91: startmenu (on some devices it might be home button)
# 92: back key (not the backspace key but back key for closing applications which is available on some devices such as diamnd or blackstone)
# 93: menu key
#112: left softkey
#113: right softkey
#114: accept call (green button)
#115: hang up (red button)
#117: volume up
#118: volume down
#126: data disconnect
#127: toggle speaker
#133: devicelock
#223: power off
I'm not sure where I got this, but it was probably the giant mortscript accumulation thread. I'm assuming the 'accept call' key is basically what you want.
If you want to get more out of the button push, like have it do one thing with google maps active and other things with something else running, you can use something like the one below. I assign my ptt button to do multiple things. I mostly use it for page scrolling when I'm reading, and have different scripts for Barnes and Noble ereader, mobipocket (use it the most), and Ereader. When none of these are in use, it activates MSVC. This is the down script (have another for long-ptt that pushes up, and also opens the camera).
If (wndactive("BN eReader"))
Mousedown("BN eReader", 240, 420)
Mouseup("BN eReader", 240, 320)
elseif (procexists("mobibook.exe"))
Sendspecial(39)
elseif (procexists("ereader.exe"))
Sendspecial(39)
elseif (procexists("virtualmemory.exe"))
Sendspecial(39)
else
run("\Windows\voicecmd.exe")
endif
sleep(100)
Run("\Windows\Compact Heaps.lnk")
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