Somehow my OK button on my 8525 (just above the END button) now brings up the volume settings. I want it to act as a BACK button like it did out of the box. I was going to set everything back to factory settings since I have probably installed some junk playing with the device so much, but maybe somebody can tell me an easier way to fix this?
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hello,
i have a problem with my xda neo:
holdung hardware buttons doesn't work anymore.
for example the volume keys: some days ago i could hold down the button on the side and the volume gets reduced until the phone is silent. or in menus or contacs i could hold down the cursor button and the selection was going down. now it goes down only one entry and doesn't scroll down anymore. may i have disabled it? i have sktools but i did not find the setting for it.
does someone know, what i have to do?
ps: i don't want to hardreset
edit: ok, looking around in tools and registry didn't help. but the built in settings dialog was the solution. sometimes the easiest way is the solution
heh lol, good you fixed it
With a complete lack of knowledge how to fix it I was already ready to give you advice to make a backup of your phone, do a hard-reset and check if the button was at least still working. Then you could have put the backup back again and you are up and running. Which would at least have ruled out hardware problems
Currently, I can only power on my phone via the power button, but at some point I had something installed (or tweaked some registry setting or something so that I could also press the green/phone button and that would also wake it up. All the other buttons - except power and phone - were locked out and did nothing (once I powered off). Now I can't recall how in the world I did that. Can anyone help me on this? Pleeease?
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Currently, I can only power on my phone via the power button, but at some point I had something installed (or tweaked some registry setting or something so that I could also press the green/phone button and that would also wake it up. All the other buttons - except power and phone - were locked out and did nothing (once I powered off). Now I can't recall how in the world I did that. Can anyone help me on this? Pleeease?
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On mine, it's a setting under keylock.
Start -> Settings -> System
Yeah, I have that, too, but my options are...
Lock all buttons except Power button
Lock buttons if device is locked
Do not lock buttons
If I choose option 2, any of the HW buttons will wake it up. But I used to have it set so that only the power button OR the phone button would wake it up. The messaging, IE, camera, etc. buttons would not wake it up.
Are you saying that you have the option for just the power and phone buttons? If so, maybe it's an OS issue? I'm running WM6.1...
There is no such option for just the power and phone buttons under keylock. Just the 3 options u saw! Maybe a 3rd party app...
I guess it must have been a 3rd party app, then, or something that applies tweaks, but I've looked in AdvancedConfig and SKTools and I don't see it anywhere.
I know I did it somehow. Just hoping someone will recognize this and know how it's done.
I just bought a used hd2 yesterday, and it came with magldr with ultimate droid rom 3.3. I found out that none of the physical button acts as a Menu and Back button which makes navigation and menu access very hard. I even changed roms but still same thingn
My question is, is hd2 don't map physical keys as menu and back? Or is my unit actually defective? All the buttons work though, only that the Window and Home button does the same thing while Back and End button turns off the screen.
Thanks in advance!
Update: I have manage to get the menu (window) button working, but the back button is more trickier.. it seems thatt the physical button is actually pressing other keys.. in this case when I pressed the Window button for menu.. it will actually press the Home button which will bring me back to home screen. And for the back button, its actually pressing the End button, although I did manage to get it to press its back button, but its quite difficult. Does anyone knows how to fix this?
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I think that u may have a faulty back button or that dirt got under it thefe are guides on here xda that show u how to fix back button etc but it requires you taking phone apart and you need to read guides totally and follow steps there are also guides on youtube as well. It also sounds that the buttons might have been remapped there is an app called button remapper that allows you to change what the physical buttons do like the phone button back button etc do in other words you can change what every physical button on your hd2 does like for example the volume keys you would be able to change to back button etc. Read about button remapper on google before attempting to use app hope this helps you.
That's a common issue in the HD2, probably your device is defective.
Don't bother with the warranty, replacement and all that stuff since the back and menu aren't required for flashing or entering bootloader mode.
Just download "zMooth" app from market. (Pro version will give you End & Search)
I would prefer fixing the physical keys as they are important functions that is required in order to navigate around. Any links to how to fix the buttons? I think they are just misaligned because of prolong usage. Because multiple tries proves that it can still work.
Update: I have seen the official tutorial video for disassmbling the HD2, to just replace the keypad flex ribbon requires one to go very deep inside the phone before you can actually access the flex ribbon for the keypad. Now i am thinking twice to repair the physical button, let alone give an unofficial service guy to replace it.
@Marvlesz
I have installed zMooth, nice app.. but take some time getting used to. thanks!
or you can try a cm7 rom and use the tablet tweak soft keys in the options.
u can use button savior to replace all buttons .. it's a must have for me ..
Does anyone know if physical button problem such as mine are caused by the wear and tear of the flex cable or is it because of the plastic buttons itself?
I am having a problem with my volume, every time I hang the phone up my volume setting pops up and is automatically turned all the way down even though it was turned up. Once I click the settings button to turn it back up all my volume settings are pre set and its not what I set them at.
Do you use a widget called volume control+? It does that if you save settings.
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No I don't. Just as soon as I hang up I look at my screen and it has the volume setting that pops up when you hit the volume button on the side, and I am not hitting that when I hang up. Hasn't always done it.
Reboot it as in power off then on or hold down the home power and volume up? I have turned it on and off several times with no luck. I know it isn't that big a problem and I don't know if anyone else is having the same issue but I would like to be able to fix it. I appreciate everyone's help.
I don't think I want to do that, wouldn't I lose all my apps. I don't have a computer to back anything up. Do I need to reboot it with the three keys?
I replaced the digitezer and the back button (and sometimes the menu button, but mostly the back button) keeps pressing itself.
I get the heptic feedback as if I pressed the button, but I never did.
I took another look at my installation and everything looks good. I added some electric tape between the cables for the back and menu buttons to prevent shorting, I run a factory reset on the phone but the issue remains.
Does anyone know how to fix it?
I'm running android 5.0.1