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[Cyanogenmod] Swap Smilie-/Returnkey in Stock-Messaging-App

Hello dear community!
Our CM7 stands in the wings and most of us are reporting bugs to CyanogenMod.
But apart from the bugs, there are other things that could be improved.
I noticed for example in the SMS app, that there is no way to force the line break through the return key has been replaced by the key for emoticons.
Okay, what's the problem, are now some thinking.
You can use a different keyboard or simply another SMS app such as handcent. Well, would not be a problem, but honestly - who would not like to have everything from one source?
I'm really pleased so far with CM7, the stock keyboard is better than Swiftkey or Smart Keyboard Pro and i like the stock SMS-App much more than other alternatives from the market.
Here my request to you:
Issue 2898 - CyanogenMod - Enhancement: Swap Smilie-/Returnkey in Stock Messaging App - Project Hosting on Google Code
Give the project a star, if you also like to have the line break back and if not, still give the star that does not hurt you and increases the chance that the project is implemented.
The whole was unfortunately already tried, but it has been there for more than 8 months and only 3 people starred this. I hope this time on more resonance, especially by the large community here. This is why i've opened this thread.
With best regards
Olli

Starred. I find this terribly annoying too as I never use the emoticon button but frequently want a line break.

Is there a way for toggle "android:inputType="textShortMessage"" ?
I've just decompiled mms.apk and deleted those lines from
..\res\layout\compose_message_activity_black and ..\res\layout\compose_message_activity
then compiled again and now i've got the returnkey back.
But that's only a workaround, can this be put into a option?

mik101 said:
Starred. I find this terribly annoying too as I never use the emoticon button but frequently want a line break.
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this is a frequent topic between me and my psychiatrist as well, lol.
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OneStepAhead said:
this is a frequent topic between me and my psychiatrist as well, lol.
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Ok let's keep it constructive... This annoys me limitless too. Is there a workaround meanwhile?

few mods for stock rom

So yes, i,ve stated it in the title.
I'm using Frosty Jelly bean from past 2 weeks.
and trust me by far the BEST STOCK ROM ever you can even think of.
it is way toooooo quick and smooth.
After the first update, i,ve requested the dev to add few tweaks for the the update but Unfortunately, the dev thinks that no one, else than me and him using his rom.
And he has kinda abandoned the work.
So the reason why i am writing this post is to ask you guys that is there any way that i can add these few mods to that rom without an update from the dev's side.
1- enter instead of smiley face in keyboard
2- navigation bar customization
P.s i,ve already searched the forum :$ but couldn't find any thing similar to what i'm asking for here :$
Else trust me guys the ROM is way more quicker than the STOCK it self.

eefo said:
So yes, i,ve stated it in the title.
I'm using Frosty Jelly bean from past 2 weeks.
and trust me by far the BEST STOCK ROM ever you can even think of.
it is way toooooo quick and smooth.
After the first update, i,ve requested the dev to add few tweaks for the the update but Unfortunately, the dev thinks that no one, else than me and him using his rom.
And he has kinda abandoned the work.
So the reason why i am writing this post is to ask you guys that is there any way that i can add these few mods to that rom without an update from the dev's side.
1- enter instead of smiley face in keyboard
2- navigation bar customization
P.s i,ve already searched the forum :$ but couldn't find any thing similar to what i'm asking for here :$
Else trust me guys the ROM is way more quicker than the STOCK it self.
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OK here's what you do buy swift key that will fix the keyboard to what you want
Search play store for nav bar customization it's for root phones and only cost. 99 cents but allows you to change size and things like that. No reason for the developer to add these things if you can with out any coding
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Sorry if it sounded mean didn't want it to but developers usually are like artist they do what they want
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Thanks for your reply mate, but if i wanted to install applications, i wouldn't be asking here.
The thing is i actually want to keep it stock :/
I know installing applications will keep it stock but you know things implemented by default play safe role in the smoothness of the rom :/
And the mods i guess once installed get sick to the rom.
But anyways thanks for your reply and still if anyone has the mods do help me :$
Because I'm truly in love with the speed of this rom.
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lol no worries mate.
I haven't took it serious.
I know devs got their own lives as well, basically I'm regretting not having knowledge regarding rom developing that's why being too fussy (if you want to call me): $

eefo said:
So yes, i,ve stated it in the title.
I'm using Frosty Jelly bean from past 2 weeks.
and trust me by far the BEST STOCK ROM ever you can even think of.
it is way toooooo quick and smooth.
After the first update, i,ve requested the dev to add few tweaks for the the update but Unfortunately, the dev thinks that no one, else than me and him using his rom.
And he has kinda abandoned the work.
So the reason why i am writing this post is to ask you guys that is there any way that i can add these few mods to that rom without an update from the dev's side.
1- enter instead of smiley face in keyboard
2- navigation bar customization
P.s i,ve already searched the forum :$ but couldn't find any thing similar to what i'm asking for here :$
Else trust me guys the ROM is way more quicker than the STOCK it self.
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1 - If I'm not mistaken the enter key is a .png inside /system/app/systemui.apk or /system/framework/framework-res.apk. Replace the png with whatever you want.
2 - Get frosty's source code, compile it and make sure it runs first. Next, get AOKP's github and cherry pick their navigation bar changes. Rebuilt, and see if it runs
Also, it's NOT A STOCK ROM anymore. It's still considered a custom rom. It DID NOT SHIP with the phone.

Well in this case it may be your only option as many of us just use the apps so we can have the option on all rom but at least the more you and I hat back and forth the longer this topic will be at the top I have stock non rooted but rooting it probably next week so I can flash an older base band and will be changing my nav bar with that app.
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exb0 said:
1 - If I'm not mistaken the enter key is a .png inside /system/app/systemui.apk or /system/framework/framework-res.apk. Replace the png with whatever you want.
2 - Get frosty's source code, compile it and make sure it runs first. Next, get AOKP's github and cherry pick their navigation bar changes. Rebuilt, and see if it runs
Also, it's NOT A STOCK ROM anymore. It's still considered a custom rom. It DID NOT SHIP with the phone.
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Thanks for the keyboard solution, I'll definitely dig in to it. and for the compiling part, i seriously wish that i knew some tricks but sadly, I'm a no good in this game :/
That's why asked for the other solution.
But anyways thanks for your reply to mate.
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jonapunk said:
Well in this case it may be your only option as many of us just use the apps so we can have the option on all rom but at least the more you and I hat back and forth the longer this topic will be at the top I have stock non rooted but rooting it probably next week so I can flash an older base band and will be changing my nav bar with that app.
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lol, hope for the best for you.
Ammm, would you mind if i ask you to name that app, or if you can share the link to that app because I've searched play store but couldn't find that certain app :$
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When I get home I'll look for the article on android police it had a link to the app and the name
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Swop the soft keys?

I've searched but can't find any threads on this...
Can I swop the soft keys on my Nexus 4? It's not rooted at present, but rooting it is not a problem.
Thanks.

*swap
Im guessing by swap you mean that you want to be able to change the order of the keys on the navigation bar?
If so, you will need a custom rom. Most roms will allow you to edit the navigation bar to remove/add/rearrange the softkeys, such as cyanogenmod, carbon, aokp, etc.

Chromium_ said:
*swap
Im guessing by swap you mean that you want to be able to change the order of the keys on the navigation bar?
If so, you will need a custom rom. Most roms will allow you to edit the navigation bar to remove/add/rearrange the softkeys, such as cyanogenmod, carbon, aokp, etc.
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*Swop.
I mean I'd like to swop over the two keys that reside either side of the home button. That is, the recent apps key on the left and the back button on the right. I'm left handed (and British, hence *swop) and it's more convenient with the soft keys this way round.

stevebrc said:
*Swop.
I mean I'd like to swop over the two keys that reside either side of the home button. That is, the recent apps key on the left and the back button on the right. I'm left handed (and British, hence *swop) and it's more convenient with the soft keys this way round.
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Oops my bad, I had no idea that how you guys spelled that...seems so wrong. Sorry for being so ignorant.
Anyways, you still need to use a custom rom to be able to achieve what you're looking for.

Chromium_ said:
Oops my bad, I had no idea that how you guys spelled that...seems so wrong
Anyways, you still need to use a custom rom to be able to achieve what you're looking for.
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And until I started messing around with Linux I had no idea you lot spelt it wrong either
I spent hours trying to setup a swop file, and kept failing, then I realised it's a swap file!
In fairness, both are used in the British version of English, and in some regions swap is more common, but I'm a child of the 70's, and we had The Multicoloured Swop Shop TV show on a Saturday morning, so it's how i've always spelt it.
I'm running Cyanogenmod 10.1 stable on my Samsung Note 2, I can't see anyway to swop the keys, would this facility feature only on CM on the Nexus? or does it not offer it at all?

stevebrc said:
And until I started messing around with Linux I had no idea you lot spelt it wrong either
I spent hours trying to setup a swop file, and kept failing, then I realised it's a swap file!
In fairness, both are used in the British version of English, and in some regions swap is more common, but I'm a child of the 70's, and we had The Multicoloured Swop Shop TV show on a Saturday morning, so it's how i've always spelt it.
I'm running Cyanogenmod 10.1 stable on my Samsung Note 2, I can't see anyway to swop the keys, would this facility feature only on CM on the Nexus? or does it not offer it at all?
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Haha interesting. As a Canadian, we usually adopt the British spelling of most words rather than the American, but apparently not in this case. Ive honestly never heard of "swop" being used.
The reason you dont have the navigation bar options on your note 2 is because the phone lacks a software navigation bar. Technically the options are there, but cm hides them on devices with hardware buttons. You would actually be able to unmask these options on your note 2 by adding a line in your build.prop: "qemu.hw.mainkeys=0". Doing that will give you all of the navbar features, as well as pie controls.
On nexus devices (or other devices with a navigation bar) these options are shown by default.

Every version of CM 10.x that I have used, on the nexus 4, has the ability to customize the navigation bar. I don't know about other devices. I also always switch the back button and recent apps button.
Go to: Settings>System>Buttons and Layout (under the Navigation Bar sub-heading)
The instructions for changing them are built-in.

That's brill, thanks both of you.
I was pondering putting CM on the Nexus, that's the decision made.
Now off to find a "how to".
Regards.

stevebrc said:
That's brill, thanks both of you.
I was pondering putting CM on the Nexus, that's the decision made.
Now off to find a "how to".
Regards.
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1. Unlock the bootloader and install a custom recovery (twrp)
2. Download cm and copy to your phone
3. Boot into twrp. Wipe > Swipe to factory reset. Install > browse to cm zip, select it, and swipe to flash

TVM.

I'm English and I've never used the word swop. Maybe it's a regional thing? Slightly off topic, I know.
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If you guys are gonna go ot then I'm sure there's other things than the English dictionary and the word swap/swop. Its like arguing with americans about aluminium, not aloomium as they pronounce it, its just pointless
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22sl22 said:
If you guys are gonna go ot then I'm sure there's other things than the English dictionary and the word swap/swop. Its like arguing with americans about aluminium, not aloomium as they pronounce it, its just pointless
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Nobody's arguing it's just a simple debate.
I've seen and used it both ways i tend to use swap more often now. I'm from northeastern England. Come to think of it Google keyboard knows it as both swap and swop
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Love how some try to turn all internet chat into arguments whilst taking the whole "I'm above this" approach!
I'm originally a southerner, Londoner to be precise, but have lived in Ireland for many years now. From a speech perspective swap would be more common here.
Perhaps swop is a southern thing? After all, we do speak proper, not like you northerners

Sorted, just! Took hours to get the drivers working on Windows, once that was finally sorted the rest was a breeze
Soft keys now suitable for a leftie

it was swap shop
swap shop.....:laugh: never has been swop

Good god, just Googled it, your right. This is shocking news. Did I grow up in a parallel universe where it was swop, or am I, gulp, wrong?

stevebrc said:
Good god, just Googled it, your right. This is shocking news. Did I grow up in a parallel universe where it was swop, or am I, gulp, wrong?
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Haha, well according to this both swap and swop are correct.

stevebrc said:
Good god, just Googled it, your right. This is shocking news. Did I grow up in a parallel universe where it was swop, or am I, gulp, wrong?
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Ha must be strange to question your childhood.
Wrong about it being "swop shop" yeah but who cares at the end of the day it's just different regions and accents.
You'd have to be the type of douchebag who loves to be right all the time. Running around saying "it's not proper English unless it's standard English." Nobody speaks standard English you write standard English that's why you have formal and informal writing.
Yes douchebag is slang.
Now how did we get on to this? Almost all nexus 4 ROMs will let you customize the navigation bar.
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My Nexus is now sporting CM10.1 stable. It's a shame that I had to use a custom rom just to achieve something so basic, you'd really think the facility to swop, sorry swap the keys would be there in vanilla Android, but I guess not.
There again, vanilla also forgot to add in a battery percentage icon so it's missing some pretty obvious features, I mean, even IOS had had a battery percentage since around version 3!
Oh well, happy with CM so all good with the world once more.
Thanks for the help.

[Q] WebOS Style Notification for Nexus 4

hello there community!
My name is Sady and i have a couple questions for you. We all know and love the WebOS platform and we also know that that's a dead story. So i'm trying to duplicate the notification on the bottom bar (where the home, back, etc. buttons are) i want it to be available from a swipe up from the bottom (swipe on the black part, not over the icons so Google now shortcut doesn't get messed up) i also want to incorporate the swipe to delete feature on the notifications. This is so that reaching notifications is a LOT easier to reach for people with smaller hands and also so that we can make more use of the wasted real estate of on-screen buttons.
Now that you know what my goal is, here's the problem... I'm only in high school and don't have the advance knowledge necessary to go on with the project. Here's where you, the community of developers, come in. i would really appreciate if you some of you could take on this project on your own and make it possible OR guide me in the right direction to work on it myself and learn a few things on the way.
In the end i would like this feature to be submitted to Cyanogenmod's source code so that all devices with on screen buttons can take advantage of this.
So thank you and have a good day (all pics were made with photoshop-like program)

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One last bump

It's not bad. I would love to try it
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sosta1 said:
It's not bad. I would love to try it
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No one seems to be interested in developing it. If i knew how to i definitely would but i don't know how hard it would actually be to implement it. Thanks for the support though

I really don't know much about WebOS, only it was a HP thing implemented in LG Smart TVs, but you may try looking in it's SDK (if it's available) and extract some code/insiration stuff.
But I doubt it's feasibility, Android has a top notification bar, why create a new one and that too, hiding the navigation buttons?
Good Luck!

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No one seems to be interested in developing it. If i knew how to i definitely would but i don't know how hard it would actually be to implement it. Thanks for the support though
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Hiding the notification bar would be temporary. For only a second or two
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ok google

not sure if this has been discussed yet (could not find much in net either) but some say that the ok google voice commands is not available on the htc one m8. i got mine yesterday through telstra (australia) and have everything stock. today by pure accident i discovered that if you hold the home button down an option to swipe up to google appears. also when in lock screen there is a arrow below the lock symbol that does the same thing. it doesnt seem to be always active like other phones but at least it is there and it works.
ps. absolutely love this phone. upgraded from htc one xl (australian 4g one x) and have to say what a massively huge improvement.

You need to say "ok google" from within Google Search/Now then it works, but that also depends on your local language.
The chipset is very capable of running in a low power mode and waking to voice commands "alright m8" would be awesome, but HTC have chosen not to add it or not add it yet.
There doesn't seem to be stock way of customising the swipe up to get to Google now as there was with the One but HTC are very open to feature suggestions!

Electronic Punk said:
You need to say "ok google" from within Google Search/Now then it works, but that also depends on your local language.
The chipset is very capable of running in a low power mode and waking to voice commands "alright m8" would be awesome, but HTC have chosen not to add it or not add it yet.
There doesn't seem to be stock way of customising the swipe up to get to Google now as there was with the One but HTC are very open to feature suggestions!
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So I take it the search widget doesn't work like the Nexus 5 homescreen? The S5 does...

Maybe, I did see someone demonstrate it very quickly but its not a widget I use and did feel inconsistant!
It won't wake up the device as we see on the Moto X at least.

Theres an app called open mic in the app store that lets you wake up pretty much any phone on jb+ via voice command to google search ill text people by talking to my pocket if i put the sensitivity to max but it wakes up to alot no matter what your wakeup phrase is "you can change it.".

You'll be able to activate it from your homescreen if you were to install the GEL launcher. If, however, you wish to keep Sense then you'll either need to do without it or use one of the apps like Open Mic (mentioned above) to do so
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Electronic Punk said:
There doesn't seem to be stock way of customising the swipe up to get to Google now as there was with the One but HTC are very open to feature suggestions!
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Swipe up gives me Google Now on my bone stock M8?
Regards,
Dave

foxmeister said:
Swipe up gives me Google Now on my bone stock M8?
Regards,
Dave
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Correct, but the M7 with its less buttons used to have a few options, this time around you get what you are given

boofhead said:
not sure if this has been discussed yet (could not find much in net either) but some say that the ok google voice commands is not available on the htc one m8. i got mine yesterday through telstra (australia) and have everything stock. today by pure accident i discovered that if you hold the home button down an option to swipe up to google appears. also when in lock screen there is a arrow below the lock symbol that does the same thing. it doesnt seem to be always active like other phones but at least it is there and it works.
ps. absolutely love this phone. upgraded from htc one xl (australian 4g one x) and have to say what a massively huge improvement.
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Can'you add the Google now widget to the home screen? I like that feature. I don't have the m8 (yet)... Just curious.
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stevedebi said:
Can'you add the Google now widget to the home screen? I like that feature. I don't have the m8 (yet)... Just curious.
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Widgets are still avaliable.
What is different is with the M7 with physical buttons, you could swipe up from the home button, or long press depending on your settings.
With the M8 with virtual buttons you just swipe up from the home button just like you do on the nexus devices.
Basically the buttons and google now behave like they do on a nexus.

It's works great haha, I was wondering what can google now do, now it's useful:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

I found this by accident too. I was happy about it.

You can also install the google now launcher if you want it to always be active. The search widget doesn't listen unless yo tap the mike icon.

So how can the S5 have hotword detection active on the touchwiz launcher ? Can that functionality be brought to Sense?

thefoss said:
So how can the S5 have hotword detection active on the touchwiz launcher ? Can that functionality be brought to Sense?
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It's up to the OEM to include that. Samsung decided to make that part of the SOC active for listening while HTC did not, probably out of battery concerns.

bobruels44 said:
It's up to the OEM to include that. Samsung decided to make that part of the SOC active for listening while HTC did not, probably out of battery concerns.
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But it works with the GEL launcher. In the M8. I wonder if it's something a Dev could implement

HTC one Google edition has this if u want that feature buy the Google edition ppl ***** about everything
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daorderdillon said:
THE HTC One Google edition has this, if YOU want that feature buy the Google edition, PEOPLE ***** about everything.
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Not everyone can afford to do that, we're not all rich like you. Can we get a donation from you to help us do that so you won't have to listen to us peasants?

I want to say OK google.

californiarailroader said:
Not everyone can afford to do that, we're not all rich like you. Can we get a donation from you to help us do that so you won't have to listen to us peasants?
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Everyone know it was only $50 more at the time and also everyone know only the Google edition will have that feature if they were reading correctly
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