Is there any way to remap the hardware buttons on the DHD? I use nolock and it works great but my volume buttons wake up my phone and sometimes when I have it in the case on my belt, the volume button gets pressed and some strange things can happen when it's not locked. I would like to remap the volume buttons so that they don't wake the phone up.
That would be no problem at all. That is, if you have full root (S-Off) so that you can write to your system partition.
If so, just edit the file: /system/usr/keylayout/spade-keypad-v0.kl
The original file has the following keymap definitions:
Code:
key 102 HOME WAKE_DROPPED
key 139 MENU WAKE_DROPPED
key 158 BACK WAKE_DROPPED
key 217 SEARCH WAKE_DROPPED
key 116 POWER WAKE_DROPPED
key 114 VOLUME_DOWN WAKE
key 115 VOLUME_UP WAKE
I've swapped the Home and the Search button because I've rather small hands
(I will write a app to redefine these buttons in the future)
I think your problem will be solved by deleting WAKE behind the volume buttons
Thanks, I'll give it a shot.
This is one thing I hate about the different manufactures; different button order.
Sent from my Desire HD
I wrote a tool to edit the keylayout map file simple and easy. Posted it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464
(it says experimental, because it is intented as an app for all Android devices. However, it is tested on the DHD and it works without any problems)
With the app you can turn off the waking up of the device, but you can also assign functions to your keys like call/endcall, media next .. you can swap the home and search button or remap the volume keys to page down/up for ereading (with a hot reboot which will be implemented later, effectuating key redefinitions can be done fast, so that it is also possible to do a temporarily remapping)
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Hey guys,
is there a way to reassign the hardkeys home and back?
I also have an item "Buttons" in the settings but there is only one key defined: "Key 1 (Hold), Voicedial settings".
However, I can't find this button, where is it?
It's the first button i.e phone pickup, hold it and it will give you the voice dial
Key 1 is the dial key (far left).
You can reassign the back key with AE Button Plus. I'm not sure that you can remap home.
use AE Button Plus to reassign the keys, words great on my touch hd. I read somewhere that Home button is not supported due to different driver implemented by HTC
Thanks for your replies.
I'm aware of AE Button Plus but the interesting thing is the reassignment of the home key.
I wanna keep the back key as it is and assign an ok/close task to the home key because the end call button actually does the same thing as the home button namely go back to the today screen when you have a running application in foreground.
In AEB+ I have the following:
Button 1 (hold)
Windows Key
Enter/Action
Volume Up
Volume Down
Green Phone Button
Red Phone Button
Left Softkey
Right Softkey
Up Arrow
Down Arrow
Left Arrow
Right Arrow
I can access the volume up and down keys but which key is the back key?
I assume the green and red phone button is pickup and hangup key respectively?
Is there a way to access the power key at the top?
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...but which key is the back key?
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The back key is "Enter/Action".
It seems that the home key as well as the power key cannot be reassigned.
Back and home key can be reassigned on a window by window basis in the registry. Not particularly useful, but better than nothing.
V
What exactly needs to be done in the registry to reassign the home key?
Even if I have to enter a new registry key for any program window I might use it is worth the effort (at least for me).
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The back key is "Enter/Action".
It seems that the home key as well as the power key cannot be reassigned.
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I just want to update:
the back key is not the "Enter/Action" key. i have tried to edit this button and it didn't remap to the Back key.
If you go to File -> Add Button, and tap the Back key, it will recognize the key as button #405C. I have remapped it to "Close Active Application" and it worked.
i don't think u can reassign the Home key as AE Button Plus cannot access the Home key.
I was also unable to change the Home key in AEBplus.
Concerning the back key assignment with AEBplus, I was trying to assign something to the long press but unable to get it working. No problem for single press and double press.
Anyone has better luck?
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Back and home key can be reassigned on a window by window basis in the registry. Not particularly useful, but better than nothing.
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So how do we go about doing that vijay555?
Power Key
Here's the modified power key from Diamond but it can be used on HD.
When Power key on long-pressed, it will display the menu for choice. Tested.
Regards,
KCJ
just tested on Aeplus 2.6.6.1, the Back key = the Ok key, it can be remapped.
I have it set to:
Single press="Ok/Close"
Double press = S2U2
Long press=close active app
EDIT: Long press doesn't work... might try another method.
don't know if this works, but it is worth a try:
if you copy a shortcut to \Windows and name it "Short_Power.lnk" you can intercept the short power key press. at least that worked for me on my diamond.
you could try s.th. like "Short_Home.lnk" but that would intercept the "other home key" (which manages the cursor's position like end, up down, left, right, etc).
the magic would be to find the correct name of the key.
longpress back key (405C)
I know this is an old thread, but I haven't found yet a solution.
I'd like to be able to add longpress back key (405C) to the key menu on the windows config.
I've found the registry key that HTC uses to provide longpress send key, but I copied with no luck.
Anyone knows how to do it? vijay555 has said it's possible but never indicated how...
Hey guys
the android versions for blackstone are very well, u did a good job.
But why you don't use the "Hang up" button to go directly back to the home screen?
The prob is when i use the browser the only way to go back to the home screen is pressing the backward-button. that means it browses all the visited pages back before minimize the browser and show the home screen.
so why u don't used the turn off button to turn off the display and you the hang up button to minimize the running app and go directly to the home screen?
greetz.
I got similar question.
Why Android can't have same buttons behavior like WM?
Is something wrong with this?
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Hey guys
the android versions for blackstone are very well, u did a good job.
But why you don't use the "Hang up" button to go directly back to the home screen?
The prob is when i use the browser the only way to go back to the home screen is pressing the backward-button. that means it browses all the visited pages back before minimize the browser and show the home screen.
so why u don't used the turn off button to turn off the display and you the hang up button to minimize the running app and go directly to the home screen?
greetz.
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It's because most devs have a different device.
But dude, check my signature...
next time a little searching might help you on your way a lot faster
could someone edit rootfs.img file like this:
remove "sleep" from End call button
and assign:
to Volume + button on hold => Home screen
to Volume - button on hold => Recent apps
is it possible? as I never hold volume key to increase/decrease volume, i always press it step by step..
do you think it would be ok like this ?
crnogorac081 said:
could someone edit rootfs.img file like this:
remove "sleep" from End call button
and assign:
to Volume + button on hold => Home screen
to Volume - button on hold => Recent apps
is it possible? as I never hold volume key to increase/decrease volume, i always press it step by step..
do you think it would be ok like this ?
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Altering button behavior is impossible. We can swap them around but HOME will always show Recent Apps when long pressed no matter to which button it is assigned (except for power). Sorry
oh.. I thought it is possible as I found this code for desire(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=683902) :
Code:
key 102 HOME
key 139 MENU
key 158 BACK
key 217 SEARCH
key 107 ENDCALL WAKE_DROPPED
key 116 POWER WAKE_DROPPED
key 115 VOLUME_UP WAKE
key 114 VOLUME_DOWN WAKE
and thought if it was possible to locate this code for blackstone and alter it..
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oh.. I thought it is possible as I found this code for desire(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=683902) :
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and thought if it was possible to locate this code for blackstone and alter it..
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That's what we're doing here - modifying that table. I think I didn't make myself clear enough: we can swap keys but we can't change what long press does. Check this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12066475&postcount=24
This is the rootfs I've made. Button assignment looks like this:
Code:
[FONT="Lucida Console"]
Button / Android function / Android long press
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Power / Sleep / Power Menu
Volume Up / Volume Up +1 / Volume Up Continuous
Volume Down / Volume Down +1 / Volume Down Continuous
Call / Dial - Answer / Voice Dial
Home / Menu / Menu
Back / Back / Back
End Call / Home / Recent Apps
[/FONT]
You were clear I just thought it was possible
Here are some things I have tried by editing the supersonic-keypad.kl file in /system/usr/keylayout .
To re-map the power function to the volume down key (for me this is more convenient) I changed the binding of key 116 (power) to the VOLUME_DOWN intent, and the binding of key 114 (volume down) to the POWER intent. And this works great.
My supersonic-keypad.kl file for this.
key 107 ENDCALL WAKE_DROPPED
key 116 VOLUME_DOWN WAKE
key 115 VOLUME_UP WAKE
key 114 POWER WAKE_DROPPED
key 217 SEARCH WAKE_DROPPED
key 158 BACK WAKE_DROPPED
key 139 MENU WAKE_DROPPED
key 102 HOME WAKE_DROPPED
Now I also tried to map the camera to the power button by changing the intent defined for key 116 to CAMERA. This also works great, but you have to hold the button for about 2 seconds.
Here's my supersonic-keypad.kl file for that.
key 107 ENDCALL WAKE_DROPPED
key 116 CAMERA
key 115 VOLUME_UP WAKE
key 114 POWER WAKE_DROPPED
key 217 SEARCH WAKE_DROPPED
key 158 BACK WAKE_DROPPED
key 139 MENU WAKE_DROPPED
key 102 HOME WAKE_DROPPED
Now trying to be real creative knowing that you must hold to get the camera app to launch, and that the volume works when you just tap the key. I tried to map both of those intents to the power key. Now unfortunately this didn't work as intended. And had an unforeseen side effect when I power off the device.
Here's my supersonic-keypad.kl file for that.
key 107 ENDCALL WAKE_DROPPED
key 116 VOLUME_DOWN WAKE
key 115 VOLUME_UP WAKE
key 114 POWER WAKE_DROPPED
key 217 SEARCH WAKE_DROPPED
key 158 BACK WAKE_DROPPED
key 139 MENU WAKE_DROPPED
key 102 HOME WAKE_DROPPED
Key 116 CAMERA
The behavior expressed from this configuration is that only the camera intent would fire when android was fully loaded. And the unforeseen effect was when I powered off the device the power button didn't turn the phone back on. This doesn't make any sense to me why changing that file would cause this behavior. So I got the phone booted by disconnecting the battery and then with it out connecting the charger and then placed the battery back in. This caused the unit to turn on.
Android loaded and even then the power button did not register. I used the keynumber tracker app to see it was stuck by chance or if the intents were just not working, but the key didn't register there either.
I rebooted into recovery and even there the power button refused to work. So I changed my supersonic-keypad.kl back to my first test config with the volume down mapped to the power button and viola. The power button turns the phone back on again and works in Android as expected from my first test.
So if anyone can explain this behavior that would be great, otherwise I'm leaving this post for those whom may find them selves attempting to re-map their buttons or those that have nullified their power key and want to turn the phone back on.
hi all
i have sgyd and i want to know how to mod hardware keys ?
because i want to change lockscreen key or volume key to camera key for take better shot
I am not exactly sure about this. I just have read this (Never tried).
1) Pull and open /system/usr/keylayout/sec_key.kl with notepad++
2) You will see 3 rows.
a) Row 1 is for attributes.
key 102 #FOR HOME
key 139 #FOR MENU
key 158 #FOR BACK
key 115 #FOR VOLUME_UP
key 114 #FOR VOLUME_DOWN
b) 2nd is for actions
HOME #Launches "Home"
MENU #Launches "Menu"
BACK #Takes you back to the last activity
SEARCH #Launches "Universal Search"
CALL #Launches the "Phone" activity and corresponding .apk or initiates a call
ENDCALL #Ends a call
CAMERA #Launches "Camera" activity and corresponding .apk
FOCUS #Initiates Auto-Focus while using the Camera
VOLUME_UP # Increase Volume
VOLUME_DOWN # Decrease Volume
c) 3rd is for waking up screen on button press.
WAKE #Completes the action without waking the screen
WAKE_DROPPED #Wakes the phone to complete the action
You can add camera action to your volume down button.
Side effect:- If you will press that edited button at home screen(e.g. Volume down to decrease volume) then it will open Camera.apk along with its regular action.
Credits- lokeshsaini94
Hi, guys
Is there any way that I can remap buttons on the remote? For example, long press play/pause for menu(some legacy apps still require menu key to function), long press up/down for volume up/down.
2ig2ag said:
Hi, guys
Is there any way that I can remap buttons on the remote? For example, long press play/pause for menu(some legacy apps still require menu key to function), long press up/down for volume up/down.
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I dont have it yet so i have no way of testing it out, but i recently remapped the physical keys on my nexus 6 by editing /system/usr/keylayout/generic.kl
I know this file is used to map physical and virtual keys in almost all android devices. not sure if it works for the remote or not but id start there. you need to be rooted to to access the file though. Let me know of it works or if you need anymore help feel free to pm me.
I am also hoping there is an answer to this, as I would like to access the context menu by long pressing a button like the way it was done in the apple TV 2. Unless I'm missing something, I can only access this menu by going into Yatse app on my phone.
PS. I'm referring to when I am in Kodi for the context menu
globber said:
I am also hoping there is an answer to this, as I would like to access the context menu by long pressing a button like the way it was done in the apple TV 2. Unless I'm missing something, I can only access this menu by going into Yatse app on my phone.
PS. I'm referring to when I am in Kodi for the context menu
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You can edit the keymap.XML file in kodi to open the context menu when you press the play/pause button when a video is not playing. If a video is playing it will act as the normal play/pause button.
Sent from my LG-D851 using Tapatalk
My solution was to use the Amazon Fire TV stick remote. That remote is solid. The only thing that the stick remote can't do is voice search.
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You can edit the keymap.XML file in kodi to open the context menu when you press the play/pause button when a video is not playing. If a video is playing it will act as the normal play/pause button.
Sent from my LG-D851 using Tapatalk
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Can you show me how to do that? Because When I use the keymap tool in kodi, the only keys that get registered are the arrow keys. when i press the playpause key it doesnt give me a button id. Thank you !
aftv stick remote keymap HELP
Hello everyone, I need some help for keymapping my aftv stick remote to be use on my nexus player. For default it works nice but I read some post that the center button may be act different and some apps dont works and thats my case. It works on kodi but in Playon app I can move through the menu but I can't enter to the menu when I press the center button. Any help or advive? Thanks!
The post at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=59821276&postcount=111 explains how to remap the remote's play/pause button to bring up the context menu in Kodi. I've tried it and can confirm that it works.
Copy this to /system/usr/keylayout and Correct permissions
Remaps Search button to Menu
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B378QJZzCsnqM0FyLTZaaVpZdVk/view?usp=sharing
boldfilter said:
Copy this to /system/usr/keylayout and Correct permissions
Remaps Search button to Menu
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B378QJZzCsnqM0FyLTZaaVpZdVk/view?usp=sharing
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interesting ...
key 103 DPAD_UP
key 105 DPAD_LEFT
key 106 DPAD_RIGHT
key 108 DPAD_DOWN
key 158 BACK
key 164 MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE
key 172 HOME
key 217 SEARCH
key 353 DPAD_CENTER
So remapping row "key 217 SEARCH" to "key 217 MENU" will let voice search button act as menu button?
is there a way to add long click behavior? for example to keep voice search as default function and long click for menu??
thanks!
furius said:
interesting ...
key 103 DPAD_UP
key 105 DPAD_LEFT
key 106 DPAD_RIGHT
key 108 DPAD_DOWN
key 158 BACK
key 164 MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE
key 172 HOME
key 217 SEARCH
key 353 DPAD_CENTER
So remapping row "key 217 SEARCH" to "key 217 MENU" will let voice search button act as menu button?
is there a way to add long click behavior? for example to keep voice search as default function and long click for menu??
thanks!
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Long click behavior is more complicated, so no.
Check here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695936
I have a similar problem. I have this remote but the back key up on the top is mapped as a mouse press. I previously used this remote on a minix box with no issues running 4.2.2, however the nexus registers it as left click i believe. is there any way to change this? Thanks!
Search trigger button
Guys,
when i use a keyboard and i search i cant hit enter to trigger the search i always need press search on the onscreen keyboard. Is there any way to trigger search by key "Enter" or so? I deactivated the onscreen keyboard because i dont need it with a physical keyboard, but now i cant search... Anybody got a solution?