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+++ Free button mapper: AE Button Plus +++

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"AE Button Plus for HTC Himalaya/Andes/Alpine/Magician" extends functionality of hardware keys on HTC Himalaya/Andes/Magician platforms. It allows you
- remap each standard hardware button to 2 or 3 "virtual", simulated via double or triple clicks;
- use volume slider to simulate Up/Down direction keys or create additional "virtual" hardware buttons;
- remap Red and Green phone buttons to 1,2 or 3 hardware buttons each.
As a result you may define up to 15 hardware buttons (system limit)
List of Compatible devices (See HTC Platforms)
- HTC Himalaya/Andes: O2 XDA II, I-Mate PocketPC, T-Mobile MDA II, QTek 2020
- HTC Alpine: O2 XDA2 IIi, I-Mate PDA2 (Not PDA2k), QTek 2020i
- HTC Magician: O2 XDA mini, I-Mate JAM, T-Mobile MDA Compact, QTek S100
- There are reports of successful use on E-Ten M500 device
DO NOT INSTALL THIS APPLICATION ON THE INCOMPATIBLE DEVICES!!!
- This may hide or incorrectly redefine hardware buttons until hard reset!
- But you may still try to use this utiliy on any PDA with 4 buttons normaly available in Start - Settings - Buttons. Please make full device backup before experiment.
Details -> http://ae.inc.ru/aebplus_t.html

This is great, the only thing I can't work out is how to change the initial settings i.e. how many logical buttons each physical is mapped to, except at install.

Just reinstall app. I put CAB file to my SD and mark as Read-Only. And if need change initial settings, just reinstall app.

Yeah, that's what I've done too, it's more of an minor annoyance than anything. The other things I've noticed is that it puts an invisible icon in the task bar and can't handle the Pocket Plus 3 (Alt-F4) and (Alt-Tab) settings - you can assign them to the extended buttons but they aren't retained because they're not shortcuts and don't get stored in the registry.
Again, these are just minor niggles, it's still damned useful, I'm up to 12 button assignments already, going to be running out soon!

Hmmm, for me all PP3 functions work fine IMHO bug is if U set on CAMERA button Enter and APPLICATION action For me after this setting CAMERA button not work as enter and not run anby assigned application But this is really minor bug for me Bigger bug is AEButtons not work with HOLD hardware buttons Coz 3x clicking not so easy must have expiriens for using 3x clicking

I am using this program for a while. So far I found a problem if I using it w/ PocketBreeze. If I enable "scroll w/ D-pad" on PB, AE Button+ never response to the first button press. I already email the developer but no response so far.

Operators in Lebanon
Alfa (ex Cellis) and MTC Touch (ex Libancell)

Ooops
ooops, sorry, posted here by mistake!!!

One question. I don't seem to get an icon on the task bar, just a functional (the menu works) empty space. At first I thought this was intentional but I've seen the icon visible in screen shots - any ideas?
O2 Xda II
1.60WWE

Virtual Button
Hi,
It is one of the best free button mapper!!!
I was wondering, what are these "Virtual Buttons" which is available in action drop down. And how can we assign or use these virtual buttons.
Thanks!!

meet_bijoy said:
Hi,
It is one of the best free button mapper!!!
I was wondering, what are these "Virtual Buttons" which is available in action drop down. And how can we assign or use these virtual buttons.
Thanks!!
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Any thoughts/help on this? Anyone?
Please advice.

I just purchased this app with the sole intent to remap my volume keys to the very needed scroll up and down that's missing on the Touch Pro2. I remapped volume up to: Single Click=Press Up arrow Key, and volume down to: Single Click=Press down arrow Key.
It isn't working. Can someone provide step by step instructions how to change volumes to scroll? Have emailed the developer, and he has not responded.
Thank you!

vinovixen said:
I just purchased this app with the sole intent to remap my volume keys to the very needed scroll up and down that's missing on the Touch Pro2. I remapped volume up to: Single Click=Press Up arrow Key, and volume down to: Single Click=Press down arrow Key.
It isn't working.
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Does it do something if you really single click? Holding the button is another thing...

Hi All,
Can someone confirm if this app works on HTC Salsa, running gingerbread 2.3. i want to map my power button to the facebook button so that facebook button also works as power button. Please Help ...

sandeepnarayan said:
Hi All,
Can someone confirm if this app works on HTC Salsa, running gingerbread 2.3. i want to map my power button to the facebook button so that facebook button also works as power button. Please Help ...
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I know, AE Button Plus works on HTC devices based on Windows Mobile !!
if for Android-based device you can try using ButtonRemapper.apk ......
please refer to this thread ~ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9399440&postcount=1

No asterisk character in terminal services client possible??

Has anybody found the '@' character key in terminal services client application on universal?
When I'm pressing 'Fn-Q' (hardware keyboard) or using '[email protected]' (virtual keyboard), there always appears 'Q' instead of '@'.
Please, could anybody help me finding this missing key? I tried almost every key combination but without success.
By the way: my german keyboard layout is 0x407 (that's default).
Best regards
tomestos

you can change the sym.txt to put the @ sign on a direct key.

lbendlin said:
you can change the sym.txt to put the @ sign on a direct key.
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Thanks for your response, but unfortunately this is no solution, because the sym key is unsuitable within terminal services client.
The asterisk character is available in EVERY OTHER application but NOT in terminal services client. Any ideas?
Best regard
tomestos

Why is that not a solution?!? You don't need the sym key for the first character of each line, only for the following characters. Make the asterisk the first character.

lbendlin said:
Why is that not a solution?!? You don't need the sym key for the first character of each line, only for the following characters. Make the asterisk the first character.
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Why don't you need sym key for the first character of a line?
Please be so kind and exactly tell me which key(s) I have to press to generate one '@' in terminal services client.
Best regards
tomestos

Could you use VJKeypress as a short term solution?
V

vijay555 said:
Could you use VJKeypress as a short term solution?
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Hi Vijay,
maybe, if you please could give me a hint how to generate the '@' character by using the appropriate VK_* list members.
This character is a combination of Fn key and 'q' (in the german keyboard layout). Is Fn key equal to VK_CONTROL? And how to "hold" this key while generating VK_Q? Or is there a direct way of generating '@' by VJKeyPress?
Thanks a lot.
Best regards
tomestos

Hmm, problem. It's VK_OEM_3 I think, or one of the oem keys, but I think it needs ctrl or shift. VJKeypress hasn't had shift and ctrl support added yet, I'll have to do it. Apologies. Try it anyway with value of 192. I think that generates ' though.
Worst case - couldn't you copy a * to clipboard and paste as required. Or use mortscript?
V

vijay555 said:
Hmm, problem. It's VK_OEM_3 I think, or one of the oem keys, but I think it needs ctrl or shift. VJKeypress hasn't had shift and ctrl support added yet, I'll have to do it. Apologies. Try it anyway with value of 192. I think that generates ' though.
Worst case - couldn't you copy a * to clipboard and paste as required. Or use mortscript?
V
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I already tried putting the character into clipboard and pasting it, but --- you guess --- paste function is not available within terminal services client. Grrrrr...
I think I will use VNC instead of beasty terminal services. :evil:
Best regards
tomestos

Sorry, I didn't realise you were using Terminal Services, for some reason I was thinking "terminal"!?
If you're prepared to use VJFullscreenTSC, I can try to make a menu to send some special characters if you want. Give me a list and I'll see if I can pop them in.
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vijay555 said:
Sorry, I didn't realise you were using Terminal Services, for some reason I was thinking "terminal"!?
If you're prepared to use VJFullscreenTSC, I can try to make a menu to send some special characters if you want. Give me a list and I'll see if I can pop them in.
V
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Yes, please! But before, I'm on holiday for a week (I planned connecting my universal to my office's server by Terminal Services in this time, but...). I will respond to your posting after returning on next wednesday. Thanks a lot, Vijay!
Best regards
tomestos

[NEW] K's Touch PCM Keyboard Skin & Layout

Here's my PCM Touch Keyboard. The keyboard has HTC Symbol pad's symbols fully integrated into it. By holding down certain keys for 250ms, you'd be able to toggle certain symbols. For example, holding down "a" will show all the "a" accents. Holding down "spacebar" will show common browser shortcuts, and etc etc.
*I don't know why the first picture looks brighter than the others...*
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Holding down the numbers will also toggle some symbols. These are usually symbols that are listed on your ordinary full size keyboard. For example,
1=~, !
[email protected]
3=$ (and various $ signs)
5=%
As you can see, I have also included some ghetto smileys into the mode button tapping the mode button doesn't change anything as there's only 2 modes in this keyboard (caps lock and lower case - double tap shift to toggle between them). However, holding down the mode button will show some commonly used symbols found at the lower portion of a keyboard.
The keyboard is based on the English layout. If you native language is not English, simply change the first two lines of the layout to the layout you commonly use. Everything else should work regardless of the base layout.
Installation is simple, just toss both files into Program Files\PCM Keyboard, select the layout and skin from pcm keyboard option and you are done.
BEFORE INSTALLATION
-open up the layout file with notepad, and replace this line:
symbol_pad=0,)-_+±
There's an extra "-" in the original layout file as seen in picture.
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sir.... looks good but couldnt try coz the file is corrupt....

Looks good, but do you still need to update the PCM Keyboard every now and then? Because the PCM Keyboard has "expired date" which is really annoying.
I would rather to pay (even in this beta version) rather than having to visit the site, download, uninstall, reinstall, etc. etc.

I'm not sure if 0.12 still expires....I'm actually rather new to PCM Keyboard...I skinned it because I wanted a better keyboard to be used with my touch style rom...and the touch xt9 keyboard/keypad is a pita.....
Well, I hope you guys like it, you can easily customize the keyboard layout file to show whatever symbols you want when you hold down a key

Wow! wonder ful. I like it...

I like the look. Its my new skin.
Shouldn't it be "http://" instead of "http:\\"?
Also i could never figure out why on the skins they always have the "'" key above the backspace instead of something like the ".". I don't use hte "'" key as much as I do ".". I usually just change it in the layout file myself.

Is it possible to have a button to switch screen orientation?
Jem777

Really nice, i usually use the PhonePad, but with these nice tweaks u've done 2 it i'll 4sure give it a try...
Thanx for a great work

As noted above, the zip file seems to be corrupt. Downloads okay but won't open.

The current version of PCMK, v.12, is set to expire on Jan 15 or thereabouts. So, yes, it still does expire. I agree it is a bit annoying. But the keyboard is generally great with the rigth skin. I prefer the other "refined" one to this. This is complete, but the buttons are too small IMO. Still both are nice. Different strokes for different folks.

jomo25 said:
The current version of PCMK, v.12, is set to expire on Jan 15 or thereabouts. So, yes, it still does expire. I agree it is a bit annoying. But the keyboard is generally great with the rigth skin. I prefer the other "refined" one to this. This is complete, but the buttons are too small IMO. Still both are nice. Different strokes for different folks.
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Here is a link to the "refined" thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=349647
I was curious how this layout would look with my black iphone skin... So if you like BIG keys and this layout, you can select K's layout and one of the iphone skins from my thread above. The screen shot is of this configuration.
Good work K! I like some of your shortcuts.

Here is my skin and layout...

the bigger keyboard is nice. I'd skin it with the touch look later

Just wanted to see a side by side comparison.

is it just me because when holding down "spacebar" will show common browser shortcuts etc... nothing happens??

gfreek said:
is it just me because when holding down "spacebar" will show common browser shortcuts etc... nothing happens??
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@ gfreek,
Does this work?
klmsu19 said:
-If you press the internet explorer key you will get "http://www."
-If you press and hold the internet explorer key you can choose: https://, .net, .org, .com or www."
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CORRUPT ?????????
bassett said:
As noted above, the zip file seems to be corrupt. Downloads okay but won't open.
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I opened the corrupt file in notepad and saw that is in fact a ".RAR" that was renamed to ".ZIP", why?, I don't know...
Just rename the file ext. from ".zip" back to ".rar" and it should work 100 %
Great skin dude...

You don't have to Unistall, reinstall thingy, just change the date to whatever before 15/Jan-08 and it will work..
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Looks good, but do you still need to update the PCM Keyboard every now and then? Because the PCM Keyboard has "expired date" which is really annoying.
I would rather to pay (even in this beta version) rather than having to visit the site, download, uninstall, reinstall, etc. etc.
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jem777 said:
Is it possible to have a button to switch screen orientation?
Jem777
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no biggie.
you can assign camera button to rotate the screen.
setting - button - <rotate screen>
works like a charm for me.

do you have keyboard skin whick looks like an ordinary phone keypad?. i just got used to it already when messaging.
please help kin0kin.

[Q] Trying to understand / remap hardware keys

I'm probably going to get a Z but one thing that puts me off it is I want to use it for things like coding HTML / CSS and it would be useful to have quick access to < > keys but looking at the key layout it just has ( ) keys:
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But.... There is a SYM key as well as a FN key. Does that mean that some keys will have three functions, 1. default 2. FN and 3 . SYM?
Or will the SYM button bring up a list of symbols on the software keyboard to insert?
Ideally I would be able to remap ( ) to < >, could that be possible?

If it's anything like the TP2 (which I imagine it is), then the SYM key (which was accessed by pressing the FN key and another button), allows you to choose a symbol from a list shown on the screen... Sorry

Im pretty sure they could be mapped once rooted I'll look through a dump for you

[Q] Add extra keys to the hardware keyboard?
Is there a way that I can add the keys ">" and "<" to my hardware keyboard? I'm looking to see if I can add those to the two shortcut keys if possible but they only allow me to put programs on them..
I was also thinking a "Menu + N" and "Menu + M" for the two symbols but I'm not sure if that's possible either.
If that all doesn't work.. can I just add the symbols to the SYM menu? There's so few keys in that SYM menu it's actually a bit disappointing.
Thanks!

FireGX said:
Is there a way that I can add the keys ">" and "<" to my hardware keyboard? I'm looking to see if I can add those to the two shortcut keys if possible but they only allow me to put programs on them..
I was also thinking a "Menu + N" and "Menu + M" for the two symbols but I'm not sure if that's possible either.
If that all doesn't work.. can I just add the symbols to the SYM menu? There's so few keys in that SYM menu it's actually a bit disappointing.
Thanks!
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Hi! Spaniard here. I received my Z two days ago and I'm really enjoying it. However, being Spanish I need characters such as ¿ or ¡ in the hardware keyboard. I've tried every conceivable key combination, with no luck.
Does anybody know how to get those keys? Thank you in advance.

anything new in remaping?
Hi did you get any further in this? I really would like to get arrows (left and right at least) to hardware keyboard -

I've been exploring this, partly for flash games but also it would be nice to long-press the top row of keys to get numbers, rather than the alternate character menu. I've only seen old attempts on the g1, apparently its a tricky process.
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As far as i remember you can access < and > by longpressing ( and ). It was mentioned somewhere here in the forum.

You cannot long press ) on the Desire Z to get GT or LT. To my knowledge there's no way save collapsing the hardware keyboard and using the softkeys.
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Hmm that's strange, they left out two of the main keys. It's annoying to keep reverting to soft keyboard. I think i'll email htc so that they include it in the long-press key list in the next update.

Yeah. I doesn't make any sense, because when you long press lots of keys you get an on screen menu to select the symbol you want to insert (such as á, é, ñ...). But if you long press ? the only thing you get is ????????????? instead of a menu.
Well, at least I'm glad to know that it can't be done, I thought it was possible and I was unable to find how
I'm thinking about switching to a G2 ROM, since it seems they can get whatever symbol they want, don't they?

Mmm... it seems that in the G2 forum they have been able to modify the default keymap.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=837002
Would something like this be possible for the Desire Z?

reycat said:
Mmm... it seems that in the G2 forum they have been able to modify the default keymap.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=837002
Would something like this be possible for the Desire Z?
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Yeah, because they're basically the same phone (just different radio bands). I don't know if the exact same method will work on the DZ ROM, but it must be pretty close if not the same.

Mm... I don't know the first thing about Android, but having a look at the /system/usr/keychars directory I can see there are a lot of different files, besides the vision-keypad.kcm.bin. I'm quite interested in vision-keypad-esn.kcm.bin, since it seems to have something to do with Spanish
There's also a vision-keypad-esn.kll in /system/usr/keylayout.
Does anybody a way of trying to "activate" this files? I'm leaning to try to replace the vision-keypad.kl and vision-keypad.kcm.bin files with the "esn" ones, but wouldn't like to break something.

Tip: Hold the recent apps capacitive button

Forgive me if this is common knowledge and I missed the memo on it....
One thing I had to adjust when I went from my note 3 to the edge was the new approach to recent apps being used by the Left Capacitive button. Well, messing around just now I see that if you press and hold the button, it will pull up the current app's menu like it used to in the past. Best of both worlds!
:good:

nmcgrawj said:
Forgive me if this is common knowledge and I missed the memo on it....
One thing I had to adjust when I went from my note 3 to the edge was the new approach to recent apps being used by the Left Capacitive button. Well, messing around just now I see that if you press and hold the button, it will pull up the current app's menu like it used to in the past. Best of both worlds!
:good:
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Nice tip for those that overlooked it.

Nice thanks !!!
Ask not what your developer can do for you, ask what YOU can do for your developer.

reclaim your buttonhood
mod your buttons with xbutton!
xda info: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2490029
Recent nonsense: http://forum.xda-developers.com/tab-4/help/lost-menu-button-t2953412
i've switched all my buttons back to "2013" samsung
Home: short press = HOME
long press = recents
Recent: short press = menu
Long press = google search/now
Back: short press - Back (left alone)
long press = multi-window (left alone)
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I noticed that by holding the recent apps button down for 2 seconds you can actually get menue options on some older apps. I use Freedi for music and video downloads. I saw no 3 buttons at the top rigjt for optios and when I tapped the recent apps it well, took me to recent apps. I just masshed the button in (out of disgust) and lo and behold all the preferences and searxh features I thought werw gone showed up again. FTW!

nmcgrawj said:
Forgive me if this is common knowledge and I missed the memo on it....
One thing I had to adjust when I went from my note 3 to the edge was the new approach to recent apps being used by the Left Capacitive button. Well, messing around just now I see that if you press and hold the button, it will pull up the current app's menu like it used to in the past. Best of both worlds!
:good:
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This took me some adjusting too as I came from a Note 3 too. A friend with a Note 4 showed me this over the weekend and I didn't think to post, thanks for posting.
Sent from my SM-N915T

cvaria said:
mod your buttons with xbutton!
xda info: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2490029
Recent nonsense: http://forum.xda-developers.com/tab-4/help/lost-menu-button-t2953412
i've switched all my buttons back to "2013" samsung
Home: short press = HOME
long press = recents
Recent: short press = menu
Long press = google search/now
Back: short press - Back (left alone)
long press = multi-window (left alone)
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Great for you, us poor Verizon saps can't root, so no xposed love for us! :crying:

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wanb1i said:
Great for you, us poor Verizon saps can't root, so no xposed love for us! :crying:
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As a VZW user with no root ...I use Pie Control ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jun.ace.piecontrol ) from the Play Store -works great on unrooted devices & you can arrange / choose which keys / apps you want quick access too. I only use the phones back button to bring up my multi-window apps...
I linked the free version of the app, but I use the paid as it offers more customization & function...

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As a VZW user with no root ...I use Pie Control ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jun.ace.piecontrol ) from the Play Store -works great on unrooted devices & you can arrange / choose which keys / apps you want quick access too. I only use the phones back button to bring up my multi-window apps...
I linked the free version of the app, but I use the paid as it offers more customization & function...
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Great, Thanks! :good: I'll have to give that a try!

Recent button worked as a menu by long pressing it since the Evo LTE lol. I believe all androids do it. It also works on G2 and G3's.
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interesting. I got my edge here in Melbourne and as follows:
- pressing on the menu button brings up the recent apps
- long press, nothing happens but after releasing it still brings up the recent apps
- 2 clicks brings up the menu for the present app
wonder if there's another variation somewhere