Accidentally found out that while in an app that has fields, pressing and holding the menu button brings up the keyboard - whether you are in a editable field or not.
For example, click Search button, and press Back to hide the keyboard. Now without pressing the address bar, press and hold the menu key - keyboard pops up.
This has been present in froyo too
oops!
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This is present in every android phone that does not feature a hardware keyboard.
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hopefully start a list of useful shortcut for samsung galaxy s.
1. Reboot: press and hold power button for 6 seconds
2. Adjust brightness: tab status bar on top of the screen but don't drag down. Then slide left and right to adjust brightness. Note automatic brightness must be off.
3. Task bar: Press and hold home screen button
4. Phone search: press and hold menu button
5. Arrow key on swype: swype across the (i swype key) and (sym) key to bring up the editing key board
6. Arrow key on normal keypad: press and hold (123) key
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Anyone can help add more to the list ?
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Awesome thread; thanks man
Great idea, thanks a lot!
I hope I'm wording this right, but for my slide the only way to wake it up is to press the top power button. Even though I try to press the home or menu buttons it still remains in sleep mode. I would like to able to press menu or any of the face button keys to wake the phone up. Instead of having to go out of my way to hit the very top. Thanks in advance.
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Are you using a CM based rom? If yes, go to Settings > Cyanogen Mod Settings > Input Settings and check off Trackball Wake.
If no... I think the only button aside from power that will wake it is the trackpad.
If u are stock then the trackpad should work. At least it did for me.
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How can I close the virtual keyboard? On my N1 I could just hold the menu key and it would close. Doesn't work on the G2.
Mine goes away when I tap the text box or press the "back" button
I was wondering the same thing. I miss long pressing menu to open and close keyboard
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Nice. Back is working for me. I thought I tried that. I had found tapping the text box but it doesn't work in every case.
Hey ,
Figured i'd start a tips and tricks thread where everyone can post. Ill start off with a few things:
Double tap alt and it locks you into the number and secondary keys.
Same goes for the shift key (arrow pointing up). Double tap is caps lock.
Anybody else got some goodones?
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T-mobile Vision G2 tips and tricks
Hey ,
Figured i'd start a tips and tricks thread where everyone can post. Ill start off with a few things:
Double tap alt and it locks you into the number and secondary keys.
Same goes for the shift key (arrow pointing up). Double tap is caps lock.
Anybody else got some goodones?
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Thanks so much for the tips this is my first slider phone and I really appreciate the thoughtfulness.
Hold the home key while running any program and it will pop up multi tasking. Hope it helps
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When the keyboard is slid open but the phone locks you can use any key on the keyboard to unlock the phone.
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How do you get a reboot? On the G1 it was a three key press. What do you do on the G2?
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Hold search key to activate google voice search
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Hold down alt and long press most keys to get an on-screen menu with more symbol options.
example:
ALT + (long press) j = [, {, <
ALT + (long press) k = ], }, >
If you go to the Swype page at http://swypeinc.com/tips-tricks.html there are a lot of good tips for using Swype that are not in the tutorial.
I use Swype when I'm typing something quickly and don't want to open the keyboard. These tips help a lot.
Also, most people probably know this but... The little dots on the bottom of the screen that shows you which home screen you are on... You can touch them instead of swiping to the next screen. Also if you hold-touch the dots it brings up a small view of all your home screens and you can choose one to get to it quickly.
Bishybob said:
If you go to the Swype page at http://swypeinc.com/tips-tricks.html there are a lot of good tips for using Swype that are not in the tutorial.
I use Swype when I'm typing something quickly and don't want to open the keyboard. These tips help a lot.
Also, most people probably know this but... The little dots on the bottom of the screen that shows you which home screen you are on... You can touch them instead of swiping to the next screen. Also if you hold-touch the dots it brings up a small view of all your home screens and you can choose one to get to it quickly.
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Awesome didn't know that.
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ubiquill said:
Hold down alt and long press most keys to get an on-screen menu with more symbol options.
example:
ALT + (long press) j = [, {, <
ALT + (long press) k = ], }, >
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Damn! Didn't know that! Now the keyboard rocks even more!
denzelnuke said:
How do you get a reboot? On the G1 it was a three key press. What do you do on the G2?
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Press and hold Power + Volume Down + trackpad
CaliLove310 said:
Press and hold Power + Volume Down + trackpad
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Thank you so much for that! I was wondering how and couldn't get it to work.
It's probably in the manual huh? I never read those
Hanging up phone calls with power button
To me its a hassle not having a hard key end call button. Im not use to it yet but I just found out I can set my power key to end my calls wile im on the phone. I think its perfect.
This is how to do it.
Menu > Settings > Accessibility > You will be prompted to download a reader, just press cancel > Check "Power button ends call" and there you have it!
Not sure if anyone knew this.
if you use Launcher Pro you can actually make those quick keys useful. When you're in the assignment menu choose "Activities" (with the Launcher Pro icon) under "more". This will let you choose virtually any app process to launch with the key. For instance: I have one of my quick keys set to activate the Quick Compose feature in Handcent and another to open up the compose dialog in Tweetcaster. Waaaaaay more useful than just launching an app
ubiquill said:
Hold down alt and long press most keys to get an on-screen menu with more symbol options.
example:
ALT + (long press) j = [, {, <
ALT + (long press) k = ], }, >
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Click to collapse
Thanks for the tip! awesome!
btw, this also works by just long pressing letters
example:
(long press) e = e with all different accents.
(long press) n = ñ and other accents
The keyboard tip is pretty awesome
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Anyone figure out how to type a carat (^) on the physical keyboard yet?
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elracing21 said:
To me its a hassle not having a hard key end call button. Im not use to it yet but I just found out I can set my power key to end my calls wile im on the phone. I think its perfect.
This is how to do it.
Menu > Settings > Accessibility > You will be prompted to download a reader, just press cancel > Check "Power button ends call" and there you have it!
Not sure if anyone knew this.
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I found that the other day and immediately enabled it lol. Gotta make sure I hang up before I start bad mouthing people.
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my tip. get ADW.Launcher, LauncherPro, or Home++. and useful widgets like the signal strength which lets you know 3G or H network. switch pro is also awesome. make a customizable power control
for those of you that may be unaware:
you can add a Power Control widget to the homescreen (quick access to wifi / gps / bluetooth / screen brightness)...
also there is a Calender widget which displays any upcoming appts & a Google Voice Widget that gives you more functionality than the icon alone.
So, galaxy nexus has 3 on-screen "buttons". The menu button kinda looks like a window with apps, ok that's how I see it anyway. xD
So, wouldn't it be awesome, to have the menu button as the button that shows the running apps?
I believe it's a neat idea. What do you guys think?
So you should've posted this in the thread dedicated to ICS!
I think the menu button should be kept as the menu button And holding the home-button will show a list of running apps. Just like we're used to.
Well,for phones that have hardware buttons,the on-screen buttons won't show up.I don't if that's default behaviour,but it surely is possible and has already been done in all of the SDK ports.So don't worry.
And yes,that's what the menu button will do,open the menu.
Kala filaraki,prepei na gamaei kai na dernei t ICS!
There is a menu software button in every app. So a menu hardware button is useless. So a good idea would be to change it to match the on-screen button in ICS... If not, at least make a flashable .zip file.
Toli, gamane kai dernoune re 'su! Ade na vgei kanena ROM estw kai alpha.
Your actually wrong, with all due respect.
changing the menu button to the task switching button isn't a clever thing to do, as soon as you go into an app that requires the menu Button, (which is every app about) when you press it all you will get is the multitasking button, remember there's no on screen buttons for phones with hardware buttons, noone wants two sets of Buttons?.
Android already has a button for multitasking, its by long pressing the home button.
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If it requires the menu button, then how about Galaxy Nexus, which doesn't have a menu button? Lick your brain with your tongue before speaking...
Konstantinos said:
There is a menu software button in every app. So a menu hardware button is useless. So a good idea would be to change it to match the on-screen button in ICS... If not, at least make a flashable .zip file.
Toli, gamane kai dernoune re 'su! Ade na vgei kanena ROM estw kai alpha.
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Eee,mesa sth bdomada pisteuw kati 8a bgei!
Anyway,from what I've seen,the menu button on phones with hardware buttons acts like the on screen menu button that apps have.So...
Konstantinos said:
If it requires the menu button, then how about Galaxy Nexus, which doesn't have a menu button? Lick your brain with your tongue before speaking...
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I was wondering about this as well.
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The button with the menu will show up when needed with a swipe I think. Maybe not in phones with hw buttons.
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In Honeycomb, for instance, a menu button is shown to support older applications.
Wouldn't be too surprise to see also four buttons in Galaxy Nexus. After all, that's the all idea behind on-screen controls.
There is a settings button guys in every app in ICS... I believe it's an awesome idea. I dont want an on-screen settings button and a hw button.