The title should say it all. Google searching has found me nothing on this, so I don't know if its ever been brought up.
Seeing as how we have the luxury of having a hardware keyboard, I was wondering if anybody knew how to modify clockworkmod so that we could use those buttons instead of the normal volume up/down, power, and camera buttons to navigate the recovery menu (after so much flashing, my camera button has begun to stick slightly; save my camera button!).
If you open the keyboard and hold your phone in portrait orientation, the most logical combination to me would be:
Left arrow - scroll up
Right arrow - scroll down
Search button - return to previous menu
Home button - select
I would try to do this myself, but looking at the one-click cwm 3 folder, I don't even know which file would need to be torn apart to do this, nor what types of files they are (so what program to use to extract their contents?)...
If anyone with any knowledge wants to provide some guidance, or if anyone is feeling froggy enough to try this themselves, it would be greatly appreciated
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This doesn't answer your question per se, but this problem with using the volume keys will soon be somewhat moot. I don't have the link at the moment, but some of the Bonsai Team have been running an add in that gets rid of the secondary confirmation.
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Top Nurse said:
This doesn't answer your question per se, but this problem with using the volume keys will soon be somewhat moot. I don't have the link at the moment, but some of the Bonsai Team have been running an add in that gets rid of the secondary confirmation.
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Hmmm...that is interesting, but I don't know much I would actually like that...i can get lazy with flashing sometimes, and I've caught myself on more than one occasion having selected the wrong thing...
But thanks for the info.
Bump 10 char...any takers?
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It is possible to so that. It would mean someone would have to compile a new recovery and modifying the keymap to use the keyboard along with the keymap that it uses now. It's not hard just a pita.
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skeeterslint said:
It is possible to so that. It would mean someone would have to compile a new recovery and modifying the keymap to use the keyboard along with the keymap that it uses now. It's not hard just a pita.
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Yeh I knew those would be the steps, simple, but a tedious affair. If more people vote for this I'm sure someone will take it on. Or give me some guidance lol.
So....
Save your camera buttons!
Vote to have this mod develeoped!
Lol
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FWIW, I don't mind the extra confirmation, but the implementation is ridiculously excessive. A simple two-entry menu confirm/cancel would be plenty sufficient.
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On my iPod, when I long press on some text I've entered, a little magnifying glass pops up and allows me to easily move between letters in a sentence to fix errors. With Android, there's no real way to do this. I don't have a trackball and tapping where you want the cursor to move is very inaccurate.
I remember some talk about developing something similar to iOS4's letter-to-letter selection, but a search didn't return anything on it. Has there been any development on this?
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You know, I was wondering the same thing! Hope there is some solution down the road, I was thinking maybe that will be incorporated into Gingerbread.
This would be pretty cool to have.
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....is possibly the most useless button ever. I don't think I have ever used it since owning the Vibrant..
tis true.
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how about voice search when you press and hold? i've used that a few times.
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....is possibly the most useless button ever. I don't think I have ever used it since owning the Vibrant..
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How about pressing it within an app to easily launch that app's search feature ...?
Did you know you can do that ...?
dan0zone said:
How about pressing it within an app to easily launch that app's search feature ...?
Did you know you can do that ...?
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Too bad it doesn't work on xda, true story.
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How about pressing it within an app to easily launch that app's search feature ...?
Did you know you can do that ...?
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thats the only time i use it lol
i assigned it to open my go sms pro app lololo
CM7
i use it a lot as shortcut to search specific words in texts or a music in my music list... hehe
I never use it on the home screen.
I use it all the time in Market.
I always remap it to camera. I use an app called button remapper from market.
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I use it all the time. It's the quickest way to pull up a contact or even an app.
(I've turned off the web search so it's fast)
I know you can "dial" a contact name in the dialer, but it doesn't tell you which number is mobile, work, etc so it's pointless.
I also use this TONS! It allows me to remove the google search widget, and I use it for voice search all the time.
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I also use this TONS! It allows me to remove the google search widget, and I use it for voice search all the time.
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This. I use it in apps quite a bit, and it has solved many arguments with a touch of extra urgency.
Alex9090 said:
I always remap it to camera. I use an app called button remapper from market.
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It says my phone is not supported! No Gingerbread support?
does anyone know if you can make it a toggle for autorotate?
Yes only works on froyo.
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Like Alex pointed out, you can remap it...
that said, I am going to argue if you don't use it, you just are doing it wrong... the search button saves me a lot of time. There is a reason it's the 4th button, of 4 though.
Samsung got the 4 buttons in the right order, in my opinion.
I am right handed though.
s15274n said:
Like Alex pointed out, you can remap it...
that said, I am going to argue if you don't use it, you just are doing it wrong... the search button saves me a lot of time. There is a reason it's the 4th button, of 4 though.
Samsung got the 4 buttons in the right order, in my opinion.
I am right handed though.
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No matter what order it was in, you'd get used to it now or later...
I basically use the search for in-app searches like in the market etc.
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Like Alex pointed out, you can remap it...
that said, I am going to argue if you don't use it, you just are doing it wrong... the search button saves me a lot of time. There is a reason it's the 4th button, of 4 though.
Samsung got the 4 buttons in the right order, in my opinion.
I am right handed though.
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If it was so useful, they wouldve updated the SGS2 with an additional search button
anthonys2r said:
If it was so useful, they wouldve updated the SGS2 with an additional search button
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Should I point out the other 100+ devices with it?
s15274n said:
Like Alex pointed out, you can remap it...
that said, I am going to argue if you don't use it, you just are doing it wrong... the search button saves me a lot of time. There is a reason it's the 4th button, of 4 though.
Samsung got the 4 buttons in the right order, in my opinion.
I am right handed though.
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I've never used it. But I've never needed it. I know where to find pretty much everything on my phone.
I'm right handed too. LOL
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That damn smiley key was driving me insane, so I got the Gingerbread keyboard source from AOSP, got it to compile, and got rid of the smiley face button. Other than that, it's identical to the stock Android gingerbread keyboard, so requires 2.3+. Eventually I may figure out how to make it able to be turned on and off, but that would rather defeat the point. Enjoy!
(Note: you have to enable it in the Keyboard settings before you can use it, just like any other keyboard.)
The Eclipse project (source) is available here.
this sounds like a good thing for me because it also became annoying to me.
quick question though because i cant check out the keyboard mod yet, but does it remove the smiley key completely, or does it replace it with an enter key or something?
soon as i get the chance, ill install and see for myself
Nice. I like that it has been replaced with the enter key instead. I find that to be immensely more useful.
I replaced it with the significantly-more-useful return key.
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wow,....how can a smiley face annoy u...? lol smiley faces r cool...stop being grumpy.. better to extend the space bar instead..make it longer
ajftl said:
wow,....how can a smiley face annoy u...? lol smiley faces r cool...stop being grumpy.. better to extend the space bar instead..make it longer
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The smiley key doesn't annoy me per se, but the fact that the Enter key was removed does. So now, it is impossible to have any semblance of formatting in your SMS'es.
Will definitely give this a go as soon as possible. This is definitely a must have as far as I am concerned.
Thanks, but i've a problem with your keyboard.
I turned on the vibrate on keyboard settings, but there is no vibration when I push a key.
oxman said:
Thanks, but i've a problem with your keyboard.
I turned on the vibrate on keyboard settings, but there is no vibration when I push a key.
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Works fine for me (using CM7 nightlies).
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I use Infusion 1.7 and its work with other keyboard
oxman said:
I use Infusion 1.7 and its work with other keyboard
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Do you have haptic feedback enabled?
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so i installed earlier today and im loving it!
the return key is muuuuch more useful to me than the smiley tab, especially since i do mine different that those and that just annoyed me! lol
thank you so much for this
the keyboard appears real small on my screen
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the keyboard appears real small on my screen
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What device/ROM?
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Yes, it works on other keyboard
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Yes, it works on other keyboard
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Huh. I can't really help you because I can't reproduce the problem...
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What device/ROM?
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htc sensation 4g, stock rom
sxyshotta said:
htc sensation 4g, stock rom
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Hm. I didn't modify the keyboard in any way other than replacing the smiley key, so I have no idea what may be causing that.
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Hm. I didn't modify the keyboard in any way other than replacing the smiley key, so I have no idea what may be causing that.
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It's probably because you've packaged up the WVGA keyboard file, and not the qHD version. The Sensation sports a higher res screen.
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It's probably because you've packaged up the WVGA keyboard file, and not the qHD version. The Sensation sports a higher res screen.
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That would make sense, but I don't see why the same keyboard wouldn't work on all devices. I mean, looking at the code, I see nothing that would prevent scaling. I was never asked for a target screen size to compile for, nor do I see any way to enter it. If someone could explain a way to fix it, I would gladly rerelease a qHD-compatible version.
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You should try and work it out that Long Press of the return key let's you select smileys. It's one of my favorite features of Perfect Keyboard. But non the less, good job.
It might be just me, but I think using the volume keys then changing to the back and home buttons a bit of a pain.
Did you know you can use your gamepad? Left and right is up and down and start is select.
Everybody might already know this, but I've never read about it anywhere.
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It might be just me, but I think using the volume keys then changing to the back and home buttons a bit of a pain.
Did you know you can use your gamepad? Left and right is up and down and start is select.
Everybody might already know this, but I've never read about it anywhere.
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Did not know this. Thanks!
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Wow, that's cool. Thanks for this.
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I never knew this lol, I'm using Dooms Touch recovery in ICSBeta
TheCraig said:
I never knew this lol, I'm using Dooms Touch recovery in ICSBeta
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I wish we could have Doom's Touch Recovery on Locked Bootloaders
I new that I could use use Left and Right for navigation, but I did not know Start acted as select.
Thank you
Awesome buddy I neva knew about this
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So simple, yet, I didn't know that. Lol. Thanks for the tip..
Thanks for that. I'm using Doom's touch recovery as well, so you can just go up/down using your thumb, but it's useful for people using other kernels ie: fxp(?) is the only one that I found to work with CM9
How can I remap "recent apps" button to menu and remove those ugly three dots?
Googled and searched the forums for a bit and couldn't find anything specific to the n10. I honestly can't think of a time when I've ever used the recent apps button. I remember my hox phone had the same thing before, and I was able to use a mod somebody wrote to change the behavior. Any ideas? Sorry if this has been asked before.
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Well, on stock & AOSP ROMs, the soft-keys on the navigation bar are configurable if you decompile and modify SystemUI.apk or if you build it with the changes from source... AOKP has the option of allowing you to choose and customise the soft-keys and their click and long-press actions...
Oops forgot, I'm on cm10.1 nightly builds ATM.
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I hate to bump my own topic, but has nobody really done this? Can somebody explain how to modify button behavior and I can just do it myself, I guess?
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Googled and searched the forums for a bit and couldn't find anything specific to the n10. I honestly can't think of a time when I've ever used the recent apps button. I remember my hox phone had the same thing before, and I was able to use a mod somebody wrote to change the behavior. Any ideas? Sorry if this has been asked before.
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What the rip?
You want to delete the "menu" button? I've never heard of doing such a dumb thing.
And you have NEVER used recent apps? That's plain crazy.
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I don't want to remove the menu button, I want to move it to where the recent apps button is now. Currently it's in a different place in every app. The recent apps button also can do precisely nothing that can't be done with the home button. I find the three dot menu button ugly and distracting, especially in apps which weren't designed with a lack of hardware menu button in mind. I don't think that's "dumb" at all. Does anybody have a helpful suggestion or am I doomed to trying to figure it out on my own?
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