Do You Find Navigating CWM Awkward? - Xperia Play General

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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MilkyJoePD said:
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

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[Q] Disable Volume Rocker

I posted in the troubleshooting thread but I know people are going to be looking for this and it still hasn't gotten a solution so I am making another thread by itself for this.
Is there a way to disable to volume button on the EVO Shift as every time i close it I hit it and end up muting it. Is there an app or something to disable buttons?
Thanks,
G.D.Carter said:
I posted in the troubleshooting thread but I know people are going to be looking for this and it still hasn't gotten a solution so I am making another thread by itself for this.
Is there a way to disable to volume button on the EVO Shift as every time i close it I hit it and end up muting it. Is there an app or something to disable buttons?
Thanks,
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Same thing happens to me. I wish I could just lock the volume in-place and not worry about it.
have you guys noticed you can go from max volume to vibrate in like 1 second flat if you hold the rocker down? i was amazed... i think we might actually have to fix this one guys haha
yokken said:
have you guys noticed you can go from max volume to vibrate in like 1 second flat if you hold the rocker down? i was amazed... i think we might actually have to fix this one guys haha
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Yeah, I know. Hopefully an app or a mod developed that can take care of this issue.
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I'm with you guys on this one I accidentally hit mine all the time. Waiting for a fix for this...
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Me too. I was able to stop it by using volume locker. There's a ring guard too but it didn't work
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jholmes07 said:
Me too. I was able to stop it by using volume locker. There's a ring guard too but it didn't work
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whats volume locker?
jholmes07 said:
Me too. I was able to stop it by using volume locker. There's a ring guard too but it didn't work
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I used volume locker as well. Seems to work thus far.
This seems like a possible future fix to the issue, better than volume locker in my opinion, not to fond of that.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=909365
App called ButtonRemapper for full root.
Here you can follow what devices have support and possibly chime in to push for support of the Shift =)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464
Where is volume locker to be found?
steven1022 said:
This seems like a possible future fix to the issue, better than volume locker in my opinion, not to fond of that.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=909365
App called ButtonRemapper for full root.
Here you can follow what devices have support and possibly chime in to push for support of the Shift =)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464
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The ButtonRemapper seems pretty cool except its got a huge security hole, it requires perm r/w to your system directory. I would not recomend that program. I would be interested in the volume locker, is that found in the app store?

[REQ][Q][MOD] Remap Clockworkmod Buttons

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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Built in Screen Capture!

My appoligies if this has been posted already, i did search.
I just discovered that if you press 'home' and 'power' together the phone takes an instant screen capture like the iPhone does. No need for root or 3rd party apps!
Hope this helps someone
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keyz86 said:
My appoligies if this has been posted already, i did search.
I just discovered that if you press 'home' and 'power' together the phone takes an instant screen capture like the iPhone does. No need for root or 3rd party apps!
Hope this helps someone
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WOW! Nice tip. I really liked it. Thanks for informing.
Holding menu key starts search too, if you didnt know
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TAEL said:
WOW! Nice tip. I really liked it. Thanks for informing.
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no probs, glad i could help
crx16 said:
Holding menu key starts search too, if you didnt know
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yes i did discover this too another little semi-easter egg lol!
Double tap the home button and Vlingo voice search pops up, great for use in cars!
Great. Thanks for the heads-up. I didn't know that before.
check out the "Motion" option in settings, some fun stuff in there too
we've got some good stuff going here! i might turn this thread into an 'easter eggs' and tricks & tips thread!
check out the features thread laying around here. You all will find something out new.
The thread is called " Feature discoveries " it's 13 pages long
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Cwm not working correctly --sub menus

OK so I am new to the mt4g... I currently use a sgs4g, the rest of my family uses the mt4g and they live in Indiana while I live in Texas. I followed the guides to get the phone rooted with s-off. I installed the cwm from rom manager becuz I could not find an up to date thread. Anyways when I reboot in to cwm it seems to work fine except when I try to go into a submenu it just gives me a blank screen with no text. I was going to do a nandroid back up but this is not possible without getting into the submenus of cwm. I then tried rom manager to flash virtuous unity and it worked perfectly. I am unsure of what is going on exactly but I am afraid that if the phone happens to soft brick I will not be able to get back into recovery or even if I do I cannot flash anything or be able to unbrick the phone. I am not nooby I have been working with android for a while now and have soft bricked my sgs4g many times while learning. Almost hard bricked due to wrong bootloaders. Anyways one thing I left out is if I try to click the power button while I am in one of the blank submenus it just goes back to the main menu.
Any help would be very much appreciated and also I do not have a usable computer ATM so everything I do is with my phone or someone else's.
Thanks guys for all the fantastic threads for the mt4g, it only took me about 2hrs to get s-off and roms installed, minus the 4 hrs it took me to realize that only the final s-off method works on the 0.86.0000 bootloaders.
Again thank you.
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Are you hitting the power button? If so, you need to click the track pad to select a sub menu in recovery. This happened to me as well until I tried the track pad and it works flawlessly!!!!
Try using the track pad to select your option... Sounds like you are using the power button to make selections in recovery which just puts the phone to sleep, so to speak...
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Oh I didn't think to try that because I'm not use to having a trackpad. Thank you for your help.
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Yep that was the solution.. lol thanks guys at least it was something extremely simple lol. I will add thanks to both of u guys when I get to a computer.
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farwek said:
Yep that was the solution.. lol thanks guys at least it was something extremely simple lol. I will add thanks to both of u guys when I get to a computer.
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Glad we could help m8
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Is there a way for the volume button to wake the tablet just like the power button?

I have fix the power button twice , and I know that is about to give up on me. don't have warranty and i am out of the sates so sending it to asus is not an option this time.
Is there a way I can wake the tablet by long pressing the volume button ? I do have some coding skills if there is a how to, maybe I can work on this.
found this tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464 searching i will give it a try.
carlosraf20 said:
I have fix the power button twice , and I know that is about to give up on me. don't have warranty and i am out of the sates so sending it to asus is not an option this time.
Is there a way I can wake the tablet by long pressing the volume button ? I do have some coding skills if there is a how to, maybe I can work on this.
found this tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464 searching i will give it a try.
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i think xposed can let you do that mate
I will look in to that , and see if there is a way.
carlosraf20 said:
I will look in to that , and see if there is a way.
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there are these apps too mate
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.firezenk.wakeall&hl=en
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker&hl=en
robgee789 said:
there are these apps too mate
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.firezenk.wakeall&hl=en
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker&hl=en
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Thanks , the free app did the trick :good:
carlosraf20 said:
Thanks , the free app did the trick :good:
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Happy days
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Hi, thank you very much for sharing those two apps. However, I can't seem to figure out how to use the free one. I activate it but once my tablet goes off I can't turn it back on with the volume keys. I've searched for a help file or instructions but the app doesn't even have a GUI. I'm unrooted and on stock ROM.
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atomomega said:
Hi, thank you very much for sharing those two apps. However, I can't seem to figure out how to use the free one. I activate it but once my tablet goes off I can't turn it back on with the volume keys. I've searched for a help file or instructions but the app doesn't even have a GUI. I'm unrooted and on stock ROM.
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There is no GUI for the free app. just a pop up indicating that's been activated . some times you have to press twice the volume to turn it on.
I am rooted and still in CleanRom 4.1 .
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Ok. I'll try when I get home. The power button on this tablet is pretty badly designed. :/
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