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Virtual / on screen back button for HD2

HD2 is a large phone , so everytime I want to press the hardware buttons , I have to reposition my hand and the buttons are kinda hard to press as well.I'm having wrist pain from pressing the back and home button on the HD2. Does anyone know any virtual or on screen back button apps ?

Virtual on-screen BACK-HOME-MENU-SEARCH Key Wanted!
I feel the same and I want it too. May some talented guys write an APP to replace the Hardware keys (HOME, MENU, BACK and SEARCH) with Software ones. Thanks so much!

phuongt said:
HD2 is a large phone , so everytime I want to press the hardware buttons , I have to reposition my hand and the buttons are kinda hard to press as well.I'm having wrist pain from pressing the back and home button on the HD2. Does anyone know any virtual or on screen back button apps ?
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FanoXDA said:
I feel the same and I want it too. May some talented guys write an APP to replace the Hardware keys (HOME, MENU, BACK and SEARCH) with Software ones. Thanks so much!
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Goog point. But designwise not very much. It would ruin the nice ui i spend so much time in

I believe the latest archos android tablets have something like this.
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I like it as it is

"You're holding it wrong"
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norpan111 said:
"You're holding it wrong"
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Hmmm...sounds like a thing that Apple would answer if this was about one of their products.

Man up and get bigger hands sissy!
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javolin13 said:
Man up and get bigger hands sissy!
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True dat bro.

when people comment that my phone is TOO big, I just say, "It complements me "

akbisw said:
when people comment that my phone is TOO big, I just say, "It complements me "
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Is it...?
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Its big but its thin. Which is very awesome because its easy to pull it out of your jeans without much work. and with the kickstand battery cover its awesome too. plus you want the harware call, back button, so when u get a call in winter times outside you wont have to pull ur hands out of your jeans

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Realistically, I don't think an onscreen back button would be a very easy app to code.
It would have to show over every screen, so a stationary widget wouldn't suffice, and worse yet, it would have to show over every app, which would be even tougher.
Consider that there are like a hundred alarm clock apps in the market, and maybe four of them work properly all the time, and of those four, three of them probably use so much system resources that they slow your phone down and drain the battery.
Maybe an exaggeration, but theres alot of truth in it.
We would all probably be better off buying a couple spare sets of hard keys, and somebody write a real good tut on how to replace them, than to hold our breath for an onscreen back button

To answer the original poster's question:
Well.... it depends on what you're trying to accomplish with the back button.
If you're main concern is going back and forth between views in a single app, or overall use of the back button I suggest some key remapping.
If you are right handed, the back button might indeed be uncomfortable to press one handed. But if you switch it with the home key or the green key, you might get less sore, since your hand won't have to move so awkwardly. Of course, the pictures on the buttons wouldn't match their function (which bothers some) but it's an idea nonetheless.
Another, perhaps more intriguing remap idea would be to remap the volume down key to be a back key (you can always use a widget for real volume control.)
If you're only concerned about app switching, I suggest trying the app "Smart Taskbar (sidebar)" from the market. That might help you. It has an on-screen dot that you press to open a list of apps, shortcuts, etc. That way you don't have to use as many physical buttons to navigate between apps.
Anyway, in conclusion, if I were in your situation, I'd remap volume down to be the back button. Here is a thread that helps with remapping.

A few other threads on basically the same topic, but due to many people's HD2 hardware buttons failing due to excessive use from Andriod. Software buttons are the answer to this, but nothing has come out yet.

Hi, sorry for my english level.
I am looking for a virtual/on screen back button (I think that the physical back button is cheap - endurance problems ?).
I don't want to create a new topic... do you have information ? I don't find it in this topic.
Thx in advance

Is it virtual next and previous buttons ? Thx.
(down right and down left)
//irish.androidlifes.com/uploadfiles/irishandroidlifescom-1295072937/download-nexushd2-gingerbread-v2-6-nand-android-zip-rom-for-htc-hd2_1.jpg

go to market and search for zmooth or button savior.or if you have cm or typhoon rom look for tablet tweaks http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1031607

[Q] Keypad LED Control

Hi there.
I`m new in the Android Roms, came from WM 6.5 and 7 and now I´m testing NAND Adroid (currently Mdeejay V7, Gingerbread). So far almost everything works great.
In Win 6.5 there was an app called "Keypad LED Control". With this app, you could have the Keypad light automatically switched on while the touchscreen is on.
Im looking for a similar App for Android (Gingerbread) but havent found anything like that in the market or the forum, anyone has an idea?

Same here, I've been searching for a similar app for quite a while, still without success. Thank you in advance if anyone finds an app like this.

Hmmm, i really doubt that nobody has a workaround for that...
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Searching it too
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me too, it would be great

Don't know, maybe most users find it comfortable enough to click the hardware keys in the dark when the backlight is off, I personally do not.
To tell the truth, I'm surprised that so few of us need an app to control that.

Yap its annoying rhat i cant see may buttons in dark
Its would be great if that app are used like automatic screen light
....in dark its on and at light its off
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I don't know if it'll work with your rom but you can try AdjBrightness from the market. it has the opition to lock button backlight on or off.

if you know what NAND is you should know where are the keys by heart
however it would be nice to have an app like that!!!

I would like to confirm that the program 'adjbrightness' work as said in the post before. You have an option to keep the keypad on while the screen is on or off and many settings for brightness. To access these settings press the windows key and go to options and change away. By the way, its free from the android market! By the way im running MDJ's Froyo 4.6!

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I would like to confirm that the program 'adjbrightness' work as said in the post before. You have an option to keep the keypad on while the screen is on or off and many settings for brightness. To access these settings press the windows key and go to options and change away. By the way, its free from the android market! By the way im running MDJ's Froyo 4.6!
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Thx, I will give it a try and post if it works

It works for me! I was searching for the same thing... Perfect

I found that program very unpredictable. Sometimes it worked perfectly, but then other times the button lights just wouldn't turn off, or the wouldn't turn on when you pressed them.
Seems like a great idea, but just a bit buggy at the minute.

boba23 said:
Ehm how does this work for you? I tried it, set the option to lock backlight, which makes backlight turn on. After exiting the app, turning off the screen, and back on ... everything is as usual. Backlights don't stay on :-(
boba
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i also facing the same problem like urs with that program...

It's not working for me either.. maybe there will be an update. We'll see!
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I've found a rom that has the opition to leave the back lights on or timed,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=893637
It's a pretty good rom also, maybe yall might like it too. Give it a try!

Bioforge said:
Hi there.
I`m new in the Android Roms, came from WM 6.5 and 7 and now I´m testing NAND Adroid (currently Mdeejay V7, Gingerbread). So far almost everything works great.
In Win 6.5 there was an app called "Keypad LED Control". With this app, you could have the Keypad light automatically switched on while the touchscreen is on.
Im looking for a similar App for Android (Gingerbread) but havent found anything like that in the market or the forum, anyone has an idea?
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if you currently use MDJ V7,Gingerbread (CyanogenMod) then
Settings->CyanogenMod settings->User interface->Automatic backlight->"Light Level"->"Use Custom"->"Edit other levels"
Set buttons > 0 until 255, Save and Apply.

Thx! Doesn't work for me yet. I made these settings :
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The Program "adjbrightness" didnt work for me either, it seemed to run sometimes but most of the time the lights were off somehow - therefore, I uninstalled it...
As I have the Mdeejay Cyanogen Mod, I tried the suggested settings, exactly like m1xm4ster posted above, unfortunately this is also not working for me ;( even after rebooting the system

Aah thx..cyanogenmod ftw
btw this is my 10th post..finally i can annoy the rombuilder with stupid questions

Can't touch bottom of screen

Well, I'm running the latest CM10.1 Nightly, and no other mods. For some reason, in some apps I can't touch things at the bottom of the screen. For instance, in Snapseed, I can't apply an edit, because it doesn't let me touch it. Also, in the messages app it takes forever to get the keyboard to come up. Does anyone else have this problem? Is it a CM10 thing? TIA!

So, I flashed the Google Official ROM, and still the problem persists. Going to fully unroot and see if it fixes itself.

Nex.us 4 said:
So, I flashed the Google Official ROM, and still the problem persists. Going to fully unroot and see if it fixes itself.
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ouch

Could I please get some opinions? This is getting very annoying. It only seems to happen in apps, because I can access the app drawer and docked apps fine. I flashed the stock ROM, and un-rooted but the problem is still here. Any help?

Go into developer options. There should be an option for Pointer Location. Turn that on, and scribble all over the area you're having touch problems with. See if it is even registering your touches.

btse said:
Go into developer options. There should be an option for Pointer Location. Turn that on, and scribble all over the area you're having touch problems with. See if it is even registering your touches.
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while in that same area.. another option is z-device test. go to screen and menu key to perform sensitivity tests and such. if you dont have a menu key in the navbar... it will not work.

Okay, thanks for the tips guys. This is really weird. There's like, a barrier where I can't touch at the bottom of the screen. I took some screenshots to show you guys.
http: //i.imgur. com/RajcK.png
http: //i.imgur. com/F2GRs.png
Any help would be appreciated, I'm really hoping this isn't a hardware problem.
For the record, I've flashed back to the stock image, unrooted, and locked my bootloader. The problem persists. Thanks!

Are you using any kind of screen protector? Just that I had some weird touch problems in the past which disappeared when I switched screen protector.
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steviewevie said:
Are you using any kind of screen protector? Just that I had some weird touch problems in the past which disappeared when I switched screen protector.
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I'm actually not, but thanks for the suggestion! This is really bumming me out.

Nex.us 4 said:
I'm actually not, but thanks for the suggestion! This is really bumming me out.
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Are you using screen filter app?
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I found someone on another forum who had the same problem. He went with it being a hardware problem, and I recently sold my phone. Shoot.
http: //forums.macrumors. com/showthread.php?p=16534236#post16534236

Flashing the touch responsiveness zip helped me
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Looks like a hardware problem :/

I figured this out and it's pretty weird. The height of the deadzone is exactly the same as the height of the nav. bar. Anyone got any ideas? Or has LG f***ed me over?
http: //i.imgur. com/TLs8Y.jpg

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I figured this out and it's pretty weird. The height of the deadzone is exactly the same as the height of the nav. bar. Anyone got any ideas? Or has LG f***ed me over?
http: //i.imgur. com/TLs8Y.jpg
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It would seem to be a software issue, where the launcher believes you are touching the nav bar so ignores input, that'd be my guess.
Try a different launcher maybe?

Another weird discovery. It seems that if I swipe over the dead-zone fast enough, it registers. That leads me to believe that it's a software problem, but after flashing stock ROM, un-rooting, and relocking I don't see how it could be. This is weird.
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Its definitely a hardware problem you should RMA it

[ROM][JB 4.2.2][JDQ39] ThinkingBridge ROM [I9100] [DISCUSSION THREAD]

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Hi guys this is THE GT-I9100 DISCUSSION THREAD for the Team BRIDGE's rom : ThinkingBridge
So please post here all non-dev related problems
You can get the rom from the official thread

I will try the rom then tell you about my opinion

I am currently giving your rom a try .
After a few minutes I found one thing that is really annoying (i already tried to change the behavior of the hardware key)..When i open a chat window (ex. whatsapp), the screen timeout (15 sec) comes and i click the homebutton ...the app is closing. Is there any way to disable that?
At the moment i also have a lot of batterydrain.. mh...(after the 1 charge)

annalein said:
I am currently giving your rom a try .
After a few minutes I found one thing that is really annoying (i already tried to change the behavior of the hardware key)..When i open a chat window (ex. whatsapp), the screen timeout (15 sec) comes and i click the homebutton ...the app is closing. Is there any way to disable that?
At the moment i also have a lot of batterydrain.. mh...(after the 1 charge)
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The app is not closing you just sent it to work in background . Just hold the home button and you'll see the app in recents view. And change the interval of screen timeout for at least 1 min.
About battery drain change the governor of the kernel.
Install from playstore Nofrills cpu to change the governor as conservative .
You'll not notice any lag in games or apps .
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bluetooth or gps working?
I wish it was other than that this rom would be boss.

casualt said:
bluetooth or gps working?
I wish it was other than that this rom would be boss.
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Gps is working .
Only bluetooth streaming is not working
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Hello .... Is it possible to install Samsung keyboard?
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you can try to flash in recovery this keyboard : http://d-h.st/bSX
and please tell if it worked

On sometimes it disappear the 2G toggle in the quick settinngs panel.¿any solution?
Thanks.
And also i can't put the climate and calendar events on the lockscreen.

did you flashed a clean install with all wipes .
cuz i don't have this bug and i use a lot that toggle and i knew if something weren't good
And also i can't put the climate and calendar events on the lockscreen.
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why you can't put these widgets ?
they aren't in that list of widgets

Yes i have made all the wipes.Whhen the 2g toggle disapears y change to traditional tiles and then appears again. Thhen i change to tiles again and appears in the panel.
I don´'t know how to put the climate an calendar events on the lockscreen.¿do you have any guide to do so?
Thanks

manp11 said:
Yes i have made all the wipes.Whhen the 2g toggle disapears y change to traditional tiles and then appears again. Thhen i change to tiles again and appears in the panel.
I don´'t know how to put the climate an calendar events on the lockscreen.¿do you have any guide to do so?
Thanks
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why didn't you say so ...
1.lock the phone
2.turn the phone on
3.on the lockscreen swype the screen from the left to the right until you see a plus in a grey rectangular
4.press it you'll see a list of widgets from there choose what widgets you want
and about the 2g toggle maybe that's the way he does like that .
i really don't know how to help you with that

Thanks. I got it. Climate on lockscren!!!!

No official update firmware?

Dannyada1988 said:
No official update firmware?
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What official update ?
If you refer to android 4.1.2 we already got it.
This is android 4.2.2 custom Rom .
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After I finally got this rom downloaded took hours. I have to say I'm very impressed with it so far. It's extremely smooth and quick. Only thing I noticed is I struggle to get a lock with gps. Using gps test app it's seeing 8-9 satellites but not locking to them. I only had quick try so I will try later
thanks dev's keep it up :thumbup:
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Hi.
I can't fix in screen options the notification light in on. When I close the setting screen and I open again the notification light is in off. ¿How can I fix it?
Thanks

diddly3000 said:
After I finally got this rom downloaded took hours. I have to say I'm very impressed with it so far. It's extremely smooth and quick. Only thing I noticed is I struggle to get a lock with gps. Using gps test app it's seeing 8-9 satellites but not locking to them. I only had quick try so I will try later
thanks dev's keep it up :thumbup:
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I'm glad that you are enjoying our Rom
And about the GPS bug you can try this app from play store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androidlab.gpsfix
And see if it works .
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manp11 said:
Hi.
I can't fix in screen options the notification light in on. When I close the setting screen and I open again the notification light is in off. ¿How can I fix it?
Thanks
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Can you be more clear
And please post some screenshots
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I just went to test gps again just before I was gonna use that app to make sure it's not working.
It locked this time. Perhaps I didn't give it enough time before.
Apologies
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Center zone of the touchscreen is dead to finger. MOST WEIRD WORKAROUND EVER.

I have a new Galaxy Note 4 instantly updated to Lollipop 5.0.1 and the very center zone of the screen is literally dead to finger touch, the right edge of the screen is dead too I have some register: (I did reboot, soft reset and hard reset already, didnt work)
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Now comes the weirdest thing ever (or maybe its common, I am not expert), but when I place a finger in the edge of the phone (not even the screen edge, just over the metallic edge, like just grabing the phone with one hand), the center zone of the touchscreen works fine and the problem is solved, but the right edge is still with problems, and it is not solved with this strange "finger in the edge" workaround, look :
(If I place other finger in the screen instead of the metallic edge, it solves the problem too)
This is a new phone, is this a issue easily solved and common ?? or I should just change the phone using the warranty ???? Help please, this is a new phone should I ask for another new one without this issues ?

please someone help me with the giant pictures, I messed up that

Definitely a bad screen.
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.NetRolller 3D said:
Definitely a bad screen.
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thank you very much for your response !! thats means I should use the warranty to a new phone right ???

Have you tried resetting the screen calibration in the service menu?
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JagDave said:
Have you tried resetting the screen calibration in the service menu?
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i dont know what it is that screen calibration, googled it and is not so clear about it, I am in lollipop now

Dial *#2663# and select TSP FW update (general).
Hope this fixes it for you.
Sent from my SM-N910F

JagDave said:
Dial *#2663# and select TSP FW update (general).
Hope this fixes it for you.
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UNREAL !!!!! that fixed this problem for me !!! CANT BELIEVE IT
I tought your solution was for rooted phones with custom OS, unbelievable
THANK YOU !!!!!
Do you have (or someone) some kind of insight about this problem ?? what cause it ? this could happen again ?

The only time I have seen this happen, is when the wrong recovery has been flashed after rooting.
Maybe an OTA update caused the problem.
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JagDave said:
The only time I have seen this happen, is when the wrong recovery has been flashed after rooting.
Maybe an OTA update caused the problem.
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Just purchased the phone was with KitKat and I updated to Lollipop first day via OTA, maybe that caused the problem (but I think everyone did that, why me? bad luck xD)

JagDave said:
Dial *#2663# and select TSP FW update (general).
Hope this fixes it for you.
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Did the upgrade to Marshmallow a couple of weeks ago on my Optus SM-910G (build number MMB29M.N910GDTU1DPF4), and ever since the whole bottom of the screen was nearly useless, requiring multiple presses to get keys registered, Swype was useless, stock keyboard pretty useless, but with the s-pen, it was perfect. When I opened an s-note action memo and zig zagged from top to bottom of screen (by finger) without taking my finger off the screen, I found two dead areas, 1/3 down top left where it didn't really harm much, and a big big zone on the bottom about 10mm high and nearly the whole bottom section where it required multiple swipes across to get some of the area "drawn" on. I tried a factory reset with no improvement at all (except battery life LOL).
Just found this TSP tip today on another forum, gave it a shot, and yay, screen perfect again! Thanks XDA (the tip ending up on androidcentral in an S6 thread where my googling about Note 4 touch screen problems took me for some reason).