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not possible to assign hardware buttons?... And more...

1. Looking at buttons in Settings, the list is simply empty, no buttons to assign. Am I doing something wrong?
2. Also, I can't find an option to make the X button actually close an app, instead of minimizing it. Again, am I doing something wrong?
3. I noticed that on first startup Windows doesn't ask you to align the screen. Yet the option is there. But how do you accurately align the screen with fingers? I find the screen very unresponsive in the top left and right corner. Also, while typing I have to aim somewhat above the key I mean to hit. Is this a question of getting used to, or has it to do with bad alignment?
4. Where's the autorotation? Is there a way to tell the device which apps to autorotate and which not? For now, hardly anything rotates of its own accord. And since I can't assign rotation to a button it might as well go without a G-sensor.

bartveld said:
1. Looking at buttons in Settings, the list is simply empty, no buttons to assign. Am I doing something wrong?
2. Also, I can't find an option to make the X button actually close an app, instead of minimizing it. Again, am I doing something wrong?
3. I noticed that on first startup Windows doesn't ask you to align the screen. Yet the option is there. But how do you accurately align the screen with fingers? I find the screen very unresponsive in the top left and right corner. Also, while typing I have to aim somewhat above the key I mean to hit. Is this a question of getting used to, or has it to do with bad alignment?
4. Where's the autorotation? Is there a way to tell the device which apps to autorotate and which not? For now, hardly anything rotates of its own accord. And since I can't assign rotation to a button it might as well go without a G-sensor.
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With point 3, you'll get some debate about this with various people. I think there should be an alignment as everyone presses the screen at different angles and its not going to know that unless you align it.
HTC Hero had same problem, screen edges were unresponsive, until you did a calibrate of the keyboard and then it was perfect.
It is an option missing...!

ad 1: if you make shortcut of any program you want to run, rename it to long_send.lnk and copy to C:\windows, then long press left button and this program will be executed. (I downloaded from XDA rotate.exe to rotate screen)
ad 2: install Duttys HTC task manager, restart and X is back (also in settings yo can configure its function)
ad 4: there is a possibility to "unlock" rotation in registry, but as long as you can not see any buttons in buttons setting it's pointless... that's why I used point 1 solution

bartveld said:
3. I noticed that on first startup Windows doesn't ask you to align the screen. Yet the option is there. But how do you accurately align the screen with fingers? I find the screen very unresponsive in the top left and right corner. Also, while typing I have to aim somewhat above the key I mean to hit. Is this a question of getting used to, or has it to do with bad alignment?
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It's still there (sorry in Dutch)
Start > Instellingen > Menu > Meer > Systeem > Scherm
In English it should be something like
Start > Settings > Menu (at the bottom of the screen) > More > System > Screen

Vlk_77 said:
ad 1: if you make shortcut of any program you want to run, rename it to long_send.lnk and copy to C:\windows, then long press left button and this program will be executed. (I downloaded from XDA rotate.exe to rotate screen)
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Is this some cruel joke ? how did you do that on HD2 ?? Would be awesome if it worked....
EDIT: MY BAD.... Best trick ever !! thx !

Thanks for the input, everybody.
if you make shortcut of any program you want to run, rename it to long_send.lnk
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Still, that gives me just one long press button to assign. There are at least three buttons that could be used for different apps. I just don't understand what HTC were thinking. Why have 5 buttons on a device and disabling the assign option?
It's still there (sorry in Dutch)
Start > Instellingen > Menu > Meer > Systeem > Scherm
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I know it's still there, but I wonder how you can properly align a screen with finger presses as opposed to the pinpoint accuracy of a stylus.
Before this I had the Omnia 2 with the same lack of autorotation options (actually, I'd hoped that returning to HTC would have solved that, but no...). Some clever developer had whipped up a very nice program called RotationDetection, with which you could decide which apps should autorotate. Something like that should be made for the HD2!

Vlk_77 said:
ad 1: if you make shortcut of any program you want to run, rename it to long_send.lnk and copy to C:\windows, then long press left button and this program will be executed. (I downloaded from XDA rotate.exe to rotate screen)
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I tried this, and for some reason I can't get it to work. Here's what I did:
Downloaded rotate.exe to my storage card.
Created a shortcut to rotate.exe, also on the storage card, and renamed it long_send.lnk
Copied this shortcut and pasted it in the Windows directory on the phone.
Now, if I select long_send.lnk in the Windows directory, the screen does indeed rotate. But I can't get the screen to rotate by holding the send key down.
I have already soft-reset, and this does not solve the problem.
Any ideas?

robertlewisca said:
I tried this, and for some reason I can't get it to work. Here's what I did:
Downloaded rotate.exe to my storage card.
Created a shortcut to rotate.exe, also on the storage card, and renamed it long_send.lnk
Copied this shortcut and pasted it in the Windows directory on the phone.
Now, if I select long_send.lnk in the Windows directory, the screen does indeed rotate. But I can't get the screen to rotate by holding the send key down.
I have already soft-reset, and this does not solve the problem.
Any ideas?
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Did you use THIS Rotate Screen with the shortcut link?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=347705
You will need to install Rotate Screen.cab (or Rotate Screen CW.cab) 1st
The Rotate Screen CW.cab is for counterclockwise rotation.
For me it's working great. When I hold the "call" button for some time the screen rotates.

did anyone install AEbuttons on the HD2
it works wonderfully on X1, HD1, diamond 2. it can assign 4 programs or functions to each button and that includes the volume buttons

htc-hd2 said:
Did you use THIS Rotate Screen with the shortcut link?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=347705
You will need to install Rotate Screen.cab (or Rotate Screen CW.cab) 1st
The Rotate Screen CW.cab is for counterclockwise rotation.
For me it's working great. When I hold the "call" button for some time the screen rotates.
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Okay, so I used that rotate screen cab, installed it, found the shortcut it created in windows/start menu/programs and copied it. Then, I pasted a shortcut to it in the windows directory, and renamed that shortcut long_send.lnk. Then restarted.
Still doesn't work. When i run the shortcut directly in the windows directory, the screen rotates. When I run the 'Rotate' shortcut from the Start menu, the screen rotates. When I long press the send button, the screen does not rotate. Am I missing a step?

Not sure what you call the "send" button.
It's the most left button on the bottom that you need to press for about 3 to 4 seconds.

One more thing..
The "long_send.lnk" should be in the Windows directory.

htc-hd2 said:
Not sure what you call the "send" button.
It's the most left button on the bottom that you need to press for about 3 to 4 seconds.
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Yes, the button on the bottom left - the one that if you press and release takes you to the phone screen. At any rate, I can't get it to work the way that has been described. Any suggestions?

I just did this and works realy good.
Thanks for the great tip.

htc-hd2 said:
One more thing..
The "long_send.lnk" should be in the Windows directory.
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Yes, as i mentioned, I put the 'long_send.lnk' shortcut in the Windows directory. Have tried and retried this about a dozen times now. Still no joy.

Not sure about rotate.exe, but FWIW, Gyrator 2 works fine and is customizable based on apps.

robertlewisca said:
Yes, as i mentioned, I put the 'long_send.lnk' shortcut in the Windows directory. Have tried and retried this about a dozen times now. Still no joy.
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Okay, I FINALLY figured it out, and I'll post what happened just in case anyone else runs into the same issue.
I followed the instructions as posted and changed the name of the shortcut to Long_Send.lnk and put it in the Windows directory. However, apparently when you use the Rename function, it just allows you to rename the file and not the extension. It doesn't indicate this anywhere, so I thought I was renaming both the file name and the extension. So, when I renamed to Long_Send.lnk, what I must have in reality been doing was renaming it to Long_Send.lnk.lnk - and therefore it didn't work.
Once it dawned on me that this might be the case, I renamed the shortcut again, this time without adding the extension at the end (Long_Send), and voila - it worked.
Never had to rename a file in WinMo before, so I was unaware that the Rename function only renames the file name, and not the file extension.

FYI, you can remap most (if not all) hardware buttons with the .lnk hack. Here's more information on how to do it.
Unlike programs like AEButton Plus, it will only allow you to assign short and long keypresses (no double- and triple-presses), but won't consume any system resources, won't be draining your battery, won't conflict with any other software that uses keyboard hooks.
Use it with caution though.

I missed it - does aebutton work? How about the utility like this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=256525
I could have sworn I saw one specifically for HTC phones to remap the volume. It was something like vol up = dpad up, hold up for dpad left...etc.
I never use the volume controls on my current phone (Advantage 7501), and I'm expecting to be able to use vol up/down as dpad up/down for scrolling list and most importantly next page in reading a book!

polstein said:
I could have sworn I saw one specifically for HTC phones to remap the volume. It was something like vol up = dpad up, hold up for dpad left...etc.
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This is the one you mean: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=552947. Haven't tried it yet.

Button Saviour problems!

I registered on here for this specific question, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
I recently rooted my Nook Simple Touch (1.1) with TouchNooter 1.1. Everything was working perfectly, except the home button. Every time I would press it, it would ask to open with 'Home' (later I found out this is the standard Nook home screen) or something else I could not remember that would send me to the Android home screen.
So a few hours after I rooted I selected Always open with 'Home' (the Nook home, not the Android home). Attempting to reverse this I re-rooted my Nook with no luck. Then I tried restoring it, but Button Saviour is still on the side! How is that possible?
I remember it saying I could reverse the problem by going to the Android settings app. But I can't do this because I can't reach the Android home!
So my question is: how can I clear the setting? I'm using Mac OS X. Thanks in advance

I followed this guide to reset my Nook: [N2E] Recovery and Source for Nook Touch (see Kohr-Ah's post) and re-rooted and everything was back to the way it was
Thanks anyways XDA

corbin052198 said:
I followed this guide to reset my Nook: [N2E] Recovery and Source for Nook Touch (see Kohr-Ah's post) and re-rooted and everything was back to the way it was
Thanks anyways XDA
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If you come across this issue again, the simplest method is to put a second launcher in /data/app folder of TouchNooter, use the card again, this will force the choice to come up again.

GabrialDestruir said:
If you come across this issue again, the simplest method is to put a second launcher in /data/app folder of TouchNooter, use the card again, this will force the choice to come up again.
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Alright, thanks

I'm aware that this is slightly offtopic but found that Button Saviour is useless (for me) and only consumes precious CPU. Just map "n" button to "go to desktop" in AWD settings and the only thing You loose is the back arrow but that one can be accesed from the upper bar (that with clock and battery) so 99,9% of the time Button Saviour is useless.
I've notices a slight improvement of Nook overall speed by uninstaling it.
You can uninstall it by apps like "root uninstaller" along with others systems apps (like gmail, music) (this topic pops up in google cause it has ambigious title so Ive just added this for others)

After I rooted, I can't go to the android home. Always goes to nook home. When I click the button savior it just say "Button Savior has ben denied superuser permission". Tried to connect using adb to uninstall Button savior but it doesn't work. Tried to root again using touchnooter 2.1.31 but no luck. Please help.

Soea said:
I'm aware that this is slightly offtopic but found that Button Saviour is useless (for me) and only consumes precious CPU. Just map "n" button to "go to desktop" in AWD settings and the only thing You loose is the back arrow but that one can be accesed from the upper bar (that with clock and battery) so 99,9% of the time Button Saviour is useless.
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I thought I can live without button savior but in several apps I am using the upper bar is not available.

ssc742 said:
After I rooted, I can't go to the android home. Always goes to nook home. When I click the button savior it just say "Button Savior has ben denied superuser permission". Tried to connect using adb to uninstall Button savior but it doesn't work. Tried to root again using touchnooter 2.1.31 but no luck. Please help.
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did You try long pressing the home button in button saviour? it should open a window with curently opened apps, i dont think this will help much but try it
cceerrtt said:
I thought I can live without button savior but in several apps I am using the upper bar is not available.
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it just hit me theres another way
1.open Nook Touch Tools
2.select "B&N buttons"
3.select "'n' button goes to home directly"
4. (optionally) select "'reading now' button action" and choose "orientation" (so You can change orientation with one click by clicking that book icon in upper left corner)
5.select "Long press 'n' button action, change it to "Open recent app dialog"
6.select "show extra action buttons in recent dialog"
7.now you can access "back arrow" by long pressing the "n" button (physical button), i know its not the best (cause you have to press it like 3 sec) but it works xD

that's also my setup but I stay with the button savior (as a backup option) because sometimes it is more comfortable than longpressing "n" button, which doesn't work 100% and takes time.

Was able to fixed the issue. I restored to original and re-root again.
Thanks

I didn't find much utility in Button Savior. Except for the home button it mostly said "This feature requires 2.2".
With the "n" button hacked, the lower left hardkey as back and the lower right hardkey as menu I don't need anything more.

I would miss the original functionality (previous and next page) on the right side. I have just lower left button remmaped to Back. It would be great if NookTouchTools (cant remember the exact name) could allow to define also long press actions for hardware buttons (I would use those for menu access).

Once I got to Android home screen, I re-mapped my buttons. I'm right handed, so I usually don't use the left buttons. The top left button is Menu, the bottom left button is back, and long press home button is Android home. After that I killed Button Savior

Exactly the same for me.

[Q] (Change power button) - modifying leo-keypad.kl doesn't help

Hello,
I've looked for a way to modify the keypad on my HTC and I found that one must change the leo-keypad.kl file when rooted. I've done so several times with r/w option, keeping a backup file and changing the leo-keypad.kl in several ways.
What I'm trying to achieve is to exchange the function of call and endcall button. Reason? I already had to change the digitizer since pressing the endcall button to turn off the screen is so frequent, it actually damages the flex cable from digitizer making the touch screen unresponsive. Replacing the digitizer cost money, time and a little bit of functionality of the phone. I don't want this to happen again, thus I want to turn off the screen with the call button.
Changing of the file did not help. What I've done was that I located the row with CALL and changed it to ENDCALL and ENDCALL changing to CALL. Then I tried to change both or one of them for POWER. POWER for CALL, etc. Nothing has changed whatsoever. Each time I rebooted the phone and checked, whether the file did not change on it's own. It was changed, but buttons work still the same.
Any ideas?
(using Hyperdroid, ES File Explorer with root option and writing ability)

Try using KeynumberTracker from the market. This will give you the correct key number to modify, then get ButtonRemapper from the market and remap the keys....or just edit it yourself and save using root-explorer..

im sure you've noticed that ANY button will unlock the phone when running Hyperdroid. (not to insult) i too, ran into the problem you are describing and found that mashing the physical buttons (any for any reason) just seemed hard on my precious Leo.
i downloaded "screen off and lock" from the market. it IS an ON-screen alternative (and a useful one at that) to trying to remap the physical keys. i simply replaced my launchers contact icon with the 'screen off' one (that way it will show on any home screen) and i simply go to the other end of the spectrum (using the green CALL button) to bring it off standby.
hope this helps. cheers
oh, almost forgot ... "screen off and lock" REQUIRES root!!!

MimKoRn said:
Hello,
I've looked for a way to modify the keypad on my HTC and I found that one must change the leo-keypad.kl file when rooted. I've done so several times with r/w option, keeping a backup file and changing the leo-keypad.kl in several ways.
What I'm trying to achieve is to exchange the function of call and endcall button. Reason? I already had to change the digitizer since pressing the endcall button to turn off the screen is so frequent, it actually damages the flex cable from digitizer making the touch screen unresponsive. Replacing the digitizer cost money, time and a little bit of functionality of the phone. I don't want this to happen again, thus I want to turn off the screen with the call button.
Changing of the file did not help. What I've done was that I located the row with CALL and changed it to ENDCALL and ENDCALL changing to CALL. Then I tried to change both or one of them for POWER. POWER for CALL, etc. Nothing has changed whatsoever. Each time I rebooted the phone and checked, whether the file did not change on it's own. It was changed, but buttons work still the same.
Any ideas?
(using Hyperdroid, ES File Explorer with root option and writing ability)
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You might want to try editing qwerty.kl also . I was trying to disable the front keys during sleep and at first i only edited the leo-keypad.kl file and that wasnt holding . So i also edited the qwerty.kl file and it worked .

Thanx!
shanman-2 said:
Try using KeynumberTracker from the market. This will give you the correct key number to modify, then get ButtonRemapper from the market and remap the keys....or just edit it yourself and save using root-explorer..
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Thank you all for prompt answers and useful ideas. I decided to go for the quoted way and it works great for me. Now the call button kills the screen.
I also considered a touch screen alternative as rubledub mentioned (thanx for that), but I wanted to be able to turn off the screen even when I'm not on homescreen, so I went for the first mentioned alternative. However, the idea is cool, so I'll probably get it too, just to have both alternatives at hand.
Thanx a lot again. You probably saved my phone and my nerves.

MimKoRn said:
Hello,
I've looked for a way to modify the keypad on my HTC and I found that one must change the leo-keypad.kl file when rooted. I've done so several times with r/w option, keeping a backup file and changing the leo-keypad.kl in several ways.
What I'm trying to achieve is to exchange the function of call and endcall button. Reason? I already had to change the digitizer since pressing the endcall button to turn off the screen is so frequent, it actually damages the flex cable from digitizer making the touch screen unresponsive. Replacing the digitizer cost money, time and a little bit of functionality of the phone. I don't want this to happen again, thus I want to turn off the screen with the call button.
Changing of the file did not help. What I've done was that I located the row with CALL and changed it to ENDCALL and ENDCALL changing to CALL. Then I tried to change both or one of them for POWER. POWER for CALL, etc. Nothing has changed whatsoever. Each time I rebooted the phone and checked, whether the file did not change on it's own. It was changed, but buttons work still the same.
Any ideas?
(using Hyperdroid, ES File Explorer with root option and writing ability)
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I simply put lock screen widget on my screen,it s free from market and works great,now i use end key only to boot the phone

Thanks.
elesbb said:
You might want to try editing qwerty.kl also . I was trying to disable the front keys during sleep and at first i only edited the leo-keypad.kl file and that wasnt holding . So i also edited the qwerty.kl file and it worked .
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I just wanted to say thanks for this post. I was struggling with some button remapping issues and this was the cause. I only edited the keypad.kl and not the qwerty.kl as well.
So thanks again man.

MimKoRn said:
Thank you all for prompt answers and useful ideas. I decided to go for the quoted way and it works great for me. Now the call button kills the screen.
I also considered a touch screen alternative as rubledub mentioned (thanx for that), but I wanted to be able to turn off the screen even when I'm not on homescreen, so I went for the first mentioned alternative. However, the idea is cool, so I'll probably get it too, just to have both alternatives at hand.
Thanx a lot again. You probably saved my phone and my nerves.
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could you elaborate a bit on that? i dont know where the kwerty.kl resides (yes, i m well versed with editing things in system files with root explorer)
did you find the key number and change with another key number? if so, to set an empty key (that doesnt work on pressing) what do i replace it with?
would be appreciated

why doesnt any one use button remapper it works perfect for me i have my call button set to
shut off screen and as shutdown or restart phone i dont use my end call key for anything now

Need Help Recovering from Keyboard Remap Error

I wanted to post this as a reply to the thread that described what I tried to do which is posted in the S5 Android Development forum but since I am a newbie it wouldn't let me post there. The thread described how to remap the Capacitive Recents / Menu key so that it becomes a Menu/Recents key (i.e swap the short/long press functions). After making the prescribed edits to generic.kl and gpio-keys.kl, I couldn't figure out how to perform the last step to edit android.policy.jar. After scratching my head for a while I read the rest of the thread and found that you can only do this on a deodexed ROM.
I then went back in and edited the generic.kl and gpio-keys.kl files to the way they originally were. However, after rebooting I found that now neither the Recents/Menu capacitive key nor the Back key are working. When pressed, they light up but nothing else happens. To make matters worse, the Power key does work either. So when the unit turns itself off I now have to pull the battery, then I can press the Power key to boot the phone back up. However, once the phone has booted pressing the power key again does nothing - neither a short nor a long press.
I have looked over the edits to those two files carefully but don't see what I've screwed up. I even copied them to my PC and used Notepad++ to see if anything would be obvious. I have now done everything I can think of with no effect including a complete factory reset.
Can someone upload their working copies of these two files so I can compare to mine and see what I've done? If you have any other theories, I'd appreciate hearing them as well. Thanks in advance!

I was trying to disable the Home key from waking the device up, and I screwed my Generic.kl up as well. I changed it back (but not my gpio-keys.kl) and got the keys working again. The file is attached. Rename and drop the ".c" off of the end (had to do that to make it a valid file to upload).
And, no, I have not had success disabling the home key while the phone is sleeping.

Completely lost function of both soft keys and power button????

Hello there! As the title indicates, I've ran into a bit of trouble a few minutes ago. While setting up my new replacement S5, I managed to lose both of my soft keys and my power button. While restoring the replacement, everything went smooth (Titanium Backup complete restore, files, settings, Xposed modules, etc.). However, before sliding in my SIM card, I realized there was one more VERY important issue to tackle before my new phone would match my current one...I needed to replace my left soft key from the default recent tabs, to the menu button. No sweat, I did it with my current phone, so this should be cake. Or so I thought. I tracked down the same how-to from before (written verbatim below), edited the file, rebooted, and BOOM, just like that, my soft keys and power button were completely useless. I confirmed I didn't make a typing error, in addition to sending the exact same file from my current phone to the new one, and replacing it with the file that I KNOW works...still a no-go. I even switched the wording back to its original wording. Nothing. Also, although the buttons don't work, the power button DOES work to power the phone back on, but becomes useless again once it boots up. Lastly, the home button still functions perfectly.
If anybody has any ideas, suggestions, similar experiences, they would be greatly appreciated. Both phones are obviously rooted and run 4.4.4. Model Number SM-G900V. I believe the baseband version and build numbers vary between the two though. If those numbers are important, let me know and I'll post them. If there's something else you need, just ask away.
Thank you in advance! Method used below:
To Replace the Recents button with Menu
-Navigate to system/user/keylayout/Generic.kl
-Edit Key 254 from App_Switch to Menu
-Navigate to system/user/keylayout/gpio-keys.kl
-Edit Key 254 from App_Switch to Menu

*solved* feel free to take the thread down. Thank you.

Mattrleaf said:
Hello there! As the title indicates, I've ran into a bit of trouble a few minutes ago. While setting up my new replacement S5, I managed to lose both of my soft keys and my power button. While restoring the replacement, everything went smooth (Titanium Backup complete restore, files, settings, Xposed modules, etc.). However, before sliding in my SIM card, I realized there was one more VERY important issue to tackle before my new phone would match my current one...I needed to replace my left soft key from the default recent tabs, to the menu button. No sweat, I did it with my current phone, so this should be cake. Or so I thought. I tracked down the same how-to from before (written verbatim below), edited the file, rebooted, and BOOM, just like that, my soft keys and power button were completely useless. I confirmed I didn't make a typing error, in addition to sending the exact same file from my current phone to the new one, and replacing it with the file that I KNOW works...still a no-go. I even switched the wording back to its original wording. Nothing. Also, although the buttons don't work, the power button DOES work to power the phone back on, but becomes useless again once it boots up. Lastly, the home button still functions perfectly.
If anybody has any ideas, suggestions, similar experiences, they would be greatly appreciated. Both phones are obviously rooted and run 4.4.4. Model Number SM-G900V. I believe the baseband version and build numbers vary between the two though. If those numbers are important, let me know and I'll post them. If there's something else you need, just ask away.
Thank you in advance! Method used below:
To Replace the Recents button with Menu
-Navigate to system/user/keylayout/Generic.kl
-Edit Key 254 from App_Switch to Menu
-Navigate to system/user/keylayout/gpio-keys.kl
-Edit Key 254 from App_Switch to Menu
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If rooted, you can use this application
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoenixstudios.aiogestures&hl=fr
It allows gestures but also to map menu, back and home buttons.
Best regards
Franky