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{REQ} Hold Search Opens Camera {REQ}

With all the made skillz here at XDA.
Do you think someone can whip up an app that when you hold the Search button, instead of picking voice search, it can open up the Camera app?
gracias

Krad said:
With all the made skillz here at XDA.
Do you think someone can whip up an app that when you hold the Search button, instead of picking voice search, it can open up the Camera app?
gracias
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I believe long presses are handled by the kernal so it should be possible but I am not sure how.

Currently, long press on the search opens google talk...maybe long press on the menu or something?
Good idea though
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You get the option for powerstrip or chompsms to take over that button.
I would love an app to launch whatever you want, like the camera or the phone app.
Surely this should be super easy to make
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I would like it to be used for voice input in emails/texts. The tiny mic button is hard to hit on the Android keyboard.

I use LaunchPro and setup the app drawer swipe up gesture to open camera, works well for me.

great suggestion.. using that now

Use the android market app called 'Button Shortcut' i made the long-press search open camera instead of google search.

saint168 said:
I use LaunchPro and setup the app drawer swipe up gesture to open camera, works well for me.
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Not seeing how to get to the swipe features. How can I do that?
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I don't know about launcher pro but I do exactly the same in ADW. I took LP off after I discovered this in ADW, I never saw this in LP, did I miss it?
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Press and hold one of the apps in the app drawer until the menu pops up. Select 'Swipe Gesture Action'

justflorin said:
Use the android market app called 'Button Shortcut' i made the long-press search open camera instead of google search.
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I took the advice. Since I already had handcent SMS assigned to the button and voice search had been assigned before that I got a nice little menu out of it. I think its more useful w/o selecting a default
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justflorin said:
Use the android market app called 'Button Shortcut' i made the long-press search open camera instead of google search.
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Thanks! That application did the trick 8)

xfosx said:
Thanks! That application did the trick 8)
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button shortcut worked once for me and then did nothing. uninstalled. Anyone got anything better?

Unable to launch Launcher pro

I've tried unistalling and re-installing Launcher pro but I don't get the option to select TW or LP when i hit the home key. I forced TW to stop and cleared data but is still goes back to TW when pressing home.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Restart the device.

tried that. still no luck...

Unistall then reinstall
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yep.. done that... muliple times... cleared data and all.

Download home switcher from the market

gravis86 said:
Download home switcher from the market
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Hurrah!! thanks.. all working now

If you press the home button you should have a choice to pick which launcher you want to use.

peachpuff said:
If you press the home button you should have a choice to pick which launcher you want to use.
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Key word: should. The whole point of this thread is that hitting the home key didn't give the option like it should have.

You could also go into app setting under default launcher and turn tw asus default off.
Happened to me before.
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NIK516 said:
You could also go into app setting under default launcher and turn tw asus default off.
Happened to me before.
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Setting-
applications-
manage applications-
All applications
Scroll down to touch wiz launcher
Scroll down to clear defaults
Do a happy dance
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On have aplication button on home screen.

My phone only shows an application button at the button of he screen as of this morning. It use to display phone, message, email, and something else. Anybody know how to get these buttons back?
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noreboy said:
My phone only shows an application button at the button of he screen as of this morning. It use to display phone, message, email, and something else. Anybody know how to get these buttons back?
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Go into your apps, hit the menu button, choose edit, find what other three apps you want and drag. Them into the bottom bar, hit menu and selete save.
And next time questions go in q&a.

Go into the app drawer, click menu, edit. Move whichever apps you want into the dock.
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Thanks guys, that helped!
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Touch wiz problem

Hello everyone! Does anyone know how to fix this problem when pressing the home button I get this screen that ask you if you wanna switch between Touch wiz easy Or home. I got it to the default app in setting and choose Touch Wiz Home and the press the home button once. It seems to come back after awhile.
Please help
Thank you!

When the choices come up select touchwiz home and then press always.
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dzhowandai said:
When the choices come up select touchwiz home and then press always.
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I have done that and it comes back.

something is breaking your defaults then. uninstall things that manage your settings.

Isriam said:
something is breaking your defaults then. uninstall things that manage your settings.
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Not sure but I reset the phone and it still does it

could be a bug in the version rom you have, try an older or newer version?

What is this screen that keeps appearing and how do I disable it?

I see it sometimes when I pull my phone out of my pocket. I have no idea which combination of buttons/screen taps/ or whatever I'm doing to make it appear.

It's an LG memo app that came with the phone. If you double tap volume-up, it starts, bypassing the lock screen. I'm pretty sure you can change this in settings.
BTW, if you double tap volume-down, the camera app starts, bypassing the lock screen. THIS is very useful!
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Thanks!

You can disable the memo app if it bothers you or you have no need for it.

Can the VOLUME UP shortcut be remapped?

pizza_pablo said:
Can the VOLUME UP shortcut be remapped?
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I've changed it to the flashlight using the app key plus.

Obscure Reference said:
I've changed it to the flashlight using the app key plus.
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SWEET! That's a great option! :laugh:

cory733 said:
I see it sometimes when I pull my phone out of my pocket. I have no idea which combination of buttons/screen taps/ or whatever I'm doing to make it appear.
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That is the built-in screen capture. You may have been accidentally pressing the screen capture key. I can't remember anymore which one is the default, because I have re-assigned it somewhere else. You have the option to save it as image in Gallery app or the Quick Memo app.

obscure reference said:
i've changed it to the flashlight using the app key plus.
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it works! :d
awesome! Thanks, again!