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I'm curious if its possible to disable the align screen shortcut on the Wizard (Enter Button in center plus Messages Button) Its really annoying when playing Doom or an emulator in landscape and having that popup all the time. Does anyone know a fix for this?
Unfortunately i dont have an answer for you. but i do have aquestion that i hope youcan answer. I got myself a doom launcher. It works well, but the control setup is terrible on the wizard. If i play in portrait mode, the fire button is the left soft key. So i ahve to fire with the same finger that i use to move. That makes the game unplayable. What launcher are you using and where did you get it?
I haven't done any testing or trying yet, but here is my idea...
what if you rename the align screen app, just so it stops it from launching?
Unfortunately i dont have an answer for you. but i do have aquestion that i hope youcan answer. I got myself a doom launcher. It works well, but the control setup is terrible on the wizard. If i play in portrait mode, the fire button is the left soft key. So i ahve to fire with the same finger that i use to move. That makes the game unplayable. What launcher are you using and where did you get it?
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Its called GF Doom (I'm sorry but I don't remember where I got it or whom made it. Although if the creator see's this I would love for him/her to PM me as I also have some questions.) Anyway the launcher shouldn't control the Key Mapping, usually thats done in some sort of config file. With the program that I have the keys are mapped in the skin file's txt document.
Try this, unzip all contents into your storage card and run the launcher you should get Doom, Doom II, and Plutonia (sometimes called Ultimate Doom) as well as a 3rd party mod called Evilution. Keep the default skin, with that the keys I have mapped are:
The directional Buttons for Movement, Messages button for Fire and strafe(I would like to change strafe to volume up/down or Internet but have not been able to if you can figure this out let me know), and the softkeys for Select and Start.
The screen defaults to protrait with your choosen skin. To play in full landscape start the game in the options change the resolution to "low" and it will switch, Hope this helps
I can't seem to get the attachment to work here is the link ftp://[email protected]/Uploads/
the file is pocket doom.zip
A Flock of Seagulls are in my Wizard
It would be awesome to find a way to disable this. Is there maybe an entry in the registry that corresponds to what key combination turns on the align screen program. Maybe it could be changed to some combination of keys that is very unlikely to be executed simultaneously.
Until then, I'll continue to drink foo-foo drinks to calm myself while trying to play any action games.
GF Doom
Dragonedge:
What version of GF Doom do you have? Maybe I have an old version. When I enter full screen mode, the soft keys are shoot and strafe, while the message/IE buttons are menu and escape. I have to use the same hand to shoot as I do to move.
Thanks for the tip about full screen, I would never have figured that out. Now I'm not dissapointed with the program anymore.
Lol, funny posts. Is this still a problem? Does it need investigating?
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I still have the problem........ working on some things now.
What version of GF Doom do you have? Maybe I have an old version. When I enter full screen mode, the soft keys are shoot and strafe, while the message/IE buttons are menu and escape. I have to use the same hand to shoot as I do to move.
Thanks for the tip about full screen, I would never have figured that out. Now I'm not dissapointed with the program anymore.
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Not sure what version it is. Check out the ftp I uploaded a zip file with everything I use. Also you can edit the skin files to remap the softkeys as well as the messaging and internet keys. All the information about remapping the buttons is in the skins folder in a txt file names Skin Specs.
Lol, funny posts. Is this still a problem? Does it need investigating?
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The only problem I had was being able to map the message and internet buttons as different keys. Also I would like to use the volume slider as a left and righ strafe but could not seem to get that mapped either. Any help there would be great.
I've made an app to disable this - VJCalibrula for Universal and Hermes.
Wizard requires a slightly different hack, and I don't have one to test on.
dragonedge: what hardware/ROM are you using? I'll try to get you to alpha test if you want.
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dragonedge: what hardware/ROM are you using? I'll try to get you to alpha test if you want.
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I wouldn't mind at all . I have the T-mobile MDA/Wizard with the 2.26 ROM
An app to disable this would be handy another idea that would be nice is an app that would let you specify another button combination for system shortcuts would be awesome.
VJCalibrula - disable align screen settings (alpha)
Guys, please give this a go.
I don't think it supports AKU 3.2 for now. Soon...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=282152
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I have searched around the net and watched almost all youtube videos about the HD2. I still need to know about how the phone handles multitasking... I am quite sure it does multitask though..
Android: Long press on the home-menu button to bring up latest apps. + Task manager apps to kill running apps.
Nokia/Maemo: Big element of core design. Screen with live feed windows. Each window can be shot down seperatly.
iPhone: No multitasking
HD2: ?? Anything like a task manager here??
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I have searched around the net and watched almost all youtube videos about the HD2. I still need to know about how the phone handles multitasking... I am quite sure it does multitask though..
Android: Long press on the home-menu button to bring up latest apps. + Task manager apps to kill running apps.
Nokia/Maemo: Big element of core design. Screen with live feed windows. Each window can be shot down seperatly.
iPhone: No multitasking
HD2: ?? Anything like a task manager here??
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thats a stupid question all ppc's can multitask, infact win mob comes with its own task/processes manager lol
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thats a stupid question all ppc's can multitask, infact win mob comes with its own task/processes manager lol
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There's no such thing as a stupid question.
In this case there's only a "narrowminded, pissed off and angry with his live"-kinda question.
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I still need to know about how the phone handles multitasking... I am quite sure it does multitask though..
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When I saw it a week ago, the presenter pressed a small button on right side of the screen while in home display to bring up the list of applications running. So in a sense, quite similar to N900, except that it was a list, not thumbnails.
What I would be interested to know if there's a way to remap a hardware key to bring up the task manager. Personally I would think this would be more useful for me that the start-key.
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When I saw it a week ago, the presenter pressed a small button on right side of the screen while in home display to bring up the list of applications running. So in a sense, quite similar to N900, except that it was a list, not thumbnails.
What I would be interested to know if there's a way to remap a hardware key to bring up the task manager. Personally I would think this would be more useful for me that the start-key.
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There are a few other nice solutions:
WkTask shows the running apps as small icons on the taskbar - kinda like in Windows on the desktop computer. By tapping on the icons, you can easily switch between different runningapps with as outreturning to the homescreen in between. Its freeware, although donations are surely appreciated by the creator...
AEButtonsPlus can display a listf running apps following a hardware button press, so you can switch by tapping on a listed item.
dnt forget we can use the xperia panels now, that works as a nice visual task manager
Thanks, those solutions look quite interesting and probably will be what I'm looking for. I'll have to give them a try when I'll get the device.
Heres some pics so you know what were on about
1) xperia panels (You can get that free here)
2) Htc Task Manager (You Get That with every htc device)
3) Showcase (You also can get that free here)
3) Showcase (You also can get that free here)
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I just found the Showcase myself too. It seems really brilliant application.. simple and finger friendly.
Just need to figure out how I can remap a hardware button (like start button) to start this instead. But as far as I understand, that shouldn't be big issue.
But I guess that should be what I was after with this: easily accessable task manager so I can switch applications quick.
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I just found the Showcase myself too. It seems really brilliant application.. simple and finger friendly.
Just need to figure out how I can remap a hardware button (like start button) to start this instead. But as far as I understand, that shouldn't be big issue.
But I guess that should be what I was after with this: easily accessable task manager so I can switch applications quick.
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Showcases default setting is set to open when you press and hold the start button
Showcases default setting is set to open when you press and hold the start button
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Now if I only could get it without holding it, but just pressing...
But thanks, that alone should be enough too. And I'll probably manage to find out how to modify it before I'll get my phone, if it's possible.
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Now if I only could get it without holding it, but just pressing...
But thanks, that alone should be enough too. And I'll probably manage to find out how to modify it before I'll get my phone, if it's possible.
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if you set it to just a press, how would you get to the start menu lol
if you set it to just a press, how would you get to the start menu lol
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If I've understood correct, it should be accessible through home-screen, just pressing the start from top-left corner? This should be enough for me if I have 9 shortcuts in home screen anyway. Probably don't need that fast access to rest of aplications.
Just a personal preference, but I'd like to be able to access task manager fast. Just so I can juggle between browser, ssh terminal (irssi) etc easily.Currently with my Nokia E71 I can access it by pressing home-button for a second and would prefer a dedicated button for this.
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If I've understood correct, it should be accessible through home-screen, just pressing the start from top-left corner? This should be enough for me if I have 9 shortcuts in home screen anyway. Probably don't need that fast access to rest of aplications.
Just a personal preference, but I'd like to be able to access task manager fast. Just so I can juggle between browser, ssh terminal (irssi) etc easily.Currently with my Nokia E71 I can access it by pressing home-button for a second and would prefer a dedicated button for this.
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Not on the newer windows mobile 6.5.1 roms, microsoft moved the start button from the top to the bottom, suppose to make it more like windows by the way you can set showcase up so it opens if you tap the top right hand corner where the clock is
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Showcases default setting is set to open when you press and hold the start button
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Does not work this way on the HD2, and also a no-go with pressing and holding the Windows hardware button.
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Does not work this way on the HD2, and also a no-go with pressing and holding the Windows hardware button.
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How come it's a no-go to do that?XD
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How come it's a no-go to do that?XD
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Also, X button enhancement does not work perfectly. On the capacitive screen I can't slide my finger to the left to activate different functions of Showcase. Only the one to the right can be used. It works fine when operating through a PC with Remote Controller, so I am sure this is due to the different screen technology.
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Also, X button enhancement does not work perfectly. On the capacitive screen I can't slide my finger to the left to activate different functions of Showcase. Only the one to the right can be used. It works fine when operating through a PC with Remote Controller, so I am sure this is due to the different screen technology.
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Yeah, for some reason HD2 renders the X button enhancement useless. So, is there actually any way to access Showcase (or any similar task manager for that matter) by long pressing any of the hard keys? I really wish there was more convenient ways to switch between applications.
Kinda funny how Apple's ineptitude has people thinking, all over again, asif Multitasking is something special.
Any windows version since way back when does multitasking.
You know what the funny part is, the iPhone can actually multi task, but Apple won't allow it for some reason Steve Jobs' mind spewed out and only he can understand.
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You know what the funny part is, the iPhone can actually multi task, but Apple won't allow it for some reason Steve Jobs' mind spewed out and only he can understand.
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They can activate it later and sell a new wave of $600 phones.
Remember when they released video? It was very exciting for a lot of people. I recall video recording the festivities on my three year old Windows Mobile phone at the time.
So, after having my TF for about 4-5 months, I decided to get the keyboard. Why not sooner? Well, I had a laptop and I wanted just a tablet - which I happen to love. However, I'm deploying (again) this week and I don't want to take a laptop and tablet.
I've researched some of this, but here's some of my questions....
1. Is there any way to swipe scroll with the pad? I use Google Currents and I noticed that left/right keys don't cycle through the stories. Instead of clicking and dragging I just swipe the screen. Any way to do that with the keyboard?
2. If I read the manual I can probaly figure this out, but what are the circles on some of the keys for? (1 and 6, up and down)
3. Not a question, but a statement, my palm always hits the track pad. Hit it twice since typing this.
4. Are there any cool tips and tricks with the keyboard? (aside from dropping a 750gb HDD in it)
1. two fingers on the trackpad left and right should change the page
2. they are just references to highlight reference keys
3. F4 (the 3 squares with the line through it toggles the track pad on and off
4. some guy made his chrome instead of brown
That's what I'm talking about. Thanks for the tips.
Anyone have anything else?
This thing is awesome, where have I been?! lol
One of my favorites is the back button is a right click. That and I was able to change the cursor from the circle to the pointer.
all thats mod-able too if your rooted
you can change functions with tasker and you can change the cursor to something less blue.
last tip is that when you are using the arrow rather than the circle multitouch gestures on the pad don't work although if you want i can throw together a package to make it look like the pointer and act like the circle
Hate to hijack it but I would be very interested in a file that gives you the arrow pointer but the multi touch of the circles
DESIRE HD using ER3BUS ASUS TRANSFORMER on KRAKD
Thanks for all the great advice!
To do the pointer mod, do I need to root?
I don't mind rooting, but I've everything set up exactly like I like it and you know what a pain it is to reinstall the apps, getting everything straight and logged in, etc.
You know what would be a cool mod... Automatically disable the touch pad after 10 keys (or something) are entered consecutively. Or the user can change the amount. Right now I turn off the pad manually before posting on here, but if it would recognize I'm typing something lengthy that'd be awesome. Is it possible?
haven't tested it yet but this should work just replaces the pointer_spot files with pointer_arrow files
View attachment MultiArrow.zip
and if it doesn't work flash this to get it back to normal
View attachment Default.zip
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Thanks for all the great advice!
To do the pointer mod, do I need to root?
I don't mind rooting, but I've everything set up exactly like I like it and you know what a pain it is to reinstall the apps, getting everything straight and logged in, etc.
You know what would be a cool mod... Automatically disable the touch pad after 10 keys (or something) are entered consecutively. Or the user can change the amount. Right now I turn off the pad manually before posting on here, but if it would recognize I'm typing something lengthy that'd be awesome. Is it possible?
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you do need root to do the pointer mod and having clockwork mod would be helpful just use nacho root it is not destructive to data so you dont have to resign in
1. push the silver slider and detach screen from dock.
2. notice jaws drop around you.
3. ????
4. profit
mbreezy said:
So, after having my TF for about 4-5 months, I decided to get the keyboard. Why not sooner? Well, I had a laptop and I wanted just a tablet - which I happen to love. However, I'm deploying (again) this week and I don't want to take a laptop and tablet.
I've researched some of this, but here's some of my questions....
1. Is there any way to swipe scroll with the pad? I use Google Currents and I noticed that left/right keys don't cycle through the stories. Instead of clicking and dragging I just swipe the screen. Any way to do that with the keyboard?
2. If I read the manual I can probaly figure this out, but what are the circles on some of the keys for? (1 and 6, up and down)
3. Not a question, but a statement, my palm always hits the track pad. Hit it twice since typing this.
4. Are there any cool tips and tricks with the keyboard? (aside from dropping a 750gb HDD in it)
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Im able to use the tablet for everything but highend gaming for portability and versatility it is fantastic.
Goodintentions has done a few hard mods to his docks, check it out for some ideas, I personally will be installing and additional set of batteries and a ssd, but am waiting because i will most likely be upgradingto the prime soon.
My only concern with having the tab without a pc is if it gets bricked, will you have access to a pc or mac where you are going...just in case.
Be safe on your deployment bro
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium
General keyboard tip: search Google for Asus Transformer shortcuts! There are some pretty helpful keyboard shortcuts for many operations in different applications.
mbreezy said:
So, after having my TF for about 4-5 months, I decided to get the keyboard. Why not sooner? Well, I had a laptop and I wanted just a tablet - which I happen to love. However, I'm deploying (again) this week and I don't want to take a laptop and tablet.
I've researched some of this, but here's some of my questions....
1. Is there any way to swipe scroll with the pad? I use Google Currents and I noticed that left/right keys don't cycle through the stories. Instead of clicking and dragging I just swipe the screen. Any way to do that with the keyboard?
2. If I read the manual I can probaly figure this out, but what are the circles on some of the keys for? (1 and 6, up and down)
3. Not a question, but a statement, my palm always hits the track pad. Hit it twice since typing this.
4. Are there any cool tips and tricks with the keyboard? (aside from dropping a 750gb HDD in it)
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Good luck to you deploying, man. Half the guys I've installed the hard drive for are military guys who want to bring without hassle their movie collections with them.
Having purchased the nvidia shield back at launch, one of the main things that bothered me about it's design was the lack of a few buttons, namely a menu button and select button, instead we got a button that opened nvidia's tegra zone, something easily accessible from a launcher and a volume button which again wasn't something I needed to constantly access.
So i ended up editing some of the .kl files and using an xposed tweak called gravity box to tune things a bit
I changed the nvidia button to act as a menu button with the .kl files, and the volume button to act as a select button
with gravity box i changed the menu button's long press function to call up the power menu to restore that function to how the shield comes, and set the back button when long pressed to call up the volume control
also keep in mind if you don't use xposed with gravity box to tweak the keys after they've been changed you will have difficulty shutting down the shield properly as the nvidia button of course acts as the power button when held down longer, it of course still powers up the device either way, and will hard power the device off if held for several seconds, still setting up gravity box feels like the best way
now for the moga controller, while you can make it function in a usable state with tincore or game keyboard, and in fact those both still come in very handy for touch emulation, I didn't want to always have those apps running when i wanted standard button presses, when the controller would go to sleep it would take time to get re detected so i wanted a little more convenience, I think this also should make it work with the built in console mode touch emulation, though I haven't tested that
the HID mode on it would have the select button as a back button, and the shoulder buttons didn't seem to work unless an app specifically supported the controller
So i added a few .kl files for that as well, not sure which of the 3 gets called as they're all duplicates in function, but presumably the device ID one should be the default, but i added the other 2 in case it doesn't for some reason
these .kl files should be put in /system/usr/keylayout
root is required and obviously backup the files that get replaced for the shield, the moga ones should not have existing files and match the permissions to the other files that're in the folder
I've tested these moga files on an LG phone on 4.2.2 and the shield on 4.3
I've included a backup of the original files for 4.3 for the shield in the zip, but no idea if they'd be different under Kitkat though I don't see why they would be
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Having purchased the nvidia shield back at launch, one of the main things that bothered me about it's design was the lack of a few buttons, namely a menu button and select button, instead we got a button that opened nvidia's tegra zone, something easily accessible from a launcher and a volume button which again wasn't something I needed to constantly access.
So i ended up editing some of the .kl files and using an xposed tweak called gravity box to tune things a bit
I changed the nvidia button to act as a menu button with the .kl files, and the volume button to act as a select button
with gravity box i changed the menu button's long press function to call up the power menu to restore that function to how the shield comes, and set the back button when long pressed to call up the volume control
also keep in mind if you don't use xposed with gravity box to tweak the keys after they've been changed you will have difficulty shutting down the shield properly as the nvidia button of course acts as the power button when held down longer, it of course still powers up the device either way, and will hard power the device off if held for several seconds, still setting up gravity box feels like the best way
now for the moga controller, while you can make it function in a usable state with tincore or game keyboard, and in fact those both still come in very handy for touch emulation, I didn't want to always have those apps running when i wanted standard button presses, when the controller would go to sleep it would take time to get re detected so i wanted a little more convenience, I think this also should make it work with the built in console mode touch emulation, though I haven't tested that
the HID mode on it would have the select button as a back button, and the shoulder buttons didn't seem to work unless an app specifically supported the controller
So i added a few .kl files for that as well, not sure which of the 3 gets called as they're all duplicates in function, but presumably the device ID one should be the default, but i added the other 2 in case it doesn't for some reason
these .kl files should be put in /system/usr/keylayout
root is required and obviously backup the files that get replaced for the shield, the moga ones should not have existing files and match the permissions to the other files that're in the folder
I've tested these moga files on an LG phone on 4.2.2 and the shield on 4.3
I've included a backup of the original files for 4.3 for the shield in the zip, but no idea if they'd be different under Kitkat though I don't see why they would be
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I supposed that ir just a copy paste and remplace the files for the ones on the zip right ?, thanks for the info i agree with you, i hate the tegra zone button, nice idea man
what bothers me is that in some Gameloft Shooters like Nova 3 you aim and shoot with the bumpers instead triggers.
you think there is a way to change that without ****ing up other games?
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I supposed that ir just a copy paste and remplace the files for the ones on the zip right ?, thanks for the info i agree with you, i hate the tegra zone button, nice idea man
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yes replace the existing files for the shield, the permissions should stay the same, just make sure they match the other files in that folder
what bothers me is that in some Gameloft Shooters like Nova 3 you aim and shoot with the bumpers instead triggers.
you think there is a way to change that without ****ing up other games?
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if you swap them via this method it would change it for all games, something like tincore or gamekeyboard would let you switch for just 1 game, as they have profiles
Thanks!
Just wanted to say that I love having the select button useful in HID mode again, thank you so much as I had no idea how those layouts got set!
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yes replace the existing files for the shield, the permissions should stay the same, just make sure they match the other files in that folder
if you swap them via this method it would change it for all games, something like tincore or gamekeyboard would let you switch for just 1 game, as they have profiles
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tried. Tincore doesn't do such thing and gamekeyboard does not detect the analog triggers.
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tried. Tincore doesn't do such thing and gamekeyboard does not detect the analog triggers.
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if you're refering to the moga controller
if you use the .kl files from here that will make gamekeyboard detect the analog triggers, the reason game keyboard doesn't see them is they get assigned a random generic axis each time if they're undefined in one of the kl files
tincore is tricky to get used to how to setup, and a number of it's addons need to be purchased
it sets 2 different buttons to the triggers, both analog and digital, i think one set comes up as buttondead and as gas brake, make sure you set both of them, the profiles also need to be created while the game is loaded in the background if you want it to auto load with that game, otherwise it'll remove the profile when the game starts if you have auto profile switching enabled
No I was refering to the Shield Controller, not Moga.
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tried. Tincore doesn't do such thing and gamekeyboard does not detect the analog triggers.
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I have the same exact issue - want to use triggers instead of bumpers. Can someone here either explain how to map the triggers or just upload a profile that already does?
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I have the same exact issue - want to use triggers instead of bumpers. Can someone here either explain how to map the triggers or just upload a profile that already does?
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So I got it to work.
open tincore then minimize,
open NOVA or MC and then volume start volume and select open TKM editor
then scroll all the way down and under L1 and L2 select disable on the drop down
for R2 and L2 select click button joy 0
Then press check button then name the new profile and you're good. Make sure the profile is activated in order for it to work.
Only catch was that I had to pay in order for the new functionality to work. 2.75 well worth it now that I can use triggers for zoom and shoot!
Not recognizing the KL files after updating image
So I have a nexus 5 and was running the factory 4.4.2 image and these KL files worked great (the moga files). After updating to the new 4.4.3 image the device doesn't seem to load them. Anyone have any ideas? It's almost as though it doesn't know those files were put there, but I copied them over from a directory in the /sdcard with root explorer and updated the permissions just like I did originally.
Only oddities I can think of is that the OTA failed (I rooted but didn't flash the team win bootloader so OTA's could still work, update did work on my wifes rooted nexus 5) for me so I had to download the factory image and flashed the update without the -w flag so that it would keep my user partition.
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So I have a nexus 5 and was running the factory 4.4.2 image and these KL files worked great (the moga files). After updating to the new 4.4.3 image the device doesn't seem to load them. Anyone have any ideas? It's almost as though it doesn't know those files were put there, but I copied them over from a directory in the /sdcard with root explorer and updated the permissions just like I did originally.
Only oddities I can think of is that the OTA failed (I rooted but didn't flash the team win bootloader so OTA's could still work, update did work on my wifes rooted nexus 5) for me so I had to download the factory image and flashed the update without the -w flag so that it would keep my user partition.
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So after doing some more research it seems that the product code wasn't the same anymore. instead of 0dad it was 6271, so after renaming the vendor specific file to incorporate the correct product code, it worked again for me. I don't know enough about things to know why that would have changed, but before that rename it was just using the Generic.kl as it was before.
I got the code it wanted by adb shelling into the device and running a dumpsys input. One of the lines under the Moga had it's vendor and product code in it.
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So after doing some more research it seems that the product code wasn't the same anymore. instead of 0dad it was 6271, so after renaming the vendor specific file to incorporate the correct product code, it worked again for me. I don't know enough about things to know why that would have changed, but before that rename it was just using the Generic.kl as it was before.
I got the code it wanted by adb shelling into the device and running a dumpsys input. One of the lines under the Moga had it's vendor and product code in it.
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that's definitely interesting that the device portion would change, the triggers still work as analog? even windows gives the vendor id and device id as the 0dad one, only thing that comes to mind is maybe the newer version of android is seeing some other piece of hardware in the controller before the HID device and using that since the vendor portion isn't changing
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that's definitely interesting that the device portion would change, the triggers still work as analog? even windows gives the vendor id and device id as the 0dad one, only thing that comes to mind is maybe the newer version of android is seeing some other piece of hardware in the controller before the HID device and using that since the vendor portion isn't changing
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Yeah, very weird. The only thing I can think of that I've done is that I have taken the controller apart. I was trying to see if there was any way i might make some adjustments to the d-pad. But other than taking the case apart and having the board being a bit on the free side for a bit, I didn't end up doing anything to the controller. It works fine as well, so I doubt anything I did could have changed that code.
Can the long press back button behavior be changed?
Would altering the kl files somehow make it possible to alter the long press behavior of the back button? When streaming Fallout 4, the Select button is the Back button on the controller. In the game you long press Select to bring up the workbench menu. As it is now, long pressing the button brings up the share menu on the tablet. The menu for taking screenshot and recording gameplay etc. I want to disable that somehow or change it from long pressing the back button.
Is that possible?
Hi,
I bought this remote:
http://g03.s.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1clsdIXXXXXXlXVXXq6xXFXXXn/2-4GHz-Fly-Air-Mouse-Wireless-Keyboard.jpg
but I'm having trouble with the "back" key. It's not really acts as back. Instead it acts as right click.
Has anyone been able to fix this problem?
I xposed module would be nice
I did some research and found this:
https://github.com/timduru/platform-frameworks-base/commit/bae953c0063dc1afb9e8c43381f3894329abe115
Think this is exactly what we need to fix this.
Is it possible via xposed module? Maybe any Devs are interested in that one?
Use esc button for back key
ilkerates said:
Use esc button for back key
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Yes, I'm sure he's already aware of that.
Speaking personally, it would be nice if my back button on my air mouse (the same one as the OP has which, despite being marked as a back button, is effectively seen by Android as a right mouse click) actually worked as a back button. To stop having to turn my air mouse over to access the esc key every time I wanted to go back, given that the QWERTY doesn't work when pointing downwards. I had to remap my Menu button as the back button isn't seen by any key mapping apps.
So yes, a big thumbs up from me too if this can happen in Xposed. I'm rooted and running it already.
Beefheart said:
Yes, I'm sure he's already aware of that.
Speaking personally, it would be nice if my back button on my air mouse (the same one as the OP has which, despite being marked as a back button, is effectively seen by Android as a right mouse click) actually worked as a back button. To stop having to turn my air mouse over to access the esc key every time I wanted to go back, given that the QWERTY doesn't work when pointing downwards. I had to remap my Menu button as the back button isn't seen by any key mapping apps.
So yes, a big thumbs up from me too if this can happen in Xposed. I'm rooted and running it already.
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Yes this is what I am also trying to do, so if anyone has figured out how to make the right mouse button into the back button that would be amazing!!
Xposed Additions may work for you.
ErAzOr2k said:
I did some research and found this:
https://github.com/timduru/platform-frameworks-base/commit/bae953c0063dc1afb9e8c43381f3894329abe115
Think this is exactly what we need to fix this.
Is it possible via xposed module? Maybe any Devs are interested in that one?
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what exactly is this? thanks
[email protected] said:
Yes this is what I am also trying to do, so if anyone has figured out how to make the right mouse button into the back button that would be amazing!!
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It's impossible as far as I'm aware to map the back button on my air mouse to a specific activity. Like I said, I ended up mapping the menu button instead. I've gotten used to it now.
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Unfortunately not. In fact, not only did it not work, it caused delay issues in button presses on my NVidia controller. This only stopped when it was deactivated within Xposed.
Only other thing I can think of would be to create a custom profile in /system/usr/keylayout/, however I don't know the details of how to do it.
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nice !
nice !
Any updates with this issue? I was actually coming here to post about a similar problem.
Just picked up my Shield TV and tried using this same remote. The center button (select button; left click button) doesn't function at all. I can scroll up and down, left and right, air mouse cursor works fine. But I can't actually make a selection.
I also find that with either the controller or nvidia remote, I can't navigate in app file structures. So when I side load ES Explorer for instance, I can't get into the center of the screen and navigate the file list, only the top and bottom border menus. Or when I sideloaded ShowBox and other similar apps, I can't navigate the movie lists, only the top or bottom menus.
At this point I'm starting to think I'm either better off taking this thing back and using my old droid tv box. OR flashing this thing to make it act like a droid tablet and lose all the added functionality that the shield uses to set itself apart.
So, I bought this remote from amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UYCLV8Y/ref=cm_sw_r_other_awd_CTeTwbRCVNCP1
Which is pretty awesome so far. Everything works except the back button of course. I've been digging and digging and unfortunately I don't think we can change the behavior as it just doesn't seem to be recognized as a typical key scancode. I'm confident of this because I made a custom key layout file for this device, and literally edited 999 key entries, ranging from "key 0" all the way up to "key 999". I gave every keycode the back button tag. What this essentially did was turn every single button on the remote into a back button (lol), and as you may expect, even STILL the back button on the remote only registered as a mouse click.
After searching, it seems the only way to bypass this would to be to change the behavior of the mouse button itself, which according to resources online, is hard coded into the kernel itself. You would have to actually know how to code and compile a new kernel for your media device.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...ped-to-work-for-traversing-back-in-jelly-bean
I have created a simple keylayout that anyone can use if interested. It's pretty much just a rip of the generic.kl file, with the zoom in and out buttons on the remote configured as back buttons. If you use a proper keycode scanner, you can study this keylayout file and eventually customize any button (except the back button of course) to do almost anything you want.
It's a temporary workaround until someone figures it out. If it doesn't work for you, you may need to change the filename to reflect the proper vid and pid of your device. I did this by plugging my device into windows and checking the hardware id for the new mouse and keyboard input that popped up.
I'm not sure which directory the file needs to be in, so I just copied it to both known directories:
Root: data>system>devices>keylayout
Root: system>usr>keylayout
I hope this helps.
Edit: Also, a couple of things to note, in case anyone was curious. If your having any issues trying to program the infrared side for a remote, consider that the source remote may be blasting too much for this remote to learn. I discovered this issue because my Samsung tv would send tons of ir data and causing my remote to have troubles learning. If you have a similar issue, try quickly/lightly tapping the button on the source remote when teaching this remote to learn it. Had no issues teaching my remote once I figured this out.
Finally, an oddity I noticed is that the issue seems specific to Android TV boxes. Connecting the USB to my galaxy note 5 via USB otg cable, the back button works fine on its own on this remote. Oddly though, while it registers as a key using the key test app (Google it), it reports back as having a scancode of 0.
Tried adding key 0 as a button in the keylayout config. Still no go. :/
I've made a custom kernel based on stock kernel to (hopefully) change the rightclick event to back event.
Is anyone brave enough to check this out as I don't give a guarantee to anything?!
ErAzOr2k said:
I've made a custom kernel based on stock kernel to (hopefully) change the rightclick event to back event.
Is anyone brave enough to check this out as I don't give a guarantee to anything?!
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tried your boot.img, and as far as i can tell, nothing.
my shield tv is already unlocked and rooted, so i just used "fastboot flash boot boot.img" in adb to flash the boot image to my device. booted up fine, just i dont see any changes regarding right mouse click.... :/
has anyone figure this out yet. I really need to change the right click to function as "back"
Has anyone been able to fix this meanwhile? With Xposed Module maybe?
I'd love a Magisk (or Xposed) module that fixes that, but I don't think any module like that exists right now...
There are work-arounds to use apps that create fullscreen overlay which intercepts right clicks and emulates a Back button, but those don't work on Shield (or Android TV in general) because creating Overlay / requesting "draw over other apps" permission causes a crash
For now, the most convenient (more than editing *.kl files) work-around I've found is to use an app called Button Mapper (packagename: flar2.homebutton, can't post a link cause I'm a newbie) and emulate Back button on some other button...