There are a fair number of people who have this phone (me included) who would love the ability to remap the "Back" button, so that we can recreate the stock Nexus button layout (and optionally turn off the backlight altogether) on the hardware keys.
Someone has already created an issue tracker for it on the CM Jira, but if this is something you also want, you need to vote on it through Jira! Higher votes mean higher visibility, and hopefully a developer will consider it.
https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/BACON-56
ROMs like Slim and Mahdi already let you remap the Back button, so it's not so much a question of if it can be done, but when.
Yep would be a useful feature!
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Hi all!
Suddenly today I've noticed something...I never use the BACK hardware key on my diamond. The reason is that this button doesn't seem to make anything different than the HOME button. (of course, I may be wrong! If so, please someone point that difference.) So, the obvious idea came to me: why don't we try to remap this button.
I know that there are apps that do just that (AEBPlus for example) but if you tried these programs you know they use up to 20% of RAM (I'm talking about AEBPlus again). So this is not the best option.
Rather than these 3rd party software, I was thinking to remap the button before the RAM is cocked by means of hard-coding. Sadly for me I do not possess this kind of knowledge so I ask kindly if someone could do this for the community (if it can be done).
I thought that this button could have a similar function as the ALT-TAB but to tell you the truth anything would be better than the original function.
Waiting for your replays...
Or maybe more easier with a registry hack. I am also interested in remapping the back button!
great minds think alike, but not always on the same schedule.
i was just looking into remapping my buttons with something other than AEBplus. i have an HD2, so the built-iin button remapper only gives me control over a long press of the send button; i'm looking into remapping the back button into a short-press "alt+tab" solution and a long-press to open my task manager.
then i searched and found this: forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1770782&postcount=1
it's basically noting how you can use shortcut files, renamed and placed in your Windows folder, that remap your buttons. just create a shortcut file and rename it with "long" or "short" button depress followed by an underscore and the documented name of the button, with the standard shortcut ".lnk" filetype, e.g. Long_Send.lnk or Short_Home.lnk. then go into the link properties and set the target to what app you want the button action to open. once built, move the shortcut file to the Windows folder and soft reset the device. et voila.
the only problem is the Back button, specifically. all the other buttons have a single, remappable function when depressed. unfortunately, the Back button is programmed to be "situationally aware" and can perform one of 3 functions based on the situation it's used in. there's an MSDN blog entry here that explains not only the uniqueness of the back button, but how it functions: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms912123.aspx
anyways, gonna look into it some more this morning to see how i can remap the sucker with as little resources as possible, if it can be done at all, or how to do it if someone else already has, and in the case of the latter, i'll report back and bump the thread that has the answers.
-oakie
edit: no urls for me yet. fill in your own address bars. :jerkit:
edit 2: AND a 5 minute freeze between posts/edits. at this point, why even bother with registration captchas? or even new registrations at all? sounds like current members and admins would rather turn people off/away than risk a spammer gettin thru. :madjerkit:
Search is down so I will take the punt that this hasn't already been asked...
Since the sense builds already have a dedicated soft button for the phone is there a way to remap the left button on the hd2 to something else?
I understand that the plain Android ROM's will still need the button but I dont see any sense in wasting the possibility of a shortcut button on sense builds.
Calls can still be answered via the slider.
nobody???
Surely someone knows.
Shouldn't long pressing the menu button launch the keyboard by itself rather than keyboard driven search? I'm not 100% sure buti think I've seen other android phones do it that way.
Anyway it would be useful to have the arrow keys available on arbitrary screens, which isn't currently possible as far as I can tell so I'd love to see this modded in.
Sent from my Vibrant
Yea I had a thread about this a while ago. It is very annoying, since on my n1 it launched the keyboard itself, but apparently it doesn't here.
is there a way to get our phones to understand a longpress on a hardware key means to type its alternate function?'
I mean that if you press and hold q for a few second you could type 1?
i find it annoying to press alt each time because i love the keyboard and use it for most everything.
most alternate keyboards have this feature and i was wondering if it could be ported for us hardware kb users
I'd also like to see this. Perhaps this thread should be moved to the development or themes/apps threads, though, as this is more of a mod?
Greets all,
I wanted to know if this could be done and if so would someone be willing. I use the Desire HD Sense rom, and I'm sure most iof not all roms are this way so thats why I posted it here and not specific to the rom I am using, but as we all know that when you are in a call there is only two buttons on the screen, Mute (Microphone) and Speaker (Speaker Icon), is there a way that we could at least get a thrid icon and have the Hold/UnHold button on that screen too? I would think that seems to be a important function that should be on the main screen and not have to push the Windows key to get to it. Obviously the Mute and speak can be accessed from both, but not the hold button.
Thanks for anyone who can help, and does anyone else feel the same way or am I the only shmuck?
Hows about a bump.
Cyanogenmod has an on-screen hold button, unfortunately you can't just use that phone.apk so you'll have to look at the source code and do some modifications yourself.