On my wizard, a program called SmartsKey (which also mostly works on our Mogul) could use the rocker switch as a volume up and down toggle, when you are outside of a call.
I am annoyed at having to tap the volume icon to change my volume on my phone when at the today screen. We need to have some way to map the scroll wheel's button to open the volume settings when pushed, and then we could simply scroll the wheel up or down to change the volume. Also on the wizard, you could hold down the comm manager button to toggle mute.
I would be willing to work on this with anyone else that would like to try and either make a script or small app that would allow us to do this. It's one of the only major gripes I have so far with this phone. I guess I was just spoiled with the wizard, but I know that this is a hugely capable phone. It would make sense that we could map something to that push button on the wheel. I just don't know how to look for it.
What do you think? Wouldn't that make adjusting the volume a lot better? It seems like this should be the way it works from the factory.
****UPDATE****
I have found a little 48k app that opens the volume balloon. This will definitely work for now, until I can figure out if we can use the wheel button cleanly or not. I have mapped it to the push and hold voice command button, so that when I hold the button, the volume balloon opens. YAY!!
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That sounds like a pretty cool idea, but I really haven't been bothered too much by the scroll wheel not always acting as volume. I wouldn't know much about writing a script or application, but I'd be happy to help with testing.
A FREAKING MEN. how ridiculous can they be? every phone since the beginning of time has had a hard button to change to vibrate.
Yes, Please! I have found this quite annoying as well. I wish I had the know-how to help you.
Great idea. I find myself never using the scroll wheel for anything and always wanting it to simply control the volume.
try AEBUTTON PLUS i duno if it will work on the mogul, but u can give it a try
if you use the 5-tabbed home plugin from HTC, one of the tabs is ringer profile, and it mutes/vibrate/normal settings allow for quick ringer change. I find that it is enough for my needs.
that is one feature i love on my treo 755. i can stut the volume of with a keyflick. very useful for when in meetings or with a customer (i am a car salesman). when walking up to a customer i just flick off the volume.
i cannot do this on my mogul. i have to unlock the screen, go to the volume tab, then click on the volume. 3 steps that require looking at the screen vs one that can be done in pocket or a holster...
I am currently getting some pointers on where to start from those much smarter than I. Hopefully I will get some responses and will be able to start on this. I understand the concept, but it will just be a little game of connecting the dots. I KNOW that this can be done. And it WILL happen
nonegiven said:
Great idea. I find myself never using the scroll wheel for anything and always wanting it to simply control the volume.
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That is exactly how my Mogul works....... hold it up to your ear and try it.
now.... i want to design a sturdy replacement back with a coiled antenna and a place to store all these 2 Gbyte micro-SD chips
7r380r said:
That is exactly how my Mogul works....... hold it up to your ear and try it.
now.... i want to design a sturdy replacement back with a coiled antenna and a place to store all these 2 Gbyte micro-SD chips
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It works this way when you are inside of a call, yes, but I am referring to when you are OUTSIDE of a call, such as at the today screen. Currently, the only way to adjust the volume outside of a call would be by tapping on the volume icon and adjusting the volume.
The idea is to push in the scroll wheel's button to open that volume adjustment screen, so then we can just scroll the wheel up or down to change the device and ringer volume.
I agree that there needs to be a volume control like other HTC devices, however the scroll wheel is great for navigating menus, and pressing it in is the "enter" button. Would you really want to give that option up for something else? Imagine scrolling through your emails and you find the one to open and press it in only to be presented with the volume control instead. I wouldn't want that...
Also, remember that the scroll wheel and d-pad are linked. The hardware can't differentiate the two- in other words, whatever you set the scroll wheel and press-in to do, the d-pad and center button will do as well. Think about this really hard before you try it.
bump for the update
update from whom? This is your own thread!
Dishe said:
update from whom? This is your own thread!
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I edited my first post to include the zip, and then the thread was down towards the bottom, so I posted a bump reply so that it could be up to the top again, in the way it would have if I had posted the zip by hitting reply instead. Make sense?
I'm working on something similiar to this... kind of tricky...
I don't want to hook the whole input subsystem, so what I am attempting to do is create a today plugin and that will sieze control of the wheel when on the today screen and change the volume.
I've got it basically working, just need to tweak when it grabs control; right now it does it on WM_PAINT, but that message is sent quite a bit and spikes processor usage. And I'd like to get it working without actually drawing a window, not sure how well WM6 will play with that.
Aso need to see if I can make this work without it being the first item on the today screen.
For those interested the ticks on the volume balloon are the following values:
0xFFFFFFFF
0xCCCCCCCC
0x99999999
0x66666666
0x33333333
0x00000000
You can use those values with waveOutSetVolume(), just use NULL as the first parameter and the DWORD level as the second.
When I get it working, or tired of fighting with it, I'll post the source code.
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I edited my first post to include the zip, and then the thread was down towards the bottom, so I posted a bump reply so that it could be up to the top again, in the way it would have if I had posted the zip by hitting reply instead. Make sense?
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oh, ok!
As promised, consider it an alpha version. I have included a release compiled dll, the source, and a sample .reg file.
Basically, it is a today plugin that steals the focus whenever ever the today screen is shown, then uses the wheel to raise and lower the volume. I think it has to have a visible window, so I made the window 1 pixel high and transparent.
Probably still needs a little work painting and figuring out when to grab focus. Right now I use the WM_PAINT as a test because I figure if the window is getting drawn then it is a good assumption the today screen is active.
Please post any updates to the source.
For those using Wisbar Advance and a button mapping app like Smartskey, you can map the scroll wheel button push to the WA volume adjuster, right?
"mute" button
It's not exactly what you're talking about, but you can get a cab at http://ppcgeeks.com/ring-toggle-hardware-fix-for-mogul-titan-t8079.html that lets you set any hard button to toggle between vibrate and ring. So you can use it as a mute button (but not quiet/loud).
Just like to know is there any way to configure the end call/power button to act as the close program soft button ("X" on the top right corner), feels like dropping the phone every time moving finger all the way from bottom to top! Thanks!
The X doesn't actually close it anyway, it just minimises it so you can just hit the home button instead. Does the same thing..
the end call activates the lockscreen when you're not in a call, so if there's someone who wrote an app for that functionality, you won't be able to lock the phone if you want to resulting in you waiting for the phone lock to activate automatically
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the end call activates the lockscreen when you're not in a call, so if there's someone who wrote an app for that functionality, you won't be able to lock the phone if you want to resulting in you waiting for the phone lock to activate automatically
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Oh just remember that and yeah the end call button is not appropriate, maybe like a long press of the back or windows button.
Have a look at this thread, might be what your looking for.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=603186&highlight=aebutton
Hi all,
I have a HTC HD mini and i want to prevent anyone to see what SMS (or how many) I receive when phone is in lock screen. HD Mini users know that when the phone is in lock screen and receive one single SMS anyone can see the text of SMS when press power button. Is there any way to set up this?
And I want to change the button who wake up the phone when is in standby, default is power on, I want to press power on and vol down for example.
Thanks.
anybody?
No answer?
I also have this device and i really don't know of any mod that can be done in the lockscreen so it won't preview SMS. An idea is to stick to the default winMo lockscreen with the slide to unlock from center to left or right.
Now, to be able to power on the device with a combination of buttons needs deeper investigation. You need to mod some things and some registry entries for sure = complicating. But here is an app called "shake and wake", with which you can wake your device by just shaking it. You can google it if ur interested.
10x man.
I tried already wm lockscreen but that one does not work with pasword. I need something to keep pasword on unlock.
Try Throttle Lock, not so much a password as a pass pattern but it works for me.
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.
Title says it all. Is it possible? It'd been really cool if those 2 keys morph to answer/reject keys, but that'd pretty much be a hardware mod... If Samsung didn't think of this, is it possible to just assign answer/reject to those keys? I know home key answers call if set, but I particularly want to use those 2 touchkeys for that.
No .