I know that you can internally change the functions of the buttons, that's not what I am after.
Instead, is there some way to place a custom function on these buttons - like a URL, that when pressed can take you to a specific URL in the browser, or launch a different app?
Anyone?
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What is the Jog Button program?
It seems to have installed itself on one of my hardware buttons and ocassionally scrolls through several functions when that button is pressed.
I know how to change the button assignment but am wondering if there is something about Jog Button that we will want to use?
JogButton was just a freeware app we liked which allows multiple functions to be controlled by a single button. Feel free to re-assign the apps using JogButton's 'Tools' menu, or to use the button for something else entirely.
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Thanks for the quick reply.
Do you know where I can find a help file for instructions for Jog Button?
I couldn't find it within the device and in playing with the program it just doesn't come to me.
JogButton Instructions
Fairly simple once you get the hang of it...
1. Press-and-hold the contacts button to activate JogButton. This causes the programs in its list to scroll/cycle
2. Release the contacts button when the icon of a program that you want to activate appears
Setup
1. Press-and-hold the contacts button
2. Click on the tools menu at bottom of screen
3. Select setup from the tools menu
4. The dialog that shows lists the programs and order of cycle.
5. Add/Delete/Edit as desired
6. The Snd check box is a toggle for sound/no-sound (a beep as each program is shown)
7. Duration is the number of milliseconds that an icon is shown
Hopefully that answers you questions
I'm the author...
Tek
Thanks for the reply. You are a genius!
This seems like a very handy app.
Joe_PDA
other buttons
What about using this very simple app on the calender button.
Have your "serious" stuff on one side,
then "toys" on the other..
I presume you have future plans, so give us a clue please
Perhaps even ask for ideas...
Martin
JogButton - Future Plans...
I started coding an alt-tab like feature into JogButton, but was not sure if that would be useful for anyone other than me. As you may know alt-tab in the Windows world scrolls you through the open list of of apps in a Last-in-first-out/Most Recently Used fashion. This would be useful for switching between two apps, the downside would be that you would have to remember the order. I was thinking of putting a toggle on either the menu or in the setup dialog to select this mode.
As for using two buttons, it is possible,but the way PocketPC handles the programs assigned to a button they have to have different names. I would of course have to make a few minor adjustments to allow for this, but it is possible.
I'm up for any suggestions to make this program more useful. Start a list and let's see what we get.
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I'm up for any suggestions to make this program more useful. Start a list and let's see what we get.
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Bug: by timing a quick press just right, I can get it in a mode where it keeps cycling through the programs even though I've released the button already.
I think I was unable to map it to both the hardware buttons using a different list of programs to cycle through for each button. Since a single short press still does the same thing, there's really no reason not to map it to the second button also. (?? Quick hack: map second button to patched Jogbutton2.exe, using different set of registry keys. Better: multiple small stubs which start the real exe telling it which stub was executed. ??)
Maybe map a special action to pressing both buttons at the same time?
Also, something like 'double-press' and 'triple-press' found in some other programs to quickly go to the second and third item (or completely different items) without looking at the phone would be handy. I never really use the rocker-switch, but it could be handy for app starting: just keep the hardware button pressed and hit one of the four directions or the center, giving you 5 new things (per hardware button) to start.
JogButton...
Good suggestions. I can enhance it to use all available buttons. I prefer to use one hand, but others might like to have more options available.
hmm, must be a n00b suggestion, but perhaps it would be possible to use the volume control button? i dont use it for anything anyway.
Only two options... that I know of...
On the XDA/MDA PPCPE there are only two mappable buttons, unlike other PPC that have four or five. It's either the contacts button or the calendar button. Now once an app is mapped to either button and the app is launched, it can control any of the buttons. As a side note, the volume button would be great if it were dual functioning: a press-and-release brings up the volume dialog; a press-and-hold would bring up the record function.
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:
I have searched quite some time to find answers to this so I will ask this here. I would like to trigger application executions or tasks (volume up for example) by pressing combinations of keys. So far, it seems no app accomplishes this neither does modifying any system file. I believe it requires something to detect multiple keypresses. Reason being is I would like to keep my Nook stock in appearance and only enter into an alternative launcher when needed. I quite like the aesthetics of the stock Nook but the available tools on android are indispensable. So, basically I am looking for something that will launch ReLaunch when I press both hardware down keys at once but ignore everything else. Perhaps trigger volume up and down by pressing "n" and up or down on either side. It's possible to do this in distros of linux but I have no idea about android or this version in particular. Does anyone know of any solutions? Thanks!
For combo buttons like that you'd have to hack android.policy.jar
You could always just use ButtonSavior instead.
That has popup softkeys on the screen.
If you have rooted with NookManager Nook Mod Manager allows you to assign actions to long presses. For example, I have a long press of the n button assigned to ReLaunch. A short press acts like normal and brings up the B&N quicklaunch.
I was wondering if it is possible to remap the hardware buttons on an android headunit. For example at the minute my media buttons only work for the stock apps, so skip next/previous etc. are useless in poweramp. It would also be cool to remap a useless source button to something like voice control. I have tried downloading apps that have always worked for me flawlessly in the past such as multilnguage keymap redefiner but they don't detect anything on key press. I know that you can manually remap by editing a .kl file but my headunit isn't rooted.
Thanks!
maybe under settings/general/extra settings/panel keys ?
extra settings password could be 123456
Hi! I hadn't read your thread so I posted this... Did you ever get around it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/and...emap-car-buttons-to-interact-android-t3388375
I have steering wheel mode button running through the CANbus of a car. When i hit the mode button, an app if started will take focus, or if not already running, will load. Press the mode button again and the new app in the pre-defined series opens.
I would like to modify the list of apps that can be started with the Mode switch. Does anyone have info how to achieve this? My unit is a UIS7862 Android 10.
try this:
[FYT units] FytHWOneKey: non-rooted app to assign other apps to the unit hardware buttons
Hi, I created an app (first release March 2019) that works on standard FYT ROMs (Joying, T'eyes, KingBeats, NaviFly, Funrover, some Witsons, some Sinosmarts, iDoing, etc) and allows to modify the standard actions (started apps) of a number of...
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try this:
[FYT units] FytHWOneKey: non-rooted app to assign other apps to the unit hardware buttons
Hi, I created an app (first release March 2019) that works on standard FYT ROMs (Joying, T'eyes, KingBeats, NaviFly, Funrover, some Witsons, some Sinosmarts, iDoing, etc) and allows to modify the standard actions (started apps) of a number of...
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Hi, thank you for the link. Are you suggesting I remap the mode button?
The remap app does not work for any of my steering wheel buttons or switches. Apparently the apps only remap buttons that aren't wired via the CANbus.
Have you found this not to be the case or have I missed something?
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Hi, thank you for the link. Are you suggesting I remap the mode button?
The remap app does not work for any of my steering wheel buttons or switches. Apparently the apps only remap buttons that aren't wired via the CANbus.
Have you found this not to be the case or have I missed something?
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if you can't map the mode button to action in the base SWC app then it probably won't work for you. Been talking with someone else who had a Mode button and it was working at least somewhat.
What I am looking for is the file that holds the list of apps cycled through when pressing the mode button.
I would also like to know how to modify the list if it is not just straight text or XML format list.
If you car is like mine there is a built in Steering wheel mapping application, each mode is mapped to either something like volume, or to an action like "Radio", if you map each of your mode clicks to an action "Radio, Video,BT..." then it will cycle those, if you then use the app I linked you can then override each of thise actions to run any app you want.
I have mentioned that due to a CANbus, I can't map buttons.
If your system has a CANbus, kindly advise how you got the map to work. And please name the app you have loaded to allow that.
That would be an option, too:
Use SWC to switch between Navi and Radio
Attached app FlowStarter.apk allows to start an Automate flow (https://llamalab.com/automate/) which has to be defined in file flowstarter.cfg Required steps: 1. Install the apk. 2. Extract the file flowstarter.cfg to the internal storage (root...
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You could change the Automate flow to cycling without problems.
If he can't remap the mode button to the flowstarter app then I"m not sure this will work for him either. Worth a shot though.
If the apps it launches are really hardcoded in the system and you can't adjust any of it in the built in SWC application, then the only other option I can think of is if you tell me the package names of the apps it runs I can try to make a version of the fyt key mapper for yours, but no promises it will work, if the launch intents are directed directly at the built in apps then you're kind of stuck without root.
Hi! how are you! I am having the same problem: cant remap the steering wheel buttons; the left-middle one opens the radio and the right-middle one switches between many apps.
The learning app that comes in android is not working either, in fact, when I try to remap those buttons, it instantly changes to the other apps.
Have you found a solution?