Is it anyway to disable hardwarr navi on samsung tab and add onscreen navi key? Without root
Very annoying like watching video wrongly touch back/recent key.
Samsung Tab A 2017
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Does anyone know how to remap the custom buttons on the Shift (the ones above the mouse pad) to Alt Tab?
It would be so useful not to have to slide open the keyboard to change screen, esp when in full screen browsing mode.
Is there a 3rd party app for this, or registry hack?
So I found it really annoying when watching Netflix and accidentally hitting back or recent apps softkeys. Which pauses or exits out of movie everytime I do. Because of placement of soft keys (Navigation buttons) on Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4. (Which is where I hold the tab in landscape)
So I found a way to disable back/ recent apps and Home buttons. Temporarily
Settings /Device /Accessibility
Scroll to very bottom
Enable interaction control
Use volume down and home at same time to enable
Uncheck all checkboxes
Now soft keys (Navigation buttons) and home are disabled.
Usefully when watching a movie and holding with your hand on softkeys.
(Have to disable multi window to enable this feature)
If helped, thanks would be appreciated.
trevor7428 said:
So I found it really annoying when watching Netflix and accidentally hitting back or recent apps softkeys. Which pauses or exits out of movie everytime I do. Because of placement of soft keys (Navigation buttons) on Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4. (Which is where I hold the tab in landscape)
So I found a way to disable back/ recent apps and Home buttons. Temporarily
Settings /Device /Accessibility
Scroll to very bottom
Enable interaction control
Use volume down and home at same time to enable
Uncheck all checkboxes
Now soft keys (Navigation buttons) and home are disabled.
Usefully when watching a movie and holding with your hand on softkeys.
(Have to disable multi window to enable this feature)
If helped, thanks would be appreciated.
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I tried to do this on the demo units in Best Buy but I couldn't get it to work. Could it be the demo software they had on it?
dimcorner said:
I tried to do this on the demo units in Best Buy but I couldn't get it to work. Could it be the demo software they had on it?
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Possibly idk? Works on mine. Sometimes tablets/ TV have a retail firmware on them which isn't the same as what you take home. So could be possible
This worked for me.
http://brandtkrueger.wordpress.com/...ation-buttons-on-the-galaxy-s3-requires-root/
Home key had to be disabled in both of the below locations. This completely disables the hardware keys so make sure to enable the on screen keys first.
Note: The onscreen keys don't show up in landscape mode for some reason so I use LMT launcher for the few times I need navigation keys in landscape.
Generic.kl
gpio-keys.kl
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kirbo20 said:
This worked for me.
http://brandtkrueger.wordpress.com/...ation-buttons-on-the-galaxy-s3-requires-root/
Home key had to be disabled in both of the below locations. This completely disables the hardware keys so make sure to enable the on screen keys first.
Note: The onscreen keys don't show up in landscape mode for some reason so I use LMT launcher for the few times I need navigation keys in landscape.
Generic.kl
gpio-keys.kl
Sent from my SM-T320 using xda app-developers app
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Does anyone know how to disable the back light on the capacitive keys? I've been able to disable the buttons from functioning and I've got LMT launcher installed but I'd really like to stop them from lighting up if possible.
The only thing that stops me from buying the tab pro 8.4 at the moment are the hardware keys. I am used to on screen buttons and as I can see in some review-videos and as some of you already mentioned, if you hold the tablet in landscape you could accidentally come in touch with the capacitive keys or the home button. Therefore I am very interested in how you can handle the tab pro 8.4 with hardware-keys disabled and on screen keys enabled. Can anyone share some screenshots how it looks like?
kirbo20 said:
Note: The onscreen keys don't show up in landscape mode for some reason so I use LMT launcher for the few times I need navigation keys in landscape.
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So at the moment there is no way to have googles on screen buttons in landscape mode?
I use xposed additions to remap buttons from single click to long press on my son's 8.4 since he kept accidentally hitting buttons and getting frustrated. Not exactly what you are looking for but it has helped us here. Take a look at button Savior on the play store as well. You could use xposed additions to disable buttons and then use button Savior buttons.
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Hello,
How to reassign Home Button Double Tap when phone is locked like the new Galaxy S6
I know many hack like Home2 Shortcut.
But none function when device is locked.
Do you have any idea?
no idea ?
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 a Samsung TV and I want to use my TV remote to control Shield TV (over HDMI-CEC). This mostly works with one inconvenient problem. Android Back button is mapped to Samsung Exit button. Regular Samsung remotes have Return and Exit buttons and if you are using this remote then it's ok. But higher end Samsung TVs have Samsung smart remote and it only has Return button. The Return button also works as a Exit button if you hold it down for 2 seconds, but that's really inconvenient.
For me it would make a lot more sense if the Android Back button would be mapped to Samsung Return button and if possible then Android Home to Samsung Exit.
I have no idea why or who (Google, Nvidia or Samsung?) mapped the buttons as they are, but it is not usable for me. So is there any chance we can remap HDMI-CEC buttons?
I'm also looking at this thread. Interested to know if its possible.
if u can block the IR sensor, and just get a FLIRC, u can remap any or all functionality
I did some research and it seems it's Samsung's fault. Samsung has mapped it's Exit button to HDMI-CEC KEY_BACK. And the Return buttun is mapped to HDMI-CEC KEY_EXIT (it appears only Samsung is using it). Some manufacturers have added this Samsung specific button to their devices (PS3 for example) and considering that Samsung has the biggest TV market share, I think Nvidia should have added it too.
It seems it is possible to remap HDMI-CEC buttons by editing .kl files in /system/usr/keylayout/. It appears to be using Generic.kl file if there is no hdmi_cec_keys.kl file in that folder. I don't have root, so i cant test this at the moment.
Unfortunately it seems that we can't map Samsung Return button to anything, because Samsung specific KEY_EXIT is missing in kernel. So we would need to find someone who knows how to modify kernel and compile it for us Samsung TV users. Someone has done this for some other Android box there > https://github.com/hardkernel/linux/pull/178/commits/96e8846f78b077add5fdc8a93235deefd262f71b
Any devs here who could make this fix?