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Soft Reset app

Does anyone know if there is a soft reset/restart app available?
I am checking out a bunch of themes and hitting "Menu+End+Call" at the same time is a pain!
I am hoping there is a simple app that you just press, select to confirm, and it restarts the phone.
I have had a similar app for every smartphone I have owned except this one. WM5, Blackberry, etc.
I searched in several different ways and have been unable to locate this type of app. If my search wasn't extensive enough please let me know so the monitors can delete this thread.

Search the market for 'tReboot'

It notes on the market that the app only works with Dev phones.
I have a rooted phone - but, not a Dev phone.
That is exactly what I want... If it worked on a Rooted phone it would be great! Thanks for the info.

np sorry about that, didn't know what type you had or whether it would work or not on which phones, just saw it in the market while browsing around I'm sure the dev will make it better.
why don't you just long hold the end call button and press 'shut down'

Or you may get DroidSans Tweak Tools 0.87, it has a option for reboot ^^;

Or use adb (or terminal emulator) to enter the command
reboot recovery
then just wait for it..... It will reboot into recovery mode automagically!

DroidSans Tweak Tools works.

You could also use the gSript app and put a shortcut on your desktop with a reboot script.
I would think that would be the easiest way.

Yes, I just found the Gscript app today.
I think I am going to use that. I have Droidsans Tweak Tools - but, I think mine is the lite version. Didn't use the other version because my phone has JF latest mod on it and I didn't know that app added anything that wasn't covered by the mod that the lite version had.
"Or use adb (or terminal emulator) to enter the command
reboot recovery
then just wait for it..... It will reboot into recovery mode automagically!" - Kinda defeats the whole purpose of having something that is quick and easy.
Looks like Gscript will end up working best. Then if Buttercut will work with my Home program I can just give it a nice looking icon.
Thanks!

skri11a said:
You could also use the gSript app and put a shortcut on your desktop with a reboot script.
I would think that would be the easiest way.
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This is the route i use.

i though a lot of people knew this but guess not. if you press call(green) button+menu+end(red) button it does a soft reset

maxdamage2122 said:
i though a lot of people knew this but guess not. if you press call(green) button+menu+end(red) button it does a soft reset
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I do, when im not lazy, i use that method lol

Can't seem to find gscript- can't see on market or on cyrket...

It's not on the market.
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maxdamage2122 said:
i though a lot of people knew this but guess not. if you press call(green) button+menu+end(red) button it does a soft reset
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Mikey1022 said:
I do, when im not lazy, i use that method lol
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Of course, I know about that. But, when I am constantly checking out new themes and tinkering with my phone it is a hassle to keep pressing three buttons at the same time to reboot when I could have a button on the home screen to press without having to pick the phone up.
It is just a convenience issue - like the whole cell phone/smart phone thing to begin with. LOL

shaneaus said:
... it is a hassle to keep pressing three buttons at the same time to reboot when I could have a button on the home screen to press without having to pick the phone up.
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Agreed. On my phone I seem to have to be fantastically precise with the timing of all three buttons at once. Even with concentrated effort it most often brings up the dialler, the menu or goes into sleep mode (annoying). I put a GScript - Reboot shortcut on my homepage and it works fine.

I am also looking forward to a application that could reboot the phone like those found in Windows Mobile. As the above reply said, sometimes we may not press all three buttons together at one go. Seems like we got to wait.

hazeline said:
I am also looking forward to a application that could reboot the phone like those found in Windows Mobile. As the above reply said, sometimes we may not press all three buttons together at one go. Seems like we got to wait.
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Why wait for an app when you can use a script?

Download Gscript from the above posted links.
To create a reboot/soft reset/re-start script you just:
Open Gscript
Select the "Menu" button
Select "Add script"
Enter a name for your script - I entered "Re-Start" - but, use what you want.
Make sure "Needs SU?" is checked.
Enter "reboot" inside the large text window.
Select save.
Long press on your new script and select to "save to SDcard."
Go to your home screen. Long press in a blank area and go through the prompts to add a shortcut. Select Gscript and it will give you the options to choose which script you wish to create a shortcut for. Then you can use Bettercut to give it a nicer look (unless you are like me and using a custom home screen which won't work with Bettercut!)

Why not "reboot recovery"? Then you won't need to hold the home button when it reboots. Just a thought.

Task Switcher on Camera

I got the built-in Android App Switcher working.... use the camera button.
You need the new kernel/NBH below -- this is based on dzo's 4/8 kernel
Camera button.
< 0.5 second press = BACK
0.5 - ~1.5 second press = HOME
> 1.5 second press = APP SWITCHER (pops up after you hold it long enough)
For home, you just have to do a leap-of-faith. If you hold it too short, you'll go back. If you hold it too long, the app switcher will come up. I reduced the time you need to hold it to 0.5 seconds. It was 1 second before.
Useful tip: You can use the App Switcher on the home screen.
Please don't ask to change the task switcher button! The task switcher is mapped to the HOME button by Android itself. I only fixed the kernel to enable Android to recognize the button push properly. To actually move the task switcher to a different button, you need to rebuild Android.
What I mean: http://developer.android.com/images/system-architecture.jpg
I fixed the red part. The stuff that allows you to change the App Switcher button is in the blue part (Application Framework).
Myn's build (should work on any build):
NBH files (both donut and eclair):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58383/android/ROMUpdateUtility.7z
Need 7zip to extract (makes file size smaller).

jnadke said:
I got the built-in Android App Switcher working.... use the camera button.
You need the new kernel below -- this is based on dzo's 4/8 kernel
Camera button.
< 0.5 second press = BACK
0.5 - ~1.5 second press = HOME
> 1.5 second press = APP SWITCHER (pops up after you hold it long enough)
For home, you just have to do a leap-of-faith. If you hold it too short, you'll go back. If you hold it too long, the app switcher will come up. I reduced the time you need to hold it to 0.5 seconds.
Myn's build (should work on any build):
NBH files (both donut and eclair):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58383/android/ROMUpdateUtility.7z
Need 7zip to extract (makes file size smaller).
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very nice man. People have been wanting this to work for a long long time. We all appreciate it

Anyone know if this works on cupcake? I'm using vilord's tattoo build.

kiwilime said:
Anyone know if this works on cupcake? I'm using vilord's tattoo build.
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If you're using NoMoRootfs (i.e. androidinstall.tar) then you can use this kernel.
I thought Cupcake has an App Switcher. Not totally sure.

incubus26jc said:
very nice man. People have been wanting this to work for a long long time. We all appreciate it
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Np. Took me less than 10 minutes to fix it, and a lot longer to get the NBH build environment up (didn't realize tinboot had a norootfs branch......).

oh man this is nice!
thanks alot!!

Flashing now... Seems to work great... Doesn't allow you to switch to old apps... which I'm sure is stock functionality... for example, I have JuiceDefender launcher on startup and I couldn't access it via the task switcher, I had to go into OSMonitor, click on it, then switch to it that way...

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Flashing now... Seems to work great... Doesn't allow you to switch to old apps... which I'm sure is stock functionality... for example, I have JuiceDefender launcher on startup and I couldn't access it via the task switcher, I had to go into OSMonitor, click on it, then switch to it that way...
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It will only let you switch between the last 6 applications you used. It won't show them until you use them (which is why I had 2).

jnadke said:
Np. Took me less than 10 minutes to fix it, and a lot longer to get the NBH build environment up (didn't realize tinboot had a norootfs branch......).
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Lol, yeah - that caught me too when I was messing around with nbhs a while back. Thanks for making the changes. This is a welcome (re)addition.

If i do a backup from the bootscreen options list, then reflash with this version, Can I to a restore so that I do not have to totally start from scratch?

Gersonian said:
If i do a backup from the bootscreen options list, then reflash with this version, Can I to a restore so that I do not have to totally start from scratch?
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just flash nbh files whenever
they dont affect your data

inertone said:
just flash nbh files whenever
they dont affect your data
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Never mind... figured it out. A little searching never hurts.

This is freakin sweet. Thanks, for making this happen!

Edit: Nevermind, apparently it just needed a reboot. Working fine now.
Although, something was preventing it from sleeping. I don't know what. I knew it wasn't sleeping because even after 30 seconds, any button would wake it up (and Spare Parts reported the last time since it slept was 8 hours).
Original:
Apparently the kernel I built isn't sleeping properly.
I don't know why, feel free to go back to dzo's older 4/8 build.
I commited the changes I made. Dzo can recompile when he gets back and see if the sleeping problem is resolved.
My battery ran down to 33% in 8 hours. Not sleeping at all.

This is just opening up the recent apps screen, isn't there an actual task switcher?

mrono said:
This is just opening up the recent apps screen, isn't there an actual task switcher?
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It's the Recent Applications screen, but it actually does switch tasks. The other applications open up in the state you left them (unless they were garbage collected).
Also, for example, if you have Messaging and Opera open, then task switch from Opera to Messaging, when you use the back key it will back to Opera rather than the home screen.

works well. Testing right now

I have not had any sleeing issues. Working great.

works great for me too. love it. phone sleeps fine (orange slow LED, any button does not wake). thx jnadke

tatnai said:
works great for me too. love it. phone sleeps fine (orange slow LED, any button does not wake). thx jnadke
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yeah man thanks again!
this was greatly needed!
plus i got used to the timing of the button
i count in my head..."1 mississippi...home!" lol

Can someone help me out?

I tried doing a search but I honestly don't know what to enter--tried button layout, android controls, etc--no dice.
On the Touch, it used to be that if you held the camera button down, it took you straight to home. That does not seem to be the case anymore. Can anyone tell me if the Touch has a way to do that now--and if not, how in the world are you getting out of the browser without losing all of your progress? Task Switcher doesn't seem to allow me to choose my home screen, and if I switch to something else and then exit out of that, my browser is waiting for me, like the sneaky bastard it is.

spectheintro said:
I tried doing a search but I honestly don't know what to enter--tried button layout, android controls, etc--no dice.
On the Touch, it used to be that if you held the camera button down, it took you straight to home. That does not seem to be the case anymore. Can anyone tell me if the Touch has a way to do that now--and if not, how in the world are you getting out of the browser without losing all of your progress? Task Switcher doesn't seem to allow me to choose my home screen, and if I switch to something else and then exit out of that, my browser is waiting for me, like the sneaky bastard it is.
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if you aare using an nbh that has the task switcher built into it, then you need to only hold the camera button for a second for home.
tap - back
hold for a sec - home
long hold - task switcher

Awesome! It's going to take some getting used to, but this is a huge help.
Now if I could only figure out how to install themes...

spectheintro said:
Awesome! It's going to take some getting used to, but this is a huge help.
Now if I could only figure out how to install themes...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=628353
go to how to install an update

Car Home apk

If your like me, and like old school droid programs but cant get them to install on new age devices here is one. This is the Car Home apk for anyone that would like to use it. Install as you would any apk.
If you run into any problems side load it from something like dropbox or push via ADB. Once you install both the launcher and the car home apk then boot into clockwork recovery and fix permissions, reboot and you should be good, but you should only do this if you have some force closes or anything like that.
If you use and like hit the thanks button!

Good stuff can't wait to see more work here
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Nice to see this app look forward to updates

camblue said:
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The only thing that doesn't work is the phone button obviously, but I am working on directing that to something like a voip apk or nettalk!
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My phone button brings me to my contacts like I would assume. Why not just remove that button by long pressing on it and dragging it to the trash? Then add a shortcut to whichever application you like.
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good point LOL
ihtfp69 said:
My phone button brings me to my contacts like I would assume. Why not just remove that button by long pressing on it and dragging it to the trash? Then add a shortcut to whichever application you like.
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is there a way to take advantage of the full screen? the icons are just in the middle of the screen. I dont know if this is true for all of you.

I can decompile it and make them bigger, that shouldnt be a problem.
charlie.kanel said:
is there a way to take advantage of the full screen? the icons are just in the middle of the screen. I dont know if this is true for all of you.
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camblue said:
I can decompile it and make them bigger, that shouldnt be a problem.
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That would be awesome
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Screenshot

Noob here - converted from iPhone 5 to the new HTC one
How do I take a screenshot? searched and searched but cant get it to work (press home button and power button)
Thanks

You need to be rooted, and it needs to be enabled on your custom rom

CNexus said:
You need to be rooted, and it needs to be enabled on your custom rom
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nonsense. Just hold down power button and tap on the home-button. voilá.

toxic_garden said:
nonsense. Just hold down power button and tap on the home-button. voilá.
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They enable it by default now? On previous devices you needed root because you had to add a line to the build.prop, so i wouldnt call it nonsense.

CNexus said:
They enable it by default now? On previous devices you needed root because you had to add a line to the build.prop, so i wouldnt call it nonsense.
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actually, you don't need root or any CFW for that. I didn't even need those on my Galaxy S2 back then.

HTC phones with ICS and up You can Power button then Home button
OR
Android 4 and up you can Power and Volume Down at the same time.

Thanks guys
working now!!!

toxic_garden said:
actually, you don't need root or any CFW for that. I didn't even need those on my Galaxy S2 back then.
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Lol i was talking about HTC devices

CNexus said:
Lol i was talking about HTC devices
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its been enabled for a while now, on my one x and one x+ they both took screen shots

Ah ok, the latest HTC device i had is an EVO shift (as you can see in my sig), so i didnt know that they had enabled it after that