Hello people,
Yeah, I know I'm a little lazy and I didn't want to go through some hundred-post topics over here and there, but I sure did some searches and couldn't find definitive answers, so here I come to ask for help. Hope no one yells at me!
I recently changed my Diamond (with a WM6.1 ROM) for a Xperia X1. The original ROM sucks big time IMHO, so I have started to try other ROMs, specially those WM6.5 ones. And I'm a little bit lost now, guess I was used to WM6.1.
First of all: how and where do I close a program/app? I mean really close, not just minimize. All programs or apps I "close" (using X button on the screen or pressing "OK" hardware button) aren't closed, just minimized. And I don't want to dig into Task Manager to close them all the time.
Second: is there a HTC Task Manager or similar program that can be called from home screen so I can switch easily between opened programs/apps (again without going to Task Manager)?
Third (and last): how can I map or remap Xperia hardware keys? In personal settings, I can map actions for three buttons (left soft, right soft and button 1 - BTW which button is this?). I want to remap more than that. And it would be nice to make a button actually close a program/app.
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It absolutely does my head in when i find all these apps running in the background sucking up battery paower when i thought i had closed them off.
there must be a way to re-map one of the hard keys that kills all running apps in ONE HIT!
sorry guys if there a post asking for this already but I have searched & searched for what would, in my mind anyway, appear to be soething really simple & definitely a necessary tweak.
I have it so the X button closes the app rather than minimizes them, not had a problem with apps not closing with this other than the photo Album not closing.
i would prefer a hard key... i fat fingers & that tiny little icon in the top ight hand corner is just too bloody small!
Without the use of a task manager program there would be no way of doing this. I've used magic button and SPB Pocket Plus before and both of these will allow you to do this.
To be honest tho the quick list (top right) in TF3D has a big X button that closes all current buttons, so in my opinion no point bogging phone down installing big programs like SPB Pocket Plus if you are only going to use that one feature.
There is a small app called "close all" which I had on my old artemis mapped to a HW button with AEButton plus, you could also use HButton for the mapping. I can't find a link to "close all" at the moment, you will have to google it unless some kind person can post it. However I find the built in x button works well enough for me.
If you assign a button to Oxios CloseApps it will do exactly what you want, and compact your RAM too. Also on the page is Oxios Hibernate which will compact (reclaim) your RAM without closing any open apps. These are essential!
http://www.oxios.com/memory/
These two programs have been killing me lately. The biggest problem (and the one I didnt see anything on when I searched) is with S2U2. My problem is that pressing the end key on my Verizon Touch Pro seems to stop S2U2 and puts me on the home screen. This is a problem because I installed S2U2 so that I wouldnt accidentally call people when the phone is in my pocket. The only reason I posted this is because I accidentally called someone today because of this problem. Is there any fix that will stop S2U2 from ending when the end key is accidentally pressed? Right now I am locking the keys using windows built in key lock and then using S2U2. This takes much more time than just pressing the power button and letting S2U2 kick in when it wakes up. If I could get the built in keylock to kick in on wakeup also or if I could get S2U2 to not respond to the end key, my problem would be fixed.
My second problem is with HTC's Task Manager in the top righthand corner of touchflo. Every once and awhile it will just disappear. I searched for this and came up with a couple of solutions that didnt work. I tried checking and unchecking the box in the buttons section that says "Enable quick menu on today screen." The only way to get it to reappear is to do a soft reset. Thats really frustrating. So is there any real fix for that? If not, what would you suggest for a replacement task manager that blends in with touchflo? I really just want something simple like HTC's task manager where it shows my tasks in a drop down and I can exit out of each one just like I do now. I really like how HTC's task manager is setup, but I cant deal with it disappearing.
First of all, thanks for all good advices and programs from you guys!
My question: How could I remap the Home button to go to SPB Now instead of WM Today?
Thanks an Happy New Year!
Remap...
You can use this application, which uses the touch panel to scroll in apps and use the four hardware buttons to launch apps by touch, thus giving you 4 buttons to map applications to. It's worth a look at least.
I've not heard of anyone actually remapping the 'Home' key itself.
you probably cannot remap home key unless you modify its keypad driver. By the time I bought this, I also thought I could remap or hook the hardware keys to other actions as other WM devices can but it does it in an unusual way that limit the possibility of the OS itself. Moreover, the keys often does not response or response wrongly, you just cannot rely on them as you could on other PDA.
try dredsensor!
it works~ but it doesnt go well with my BSB WM6.5 rom's titanium screen. can scroll or use arrow (up or down) on the titanium.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=478827
Hi i have a problem with my MDA IV Compact. I searched the forums but found no answer to my problem.
I want to do some basic button remapping and so i go to settings -> personal -> buttons and guess what. There are NO buttons listed in the buttons list.
Has anyone come across this before and if so can you help me solve it? I mean there are only few hardware buttons present in diamond its a shame not to be able to map them.
Button mapping...
The only button you can map by default is the long press of the 'dial' hardware key. This should be showing in your button list as 'Button 1(Hold)'. There is an application called GScroll available here, which lets you map the four hardware keys by touch (double tapping them). Not exactly what you're after, but it's all I can think of to help you out
thats thing. i get NO buttons on my list gscroll looks nice. too bad its not free ware. but its cheap so i may get it.
you can use dredsensor
this tool allow you to remap buttons depending on running programs
No, no, no!
Diamond CAN have its call key remapped via Windows.
I had the opposite; a glitch entry appeared in the buttons list.
I am attaching a reg-file which will bring back the call button mapping. But be careful, this comes from Windows with localization patch.
Or, you can hard reset. If MDA CIV ROM creators didn't remove it intentionally, it should be there.
Hello all... as it has become clear by now, the 4 touch keys act like the buttons on the Diamond 2 when using a Rhodium rom. Except for the home button that is.
For those unfamiliar, the home button and the hang up button are one on the Diamond 2, making the home button on the Blackstone reduntant. Now, I've googled the issue and found out that there is no reliable way to map the home button to anything, at least not with conventional means.
So here comes the million dollar (virtual of course) question - is it possible to remap the home button to act like the start button in the rhodium roms?
Now that the Diamond2 is out, has anyone made any progress regarding this?