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How possible is it to remap Camera button?

Had an idea to remap the camera button into "mute" during calls, this way much easier to mute/unmute. I'm on conf calls alot so this would be a great feature. So question is how difficult would it be to re-map it?

I think android has a built in button mapping. not sure if the camera button is listed in there though.

i to would like to know how to remap the camera button back to being the camera, in one of the roms i updated to its bring up some messaging window instead of the camera. i rather like its original function

rljetsetradio said:
i to would like to know how to remap the camera button back to being the camera, in one of the roms i updated to its bring up some messaging window instead of the camera. i rather like its original function
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This is due to ChompSMS, you can turn it off in settings.
And to the OP, does ANYONE use search anymore?!?! I already have this mod made already. You can remap any key to any other key. I have a full guide right here: [MOD] Remap Any Key on Your G1
EDIT: And OP, what your requesting will require seperate software. You can't make keys do magical things with this software, if there is already a hardware key for it you can change it with my mod. But to do what you are requesting is impossible without more software.

Geniusdog254 said:
This is due to ChompSMS, you can turn it off in settings.
And to the OP, does ANYONE use search anymore?!?! I already have this mod made already. You can remap any key to any other key. I have a full guide right here: [MOD] Remap Any Key on Your G1
EDIT: And OP, what your requesting will require seperate software. You can't make keys do magical things with this software, if there is already a hardware key for it you can change it with my mod. But to do what you are requesting is impossible without more software.
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Geniusdog haha, you do realize the OP posted this in april of 2009? Even with a search, they wouldn't have found anything because your post was in august of 2009. I think its impulse for people to tell other people to search without reading everything in the OP first. haha. Anyway, good job with the remap

With that in mind, I'm moving it to the Q&A forum. (It's been too long to punish the guy.)

Geniusdog254 said:
This is due to ChompSMS, you can turn it off in settings.
And to the OP, does ANYONE use search anymore?!?! I already have this mod made already. You can remap any key to any other key. I have a full guide right here: [MOD] Remap Any Key on Your G1
EDIT: And OP, what your requesting will require seperate software. You can't make keys do magical things with this software, if there is already a hardware key for it you can change it with my mod. But to do what you are requesting is impossible without more software.
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dude thank you!

Keys are confused

Hello all,
I seem to have a very confusing situation at hand. My home and back keys on my Captivate (Rogers, Serendipity 5.12, 2.2 rooted) seem to be confused; that is to say, they are performing the exact same function which is that of the back key. So when I am in an app and hit the home key, it just takes me back to the previous screen (same function as the back key). I went into recovery -> advanced -> key test and much to my sad discovery, both keys had the same value of 28 (the search key had a value of 107). Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks!

NewbDroid said:
Hello all,
I seem to have a very confusing situation at hand. My home and back keys on my Captivate (Rogers, Serendipity 5.12, 2.2 rooted) seem to be confused; that is to say, they are performing the exact same function which is that of the back key. So when I am in an app and hit the home key, it just takes me back to the previous screen (same function as the back key). I went into recovery -> advanced -> key test and much to my sad discovery, both keys had the same value of 28 (the search key had a value of 107). Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks!
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im not sure where that file is but thee is an app called button remapper and it might help.

[Q] Lost Google Now from Home Button

I have a crazy problem I could use some help with. I was trying a few different kernels on the new TMOUS 4.3 update including various button mods and somehow I lost all Google Now actions from Home button. I tried reboots, swapping the Gestures options in Settings, Xposed Framework Mods, and even reflashing the stock Kernel. The button vibrates on long press but does nothing. Even remapping the button with the Sense 5 Toolbox does nothing. It's really bizarre. Has anyone seen this or knows a fix without reflashing my entire system partition from TWRP (I smartly made a backup)? I've done a lot of customizations I don't want to have to redo. Any help is greatly appreciated!

I am having the same problem with my home button. It does nothing on long press (doesn't even vibrate) even though it is set to Google Now. I've tried the same things you have but haven't been able to fix it. If anyone knows what the issue is please help! Thanks.

As a work around I have used the Xposed Frameworks and Sense Toolbox to add Google Now to a long press on the back button. It's a quick and dirty fix but the home button failure is troublesome. There has got to be a container that maps the function of long press to the apk. Maybe you should try the Xposed/Sense Tool box Mike and see if you can remap your Home to GNow (or trigger a reset to it). It didn't work for me but I at least get the vibrate confirmation that it wants to do something. Also did you notice all of the kernels (or one of them also perm effected this too) force the vibrate intensity to 2000 (too low for my comfort)? Even flashing stock didn't restore that. You can barely feel the motor and I had to install TrickDroid from the market to reset the value on boot. >_< Is that a build.prop mod or something?

Menu Button Failing

So, if you were following my other thread (which I doubt anyone was since no-one offered help), I managed to fix my incredibly hard soft brick
Everything's running great now, except the menu key isn't functioning. This would be fine, except the 3dot menu xposed module is causing other problems when installed and I'm not running a CM ROM so I can't simply make it double press the home button for menu or anything like that.
So I actually need to get the menu button working, not find an alternative. I can't seem to find the number of the button tho. I know you can check with CWM but I don't have it and don't want to risk stuffing up my phone again right now because I will be relying on it pretty heavily for the next week or so. How can I remap the menu button so it can be used as the menu button if I don't know the hard key number? International S4 Active, thanks.

You can try here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2534697. In the Aroma Installer, there's is a button fix of sorts, used on the i537 in safestrap, so we could use regular s4 roms, soomewhere else, don't remember where, the is the button .zip file, by itself.
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tiskael said:
So, if you were following my other thread (which I doubt anyone was since no-one offered help), I managed to fix my incredibly hard soft brick
Everything's running great now, except the menu key isn't functioning. This would be fine, except the 3dot menu xposed module is causing other problems when installed and I'm not running a CM ROM so I can't simply make it double press the home button for menu or anything like that.
So I actually need to get the menu button working, not find an alternative. I can't seem to find the number of the button tho. I know you can check with CWM but I don't have it and don't want to risk stuffing up my phone again right now because I will be relying on it pretty heavily for the next week or so. How can I remap the menu button so it can be used as the menu button if I don't know the hard key number? International S4 Active, thanks.
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You should be able to flash the keys fix in the MasterPatch that @captaincado posted above. For the actual key numbers see below.
Code:
key 115 VOLUME_UP
key 114 VOLUME_DOWN
key 172 HOME
key 139 MENU
key 158 BACK
Good luck.

Just an update, I followed all the instructions, couldn't get this working. It's possible that the button just happened to physically break when I flashed the ROM but it doesn't matter, because I found All in one Gestures (link below) which I used to replace the menu button... and then every other button, plus some. It's really good, I recommend it to anyone who has trouble reaching certain button, has a broken button or would just wants to have a go at increasing speed:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoenixstudios.aiogestures&hl=en

[Q] Remapping camera button - anything goes.

Hi guys,
I am looking for a reliable way to remap the camera button. The end result should be like on stock ROM, but with a camera app of my choosing. Meaning, i press the camera button when the screen is off or the phone is locked, and a camera app pops up immediately.
I got pretty close with Tasker, but it's still not there - I need to manually unlock the phone.
My device is rooted, my bootloader is unlocked, I already flashed a ROM trying to solve this (Omni) and I don't mind flashing anything else to try and fix this. So, open to any suggestions -- apps, tasker profiles, ROMs, config changes, you name it.
I already tried the Additional Actions xposed module but that doesn't work either.
Any ideas? There has to be some way to do this... It's just a button.