alt-shift-del doesn't reboot the phone. Did they move the keys? Its a real pima that it doesn't work.
I haven't found a way either. My front screen wouldn't turn on today when running navigation and the only way to get it back was a battery pull which was more of a pain then ctrl alt del
Have tried about every three-key combo I can imagine...no luck. Kind of happy they pulled Shift-Alt-Del as I've fat fingered it a few times attempting to Alt-Del, but would have liked to see it modified rather than removed.
also been trying key combos. i pressed [email protected]+del and my screen turned off lol.
I tried 'mic-search+del' and that prompts the shutdown menu. Is that normal?
Alt-search-delete brings up the dialer
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Ctrl alt del reboots my nexus 7, but i was wondering if that can be stopped.
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Hi - I wanted to know if anyone has found the best way to configure the keys.
I am using Zeam right now, but if you do this:
1. Login to facebook
2. View pictures
3. your viewing and sliding through them, there is no way to exit out, unless you hit the home button where you are forced back to the main home screen.
Is there a way to get the back hand soft key there or something?
Right now, I am just using hovering arrow from Soft Keys as a workaround.
Thanks!
I found that if you choose to comment on one, then you can hit the back button twice fast. I know its not a perfect solution, but its better than totally exiting the app and re-opening it.
Download button savior. I use it when the soft keys buttons disappear
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Download button savior. I use it when the soft keys buttons disappear
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I actually USE button savior, and while I admit it is a great app, it has this problem in facebook as well. Often the back button just does not work. I often have this issue in full screen apps or video. Sometimes enabling "USB Debugging" helps for a bit, but the problems creeps back up. I have emailed dev, but no response.
Program sift keys as your launcher. When i single press the n i get the softkeys many to just go back. Double press lands me at home screen.
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It's invariably the USB Debugging disabling itself. I've had it happen twice and both times it has been the cause. I'm pretty sure the second time was due to the 1.1 upgrade (flashed using the zip in the dev forum).
IMHO Button Savior is the app to use. It's much less intrusive than soft keys and works everywhere (when USB Debugging is enabled of course )
Button Savior needs both USB debugging on, and device being rooted in order to function properly(and, of course, being allowed in superuser). I've seen mention of people having issue with usb debugging turning off randomly or with restarts. Once that is fixed, there shouldn't be any problems. My SD build once also lost root for some reason, but that seemed to be rare (prob due to me messing with /system files).
Hi, everyone!
Recently, I installed CyanogenMod 7 which is probably the reason of damaged Power button. I've been keeping it pressed for a long time with X/camera/volume up etc. Anyways, I've been using it for nearly a year now, so.. I still have warranty, but it's not the case. Since I don't want to send it back yet, I come up with this question.
How to power on my Milestone WITHOUT using power button whatsoever? Even entering bootloader mode requires me to press it. Any ideas?
Even impractical ones, I don't turn it off very often, but I need to know that in case of emergency..
tried plugging it into a wall charger while its off? it always boots up my droid automatically
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Oh, thank you. As far as I remember, it happened to me several times, but mosstly - there is just waving battery icon.. thanks for response though!
Additionally, how to lock screen without using Power button?-.- or access sound/flight mode/turn off menu?
cm7 has status bar toggles for all of that, if you still have it installed. dont know if theres any way to access the regular phone options menu without using the power button though, sorry
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Well, I turned on status bar widgets and Locking widget too, but.. it apparently disables auto-locking screen, instead of locking on demand..
The go to sleep status bar widget in cm7 interface settings. That's the one that shuts off the screen and locks the phone. Tried it myself before posting.
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Geez.
I apologize for caused confusion, I didn't notice it at first... I set my volume up/down as waking buttons and widget for going to sleep
Awesome support, splashattack, thank you very much!
I am having same problem.
I connect my cell to my laptop and it starts. I am using custom ROM.
I want to rollback to stock, so that I can avail warranty on it.
Any idea how to enter bootloader mode without power button
I tried terminal emulator
su
reboot recovery
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But it reboots to OR not to bootloader.
Any solution for bootloader ? or any command?
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Its solved. I have assigned volume rocker for screen unlock,
I rebooted it using terminal emulator, Pressed and hold volume rocker + Dpad - up and I entered bootloader.
i am always thinking that a button at the front would have been great in order to unlock the phone easier....
try button remapper
I've had this phone for a while, and I've noticed that the softkey lights have started to go out. It started with the menu key, then the home key went out, then the search key. Now the only working light is the Back key, sometimes the search key comes back on. I'm wondering if anyone would know if I could take apart the top part of the phone, and fix the LED's myself, since they don't appear to have fried.
I'm also wondering if this may have had anything with me leaving it outside the shower so many times (sometimes I would look at it and the screen/back would be covered in the humitidy).
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My home key and search key back light became a little dark, but I turn off those key back lights.
Is there anyway to turn off only the softkey backlights?
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I've had this phone for a while, and I've noticed that the softkey lights have started to go out. It started with the menu key, then the home key went out, then the search key. Now the only working light is the Back key, sometimes the search key comes back on. I'm wondering if anyone would know if I could take apart the top part of the phone, and fix the LED's myself, since they don't appear to have fried.
I'm also wondering if this may have had anything with me leaving it outside the shower so many times (sometimes I would look at it and the screen/back would be covered in the humitidy).
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what you could do is buy a new "top part" and open the phone up (BTW its really complicated past the motherboard) and just replace the light bar under the soft keys. i had this same proble, on account i have a frankinstein droid, which means i bought four broken droids, and parted them out to make 1 working droid. i call it... FRAKINDROID!
I ALSO bought a droid 2 motherboard and im getting ready to put it in the droid 1...
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Is there anyway to turn off only the softkey backlights?
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yes, you could use the CM setting, custom the light level to turn off only the button lights.
see this post: http://chromloop.com/2011/06/how-to-optimize-the-automatic-backlight-settings-in-cyanogenmod-7/
My buddy dropped off his touchpad to have me check into Android for it. After getting it into usb screen, I'm pretty sure the "center" button isn't working and is permanently stuck with the usb screen. I noticed the "center" button wasn't having any affect on the touchpad before getting it into the usb screen, but didn't think about it... Guess I'm going to have to hope it dies overnight and try to figure out the "center" button later. Any thoughts on either situation if it doesn't die by tomorrow?
hold down the power and bottom home button for about 20 secs, the touch pad will reboot and be out of the USB mode.
Luckily it died over night and booted up normal this morning. I'll check the home button again but pretty sure it isn't working. I tried that numerous times last night for several different amounts of time with no change. Just hoping it doesn't get stuck again when I try to load cm7 on it.
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Well as long as the center/home button isn't registering as being pressed when it's not, you should have no problems loading android. Just be sure that if you load any other rom other than CM7/CM9 that you rename the file to include update- in front of the filename, and all should load correctly.
Actually loaded everything last night and it worked perfectly! It's pretty rad so far. Found out the button works if u press on the very bottom right of the button. Thanks for the help!
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Loaded CM7.
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It would seem that the closer I get to buying my SGS III, the more my cappy starts to fall apart.
Recently the power button has been on the fritz, pressing itself and opening up the power menu at random intervals as well as turning my screen on and off whenever it damn well feels like it. It's infuriating to say the least.
Is there any way to completely disable the power button so I can just use workarounds until I get my SGS III? All of the searching I've done thus far has turned up nada.
Also, yes I have taken my phone out and cleaned it with compressed air and that didn't do a damn thing. I'm pretty sure I've knocked the connection loose from all of the abuse I've given it over the last year or so.
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Go to /system/usr/keylayouts/aries- keypad.kl
And erase the line with key 116 power in it, and from there you can rename any key the new power button and then reboot. I just had to do this to my phone as well I feel your pain!
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Go to /system/usr/keylayouts/aries- keypad.kl
And erase the line with key 116 power in it, and from there you can rename any key the new power button and then reboot. I just had to do this to my phone as well I feel your pain!
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Awesome. Can I still use the key combo to get into recovery and boot my phone with the power button after I make the change?
And if I rename the search key to power button do I leave it as virtual or change it to wake?
Should it be:
Key 217 Power Virtual
Or
Key 217 Power Wake
I just want to get the syntax right the first time around. Again, you're awesome and thanks a ton!
Edit:
Got the power button remapped to the search key. Problem with that though, is that I forgot the capacitive keys don't register touch when the screen is off lol. Derp.
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Went ahead and mapped it to a volume key. Thanks again for saving my sanity!
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No problem. I don't know what rom you run but if you have the volume awake feature you can use the volumes to wake the phone and then use the search "power" button to lock and reboot and stuff.
Also this remap only applies once android has booted up so it has no affect on when in recovery or download or off anything like that.
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No problem. I don't know what rom you run but if you have the volume awake feature you can use the volumes to wake the phone and then use the search "power" button to lock and reboot and stuff.
Also this remap only applies once android has booted up so it has no affect on when in recovery or download or off anything like that.
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Yeah im on AOKP, so I was going to use it like you described until I read somewhere that it changed the key used to boot up and get into recovery. I didn't want to take the chance of having to figure out how to boot my phone without a power button.
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You could go to setting->display->volume key wakes up phone option. If youre worried about not being able to get into recovery, download rom manager if you dont already have it. There is an option to do several things like booting into recovery, backup roms, partition SD card, fix permissions, etc. What about that?
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You could go to setting->display->volume key wakes up phone option. If youre worried about not being able to get into recovery, download rom manager if you dont already have it. There is an option to do several things like booting into recovery, backup roms, partition SD card, fix permissions, etc. What about that?
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Thanks for the reply. I actually had that option enabled already when I was using the search key as a power button. Turns out though, that the volume keys dont wake the phone if you're playing music (which is like half of the time I have my phone on me outside of work lol). In the end, im just using the volume down key as a power button and its working well for me so far. If I need to get into recovery I can still use the power menu. As for not being able to power up the phone when it was bound to the search key, it's now turning on the moment the battery is inserted, so no worries there anymore ;P
Not to mention I should have my SGS 3 on Thursday, so it only has to work until then
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Not to mention I should have my SGS 3 on Thursday, so it only has to work until then
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Not jealous at all... Ok maybe a little
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Not jealous at all... Ok maybe a little
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