My wife was traveling this week, and she called me to complain that her menu button on her Hero wasn't working any more (it kept her from playing solitaire... ohh the horror). She said that every time she pressed the menu key it took her back to the home screen.
I thought that she had just been hitting in between the two keys and not directly on the menu button, but when she got home I tried and for whatever reason her menu key has remapped itself to function as the home key.
I did some searching online but did not find much information. One person said they just got Sprint to give them a new phone, and one person said they hit their phone really hard and it started working again... Does anyone know of a method to fix this, or am I going to have to convince her to get a new phone?
theres a root app in the market that allows hardkey remapping.
Is this the one you are talking about
Button Remapper - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.beansoft.buttonremapper&feature=search_result
Psichi said:
Is this the one you are talking about
Button Remapper - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.beansoft.buttonremapper&feature=search_result
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That should work, or, if you want to do it "old school", here's a tutorial...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695936
Go old school!
So I managed to use the "old school" method to pull the button config file...
And according to the software the menu button was still functioning fine. So as a work-around I just mapped the home key to MENU, and my wife said she would just use the back button to get back to her home screen.
I guess it is more of a hardware issue then, since both the menu and home keys are sending the same ID... Ohh well. We have the replacement plan, so if I can convince her to replace her phone then she gets a new one.. if not she can keep this little reason I have a headache every few days.
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Hi everyone, i have had a chance to mess with the tilt, now im waiting for mine to come in the mail, the one thing that pissed me off about it was, like my X01HT it has a comm manager button, i like that button a lot, but also i use the push and hold to put the phone on vibrate, when i get the phone i plan to put the stock HTC Rom, but i was wondering is there anything i can do about that, i want to enable push and hold vibration
I just installed AE Button Plus on mine, and it is great. YOu can set it up to do all kinds of things on your buttons, wiht single, double, triple, and hold settings for each button on the phone. Inexpensive as well.
Here's a link to info on it.
or you can use the htc end key, and set the long end key press to switch to vibrate. and its free
I have searched, but I have been unable to find a solution to my problem.
During my searches, I have discovered that many people, like myself, often struggle finding and pressing the power button to turn on and off the screen/phone.
I current use S2U2, which is a great piece of software, and even better since it is free. I use S2U2 to wake my phone up. I have set my settings to not lock the phone when device is off so to unlock/wake my phone I simply press any of the hardware buttons, and I see the S2U2 screen.
However, turning the screen off/putting it in standby is more of a hassle since I have to try and track down the tiny power button. I have downloaded and tried several free remapping programs but none of them allow me to remap a hardware button to standby/lock the phone. Generally, they only allow me to remap a hardware button to a program or setting other than standby/lock.
I would like to know if there was a way to remap a button to put the phone in standby.
I use BlackMe , more info on the website...
You could also try putting some "puffy" paint on the power button. It's that 3D paint people put on shirts etc. that bulges up when it dries. It makes a nice little bead to hit rather than trying to press the little power button.
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I use BlackMe , more info on the website...
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Does this program put the Tilt into SLEEP/STANDBY or just blank the screen. The author does not make this clear.
it just blanks the screen. I will keep up with this thread though, I have always wanted my PTT button to be my power button.....
yeah, me too. I am surprised that there isn't a solution yet....
I've always hated the hard to find power button as well. The PTT button is so easy to find and press, yet I've never, ever, not once accidentally pressed it. Why can't the power button be as raised up as the PTT one? I've seriously considered taking my phone apart and machining a replacement power button that stuck out farther. I'd probably make it out of aluminum to make it look cool, too.
But I'd be plenty happy in the mean time with remapping my PTT button to be a power button...
Yeah, I don't even need all the power button powers... I know the power button is used to do other things other than turn the screen on and off... I just want to use another button to turn the screen on and off and suspend the phone...
SPB Mobile Shell allows you to toggle the screen, suspend and many other options. I don't know if I would purchase the program just for it's button enhancing ability though.
Correction SPB Pocket Plus not SPB Mobile Shell
You could also check out AE Software at http://ae.inc.ru/
I dont know if this is kind of what you guys want, but heres my 2 cents. Go here to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=431328&page=4 and download Dave Shaw's awesome remake of psShutXP in post #34 (its the newest version)
Install to your MAIN DEVICE cuz thats where these shortcuts point to, then pick one of the 2 shortcuts I provided and just drop them in your main \Windows folder.
Hold down PTT button
Long_PTT
Quick push of PTT button
Short_PTT
Now, you can either just quickly push the PTT button or hold it down (depending on which shortcut you chose) and xdaShutdown will pop up giving you the option to RESTART,SLEEP/SCREEN OFF, or COMPLETELY SHUTDOWN your phone.
So essentially now, the PTT is your new power button. To put in standby mode just 2 button pushes is required. 1 push on the PTT button, then another tap on the Sleep button.
But if your really lazy and just want to be able to push PTT button once to put it in Standby/Sleep mode, then all you would do is find out the command to put the phone in standby mode (sorry I dont know it), then open notepad on your desktop, then type the command something like, this is ONLY AN EXAMPLE (42#"\Program Files\xdaShutdown\xdaShutdown.exe"), then save the file as either Short_PTT.lnk or Long_PTT.lnk and then drop the file into your \Windows folder.
But what about one push on the PTT button to wake it up out of standby? (without setting it so that all buttons wake it...)
Wow, I am an idiot. Haha. I never thought about the "wake up" part. Cuz once in Standby, the PTT button would then be non responsive so it then wouldnt work for waking the device. That is a tuff one, I have no idea how to specify what button(s) are locked/unlocked when in standby.
No way, you're not an idiot! I (and others I'm sure) totally appreciate your input. I just happened to have thought this over many, many times. I very well may have to go buy a bottle of that "puffy" paint stuff... sure would beat a full disassembly of the device to make a new, pronounced button!
I'm hoping I haven't misread the problem here, but if it is what I think it is, then you can do it with just S2U2.
I have my TyTnII set up as follows:
No button lock
S2U2 set to lock when backlight turns off
Backlight to turn off in 1 minute
In Setting/Buttons, assign "Button 4 (hold)" to S2U2
So I use it in a similar manner to the original poster. I "wake" it with a press of any hardware button (and obviously unlock it with a slide on the screen)
I lock/stand-by it by pressing and holding the OK button (it goes into standby after 1 min of being locked)
Hope that makes sense and is what you are after.
(nb am not 100% sure that the ability to set an app to run on the holding of a button is standard - I might only have that functionality dues to having SPB PocketPlus installed - am sure someone will let me know!)
Yes! this is what I was going for... I didn't even think about using your solution. Thanks!!!!
Does anyone have a problem with the hardware buttons not waking the phone up? I have my key lock setting not to lock buttons, but most of the time, my phone does not wake up when I press any of the hard keys. However, when I use the jog dial, the phone will wake up, but none of the other buttons will work.
My camera button is shot and the regular method of accessing the bootloader is impossible for me. Are there any other options for me?
Sorry, no.
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My camera button is shot and the regular method of accessing the bootloader is impossible for me. Are there any other options for me?
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You mean when you do power + camera?
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You mean when you do power + camera?
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Yes, I believe that's what he means. Sputnikk23, do you have Windows Mobile installed or Android? If you have Windows Mobile installed, it can definitely be done. If you're on Android, I'm not so sure.
it was stock rom wm 6.1;
currently installing nfs
I ended up taking it apart to try to fix button; accidentaly broke it off. poked the button out, put it back together and now I just short circuit it.
doing it as per the guide to install android though
hopefully i don't need the camera button for anything essential...
http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/Enhancements/BootLoader-85221.shtml
crap... you need it to back out of stuff.. can you change that in android?
i'm in qwerty keylayout in /system/usr/keylayout and i can't figure out what my end key is mapped to. when i press it it blacks out the phone? sometimes comes back by itself, sometimes i have to hit power. just comes back to whatever i had before it blacked.
and what is the left softkey supposed to do? and what is the "home" button? the power key?
and i cannot get win7 to install the usb drivers. implies they are for 64bit when they are clearly not.
I DID IT! I remapped the "End" key to "Back" instead of "END CALL".
You can end call with the touch screen, only thing I"m missing is manual sleep which it will do auto in 30 secs. Anyone know of a widget I can put on home screen to do it manually?
Also, shouldn't SOME key take me instantly back to home screen?
If anyone needs instructions for layout change - I can write up a tutorial.
key- re-map!
i would love a tutorial! ive been tryin to figure out how to do this for a while!
im running NAND, Myns warm donut
The camera button on my Vogue was sketchy and then finally died. I opened it up and the microswitch had dislodged. I am not great at soldering, but it was an easy fix. I just pushed it back into place, bent the retaining "ears" back around the switch, soldered the ears together to hold it better, and finally just touched the leads to the switch to reflow them. It took much longer to open the phone and put it back together than it did to resolder. It took maybe 30 minutes, start to finish and it was well worth it, IMO.
I'm trying to remap my End Call button so I can use it to "Go Home", and End Calls. I don't want that button to put my phone to sleep, just the side power button. I want to also free up my IE button for use with anything else I might want it bound too.
In my ventures to do so, I've noticed that both the End Call button and Power button are mapped to the same keymap. I had thought I had changed the Power button but when I tried to end a call, the red button just puts the phone to sleep, which is exactly what I wanted my side power button to do while I'm on a call.
Is this a bug, or a "feature" in the kernel?
im pretty sure its part of the kernel, it has been there since the donut days (the old keymap was crazy volume up was the menu button, volume down was back)
it is partly due to the fact that the vogue has very few buttons, the kaiser was a device that just worked with our kernels at first.
i think even changing the buttons in atools will not change the kernel key stacks like your asking for
although l1q1d being the creator of Atools would know a lot better than I would
I've been looking at the querty.kl file, trying to understand the keymaps, and what they're associated too... Anyway of running a program that captures key presses and prints out the associated keymap for that key press?
Hey! Post from the grave!
Did you have any luck ??
I was also hoping someone knew how to go about this.
I know there are ways to remap keys, but I'm stuck in a browser, and all I can do it put my kaiser to sleep.
I even tried atools keyboard remapper to no avail (awesome tool btw).
It's no fun when you can't exit applications d:
I don't mean to double post, was just hoping someone could answer this.
Krazy-Killa did you have any luck?
Hi everyone, on the Cyanogen roms, im sure you all know, when you have a call on your phone, and the screen goes out, you have to press another button to wake it cause the red button will end it. haha Ive dropped a lot of calls this way, cause im so used to Sense. But i saw a post a long time ago (i think) on remapping this so it will wake but not end. Does anyone know the code or where that link it to remap it?
You could do that, but I would highly recommend againt it. The end call button is so intricately tied to other key functions like screen on/off, device on/off, etc. that if you mess it up you would be unhappy. Of sourse since you would be modifying system files you could fix it by a nand restore or a ROM flashover, but why worry about it? Just get used to waking the phone up with the menu key and you'll be fine. There's an app called button remapper in the fora here that is the easy way to remap hard keys, or use the link below to manually make the edits. Good luck.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695936
Follow that link brother. I modified mine to POWER so I would stop hanging up on people. Changed it, and never looked back.
thanks il duce for the link. youre always so helpful.
i really need to get some extra cash to donate to you.
And thanks oohaylima for the encouraging nudge!
I say Hooah!