I might be the only one that thinks the button is worthless, but if anyone would like to remap it to the camera let me know and I'll write up the instructions on how to change it.
This will disable the option to switch between 2D and 3D when looking at pictures or in the middle of games but if your like me I dont have time to play games or mess with 3D pictures, and yes that makes the phone no different that any of the others but I just like the phone it's self.
steps
1. Download Root Explorer
2. Navigate to /system/usr/keylayout
3. Top of app select mount R/W
4. long click on omap-keypad.kl till menu pops up
5. select open in text editor
6. scroll all the way to the bottom to key 249
7. Edit 3D_HOT_KEY to CAMERA
8. Back out of text editor and select mount R/O in top of app
9. Back out of Root Explorer
10.Reboot
This will now map the 3D button to open the camera insted of something you may never use.
Go back to stock.
1. Navigate back to /system/usr/keylayout
2. Mount R/W
3. Only do this if you have the omap-keypad.kl.bak this is a backup of the original file
4. Delete the modified omap-keypad.kl
5. Rename omap-keypad.kl.bak to omap-keypad.kl
6. Back out and restart.
There you go.
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Im interested!
Cool, I may do this, I didn't know it actually turned 3d on / off while in a 3D picture or in the camera.
I hate it when I accidentally hit it.
Might be a dumb question but it just disables the ability to suddenly turn on the 3D in the middle of something but doesn't actually disable the 3D capabilities? If so, I'm very interested.
The remap works. How ever when I changed it back to 3D_HOT_KEY the 3D key does nothing.
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taytay209 said:
The remap works. How ever when I changed it back to 3D_HOT_KEY the 3D key does nothing.
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silly question, but did you reboot
Yup.
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Instead of making it open the camera could it be programmed to act as a shutter button for the camera to take pictures?
No it doesn't disable 3D just changes what the button does.
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It makes my four bottom buttons light up as if it's registering that something is supposed to happen. But nothing happens. Strange. I looked back and the text still says CAMERA.
I don't know if this makes a difference or not but under the qwerty.kl it says 3D_HOT_KEY is still at key 249. The ompa-keypad.kl and the omap-keyboard.kl.bak show key 249 as a camera.
When I set it to camera it worked, It took a second to launch after reboot. But what's strange is when I set it back and rebooted. I get nothing. Just the navigation keyslight up but no 3D app. I don't wanna reset my device just to get the button working again with the 3D.
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Don't panic and reset there is a fix Im driving right now when I stop I'll write up how to.
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Thanks stealth. No hurry. It was just not making any sence. My thought is that I need to link it to the app.
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Fix posted!
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Can some one post up the original file. Mine is FUBAR.
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http://www.4shared.com/file/Kr8Vv-1z/omap-keypad.html
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Good looking out. That was strange why mine wasn't working. Everything's functional now.
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Thanks so much for this.
awsome it works but alittle confused on how to go back to factory
Just download the file that stealth put up And replace the modified file, reboot and your back to stock.
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Forgive me as I'm sure this has been asked.
I've run search on XDA app as well as googled, and looked everywhere in settings.
My short press search button no longer brings up search function from the home screen. Haptic tells me it's reading fine. Long press to voice search is still good. Short press search in other apps is good too.
Also, MENU | SEARCH is dead too, in home screen.
Running CM nightly 233 & ADW.
Kind of lost. Pointer much appreciated.
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Mine works fine on CM 6.1
I'm guessing you've confirmed Google Search app is installed?
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Just verified, yup, and runs no problem. Just independent of the button.
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I'm guessing you're using CM? And had to delete the GoogleSearch apk and reinstall it from Market to upgrade? Your search is on /data. You need it on /system for the key to work. Get root explorer, or use terminal if you understand basic cd, ls, cp, and mv. Look in /data/app and find the apk for search, rename it to QuickSearchBox.apk, and push it to /system/app. Then reboot, and it should work.
Edit: I can't remember, it might be GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk. I think it's what I said the first time, but if that doesn't work, try it with Google in front of it and reboot again. My N1 is currently backing up in recovery or I'd check.
That's it, GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk. Thanks much.
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Works great except just noticed that in the Kindle app while reading at night the back light on the menu buttons don't go out anymore. They used to and it is really bothering me when reading in yhe dark.
Any way to fix this?
My tab isn't rooted.
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Backlight notification app from the market.
This sorted it out for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1120208
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I installed something called backlight switch, but it doesn't seem to do anything when I turn it On or Off.
EDIT: Oh so that needed root...
Found this Widget called Button Backlight but that does not seem to work either. It puts a tiny faint icon on my desktop that doesn't work.
Everything seems to need root access.
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My phone is rooted and I took the liberty of uninstalling some of my stock apps. One of which was the stock music app. I have no need for it since I use Poweramp. However, to my surprise, I found that it leaves the controls in the notification drop-down when it is not installed (as shown in my screenshot).
Since I didn't back up the app, I have no way or reinstalling it. Does anyone know where I can download the app or if it is possible to remove the controls without reinstalling the app?
As of now you have to have it insralled to get them to go away,
http://db.tt/qXgJeBz1
Just put this in system/app and reboot.
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Thanks! I didn't even have to reboot. As soon as I put it in /system/apps, the controls went away.
hopperms91 said:
Thanks! I didn't even have to reboot. As soon as I put it in /system/apps, the controls went away.
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Well that's a plus. Lol. Glad it worked.
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When I am in the camera app, i tapped the back soft key rapidly 3 times to exit camera app to go into my home screen. However it launches me into the google quick search.
This is not a major issue but juz like to know if anyone encounters this too. Software glitch or meant to be this way? I know that dragging from soft keys will bring us to quick search.
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Do you mean Google Now? AKA Google Cards?
My phone does this and it did it on my Xperia T.
It does it in almost any situation where i hit the back button multiple times quickly and gets very annoying after a while!
Right. Sorry bout that. I meant Google Now. Apparently only happened in camera app. No prob with other app. And yes very irritating!
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you can disable it . go into settings / applications choose all app tab and find google search apk uninstall updates and disable it and you will not have that issue anymore.
Thank you! That helped alot!
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Swype came installed on my phone, so it's all I really know as far as keyboards goes. It's always worked, but not sure what happened, but when I press the microphone it says "Unfortunately Swype has stopped working" and only option is to hit OK and it closes.
Any ideas what to do?
When this happens to me, I navigate to Settings - Apps - All (scroll to the right) - find Swype. Scroll down and click clear data.
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Thanks! That partially solved my problem. While the microphone button works now, clearing the data made Swype look totally different and I can't find a way to get it to look like it did. Is there a spot for themes or something somewhere? I would like it to appear as it did when I bought my phone.
There's a settings icon on the keyboard.. when I go in there it brings up "HTC Sense Input Settings". Maybe it's not using Swype? Not sure how to get it back on. If I go into Settings, Language & Keyboard, I can find Swype settings. It says it's using Classic theme.
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When this happens to me, I navigate to Settings - Apps - All (scroll to the right) - find Swype. Scroll down and click clear data.
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Go back to where you found that Swype was using classic theme and tap it. This will take you to where you can change your theme.
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It's set as classic. I tried to change it to Silver then back to Classic no luck. The keyboard doesn't even look like any of the themes shown, so I'm guessing it's not using Swype. Not sure how to get it back.
Lemme reboot the phone and see what happens.
Not working.. it definitely is a different keyboard.. because I can't "swype" to type words.. just not sure how to get Swype to come back as default for everything.
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Go back to where you found that Swype was using classic theme and tap it. This will take you to where you can change your theme.
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Ok..... Open up a text message and get to the point where your HTC keyboard Pops up. From there, swipe down from the top of your screen where it shows what applications you have running. You should see "Choose input method." Tap on that and you should be able to change input method to Swype.
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I love you long time. I'll keep both of these in my mental file. Solved.
[email protected] said:
Ok..... Open up a text message and get to the point where your HTC keyboard Pops up. From there, swipe down from the top of your screen where it shows what applications you have running. You should see "Choose input method." Tap on that and you should be able to change input method to Swype.
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LOL
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