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Can someone help me out?

I tried doing a search but I honestly don't know what to enter--tried button layout, android controls, etc--no dice.
On the Touch, it used to be that if you held the camera button down, it took you straight to home. That does not seem to be the case anymore. Can anyone tell me if the Touch has a way to do that now--and if not, how in the world are you getting out of the browser without losing all of your progress? Task Switcher doesn't seem to allow me to choose my home screen, and if I switch to something else and then exit out of that, my browser is waiting for me, like the sneaky bastard it is.

spectheintro said:
I tried doing a search but I honestly don't know what to enter--tried button layout, android controls, etc--no dice.
On the Touch, it used to be that if you held the camera button down, it took you straight to home. That does not seem to be the case anymore. Can anyone tell me if the Touch has a way to do that now--and if not, how in the world are you getting out of the browser without losing all of your progress? Task Switcher doesn't seem to allow me to choose my home screen, and if I switch to something else and then exit out of that, my browser is waiting for me, like the sneaky bastard it is.
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if you aare using an nbh that has the task switcher built into it, then you need to only hold the camera button for a second for home.
tap - back
hold for a sec - home
long hold - task switcher

Awesome! It's going to take some getting used to, but this is a huge help.
Now if I could only figure out how to install themes...

spectheintro said:
Awesome! It's going to take some getting used to, but this is a huge help.
Now if I could only figure out how to install themes...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=628353
go to how to install an update

No LED/Status Indicator? No cursor?

Anyone come across any fixes for the fact that (a) there is no LED indicator telling you that you have a message; and (b) there is no pointer/curser/trackball?
I tried NOLED app from the market, but thought it was useless.

NOLED is probably the only "fix" you are going to find for notifications. Android is a touch screen OS, why on earth would you need a pointer?

The trackball on the N1, for instance, is super helpful when typing.
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coldbeverage said:
The trackball on the N1, for instance, is super helpful when typing.
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So you didn't notice your phone didn't have a pointing device when you bought it?

migsims said:
So you didn't notice your phone didn't have a pointing device when you bought it?
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Haha maybe he thought it it had some weird gesture area like the crappy Pre or something.
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ON topic, mate a lot of keyboard apps for android include a d-pad option which will let you accurately simulate a cursor/trackball.
No LED notifications is a bummer. Strange how people with iphones are not annoyed by that! Something like sms popup can be set to periodically vibrate to remind you etc. No real solution there Im afraid!
There was some dev work on getting the backlight touch buttons to blink but work seems to have hit a dead end.

Ozy: thanks for the helpful reply!!
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coldbeverage said:
Ozy: thanks for the helpful reply!!
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No worries. For now, look for updates to these two links (I appreciate youve already tried NOLED but it can only get better )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730692 - NOLED
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=706426 - Use button backlight

ozy944 said:
No worries. For now, look for updates to these two links (I appreciate youve already tried NOLED but it can only get better )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730692 - NOLED
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=706426 - Use button backlight
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Thanks! It's weird. I can't get NOLED to work on the Captivate. In any event, the backlight option is brilliant!

ozy944 said:
No LED notifications is a bummer. Strange how people with iphones are not annoyed by that!
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Meh. I was always irritated by the notification LED on my MT3G. I love that my Vibrant doesn't have any blinkenlites.

coldbeverage said:
Anyone come across any fixes for the fact that (a) there is no LED indicator telling you that you have a message; and (b) there is no pointer/curser/trackball?
I tried NOLED app from the market, but thought it was useless.
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There is a dpad on the Samsung and swype keyboards. Hole the 123 key on S. And drag between the two bottom left keys in swype.
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ozy944 said:
No worries. For now, look for updates to these two links (I appreciate youve already tried NOLED but it can only get better )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730692 - NOLED
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=706426 - Use button backlight
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This second link is exactly what ive been looking,
I think the LEDs at the bottom would make perfect notification lights,
Is there any more news on this?
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Heh, its the ideal solution, except theres not really a solution at the moment. Drivers have now been made public (or so Im led to believe). so Im hoping to see it come along side Cyanogen Mod.
Theres an online petiotion that can be signed regarding some dev work for this. At the moment, theres like 350+ signatories....now if everyone chipped in $5 ......

for the D-pad just slide from the "S" sybmbol in the lowwer left of the keyboard to the "sym" key directly next to it (using swype, not the samsung keyboard). a directional pad pops up and it has backspace, backspace by full word, delete, cut, copy, paste, select all, page up, page down, home and end, and a "tab" key, though i don't know if it works like tab of if it is just a large space for starting paragraphs.
samsungs keyboard also has something similar if you hold the key to the numbers/symbols for three seconds.

micro2112 said:
There is a dpad on the Samsung and swype keyboards. Hole the 123 key on S. And drag between the two bottom left keys in swype.
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Wow. Thanks! Dolphin HD, LiveJournal, and text entry don't get along so well for some reason; it never puts the cursor where I tap when I want to go back and edit text. So I'm extremely happy to hear there are arrows on the Swype keyboard! The trackpad and GPS were the only two things I was still missing from my Aria, and you just remedied the former.
Though now I feel silly for not figuring it out myself!

Too be honest I only knew about it from a review I read but they didn't explain how to do it, after a few days of messing with it I found it in the swype tutorials
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HTC One Menu button exists?

So I was looking through the HTC One user guide and I happen to stumble across a 'missing your menu button' section. It details how to set your back button as a menu button. Screenshot attached!
Now I tried doing what they said, but there is no option under the menu (as you all are aware).
So I'm thinking HTC had this feature before, but removed it? Or they were thinking ahead while writing the user guide and so will add this functionality in a future update?
I hate the black bar as many of you do, but it didn't stop me from buying this beast of a phone. I've seen stories where people decided not to buy the One because it had a black menu bar (bit over the top in my opinion).
So what do you think guys? Hope for those that don't want to unlock their bootloader? Hope for those that were still undecided?
(If you want the user guide you can find it on the HTC website)
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I'm not sure why it isn't an option (yet) for the One. The One X used to have the same black bar, then they added the above option. Maybe they think it would be too much for two buttons to control so much? Shouldn't have removed the third button, HTC!

In complete agreement. The black bar is pathetic in my opinion, but phone was still too cool to resist buying it.
Love the phone but black bar is silly. Hope htc get it sorted for next update.
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And if they don't then just pop into the developer threads and choose a Rom that you like. Long-back menu reenabled and the ugly black bar is gone.
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That stupid black bar even appears in games. Quite often, there's no menu options in the bar, either.

ThatNerdGuy said:
So I was looking through the HTC One user guide and I happen to stumble across a 'missing your menu button' section. It details how to set your back button as a menu button. Screenshot attached!
Now I tried doing what they said, but there is no option under the menu (as you all are aware).
So I'm thinking HTC had this feature before, but removed it? Or they were thinking ahead while writing the user guide and so will add this functionality in a future update?
I hate the black bar as many of you do, but it didn't stop me from buying this beast of a phone. I've seen stories where people decided not to buy the One because it had a black menu bar (bit over the top in my opinion).
So what do you think guys? Hope for those that don't want to unlock their bootloader? Hope for those that were still undecided?
(If you want the user guide you can find it on the HTC website)
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The option WAS meant to be there, sadly a bug in retail release meant it doesn't appear. They have managed to enable it by renaming the device and it appears back in the menu, so it's clear that it was a bug / oversight that made its way into retail software.
Sadly.... How long it takes HTC to release an update to remedy it is the big question.

nookcoloruser said:
The option WAS meant to be there, sadly a bug in retail release meant it doesn't appear. They have managed to enable it by renaming the device and it appears back in the menu, so it's clear that it was a bug / oversight that made its way into retail software.
Sadly.... How long it takes HTC to release an update to remedy it is the big question.
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Some leaked news said that HTC intentionally removed the feature as per compliance with google android standards.

Riyal said:
Some leaked news said that HTC intentionally removed the feature as per compliance with google android standards.
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I read that too, and I don't get it.
Samsung on their devices, with an actual menu button is non-compliant, yet that goes through.... Official spec calls for the recently used button and it's no where to be found on the ONE...that's non-compliant...
So, they have to remove a feature that buried within the options and off by default due to "compliance"?
I'm going to lean my hopes on HTC just needing to fix it and bring it back... The feature was even in the phone during the announcement events, so it did exist.

Riyal said:
Some leaked news said that HTC intentionally removed the feature as per compliance with google android standards.
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Google Standard Compliance is not compulsory, it's just a recommended guideline. Google wouldn't force HTC to stick to it if every other manufacturer isn't.

The code is still there in the Rom. What the retail versions lack is the option in settings (an option that is reenabled in most roms)
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nookcoloruser said:
Google Standard Compliance is not compulsory, it's just a recommended guideline. Google wouldn't force HTC to stick to it if every other manufacturer isn't.
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There are some thats compulsory... Ask steve kondik aka cyanogen he just got a notice about that last year.
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All i can say, for easiest sake i hope they open it up in an update .. .. .. maybe if everyone hassled them Via Email they would? ? ?

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There are some thats compulsory... Ask steve kondik aka cyanogen he just got a notice about that last year.
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From the 4.1 Compliance Definition Document (CDD). Either way of HTC implementing settings is fine with Google. The fact that no other manufacturer with soft or hard navigation keys has ever had to implement an on-screen settings panel should have been a clue. The only thing that would cause a device to fail Google certification would be violating something labled a "MUST" in the CDD. I take it that Google was OK with HTC killing a dedicated home button and replacing it with a double-tap of another key even though the CDD says "MUST make these functions [home, menu, back] available to users at all times" along with "using dedicated keys." It would seem that the death of the home button would be more signifcant to Google than how settings were accessed.
http://source.android.com/compatibility/4.1/android-4.1-cdd.pdf

That is obviously very old, as they do NOT want you to have a menu button now.
EDIT: I stand corrected. Very strange they would include talk of a Menu in 4.2 when, as I understand it, they encourage phone mfg's not to have a physical menu button.

The black bar is not HTC's fault, it's the application developers fault, who don't adhere to Google's guidelines.

tom369 said:
The black bar is not HTC's fault, it's the application developers fault, who don't adhere to Google's guidelines.
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Tom369, I doubt you are correct. Apps like Tapatalk and most others need a menu button and I think it is htc s fault on how they want to have it.
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If a menu button is coded correctly into an app then you won't see the black bar. If the coders can't be arsed adding the button and code to do the job then you get the black bar. HTC adhered to Google guidelines, coders didn't.
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Tetsumi06 said:
If a menu button is coded correctly into an app then you won't see the black bar. If the coders can't be arsed adding the button and code to do the job then you get the black bar. HTC adhered to Google guidelines, coders didn't.
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Absolutely correct. But when can you do? Some developers don't keep up, some don't even update their apps at all and have moved on to other things. Who can you blame most? Probably Google. Went with one idea, then drastically changed it.
Personally, when I heard they were dropping a button, I was excited thinking that it'd be the end of the pesky "recently used" button. Totally useless to me unless I'm copying from one app to another... otherwise, it's a bad button since it's behavior is not always *known* to me...
I can't recall what I recently used beyond an app or two, and it goes down to about ZERO if I've had the phone asleep for a while. Furthermore, most implementations take longer to *FIND* the app, IF it's in there than it would to just launch it again from a known location.... this is because the position will vary in the screen shown based on HOW recently used it was.
I blame Google. I get wanting to make it "simpler", but I would have kept menu, and dropped recently used.
We have so many confusing things that occur now with Samsung and LG bucking the trend and keeping a menu button, Motorola adding the [ . . . ] to the side of their on-screen controls when not implemented by an app developer... and HTC getting black-barred when an APP is old or hasn't been done correctly.
Seems like a greater mess for the sake of "simplifying" button count.

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That is obviously very old, as they do NOT want you to have a menu button now.
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It's the CDD for 4.1. Did you read the PDF? I'm guessing not.
Here it is from the 4.2 CDD. Can't get any fresher than that.

Tetsumi06 said:
If a menu button is coded correctly into an app then you won't see the black bar. If the coders can't be arsed adding the button and code to do the job then you get the black bar. HTC adhered to Google guidelines, coders didn't.
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The worst thing is...the xda app has the 3 button menu at the bottom
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[SOLVED] Anyone Know How...

Okay, so I want to be able to do a couple of things. The first is nagging me, as I'm sure there's a way to do it, the second I'm not so sure about.
1) I want to be able to access the multi-tasking/Recent Apps list from anywhere. My idea is to push and hold Menu to get it to pop up, since Home uses Google Now when it's pushed and held. I know there was a way to do that with the search key back when we had 4 keys using LaunchKey, but I can't find anything to let me assign push/hold functionality to Menu. I'm rooted, so I'm sure there's a way to do this...
2) This I'm not so sure of. Because of the charging port being on the side of the phone, it works best in my car when it's held in a landscape orientation in my windshield-mounted dock. This is great for everything except one thing: the dialer. I know in most AOSP custom ROMs I've used on other phones, the dialer rotates with the phone. Since I've rarely stuck to stock on a phone before, and we're kind of forced to here, is there a way to get the dialer to rotate?

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1) I want to be able to access the multi-tasking/Recent Apps list from anywhere. My idea is to push and hold Menu to get it to pop up, since Home uses Google Now when it's pushed and held. I know there was a way to do that with the search key back when we had 4 keys using LaunchKey, but I can't find anything to let me assign push/hold functionality to Menu. I'm rooted, so I'm sure there's a way to do this...
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Double tap the home key brings up the recent apps.
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1. What jonslice says.
2. Download another dialer in the play store.

Holy crap. I feel so stupid now. How did I not know that? LOL
And yeah, downloaded another dialer. Forgot I could do that (since I've never really done it before). Thanks guys!

[Q] How to launch Google Voice with the home button

Hi guys,
I managed to install google apps on my phone, and I must say Google Now/Voice is fantastic!
I was wondering if we could set the home button to launch Google Voice, like how Apple launches Siri. I have the app 'Tasker' although I'm not afraid to admit that I don't know how to use it
thanks a bunch.

MCChang said:
Hi guys,
I managed to install google apps on my phone, and I must say Google Now/Voice is fantastic!
I was wondering if we could set the home button to launch Google Voice, like how Apple launches Siri. I have the app 'Tasker' although I'm not afraid to admit that I don't know how to use it
thanks a bunch.
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Yes, simply hold and swype up from the home button

Great! Thanks, I didn't know that