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Broken touch screen - Key Board Short Cut Work arounds

Howdy Folks,
I sat on my phone this weekend (have had my phone in my back pocket many times) and cracked the glass. Now my touch screen is now non-responsive.
I've been able to find keyboard and trackball work around for every feature on the phone... except for the notification bar.
Does anyone know of an app or keyboard shortcut that will allow me to access the notification bar if i can't swipe it down via the touch screen?
I plan on replacing the phone( or maybe just the screen), but until i can, figuring out a work around would be really nice.

Can u go to the home screen, press menu and navigate via trackpad to notifications? It sucks going home all the time to do but it should do the trick till u get a replacement.
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slinky1914 said:
Can u go to the home screen, press menu and navigate via trackpad to notifications? It sucks going home all the time to do but it should do the trick till u get a replacement.
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Thanks for the reply!
I can't seem to get that to work... If i understand correctly, you just navigate "up" with the trackpad, and it lets you access the notifications? That doesn't seem to work for me
However... I have discovered that there is a tiny triangle of screen that still works. So if I let my my screen rotate a full 180.. I've figured out that I can pull down the notifications bar.
Still if anyone has any other suggestions so that I don't have to turn my phone upside down to access notifications... that would be great!

thecracker said:
Thanks for the reply!
I can't seem to get that to work... If i understand correctly, you just navigate "up" with the trackpad, and it lets you access the notifications? That doesn't seem to work for me
However... I have discovered that there is a tiny triangle of screen that still works. So if I let my my screen rotate a full 180.. I've figured out that I can pull down the notifications bar.
Still if anyone has any other suggestions so that I don't have to turn my phone upside down to access notifications... that would be great!
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He said to go to the home screen and click the menu button while in home screen... Then Click notifications and the rest is history.
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thecracker said:
Howdy Folks,
I sat on my phone this weekend (have had my phone in my back pocket many times) and cracked the glass. Now my touch screen is now non-responsive.
I've been able to find keyboard and trackball work around for every feature on the phone... except for the notification bar.
Does anyone know of an app or keyboard shortcut that will allow me to access the notification bar if i can't swipe it down via the touch screen?
I plan on replacing the phone( or maybe just the screen), but until i can, figuring out a work around would be really nice.
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Did it work for you? I'm assuming that it did since the questions stopped.
Black myTouch Slide w/stock rom
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Ironic name "thecracker" haha xD
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[APP] Instant Screen Off (for rooted phones only)

I have make small app, which switching off screen.
Instant, without any waits or faking switching off by set brightness to zero.
It's simulate pressing of power button.
Maybe this one will be interest for somebody
root needed

Nice! I'd be more interested if you could do unlock via soft keys as we had in Hero , i.e. home and menu, as I find the power button is too recessed for easy access.
Not sure if softkeys would be too easy to trigger by mistake tho ??

pinn___________ said:
Nice! I'd be more interested if you could do unlock via soft keys as we had in Hero , i.e. home and menu, as I find the power button is too recessed for easy access.
Not sure if softkeys would be too easy to trigger by mistake tho ??
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There is a hack for this but the menu key etc on the hd are not active when the screen is locked so it doesn't work. I did it today but you have to press power then the keys become active and you can use menu etc to unlock. Pointless as you still need to use power button first. The hero's keys were hard buttons as is the desire. It worked great on the desire. Unless anyone knows a way to have them active while locked? My power buttons a nightmare as it's not very clicky and really recessed. My wife's hd power button is much easier to use. Anyone know a way to have the soft keys active all the time?
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Thanks for this app, i was waiting for.
Power button isn't as practical as your app to power down the phone.
Thank you mate.

Very Nice.... I like it.
But can you please Chance the Icon for me?
Im not able to do this myself.
I would like something like that.
Back and white with a bit gray or shaded would be very nice

Hi,
does it possible to work on unrooted phones?
thx

gervasius said:
Hi,
does it possible to work on unrooted phones?
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No, only rooted. Su permission requried :-(

Korny89 said:
But can you please Chance the Icon for me
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I can, but i'm need final icon in resolution 72x72px, can you draw it?

Srry, but can someone explain to me in technical terms how this actually works and what are its benefits. Thank you.
r0cky.Da.3v0.SU.

r0cky0790 said:
Srry, but can someone explain to me in technical terms how this actually works and what are its benefits. Thank you.
r0cky.Da.3v0.SU.
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In technical terms,yes- it would circumvent the process of having to use one's digit to find aforementioned hard power button and then depress said button.

pinn___________ said:
In technical terms,yes- it would circumvent the process of having to use one's digit to find aforementioned hard power button and then depress said button.
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Lol, maybe I didn't want the technical version after all. Dumb it down so I can understand. I'm have it installed but I don't see it doing anything. I have an Evo. How does this work (explain normal).
r0cky.Da.3v0.SU.

Its just a app to lock the phone and turn the screen off. Not sure if it works on evo

Ok thanks buddy, Uninstalling.
r0cky.Da.3v0.SU.

Dunno if this is doable but have you seen the screen lock on the new nexus that was seen at recent web 2.0 summit. Its kinda like the effect you get when u turn off an old crt TV. Could you implement that instead of the current fade effect? Ta

here i send you the perfect icon for me.
I hope you can do this. This would be very great.
Can you make the white corners transparent?
If you cant please make it black...
Im looking forward to you work

Korny89 said:
here i send you the perfect icon for me.
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Done.
Look first post for update.

Hello, thanks a lot. its look very very sexy.
The only problem i have is with the "More Icons Widget"
That shows me the old symbol.
I think thats not you Problem. So i will check that.
thanks!

Thank you exidler for this useful app. I am just wondering if you can make use of the accelerometer sensor to turn off the screen ( for example by putting the phone upside down) . Thanks again.
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"Thank you exidler for this useful app. I am just wondering if you can make use of the accelerometer sensor to turn off the screen ( for example by putting the phone upside down) . Thanks again."
i also agree ! that would be a perfect app and since most people do not check their sms upside down it would also be extremely practical
+1

Benjyk said:
I am just wondering if you can make use of the accelerometer sensor to turn off the screen ( for example by putting the phone upside down)
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I'm busy now, but will look for your feature request in few days. Most of everything is possible

[Q] Question About Samsung Galaxy Note Stylus

Hello. I was just wondering if any of you out there (more specifically the people who own the Galaxy Note) if you know if it is possible to disable the finger touch input on the Galaxy Note when using the stylus? What I mean is, if you were to want to use JUST the stylus and NOT your fingers to navigate around on the Galaxy Note, is there an option that makes that possible or...?
Hopefully you guys understand what I'm trying to get an answer to.
Thanks!

there is no disable option however if you want to navigate your device using the stylus only, this is done pretty easily. The only buttons that you cannot use with the s pen are the hardware back and menu button however Samsung have created the same functions of the back and menu button if you use gestures on the pen i.e. if you keep your finger on the button of the s pen and swipe left on the screen, it acts the same as the back button likewise, if you swipe upwards, it acts like the menu button.

So in other words, what your saying is that the finger touch input will still be enabled even if I use the stylus?

IMAFIRINMYLAZERMAN77 said:
So in other words, what your saying is that the finger touch input will still be enabled even if I use the stylus?
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First of all dont insult it sayin stylus , its S-pen and is way more functional than so called stylus.
I wonder why you want to disable finger touch. if u dont want ur capacitive back button to get pressed when drawing (most of the users were facing it), then let me tell you that newer roms are taking care of that. i.e while drawing if you hit back button, it wont work unless you lift the S pen.
if your requirement is something else, then you can use gloves

If the finger touch won't be disabled when using the S-Pen, then one must not touch or rest his/her palm while using the S-Pen. It would have been more comfortable if the palm could rest the screen while writing. Yes, gloves may be useful here..:laugh:

Currently ICS and JB TW ROM's have S-note where you can enable palm rejection. But otherwise you cannot disable the touch on your touch screen

When you do some practice you can draw while resting your palm on the screen without touching the menu or back button.. I use to take notes in college only on my fone and it's very much familiar to use spen now
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Beerbong is working on palm rejection in pa 3
Or probably he is done
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Soft keys are too close to main screen

Hi guys, do you have the same feeling as mine? O4x's soft keys are too close to the bottom of the main screen. As a result, sometimes during text input, home button is unintentionally hit.
Is there any solution to this?
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flanker711 said:
Hi guys, do you have the same feeling as mine? O4x's soft keys are too close to the bottom of the main screen. As a result, sometimes during text input, home button is unintentionally hit.
Is there any solution to this?
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Happens to me all the time. I have no solution this far. Maybe one could make a mod to have the on-screen buttons as Google intended and disable the hardware soft keys, but I don't have any experience in modding.

Not sure about the mechanism of the hotkeys. If they're touch panel like (or even they're just part of the main capacitive touch screen), the best solution IMO is to reduce the effective touch area of each button. Just make them slightly larger than the led icons.
But this is not what CM can do I think. It should be some driver code change from LG...
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i use swiftkey and increase the key height and it is so much easy to key now without hitting home when i use the spacebar. Another alternative is to setup the direction arrows underneath the spacebar but i feel the previous approach is suitable for me not to hit home key 99.9% all the time :cyclops:

Happen quite a lot at first,
After a mth with this phone. Seldom happen anymore.
Will get used to it
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well, u could ask lg to make their new phones bigger, so theres more space for ur fingers :silly:

Rithina said:
i use swiftkey and increase the key height and it is so much easy to key now without hitting home when i use the spacebar. Another alternative is to setup the direction arrows underneath the spacebar but i feel the previous approach is suitable for me not to hit home key 99.9% all the time :cyclops:
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Nice solution, thanks!!!

[Q] HTC Desire c Screen cracked where BACK button is

Does anyone know how I can make or change the location of my back button? Right there in the lower left of my digitizier I have a small crack. Of course it makes both my back button and my option to open my dialer during calls non operational. Does any one have a suggestion or a work around other than a new screen?

Use button saviour...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...le&utm_medium=organic&utm_term=button+saviour

Thanks
rex28818 said:
Use button saviour...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...le&utm_medium=organic&utm_term=button+saviour
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Your the shiz my niz! Thank you. I like this form XDA ROCKS! You ask a question and not only do you get a correct response but it very quick!!:good: