Hi Fellas.
If you have used a S2 or a S3 before, you would know that the home button does not react instantly. The main reason is due to the S-Voice which is activated when you double-press the home button.
The S-voice can be disabled, thus making the home button react instantly.
Now, for the HTC One, in order to multitask, you have to double-tap on the home button. Does the home button react instantly when tap once? Instead of double-tap, I really wished it could have been tap-and-hold, just like the back button. Why the inconsistencies in behavior?
Tap and hold is for Google now
Double tap is for recent apps
As far as the speed, I've messed with a s3 and my one x is much faster going back to the home screen so it's safe to assume HTCs new phone will be just fine
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Finding the back button a bit awkward - recalibrating the screen helped a bit
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Samsung phones are the most annoying phones ever...
The ****ing phone took 2 seconds to TURN THE SCREEN ON when you pressed the power button.
Made me give the phone to the old man after less then 2 weeks...
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Hey does anyone know of a widget that i could put on my homescreen to put my phone to sleep... i feel like having to hit the power button everytime is a bit annoying. Trackball wake takes care of getting the screen on but what about off?
Thanks guys
Any ideas? Or how hars would it even be possible?
So you want to replace pressing a single button, with pressing another single button..
I can understand his concerns, since people've reported that their power buttons have gotten worn off/need longer to press/etc. It's why I've taken up using Reboot Control for rebooting and powering down and Lockbot to press any button to wake up the phone. Another widget or app for turning off the screen would be great too, IMO.
grainysand said:
I can understand his concerns, since people've reported that their power buttons have gotten worn off/need longer to press/etc. It's why I've taken up using Reboot Control for rebooting and powering down and Lockbot to press any button to wake up the phone. Another widget or app for turning off the screen would be great too, IMO.
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am also having to use reboot control for this matter, having an extra standby widget would be perfect.
After wake with trackball, this is second most wanted for me (and i'll not touch power button again). There is a thread in app's section, but no replies till now. Can it be so difficult???
Even if there's no way to directly turn off the screen, there should be some way around it by doing something like saving the current screen timeout time, setting the screen timeout time to 0 (or somewhere between 0 and 1) so the screen will turn off, then set a timer for like 1 second to reset the screen timeout time to the original time?
grainysand said:
I can understand his concerns, since people've reported that their power buttons have gotten worn off/need longer to press/etc. It's why I've taken up using Reboot Control for rebooting and powering down and Lockbot to press any button to wake up the phone. Another widget or app for turning off the screen would be great too, IMO.
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Will pressing any button work with the Nexus One's non physical buttons (back, menu, home, search)?
Not the capacitive buttons, nope, just the volume rocker and the tracknipple.
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Not the capacitive buttons, nope, just the volume rocker and the tracknipple.
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Aww thought it might be possible to use a button which wouldn't become loose or unresponsive after too much use.
I feel like the power button would benefit in te long run from not being pressed multiple times per day and much more convienent to tap a widget on screen
I'm all for it. either an app or a widget, some short cut that can be added to the home screen to put it to sleep.
scottypimpin636 said:
...either an app or a widget, some short cut that can be added to the home screen to put it to sleep.
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Yeah would be great!
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Not the capacitive buttons, nope, just the volume rocker and the tracknipple.
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Ha! Tracknipple... funny as sh!t!!
maybe even double click trackball or long press one of the soft keys along the bottom of the screen
A widget would be a cool option instead of beating the power button to death
Why not just shorten the up time to less then 15 seconds?
Then you have too switch the time whenever your reading the news or a text longer than15 seconds.
So is a widget like this even possible?
Any news on this matter? Is it possible?
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Yeah would be great!
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Second that. It seems my power button is beginning to fail already.
i'm not sure if this answers you question, but usually i push my home button to wake up my phone then slide the screen to unlock it, just like how i do with my iphone previously, no settings is done with my phone
Yeah, same, I always unlock my SGS with the Home-button..
Oh. Did not know that. I don't have the phone yet. Was just reading some people's thoughts about the phone and they were annoyed about the Power button being used to wake the phone. Guess, I should've researched it some more. lol. Thanks for the info.
Either way, I think I figured it out on how to enable/disable the other buttons waking up the phone if I wanted to in that thread I posted. Should be able to wake it up using the other buttons as well instead of being limited to the power button and the home button. Just gotta have root and edit the keyboard layout then push back.
the menu and back keys are capacitative keys, not really ideal for waking with if the phone is carried in your pocket or something
Been using HTC phones and we all know the power button is an important hardware.
I was thinking can we RE-ROUTE the power button to other buttons, since hitting just the power button makes me feel pain and seeing it flattened day by day...
for my previous touch pro i use registry to re-route succesfully. i wonder some geniuses here can do the same job.... please anybody
I would also be interested in this if at all possible.
Singularity0821 made a "restart phone app" : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1333740
...with right argue you could convince him to add a shut down option...
out of curiosity...why you guys restarting your phone in the first place? Last time i restarted my phone was almost 1.25 months ago. Then recently when the HTC update was pushed out. besides that..i havent really had the need to hit the power button. How often do you guys power cycle your phone and why? issues? habit? Just curious..
lol , yes we are the crazy maniac phone restarter
It's useful when you want to apply reg hacks...
Also power button is crucial to reach all usb profils...
and clearly my hd7 power button is getting weaker too http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1359132
A restart app is one thing, which makes it a bit easier to not having to use the power button for that.
But I too am "suffering" from that power button issue and honestly.. you use the power button to not only restart the phone but also to wake it up and unlock it.
Now if the power button could be relocated (even if there has to be software for it) this would be really nice before my power button entirely dies!
Foxnov1990 said:
A restart app is one thing, which makes it a bit easier to not having to use the power button for that.
But I too am "suffering" from that power button issue and honestly.. you use the power button to not only restart the phone but also to wake it up and unlock it.
Now if the power button could be relocated (even if there has to be software for it) this would be really nice before my power button entirely dies!
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totally right there. We had enough pain of this!!
Reroute to the volumes button n camera button,or maybe an app that can shake in a specific way to wake the phone.
Registry setting that can re-route the wake phone button?
Can HTC add on a feature that when the screen are off, a long press of HOME button awake the phone rather than keep pressing the POwer button as most of the power button are flushed or worse... Not very convenient when power back the screen.
Like S4, press the home button awake the phone.
pretty sure some of the kernel already includes this feature
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pretty sure some of the kernel already includes this feature
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Go to the HTC One Original Developement page, which is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2120
Then look for threads that start with [KERNEL]. Just make sure you find one that matches your ROM, e.g. Sense or ASOP.
cover algorithm
alanchai said:
Can HTC add on a feature that when the screen are off, a long press of HOME button awake the phone rather than keep pressing the POwer button as most of the power button are flushed or worse... Not very convenient when power back the screen.
Like S4, press the home button awake the phone.
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Download Cover Algorithm from playstore. There's a trial and a paid version
Works wonderfully with a flip cover, works in pocket mode as well. Haven't touched my power button since installing it...
For those that got the phone.
Does the 10 series still have pressure sensitive home button under the screen?
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NO
no, its gone.
Well that sucks Imo. I like the thing.
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you get double tap to wake now if that helps
The home pressure button was nice, it was the quicker way to exit any app or game, with this you have one more step to do