I am interested in remapping the key to take a photo using the htc camera. Has this been done, or is it even possible? I found nothing specific to the hero in my searches so I'm not sure. I just hate using the trackball.
barnacles10 said:
I am interested in remapping the key to take a photo using the htc camera. Has this been done, or is it even possible? I found nothing specific to the hero in my searches so I'm not sure. I just hate using the trackball.
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Just edit the heroc-keypad.kl(may have a different name) in system/usr/keylayout;
I always remap my "phone" button to be the "camera" instead, and then I use the "search" button for autofocus.
Decad3nce said:
Just edit the heroc-keypad.kl(may have a different name) in system/usr/keylayout;
I always remap my "phone" button to be the "camera" instead, and then I use the "search" button for autofocus.
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So I just opened the heroc-keypad and I honestly don't know what to do in there or rather what does what. I'm real interested in this since i don't use my volume keys and eventually when the I1 comes out on sprint which will be the first sprint phone with push to talk and android I would like to port it to our phones (or try) so that we have ptt
thatguythatdid said:
So I just opened the heroc-keypad and I honestly don't know what to do in there or rather what does what. I'm real interested in this since i don't use my volume keys and eventually when the I1 comes out on sprint which will be the first sprint phone with push to talk and android I would like to port it to our phones (or try) so that we have ptt
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Well essentially it shows you what key does what.
Code:
key 102 HOME
key 139 MENU WAKE_DROPPED
key 158 BACK
key 127 FOCUS
key 231 CAMERA
key 107 ENDCALL WAKE_DROPPED
key 191 DPAD_CENTER
key 115 VOLUME_UP WAKE
key 114 VOLUME_DOWN WAKE
Key 231 is usually "CALL" and Key 127 is usually "SEARCH"
I just went in and changed it to "CAMERA" and "FOCUS" and then pushed the file back to system/usr/keylayout/
You can also change things like "WAKE" if you want the action to wake the phone from sleep. It wouldn't be too hard to create a new action to be called by the physical button push. Though I haven't tinkered around too much with that.
Thanks gonna try some things out
thanks, I might try this. So what happens when you push the phone button on the home screen say. Does your camera boot?
barnacles10 said:
thanks, I might try this. So what happens when you push the phone button on the home screen say. Does your camera boot?
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Yep, sometimes requires a long-press though.
Then if I push "Search" for auto-focus, followed by "Phone" again for camera, it takes a snap shot.
Really handy.
I TAKE NO CREDIT FOR THIS LITTLE HACK, THIS WAS DONE FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS FROM THIS SITE.
ALL CREDIT GOES TO Decad3nce for making this as easy as 1,2,3.
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THIS SHOULD WORK ON ANY 2.2 ROM. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT 2.1.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
***INSTRUCTIONS***
1) Download the file HERE
2) put the "incrediblec-keypad.kl" file you just downloaded into the TOOLS folder of your Android-SDK folder.
3) run this:
Code:
adb remount
adb push incrediblec-keypad.kl /system/usr/keylayout
4) Reboot your phone, and then long press the search key to check it out!
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UPDATE
Big Thanks to Touchpro247 over on at for putting together a .zip to flash via recovery!
"Just install via recovery.
or
Un-install via recovery."
no way! i requested this exact feature a while ago on android forums but seemed nobody was interested. so i gave up, haha. so stoked to see this, at work right now, but i am def gonna install this when i get home. thank you!
Awesome find! I like to use my voice search for the search button so I instead mapped camera to the long press menu button.
Is there a way to get this working with optical pad?
Didn't think the whole menu button thing to thoroughly. Going back to Search button.
Thanks a bunch for the support guys!
I'm not too sure about the optical trackpad sorry man!
Would people be able to use Root Explorer to copy the file into designated location? I renamed the original file, just to be safe and copied the new one...then rebooted and it disabled all the soft keys...so I am back to the original for now.
Here's an update.zip for it.
Just install via recovery.
or
Un-install via recovery.
Thanks for posting!
touchpro247 said:
Here's an update.zip for it just install via recovery.
Thanks for posting!
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Awesome touchpro...
Reason, I did it that way was I wanted to keep the original for backup. I will try update.zip. Thanks!
Tats_06 aka olta777
touchpro247 said:
Here's an update.zip for it just install via recovery.
Thanks for posting!
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Your welcome man, thanks for posting this, I tried and tried to do this and couldn't get it. I appreciate it. updating OP.
op, thanks for posting
When I edited the the incrediblec-keypad.kl file to use a long press of the Menu button, the short press of the Menu button stopped working. So, no more menu access.
What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
Code:
key 107 ENDCALL WAKE_DROPPED
key 116 POWER WAKE_DROPPED
key 115 VOLUME_UP WAKE
key 114 VOLUME_DOWN WAKE
key 217 SEARCH WAKE_DROPPED
key 158 BACK WAKE_DROPPED
key 139 CAMERA WAKE_DROPPED
key 102 HOME WAKE_DROPPED
So, would replacing the key ID with the ID of the optical trackpad button work?
Good questions guys I wish I could be of some help but I don't know much about this stuff
WOW, this works perfectly! Thanks for posting...I always hated the search button anyway.
INTREPID-NY said:
When I edited the the incrediblec-keypad.kl file to use a long press of the Menu button, the short press of the Menu button stopped working. So, no more menu access.
What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
Code:
key 107 ENDCALL WAKE_DROPPED
key 116 POWER WAKE_DROPPED
key 115 VOLUME_UP WAKE
key 114 VOLUME_DOWN WAKE
key 217 SEARCH WAKE_DROPPED
key 158 BACK WAKE_DROPPED
key 139 CAMERA WAKE_DROPPED
key 102 HOME WAKE_DROPPED
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Curious, did you edit it in a "unix" editor? If you used something like notepad to change it and save it, it would be saved in the DOS format. I wonder if using something like Textpad to open and save it in UNIX text format would make it work...
I used ultraedit - it may have saved it in DOS format. I'll give it another try and make sure it saves as Unix.
Is there a way to make the the search function still work on a short press? When I short press my search button it does nothing but when I long press it brings up the camera...any fix would be great thanks!
AisforAustin said:
Is there a way to make the the search function still work on a short press? When I short press my search button it does nothing but when I long press it brings up the camera...any fix would be great thanks!
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if you do that, it may wanna bring up the search menu while you are taking a picture with this button (when camera app is open).
Farenhe1t said:
WOW, this works perfectly! Thanks for posting...I always hated the search button anyway.
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yes , I think so.
Can anyone point me in the right direction of a droid incredible keymap? It doesn't seem that pressing the optical track pad button is mapped to anything easily recognizable in the qwerty.kl file, so I'm not sure how to find the button's ID. I looked in the optical trackpad wake thread, but the only difference I could see between that file and the one on my phone is that key 232 was changed from WAKE to WAKE_DROPPED, which I imagine wouldn't change whether the key could wake from sleep or not. I tried using the zip in this thread modified to sub in key 232 (dpad center, seems like maybe thats opti trackpad press) but it did not launch the camera as expected.
As far as I'm concerned, the ideal button mapping would be pressing the opti track pad to launch the camera app, and swiping any direction on the opti track pad to take a picture from within the camera app. First step is to get that button to launch the app, which is preferable to rebinding search, since the opti button isn't used for anything anyways.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
im currently trying to remap the short press on my milestone to act as the long press (so i can set it to open quick settings on short press) and then the long press can be set to the search. could anyone point me in the right direction? i know how to remap keys but im having trouble changing the short and long press for my search key.
I saw threads remap the g-key to camera. But I want to map it to a volume app.
Thanks for the help.
Here is what i found;
1.Firstly, you need a rooted LG Optimus Black.
2.Find the file“TWL4030_Keypad.kl”, it’s in /system/usr/keylayout/
3.Backup the file, copy or rename.
4.Then open the “TWL4030_Keypad.kl”, scroll down to 3rd line from the bottom, it should be “key 95 GESTURE”.
5.If you want to use your phone’s “G Button” as camera button, change it to “key 95 CAMERA WAKE_DROPPED” (Once you launch the camera app, you can press the “G button” to take a picture immediately)
6.If you want to use use your phone’s “G Button as power/lock button, change it to “key 95 POWER WAKE_DROPPED”
7.Save the changes and reboot the device.
also found in here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1194058
You get the trick right? With a little luck you can remap it to anything you want. You can write volume i guess... But volume has 2 options "+" and "-". So even if you manage to do it you will only be able to remap one of them. It's either "volume +" or "volume -" Since G is only one button.
Thanks a lot man!
The Volume i mean is just an ordinary app from the market called "volume toggle free". So an instruction about remapping the gkey to any app should work. How?
BoyBawang2 said:
Thanks a lot man!
The Volume i mean is just an ordinary app from the market called "volume toggle free". So an instruction about remapping the gkey to any app should work. How?
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Sorry for the confusion. I just saw the volume part. But no need to get excited, i just wanted to help. I'm sure someome knows it and will post it. Good day, man...
do you how to change "g" key to wake up the screen. I'm using marvel 4
Just wondering if anyone has started to mess around with the hardware buttons yet to change their functions? I've looked over the keypad_8960.kl file but it only contains the volume and power buttons. There are other keylayout files in that directory but im not sure which key number is assigned to the HOME button and the BACK button. I'm trying to switch long press home from "Google Now" search to "in-app search" like you caould do on Sprints Evo LTE. Any ideas?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2117
its hard i understand
any new leads on this?
I got annoyed with reaching over our huge screen to press the back button, so I made a mod to re-map the half keypress of the hardware camera button to a back key. Holding the camera button from the home screen still launches the camera app correctly and pressing the camera button all the way still takes a picture as normal. To focus you can tap on the screen instead.
Download:
http://d-h.st/6uJ
Installation:
Flash from recovery
Update:
Apparently the zip is hosed. Download this:
http://d-h.st/8UG
and put it in /system/usr/keylayout
Gives error at flashing....
POWER1FM said:
Gives error at flashing....
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Well, I'm at a loss. I think it's a Windows EOL problem, but I've recreated the updater script in linux and it doesn't fix it. Here's the actual file:
http://d-h.st/8UG
Put it in /system/usr/keylayout