Remapping Hardware Buttons - Options Here

[aryehz2]

Hey Stroths (or anyone else for that matter),

My wofe just got a Pro. Do you know if any of the keyboard buttons can be remmaped to use for shortcuts like for "ok" or "new contact" or new message" or something like that? I think it would be incredibly useful instead of having to go back and forth from the keyboard to the screen.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by stroths

Coming from the Mogul, I really miss all the hardware buttons. I used a nice program called AE Button Plus to assign multiple functions to my buttons. Here are some options to make the most out of the buttons you have on the Touch Pro (or any WM5/6 PPC).

Rather than retype things I have done in the past, here are some stuff I shamelessly copied from XDA

Using these tips, you can remap every one of the hardware buttons. The Home and <- keys don't like being mapped with T3D though, which I explained a little more in the 2nd post.

XDA Link



Here is another option which I use for my power button. I made a shortcut to psshutxp and named it Long_Power.lnk. Moved that to my \Windows directory and now when I press and hold the power button, it launches psshutxp after a few seconds. I haven't tried all of these, but see what you can get to work and report back.

XDA Link

[stroths]

Originally Posted by eptd

I've done this before and reflashed to Jugg's ROM. Now I can't find the thread that shows you how to do this. I've been searching for the last 15 minutes and can't find it. Tried: soft keys, home soft, remap soft keys, etc..

Can someone tell me what terms to search or provide a link please?

Here's the one for the regular Today screen - LINK

Here's how to change the softkeys in Manilla (TF3D) - LINK

Originally Posted by aryehz2

Hey Stroths (or anyone else for that matter),

My wofe just got a Pro. Do you know if any of the keyboard buttons can be remmaped to use for shortcuts like for "ok" or "new contact" or new message" or something like that? I think it would be incredibly useful instead of having to go back and forth from the keyboard to the screen.

Thanks!

Check out NueROM as no2chem's given us the ability to remap certain keyboard keys - LINK

Originally Posted by orlandojumpoff

are there any drawbacks of diamondtweak? i used adv config before and it has some issues so im kinda paranoid about installing some of the other config apps at the moment.

I had some issues with the volume keys permanently acting as up/down arrow keys. Kept happening after hard resets until I stopped reinstalling the Diamond Tweak. I now use the Advanced Config instead and haven't had any issues. I will note that I had issues with the older 1.1 version on my Mogul a while back.

[aryehz2]

[QUOTE] Check out NueROM as no2chem's given us the ability to remap certain keyboard keys - LINK [Quote]


Thanks Stroths! I found the link. Since I'm still deciding weather or not I should keep the Pro or stick with the Touch, I'm not ready for a custom ROM but it's good to know the option is out there. I also want to find out exactly what I can remap those keys to.

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[1999TL]

Stroths, No2chem's latest rom has the ability to map the Qwerty keys. They show up in AE button plus. His last rom had keyboard issues, but rom 217 works fine. Just another option we have now

[stevenmh]

Anyone else having trouble with AEB and the back button when NOT using TF3D? I have it set for the back button to close current app on single click and open iLauncher's task manager on long hold. Sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Runs into problems with some apps more than others, and in landscape mode more than portrait. Sometimes causes graphics glitches, like start bar missing until soft reset, or today screen soft buttons showing up on bottom instead of application menus.

I suspect it's WM more than AEB, as I've seen the back button do weird things before ever installing AEB. Like using Opera in portrait, back button will take me back to previous page, but in landscape, it will start selecting links up the page as if I'm hitting d-pad up.

Any registry hacks to completely disassociate whatever WM wants to do with this button? It seems like telling AEB to have full control, it doesn't really get it with this button, and WM is still screwing with it.

[1999TL]

How did yo take control of the back button? Which button is it in AE button plus? I've read that you really can't control the home and back buttons b/c the first press will always do what they're programmed to do. I could be wrong...

[stevenmh]

Originally Posted by 1999TL

How did yo take control of the back button? Which button is it in AE button plus? I've read that you really can't control the home and back buttons b/c the first press will always do what they're programmed to do. I could be wrong...

I used the "add button" feature.

I thought the problem with it always doing what they're programmed to do was with TF3D running... could be wrong.

I think I found a solution though. Instead of mapping it to "close current application" I set to to run the iLauncher close button. Then in iLauncher options I have the close button set to kill rather than minimize. I haven't used it enough since to claim with certainty that it's trouble-free, but I know that since then each application has closed every time, portrait or landscape, without any bizarre side effects.

EDIT: not working. iLauncher close button is minimizing apps, not killing them. Killing requires hitting X in corner, apparently iLauncher OK button is pretty much the same as WM close button. But since mapping back button to iLauncher OK app is working fine, I wonder why mapping it to "close app" function seems to not work well? If I could find some app to kill current app, and link to that with single click, that might work.

[1999TL]

Funny, I can't seem to add a button. Oh well, no2chem's rom has given me even more options.

[bduerr1]

I was having trouble with a few things on my Sprint Touch Pro and the TouchFlo UI. The first is with TocuhFlo; the Sprint and HTC applications as well as the phone are hard to 'go back' or even close. This is especially so since there is no End Key.

The left arrow key also seems to change its function or react slowly inside some of these apps. You assume it is backing you out when in effect it is doing something you may not even notice: In 'Contacts' it is actually changing fields . . .

The X in the upper right corner is small and in some cases is very close to another control. Also the sensitivity in the upper corner seems to be different even though I am at 128 instead of the stock 15 for the finger push setting.

Second, grabbing the phone out of a pocket, or putting the device into the cradle either on my desk or in my car I kept pushing the volume contol buttons. I had to exit out of that and then do what I was going to do; like answer the phone . . .

So I used AEBPlus http://ae.inc.ru/aebplus.php to remap the Volume Control buttons which are the only external buttons on the device other than ON/Off: (remapping the front four is painful)

UP Button
1 Press = Do nothing
2 Press = Close application
Long Press = Volumne Up

Down Button
1 Press = Do Nothing
2 Press = OK / Close
Long Press = Volumne Down

This seems to fix all those issues . . . .

[1999TL]

Different strokes for different folks. I would never leave my volume keys like that. Do nothing on first press?