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Hi there,
can anyone explain me how to get access to the control of the "Button LEDs"?
I know there must be a way because in Android those LEDs are glowing for example when you touch a button. At WM they only glow if you PRESS a button or touch the scroll wheel.
Thank you in advance
+1 here, that would be a nice option too
OK, what exactly do you all want? Buttons that light up on touch? is that all?
I'm brainstorming on ideas for my next version of X-Sense, so.... be creative!
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shirreer said:
OK, what exactly do you all want? Buttons that light up on touch? is that all?
I'm brainstorming on ideas for my next version of X-Sense, so.... be creative!
Cheers
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That would be a first step. The default settings (light up all LEDs on button press or on scroll wheel touch) is just stupid.
The next step could be something like use the sensors on the buttons as extra buttons or use the LEDs as indicatiors for diffrent stuff. The scroll wheel for example seems to have 3 or more diffrent LEDs as Backlight. This could be used to indicate the battery status.
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OK, what exactly do you all want? Buttons that light up on touch? is that all?
I'm brainstorming on ideas for my next version of X-Sense, so.... be creative!
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Customizable options for the so the lights can follow your touch when scrolling ?
Not practical but it would look good
But how could we interact with the sensors?
I dont think they land somewhere in the message queue of windows mobil. I think we have to rewrite the driver which is responsible for them. But maybe I'm wrong, because I don't have a lot of experience with the windows Mobil API. I prefer managed code like C#.
As far as I understand, the center of the dpad is the only part of the hardware that has the capability of sensing when you touch it. The only way you are gonna get the other buttons to respond is with a button press unless you modify the hardware.
try the latest version of xdandroid. if u thouch for example the back key, it glows.
so, no. every button has a sensor on it
Just so we're all on the same page, the entire area below the screen is a touchpad, it is sensitive to touch & motion - there is an app that implements this very nicely as both a touchpad and touch launcher/Task Mgr. My xsense app already interacts with button lights to show several events (i.e. stylus out, volume profiles).
freaksey said:
try the latest version of xdandroid. if u thouch for example the back key, it glows.
so, no. every button has a sensor on it
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Just so we're all on the same page, the entire area below the screen is a touchpad, it is sensitive to touch & motion - there is an app that implements this very nicely as both a touchpad and touch launcher/Task Mgr. My xsense app already interacts with button lights to show several events (i.e. stylus out, volume profiles).
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OK Sorry! I have the cdma diamond on sprint so I didn't know the other versions(gsm) had touch sensative buttons! My d-pad is that way but the others are not. Forgive my ignorance.
Y'all should check this app out; I'm not in league with the developer, but I recognize his talent on this one. Its an amazing app that does all of the above and more - and there's a trial version:
http://mobilesrc.com/gscroll2.aspx
this app looks nice.
Is anyone out their who can explain me how to catch the events of button-touch area?
freaksey said:
this app looks nice.
Is anyone out their who can explain me how to catch the events of button-touch area?
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Google for Koushik's sensors.dll library; it comes with sample apps etc...
in his libary is only a event for the rotation of the scroll wheel...
touch lock pro
As I know, app called "Touch lock pro" can do some settings with the ring LED's, so this can be the way
I am not sure how others take notes and avoid this issue, but when I attempt to take notes on the Note, almost always my palm touches the "Menu" or the "Back" capacitive button and the note in progress either gets saved or cancelled.
I was looking forward to writing on the note extensively for note-taking, but it seems impossible with the palm touching the capacitive buttons. Would a developer with know-how on this subject look into disabling the capacitive buttons while taking notes with the S Pen and the palm placed on the screen, or devise another solution? Thanks for exploring this issue in advance.
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Anyone commenting on this thread, I appreciate your intentions, but please DO NOT suggest ANY OTHER APP. I am purely focused on the S Note and Memo apps.
Well there is a way to disable the buttons on many roms already. Are you talking about a way to do it while unrooted? And are you trying to keep the touchwiz interface and use the smemo app??
No, You can turn the light off, but the button sup works. I think he wants to disable then completely.
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No, You can turn the light off, but the button sup works. I think he wants to disable then completely.
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Yes, I was wondering if the buttons can be disabled completely while taking notes, regardless of the ROM. Taking notes while the palm is lifted off the screen is just not natural and am not sure how Samsung saw people writing like that.
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I am not sure how others take notes and avoid this issue, but when I attempt to take notes on the Note, almost always my palm touches the "Menu" or the "Back" capacitive button and the note in progress either gets saved or cancelled.
I was looking forward to writing on the note extensively for note-taking, but it seems impossible with the palm touching the capacitive buttons. Would a developer with know-how on this subject look into disabling the capacitive buttons while taking notes with the S Pen and the palm placed on the screen, or devise another solution? Thanks for exploring this issue in advance.
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There are few apps in the market that have palm reject feature. This will disable the capacitive buttons.
Even the standard s memo should have this feature.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24989757&postcount=4537
here is a script to disable the capitative buttons, it works perfectly on stunners rom ( haven't tried on any others ) and with the euphoria control you can disable the lights so those buttons are gone forever
I think this issue has been addressed in the new ICS stock ROM. For example, if you use your finger to press the capacitive button in S Memo, the button will work as intended. But if you place your entire palm on the right-lower part of the screen (including the capacitive button), the button doesn't respond. I just tried writing a long note with my palm resting on the screen and the capacitive button, and the app was working fine.)
I don't know if it makes a difference, but in the S Memo settings, I had set the screen to only respond to S Pen edits. Just FYI.
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I think this issue has been addressed in the new ICS stock ROM. For example, if you use your finger to press the capacitive button in S Memo, the button will work as intended. But if you place your entire palm on the right-lower part of the screen (including the capacitive button), the button doesn't respond. I just tried writing a long note with my palm resting on the screen and the capacitive button, and the app was working fine.)
I don't know if it makes a difference, but in the S Memo settings, I had set the screen to only respond to S Pen edits. Just FYI.
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Setting the screen to respond to just the pen helps a lot actually, but as you slide down while writing, the palm becomes less of a palm surface and touches the back button and the note gets saved. So it would greatly help of someone can disable the capacitive buttons altogether until some action is taken to wake them up.
The script suggested in the post above seems like an option but a simpler solution would be great.
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incisivekeith said:
I am not sure how others take notes and avoid this issue, but when I attempt to take notes on the Note, almost always my palm touches the "Menu" or the "Back" capacitive button and the note in progress either gets saved or cancelled.
I was looking forward to writing on the note extensively for note-taking, but it seems impossible with the palm touching the capacitive buttons. Would a developer with know-how on this subject look into disabling the capacitive buttons while taking notes with the S Pen and the palm placed on the screen, or devise another solution? Thanks for exploring this issue in advance.
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+111
It will be nice if someone can help to disable this annoying button.
There's no way to detect the palm everywhere - it would require quite a few painful changes in AOSP.
There is obviously a way to disable capacitive buttons totally, but you'd need to reboot to toggle.
As I said before since the later releases of GB rom , when using s memo , there is an auto detect feature which rejects palm and also disables the capacitive buttons.
Try pressing the capacitive button with the s pen close to the screen.
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aalupatti said:
As I said before since the later releases of GB rom , when using s memo , there is an auto detect feature which rejects palm and also disables the capacitive buttons.
Try pressing the capacitive button with the s pen close to the screen.
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I confirm. I'm on official ics and the capacitive buttons are disabled when the pen is too close to the screen (and it's anywhere not only in smemo)
Now, I got the trick. Usually I put my palm before the pen reaches the screen.
User should put the pen then they can put his palm wherever he wants, nothing will happen both buttons are disabled.
TEST in ICS official LPY.
Thanks a lot.
Damn ... This was what i trying to say from the begining...
yyl said:
I think this issue has been addressed in the new ICS stock ROM. For example, if you use your finger to press the capacitive button in S Memo, the button will work as intended. But if you place your entire palm on the right-lower part of the screen (including the capacitive button), the button doesn't respond. I just tried writing a long note with my palm resting on the screen and the capacitive button, and the app was working fine.)
I don't know if it makes a difference, but in the S Memo settings, I had set the screen to only respond to S Pen edits. Just FYI.
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Thanks buddy. Now I can take notes with my palm resting.
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iT iS Me said:
Now, I got the trick. Usually I put my palm before the pen reaches the screen.
User should put the pen then they can put his palm wherever he wants, nothing will happen both buttons are disabled.
TEST in ICS official LPY.
Thanks a lot.
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I understand what you and alupatti are saying but when I am writing on the screen, the palm will slide down and it's not always you can focus on placing your pen first on the screen.
Thanks xplodwild for your input, too, as a developer. It just seems like a case of poor design which we are stuck with, unfortunately, until there is a real solution.
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incisivekeith said:
I understand what you and alupatti are saying but when I am writing on the screen, the palm will slide down and it's not always you can focus on placing your pen first on the screen.
Thanks xplodwild for your input, too, as a developer. It just seems like a case of poor design which we are stuck with, unfortunately, until there is a real solution.
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The pen need not be on the screen. It activates when the pen is a few mm away from the screen
It might look silly but consider taking notes with your phone upside down. That way the evil capacitive buttons won't get in the way
Disable buttons
Check my sig....flashable zip to disable and re-enable the back and menu button.
Doesn't affect the lights, just the functionality of the buttons.
@tremeron. Do you think your disable buttons flash zip can be adapted like a on/off switch on toggle bar or somehing like that?
I screwed up and broke the very top of my digitizer. When orientated in portait mode, I cannot interact with either the notification bar, or (when flipped over) the home screen buttons. Its just a narrow band of badness, no deeper than the home icon. The LCD is undamaged.
My question for you awesome people is.. do you have any suggestions as to a theme or a rom or remapping of buttons that might help me and others like me out? For instance, it would be rad to have the notification bar and home buttons on the same side of the screen. Or maybe I could make the power button go to the home screen?
Thanks guys! And be careful with your stuff.
mikerbot said:
I screwed up and broke the very top of my digitizer. When orientated in portait mode, I cannot interact with either the notification bar, or (when flipped over) the home screen buttons. Its just a narrow band of badness, no deeper than the home icon. The LCD is undamaged.
My question for you awesome people is.. do you have any suggestions as to a theme or a rom or remapping of buttons that might help me and others like me out? For instance, it would be rad to have the notification bar and home buttons on the same side of the screen. Or maybe I could make the power button go to the home screen?
Thanks guys! And be careful with your stuff.
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Try out Paranoid Android? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1800268
You can use AOKP with tablet ui. I threw up a working build of it tonight. Google now nav ring is kind of off in left corner besides that its fine. Should solve what you're asking for, not to self promote or anything. I didn't make it, I just compiled it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36566779
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VonEsch said:
You can use AOKP with tablet ui. I threw up a working build of it tonight. Google now nav ring is kind of off in left corner besides that its fine. Should solve what you're asking for, not to self promote or anything. I didn't make it, I just compiled it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36566779
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Perfect! Works awesome so far, and is just what I was looking for. Thanks so much!
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Perfect! Works awesome so far, and is just what I was looking for. Thanks so much!
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No problem, glad I could help!
Hey guys, just a heads up...I'm trying to get used to this Note Edge (from Note 3). One thing I didn't like immediately was the power button on top, but here's a fix. Add the app called "Screen Off and Lock"... Next, edit one of your edge screens to add the lock button icon (as seen in picture below). Now you have a side lock button again. It works slick!
Good job man! I was looking for an app like this. I agree that the top button is one of my least favorite features of the phone. But this should solve that.
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Good idea.
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Awesome. Just installed it. Some much better than the power button on top. Thanks!!
hahaha we think alike! I did the same thing. One of the first things I installed was Fix Broken Power Button. I had this on my GS3 because the power button was broken and constantly turning the phone off. I cracked the phone open and scraped the button off completely off. I installed this to send the phone to standby. Crappy part was when I needed to turn the phone on after swapping out a battery I couldn't. I had to plug into a power source then hold vol down and the home button in order to power the phone up. So without a usb and a power source, I was out of luck. Oh well.. got a new phone now so no more of dealing with that!
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Hey guys, just a heads up...I'm trying to get used to this Note Edge (from Note 3). One thing I didn't like immediately was the power button on top, but here's a fix. Add the app called "Screen Off and Lock"... Next, edit one of your edge screens to add the lock button icon (as seen in picture below). Now you have a side lock button again. It works slick!
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Good use of the Edge screen. Another FYI: f anyone has Nova Prime launcher you can use Screen Off and Lock with it. Under Gestures and Buttons, then choose double tap for screen off. I don't know if it will work with Nova Free. I had purchased the launcher long before i had use for the double tap. Still waiting for a double tap for screen on like the LG G3. :fingers-crossed:
We are currently working on making a multi power feature for the edge screen. Swipe or knock to turn on/off, because it is killing me not to have a feature like this for that edge panel!
That's actually a pretty handy tip. I like the animations, as well. Back when I had my HTC Evo 4G rooted, I used the TV turn-off animation. Pretty neat to have that back.
Yep, no problem guys! As soon as I figured it out I knew I had to post it ASAP. It was the my biggest complaint turned into a handy feature! (being able to move the power button up or down on the edge screen to a comfortable spot)
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Good use of the Edge screen. Another FYI: f anyone has Nova Prime launcher you can use Screen Off and Lock with it. Under Gestures and Buttons, then choose double tap for screen off. I don't know if it will work with Nova Free. I had purchased the launcher long before i had use for the double tap. Still waiting for a double tap for screen on like the LG G3. :fingers-crossed:
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Try this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tecnology.angs.knockr
Thank you for the quick solution, that helps so much.
panjaby said:
Try this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tecnology.angs.knockr
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It works really well. I'm going to use it while out tomorrow to see if it drains the battery faster. Thanks!
Thank God you posted this. The power button location was my one and only complaint, bit this fixes it.
Still wish they put the button underneath the volume keys though.
There is another app that does the same,
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t_igra.swipelock.free
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terryYew said:
Good use of the Edge screen. Another FYI: f anyone has Nova Prime launcher you can use Screen Off and Lock with it. Under Gestures and Buttons, then choose double tap for screen off. I don't know if it will work with Nova Free. I had purchased the launcher long before i had use for the double tap. Still waiting for a double tap for screen on like the LG G3. :fingers-crossed:
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I have nova prime in my edge and it does not have that option. I know I've seen it on my other phones. Not sure what is going on
Just installed it couple hours ago. Way better than pressing the top bottom. :good:
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Use the gravity app.... It's unbelievable. ...
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What is the Gravity app?
CreekDirt said:
What is the Gravity app?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plexnor.gravityscreenofffree
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plexnor.gravityscreenofffree
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Omg thank you, thus naked me miss root just a little less.
Is there any way to set the backlight to our capacitive keys to stay off? If it helps, I am rooted.
Lux on Play store
danger2u said:
Lux on Play store
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That or screen filter which requires less setup. That's coming from someone who bought lux
Screen filter doesn't work, lux creates issues.
Capacitive Buttons app from the play store works.
Screen Dimmer
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I use Darker and don't have any issues. Free version works perfectly.
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Screen filter doesn't work, lux creates issues.
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Haha this is beyond funny. I'm using screen filter now with no captivate button lights. Please explain how that is not directly related to me downloading and installing screen filter?
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Screen filter doesn't work, lux creates issues.
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What issues had lux created for you, I have been using it for months without any issues with the capacitive backlights.
The thing is I don't want it to affect my screen in any way. Only the capacitive buttons on the bottom. The reason I ask is because when viewing apps in Google cardboard, I can see the capacitive buttons to the right which takes away from the immersion. I tried the capacitive buttons app bqw suggested, but it didn't work.
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The thing is I don't want it to affect my screen in any way. Only the capacitive buttons on the bottom. The reason I ask is because when viewing apps in Google cardboard, I can see the capacitive buttons to the right which takes away from the immersion. I tried the capacitive buttons app bqw suggested, but it didn't work.
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Use darker, set it to 100% but check of turn of capacitive backlight.
In gravity box there is an option to do exactly what you are asking. It is under display tweaks at the bottom called button backlight mode.
bill0405 said:
The thing is I don't want it to affect my screen in any way. Only the capacitive buttons on the bottom. The reason I ask is because when viewing apps in Google cardboard, I can see the capacitive buttons to the right which takes away from the immersion. I tried the capacitive buttons app bqw suggested, but it didn't work.
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Did you launch the Capacitive Buttons app and tap the top darked out sun icon?
My capacitive buttons instantly turn dark. The bottom app icon to turn them back on doesn't work though and I receive a Kernal error selecting the center icon (half brightness I assume). The buttons light back up after reboot.
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Did you launch the Capacitive Buttons app and tap the top darked out sun icon?
My capacitive buttons instantly turn dark. The bottom app icon to turn them back on doesn't work though and I receive a Kernal error selecting the center icon (half brightness I assume). The buttons light back up after reboot.
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I tried, but for some reason the lights would turn back on when I launched certain apps. Thanks for the suggestion though. Gravity box ended up fixing it for me.
frozenbear said:
In gravity box there is an option to do exactly what you are asking. It is under display tweaks at the bottom called button backlight mode.
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This. is. it.