Starting a couple of days ago, the hardware keyboard on my Fuze started randomly repeating keys: I'll be typing along and suddenly a character will insert itself a number of times. It seems to happen once every 30-50 keystrokes on average.
I'd write it off as a busted keyboard and take it back to the store for an exchange, but it doesn't feel like a hardware issue. For one thing, whatever key it is always repeats 6, 7, or 8 times. Keyswitch bounces in my experience generally insert fewer spurious characters than that. For another thing, there's no pattern that I can discern to which keys repeat; a hardware problem usually affects one particular key or key grouping.
What I'm seeing looks more like the key release event is being delayed until after the long-press repeat processing takes over; then the release event fires within a fairly narrow timing window. If I watch the screen as I'm typing, I see exactly what I would see if I held the key down: I get one character, then after a short pause, I get 5-7 more of them. This started happening about the time I installed AE Buttons Plus; however, I've uninstalled that and the problem persists. (However, uninstalling often doesn't undo all the registry changes that were made, so AEBP could still be the culprit, I suppose.)
I'm probably going to hard reset tomorrow when I have some free time so I can play around some more with the GPS starting from a clean slate, and that will give me a chance to test whether AEBP is, in fact, responsible. In the meantime, does this sound at all familiar to anyone? Any suggestions for what I might look at in the registry?
A quick update on this: I have verified that AE Buttons Plus is, in fact, responsible for the repeating keys. I set the new key that was added for the PTT button to "Do not touch" in AEBP and soft reset. I have had no repeating keys since then.
I have emailed the author, describing the problem, but I haven't heard back from him yet. I'm hoping that he can either fix AEBP or suggest some workaround to prevent the repeating keys. The short_PTT.lnk/long_PTT.lnk solution recently presented here works fine, but it only gives two assignments, while AEBP can do three (or four, if you can live with the Home button doing the same thing as the single-press PTT button).
If I hear anything encouraging, I'll post again. Otherwise, people should use the shortcut approach for remapping the PTT button.
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My send and end buttons have some how gotten screwed up. When I hit the send button, it opens contacts, calendar and the phone app. When I hit end it opens the contacts app and this obviously is creating problems. can not remap the button correctly through the button mapping control panel item either. It seems my D-pad has gone to hell as well.
I have hard reset the device and this is still a problem. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this? Any help that you could provide would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
db
Help! I'm having the same problem, a hard reset doesn't fix it.
I'm sorry, unfortunately I never figured out how to deal with this and my D-pad died so I got a new PPC. Best of luck to you though.
Not a solution, but as an interim, you can use my prog VJKeyPress to emulate the send and end keys.
Sounds like a hardware problem. The old ipaqs used to use resistor arrays to detect which keys were being pressed. Sounds like a screw up in similar hardware perhaps? Warranty time me'thinks.
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Hi,
i look for it for a long time and i can't find it :
how to attribute a function to a button ?
In settings, there is no buttons available though there is 5 hardware buttons !!!
For exemple, i'd like to attribute task manager or task facade to the long press home button, is it possible ?
thanks
up...
nobody is interested in attributing hardware buttons ?
Yes I am interesting too
I used aebutton plus to assign MS Voice Command to long press windows button. That worked fine, although I haven't used it on any other buttons.
Well, the hardware buttons already have set functions. So assigning things to them would be a little bit complex within the settings. That's why they aren't there.
I imagine you would need to use a third party application, and even then you could only assign long presses to the keys.
Long press would be nice though
Pantaloonie, does everything run fine with aebutton and HD2?
Yes, it does what I want it to do, although as I said I only added long press windows key.
It was a little bit fiddly with aebp's small menus on the capacitive screen, but I got there after several attempts.
Now when I start the aebp program, I get an error message reading "Once you set AEBPlus to process Windows button you may also need to re-define following buttons also:"Button 1(Hold)", "OK Key"."
I haven't done as it says, and everything works perfectly.
Cool, thanks I might give it a spin then
Here's a guy who's tried AE Button Plus with HD2 pretty thoroughly it seems:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=603186
I just installed it and mapped the windows hard button with long press to task facade. It worked just fine, but it seems the button lost the original function which is to access the start menu on single tap. I dont mind it so much though, I might as well use the the soft start button in the upper left corner. The important thing is that multi tasking now works without having to go through the today screen.
The send key and the end key work correctly every time after a fresh restart. But they both will "disappear" after a while of using. The "home" function will replace the "send" and the "backward" will replace the "end",
Does any body here have the same issues? Am I having a bad HardSPL, I had tried several 6.1 and 6.5 rom, no good news for me.
Update: installed the cleanRam program, the function of those keys work again, every time after Ram Cleaning. But, I have to say, keys malfunction after a while again.
question
1. how does the keypad work? send key and the home key they are too close? is there any sensor area around the surface?
2. If I keep pushing the buttons when send key and end key malfunction, the phone will dead. Indicating something wrong with the phone?
Thanks
Q: Why do I frequently end up going to a quick search when I hit the home or back keys?
I have a stock Capitvate running 2,1-update1 / i897UCJH7. FWIW, I'm using the Swype keyboard. I have a number of apps installed. This unit seems perfect in every way (GPS and everything else) except for the following:
Frequently, when I press either the "home" or "back" key, I end up looking at the keyboard and a "Quick Search Box" rather than the home screen or the previous screen. That's not right but even worse, it often appears I am in a loop; pressing either key again frequently does not take me back a screen or to the home screen.
This may be associated with Vlingo. If I force stop Vlingo, the problem is decidedly less frequent but it still occurs. Vlingo tech support will only say their program should run on any Eclair unit although they do not specifically support the Captivate.
I have disabled all of the search options on the phone thinking search is popping up by design. I suppose I could uninstall Vlingo for a final test but I thought if I stopped the program that would eliminate it from consideration.
Maybe I'm missing something somewhere and I'd appreciate your helping me figure out what it is. Thanks in advance.
= Ron
If you do full reset and run the phone with no apps installed and it still occurs, it is the phone and you should exchange it for a new one. Others have experienced this, and many times the only recourse is replacing the phone.
restore it first
I had that happen on one that got lost. I thought it was from staying in my pocket and stuff pressing up against the buttons and wearing them out.
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Hello!
I'm experiencing some problems with my o2 Touch Pro.
Hardware buttons on the bottom of the phone (d-pad, home, back, call, end call) are not working properly (they work fine only 20% of the time, it's random i guess).
When i press "call" button, device responds as if i pressed the "left" button. It's very annoying. The circle used to zoom in, and out around the "enter" button is problematic as well. It zooms - but but in a very chatoic way - a bit of of zoom in, then zoom out, another zoom in. Functions are just messed up.
Another time, it's all working...
How can i fix it? Is it a hardware problem?
I'm using the Energy Rom - titanium version.
Thanks for your help in advance...
Honestly, if you can't deal with it, get another device. Either that or stick with the stock ROM, less problematic (you can also keep the full function of the d-pad) but then again it may introduce other issues. Someone mentioned this being more a hardware than a software issue. Since I cannot reproduce this on my at&t Fuze, that is all I can suggest on my end.
I get some of that with my fuze; mostly, the d-pad doesn't read gestures properly. If I run compact heaps (from sk tools) periodically, it helps. Soft resetting obviously helps as well. I think it's more of a hardware issue. My problems have definitely gotten worse over time. You can also check out this tool (from an HTC test rom dump; can't remember where I got it). It's a debugger for the d-pad. At least you can see how accurately the button presses and gestures work.
Thanks.