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Home button lights going off quickly

Does anyone know if there is something that can be edited in the build.prop that will enable the home keys to stay illuminated when the screen is on in dark settings? the keys go off so day and then you can't see them
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acPIZZA said:
Does anyone know if there is something that can be edited in the build.prop that will enable the home keys to stay illuminated when the screen is on in dark settings? the keys go off so day and then you can't see them
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no i dont think samsung puts that setting in there. hoowever you might be able to use an app called "keep the lights on" which will bind the backlights to screen on. that way they dont timeout at all

Yeah I was just wondering if there was a line that could be edited in the build.prop that you could change a standard value, like so many milliseconds to more milliseconds for the home keys alone. I wouldn't smythe entire display not timing out
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Morning,
I tried it, but is says su not found?
jj

alternate ways to toggle screen on/off

hi guys, is there any applications whereby i can switch on my lock screen rather than having to press the power button?
TIA

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Screen and off and lock from the market
http://tinyurl.com/3mxqtlg
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civicvx94 said:
Screen and off and lock from the market
http://tinyurl.com/3mxqtlg
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thanks for the input, but the app only allow me to lock the screen. is there any other app that will allow me to unlock the screen as well?

Tap Tap app does this. I use it to unlock using the proximity sensor.
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.maicas.android.wsleep&hl=en

you need to edit the build.prop file
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1197966

Lockscreen without powerbutton

Hi Xda Community,
Im searching for an app to unlock my lockscreen without my powerbutton, there is an app named tap tap app it unlocks the screen with two touches on it. This app didnt work very well on o3d, but im searching the same thing.
Thanks for any help
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Itaka06 said:
Hi Xda Community,
Im searching for an app to unlock my lockscreen without my powerbutton, there is an app named tap tap app it unlocks the screen with two touches on it. This app didnt work very well on o3d, but im searching the same thing.
Thanks for any help
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Maybe you could try "smart screen off"
Tap tap worked fine on my O3D but smart screen off is better

Add this to build.prop (system/build.prop) if it is already found change the value to 1 :-
Code:
ro.config.hwfeature_wakeupkey=1
This will let you unlock the phone by volum buttons too . if you want an app I think it will not work because when the phone goes into deepsleep all apps are stopped even the system .
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AW: Lockscreen without powerbutton
Okay, thank you very much, but my powerbutton isnt broken, i only want to unlock it without powerbutton, because i think it is better so you dont use the powerbutton often.
I found apps, abd some users said they work :S
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[Q] Hardware Key info, Generic.kl

My end goal is to have the phone return to the home screen after waking it up. This question has been asked for many years but there isn't a simple apk to add this feature.
Digging around it seems like we are able to change for sure, but I'm guessing also to add functionality to hardware buttons, power in this case,. While it is not fool proof, adding a step wen "clicking" the power button to put the phone to sleep to return to home screen before the screen goes off seems like the easiest way.
From the other "how to's" on how to re-map buttons brings me to the Generic.kl file from /system/usr/keylayout. There are 5 or so references to the "power".
Can someone point to which key number I want?
How would I add the return to home and still have the screen go off.
Thanks for the help...

Am I the only one that would like to always open their phone to the home screen?
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If I am understanding your post correctly,
You can use automate or tasker to set a rule :
If screen off then return to home screen.
Hope that helps.
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Thanks for the tip...
I didn't know about automate, it's prefect... simple and free...
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Screenshot button combination not working

It may be a simple issue to fix, but it's annoying that I can't capture my screenshot the power button and volume down combination capture screen. I'm having to go to power menu and selecting screenshot.
Any thoughts as to how I get it back to default?
I'm using Paranoid ROM 4.1-Beta 2.
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PA could be using a different method (or keys are remapped when you enable in reboot menu). However it could be an error like Samsung devices have and you need to reboot for it to work (I imagine you've already tried this though)

I'm just saying this just in case because I have come across quite a few people with this issue and they were just doing it wrong.
Power and Volume down at the exact same time. If either are pressed slightly before the other it won't work.
Have you ever been able to elicit the screenshot functionality using the buttons?

If you are rooted use xposed with expansion menu when you press off key only menu Inc screen shot comes up on screen. It's in gravity box and others
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Thanks guys. Reboot didn't work and I'm quite aware of how to take a screenshot as I do it often but uninstalling a Xposed module must have fixed.
I was over Xposed with tweaks lol.
Thanks guys.
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