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One button ONLY to wake up/unlock

Is there a program so that when your screen is locked, you can assign one button only to wake your screen and have access to the unlock slider? Now, if any of the 4 hard buttons are pressed, it brings up the unlock screen. The problem is, when the phone is in my pocket, any one of the 4 buttons, if accidentally pressed, wakes up the screen. Then of course, I hear my phone in my pocket clicking because the heat from my leg is "tapping" the screen. I just want to have the right hard button wake the phone up.
I cant find an option in the settings for this, nor any threads that discuss it.
Thanks.

I really admire you if you're able to slide the slider with the phone in your pocket.

LOL. No, I dont slide it. Just that when in my pocket, when any one of the 4 hard buttons are pressed(accidentally), i have to press the power button to lock the screen again. A pain in the butt. I what the phone to have only one hard button, not 4, that will shut off the screen when the phone is locked.

I'd like it too.
Maybe even some old school unlocking shortcut that uses hardware key combination (e.g. Home + Vol Down), rather than slide.

The Diamond, or was it the HD, had a button on the top to wake the phone up. That was nice because it was hard to accidentally press that button when it was in your pocket.

I use pocketshield for automatically unlocking my phone when the light sensor senses light coming in. An added benefit for this is that when the phone is in my pocket and I accidentally press any button, the screen will automatically shut itself off again after 10 seconds since there is no incoming light. This tool has really made my life so much easier as it gets rid of the stupid slider thing as well; you can use the lightsensor, the motion sensor and an old school sliding mechanism to unlock your phone- brilliant stuff!

Iarapilot might have meant something else indeed. Most of WM6.1-WM6.5 have a tab in the Start->Settings->Buttons screen that allows you to choose which kind of wake-up you need: waking up by pressing the Pw-ON button or waking up pressing whatever button you want. Sudden power-on is very boring, even thought you can't make your device work as you need to slide the screen. But this is a power comsuption anyway and I wonder why previous version had this chance regardless the home screen features. I do want it!!
I think it's a matter of regkeys, somebody of us who's used to "playing" with regkeys should figure out how this feature could be resumed.
Hope you help us!!

Maybe I didnt make my point very well. I just would like to have only the R hardware key, when pressed, wake up the screen so as to be able to slide to unlock. Not 4 buttons, that when any of those are pressed, wake up the screen.

I also have the problem, I only want to have only one key to wake up not other key
Please help us

Since it's free, I add myself to the request queue Having the screen wake up only on powerbutton press could be useful to reduce to 25% the probabilityof screen turning on by accident when buttons are pressed inside the pocket. Battery saver for sure.

Same here. I've been looking for this since I first got the phone! My old kaiser could do this, surely it wouldn't be too hard to implement on the HD2?

edit: nevermind, posted in the wrong thread

I don't think any software can control that as key presses send electrical signals direct to the chip/power unit, where the "power on" circuits reside. What software can do is turn it off again if not unlocked within a specific amount of time, so battery is saved. Screen touches shouldn't be an issue either if using a lock screen.

les_paulde said:
I use pocketshield for automatically unlocking my phone when the light sensor senses light coming in. An added benefit for this is that when the phone is in my pocket and I accidentally press any button, the screen will automatically shut itself off again after 10 seconds since there is no incoming light. This tool has really made my life so much easier as it gets rid of the stupid slider thing as well; you can use the lightsensor, the motion sensor and an old school sliding mechanism to unlock your phone- brilliant stuff!
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and doesnt create any problem in normal use? u ask because if u are in call and let some other app start while talk (maybe with earphones) its quietly impossible use portrait mode because left hand always cover light sensor and screen shut down.. its the same with that app?

Did someone already found a solution? I would like such a option too. wake up only by centerbutton for instance....

[REQ] "Volume Keys as Take Picture Key" in camera application

hi
is there any application or configuration to map the volume keys -one of them or both- as the camera shutter key for taking pictures?
as I can see, the AE buttons program does not do that.
thanks

I totally second that.
What a pity that there is no physical button to take picture.
Everybody knows that touching the screen will induce vibrations and blurry pictures.
If anyone could realize this it would be awesome.

I agree,
It would have to only take pictures when the camera is on tho, dont want to use up a button all the time, there just arent enough of them!

+1 also would like to have something like this

goog idea, count me in on this

+1 it was only a matter of time till this thread would appear

Volume keys CAMERA
Hi, with AEBplus you can easy do this.
Go AEBplusSettings=>Volume Down and set: 1: Volume Down 2: "Anything you wish" Long:"Camera"
OK
Now camera will start with the long press of the Volume Down key
vaskodogamagmail said:
hi
is there any application or configuration to map the volume keys -one of them or both- as the camera shutter key for taking pictures?
as I can see, the AE buttons program does not do that.
thanks
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ilyachelsea said:
Hi, with AEBplus you can easy do this.
Go AEBplusSettings=>Volume Down and set: 1: Volume Down 2: "Anything you wish" Long:"Camera"
OK
Now camera will start with the long press of the Volume Down key
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you missed the issue.. we would like to take pictures with a button, not start the camera itself..

thanks
it is great that some people here liked my idea I am impressed.
so if anyone here can make a mapping program for the camera application to take a picture when one or one of the volume keys are pressed to take a picture would be GREAT. because it is the most lacking option that HD2 has.
Thanks again everyone.

I guess it will be difficult...
But I'm sure someone can develop it. There are many talented people here at xda .

I think Green button will be better because if you to take a photo he is "friendly finger".

G-ThGraf said:
I think Green button will be better because if you to take a photo he is "friendly finger".
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true..... +1

you know, every button that is more finger friendly.
I am not insisting on volume buttons.

lol http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=644318

found
found this:
http://www.scilor.com/leocameraanykey.html
try it

hukpin said:
found this:
http://www.scilor.com/leocameraanykey.html
try it
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Been using this for ages, works perfectly. Make sure you download the latest version from Scilor's website - it let's you press and hold any key to zoom in, then short press any key to take the picture - pure genius!

i tried this but it doesnt work at all for me i am using Energy rom with 2.07.50 radio help please?

AE Button Plus for some reason wont make any of the keys that i have tried to change to take a picture, i bought it in hopes that it would work but i have had no luck, so i just wanted to tell ppl so they dont waste there money, its a nice program and im sure it works just fine but just not for what i need it to do. it could also be that i am on NRG rom and that may be the problem because a while back i was able to use the KB config app to change the vol up key to take a picture and it used to work just perfect, but i think NRGZ28 changed something a while back and it wont work anymore on any of his roms. unless i am doing something wrong, but the same settings that worked before wont work any more. lol that just my 2 cents!!

http://www.scilor.com/leocameraanykey.html - this worked perfectly.. thanx!

Scilor's Leo Cam Any Key app
ignore my poist

Add options to power button menu or double press hardware keys

I don't see a physical camera button on my captivate. i was wondering if i can add the option to the power button menu to open the camera. If not, is there an app or way to hold down a volume button or click a certain amount of times to get it to open the camera?
reason i ask is because I have a 19 month daughter and would need to open camera asap to take pictures as they happen.
if this have been covered sorry... ideally i would love to add the option and few more to that power button menu..
thanks

I'd like to see the capability to program all of them for click, double click, triple click, and long press. There is an app for htat for WinMO.
I have a very nice app that adds a lot of that type of functionality, Tasker, but that is not one of them.
I'm going to suggest it. What we may hear is that Android won't allow it. Seems I have bumped my head into that response two or three times, with comment that Android considers it a security issue.

Yes this is what i am looking for. Such as the search button. Replace that with a short cut button to open camera. I wish devs are seeing this. This will be an awesome mod.

arrrghh...
power strip o power control, takes over the search long hold action to come up with widgets and things... So i think the mapping is there.

Krad said:
I don't see a physical camera button on my captivate. i was wondering if i can add the option to the power button menu to open the camera. If not, is there an app or way to hold down a volume button or click a certain amount of times to get it to open the camera?
reason i ask is because I have a 19 month daughter and would need to open camera asap to take pictures as they happen.
if this have been covered sorry... ideally i would love to add the option and few more to that power button menu..
thanks
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Just move the camera icon to one of the bottom 4 location. Since you have to unlock the phone before you can start the camera anyway, using the hardware button or clicking the screen make very little different.

You can try using the Widget Locker app. With it I placed the camera shortcut on my lockscreen. Much faster access but not exactly what you are looking for.
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I second widget locker. Use it with pure messenger and pure calendar to make the lock screen useful.

great app or rom feature idea????

I was wondering if this is already out there or maybe somebody can come up with a way o do this.
a lot of people complain about cameras not opening up fast enough and some phones not having a dedicated camera button.
what about having you camera turn on whenever you put your phone into landscape mode??
is it possible or already done?

I have not seen it but it sounds as a good idea until you want to use your phone in landscape mode for something else like viewing a photo from the gallery or watching a movie. What we need is to have someone come up with a way to use one of the buttons as a shutter button like the Blackberry Storm had and this way you take a photo as if you had a camera.

Using a hardware button is a relatively simple piece of coding - just trigger a specific run sequence when the button is pressed.
To trigger it based on the orientation of the phone would not only be much more difficult, but it would swallow the battery like Devine Brown swallows English actors just to keep monitoring the gyroscopic sensors on a constant basis.

Closest thing to this I have seen is nova action to long press menu key and bind it to camera and it opens or aokp/cm9 and lock screen shortcut it
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I think that sounds like a cool feature, but I see a problem with it because I know a lot of people who always turn their phone sideways(even when not in a browser or anything), and that would pose a problem for them.

what about a widget to turn on off the feature, so that when u know ur going to be in a situation to take pictures and when not u can turn it off,
idk there has to be away i mean our freaking phones talk back now but we cant find a way to start up our cameras quicker???

probably only possible with a rooted phone and a button press + landscape mode

Cm10.1 has option for using power button as shutter action
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[Q] Can the middle button behave like a capacitive button?

Is there any way to set the fingerprint button to behave like a capacitive button? I really just want to dab my finger on it and not have to depress, like the other two keys. I know the scanner registers contact but that click press it's really annoying when I just want the "desktop" etc. I think it would do wonders for the buttons longevity too... This may seem like a minor thing but it would really make the make the whole user interaction thing more standard. Having to big press one of three buttons is odd..

You can get a lot of apps that add "soft buttons" to your screen for things like Home. One that jumps to mind is called Button Savior.
That was my way of saying that, no, I don't think you can use that button without actually "clicking" it.

You could try the app called swype home button, just swype up from the screen just above it and itll take you home.

I completely agree with your desire here OP. Coming from an LG optimus G, I find myself gently tapping the button hoping for home.
As an alternative, I'd recommend the pie launcher app in the play store. No root required unless you want menu button functionality. Makes for a nice, easy to reach one handed set of on screen buttons that are only there when you need them, and you can use it as an app launcher too.

pisanty said:
Is there any way to set the fingerprint button to behave like a capacitive button? I really just want to dab my finger on it and not have to depress, like the other two keys. I know the scanner registers contact but that click press it's really annoying when I just want the "desktop" etc. I think it would do wonders for the buttons longevity too... This may seem like a minor thing but it would really make the make the whole user interaction thing more standard. Having to big press one of three buttons is odd..
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There has to be a way to do it because of the fingerprint sensor. I'm sure custom kernels soon will have this feature.

Bump any new ideas here?