Hi,
Why hasn't anyone developed a way to disable, lock, or reconfigure the volume rocker?
Is this possible to do? I would really appreciate if someone found a way to do this!
Best,
One thing I would want is to, when there isn't any media playing, if you press and hold, it change the brightness. And if media is playing, press and hold while using the phone (I.e. screen on) it act the same way it does when it's off.
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Agreed there are sometimes i wish that it wouldn't work beccause it gets in the way...
Anywho i can't stop thinking about that iOS camera app that used the volume up button as a shutter so Apple pulled it by saying "users may be confused" and then a few months later guess what is one of the major features they are promoting in iOS5
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Hi all,
When I am typing on my devices, I like to hear the "clicking" sound from the keyboard and I have it turned on on all of my devices but with my Xoom even though I have the setting turned on and the volume turned up, I can hardly hear the clicks from the keyboard.
Anyone else out here notice this or have this issue?
Please advise,
Thanks in advance...
Yea. Not a big deal though, to me anyway.
I use Thumb Keyboard. Allows you to choose from several sounds. If you use any of them with the volume inadvertently turned up all the way, you'll be backing down the volume in a hurry because it is ridiculously loud.
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I listen to music on my phone all the time and I really like how the stock music player responds to the headphone control. I'm using my old HTC headphones which have three buttons, and the default settings (actually there's no settings in the stock player for headphone control) is that the two buttons on the sides serve as volume button and the middle button serve as play/pause/next button. I love this because I don't need to reach in my pocket to change the volume or song and it kinda saves the hardware keys.
But I noticed a problem later: All three buttons work when the screen is on or just turned off (either manually or automatically), but the center button (play/pause/next) stops working after a while. The volume buttons are fine. I also noticed that if I double clicked to change the song, the music would just stop, but if I just turned on the screen, it started playing again (next song). So this is what I thought: the buttons sent the signal, the music player got it, but it couldn't do anything because the phone was "sleeping" after being turned off for a while.
Today I found this little app called "Headset Button Controller", which is basically a settings app for headphone control. It solved the problem perfectly! It probably works its way around the phone's power management. Idk. Here is the link to market: [damn I can't post it, you need to search it on your own] I'm on stock 2.3.5 and have used the stock Samsung headphones to re-show the problem and found out it's not my HTC headphones' fault. I believe there're more people in the same situation and thank god I finally find a way to solve it! Happy sharing!
Thanks would give this a try. Double click never work for me
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Good find. I have run across more than a few with this issue
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I search this specific forum but couldn't find anything on this topic.
I was wondering if it was possible to put a hot key or button or something on the lock screen or even on one of the pages to silence the phone with out having to turn it down manually with the rocker switch?
I had a motorola atrix 2 and it had something on it's locked screen to silence and unsilence the phone.
Of course I also like the locked screen on the atrix 2 better then my skyrocket but that and the silence button are the only 2 things I liked over my skyrocket.
Any advice or help would be great.
Thank you
You can enable the "Turn Over" motion feature to mute incoming calls and sounds. No need to press buttons.
See if that works for you.
That is awesome, thank you for the suggestion but I was thinking more along the lines of forgetting to silence your phone in say a meeting. Instead of having to unlock the phone and press the volume down button till silent, can I put a volume on / vibrate mode widget or something on my lock screen.
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You can replace your lockscreen and use something like widgetlocker. And you can add whatever widget, slider action or shortcut you want. Search the market for other options.
Thanks a lot widget locker works great and does exactly what I want.
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When I use it to listen to music I throw it in my back pocket. Whenever I move... at all... the volume rocker decides I want music as loud as possible or no volume at all. Is there any way to turn off volume rockers on screen off... or all together? I'm fine with using softkeys to change volume. I have tried widgetlocker and that only works as long as the screen is on.
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Built into the software, custom ROM can change this of course.
So we just have to wait for source or ICS... ha lets just hope Sammy doesn't forget about us so soon.
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there is a build prop line you can configure so the screen wont trun on when pressing volume keys, perhaps there are more entries which might allow you to disable altogether. I would bet against it though.
Best bet in the meantime would be to search for an app, perhaps something like tasker.
Thanks in advance!
WidgetLocker has the ability
Just tried it, checked the box in settings, but no dice
Uninstalled and got a refund.
Any others?
no lock?
or
Screen Off and Lock?
Thanks, already tried both of them because they worked on my og evo, but no such luck
Coming from the galaxy s2 I do miss the power button on the side, hoping to find a solution still
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Actually, I used to have a Nexus One and the power button was broken. To circumvent that, I had to use an app called AnyUnlock. I turned the screen on with the volume rocker and you could also use a widget to turn the screen off (rather than using the power button to turn the screen off). Which I suppose could be useful if you have smaller fingers or something and didn't want to make the reach. Very, very useful app when your power button stops functioning.
trevortx said:
Actually, I used to have a Nexus One and the power button was broken. To circumvent that, I had to use an app called AnyUnlock. I turned the screen on with the volume rocker and you could also use a widget to turn the screen off (rather than using the power button to turn the screen off). Which I suppose could be useful if you have smaller fingers or something and didn't want to make the reach. Very, very useful app when your power button stops functioning.
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I'm sure it uses the same method that the other apps use and it even says in the description on their app page that it only works on Froyo and GB.
Yea seems like all of them don't work with ics urrrrrrrrr
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I was actually wondering this very same thing earlier today. Hope someone finds a solution.
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Volume Rocker Wake works on CM9 Alpha 5
I've been using CM9 Alpha 5 for a few hours now and it's great !
The first think I set was the Volume Rocker Wake as the Power Button is not as easy to press when using most cases covering the power button.
To enable it, go to SETTING --> DISPLAY --> VOLUME ROCKER WAKE
it enables waking the phone by pressing the volume rocker EITHER up/down.
There is no way to specify one or the other
However, it works great ! I'm really liking CM9, my only complaint is the missing HTC Camera which was just amazing with the hardware burst (I'm still looking for a way to flash it if that's even possible).