Ok, the story is, my phone goes to sleep every 30 secs to save battery. And since I'm still very excited about it, I turn it on quite often, just to check . And the only way to turn on from sleep (as far as I know) is pressing the power button. Well, that means that button will be pressed a lot! I'm just worrying that it will soon have problems. It would be much cooler if we can touch some Android button down there, Home button for example, to turn on the phone. Do you know anyway to do that?
PS: I tried to google as well as search through out this forum, but the keywords are pretty common, so it's really hard though.
I wouldn't want the capacitive buttons activating my phone, think of all the butt-dialing
I think Widget Locker allows for any hardware button to wake up the device, so then you'd be able to distribute the fun between your volume rocker and the power button.
Widget locker does allow the use of the volume rocker to wake up the phone.
a short term fix or you might be to got o settings-->Applications-->Development-->Stay awake....
so as long as you are charging the screen will not sleep. dont forget to change the setting back if you walk away for a bit... or go to bed
Thanks guy. I think the volume button is good enough
Rumur said:
Widget locker does allow the use of the volume rocker to wake up the phone.
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thanks rumur, i going to give widget locker a try.
i hate it must reach for power button to wakeup!
i like "Simply Lockscreen", it also turns on cappy with volume buttons.
give it a try
On a similar note, do you all have any app tips that will allow me to do something special with the volume button while the screen is off (maybe long press or double click, or press both volume buttons at once) that will in turn toggle silent/vibrate on and off?
I was wondering if anyone could make a mod to remap the camera button to the power or home button. And i would also like the home key wake disabled. When my phone is in my pocket I'm constantly turning on the screen with the home key accidentally. I would like the power button wake only. Thanks!
hi friends:
i have an old infuse 4g which has the known power button issue so i remapped the volume_up button as power and power button as volume.
the remapping is working fine and i can see that the volume up button works like power and power button works like volume_up.
but sometimes it still power-off my phone when i touch or press power-button. during this time, i dont see an option to poweroff or reboot but the screen becomes black and i see samsung logo, basically its like somebody pulled the plug.
can somebody explain why is this?
many thanks in advance
Hey guys just wondering if anybody knows any mod or app in which I can turn my phones screen on with a button other than the power button? It's just my power buttons on the blink and will just about turn the screen off but will hardly ever turn it back on
jjc1992 said:
Hey guys just wondering if anybody knows any mod or app in which I can turn my phones screen on with a button other than the power button? It's just my power buttons on the blink and will just about turn the screen off but will hardly ever turn it back on
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In CM11, you can set the screen to wake with the volume buttons (not sure what ROM you're running though). My power button broke and I used that to get me by.
Settings > Buttons > Volume Buttons > check "Wake up"
Someone else suggested Sweep2Wake but I never looked it up (sounded cool though). There's KnockKnock too, if you're on a Sense ROM and want to flash another Kernel:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2083229
yesterday my power button died, but I was able to turn on my N5 somehow. after, I've enabled the double tap to sleep on the statusbar and on the lockscreen and volume buttons now wake the device, but I wasn't able to remap the power button and if I accidentaly press it, I don't know what will happen. So, there's any method to completely disable the power button? I've tried with gravity box but there isn't any option to do this.
someone knows how to disable the power button from the .kl files in system/usr/keylaout?
And then, can I use the volume buttons to turn on the device when it's off or I have to keep it on forever?
Here some stuff you may interest:
Nexus 5 Power Button Broken - Here's what to do
Nexus 5 power button rattle fix....
Good luck
thanks, but I don't know when I can repair it, so anyone knows a solution that temporaly disable the power button?