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[Q] Could anyone implement a mod just to 'Long Press back button to kill app?'

I know there are some ROMs and MODs that incorporate this as a part of a feature but the ROMs/MODs I currently use it for stability don't have this feature and I really miss this coming from CM9...
Could anyone kindly make this feature available as a stand-alone feature...?
I have Nexus S 4.0.4 ROM... Thanks!

Xeleth said:
Did a quick search and was unable to find any corresponding feature for non-cm ROMs. Just in case you want to try out editing it yourself, or someone with enough knowledge some day spots this thread: you might like to have a look at files at /system/usr/keylayout and /system/usr/keychars, I think they are used for the phone's key setup.
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Thanks but I'm not that expert to modify files... haha
Wish someone could come up with this mod

I haven't looked through my ROM but this is a feature in Cyanogenmod 7.2 (Gingerbread 2.3.5) i am running this there is a settings panel you can tell the back button what to do upon long press! Maybe it is possible to extract this setting? Im not sure about that as i have never extracted or attempted to extract settings from any roms! But just an idea i figure

could need it, too !!!

Flashable "skip track with volume buttons" ?

I'm on brainmasters JB ROM, does anyone know if there is a flashable zip or some way to get the skip track with volume buttons function to work?

Hey man, im afraid I am not aware of any kind of zip that can modify your stock based rom that way to include tht feature in the rom's settings, unless theres an app for it (I dont think so . . could be wrong)
Only way I can think of would be to simply flash another rom that has volume button track skipping. The best alternative rom I have tried would have to be cm10 jellybro by euroskank, its SOOOO fast and has loads of features, im sure you will love it, but now im slowly downloading the final build of aokp which also has track skipping, because aokp > cm . . always

Yeah, I ran AOKP for ICS over CM9, good stuff. I'll have to look into the new AOKP and JellyBro roms

[Apps] Android 4.2 apps

From @KillDroidHack on Twitter, post is here in the GNex forum (not KDH's post, but credit is given)
Saw this on Engadget. Not sure what will work on our phones (I know Wallet won't, and we already have GMail and the keyboard and camera).
Direct dev-host links:
http://d-h.st/wBX
http://d-h.st/DSY

liquidzoo said:
From @KillDroidHack on Twitter, post is here in the GNex forum (not KDH's post, but credit is given)
Saw this on Engadget. Not sure what will work on our phones (I know Wallet won't, and we already have GMail and the keyboard and camera).
Direct dev-host links:
http://d-h.st/wBX
http://d-h.st/DSY
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Running it on 11/06 CM10 nightly, no issues noticed, aside from the known camcorder issues. The keyboard is pretty cool!

Jesus. That gapps is twice the size of the 4.1.2 gapps and larger than my entire ROM+kernel+modem.

Currently running on CM10 Nov 11 nightly, and I'm having an issue with the clock/timer. When I'm running a timer I am told it stops working any time I leave the app, either by switching to another or just hitting the Home key. Opening up the timer again shows that it is still running. I've also had issues with the phone locking up while sleeping, but I'm not sure if that's related yet.
Any thoughts?
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Looks good so far. I think I will hold off till 4.2 is aosp

Daemon7542 said:
Currently running on CM10 Nov 11 nightly, and I'm having an issue with the clock/timer. When I'm running a timer I am told it stops working any time I leave the app, either by switching to another or just hitting the Home key. Opening up the timer again shows that it is still running. I've also had issues with the phone locking up while sleeping, but I'm not sure if that's related yet.
Any thoughts?
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I've had that stop watch issue for a long time now. I downloaded a different stopwatch app that works.
Sent from low Earth orbit with my Skyrocket.

Just had a question. Every time I update my nightly build, I have to reflash the android 4.2 apps (gmail won't be there). Is this normal or does it have to do with how I put the gmail.apk in /system/app after a flash?

You could do what I've done, make your own gapps. Put the Gmail apk into the gapps zip. Start with an existing gapps zip, open (not extract) it, navigate to system/app, delete the files you want to replace and drag/drop the new files to replace them.
Pretty easy if you ask me. I've managed to make a gapps zip that replaces the system font, copies all of the necessary libs for dsp manager, flashes a multi-dpi play store, and flashes some inverted apps that I want. Pm me if you want some tips.
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liquidzoo said:
You could do what I've done, make your own gapps. Put the Gmail apk into the gapps zip. Start with an existing gapps zip, open (not extract) it, navigate to system/app, delete the files you want to replace and drag/drop the new files to replace them.
Pretty easy if you ask me. I've managed to make a gapps zip that replaces the system font, copies all of the necessary libs for dsp manager, flashes a multi-dpi play store, and flashes some inverted apps that I want. Pm me if you want some tips.
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Liquidzoo,
If I took the gapps zip and opened it can I remove some things that I don't want? Or will that "break" the flashable zip?
Thanks in advance.
Steve
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Steviemac12 said:
Liquidzoo,
If I took the gapps zip and opened it can I remove some things that I don't want? Or will that "break" the flashable zip?
Thanks in advance.
Steve
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Yes, you should be able to remove things you don't want and add things that you do (be aware, there are some config changes that need to be made if you want to install anything to /data).
I adjusted my gapps file last night to include some of the 4.2 apps, but I'm getting a clock FC every time I reboot, which is strange. I will have to take a step back and add only what I really want for now.

What is what?
liquidzoo said:
From @KillDroidHack on Twitter, post is here in the GNex forum (not KDH's post, but credit is given)
Saw this on Engadget. Not sure what will work on our phones (I know Wallet won't, and we already have GMail and the keyboard and camera).
Direct dev-host links:
http://d-h.st/wBX
http://d-h.st/DSY
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What exactly is included in the two links you copied? The first is KDH's gapps package, and the latter is Google Wallet? But when we follow the link to the original post in the GNex forum, the OP also includes "INVERTED 4.2 GAPPS + AROMA BY justin860" which seems to contain far more *and* is inverted?
I'm just trying to understand because I've never flashed anything but the basic 4.1 gapps with CM10, but I'd really like to try the 4.2 stuff and would prefer dark/inverted (for battery life and the sake of my eyes). But I'm confused by the plethora of gapps offerings, even just those in the Gnex post.

Honestly, I don't know what is included. I was just copying the download links to paste here so everyone knew it was available.

Can you screen shot the 4.2 keyboard? what are the added advantages of this new keyboard that 4.1 doesn't do?

Starker44 said:
Can you screen shot the 4.2 keyboard? what are the added advantages of this new keyboard that 4.1 doesn't do?
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It had built in swipe mode and previews the word as a hover while you swipe. other than that it looks the same,until you swipe.
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Swype beta is far better than that 4.2 keyboard
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xcrazydx said:
Swype beta is far better than that 4.2 keyboard
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I've never used Swype so I can't comment on that. I do like the 4.2 keyboard. I've used TouchPal as well, and I own SwiftKey (haven't seen the SwiftKey swipe version yet), I find them all to be comparable.

Oh swipe is the new thing, I never got into swiping it just seems lazy to me. I use Perfect Keyboard Pro so I can set it up in dvorak layout. It's either that or I talk.

Starker44 said:
Oh swipe is the new thing, I never got into swiping it just seems lazy to me. I use Perfect Keyboard Pro so I can set it up in dvorak layout. It's either that or I talk.
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If by lazy you mean faster and more efficient, sure.
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TheDiddler said:
Just had a question. Every time I update my nightly build, I have to reflash the android 4.2 apps (gmail won't be there). Is this normal or does it have to do with how I put the gmail.apk in /system/app after a flash?
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I use CyanDelta app from Playstore. when nightlies are released, it only downloads the pieces I need (avg. 6 to 12 mb). then in CyanDelta settings, you can configure any zip's you want to flash after update. I flash my kernel (kk .12) and this gapps package, minus Chrome.
it really works amazing.
- notifies when nightly is available
- reboots into recovery, installs update
- then installs any additional zips
- then reboots and away you go.
I install every nightly, have had no RR or SOD.
just my two cents.
Steve

Has anyone made these inverted? I know they're recent release but I figured I'd ask.
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| ROM | FLO | AOSP | KitKat | 4.4 | S3 | 11-30-2013

Android 4.4
S3 builds are focused on being a simple, stable, and "stock-like" experience for your Android device.
View the source code at: http://github.com/jakdillard
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Developed by:
Jakdillard
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Devices currently supported:
Asus Nexus 7 (2013)
LG Nexus 5
S3 includes modifications to extend the basic functions of Android. With each update to Android, S3 features may change to work with the current version.
Feature list:
- Full Google Experience
- Clear Recents with VM Cache drop
- Reboot In Power menu
- Screenshot In Power menu (enable in developers settings)
- Advanced Reboot options (enable in developers settings)
- Swapped "on click" and "longpress" behavior for WIFI, Mobile network, and BlueTooth tiles
- Init.d support
- SuperSU root
Instructions:
First time flashing device, or coming from another ROM?
Download the zip(s).
Optional: adb backup
Fastboot oem unlock > fastboot flash recovery recovery.img.
Perform a NANDroid backup of your current ROM.
Wipe data & cache partitions of your device (required when coming from stock!).
Flash ROM.
Known Issues:
This rom contains AOSP versions of Gallery2 and Camera2 which does not contain Google features such as HDR+ and Picasa album viewing. Also I DO NOT USE FACE LOCK SO I DIDN'T INCLUDE IT SINCE I BELIEVE ITS A WASTE OF SPACE.
ROM: Link
G-Apps (INCLUDED)
Follow the above link for the complete source to make your own changes or to completely debug down to the core of the rom also follow my github for detailed changes.
Always remember that XDA started out as a great place and will remain a great place as long as we are great to each other anything used in this ROM is available upon request and feel free to use this as a base rom for any other project.
WANT TO CUSTOMIZE THIS ROM READ THIS:
Want to add or remove anything or customize for yourself use DSIXDA's Kitchen. Its a great kitchen for customizing prebuilt ROMs.

Hi. Just installed this and I like it. A few others have been having issues with chrome and location services causing soft reboots and really bad stability. This ROM does not have that problem. I tried first with the full PA gapps and had issues with Google search and the Google calendar FC. Wiped and clean installed and used the Banks gapps. All is good now.
Gonna go install the Elemental X kennel now.
Thanks for the ROM.
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going to try this and add some tweaks to it get more power of using aosp

HI @jakdillard . First off thanks for the great AOSP ROM. Glad to see more entries. I have a question not about the ROM because its excellent for me but ever since the AOSP ROMs started coming out, some of us have noted a recurring problem with many of them. @scrosler maintains a AOSP ROM which is afflicted. @ctfrommn does too for some of us. The main problem we have is that when we load these ROMs on our Nexus 7 wifi editions and visit pages which request access to locations like www.google.com, www.yahoo.com or others, the chrome browser crashes and for me it causes a soft reboot. If we just stick to the aosp ROM after some bit of time the AOSP browser also gets very unstable and will start crashing no matter how much cleaning, clearing, etc we do. @scrosler had documented some of this and we've collaborated a bit trying to figure out why this happens. On rasbean, carbon, your ROM, and a few others it does not happen.
I am hoping perhaps you could share some knowledge and let us know any commits, if you saw this behavior before you put the ROM up and did something to fix it. Any info at all would be very helpful. I'd love to be able to see this fixed and get the other ROMs working.
Thanks for the contribution again.

mpmilestogo said:
HI @jakdillard . First off thanks for the great AOSP ROM. Glad to see more entries. I have a question not about the ROM because its excellent for me but ever since the AOSP ROMs started coming out, some of us have noted a recurring problem with many of them. @scrosler maintains a AOSP ROM which is afflicted. @ctfrommn does too for some of us. The main problem we have is that when we load these ROMs on our Nexus 7 wifi editions and visit pages which request access to locations like www.google.com, www.yahoo.com or others, the chrome browser crashes and for me it causes a soft reboot. If we just stick to the aosp ROM after some bit of time the AOSP browser also gets very unstable and will start crashing no matter how much cleaning, clearing, etc we do. @scrosler had documented some of this and we've collaborated a bit trying to figure out why this happens. On rasbean, carbon, your ROM, and a few others it does not happen.
I am hoping perhaps you could share some knowledge and let us know any commits, if you saw this behavior before you put the ROM up and did something to fix it. Any info at all would be very helpful. I'd love to be able to see this fixed and get the other ROMs working.
Thanks for the contribution again.
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Very well put. I build rom's from aosp for myself. I am, of course, running into the same issues. Clearly there is something being added by Google that doesn't exist in aosp to make Google location services work. Obviously this rom has it. With the support of the aosp apps being slowly phased out in favor of Google apps, we are going to need a patch in order to be able to make a fully functional rom. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
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ridobe said:
Very well put. I build rom's from aosp for myself. I am, of course, running into the same issues. Clearly there is something being added by Google that doesn't exist in aosp to make Google location services work. Obviously this rom has it. With the support of the aosp apps being slowly phased out in favor of Google apps, we are going to need a patch in order to be able to make a fully functional rom. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
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mpmilestogo said:
HI @jakdillard . First off thanks for the great AOSP ROM. Glad to see more entries. I have a question not about the ROM because its excellent for me but ever since the AOSP ROMs started coming out, some of us have noted a recurring problem with many of them. @scrosler maintains a AOSP ROM which is afflicted. @ctfrommn does too for some of us. The main problem we have is that when we load these ROMs on our Nexus 7 wifi editions and visit pages which request access to locations like www.google.com, www.yahoo.com or others, the chrome browser crashes and for me it causes a soft reboot. If we just stick to the aosp ROM after some bit of time the AOSP browser also gets very unstable and will start crashing no matter how much cleaning, clearing, etc we do. @scrosler had documented some of this and we've collaborated a bit trying to figure out why this happens. On rasbean, carbon, your ROM, and a few others it does not happen.
I am hoping perhaps you could share some knowledge and let us know any commits, if you saw this behavior before you put the ROM up and did something to fix it. Any info at all would be very helpful. I'd love to be able to see this fixed and get the other ROMs working.
Thanks for the contribution again.
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I have to look over those other roms sources to see what they are missing more the likely they don't have the location services pointing to the right adapter or still using the old way of making device trees causing make to not put the overlays together correctly.

Nice ROM Jak!
Syncing your Repo now!

Update 10-29-2013
http://d-h.st/RlW
10-29-2013
Added Google Play Edition Bootanimation
Added missing Flo props ( sound should be a little better )
Added missing proprietary DRM
De-Odexed ROM

Update 11-3-2013
Well there a beta quality build of KitKat in the op this will not be a daily driver until I have a complete source to work with and proper proprietary binaries but good luch and enjoy. Also consider this a nightly project as features will slowly be added.

Always under the radar for some reason, but your builds are always fantastic. Great job as always on 4.4. Loving the additional features.

Update 11-6-2013
http://d-h.st/bjj
New update but still no camera

jakdillard said:
http://d-h.st/bjj
New update but still no camera
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Changes?

dictionary said:
Changes?
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+1
Gesendet von meinem Nexus 7 mit Tapatalk 4

dictionary said:
Changes?
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I know he added a file manager and volume rocker wake. Those two weren't in the OP for the first build.
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Unfortunately flash fails inTwrp 2.6.3.1.

Awesome. Best KitKat ROM of all I have tried so far. Smooth and no fc or other issues at all so far. Stable in tests that other ROMs have failed. Thank you!
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Mindrocket said:
Unfortunately flash fails inTwrp 2.6.3.1.
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I believe twrp has updated to 2.6.3.2

Great build!
Just wondering if anyone else is getting the keyboard every time you hit the home button coming form another app? Not a big deal, just curious.
Thanks!

jconner05 said:
Great build!
Just wondering if anyone else is getting the keyboard every time you hit the home button coming form another app? Not a big deal, just curious.
Thanks!
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Every last person using any 4.4 with the new Google Experience Launcher.

jconner05 said:
Great build!
Just wondering if anyone else is getting the keyboard every time you hit the home button coming form another app? Not a big deal, just curious.
Thanks!
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I just double tap the home button. It's less annoying.
Love Jack's creations. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing.

[Q] ROM for phone with broken capacitive buttons

My wife has an original One S which was dropped in sink and now the capacitive buttons dont work.
Are there any roms that can show navigation buttons on screen as per Nexus devices?
And can I root and install rom without capacitive buttons?
Thanks in advance

Yes there is a rom with navigation buttons, it's twistedkat. I don't know if there is any other, i use twisted. And you don't need capacitve buttons to root. Just flash a custom recovery(i recommend twrp 2.7) and flash su binary. To be able to install any of kitkat roms you might need to update your firmware. If you have 2.15 hboot that means your firmware is up to date.
Sent from my One S

You can use any ROM you want, just install the Xposed Framework and GravityBox or XBlast Tools module. Both have the ability to add navigation bar to a ROM even if it's not there. Also most of the KK ROMs have the navbar option in settings (I think CM11 doesn't have it but not sure). TwistedKat, Beanstalk, IOAP, CandyKat, SlimKat...all have it

Thanks, will give those a try.
If she doesn't like aosp, is there a way to get on-screen buttons on sense rom?
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bazman70 said:
Thanks, will give those a try.
If she doesn't like aosp, is there a way to get on-screen buttons on sense rom?
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As @Rapier already said, you can use xposed framework with any rom. That means u can use it with sense roms too. So i guess you should first give xposed a try
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bazman70 said:
Thanks, will give those a try.
If she doesn't like aosp, is there a way to get on-screen buttons on sense rom?
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To be honest, I never tried Xposed with a sense-based ROM. As I know it is working, there's even a dedicated sense Xposed module called Sense 5 Toolbox but I don't know how the modules made for AOSP ROMs work on Sense. Theoretically if they're not conflicting with some ROM functionality, they should work. But I guess this is something you should try and see. Make a nandorid backup in recovery before installing those...just to be on the safe side
The only problem I see here is that Sense was made for HTC Phones. And ALL HTC phones had hardware buttons not on-screen nav bar buttons. The only exception is the newly released HTC One (M8) but that comes with Sense 6 and yes, that has on-screen nav buttons. So dunno if you will find a way to add that to a Sense 5.x

Hard brick
Attempted twistedkat install but had issues in recovery and think I hard bricked it
Details are in the emergency thread in case anyone can save me!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2110195&page=183
Thanks for all the advice so far

All good now
A decent charge allowed me to get into bootloader and flash the right recovery. twistedkat running well - on screen buttons
Wife test starts soon.....