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Disable Soft Capacitive Buttons

Since i use vegan tab and have all the soft buttons on the screen at all time (home, menu, back) is there anyway to disable the capacative ones so that i dont actually hit them while holding the tab?

bump ^^^ anyone??? robeet?

I asked something like that earlier, but no one responded. There's a thread under Themes and Apps about Settings Catcher. Maybe a concept like that could be used, in the opposite way (assign invalid activities), to essentially make the keys do nothing?
Jim

This is definitely possible to do.
Use Root Explorer to go to /system/usr/keylayout. I am guessing it's the file gpio-keys.kl in that directory.
For a guide as to how this works, check out this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695936
I haven't tried it yet, but I'm guessing you can map those keys to something like ENDCALL that doesn't have a meaningful activity associated it with it on our tablets. Or maybe there's a null activity or something like that.
You'll have to experiment a bit. I haven't tried any of this yet myself.

hmmm, pull out the device back and unclip it?
Seriously though, I'm not certain. Possibly it's linked to the file /usr/keylayout/tegra-kbc.kl. So you might be able to REM out some of these and it could actually disable the tactile buttons.

How would you get out of a full screen app that hides the status bar?

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How would you get out of a full screen app that hides the status bar?
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thanks, was thinking the same lol

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How would you get out of a full screen app that hides the status bar?
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thanks, was thinking the same lol
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Yeah i didnt think of that. damn... its just annoying when im in the browser or something and i hit it by accident

I was hoping to find an app/hack that would let me set the duration of a soft key press required to register as a stroke. It would then be easy to make a widget to turn the delay on and off for times when you know you will be more prone to bump the buttons.

TheMongol said:
I was hoping to find an app/hack that would let me set the duration of a soft key press required to register as a stroke. It would then be easy to make a widget to turn the delay on and off for times when you know you will be more prone to bump the buttons.
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I'm bumping this to see if anyone has any ideas on the above or disabling them completely. I (or one of my kids) *always* bump one of the capacitive buttons while using the gtab. It is frustrating, infuriating even, when you're in the middle of something and BAM, you have to start over.
TIA!

If you could get rid of the buttons you can just use button savior. I'm using the zeam launcher in fullscreen and barely ever touch the buttons on the side now

wordweaver27 said:
I'm bumping this to see if anyone has any ideas on the above or disabling them completely. I (or one of my kids) *always* bump one of the capacitive buttons while using the gtab. It is frustrating, infuriating even, when you're in the middle of something and BAM, you have to start over.
TIA!
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I use 'Button Remapper' to map the hard buttons to 'focus' which effectively disables them. I then use 'Buttton Savior' to provide on-screen buttons.
Works well and ends the frustration of the buttons not being back-lit or accidently hitting them when holding the tablet.

Thank you! I think that will do the trick. Do you use the galaxy tab version?
ETA: just searched the market from my Droid and saw a third vanilla version of button remapper. I will go with the assumption that its this one.
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Headphone button to Initiate Google Now (or anything)

Hello everyone!
I'm probably out of luck on this one, but I was wondering if there's any way to make the microphone button on my wired headset initiate google now. I think it would be an awesome way to interact with my phone without having to turn the screen on or touch the device.
Is there any way to do this? I'm on the lollipop preview at the moment, but I'm curious in general if anyone knows a way to make this work.
Thanks!

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Hello everyone!
I'm probably out of luck on this one, but I was wondering if there's any way to make the microphone button on my wired headset initiate google now. I think it would be an awesome way to interact with my phone without having to turn the screen on or touch the device.
Is there any way to do this? I'm on the lollipop preview at the moment, but I'm curious in general if anyone knows a way to make this work.
Thanks!
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Have you tried pressing and holding the button? That works for me, using Lollipop.

MilkyJoePD said:
Have you tried pressing and holding the button? That works for me, using Lollipop.
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I did try that. I held down the mic button for a solid 10 seconds and nothing happened. I'm on Pure-White Lollipop.

Is it possible to change the way the wheel controls work on MTCD (GS PX5 Oreo)?

Can anyone advise on how I could ho about changing the list of apps that gets started by the Mode function on my Xtrons unit (MTCD GS PX5 oreo)?
I know someone has done something similar with a Joying unit, but as far as I can see, they replaced the "Sofia-1-C9-Server... apk) with an alternative version.
I've pulled all the system apps to my PC via ADB (root) via WiFi, and I can see apps like MTCControlSettings.apk and MTCContolInfo.apk but there are no apks with "server" in their name
So I'm not sure where to start looking for the APK which handles the steering wheel control "Mode" handling.
Does anyone know how this is handled ?

are you able to resolve it? im having the same problem. btw my unit is a MTCE_CSN thanks

slidefriday said:
are you able to resolve it? im having the same problem. btw my unit is a MTCE_CSN thanks
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I've not had time to investigate this.
For the moment, I've just set my Mode button to be the Home button, as thats better the cycling through a load of useless "modes" like the AV input and their useless audio and video players.
I did try to work out how the radio communicated with the system apps, but I'm having a lot of difficulty de-odex'ing (decompiling) even the radio app. Because the apps are Oreo versions, and most of the decompilers don't fully support Oreo odex (compiled application program) files
I did post a question to the general Dev part of XDA about de-odex'ing Oreo files but didnt get any responses

I would be interested in this if you figure it it out as I'd like to get dab in the list of apps it cycles through.

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I've not had time to investigate this.
For the moment, I've just set my Mode button to be the Home button, as thats better the cycling through a load of useless "modes" like the AV input and their useless audio and video players.(
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That would be enough for me, but with onboard apps or settings i haven't found a way to change it. I can use my Wheel control for changing volume and skipping music in any music app I am using, but the mode button always switches throug radio, ac input, mediaplayer and dvd.
The app for steering wheel control which was preinstalled on my head unit, doesn't react to any button and the firmware settings only to the hardware buttons of my head unit.
So, how did you do it?

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That would be enough for me, but with onboard apps or settings i haven't found a way to change it. I can use my Wheel control for changing volume and skipping music in any music app I am using, but the mode button always switches throug radio, ac input, mediaplayer and dvd.
The app for steering wheel control which was preinstalled on my head unit, doesn't react to any button and the firmware settings only to the hardware buttons of my head unit.
So, how did you do it?
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In the Settings, ( think its in the Car) section, is the setting (app) which allows you to associate specific steering wheel buttons with specific actions.
I thought all generic units had this app, because the steering wheel button for each car operate differently.
My Subaru only has one wire from the steering wheel, and has 6 buttons. Each button has a different electrical resistance, and you have to press each button, and then associate a Short Press and a Long Press, on that button, to a specific action.
The controls like Volume + and - and Track + and - and Mute are pretty standard.
The only other button I have is the Mode button, and I assigned that to the "Mode" action in the settings. However the Mode operation, cycles though a predefined list.
So I simply reassigned the Mode button to the Home action.
I did try a few other things, like seeing if I could press 2 buttons at the same time e.g Mode and Track +, but it either treated this as a press on the Mode button or a press on the Track + button. So that didn't work.
If I get time, I'll have another go at decompiling the system apps, but last time I tried to do that, I could not see anything that looked like the list of apps.
If I had programmed it, I'd probably put the app names into a string resource, but goodness knows what the programmed did who wrote the system apps in these units.

RogerClark said:
In the Settings, ( think its in the Car) section, is the setting (app) which allows you to associate specific steering wheel buttons with specific actions.
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Thanks for the quick reply. I already tried the factory settings but my steering wheel buttons won't work there. I only can set action to the buttons on my radio. Sadly I have to wait for any other solution. But thanks again for sharing your experience :good:

What brand and model of HU do you have?

Hey,
Opel/Vaux/Chevy cars have canbus hard mapped buttons.
Mine can't be configured through the in-built apps or factory settings either.
One would have to examine the canbus.apk / MTCManager to maybe update the xposed for MTCDTools.
MTCD Tools can see the button codes (3 digits), but can't map any other function or even intercept.
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Hey,
Opel/Vaux/Chevy cars have canbus hard mapped buttons.
Mine can't be configured through the in-built apps or factory settings either.
One would have to examine the canbus.apk / MTCManager to maybe update the xposed for MTCDTools.
MTCD Tools can see the button codes (3 digits), but can't map any other function or even intercept.

RogerClark said:
What brand and model of HU do you have?
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I have a Xtrons PB78QSFP-B which is designed for a Ford Focus and came with a standard canbus adapter for ford. But I have the old model of the HU which has only 2GB Ram not 4.
My guess is, that Ford has hard mapped buttons too, like Xorit said it about Opel/Vaux etc

update guys! mtcdtools will do the trick! though the old mapping will flicker but still the newly assigned actions will prevail.
i can live with this already. maybe ill just find the solution to delete the factory set MODE actions :laugh:

slidefriday said:
update guys! mtcdtools will do the trick! though the old mapping will flicker but still the newly assigned actions will prevail.
i can live with this already. maybe ill just find the solution to delete the factory set MODE actions :laugh:
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Did your have to root your unit or install anything like Xposed etc? Or does it just work with the stock firmware?

works with stock fw. im not yet doing any firmware mods

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works with stock fw. im not yet doing any firmware mods
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Good to know

No option to program "long click" for steering wheel buttons?

I have a PX6 4/64 GB head unit.
When programming steering wheel buttons I only get the option to program "short click". I can't find any options for "long click". In the screenshots from Hal9k it looks like short click and long clock would be displayed at the same screen.
As default I had SWC chosen in factory settings, but then only volume buttons worked. So I changed to CanKey, and now all the buttons work, but I can't chose and option for long click. I have the same problem on stock and custom ROMs. I have tried different CanBus profiles for my car in factory settings, but the default one is the only one that seems to work okay.
Is there something I can try to make long clicks work, or is it just not supported by my car? Couldn't find much information with a search on these forums.

Is the car a BMW? Sounds like the problems I have

jrobbom5 said:
Is the car a BMW? Sounds like the problems I have
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No, it's a Mercedes-Benz. Maybe something with german cars?

dape16 said:
No, it's a Mercedes-Benz. Maybe something with german cars?
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Same problem for me for a 2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee (built under Merceds not FCA).

In Malaysk ROM full version (don't know about free) there is an option for programming double press of steering wheel buttons. I tried it and it works very well. Unfortunately I had other problems with that ROM so I can not use it.

px5 screen problem

hi guys, i was stupidly mess with screen and buttons calibration and now my unit isnt responsive. Before that somehow when you was restarting the unit to open screen you had to press any button but now i have delete the button calibration as well screen's calibration. Imanaged to get to recovery mode an the screen worked perfectly an i preesed to do a restart but this doesnt helped after i did factory reset that did not helped either. So i need your help pls. I forgot to mentioned that mouse/keyboard not working pls help

Is the device an MTCD/E

marchnz said:
Is the device an MTCD/E
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MTCE_MX_V2.65

odysseas.av said:
MTCE_MX_V2.65
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Android 6.0.1

So i manage to open it and touch as well keys dont work at all. I connected a mouse and i go to factory settings and there isn't touch panel study. I pressed keys study but again there arent response. So i think that if someone can send me a file with touch and buttons settings it would be great

This is what I have in my PX5, MTCD, MX car Android player (MX3.71, upgraded from 3.06). Screen is 8", keys are configurated for Kia CEED (but can be reinitialised).
Everything you do - you do at your own peril and risk.Think twice before!

fratellos said:
This is what I have in my PX5, MTCD, MX car Android player (MX3.71, upgraded from 3.06). Screen is 8", keys are configurated for Kia CEED (but can be reinitialised).
Everything you do - you do at your own peril and risk.Think twice before!
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Life saver thanks a lot

You're welcome ! Glad to help !