Been seeing a few people talk about the soft buttons getting in the way while using the pen. It's a matter of timing and the pen has to touch the screen before your hand does to keep the buttons from being activated.
However, I did see a review that mentioned something that would be great.
I'm sure that someone could write an app that would control which set of soft buttons would be activated based on rotation. Is this API open within the Flyer so that someone can control them?
In portrait mode I'd actually prefer that the buttons on the left side be active, and in landscape I'd prefer the buttons on the "bottom" of the Flyer be activated - this would be the reverse of the current implementation (actually I'd really prefer to be able to control both independently).
This would solve a few issues. It would prevent users from touching the buttons with their hand while writing, but it would also put the buttons next to your hand while you're holding the device instead of having to move your hand to access the buttons you'd be able to do it with your thumb.
That sounds like a clever idea. I would use that feature if it existed.
It is a fantastic idea, I would pay for it!
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I love everything about my X2...except for the physical buttons. How hard do you guys think it would be to replace them with captive touch buttons? Would it be as simple as finding some buttons, connecting the wires and making them fit or would software be involved? Any feedback would be appreciated.
TransX2 said:
I love everything about my X2...except for the physical buttons. How hard do you guys think it would be to replace them with captive touch buttons? Would it be as simple as finding some buttons, connecting the wires and making them fit or would software be involved? Any feedback would be appreciated.
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I had the same question regarding this. My reason being the buttons are too loud at night. All you hear is "clickity click click click". I was looking to see if the Honeycomb style onscreen buttons were available to install (they have them in Cyanogenmod on tablets running Gingerbread). Didn't find them.
BUT I did find a program called "Soft Keys" in the market. It's free and has on screen buttons that can be hidden or shown with a little floating movable button. You can do everything with it without using the hard keys. I strongly suggest it, and it will probably prolong the life of the hard keys.
Make sure to set it to not autohide after clicking on the buttons (it defaults to hide when pressing home).
the amount of physical modding needed would make this entirely too much work. re-wiring, taking a capacitive button section from another phone, etc, maybe even software stuff, that much i don't know.
you're better off finding a way to quiet the buttons
one of the best features of this phone is the fact that it still has some real buttons. itd be nice if it had a d-pad or trackball too just so one could not have to always use the touchscreen to interact with it
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I had the same question regarding this. My reason being the buttons are too loud at night. All you hear is "clickity click click click". I was looking to see if the Honeycomb style onscreen buttons were available to install (they have them in Cyanogenmod on tablets running Gingerbread). Didn't find them.
BUT I did find a program called "Soft Keys" in the market. It's free and has on screen buttons that can be hidden or shown with a little floating movable button. You can do everything with it without using the hard keys. I strongly suggest it, and it will probably prolong the life of the hard keys.
Make sure to set it to not autohide after clicking on the buttons (it defaults to hide when pressing home).
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Try button savior. I like it much more than soft keys.
Why did honeycomb disable to hardware home buttons? I love the hardware home button on my htc flyer tablet but it was disabled when I upgraded to honeycomb and from what I've read this was a google decision not htc. Why remove this functionality. Does ics re-enable this feature?
Among other things, they wanted to do away with fixed position navigation buttons in android devices to allow for better placement of buttons when the screen is rotated or to allow them to disappear completely during a full screen app.
I personally feel there should be at least some sort of hardware buttons, so you're not forced to look at the screen to do everything (not to mention the whole wearing gloves thing), but button less is the new direction.
- chris
Been asking myself this question, i mean besides the fact that it looks kinda cool isnt it ABSOLUTELY USELESS?
I tried using it a few times but come one, lets face it its useless. We have buttons for it. And its quite anoying to use anyway.
So why do you use it?
Some phones and most tablets do not have hardware keys or they are hard to reach (except maybe a physical "home" button)
It's complete waste of display estate to enable and actually use a navbar on the S3 since, as you already point out, it has the major buttons as hardware keys, some with double meaning depending on press duration.
it's easier to use the on-screen buttons than to push the physical home button.
Also, ParanoidAndroid allows to adjust the navbar color on a per-app basis, which is pretty awesome
I also find it pretty useless but I think the point is to save physical buttons:silly:. Not using physical buttons keeps the phone in better condition for re-sell. Now they started to add Recent Apps and Lock phone icons(which I genuinely hate) in the status bar for the same reason.
Hi all,
I have just bought a Targus bluetooth presenter for my galaxy tab. It works a treat and was only £5 so I am very happy with it. With a little editing of the key layouts I have been able to get some of the useless buttons to do things like home and menu. It all works perfectly and now I have just one thing I want to do but don't know if it is possible.
I want to map a key to be a sticky mouse down so that I can pan across the screen because it is just about impossible to hold the mouse button down at the same time as moving the track pad. The ideal is to be able to press a key - it locks down - I scroll around as needed then press the same key (or if needed another one) to simulate lifting the mouse button up again.
Is this even possible? If so can anyone point me in the right direction?
Keverso.
What type navigation buttons do you prefer on your smartphone?
Personally, I like virtual buttons. These type of buttons don't need a force to be applied on for them to respond, unlike hardware buttons like those on "GS4 Active". Also, since they are part of the display it will work or break simultanously with the screen. If something happens with the display, both the screen and buttons won't work, whereas in the case of capacitive buttons you might have to deal with a broken....let's say "Home" button while the screen is still working.