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My phone backs up and resets overnight, and I woke up this morning to check email etc and noticed that the 4 hard keys on the front of the phone were all acting funny.. End key doesn't beep, send key didn't open the dialer, Okay button didn't close the current window.. then I found the PTT key didn't do anything either.. However, the Windows key DOES!
Hosed around for a while, launched AEButtonPlus to check it out, reset a few times, yanked the battery, etc.... Nothing. So I went back into AEButtonPlus to see what happens if I add a button and hit the Phone button and it pops up 00ED. Weird.. So I went looking into the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Keys entries, looks fine as far as I can tell... Got curious and launched the Buttons preference, looks okay in there, except strangely the last screen for holding the End button has *no* selection, normally it has the two radio options, with more radio options below the second one, none selected..
So then I exit back out of the Buttons apps and are hosing around and find the buttons are magically working again. Soft reset, etc, all is fine!?
AEButtonsPlus got confused?? Nope, at some point I removed it from Startup and soft reset, was the same. And now that it's working again, all my settings in it are fine.
I am using QuickMenu attached to the Win key, so perhaps why that kept working?
Very strange.. At least it's back now, and I (think?) I know a workaround if it happens again, launch the Buttons preference.
This ever happened to anyone else?
same problemo
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same problemo
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Yours fixed by launching the buttons setting? I don't know if that's what fixed it, but it seems like it went away after that, perhaps a few more soft resets.
Seems the TP2 also has a "grip of death" of sorts. Basically if you hit the Volume Buttons on the side of the devise and touch the screen, it automatically activates the Screen align util and until you complete the Screen align to the devices satisfaction, You are stuck there.
Basically this translates to any time you use the Volume Buttons while holding the phone to your face, It activates the Screen Align Util. (At least that is what happens to me about 10 times a day)
Does anyone know of a way to deactivate this "Feature/Major Annoyance"?
Thanks
mine does not do this. i suspect something is wrong with your device.
This also does not happen with my phone, just tested it out. Even called myself at work. Are you using a cooked ROM or stock? I am using stock ROM from AT&T
Try again. Hit both Volume Buttons (Simultaneously) on the side of the phone and tap the screen, It will start up the align screen until every time. I have verified that this VZN and Sprint TP2`s. It may be a CDMA thing but this feature is designed into the phone (And it sucks!).
Anyone know of a way to disable this?
mine does that from time to time, but I never figured out what causes it, but, you are right it is ANNOYING when it happens.
Cooked rom, if it makes any difference.
Hi all,
Confirmed on UK TP2 - stock WM6.5 ROM, no special apps etc installed. Had to soft reset to get out from a mixed screen align/text message app screen.
No looping align screen after reset - but annoying. Best suggestion (without being sarcastic!) - don't press both volume buttons at once, seems to be a way into a "fix the problem" mode for those with grossly un-aligned screens. How else could you get into align screen to fix the problem? ... aka "feature not a bug".
adam.
both volum buttons?
under what scenario are you hitting both volum buttons at the same time, with enough force to depress them, and touching the screen? I tried doing this on purpose and its almost impossible to do with intention much less on accident. you would have to be gripping your phone with massive, angry, force. maybe the fix is to stop talking to whomever it is that is pissing you off.
in anycase, i still could not get this replicated on the tmobile tp2. of course i am using the fastest and most stable rom provided for this phone: stock wm 6.1 with tf3d. so maybe its a feature of 6.5.x and some rendition of sense 2.x
Hold the Phone in your left hand. In my case my Thumb naturally rests on the Volume Buttons. My Thumb covers both Volume buttons. Now if I get a call and the phone against my Face and I attempt to adjust the volume with my Thumb (By rocking my Thumb up or down), Sometimes I manage to accidentally hit both. If that happens, The Screen align will start up every time because the screen is already touching my face.
I have talked with many other TP2 owners that have this same problems however they did not know what was causing it. All they knew was the Screen align kept starting up randomly.
Back to.. Is it possible to disable this? Maybe even assign a different key combination to start the screen align util such as Vol Down and endcall or something. It is too easy to accidentally press both volume buttons if you are on a call. If you do that while the phone is touching your face, the screen align will start and the phone is now locked until you get out the stylus and go through the realign.
on my tp2 i have the energy rom installed and set keyboardconfig to set the send key when held to go to a task manager the vol keys to scroll and hold to change volume but the send key just stopped working. it feels like im chacing problems round in circles with this phone where its one thing after another. i have advance config to have most things set to "recommended" re performance bu re the send key i disabled the kbdconfig and set "buttons" as none so theres no chance of a conflict but it just wont work. the best i got was sitting it for 5 mins without the battery in one time and it worked on a restart for a while. is there anything i have set wrong that im just not seeing?
im not getting to the bottom of this in fact the problem is worsening. menu and back key no longer do what theyre supposed to and they dont register in kbdconfig either. only the hangup button functions. i have tried memmaid in case it picked up a bad registry entry or something but nothing. Please help someone i am at a loss as to what else to try.
I have a sort of weird issue. I've got a rooted evo4g with an unlocked bootloader running alter rom. I had some issues with it a while back, so I ran fix permissions and cleared the caches through amon-ra. when I did that, all hell broke loose. my power button stopped working and the volume button took over to wake up the screen. Not only does the power button not work when booted anymore, it won't even work in recovery or in the bootloader. the volume buttons will navigate in recovery, but not in bootloader.
I would like to do a nandroid backup so I can reflash my phone and then just restore my texts, call logs, etc on a clean flash...but since I can't select any menu options in recovery I can't do a nandroid backup.
I have cwm touch for my nexus s 4g, but I don't see one for evo 4g....only standard evo. is that one the same? can I still use it on an evo4g? I know some phones are not interchangeable with recovery on variants...like nexus s, for example hs two recoveries...one for 3g, one for 4g.
also, does anyone have any idea what may have caused the buttons to go haywire like this? I've never seen anything like it. I mean, sure buttons die. All moving parts fail at some point...it's in their nature....but switching control to another hw button???? That jusy makes my head hurt to think about how it could have happened!! lol
Download smelkusmod recovery. It has touch scrolling and you can scroll, select and Deselect with the haptic buttons.
Your power button issue could be a hardware failure. Possibly one of the connectors came undone rendering the power button useless.
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Download smelkusmod recovery. It has touch scrolling and you can scroll, select and Deselect with the haptic buttons.
Your power button issue could be a hardware failure. Possibly one of the connectors came undone rendering the power button useless.
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even though death by soap has twice as many posts but the same number of thanks as you, he is right on about this.
smelkus is a great recovery and is, essentially, touch screen. what do you do if your phone turns completely off, and are you a little familar with adb?
johnny.dalvik-cache said:
even though death by soap has twice as many posts but the same number of thanks as you, he is right on about this.
smelkus is a great recovery and is, essentially, touch screen. what do you do if your phone turns completely off, and are you a little familar with adb?
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hmmm...good question. It's actually my sister's phone. I'm also interested in knowing how she turns it back on...I'll definitely ask her that. when I turned it off I had to pull the battery and I quickly re-inserted it so it would trigger a start-up, but I'm not sure about how she turns it on if it's been off for a while.
...and yes, I'm novice-level with adb. I know adb, fastboot, etc...enough to get by, at least I have a black belt in google-fu, too...so anything I don't understand google teaches me lol
(btw, my thank you's came from the ns4g section. I posted the first working jb rom for my device and everyone clicked thanks for it....I'm no star dev or anything to say the least )
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I just texted her...she says it always auto boots when the battery is re-inserted as long as it has a charge. it almost sounds like the power button is just stuck in a pressed position...but wouldn't I notice that when android is booted by the power control menu always being displayed (which I can't even get to display if I do press the button)???
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I just tested with my ns4g by holding down the power button all the way through a reboot, until after the phone FULLY booted....no power menu popped up.
what are the odds the button is just stuck in a pressed position?? anyone want to take bets? I'm gonna take it apart tonight and see if that's what it is unless someone has any other ideas.
death-by-soap said:
Download smelkusmod recovery. It has touch scrolling and you can scroll, select and Deselect with the haptic buttons.
Your power button issue could be a hardware failure. Possibly one of the connectors came undone rendering the power button useless.
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hp420 said:
hmmm...good question. It's actually my sister's phone. I'm also interested in knowing how she turns it back on...I'll definitely ask her that. when I turned it off I had to pull the battery and I quickly re-inserted it so it would trigger a start-up, but I'm not sure about how she turns it on if it's been off for a while.
...and yes, I'm novice-level with adb. I know adb, fastboot, etc...enough to get by, at least I have a black belt in google-fu, too...so anything I don't understand google teaches me lol
(btw, my thank you's came from the ns4g section. I posted the first working jb rom for my device and everyone clicked thanks for it....I'm no star dev or anything to say the least )
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I just texted her...she says it always auto boots when the battery is re-inserted as long as it has a charge. it almost sounds like the power button is just stuck in a pressed position...but wouldn't I notice that when android is booted by the power control menu always being displayed (which I can't even get to display if I do press the button)???
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I just tested with my ns4g by holding down the power button all the way through a reboot, until after the phone FULLY booted....no power menu popped up.
what are the odds the button is just stuck in a pressed position?? anyone want to take bets? I'm gonna take it apart tonight and see if that's what it is unless someone has any other ideas.
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just saw this thread. and seeing as how the phone auto-boots when the battery is put in, it does sound like the power button is stuck in the 'down' position. i recently went through a similar thing with the power button, and i opened up the phone and just put the button back in place. does the button acutally LOOK like it's depressed ( ...hehe..sorry, i dont know how else to ask that..) like..is the button not protruding out like it should? if you're down for opening the phone up (which is surprisingly easy if you have the proper little screw-drivers) then it MIGHT be an easy fix. i had never done it before, and it really was easy. you can put that black-belt to use for some easy video tutorials. but, please procede with caution.
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just saw this thread. and seeing as how the phone auto-boots when the battery is put in, it does sound like the power button is stuck in the 'down' position. i recently went through a similar thing with the power button, and i opened up the phone and just put the button back in place. does the button acutally LOOK like it's depressed ( ...hehe..sorry, i dont know how else to ask that..) like..is the button not protruding out like it should? if you're down for opening the phone up (which is surprisingly easy if you have the proper little screw-drivers) then it MIGHT be an easy fix. i had never done it before, and it really was easy. you can put that black-belt to use for some easy video tutorials. but, please procede with caution.
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I can't say if it looks pressed since it's not currently in front of me...I know exactly what you mean, though. The inner workings of the button get stuck, and the outer rubber piece will be sort of caved in instead of sticking out like it should.
I build gaming computers as a side-hobby. I'm sure a little disassembly won't be too difficult, as long as I'm not removing any of the guts and I can just get to it by opening the case, I should be ok....too much more and I run into issues when things are that tightly packed into a case.
(reading a tear-down tut now )
Awesome! It should be a piece of cake for you, especially with your video game background. Cool. Let me know how it goes.
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Hardware keys have also been an issue getting disabled for me. I want to get my hardware keys disabled and just use soft keys to have more of a nexus feel but what ever I do, editing the generic.kl file, using apps designed for it, or blowing up Earth nothing works . Any ideas? It just won't stick.
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Hi, I think I can help. and i just had way to much fun messing with the .kl files (im a geek...) also, since im also using cm11 hopefully they match up to yours.
ok just to clarify(ive never used a nexus) but I'm guessing you want to disable the "back", "home" and "menu" capacitive keys and you're gonna use on-screen buttons? but you still want the volume and power keys?
At first I was gonna suggest using an xposed module to disable the keys. I already use them to "enhance" those keys(double tap "back" switches to last app, long pressing "back" kills current app, etc.etc.) So for what you want, i disabled my gravity box module and installed the xposed additions module and I was successful in disabling the keys(and if you want, you can even set the double tap as the original key function, so single press no "home", double tap "home"...)
Alternatively, looking at the "keylayout" folder, I think you are changing the wrong file. The generic.kl file is not the default keylayout, it's more of a backup in case the vendor doesn't provide a better one. If you look at the file "touch_dev.kl" you'll see four keys that map to the home back and menu, and they are set as virtual. Sooo, i changed the name of the file to "touch_dev.bak" or whatever you want, and after rebooting, NOW it uses the generic.kl file. As a little nifty extra, inside the generic.kl file it sets "menu" and "back" as wake_dropped, so even if the screen is off, pressing either key will wake up the screen. Tho I imagine that might be too easy to accidentally push them while in your pocket. And since we both use neighborhood hackers kernel, the "swipe screen" is probably a better way to turn on the screen.
ok back to you... (and also, make sure you have your onscreen buttons turned on as it can be awkward to navigate without "home" or "back" function) If you now rename the "generic.kl" file to "generic.bak"(or whatever....) and reboot, NOW it should be the way you want. Dont worry, the file "pmic8xxx_pwrkey.kl" will control the power key and "keypad_8064.kl" will control the volume keys. Worked for me at least.
And I should probably mention to make a copy of the whole "keylayout" folder and to also be careful to not delete "pmicxx_pwrkey.kl" as that cause some issues (you should be able to turn on the screen by swiping, but not sure how it effects the deeper power off, power on functions....)
So yeah hope you or others find this useful (and coherent..) as i just got off work a bit ago and sleepy.... and i tend to use run on sentences and and and and lol
enjoyspigeons said:
Hi, I think I can help. and i just had way to much fun messing with the .kl files (im a geek...) also, since im also using cm11 hopefully they match up to yours.
ok just to clarify(ive never used a nexus) but I'm guessing you want to disable the "back", "home" and "menu" capacitive keys and you're gonna use on-screen buttons? but you still want the volume and power keys?
At first I was gonna suggest using an xposed module to disable the keys. I already use them to "enhance" those keys(double tap "back" switches to last app, long pressing "back" kills current app, etc.etc.) So for what you want, i disabled my gravity box module and installed the xposed additions module and I was successful in disabling the keys(and if you want, you can even set the double tap as the original key function, so single press no "home", double tap "home"...)
Alternatively, looking at the "keylayout" folder, I think you are changing the wrong file. The generic.kl file is not the default keylayout, it's more of a backup in case the vendor doesn't provide a better one. If you look at the file "touch_dev.kl" you'll see four keys that map to the home back and menu, and they are set as virtual. Sooo, i changed the name of the file to "touch_dev.bak" or whatever you want, and after rebooting, NOW it uses the generic.kl file. As a little nifty extra, inside the generic.kl file it sets "menu" and "back" as wake_dropped, so even if the screen is off, pressing either key will wake up the screen. Tho I imagine that might be too easy to accidentally push them while in your pocket. And since we both use neighborhood hackers kernel, the "swipe screen" is probably a better way to turn on the screen.
ok back to you... (and also, make sure you have your onscreen buttons turned on as it can be awkward to navigate without "home" or "back" function) If you now rename the "generic.kl" file to "generic.bak"(or whatever....) and reboot, NOW it should be the way you want. Dont worry, the file "pmic8xxx_pwrkey.kl" will control the power key and "keypad_8064.kl" will control the volume keys. Worked for me at least.
And I should probably mention to make a copy of the whole "keylayout" folder and to also be careful to not delete "pmicxx_pwrkey.kl" as that cause some issues (you should be able to turn on the screen by swiping, but not sure how it effects the deeper power off, power on functions....)
So yeah hope you or others find this useful (and coherent..) as i just got off work a bit ago and sleepy.... and i tend to use run on sentences and and and and lol
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Great info here.
My girlfriend's LGOG just got dropped in the sink. We waited a week and everything is good and powered on but the Power/ScreenLock button must be pressed extremely hard for the phone to register it. Do you have any idea how i can re-route the power button in a way that would still allow powering on with the new button?
Thanks a lot :good:
Btw, the phone is rooted and running beanstalk
EDIT: I changed the function of the volume up key to work as the power/wake and everything seems good while the phone is on but it seems like it wont power the device on from a complete off state. Any ideas on a remedy?
R.Suave said:
Great info here.
My girlfriend's LGOG just got dropped in the sink. We waited a week and everything is good and powered on but the Power/ScreenLock button must be pressed extremely hard for the phone to register it. Do you have any idea how i can re-route the power button in a way that would still allow powering on with the new button?
Thanks a lot :good:
Btw, the phone is rooted and running beanstalk
EDIT: I changed the function of the volume up key to work as the power/wake and everything seems good while the phone is on but it seems like it wont power the device on from a complete off state. Any ideas on a remedy?
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Hi! Erm yeah I tried experimenting a little and now I'm pretty sure the buttons are handled differently at the lower software levels. Changing the keylayouts only affects the current ROM which makes sense since they are included with every rom and also we are able to navigate Recovery with no rom installed. I can't help much (everything I learn is mostly through google and experimenting), but maybe a kernel or firmware dev can help you.
But through experimenting, one minor way to help: When the phone is completely off, if you hold "volume up" while plugging in power cable, it will turn the phone on and load the "Fastboot" screen. You will still have to press the "power" button to boot normaly, but only a "short press" rather than a "long press". So that might help as I imagine getting it to register a long press is a pain.
Also, have you thought bout replacing the switch? its a tiny board and looks easy to get to. I took off my back cover and it doesnt seem like would to much harder to change it out. I looked on ebay and found this ebay dot com/itm/LG-Optimus-G-LS970-Sprint-Power-Button-Replacement-P912-/331129133388?pt=US_Cell_Phone_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item4d18d5994c and also found this ebay dot com/itm/New-Torx-T4-common-size-for-cell-phones-Laptops-More-devices-/181131150696?pt=US_Cell_Phone_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item2a2c420568
(sry it won't let me post outside links lol)If you'd like I can take it apart further and see how hard it is or you can look on youtube for better visual instructions
Ooohh! and as a no cost/irresponsible/last resort kinda option.... If you look at that replacement power switch ebay picture: See those two gold loops coming out the top on either side of the button? Bend a metal wire and touching those two loops will register as a button press and turn the phone on(tested by me woot!)
K, well hope I helped. Lates yo
enjoyspigeons said:
Hi! Erm yeah I tried experimenting a little and now I'm pretty sure the buttons are handled differently at the lower software levels. Changing the keylayouts only affects the current ROM which makes sense since they are included with every rom and also we are able to navigate Recovery with no rom installed. I can't help much (everything I learn is mostly through google and experimenting), but maybe a kernel or firmware dev can help you.
But through experimenting, one minor way to help: When the phone is completely off, if you hold "volume up" while plugging in power cable, it will turn the phone on and load the "Fastboot" screen. You will still have to press the "power" button to boot normaly, but only a "short press" rather than a "long press". So that might help as I imagine getting it to register a long press is a pain.
Also, have you thought bout replacing the switch? its a tiny board and looks easy to get to. I took off my back cover and it doesnt seem like would to much harder to change it out. I looked on ebay and found this ebay dot com/itm/LG-Optimus-G-LS970-Sprint-Power-Button-Replacement-P912-/331129133388?pt=US_Cell_Phone_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item4d18d5994c and also found this ebay dot com/itm/New-Torx-T4-common-size-for-cell-phones-Laptops-More-devices-/181131150696?pt=US_Cell_Phone_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item2a2c420568
(sry it won't let me post outside links lol)If you'd like I can take it apart further and see how hard it is or you can look on youtube for better visual instructions
Ooohh! and as a no cost/irresponsible/last resort kinda option.... If you look at that replacement power switch ebay picture: See those two gold loops coming out the top on either side of the button? Bend a metal wire and touching those two loops will register as a button press and turn the phone on(tested by me woot!)
K, well hope I helped. Lates yo
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Very helpful. Thank you !!!
edit: I searched around for an Optimus G repair video and/or instructions with no avail. If you wouldn't mind, taking yours apart further and seeing how hard it is to replace would be extremely helpful. There is a place here in my city that will replace it for 60 dollars but if I can get to it pretty easy, I'd rather do it myself. Thanks again.
enjoyspigeons said:
Hi, I think I can help. and i just had way to much fun messing with the .kl files (im a geek...) also, since im also using cm11 hopefully they match up to yours.
ok just to clarify(ive never used a nexus) but I'm guessing you want to disable the "back", "home" and "menu" capacitive keys and you're gonna use on-screen buttons? but you still want the volume and power keys?
At first I was gonna suggest using an xposed module to disable the keys. I already use them to "enhance" those keys(double tap "back" switches to last app, long pressing "back" kills current app, etc.etc.) So for what you want, i disabled my gravity box module and installed the xposed additions module and I was successful in disabling the keys(and if you want, you can even set the double tap as the original key function, so single press no "home", double tap "home"...)
Alternatively, looking at the "keylayout" folder, I think you are changing the wrong file. The generic.kl file is not the default keylayout, it's more of a backup in case the vendor doesn't provide a better one. If you look at the file "touch_dev.kl" you'll see four keys that map to the home back and menu, and they are set as virtual. Sooo, i changed the name of the file to "touch_dev.bak" or whatever you want, and after rebooting, NOW it uses the generic.kl file. As a little nifty extra, inside the generic.kl file it sets "menu" and "back" as wake_dropped, so even if the screen is off, pressing either key will wake up the screen. Tho I imagine that might be too easy to accidentally push them while in your pocket. And since we both use neighborhood hackers kernel, the "swipe screen" is probably a better way to turn on the screen.
ok back to you... (and also, make sure you have your onscreen buttons turned on as it can be awkward to navigate without "home" or "back" function) If you now rename the "generic.kl" file to "generic.bak"(or whatever....) and reboot, NOW it should be the way you want. Dont worry, the file "pmic8xxx_pwrkey.kl" will control the power key and "keypad_8064.kl" will control the volume keys. Worked for me at least.
And I should probably mention to make a copy of the whole "keylayout" folder and to also be careful to not delete "pmicxx_pwrkey.kl" as that cause some issues (you should be able to turn on the screen by swiping, but not sure how it effects the deeper power off, power on functions....)
So yeah hope you or others find this useful (and coherent..) as i just got off work a bit ago and sleepy.... and i tend to use run on sentences and and and and lol
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That's one step but what about disabling hardware key lights?
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That's one step but what about disabling hardware key lights?
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erm.. I'm not on CM11 anymore so I can't say for sure but isn't there usually a setting in "Display" or "Buttons"? It's normally near the setting that controls the button backlight timer.
I do remember one rom where I was unable to find this setting... so if that is the case then you can try creating an Init.d script with:
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/button-backlight/brightness; echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/button-backlight/max_brightness
I'd elaborate more on that but I tried to set it on my current rom and I couldn't get the settings to stick lol but I've used this method before many times on other roms. I like to set the button brightness to 1 while most roms set it to 2 or 3(actually any number above 2 is max brightness) and I don't think I've ever seen a way to change it permanently without using this script at boot.
Oh you could also use expose modules to turn it off but I dont think there is one that does JUST that. I'm pretty sure Gravitybox has the option in there.
Oh and I use Lux and I saw an option in there too will turn off button backlight
So yeah many options.. Id try looking thru Settings tho.
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R.Suave said:
Very helpful. Thank you !!!
edit: I searched around for an Optimus G repair video and/or instructions with no avail. If you wouldn't mind, taking yours apart further and seeing how hard it is to replace would be extremely helpful. There is a place here in my city that will replace it for 60 dollars but if I can get to it pretty easy, I'd rather do it myself. Thanks again.
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It's real simple!!!
I took the back off (thats what the torx screwdriver is for) then after that unscrewed like 7 silver + screws holding the black plastic shield(?) and then used pliers to remove the little button-board. It not even really secured in there (it uses the two metal hooks to make contact with the mainboard) so you just lift it out (tho I had to use a tiny flat-head screwdriver to kinda press in the hooks in order to reinsert it) but it wasnt too bad. A lot better than paying 60 bux damn!! lol
But keep in mind... It's totally possible that the water damaged something else that could be harder to fix. Or alternatively, it could be easier. Maybe the water just rusted the metal contacts a little bit and just need a lil polishing
And I couldnt find any videos either that show the button-board clearly but this one does show taking off the back and the black plastic thing:
www.youtube dot com/watch?v=S4uspcvx3f0
I think after ten posts I'll be able to post outside links.....
well either way, good luck. If I can find something else to take pictures with then I could try posting some close ups of the board. But its really simple to get to.
K laters yo. Again, hope I helped!
oh and apologies to jonahly for sidetracking his thread a lil
enjoyspigeons said:
erm.. I'm not on CM11 anymore so I can't say for sure but isn't there usually a setting in "Display" or "Buttons"? It's normally near the setting that controls the button backlight timer.
I do remember one rom where I was unable to find this setting... so if that is the case then you can try creating an Init.d script with:
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/button-backlight/brightness; echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/button-backlight/max_brightness
I'd elaborate more on that but I tried to set it on my current rom and I couldn't get the settings to stick lol but I've used this method before many times on other roms. I like to set the button brightness to 1 while most roms set it to 2 or 3(actually any number above 2 is max brightness) and I don't think I've ever seen a way to change it permanently without using this script at boot.
Oh you could also use expose modules to turn it off but I dont think there is one that does JUST that. I'm pretty sure Gravitybox has the option in there.
Oh and I use Lux and I saw an option in there too will turn off button backlight
So yeah many options.. Id try looking thru Settings tho.
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It's real simple!!!
I took the back off (thats what the torx screwdriver is for) then after that unscrewed like 7 silver + screws holding the black plastic shield(?) and then used pliers to remove the little button-board. It not even really secured in there (it uses the two metal hooks to make contact with the mainboard) so you just lift it out (tho I had to use a tiny flat-head screwdriver to kinda press in the hooks in order to reinsert it) but it wasnt too bad. A lot better than paying 60 bux damn!! lol
But keep in mind... It's totally possible that the water damaged something else that could be harder to fix. Or alternatively, it could be easier. Maybe the water just rusted the metal contacts a little bit and just need a lil polishing
And I couldnt find any videos either that show the button-board clearly but this one does show taking off the back and the black plastic thing:
www.youtube dot com/watch?v=S4uspcvx3f0
I think after ten posts I'll be able to post outside links.....
well either way, good luck. If I can find something else to take pictures with then I could try posting some close ups of the board. But its really simple to get to.
K laters yo. Again, hope I helped!
oh and apologies to jonahly for sidetracking his thread a lil
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Once again a huge help. Thank you. And yes, Sorry jonahly :good::good:
enjoyspigeons said:
erm.. I'm not on CM11 anymore so I can't say for sure but isn't there usually a setting in "Display" or "Buttons"? It's normally near the setting that controls the button backlight timer.
I do remember one rom where I was unable to find this setting... so if that is the case then you can try creating an Init.d script with:
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/button-backlight/brightness; echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/button-backlight/max_brightness
I'd elaborate more on that but I tried to set it on my current rom and I couldn't get the settings to stick lol but I've used this method before many times on other roms. I like to set the button brightness to 1 while most roms set it to 2 or 3(actually any number above 2 is max brightness) and I don't think I've ever seen a way to change it permanently without using this script at boot.
Oh you could also use expose modules to turn it off but I dont think there is one that does JUST that. I'm pretty sure Gravitybox has the option in there.
Oh and I use Lux and I saw an option in there too will turn off button backlight
So yeah many options.. Id try looking thru Settings tho.
---------- Post added at 12:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:27 AM ----------
It's real simple!!!
I took the back off (thats what the torx screwdriver is for) then after that unscrewed like 7 silver + screws holding the black plastic shield(?) and then used pliers to remove the little button-board. It not even really secured in there (it uses the two metal hooks to make contact with the mainboard) so you just lift it out (tho I had to use a tiny flat-head screwdriver to kinda press in the hooks in order to reinsert it) but it wasnt too bad. A lot better than paying 60 bux damn!! lol
But keep in mind... It's totally possible that the water damaged something else that could be harder to fix. Or alternatively, it could be easier. Maybe the water just rusted the metal contacts a little bit and just need a lil polishing
And I couldnt find any videos either that show the button-board clearly but this one does show taking off the back and the black plastic thing:
www.youtube dot com/watch?v=S4uspcvx3f0
I think after ten posts I'll be able to post outside links.....
well either way, good luck. If I can find something else to take pictures with then I could try posting some close ups of the board. But its really simple to get to.
K laters yo. Again, hope I helped!
oh and apologies to jonahly for sidetracking his thread a lil
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haha man! No problem!! The more questions answered the better!