For Manila2D users - Remap Any of the Softkeys (i.e. contacts, messaging, email, people tabs)

[Guest integrate]

I know the home softkeys can be remapped, but how about the other softkeys? Such as the ones under the contacts tab or messaging tab.

If anyone has any info on this, that'd be great. So far, I'm not sure of any customizing programs that can do this.

[Guest TheDrizzle]

This is a wishlist item of mine as well. The only thing I have found that sort of resembles it this is a tool call SSMaPA. Check out this thread at XDA:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=407777

I was able to use it to change the clock from the WinMo clock control panel to the Samsung tclock.exe. However, it broke all of the softkeys on each tab. (e.g. "All People", "All Settings", etc). The text was just gone and the soft keys did nothing. Luckily the tool has a mothed to "unpatch" M2D back to normal. When I ran that, it fixed the soft keys, but of course I lost my custom clock. If anyone can figure out why that happens i'd love to get it working.

There is also another program called VJBrisk which you can "redirect" an exe call to any other shortcut. This might work for what you are trying to do. I used it to redirect the "Maps" softkey to a the google maps on my storage card instead of on device memory, so I could remove the version there to save space.

See this thread at XDA:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=477519

Have fun!

[Guest integrate]

This is a wishlist item of mine as well. The only thing I have found that sort of resembles it this is a tool call SSMaPA. Check out this thread at XDA:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=407777

I was able to use it to change the clock from the WinMo clock control panel to the Samsung tclock.exe. However, it broke all of the softkeys on each tab. (e.g. "All People", "All Settings", etc). The text was just gone and the soft keys did nothing. Luckily the tool has a mothed to "unpatch" M2D back to normal. When I ran that, it fixed the soft keys, but of course I lost my custom clock. If anyone can figure out why that happens i'd love to get it working.

There is also another program called VJBrisk which you can "redirect" an exe call to any other shortcut. This might work for what you are trying to do. I used it to redirect the "Maps" softkey to a the google maps on my storage card instead of on device memory, so I could remove the version there to save space.

See this thread at XDA:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=477519

Have fun!

Thanks for the help. Seems like not many people is interested in this so far, but it really doesn't seem like this request is all too much. Hopefully someone whips something up!

[Guest Squintz82]

I've been very interested in this for a while. I checked out that VBrisk app redirector, but I'm not really sure how it works. I've been trying to find a way to change the "all messages" link to SMS Chat forever. Could VBrisk do this?

Also, could you post step by step how you were able to change your maps location with VBrisk?

[Guest TheDrizzle]

I've been very interested in this for a while. I checked out that VBrisk app redirector, but I'm not really sure how it works. I've been trying to find a way to change the "all messages" link to SMS Chat forever. Could VBrisk do this?

Also, could you post step by step how you were able to change your maps location with VBrisk?

Here is what I did to get GoogleMaps to open from the storage card:

I used sztupy's "all in one 19b installer" to put M2D on my Omnia.

Just as a disclaimer, there might be a simpler way to do this, but this is what worked for me.

First, install Google maps on the Storage card. Then install VJbrisk where ever. Then go to /Program Files/Google Maps/ and delete everyhting IN the folder, but not the folder itself. (this is the older version that was installed with the all-in-one package). Then, while connected through activesync, navigate using your PC to the folder on the strorage card where google maps is installed. (Probably "/Storage Card/Google Maps/".) Then right click on "GoogleMaps.exe" and select "create shortcut". Rename the shortcut "GoogleMapsLNK.lnk". Copy this shortcut to the OLD google maps directory (/program files/google maps). Then take a COPY of vjbrisk.exe, put it in the same directory. Rename "vjbrisk.exe" to "GoogleMaps.exe". That should it! Manilla maps tabs is hard coded to call GoogleMaps.exe, which is now vjbrisk, which will call the shortcut to the GoogleMaps on the storage card.

From my understanding, vjbrisk will just call a shortcut in the same directory but with <origexe>LNK.lnk as the name. So for example, if you renamed vjbrisk.exe to foo.exe, when foo.exe is opened it will attempt to open a shortcut named fooLNK.lnk in the same directory. Check the xda thread for more robust documentation.

About your "All messages" thing, I think you could use vjbrisk. You need to know the .exe name the windows messaging app. (I think it might be tmail.exe, but maybe someone else can chime in). I think it resides in the /Windows directory. So you would rename that tmail.exe to something else, create shortcut to your other mail app, put it in /windows named tmailLNK.lnk then create a copy of vjbrisk.exe, put it in /Windows and name it tmail.exe. No gaurentees though, but that might work!

Have fun.

[Guest integrate]

Here is what I did to get GoogleMaps to open from the storage card:

I used sztupy's "all in one 19b installer" to put M2D on my Omnia.

Just as a disclaimer, there might be a simpler way to do this, but this is what worked for me.

First, install Google maps on the Storage card. Then install VJbrisk where ever. Then go to /Program Files/Google Maps/ and delete everyhting IN the folder, but not the folder itself. (this is the older version that was installed with the all-in-one package). Then, while connected through activesync, navigate using your PC to the folder on the strorage card where google maps is installed. (Probably "/Storage Card/Google Maps/".) Then right click on "GoogleMaps.exe" and select "create shortcut". Rename the shortcut "GoogleMapsLNK.lnk". Copy this shortcut to the OLD google maps directory (/program files/google maps). Then take a COPY of vjbrisk.exe, put it in the same directory. Rename "vjbrisk.exe" to "GoogleMaps.exe". That should it! Manilla maps tabs is hard coded to call GoogleMaps.exe, which is now vjbrisk, which will call the shortcut to the GoogleMaps on the storage card.

From my understanding, vjbrisk will just call a shortcut in the same directory but with <origexe>LNK.lnk as the name. So for example, if you renamed vjbrisk.exe to foo.exe, when foo.exe is opened it will attempt to open a shortcut named fooLNK.lnk in the same directory. Check the xda thread for more robust documentation.

About your "All messages" thing, I think you could use vjbrisk. You need to know the .exe name the windows messaging app. (I think it might be tmail.exe, but maybe someone else can chime in). I think it resides in the /Windows directory. So you would rename that tmail.exe to something else, create shortcut to your other mail app, put it in /windows named tmailLNK.lnk then create a copy of vjbrisk.exe, put it in /Windows and name it tmail.exe. No gaurentees though, but that might work!

Have fun.

Yea, I think VJBrisk would work except that the file tmail.exe is cooked into the ROM so you can't rename it, unfortunately. Also, the email tab uses tmail.exe as well, which I don't want to change. So looks like my only option here is to simply remap the softkey itself, which would seem like the easiest solution.