Small Notification Bar + Touch Events Fix information + feedback topic

[Guest Pyr0x64]

yeah, having wider buttons might help. would need to test it out tho

[Guest English Haze]

I've remaped the volume hard buttons to home/menu...

Great tip! Thanks ;)

[Guest castab]

I'm thinking the small menu will be OK if we can double the width of the buttons... thoughts?

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Yeah should be good, but wont the icons distort when stretching them?

Edited December 7, 2010 by castab

[Guest woutxz]

Cheers for the tip. Just remapped my volume keys using Root Explorer on my Vega on the train, and installed audiomanager. Much much better.

Agreed, much much better! Cheers guys.

[Guest lnux9898]

For the ones who don't want to play about with *.kl files, try out this app:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464

I haven't been able to test but it looks promising.

[Guest JingleManSweep]

Remapping the buttons would be good. Do you fancy maybe making a small tutorial on it the xda sites is ok but it assumes a little more android knowledge than I'm sure many of us actually have.

You can change it straight on the device, but this guide needs root access and the "Root Explorer" application installed...

1) Open "Root Explorer"

2) Navigate to "system", then "usr", then "keylayout" (or "/system/usr/keylayout")

3) Click on "Mount R/W" button at the top to remount the filesystem with write access (e.g. not read only)

4) Press and hold on "gpio-keys.kl"

5) Select "Open in Text Editor"

6) Click anywhere on the displayed text. The keyboard and input box will appear.

7) Locate the cursor on the line that starts "key 115" (volume up) and change the next word to HOME.

8) Locate the cursor on the line that starts "key 116" (volume down) and change the next word to BACK.

The two lines should now be something like:

key 115 HOME

key 114 BACK

You can swap the "HOME" and "BACK" text around if you want a different key configuration. This setup means that the "Volume Up" key takes you to the Home screen and the "Volume Down" key acts as the "BACK" key. Alternatively, you can change one of these words to "MENU" if you want a hardware Menu button.

9) When finished, click "Done" next to the input box.

10) When back at the text view page, press the "MENU" button and select "Save & Exit".

11) When back at the Root Explorer page, click "Mount R/O" to remount your filesystem back to "read only" mode.

12) Exit Root Explorer.

13) Reboot for changes to take affect.

If you make a mistake and your buttons don't work, try the above process again. If all else fails you can reset to default by reflashing a 1.04 ROM (including MoDaCo MCR).

[Guest vertico]

can we make the "Back" key a little fatter please?

I can hit the menu button no problem ..

[Guest The Yellow Monster]

Hi,

I tried it too. Agreed, the back button is too small, I keep missing it! I keep missing the menu button too, but less often.

Looks great with the smaller bar, but I think it's going to have to be taller to fit a usable button in it. What about increasing by a couple of pixels?

YM.

[Guest r8zer]

Hi,

I tried it too. Agreed, the back button is too small, I keep missing it! I keep missing the menu button too, but less often.

Looks great with the smaller bar, but I think it's going to have to be taller to fit a usable button in it. What about increasing by a couple of pixels?

YM.

looks awesome , but for some reason it will not rotate to lanscape in apps anymore.

EDIT::: SORRY IM A DUMB ASS!!!! I HAD THE LOCK BUTTON ON, MAN WAT a DUFUSS!!!! ;)

Edited December 7, 2010 by r8zer

[Guest TylerDurdenK]

You can change it straight on the device, but this guide needs root access and the "Root Explorer" application installed...

That's great. Is there a way to make the original "Back" button into a "notifications" button? Then we could hide the NB altogether.

[Guest Paul]

Alrighty, i've doubled the width of the touch points, adjusted the bar slightly so things don't get chopped off and redone the battery indicators.

MUCH better I think!

I'll upload this to the kitchen now and post when done.

P

[Guest Paul]

Kitchen updated! ;)

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[Guest MonkeyBoy451]

Kitchen updated! ;)

P

excellent - thanks. :P

[Guest nigelpwilson]

Just flashed...seems about the perfect balance to me...good work Paul ;)

Hey just noticed I'm no longer a newbie :P

Edited December 8, 2010 by nigelpwilson

[Guest Paul]

Just flashed...seems about the perfect balance to me...good work Paul ;)

Hey just noticed I'm no longer a newbie :P

Yeah, I agree, I think it's pretty spot on now.

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[Guest debs626]

Tested and works perfect for me now, 100% success rate on the return icon.

Noticed in your pic you have Gingerbread dock icons ;)

Thanks for all your hard work Paul, its greatly appreciated :P

Edited December 8, 2010 by debs626

[Guest Paul]

Any improvements in touch events when plugged in?

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[Guest deadite66]

not for me, you can make the problem visible by installing multitouch visualizer 2 from the market.

with 2 fingers on battery it's stable but on charge it's jumping around all over the place.

Edited December 8, 2010 by deadite66

[Guest debs626]

Any improvements in touch events when plugged in?

P

Just done a quick test in my email client, pressed every key on the keyboard and only got multi-pressed key once

Was happening 3 or 4 times before.

Multi-touch test app is still a little jittery but not as much

[Guest MonkeyBoy451]

Alrighty, i've doubled the width of the touch points, adjusted the bar slightly so things don't get chopped off and redone the battery indicators.

MUCH better I think!

I'll upload this to the kitchen now and post when done.

P

Hi Paul

Have just flashed the new update and notice a few errors which are pasted below - have also noticed that there is now large GAP left between the top of wallpapers and the new smaller notification bar per my screenshot below too. Any ideas?

D:\r4>install-windows.bat

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully *

Remounting system partition

remount succeeded

		pkg: /system/etc/shuttle_priv/libflashplayer_froyo_gles2_20101019_v10.1.

95.18_signed.apk

Success

Making room for new files

rm failed for /system/lib/hw/wlan_ar6002, No such file or directory

rm failed for /system/etc/Dix, No such file or directory

rm failed for /system/lib/nvddk_2d_test_sanity.so, No such file or directory

Copying new files

..

52 files pushed. 0 files skipped.

1002 KB/s (33167123 bytes in 32.298s)

Installing performance pack

..

68 files pushed. 0 files skipped.

1045 KB/s (17559236 bytes in 16.401s)

Bluetooth fix

mkdir failed for /system/etc/bluez, File exists

failed on '/system/etc/bluecore6.psr' - No such file or directory

Setting permissions

Done, rebooting

I'm using the latest version of Launcher Pro Plus.

Cheers

Ian.

[Guest dazzawright]

The notification buttons are now bang on for me. Thankyou ;)

With regard the touch screen issues whilst plugged in ... the problem is still evident for me i'm afraid.

[Guest Paul]

Hi Paul

Have just flashed the new update and notice a few errors which are pasted below - have also noticed that there is now large GAP left between the top of wallpapers and the new smaller notification bar per my screenshot below too. Any ideas?

D:\r4>install-windows.bat

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully *

Remounting system partition

remount succeeded

		pkg: /system/etc/shuttle_priv/libflashplayer_froyo_gles2_20101019_v10.1.

95.18_signed.apk

Success

Making room for new files

rm failed for /system/lib/hw/wlan_ar6002, No such file or directory

rm failed for /system/etc/Dix, No such file or directory

rm failed for /system/lib/nvddk_2d_test_sanity.so, No such file or directory

Copying new files

..

52 files pushed. 0 files skipped.

1002 KB/s (33167123 bytes in 32.298s)

Installing performance pack

..

68 files pushed. 0 files skipped.

1045 KB/s (17559236 bytes in 16.401s)

Bluetooth fix

mkdir failed for /system/etc/bluez, File exists

failed on '/system/etc/bluecore6.psr' - No such file or directory

Setting permissions

Done, rebooting[/code]




I'm using the latest version of Launcher Pro Plus.


Cheers


Ian.

That's all good, don't worry about those errors.


Will check out the wallpaper issue.


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[Guest MonkeyBoy451]

That's all good, don't worry about those errors.

Will check out the wallpaper issue.

P

ok cheers. ;)

Ian.

[Guest Sir Gash]

Alrighty, i've doubled the width of the touch points, adjusted the bar slightly so things don't get chopped off and redone the battery indicators.

MUCH better I think!

I'll upload this to the kitchen now and post when done.

P

Perfect! Thanks Paul.

[Guest emergant]

Perfect! Thanks Paul.

I certainly prefer the new bar. Thanks Paul ;)

I've only scanned the following thread, but I'm wondering if the bar couldn't go away altogether when not needed?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=860153