Why are there so few buttons? Why doesn't every button have a short press and a long press.

Where the heck is button 3?

Thanks,

John

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Are you asking about a button mapper? If so, the only things I have found are Spb Pocket Plus and AE Button Plus. The latter scares me a bit, but I'll probably give it a shot.

If anyone knows of others, please post them.

button 3 is on the qwerty keyboard in the upper left. Not on the side of the phone like the rest. I thought it was the OK button for the longest time.

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if i am not mistaken, button 3 is on the slide out keyboard. has an envelope on it. left hand side.

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Spb PP is not able to alter the other buttons. Not sure about AE BP. We need a registry expert here.

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I am going to try AE BP soon. Probably too busy today though, so if someone else has the courage to try it out, please post results here.

Alan

Vito also has a button mapper, but I confirmed that it cannot map new buttons (e.g., number pad).

One postive note regarding SPB Pocket Plus-- you can add a long press to the "OK" button, so at least you get one more.

Yeah, I currently have it mapped to the Spb task manager. I'm checking out AE Button Plus right now to see if it works.

As an aside, when programming, you have to hold it for a really long time before Spb will accept it. As ebb notes, though, it does work!

AE Button Plus gives you a bunch more options of buttons to map, and also lets you do multi-presses. However, it's kind of unstable, so it's not for me. Looks like I'll be going with Spb PP.

One warning on using the buttons option in SPB 4.0.

Used it on my Tilt... when this feature is activated, there is a definate lag in button presses all around.

I am using AEB on my Samsung 760 and like it very much. I have not had any stability problems and it handles every button.

I have my END button set to turn off the device with two presses. The left soft key is set to Start with one press and Resco FE with two presses. I have set the right soft key to PocketCM with one press, Memmaid with two and Soft Reset with a long press. And so on...

To each his own, but i have essentially added several buttons to my phone.

Now that Spb has released the shortcuts for PP, I'm giving AE another try. I've noticed that if I assign a long press action to the direction buttons (up/down/left/right), I then get a sluggish response. No biggie - I just won't use them. However, I wanted to mention that for everyone else.

Also been using AE Button Plus on the i760 and no issues.

It seems to be be able to get at more buttons than the other re-mapping apps I've tried. And the only speed drop I've seen is if a button has double/triple-press action defined, it has to wait a fraction of a second if your first press is going to be followed by another (understandably).

I've mapped the buttons that I've hit accidentally to double-presses (no noticeable slow-down), and added long-presses to most for the extra hard-button advantage.

-e.g.

I have a question for those of you using AE Button Plus. If you wanted to map the OK button to press and hold to record a voice memo and stop recording when I let go of the button how would you do it?

Thanks
Charles

Another question for AE Button Plus users. Which button in the software is the CLR button? I want to remap that to the OK function and reuse the side ok button for other things.

You can't do that. Once the voice recorder you are using starts, you have to use its controls to stop the recording.

AE Button Plus can only map the buttons on the list. If CLR is not listed, then you can't map it. Try contacting the developer to see if he can add the buttons.

Actually it is possible to map to the CLR key, however it also effects the functionality of the DEL on the slide out keyboard. If you want to fiddle with it click on the file softkey in aebutton plus and select add button.

I didn't say CLR couldn't be mapped, I just said it has to be listed to be mapped (i.e., you can't identify new buttons to be programmed via the GUI). Thanks for pointing out that CLR and delete were the same!