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action on phisical button on 4.0.4
Posted: 01 Feb 2014 09:00
by holymoz
hi, I'm not able to assign any action to phisical buttons (home, volume..). the assist trigger doesn't work because of android 4.0.4, also tried with xposed framework various module but nothing, before I quit can someone please
confirm me that it's impossible to do or there's a solution? thanks
Re: action on phisical button on 4.0.4
Posted: 04 Feb 2014 18:27
by Martin
Hi,
It's probably not possible in the current version of Automagic. It should be possible to do something like this with the next version of Automagic with the new trigger Command Output.
It will be quite complicated and requires a rooted device with command getevent. I only tested this on an S3 and a Nexus 5 for now so it might not work on all devices.
Regards,
Martin
Re: action on phisical button on 4.0.4
Posted: 04 Feb 2014 18:45
by holymoz
ok thanks
Re: action on phisical button on 4.0.4
Posted: 06 Feb 2014 12:32
by holymoz
I played around with the getevent and sendevent shell commands and effectively works for me but it's a little complicated to set a function, needs to record the buttons or taps with getevent and reproduce the codes with sendevent in decimal.
I wish if you can get this process more easy, thanks
Re: action on phisical button on 4.0.4
Posted: 07 Feb 2014 09:35
by Martin
getevent supports some options that can make it easier to work with.
getevent -l will also print the name of the keys. Output will look like this:
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/dev/input/event1: EV_KEY KEY_VOLUMEDOWN DOWN
/dev/input/event1: EV_SYN SYN_REPORT 00000000
/dev/input/event1: EV_KEY KEY_VOLUMEDOWN UP
/dev/input/event1: EV_SYN SYN_REPORT 00000000
Instead of sendevent it's often possible to use command
input to press some keys or produce touch input.
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usage: input ...
input text <string>
input keyevent <key code number or name>
input tap <x> <y>
input swipe <x1> <y1> <x2> <y2>
Re: action on phisical button on 4.0.4
Posted: 07 Feb 2014 13:00
by holymoz
thanks, I know about keyevent but prior to jelly bean does not support taps, I have ics.
for the getevent I use in terminal
getevent | grep event<code>
and returns the codes of the the keys or taps (usually 6 lines for 1 tap) like
/dev/input/event<code>: <hex> <hex> <hex>
, example event0 for touch or event1 for phisical keys, then I convert this codes in decimal and use them in
sendevent /dev/input/event<code> <dec> <dec> <dec>
every group of lines (single tap) end with 0 0 0, for long press I put a sleep 1 command before last line of zeros.
it works for me, altough for who can't use controlUI action due to pre-JB roms.