NEC Interesting. I just assumed that it wasn't limited to parts of the screen, but never tested it. I wonder where that setting is declared, and how hard it would be to change it.

    neutronscott how about from pressing a key?
    or adding code to the apps themselves? I am asking because people might have a lot of different apps?

        Biden2020prez I made a daemon that toggled it by pressing quick dial. Someone said it'd be better if it enabled itself when an app started.

        But I'm out of the game again. Broke this phone. I tried patching the preloader. I don't think it was the patch itself but that I started at the wrong offset. There was a 2048 header in my dump vs the edited preloader_raw.bin from the update zip. I assumed fastboot would do the right thing... Oops?

        I also thought brom would let me recover but I see no USB activity. Perhaps I need a uart cable to speak serial to the primitive brom.

            neutronscott wow! Sorry you cant recover 🙁 . I remember If said it would he nicer to open for apps, i just think he is wrong. (Not in a mean way)

                Biden2020prez I wouldn't mind learning enough to make a quick Android app that'd do both. I'm sure it wouldn't take a lot of code to just print a list of apps and a toggle to say auto-start mouse. Plus a toggle to intercept the quickdial/camera button...

                But I just donated $20 for an Android kitchen app and have no phone now so priority is low..

                    Wow! This thread now has more posts than other thread!

                    • TtechyLevel 3 - Gold Member

                      • Post #539

                      neutronscott If you have an option to donate a coffee on GitHub or something like that, then people may be willing to chip in. Especially since so many people are relying on you since they can't do anything themselves.

                          Hey all...I appreciate the effort everyone has put into this. I've been tracking for a few weeks now and it's cool to see the wizards at work. Is anyone willing to give me a easy step by step flow on how to accomplish this? I haven't rooted a phone in probably 13 years but starting to get back into it. Thanks you.

                            techy people may be willing to chip in

                            I've given it some thought and I shared two methods to donate on my flip2 info page: [Login to see the link]

                            purpleicing Is anyone willing to give me a easy step by step flow on how to accomplish this?

                            I thought a guide was started but perhaps it was removed, I cannot find it. The only part missing from my [Login to see the link] are the fastboot/adb tools. To be honest if you're not comfortable you may want to wait a bit longer for when a polished ROM is made.

                                  • NNECLevel 1 - Junior Member

                                    • Post #546

                                    neutronscott i see you did a remap of the quick dial button to toggle the mouse. how should i run it?

                                        NEC It'll hopefully be packaged up or replaced by something even easier but grab the grab binary from [Login to see the link]

                                        • adb push grab /data/local/tmp
                                        • adb shell
                                        • cd /data/local/tmp
                                        • chmod +x grab
                                        • ./grab /dev/input/event1

                                        you'll need to keep the shell open although you could try (I can't verify until replacement arrives) adb shell "nohup /data/local/tmp/grab /dev/input/event1 &" after which you should be able to unplug and it will run until it is rebooted.

                                            neutronscott Wow! What you did with the phone is nothing compared to what you did with the car! If I Ever need someone to build another universe ill let you know 🙂

                                            After all you did so far, maybe you can top it off by finding the speaker button.

                                            On a more serious note, is it possible on These forums to make it say something other than details in a spoiler?

                                              • NNECLevel 1 - Junior Member

                                                • Post #549

                                                neutronscott the command to keep even when unplugged didn't work but everything else did. thanks!!

                                                    • FlippyLevel 6 - Platinum Elite Member

                                                      • Post #550
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                                                      What is the

                                                      NEC quick dial button

                                                      that you all keep referring to?

                                                      I finally got my TCL flip and rooted it. [Login to see the link] do you still want me to try the renaming browser package name or we are past that?

                                                      Also anyone have a way to remap the UP directional key to anything useful instead of locked to default tracfone homepage (browser)?

                                                          Flippy I haven't tried yet, but I Think its the green call button.

                                                          i think past that

                                                          • NEC replied to this.

                                                              Oh thats a good button

                                                              • FlippyLevel 6 - Platinum Elite Member

                                                                • Post #556

                                                                NEC Wow cool. Mouse seems to be working good for me. More testing needed.

                                                                lgexalter1 Anyone up to that? Feels like a waste of a perfectly good shortcut key.

                                                                    Flippy Also anyone have a way to remap the UP directional key to anything useful instead of locked to default tracfone homepage (browser)?

                                                                    Yes I looked at this. It would only require making an overlay apk for the Launcher3. It's a resource: <bool name="def_upkey_openmysite">true</bool>