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Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

Jon K — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:22:43 -0000

Great tutorial! My only question is, can I map a key combination or function to the gallery key? I'm trying this out on my E75 and would like to be able to lock the phone with the PTT/Voice Command button throughout any application as natively this can only be done through the home screen. Any thoughts?

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

Ugnaut — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:52:51 -0000

Please explain how to sign the application, Opensign needs some original email address of the application, and I don't feel like hackign the firmware of my phone just to use magic keys, if it would ecen work.

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

Adriano — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:10:34 -0000

Hi there!

Im making a universal appeal!
I bought the apple wireless keyboard for my N95 but I cant use any special characters like "é, á, ê, â, ñ, î, í, ô, ç" etc.. to write in Portuguese.
Im sure a lot of people around the world have the same problem in their own languages.
I made an exhaustive research on the internet to find any kind of solution but zero answer.
I've been using the keyboard so far and its a fantastic experience to use it for make notes in a classroom for example.
The only problem is the accents. With that it would be just perfect!
Magickey can help?
So please if you know any answer to that issue let me know.

Cheers,
Adriano

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

bazza — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:40:09 -0000

i'm one of the weird few that doesnt mind the gallery button, but i guess the majority wins on this and nokia will phase it out.

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

fredx69 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:58:50 -0000

Sorry, but I tried to map my N82 galery button(86)to the button next to the camer-shot(230) - but it does not work ! Can anybody help ?

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

Tumleh — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:57:23 -0000

It works great and I'm so happy. Thanks, many many thanks for this HowTo.

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

Dotsisx — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:31:27 -0000

NKVD,
Great to hear that :D

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

NKVD — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:21:56 -0000

Thank you, you saved my life ! Cool nice little app that kill the gallery (gallery is not a 3 or 5 sec button push like take photo to start the camera viewer).

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

Dotsisx — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:35:34 -0000

Vincent,
I have been using this app for quite a while and I don't believe it has any effect on battery life.

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

Vincent Chow — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:25:15 -0000

Is this app running in the background all the time? Will it drain the battery juice even greater with this on all the time? I used it to change my N82's gallery button into a music player button :p

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

Borut — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:03:48 -0000

With this program you can also totally disable gallery key, without sacrifising another precious key(Pen key in the above example).
In the step 8, you just have to enter in the field "Maps to" the number of the key that doesn't exist(i have chosen number 22. This way you are just remapping Gallery key to nothing.
And voila, Gallery key has no function anymore!
Kudos to all N82 users out there;-)

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

aatifsumar — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:19:41 -0000

hey.
i use the nokia SU-8W for tv out gaming on my n82.
is there any way i can use magic key to map keys onto the BT keyboard?
as in individual alphabets for functions, not just numbers ?

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

Avinash Rathod — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:17:51 -0000

N96 and N78 do not have it ;)

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

Ms. Jen — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:46:13 -0000

The Gallery Key is not just annoying when it ruins a good camera shot if I accidently press it, but I just find the Gallery itself plain annoying.

As a dedicated Lifeblog and ShoZu fan, every item I would want to see or do something with I will see/do in Lifeblog or ShoZu. The Gallery is wasting space.

Basically, I would love to have the ability to just axe it entirely.

I have considered taking out the Gallery key and filling the space on the cover with a bit of plastic and glue.

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

gltovar — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:48:14 -0000

remapping the multimedia key stops it from opening when sliding n95 landscape. Thanks ^_^

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

Dotsisx — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:25:46 -0000

Guys, I love the functionality too, but the problem of it getting inadvertently pressed became VERY annoying. I used to think that I was one of the rare people who enjoyed that key, but by putting the Gallery on my standby screen, i relatively have the same speed of access.

I think I will use this same procedure on my hopefully-soon-arriving n82 to map the multimedia button to the pen key. I know I will hate the multimedia button, and will never use it, much like now with my n95.

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

Cheung Yuen Wong — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:19:08 -0000

Been using it for a while to test it.
It is a little nice piece of software, just too bad that you can't use it to map keysettings in N-gage games. (Have hacked my phone to be able to use landscape mode in N-gage games)

I do understand that people can be annoyed by the gallery button especially when using a carholder and when using the phone such as GPS, navigation or placing the phone in the holder during a call on one's way out.

Offtopic:

The issue with the pencil key was also an issue of mine, but later I found that it was ok to press the * to get the options up.
(The same as using the pencil key)
When holding the # you can mark texts, but that doesn't necessarily work as it depends on the application.
So you still have to press * and then choose cut / copy and then press 'start'.

As a matter of fact I wouldn't be suprised if Nokia chose to take away the gallery button too.
Some thinkg it is convenient while other thinks it is a bother and don't use it. Much like the pencil button which people didn't use much. (Hardcore users and people writing documents will of course use it).

Who wouldn't follow the large group of users to satisfy their needs instead of a small usergroup?

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

Vaibhav Sharma — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:02:38 -0000

I personally *love* the gallery button and it pains me knowing that future Nseries devices that I buy won't have it.

As far as accidental presses go, simply locking the keypad is enough. Moreover when kept in the pocket the chances of it getting pressed are far lesser that any other key owing to its location.

Plus, since its on the bottom half, I rarely, if at all, hold the phone tightly in that position. I might use this app, not to disable it, but to create one if it were possible! :)

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

xrgo — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:28:41 -0000

@Chirantan
yes with magic key you can turn any key to any other key (or none key if you want, for disable a button for instance)
and the good thing is that you can make a lot of keymaps and specify wich apps will use it
so.. theres no limit
plus you dont need to have the app running

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

Chirantan — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:14:59 -0000

well i am not that annoyed with gallery button, in fact i use it quite often, but i wanted to have pencil key back, and didnt really need mutlimedia menu, so have turned multimedia menu key into a pencil key using "The pancil" app, but i just wanted to ask, if the same thing is possible using magic keys?

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

bazza — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:47:55 -0000

i'm one of the weird few that doesnt mind the gallery button, but i guess the majority wins on this and nokia will phase it out.

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

xrgo — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:45:27 -0000

magic key is really cool, i use it a lot for emulators
but for me.. gallery button is very useful

Re: How to Kill The Gallery Button

James Whatley — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:21:07 -0000

Cool little app.

Do you know if you're able to map the multi-media keys too?
You know, the ones on the other s(l)ide?

I want to use them for non-n-gage gaming.

Cheers,