[Desire Android Development] Alunduyn:
Ladiez and Gentz, i found it. How to disable PIE without losing your mom's very tasty apple pies.

PIE will only appear as long as you don't have Software buttons onscreen. TabUI will disable PIE, but text is just too small, I don't like it. Also having navigation buttons on screen will disable PIE, but they are useless with HW ones and will use screen space. My solution? Enable Navbar ( in both Phone UI and Phablet UI ), and then make it invisible. In Hybrid settings you can put it to 10%. You will see it, but you will not be able to press buttons. PIE is no more there. But it looks very ugly. You can't set 1%. Or maybe not...?

First, get a root file explorer and a text editor. I found Total Commander a perfect one, with text editor and wonderful file browser, root or not.

1) Browse to /system/etc/paranoid

2) There are two files : properties.conf and backup.conf. I would suggest editing directly properties.conf : reboot will still be needed but you'll be sure that your settings are applied ( I don't know where backup files are stored, in Hybrid Settings it says "data". So that file is quite a mistery. I didn't touch it. Feel free to do so if you feel the need to explore )

3) Open properties.conf, and make sure your text editor can save with root permissions. Total Commander can. ( just press on it and choose "edit file" )

4) Navigate to ## WORKSPACE PREFERENCES header. Under that, there should be a line with com.android.systemui.navbar.dpi=

10

( 10 is the value I had and you have if you enable navbar at 10%. If you have it disabled/at 0%, the value will be 0 )

5) Replace 10 ( or 0, or whatever you have ) with 1.

6) Save settings

7) Reboot.

PIE won't appear, Navbar is invisible, at least for me. If you can see it, contact some mad doctor and become a superhero.

Note that in Hybrid Settings your Navbar percentage will be 0. Just don't change anything there, or Navbar will appear/PIE will be back on.

Thanks for the tip. I managed to do so, but PhoneUI called me back. Now that I know how to disable PIE, I will stay with SystemUI 240. I also increased the PhoneUI max notifications ( only 5?? IT WAS HILARIOUS!! )

About the key remapping, yeah, if you can give me a hint, I'll be happy for the rest of my AOSPA-Life. A whole section is nice but I agree that not so much people will use that. So being able to do it by myself will be great. I searched a little bit but I couldn't find how, and I'm too lazy to check all the system :)

Ah, about the double file ( I forgot it in last answer ), it is in /system/etc/terminfo/2. There are two files : 2621A and 2621a. They have the same name ( except for uppercase/lowercase ), so I can't edit the zip. It is not an issue for 99% of users, but I reported, you asked, and I forgot to give more details :)

Another ( I hope last ) thing : with previous versions if I copied a custom ringtone in /system/media/audio/ringtones after a reboot I couldn't see any ringtone escept "Themos" (default) and "Silent". Also all notification sounds disappeared except default. I fixed permissions of the ringtone I added and then for a short while after a reboot the ringtones appeared back. But in one/two hours they disappeared again. The files are there, permissions are ok, I can't find the problem. It happened with all versions except lastest ( I haven't copied anything there this time )