[HD2 General] rzasharp:
Hello everyone, I'm sure many people will be interested to know that AE Button Plus is working perfectly with LEO and support english, french (which I use), spanish, deutsch and ten other languages. BTW, this is my first post, so every comments are welcome :eek:

The HD2 may be a touch device, it still has 7 buttons and I use them for variaty of functions, including switching on/off BLUETOOTH, WIFI or TORCH. You can even assign any button to run an application. The program is VERY stable and VERY convenient.

This exceptional app has the ability to reassign function to (almost) every physical button of your device, including the volume button. Moreover, it has the ability to assign different functions whether you press the button ONCE, TWICE or LONG PRESS. It very simple to use and work wonderfully with my HTC HD2 (as wall as many other Windows Mobile Device). I've used it for more than a week and I can't report any bug, even though I installed many other apps, tweak and so on.

I'm using the evaluation version (you have pay 7.99$) by the fact that it shows a splash screen when device starts up. But you can believe I will pay the damn Russian guy who created the app, many even donate more!!!

I wanted to share my experience with using this app, since it's not very known in this (great) HD2 forum. Also, I want to show you the way I've been remapping the buttons, to show how useful it can get. Feel free to comment!!! Once you install the program, softreset and assign the AEBPlus to a shortcut and you're ready to rock! By the way, the icon is quite ugly, but that's just a minor issue :D.

THIS IS THE WAY I REMAPPED HD2 BUTTONS (in brackets, the way AEPlus "calls" the button)

Volume up.

Single press: volume up

Long press Backlight up

Volume down.

Single press: volume down

Long press Backlight down

Hang up (green phone button)

Single press: switch vibration mode on/off (and shut down the volume)

Double press: switch torch on/off (run application "TorchButton v2.3")

Home button (button #00ED), added manually

Single press: unchanged, impossible to remap ??

Double press: switch bluetooth on/off (impossible to make it different than the "Home button"...)

Long press: impossible to remap ??

Windows button (windows key)

Single press: ok/close (close the window, but not the program still runs)

Double press: windows file explorer (you can choose to run another explorer, for example Total Commander)

Long press: close active application ("really" close the application)

Return button (also button #00ED, added manually, see ISSUE below)

Single press: unchanged (actually I chose no action, but the original function remains)

Double press: switch bluetooth on/off

Long press: switch wifi on/off

Power button (red phone button)

Single press: unchanged (shuts down backlight)

Double press: unchanged

Long press: unchanged (actually, I use it with "Touch X LEO Power 12 icons actionscreen v1.1")

KNOWN ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS

- Absolutely no bug !

- Bluetooth. The function included with this program doesn't work (apparently because HD2 uses Widcomm bluetooth, unlike its predecessors). To solve this, I simply assign the desired button with the application "ToggleBTh.exe" (credit to Dextrosan http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=587493). I copied the file to the folder "Program Files" and created a shortcut in the "windows/start menu/programs" to be able to make it appear in the program list.

- Backlight level. To adjust the backlight, you have to access the settings of the program. Click options -> backlight settings (scroll down !). There you can adjust the darkest level you wish (0 = minimum backlight) and the brightest level (10 = 100% = maximum backlight , less if you want to save battery life) and backlight step (2 = 20% is fine with me). Beware, when you assign a button with function backlight level, you have to choose in the subsequent menu if you want "backlight down", "backlight up" or even "backlight level" 0, 2 (= 20%), 4 (= 40%) and so on.

- Manually add Home button. Home button is not listed in the program, so you have to add it manually. Choose "File -> Add button" and follow instructions. Actually, there's a trick... If you press the Home button, it will close the window and go back to your home page. You'll have to go back in the program using the task manager.

- Home and Return button cannot be remapped individual. For some reason, when you manually add Home button, it's called #00ED and when you assign actions, these actions also work with the Return button... Actually, these actions even work BETTER on Return button than Home button. Single press and Long press actions will not work with Home button, but they work with Return button. Weird, huh? Even if you manually add Home button (then called #405C) and assign actions for the button, it won't work at all, and the Return will still execute actions listed with the button #00ED. All in all, it's a minor issue. Just remember that I can't remap single or long press for teh Home Button.

EDIT: Dec, 20 I also use the function "control volume directly" so that the volume buttons control SYSTEM volume directly and not the ring volume. Also, this nice function disable the ugly pop-up volume window that appears and have the annoying tendency to change ring volume first !!! This function is located in the menu "Options -> Other options -> Control volume directly". You can check or uncheck it.

That all folks, hope this little work will be useful for many.

Much help is appreciated to try to solve the Home/Return button issue.

SIGNATURE

- Device: HTC HD2 codemane "Leo"

- Rom: 1.48.406.1 (7 1294) FRE

- Manila: 2.5.192 116 19.0

- Radio: 2.05.51.05_2

INSTALLED SOFTWARES & TWEAKS

- Net 3.7 Compact Framework

- AE Button Plus 2.6.6.1

- BsB Tweaks v1.5

- TorchButton v2.3 (use your flashlight as torch, SOS etc...)

- Total Commander 2.51

- WMLongLife-0.60.205 (fine connexion manager)

- Touch X LEO Power 12 icons actionscreen v1.1