Classic Switched page forward/back buttons?

rmettier · 02-18-2010, 04:15 AM

Reading in the train to work today, and I had to wonder:

How hard would it be to switch the forward and back buttons (purely from a software PoV, I don't want to carve up the actual device) on the side of the nook? So that the top buttons would then be the forward buttons and the lower ones the back buttons?
I ask, because when holding the nook confortably, in either hand, my thumb is right on the back button, which I very rarely use.

rmettier · 02-18-2010, 04:56 AM

Sorry posted too soon.

Seems this has been dealt with already, and it's really easy to do:

http://nookdevs.com/Button_mappings

So I guess I know what I'll be trying this evening

madmak · 02-18-2010, 06:58 PM

Will this impact the firmware force-upgrade process? Current to force an upgrade, you need to keep the top right button pressed while restarting.

beartard · 02-19-2010, 12:16 AM

I'm going to guess not. At the point when the keystroke for a force-update is scanned, the nook is still under the control of the SPL bootloader (I'm guessing) and the Android OS (which controls how user interface happens) hasn't loaded yet. The keymap would be loaded later on in the whole boot process.

02-18-2010, 04:15 AM	#1
rmettier Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: nook	Switched page forward/back buttons? Reading in the train to work today, and I had to wonder: How hard would it be to switch the forward and back buttons (purely from a software PoV, I don't want to carve up the actual device) on the side of the nook? So that the top buttons would then be the forward buttons and the lower ones the back buttons? I ask, because when holding the nook confortably, in either hand, my thumb is right on the back button, which I very rarely use.

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02-18-2010, 04:56 AM	#2
rmettier Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: nook	Sorry posted too soon. Seems this has been dealt with already, and it's really easy to do: http://nookdevs.com/Button_mappings So I guess I know what I'll be trying this evening

02-18-2010, 06:58 PM	#3
madmak Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: nook	Will this impact the firmware force-upgrade process? Current to force an upgrade, you need to keep the top right button pressed while restarting.

02-19-2010, 12:16 AM	#4
beartard Minister of Linux Posts: 196 Karma: 73235 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Winter Haven, Florida, USA Device: nook, T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Slide	I'm going to guess not. At the point when the keystroke for a force-update is scanned, the nook is still under the control of the SPL bootloader (I'm guessing) and the Android OS (which controls how user interface happens) hasn't loaded yet. The keymap would be loaded later on in the whole boot process.

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