Mapping Power button

[HeartOfDarkness]

Hi peeps !

Searched all over the forum, but couldn't find the answer.

Is there a way to assign a function to the Power On/Off button other than to turn the Athena on / off ?

I typically, for instance, would like to bind the "DisplaySwitch" psShutXP shortcut to the Power Button so that when i press it, it doesn't turn the Athena off but only the screen.

Additionnaly, if one knows how to assign a sequence of actions to the Power Button (like "locking the device + switching screen on / off"), that'd be great.

Thanks guys !

[techntrek]

Turning off only the screen is the default action for the power button...

There is an app that many on here use (I can't think of the name) which lets you reassign most of the buttons on the Athena, including the OK and Windows button, to many different functions. You can also hack the registry to reassign the camera/comm/browser buttons if the standard reassignments that Windows Mobile gives you aren't enough - but really odd things like locking + screen off may require you to also write your own small app first.

[HeartOfDarkness]

Hi there, thank you for your answer.

Actually, the Power button must do something more than just flicking the screen off, like scaling the CPU down, spinning out the microdrive, flushing a bunch of buffers, etc.

I'm asking because of a problem I posted about in the forum (here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=353456), about my Athena being strangely slow, and its CPU being 80% used by nothing that I can see or find, when I wake it up using the Power button.

I'm trying to see if I can circumvent the problem if I can't manage to find its source and solve it, in fact.

I used AEButtons Plus, which works pretty well with ALL buttons but the Power one, and I couldn't find a reference to it in the registry either.

Thanks for your time ! :-)

[techntrek]

Yup, that's the app I was thinking of. I don't use it so I couldn't think of the name. Sorry to hear of your slowdown problems, I've been monitoring that thread. I agree that it sounds like a hardware problem at this point.

[Tadeusz]

You need DevieLock.cab. It can be set to switch off the screen and lock the device. It can by mapped to any button but Power on/off though.

[HeartOfDarkness]

Thanks man, gonna look it up right away !