Headset button re-mapping..

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Is there a way to remap the headset button to start voice command instead of the stock voice dialer program?
It's got to be a reg key somewhere but I have yet to find it..

um, how about start -> settings -> buttons?

Sometimes the solution is so simple, you don't notice it!

Um.. yea.. ok, I think I looked there FIRST...
There has never been an option for the button on the headset for any of the phones I've had...
Thanks for the intuitive reply tho

hheheh.
Are you talking about remapping the "wired" headset button? all bluetooth buttons default to the voice command when pressed, but the wired that coems with the mogul hasn't worked for me either.
I've done some research and found a program that does it, but I think i didn't like it becuase it changed something for bluetooth, sorry I don't have the link.

I just finally decided to get a bluetooth wireless,(Motorokr s9)

Oh! The WIRED headset!
I thought you meant the button on the side of the device that normally goes to the voice app.

Its hard to change the wired one because it isn't a standard button... its hardware(HTC)-specific, and so it wouldn't appear in a standard reg key.
In fact, we're sorta lucky that the button launches anything at all, because in older HTC phones the headset button only sent an "answer" signal, so it was useless for anything other than picking up calls.


If you're desperate, you can write an app that sits waiting for the "Voice Dial" signal, and launches something else, or maybe replace the voice dial .exe with a link to voice command... which is also difficult since that program exists in the ROM... but anything is possible if you are inclined to try hard enough!

Let me hijack this thread for a bit. Maybe you can help me out with something.

What I would like, or maybe this exists already, is a method to use my S9's with TCPMP Controls - to be able to use the Next/Previous keys on the headset to switch tracks on TCPMP.

When I do so now, they make a sound, but do nothing. They do work for Windows Media Player, but WMP doesn't work well with ORB. Any ideas on how to do this

Originally Posted by Dishe

Oh! The WIRED headset!
I thought you meant the button on the side of the device that normally goes to the voice app.

Its hard to change the wired one because it isn't a standard button... its hardware(HTC)-specific, and so it wouldn't appear in a standard reg key.
In fact, we're sorta lucky that the button launches anything at all, because in older HTC phones the headset button only sent an "answer" signal, so it was useless for anything other than picking up calls.


If you're desperate, you can write an app that sits waiting for the "Voice Dial" signal, and launches something else, or maybe replace the voice dial .exe with a link to voice command... which is also difficult since that program exists in the ROM... but anything is possible if you are inclined to try hard enough!

The latest version of TCPMP works with AVRCP (the bluetooth audio controls), however it is now called CorePlayer and costs $.
I've seen someone here write an app that will allow GSplayer to work with those controls, and GSplayer is free (and supports streaming audio, but not video). Its possible to adapt that to other players as well, but I haven't figured out how, and no one has made assigning custom commands to those keys an easy process (yet).

I use MortPlayer with my A2DP/ AVRCP headsets instead of WMP because its much more efficient, supports all my remote controls (and shuts the screen off to save battery after every keypress) and remembers where I was up to when I last closed the program (I hate it how WMP makes you load a playlist every time you open it!).

For streaming video, I just use TCPMP and don't bother with the remote controls... if I'm watching something on the screen, I don't mind pressing it. Remote controls for me are useful for music or any application in which the phone is tucked away somewhere. Why would you need it for video?

Well then, consider the thread hijacked. We now return to our regularly scheduled conversation.