CM10 & gapps weirdness?

[leeoniya]

Just upgraded to HTC Jewel from the HTC Supersonic and decided to slap cm10 onto it. I was previously running CM7 nightlies so the os change is pretty significant. i'm still adapting to this only-3-hardware-buttons thing, not liking it either

i did a full unlock / s-off / root using http://unlimited.io/jewel.htm (hboot 2.09). following that, i did a full wipe and flashed the latest CM10 nightly from http://get.cm/?device=jewel (cm-10-20130113-NIGHTLY-jewel.zip) and the last compatible 4.1.2 gapps (20121011) from http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/Google_Apps#Jelly_Bean_.28Android_4.1.x-4.2.x.29

everything is pretty much working except i have no idea why some things are missing...things i would normally use the hardware "menu" button for before. i also have some other things which i cannot seem to configure.

1. how do i mount the external SD card rather than internal storage over USB? i see no options for this anywhere, nor any setting to set it as default. i can only do it in TWRP recovery...
2. is there a way to tweak the long-keypress duration?
3. for some reason my Play Store has neither a "My Apps" section nor a menu icon next to the search icon. how do i access the play stor "menu" or settings?
4. the CM10 file manager has no "menu" icon either so that i can switch it into root mode.

for the last two, it almost seems like CM10 thinks there is a hardware "menu" button present on this phone, so it hides the menu icon in numerous apps. perhaps it's a CM10 build misconfig?

if anyone has any idea, plz let me know. my phone is quite crippled because of this. thx!

 

[leeoniya]

for now i'm working around the "no menus" issue by assigning a "Open/close menu" action on the "App switch key (long press)" in the hardware keys config.

 

[NaterTots]

System settings > system > hardware keys
to set up a menu key rather than a recent apps key which you can set up with a long press if you like.

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[leeoniya]

yes, as i mentioned, that's what i'm doing now. but it *should* be showing the menu icons in the apps by default on devices that have no hardware menu keys.

 

[NaterTots]

Really? I guess your right. i just checked my galaxy nexus and it has the settings button in the top right.

I've always used the Button remap so never really cared i guess.

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[leeoniya]

apparently, there's already an issue opened for this last month. added my $0.02 to it.

http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=6880

 

[scottspa74]

Doesn't checking the overflow box in settings>hardware keys fix that?

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[scottspa74]

Yeah, mine has menu button, if I'm understanding you right.


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[scottspa74]

The setting at bottom right.


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[leeoniya]

yes, it does fix it. but it was not obvious at all to me even though i did see the option only after digging in the hardware key remapping (which typical users won't do). that option needs to be on by default when the menu key is missing on the device and renamed in my opinion. how is "show action overflow" an obvious restoration of the amputated and necessary "menu" button?

 

[scottspa74]

Right. "Show action overflow" is not clear at all to me, either. Glad ya got it, though.

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[NaterTots]

Cool. Thanks Scott. I didn't know that.

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[Saneless One]

It should be default, mostly because the overflow is a nicer experience than the hardware buttons.

 

[syaoran68]

as to questions 1 and 4

1. currently theres no way to see it via the built in usb mode manager. you have to use multi-mount to mount the external SD card

4. i dont really use CM file manager for that i just use es file manager theres root ability in it.

 

[scottspa74]

There's root access in CM file manager too. But gid I hate their file explorer. I can never find the options I want or need.

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[AerodynamicTrunks]

I would suggest rebooting to recovery to move files. Less overhead, and its not like it takes forever to boot cm anyway...

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