[MOD] Remapping The Nvidia Button

[legofan623]

I was just looking around at ways to remap my Shield's keys and found this nice little trick to turn the Nvidia button into a proper lock button like on phones and tablets, or a home button, rather than launch the TegraZone app (which is basically useless if you don't stream) . Here's how it's done:

You must be rooted to do this
Go into /system/usr/keylayout/ and open the file "gpio-keys.kl"

Go down to the line that says "key 116 STB_POWER WAKE"

Here's where you choose home or lock:
If you want the Nvidia button to act as a lock button, change that line to "key 116 POWER WAKE_DROPPED"
If you want the Nvidia button to act as a home button, change that line to "key 116 HOME WAKE_DROPPED"

Save the file

Restart Shield

Enjoy!

 

[OMGrant]

Awesome! Looking forward to trying this out soon.

 

[r3pwn]

I actually use the TegraZone app for NVIDIA Grid, but cool find, nonetheless!

 

[GuyInDogSuit]

But why would you want two home keys?

 

[OMGrant]

Because you could possibly use the old home key as something else, or free it up as a mappable key for gaming

 

[legofan623]

Because you could possibly use the old home key as something else, or free it up as a mappable key for gaming

Yep

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