[Sola][App][Mod][GB]Enabling Floating Touch Completely in Sola -Just for Fun

[neectron]

This is ONLY for Xperia sola MT27i
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Featured on XDA portal:Goodbye Fingerprints: Enable Floating Touch on the Sola by THE_SCOTSMAN

Floating Sola App reached 500 downloads....:highfive:


Hello ,

I have created a small app to switch floating off and on.Its still uses reboot to get the work done.I am working on removing requirement of reboot.


Edit:I don't think it is possible i.e without reboot.I hope Sony will do a better implementation of floating touch tech in the ICS.

Cheers.

Floating Sola App

Download:Floating Sola.apk

Requirement:
Rooted.

Thanks to rundgong for some coding help.


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Hi,

I found a solution for enabling floating touch throughout the UI for Xperia Sola.

Here is a video:

From other source..

1.Go to system/etc
2.Delete excluded-input-devices.xml or rename it to something like 1excluded-input-devices.xml.
3.Reboot
4.That's it.

5.If you want to disable it,use the attachment or a have backup,and copy paste to same location.
or rename it to excluded-input-devices.xml..
6.Change permissions to rw-r-r.
7.Reboot


Requirements:
Rooted.

I have created a flashable zip,so during booting you could turn floating on and off.
Install them through recovery.

To turn on floating touch, install floaton.zip through recovery.
To turn off floating touch, install floatoff.zip through recovery.

And,also [Dev]Disabling a input device(airtouch) when keyboard pops up.

and Thanks to ashwin prabhunerurkar for renaming method.


Warnig:Floating touch is difficult to use.Needs practice.


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[cnkhanh]

Wow, that's cool I'll give it a try.

 

[imtawakkal]

Wow, that's cool I'll give it a try.

It's really cool, but its so difficult to type -_-, may i ask the excluded-input-devices.xml files?

 

[cnkhanh]

Forgot to back it up? )

 

[neectron]

It's really cool, but its so difficult to type -_-, may i ask the excluded-input-devices.xml files?

Yeah,its difficult.
*Attached the backup.

 

[IE-coRe]

Wow awesome. Can someone make a video?

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[charlymaster]

Awesome! Works on S ?

 

[neectron]

Wow awesome. Can someone make a video?

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I'll make a small one.

Awesome! Works on S ?

I dont think so.

 

[imtawakkal]

Forgot to back it up? )

Yup, i've been so excited about it and then i forgot to back it up -_-, thank you for the attachment :good:

 

[gbn11]

we need to find the solution for texting . It's really out of control lol!

 

[ahlulnugraha]

Nice mod by the way, anyone try it using stylus for type? Maybe it works

 

[cnkhanh]

we need to find the solution for texting . It's really out of control lol!

i think we should use the Swype keyboard.

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[kitsune_12]

i've been looking for this! this is the best mod ever! i love using my sola now and it lives by its own advertisement now, WHY TOUCH? Sola needs no touching!:good:

 

[cnkhanh]

Hi,

I found a solution for enabling floating touch throughout the UI for Xperia Sola.

Here is a video: http://youtu.be/nzz9h3jdB-U

1.Go to system/etc
2.Delete excluded-input-devices.xml.
3.That's it.

4.If you want to disable it,use the attachment,and copy paste to same location.
5.Change permissions.
6.Reboot

Requirements:
Rooted.

Warnig:Floating touch is difficult to use.Needs practice.

Can you make an App that allows us to do the job without having to go through explorer and delete/move the file?

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[neectron]

Can you make an App that allows us to do the job without having to go through explorer and delete/move the file?

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I have been thinking about it.
Even if a app could delete/move the file,it would still require a reboot,as the input device is included/excluded at booting.

 

[IE-coRe]

I have been thinking about it.
Even if a app could delete/move the file,it would still require a reboot,as the input device is included/excluded at booting.

Yeah an app that changes and reboots would be awesome

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[chocowilliam]

Can someone else make a video on this? I like to test it!

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[cnkhanh]

I have been thinking about it.
Even if a app could delete/move the file,it would still require a reboot,as the input device is included/excluded at booting.

Yeah, rebooting is one problem, but atleast we can cut the deleting procedure
Are there any way to disable floating touch only when the keyboard is invoked :-? The exclude.xml file is too simple to edit any thing though.
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[ksaplostra]

I changed permission but still floating touch active I'm getting used to it tho
Why ya think Sony dint fully implement it?

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[neectron]

Yeah, rebooting is one problem, but atleast we can cut the deleting procedure
Are there any way to disable floating touch only when the keyboard is invoked :-? The exclude.xml file is too simple to edit any thing though.
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I haven't wrote a single app in my life.

I changed permission but still floating touch active I'm getting used to it tho
Why ya think Sony dint fully implement it?

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Reboot.



There are some drawbacks for floating without right implementation.

1.It is difficult to use,takes practice.
2.Sometime when you both float and touch a button/icon,it will take as two different inputs and open it twice.
3.There is keyboard problem.
4.When you put Sola in pant pocket,music might start playing,by lockscreen music widget(only if display isn't off).It happend to me.
5.Unwanted clicks by accidently hovering.

And more.