Whatever Android phone you use, be it a Nexus, Samsung or HTC device, two buttons are never missing, the side volume buttons When pressed the volume keys adjust the sound of the mobile phone and nothing else.
Thus a new Android application becomes very special which allows you to assign other actions to the volume keys of your mobile phone, to do other things .
The app is very simple, in a free and premium version that works well on every smartphone, without the need for Android to be unlocked.
The app is called Button remapper which can be installed from the Google Play Store and is used to give different functions to each button on the phone.
Open QuickClick and touch to create a new action choosing from those already configured:
- Take a photo / record video
- Flashlight on / off
- Record audio
- Call a chosen number
- Send an SMS message
- Launch an app
Some actions require some more configuration, the call asks to choose the contact while the camera you can choose whether to use the flash and autofocus and the quality of the photos.
After choosing the action, you have to configure the pressure sequence to activate it.
The volume key will then continue to function as normal unless pressed in a special combination, such as up-down-down.
Then finish the procedure and finish to confirm.
The application also has some preferences to choose whether the configured action can be activated even with the screen off, to return the volume to the default level without therefore changing it and when the service must be active.
QuickClick can be really useful every time you want to take a photo quickly or to keep in memory a number to call without turning on the phone screen.
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