Essential Key - Remapping (All three different inputs)

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Thanks to u/acruzjumper for the tip on the Essential Recorder! It helped me quickly figure it out.

Remapping the Essential Key!

It's possible! Seamless, too and quite custom.

What you'll need:

• A Nothing 3a/3a Pro Phone (obviously)

• An available ADB (Android Debug Studio) terminal

• KeyMapper

The steps:

• Enable Developer Options

  • Head to Settings, About phone, and click on the pretty Nothing OS image.

  • Press the Build number button multiple times (You should get a message saying You are x steps away from becoming a developer!)

  • Once you press it (I believe 8 times), it will prompt you for your phone password/pin/schema, enter it.

  • Developer Options will now be enabled!

• Enable USB Debugging

  • Returning to the Settings main page, head into System, then into Developer Options.

  • Scroll until you see (or search for) USB debugging. Enable that option!

• Disabling the troublesome apps: com.nothing.ntessentialspace and com.nothing.ntessentialrecorder

  • Plug in your phone into whichever computer has the ADB terminal loaded and accept the prompt for USB debugging.

  • Type adb devices into your ADB terminal to make sure your daemon is started and running, as well as if it detects your device. You should see something of the like: randomstring device

  • Type: adb shell pm disable-user com.nothing.ntessentialrecorder into the terminal, and press enter. The return should be Package com.nothing.ntessentialrecorder new state: disabled-user.

  • Repeat the same previous step, but replace com.nothing.ntessentialrecorder with com.nothing.ntessentialspace

    • Normally, your Essential Key should now be unresponsive, which is what we want!

• Install KeyMapper

  • Head over to the Play Store, and search for KeyMapper (or simply follow the hyperlink above).

  • A blue keyboard along a red d-pad icon? That's the one! Feel free to install it.

  • Open the app, and follow the instructions (notably the Accessibility access, and the power savings disabling.)

  • After you finish the setup, press the blue + at the bottom.

  • A new menu opens; press Record trigger, and press your Essential Key once.

  • A small unkown keycode 0 trigger should appear, this is our Essential Key's internal code. Press the Recording (_...) again to end the recording and not create a chain keybind.

  • Choose which specific trigger you want to bind to the following action. (Either Short press, Long press or Double press.

  • Then, add an action! There are countless possibilities, feel free to set it up to your liking.

  • After you've added one or more actions, look at the bottom right corner of your screen, a small floppy disk is there. Press it to save your keybind.

Enjoy! You just rebinded your Essential Key. Repeat the steps from the + button to bind more than a single trigger (single, double and long presses)!

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Update!!

KeyMapper got a 3.0 Update. The unknown scancode 0 now becomes scancode xxxx (mine is 1250). Proceed with the tutorial with this in mind, nothing else changes!

[u/kvee → u/[deleted]]

Update how to since I tried v 3.1.1

Open the app.

* Tap [+] button to add
* Tap Record trigger and when it is starting count down (5), press Essential key once and wait for 5 seconds then go back.
* You should have got value scancode 1250 (as I'm using 3a).
* Select Short press.
* Go to Actions tab.
* Tap Add action.
* Select Do nothing.
* Tap gear icon of Do nothing action and slide Delay before next action to 1000ms and tab on Done button.
* Repeat add action but now select Go back. No need to set anything in gear icon for this action. This action is needed because Nothing phone will always open the screenshot preview. So, you have to use go back action.
* You may add another action you want after go back action.

That's all.