POLL: Anyone NEVER use the home button? - Page 2

El Valluco · 09/09/2009, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Shadavis08

1.2 brings a feature that wakes the phone with the home button

Excellent! That's great to hear, can't wait.

Now, would it just work like the iphone.. where pressing it gets you to the "slide to unlock sceen?"

TWC_SouthPhilly · 09/09/2009, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Shadavis08

1.2 brings a feature that wakes the phone with the home button , sweet I like it . I go to that button now out of habbit from using treo and 755 so this is nice in my opinion.

The home button already wakes up the phone. It's not coming in the 1.2 update cause it was added in the 1.1 update.

I use the home button about 50% of the time.

mu7efcer · 09/09/2009, 11:11 AM

I actually used to use it all the time. Then I watched jhoff80's 1.2 preview video and noticed he never used it. Light beamed from behind clouds, I heard a chorus of angels, and I believe I achieved enlightenment. Since then I'm not using it much at all. Only out of habit, and I'm almost immediately annoyed that I didn't use the simpler gesture.

El Valluco · 09/09/2009, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by TWC_SouthPhilly

The home button already wakes up the phone. It's not coming in the 1.2 update cause it was added in the 1.1 update.

..when the keyboard is open, only, if I'm not mistaken.

If the phone has been sitting the table, keyboard closed, undisturbed for 5 minutes or so, hitting the home button does absolutely nothing.

To wake the phone up from that state without opening the keyboard, you have to hit the power button then slide to unlock. I am running 1.1.

Unless my Pre is not working the way it should??

HA.. just noticed this.. if the Pre is charging on the Touchstone, hitting the home button does nothing but taping the power button once wakes it right up. That's just silly, tapping the home button to wake up while on the TS would make perfect sense. (yes, I know you can slide to unlock while on the TS) Perhaps in the 1.2 update... ?

jhoff80 · 09/09/2009, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by mu7efcer

I actually used to use it all the time. Then I watched jhoff80's 1.2 preview video and noticed he never used it. Light beamed from behind clouds, I heard a chorus of angels, and I believe I achieved enlightenment. Since then I'm not using it much at all. Only out of habit, and I'm almost immediately annoyed that I didn't use the simpler gesture.

And the funny thing is I use it more than that video shows.

It was just easier to do it that way while I was recording it, because it wasn't in my hand. When I hold the Pre in my hand with the keyboard open, the button is right under my thumb as I previously mentioned.

gage006 · 09/09/2009, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Shiggitay

Coming from an iPhone, I think I'll see myself using the Home Button a lot, at least at first. My Pre arrives today, so after some hands on usage I'll let you know.

Exactly. Coming from a Blackberry and iPod Touch, I use the damn button all the time, it's stuck in my brain.