The Guru

The Guru, aka Ricky Cadden, started Symbian-Guru.com in November 2006, out of his excitement for the S60 3rd Edition version of Symella. The Guru has used Symbian devices since the Nokia 6620, and is known for his perspective as a power user. You can follow The Guru on Twitter at @Rcadden

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  • http://www.writerslife.net/ mark thomar

    and there was me thinking you actually had a fix instead of an idea of a fix… Misleading title! Agree with you though. Needs a firmware fix.

  • http://www.writerslife.net mark thomar

    and there was me thinking you actually had a fix instead of an idea of a fix… Misleading title! Agree with you though. Needs a firmware fix.

  • http://finestfones.blogspot.com/ Mr-X

    Maybe this would be able to be done by the user now courtesy of the 9.2 hack…Maybe.

  • http://finestfones.blogspot.com Mr-X

    Maybe this would be able to be done by the user now courtesy of the 9.2 hack…Maybe.

  • Burcrim

    Use an app such as Tracker or NStarter to map the gallery key to something else apart from the gallery, or to completely remove the mapping.

  • Burcrim

    Use an app such as Tracker or NStarter to map the gallery key to something else apart from the gallery, or to completely remove the mapping.

  • krisq

    Nstarter does not have access to gallery button.

  • krisq

    Nstarter does not have access to gallery button.

  • Sandy

    @ Burcrim, can you tell me how to remove the mapping? I want to play using vBag on my N73, and it’ll be really nice if I can use the Gallery button. Currently, using Tracker, I can only change the mapping to something else, and NStarter doesn’t have any access to the said button. So, removal is necessary.

  • Sandy

    @ Burcrim, can you tell me how to remove the mapping? I want to play using vBag on my N73, and it’ll be really nice if I can use the Gallery button. Currently, using Tracker, I can only change the mapping to something else, and NStarter doesn’t have any access to the said button. So, removal is necessary.

  • http://dotsisx.blogspot.com/ Dotsisx

    I don’t think applications had access to map the gallery button, plus it wouldn’t be convenient at all to make it launch something else. Ricky’s idea is better, just put a timer on the thing, it won’t launch if it’s pressed by mistake

  • http://dotsisx.blogspot.com Dotsisx

    I don’t think applications had access to map the gallery button, plus it wouldn’t be convenient at all to make it launch something else. Ricky’s idea is better, just put a timer on the thing, it won’t launch if it’s pressed by mistake

  • Sandy

    Actually, Tracker can be used to map the Gallery button to any other application. Of course this doesn’t help very much. I would love to stop its action while playing on vBag, and then manually make it reappear once I stopped playing. In case of general phone usage, I have hardly faced any problem with the Gallery button, so it’s not a nuisance for me. It would have been great, if someone from the pool of talented S60 developers could stop the action of the key according to the user’s wish.

  • Sandy

    Actually, Tracker can be used to map the Gallery button to any other application. Of course this doesn’t help very much. I would love to stop its action while playing on vBag, and then manually make it reappear once I stopped playing. In case of general phone usage, I have hardly faced any problem with the Gallery button, so it’s not a nuisance for me. It would have been great, if someone from the pool of talented S60 developers could stop the action of the key according to the user’s wish.

  • danDan

    I haven’t really had this problem, but when setting up my AT&T N75, I noticed that those buttons were BOTH on a delay of sorts… so, I guess it’s do-able…

  • danDan

    I haven’t really had this problem, but when setting up my AT&T N75, I noticed that those buttons were BOTH on a delay of sorts… so, I guess it’s do-able…

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2008/06/how-to-kill-the-gallery-button.html How to Kill The Gallery Button

    [...] has already gone on and off about how annoying the Gallery button is. He even proposed a suggestion to solve its problem. At the time, I had just got my N95 and it hadn’t pissed me off, YET. But day after day, I [...]

  • Al

    Seconding the Tracker suggestion. Instead of making the gallery button useless, use Tracker to make it useful.

    It could be a shortcut to a favorite app or a shortcut to the desk which has shortcuts of its own.

  • Al

    Seconding the Tracker suggestion. Instead of making the gallery button useless, use Tracker to make it useful.

    It could be a shortcut to a favorite app or a shortcut to the desk which has shortcuts of its own.

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