How To: Manually Flash ClockworkMod Recovery Touch on Samsung Galaxy Note II

You can easily flash the Touch version of ClockworkMod from ROM Manager for an in app purchase of around $3.00. But you can manually do it and save a couple bucks if you want to try the touch version before you buy it.

1. Download the touch version for your device from the ClockworkMod website
2. rename the downloaded file to recovery.img
3. copy the renamed file to /sdcard/recovery.img
4. open a terminal window (or adb shell)
5. su in the shell to gain root access
6. run the following command:
   
   # dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/platform/dw_mmc/by-name/RECOVERY
   
7. reboot the device in to recovery and enjoy

Enable Soft-Keys on Samsung Galaxy Note 2

I wanted to enable the soft-keys on my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 after switching to the new nightly builds of CyanogenMod 10.1.

I found that it is actually rather easy to turn them on. It just requires modifying the build.prop with the following:

qemu.hw.mainkeys=0

If you want to disable them later just change it to:

qemu.hw.mainkeys=1

After you modify the build.prop you have to reboot for the changes to take affect.

This change will turn on the soft-keys, but it does not disable the hardware keys. But you can disable them too. You have to open /system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl and comment out the following by added a '#' to the beginning of the line.

# key 158	BACK
# key 139	MENU

The home key is located in /system/usr/keylayout/gpo-keys.kl

# key 172	HOME	WAKE

To turn these back on just remove the '#' and reboot.