Tuesday, July 26, 2011

How to Enable Multitouch Gestures on Huawei X5

The Huawei Ideos X5 is one of the Android smartphones that currently offer the most "bang" for your bucks. With a speedy 800Mhz CPU, 800x480 screen, and 512MB Ram, it has everything you could wish for... and it costs under 150€.

However, some might be surprised such a device to lack some simple features such as the rotation multitouch gesture on Google Maps.

Well... that's something you can fix in less than a minute.

To enable the advanced multitouch gestures such as rotation on the Huawei Ideos X5 you need to:

  1. edit the file:
    /system/etc/permissions/android.hardware.touchscreen.multitouch.xml

  2. look for the line:
    "android.hardware.touchscreen.multitouch"

  3. add the following line just after it:
    "android.hardware.touchscreen.multitouch.distinct"

And after rebooting your X5, you'll be able to enjoy advanced multitouch gestures on Google Maps and all other Apps that support it.

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