I don't think you can.
Pressing and holding the menu button to show the soft keyboard exists
for compatibility reasons - I'm not sure it would be wise to allow
developers to disable it.

On Jul 27, 12:18 pm, Mathias Lin <m...@mathiaslin.com> wrote:
> How can I capture a long press of the device menu button in my application?
> I thought of an intent filter, but there's only an action called
> android.intent.action.SEARCH_LONG_PRESS, but nothing for the MENU button.
>
> I found that long press of the menu button actually does different
> things on different devices, i.e. on Nexus One it will show the soft
> keyboard, while on Samsung Galaxy S it will pop up the search widget.
> Generally, I want to suppress this behaviour in my app.
>
> (I already looked on StackOverflow.com for some hints but only found
> unanswered posts.)

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