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The problem with using the G1 for polish-speaking person is that the keyboard doesn't support polish letters (even holding keys for additional letters doesn't contain polish letters), making sometimes impossible to understand when sending sms messages, impossible to login on sites with login/pass containing polish letters etc. There is a workaround, you have to copy the needed letter from a app (virtual keyboards that copy letter to clipboard) or somewhere else and paste it, but imagine how problematic it can be.
I ask you for help in creating the polish keyboard for the G1, it will help the whole polish android community, I will share it if it will be possible to create the polish keyboard on polish android forums, sites etc.
I don't mind using my phone with english language but the pl keyboard has to be created for communicating and using the phone in Poland/polish language.
I don't know if it is possible to use the right alt as a modifier for obtaining polish letters like in the polish layout on a qwerty keyboard (right alt+a=ą, etc.) but if it can be done here are a few informations about the pl keyboard (windows: polish-programmers) Polish keyboard layout on wikipedia.
This thread (if solved) can be helpful for other non english-speaking G1 users in europe, we just need to post here the exact info about creating custom key layouts.
polish letters: ą(right alt+a), ć(right alt+c), ę(right alt+e), ł(right alt+l), ń(right alt+n), ó(right alt+o), ś(right alt+s), ź(right alt+x), ż(right alt+z)
Thanks in advance.
I don't know what changes virtual keyboards bring to the game, but I have asked a similar question about the hardware keyboard: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=478248 and got 0 answers. I have search other forums and basically it just does not seem to be as easy as editing single file.
Anyway, I'll follow this thread. I'd like to see Lithuanian characters. A lot of them are similar to Polish ones (ą, ž, etc.)
This should be some help. This quote is taken from a thread about someone with a French phone needing to change the key mapping of the hardware keyboard because the French layout is AZERTY, and after rooting, it's mapped as QWERTY. In the thread, they found a solution by rooting the phone without loosing the French firmware. (but that's not the point) After they were rooted they started changing the key mapping to include the " and ' symbols which are not on a AZERTY keyboard. So someone out there knows how to change the hardware key mapping.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=493241&highlight=french+root&page=6
emms007 said:
Hello Arisme,
Thanks for your inspiring comment!
I dumped my phone with nandroid and modified the boot.img version so that the file default.prop enables root (taken from JF's modified boot.img file).
I managed to boot with it without any issue (./fastboot boot boot.img). I am attaching my boot.img file if that can be useful to others.
Update: I edited the keyboard file to include the ' key. I have mapped it to ALT+O.
To install :
1) extract keypad-fr.zip and copy trout-keypad-v3-franch-azerty.kcm.bin to your sdcard
2) boot as root using the boot image, adb shell to the phone,
3) switch the Filesystem to Writtable : mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
4) execute : cat /sdcard/trout-keypad-v3-franch-azerty.kcm.bin > /system/usr/keychars/trout-keypad-v3-franch-azerty.kcm.bin
5) perform regular reboot
enjoy!
In order to maintain a root access without the need to reboot on the modified boot.img I read it's possible to create a root access shell
Running rooted-boot.img :
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/bin
cat sh > suroot
chmod 4755 suroot
Then anytime you want to connect, type suroot and to go even further type adbd. The adp dameon is waiting for you!
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geek78 said:
Hi thanks for your keychar ! Could you do a new one with the " also (we can use the T and the Y for that) ? or tell us how to build the ne new bin ?
Thanks
EDIT : OK i did it by just hex editing your bin (the " is on the T key)
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I've Just flashed the Haykuro's ADP1.5Hr1-A2SD firmware, and when I long pressed a few letters I've just realised that in the pop-up I found polish letters! Also other "special characters" are there that on the previous versions weren't there. I don't know if all the Lithuanian letters are there, but the "ą" (also Polish), and "ž" are available for sure.
Still it isn't right alt+a=ą..., but better this than nothing, if anyone would have an idea how to make it work I would appreciate any help.
Haykuro's firmware versions:
ADP1.5Hr1: http://sharebee.com/72cefebd (sha1: 44eacf11c2f3eef5c64d40c894047c4197d06dc6)
ADP1.5Hr1-A2SD: http://sharebee.com/9f0fd1b1 (sha1: 0a065a9cef188226fd35d36f8d3f345f8545cbc6)
Also, you shouldn't forget that on Android 1.5 (cupcake), the virtual keyboards are installable .apk files. The simplest way would probably be to get your hands on the source code for one of the virtual keyboards.
EDIT: The previous post was posted while I was typing. LOL. Better for you.
HerbertRoland said:
I've Just flashed the Haykuro's ADP1.5Hr1-A2SD firmware, and when I long pressed a few letters I've just realised that in the pop-up I found polish letters! Also other "special characters" are there that on the previous versions weren't there. I don't know if all the Lithuanian letters are there, but the "ą" (also Polish), and "ž" are available for sure.
Still it isn't right alt+a=ą..., but better this than nothing, if anyone would have an idea how to make it work I would appreciate any help.
Haykuro's firmware versions:
ADP1.5Hr1: http://sharebee.com/72cefebd (sha1: 44eacf11c2f3eef5c64d40c894047c4197d06dc6)
ADP1.5Hr1-A2SD: http://sharebee.com/9f0fd1b1 (sha1: 0a065a9cef188226fd35d36f8d3f345f8545cbc6)
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Yeah, I know that some of the characters were in there, but they're gone in official ADP 1.5. And no, not all Lithuanian characters are available. Probably because G1 is not even officially available in Lithuania where as it is in Poland.
Hi,
i have added such Polish programmer keyboard to the market, details in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3778319#post3778319
Karolis said:
Yeah, I know that some of the characters were in there, but they're gone in official ADP 1.5. And no, not all Lithuanian characters are available. Probably because G1 is not even officially available in Lithuania where as it is in Poland.
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If you are still looking for Lithuanian keyboard with right Alt support I can add Lithuanian mode (hardware keyboard Right Alt + 1,2... and screen keyboard to do right think fr longpress on letter keys r something like that) so you can download and make sure it works for you.
Hi. Is it possible to leave my ROM untouched and just install extra T9 languages (Polish in my case) to my phone? Has anybody found a tutorial about it?
My Magic ver:
Sapphire Pvt 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.33.0009 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-3.22.20.17
If not.
-Do I have to install new ROM?
-Which ROM would be good for my phone, considering I need Polish T9?
P.S. I've read this tutorial
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Sapphire_Hacking
It seams not so difficult to Flash new ROM but I just want Polish T9 so maybe there is easier way to do it.
I'd like to know myself (for different reasons like flashing english rom without italian T9 language)
Thanks!
Search for HTC_IME.apk here. It gives you an English T9 keyboard from HTC.
Take this link: http://haykuro.theiphoneproject.org/?p=213. Copy HTC_IME.apk to the SD card. Then just install the .apk from an file explorer on the phone because I think you can not copy as described in the link if your device is not rooted. Then check new keyboard under Settings/Locale.... new keyboard checkbox (don't know exactly how it is called since I'm using German Language). Then long press 123 button to select keyboard. If it doesn't work do a search here on xda, there are plenty of explanations.
own language
I also want in some roms putting my own language & T9.
Who can explain which files must be put in the roms for languages by choice?
Hello to everyone.
Please forgive me if you think that I'm not posting in the correct forum, but I think that posting in the general Sapphire forum would be more irrelevant.
I'm using Cyanogen's 4.0.4 ROM and I'm totally satisfied with it. I think he (with the help of many others) has done a great job, keep up the good work guys!
My only problem (and believe me it's a big problem for me) is that the HTC keyboard supports only the english language. I have tried many ROMs and some of them had other language support, but unfortunatelly I had others problems and had to drop them. So here I am with Cyanogen's ROM which I would be totally satisfied with, if I could use the HTC keyboard with my native language (Greek for my case).
I have tried everything, uninstalling and reinstalling HTC_IME.apk, HTC_IME.odex and libt9.so from JACxHERO's ROM that works with my language, with no success at all.
I assume that a lot of people like the HTC keyboard like me and would like to use it with their native language. So, if there is a solution and anyone knows it, I would really appreciate it to know.
Thank you in advance and again, keep up the good work!!!
I'm interested on the same issue. That's the only reason I keep using Hero ROMs.
I'm interested to...
Is there a way to add spanish language and T9 languages to the magics??? Like spanish for example?
This is the exact same reason why I'm still looking for an OS for my G2. Tons of kudos to whoever can tell us some about this.
+1 for me.
instead of installing other languages i wanna remove the damned chinese language in my htc magic..please help!!
you can try the following
I'm no expert guys but here is the command that activates Russian language in HTC.ime. It worked fine for me and English stays as a second language for the keyboard.
cd to the Tools folder within SDK and run the following command:
Code:
adb shell "echo ru > /data/property/persist.sys.language"
[code]
Then reboot the device.
Obviously you need to replace "ru" in above code by your respective language short name. Like "gr" would stand for Greek language I would imagine.
rubbish: thanks for your suggestion... but it doesn't work for me as far as HTC Keyboard (HTC_IME.apk) is concerned. I have French Canadian set on my device (i.e. fr set in persist.sys.language and CA set in persist.sys.country) and still, only English appears in the HTC Keyboard configuration panel.
I took a look at this page on the Android localisation topic, but find nothing really helpful to solve the problem with HTC Keyboard: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/web/localizing-android-apps-draft?version=10
As far as I know, HTC_IME.apk was intended to be used on Hero only, not on Magic. Having used Hero ROM for a couple of weeks' I can confirm that you can select any available languages for use with the HTC keyboard. So is there anything else missing (apart from libt9.so) from the Hero system stack in order to have the complete languages list on Magic?
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so no news =( ???
All right, let's try the following method although it's going to be trial and error, you'll see why. It will only work for HTC-based firmware I think (Hero ROMs should be OK). I'm on the different firmware at the moment (SPFrance) and it worked fine adding Russian as 2nd language to the HTC keyboard. The method described in my previous post was really for the system locale (although it was adding 2nd keyboard input as well just fine).
You'll need to pull a system file called "com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml" from the device. To do that enter the following command from within tools folder of your SDK folder:
Code:
adb pull /data/data/com.htc.android.htcime/shared_prefs/com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml
[code]
This is one command, just copy and paste it. You should get the above mentioned file copied to your Tools folder. Then you need to edit it with Notepad. Now comes trial and error method. To add Russian you need to do the following:
Change: <string name="keyboard_language">0</string>
for: <string name="keyboard_language">6</string>
So it's a simple change of 1 figure (0 -> 6). The thing is I don't know (and couldn't find info) what figures are relevant for other languages. But there's no risk in trying, you can always push the original .xml file back to device. Try from 1 to 9 (missing 6 obviously unless you want Russian) and see how it turns out.
To push file back to device:
[code]
adb push com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml /data/data/com.htc.android.htcime/shared_prefs/com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml
[code]
This is again a single command. Reboot the device afterwards.
Good luck!
:No-Frost: said:
I'm interested to...
Is there a way to add spanish language and T9 languages to the magics??? Like spanish for example?
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For spanish i could recommend an application called Better Keyboard, it is available though the market... it comes with english and spanish support... also has a language pack with some languages i don't remember ...
Great great tip Rubbish!!! I tried number 5 and I guessed portuguese right on first try! I was looking for this for months and couldn't find it anywhere.
Thanks again! You didn't save my life but will save me a lot of time typing
@rubbish You made my day!
Does this method works on Cyanogen's? Can anyone confirm it? I'm on a Hero ROM.
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rubbish said:
All right, let's try the following method although it's going to be trial and error, you'll see why. It will only work for HTC-based firmware I think (Hero ROMs should be OK). I'm on the different firmware at the moment (SPFrance) and it worked fine adding Russian as 2nd language to the HTC keyboard. The method described in my previous post was really for the system locale (although it was adding 2nd keyboard input as well just fine).
You'll need to pull a system file called "com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml" from the device. To do that enter the following command from within tools folder of your SDK folder:
Code:
adb pull /data/data/com.htc.android.htcime/shared_prefs/com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml
[code]
This is one command, just copy and paste it. You should get the above mentioned file copied to your Tools folder. Then you need to edit it with Notepad. Now comes trial and error method. To add Russian you need to do the following:
Change: <string name="keyboard_language">0</string>
for: <string name="keyboard_language">6</string>
So it's a simple change of 1 figure (0 -> 6). The thing is I don't know (and couldn't find info) what figures are relevant for other languages. But there's no risk in trying, you can always push the original .xml file back to device. Try from 1 to 9 (missing 6 obviously unless you want Russian) and see how it turns out.
To push file back to device:
[code]
adb push com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml /data/data/com.htc.android.htcime/shared_prefs/com.htc.android.htcime_preferences.xml
[code]
This is again a single command. Reboot the device afterwards.
Good luck![/QUOTE]
Ok, now mmm What I don't know if with this we will get the predictive dictionary in our language... I mean, in my case, spanish dictionary...
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:No-Frost: said:
Ok, now mmm What I don't know if with this we will get the predictive dictionary in our language... I mean, in my case, spanish dictionary...
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Yes, you should get it. I got Russian predictive and there's no reason for Spanish to work differently.
To all. If you succeeded with above method please post what number worked for your language. For now we know that 6 adds Russian and 5 - Portuguese.
nop56773 said:
Great great tip Rubbish!!! I tried number 5 and I guessed portuguese right on first try!
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You must be a lucky person to get it on first try nop56773! I'm glad it worked for you.
rquattro said:
Does this method works on Cyanogen's? Can anyone confirm it? I'm on a Hero ROM.
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To get English environment with (in my case) Czech prediction keyboard on 32A with CyanogenMod 4.0.4, I just set the phone locale to Czech (important step, doesn't work without it) using standard phone locale settings - which switches both the environment and predictive language to Czech (note that the keyboard preferences still only show English as the only visible language choice, but it's not actually selected - the list just doesn't show the other choices) then I change the /data/property/persist.sys.country file to contain CZ (that should really be capitalized) and reboot phone. Works like charm (tested on multiple wipes). You can of course do the exact opposite, too - have the keyboard language set to English and UI language to your preffered language.
Basically - the persist.sys.country file controls your regional locale (including keyboard prediction) - in uppercase characters - and the persist.sys.language file contains your UI messages locale - in lowercase characters.
Tryied it out with no succes... Everytime I change the number I got english again =(...
My phone is 100% english xD...
There should be another way to put it in spanish I think right????
Japanese (日本語) Stock Samsung Keyboard (From SC-02B AKA I9000)
I am not sure if anyone types Japanese, but I do so here is how to do it on the Infuse 4G.
Download install-iwinn-1.zip to internal sdcard
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YR8WA5WJ
Get into CWM recovery and choose zip and install the zip file.
Walla! You are done!
To activate, basicaly long press on any input field and change input method to Japanese Keyboard!
Removal: download remove-iwinn-1.zip which is in this post to your internal sdcard.
Boot into recovery, choose zip, and install zip. It will remove the keyboard!
i wish i could i can just about read, write, and speak english let alone a 2nd language, if not the one of the hardest languages in the world (so i'm told).
Is it possible to use this with the HTC desire HD? I tried, but got no result.
studychinese said:
Is it possible to use this with the HTC desire HD? I tried, but got no result.
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No idea..... what is the problem you run into?
No ability to select Japanese keyboard.
I got HTC Status. after i flash the euro or asia rom. the keyboard symbol changed. i fixed that. but there is no way to put back .com and camera right. anyone know how to fix it ?
mashi said:
I got HTC Status. after i flash the euro or asia rom. the keyboard symbol changed. i fixed that. but there is no way to put back .com and camera right. anyone know how to fix it ?
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This one's gonna suck.. You can't. You will have to flash back your stock rom, because that containts the appropriate keyboard layout in /system/usr/.
Unless you are S-OFF and have my cwm port installed, in that case please try
update.zip
hi mikevhl, i see a german kl in your package,
will this give me back qwertz layout?
i got that device with already wrong software, so i'm on my was searching qwertz for chacha..
(s-off & recovery is working)
regards
Mikevhl said:
This one's gonna suck.. You can't. You will have to flash back your stock rom, because that containts the appropriate keyboard layout in /system/usr/.
Unless you are S-OFF and have my cwm port installed, in that case please try
statuskeyboardfix.zip
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Mooozer said:
hi mikevhl, i see a german kl in your package,
will this give me back qwertz layout?
i got that device with already wrong software, so i'm on my was searching qwertz for chacha..
(s-off & recovery is working)
regards
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I have no idea, I don't own the phone. If it doesn't work, try renaming
Code:
/system/usr/keychars/
chacha-keypad-ger.kcm.bin -> chacha-keypad.kcm.bin
Code:
/system/usr/keychars/
chacha-keypad-ger.kl -> chacha-keypad.kl
now signed the update.zip, forgot to do that before
update.zip
That doesn't work for me, Z and Y are still switched.
And the button next to enter, (normaly "?" and with fn ":") doens't work at all.
How can i correct and reactivate them?
Edit:
I flashed back to stock ROM, but Z and Y are still switched, but all keys work again. the special-chars are still on the wrong place, and the umlauts(ä, ö, ü) are nowhere.
Does anyone have an idea, how i can get the standard-qwertz-layout back?
I have the same problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1219885
anybody know how to fix?
Mikevhl said:
I have no idea, I don't own the phone. If it doesn't work, try renaming
Code:
/system/usr/keychars/
chacha-keypad-ger.kcm.bin -> chacha-keypad.kcm.bin
Code:
/system/usr/keychars/
chacha-keypad-ger.kl -> chacha-keypad.kl
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I tried to rename with Astro, but just got a Error Message "no authorization"
Any ideas?
Mikevhl said:
Unless you are S-OFF and have my cwm port installed, in that case please try update.zip
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After try to Update I got a error message:
Installing: /sdcard/statuskeyboardfix.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
E:Error in /sdcard/statuskeyboardfix.zip
(Status 6)
Installation aborted
Need help! :-(
Finally, it works!
I got the correct Files from another Forum, renamed the Files and it's working again.
Z and Y are still switched, but i can changed them in the files manually
PS: Don't forget to set the correct permissions and owner:group...
What forum may I ask?!
Sent from my HTC ChaCha A810e using Tapatalk
qbert456 said:
What forum may I ask?!
Sent from my HTC ChaCha A810e using Tapatalk
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http://www.android-hilfe.de/htc-cha...ff-keine-deutsche-tastatur-vorhanden-rat.html
Thanks, my mate wanted this. Better still, he speaks german!
Sent from my HTC ChaCha A810e using Tapatalk
hi all
can someone give us the solution in english please ...
thanks
i need to return to azerty
malikou said:
hi all
can someone give us the solution in english please ...
thanks
i need to return to azerty
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i have this f***ing same problem i want azerty ><' i read all post and i don't find the solution =/
darksam68 said:
i have this f***ing same problem i want azerty ><' i read all post and i don't find the solution =/
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have you tried this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16953444#post16896249
geek78 said:
have you tried this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16953444#post16896249
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Yeah i just tried, Always same result : Negatif ='(
What is your firmware?
heu the firmware is ROM ?
I use your link -> SuperDroid i think
i m on stock rom FR
version android 2.3.3
build 1.11.73.1
Need American HTC Status QWERTY layout, please
Hi! I have HTC Status (U.S. version) with stock ROM, with S-OFF and root. I have a similar problem with the keyboard after I rooted the phone (using instructions on this forum).
I have the following issues:
* alt+Y used to show @, now shows euro
* alt+P used to show ~, now shows @
* alt+. used to insert ".com", now goes to camera app
* alt+N used to show :, now shows "
* alt+B used to show ", now shows '
* alt+V used to show ', now shows lb symbol
Other similar discrepancies...
I think I have the UK English keyboard layout now, which is still QWERTY but the alt+ functions are off. I need QWERTY with American English keyboard layout that comes stock with HTC Status in the U.S. I have searched the forums but the only link I found to an English layout did not work (I copied the chacha-keypad.kl and chacha-keypad.kcm.bin provided in the post I found to /system/usr/keylayout and /system/usr/keychars, respectively, but I still have the UK English layout).
Can someone please provide the keypad and key layout files for me to change it back to American English keyboard? And also the file(s) needed to change the alt+. command back to ".com" instead of going to the camera app?
Thanks so much!
mayabelle said:
Hi! I have HTC Status (U.S. version) with stock ROM, with S-OFF and root. I have a similar problem with the keyboard after I rooted the phone (using instructions on this forum).
I have the following issues:
* alt+Y used to show @, now shows euro
* alt+P used to show ~, now shows @
* alt+. used to insert ".com", now goes to camera app
* alt+N used to show :, now shows "
* alt+B used to show ", now shows '
* alt+V used to show ', now shows lb symbol
Other similar discrepancies...
I think I have the UK English keyboard layout now, which is still QWERTY but the alt+ functions are off. I need QWERTY with American English keyboard layout that comes stock with HTC Status in the U.S. I have searched the forums but the only link I found to an English layout did not work (I copied the chacha-keypad.kl and chacha-keypad.kcm.bin provided in the post I found to /system/usr/keylayout and /system/usr/keychars, respectively, but I still have the UK English layout).
Can someone please provide the keypad and key layout files for me to change it back to American English keyboard? And also the file(s) needed to change the alt+. command back to ".com" instead of going to the camera app?
Thanks so much!
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I also have the symbols changed after S-Off and Root.
Can anyone help us please?
I have searched the forum, but either i'm searching for the wrong thing or I can't find anything.
Thanks in advanced