I've Note 8010 bought in Germany with latest firmware installed from factory. Played with it for a week using stock, set-up for work several languages (including mother language - Polish). For the first time I was impressed by stock keyboard so much that I've ditched SwiftKey for it.
As recognized flashoholic I gave up after a week and rooted device and flashed one of the custom ROMs. Been using it for a while, that time mostly reading book and making sketches.
Yesterday I wanted to write few messages in Polish and discovered that I've no alternative symbols (like @, (), " etc.) available after long key press, only diacritical signs (Polish, German, Swedish). When I change to English or German - alternative symbols are back but no access to diacriticals.
Could you please check also your keyboards against such behavior and when it is correct let me know which ROM you are using?
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Hi everyone
First of all, great forum here, I know it since some time and I'm also using a custom ROM for my Kaiser, but I think this is actually the first time I'm posting.
Let me explain my situation I am from Switzerland (and so is my company, where I am the Cell Phone Fleet Manager). Believe it or not, but in Switzerland, there are four official languages (German, French, Italian, and something called Romantsch which noone speaks).
Problem is that we're going to open an office in the French part of Switzerland (me and the rest of the company are located in the German part). And the employees there obviously would like to have phones.
Now, although they do speak French, they're not using a French AZERTY-Keyboard but a German QWERTZ-Keyboard. However, they want a French OS, and even worse, they want to be able to type all their freaky accents (é, à, è, ç, ...).
Now I checked back with HTC and they do not offer such a phone combinations. I also checked with our cell phone network providers, and they only offer the English phones in the French part... which leads me into trouble. What kinds of phones should i get them?
My idea is to buy German phones (that way I have the QUERTZ-Keyboad layout printed on the phone). Then load the French ROM and then load the German Keyboard driver back onto the French ROM. Question is: Is that possible?
Or do you have any better ideas?
Thanks
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anyone ... ?
maybe this can help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459253
it is definitly possible.
I got my phone out of Hong Kong with a german Keyboard and an english rom.
Back at home i installed the german keyboard drivers. I will look up the post for u.
here ya go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=440779
Der_wahre_Phi said:
it is definitly possible.
I got my phone out of Hong Kong with a german Keyboard and an english rom.
Back at home i installed the german keyboard drivers. I will look up the post for u.
here ya go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=440779
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Any ideas how you can get accents to work on a FUZE keyboard? Someone developed an application that would do what i need, however I don't know how to re-map the SYM key to another one... I don't have it in my keyboard as a standalone key...
not quite sure if it will help.
I just overread the whole thread, but maybe you'll find somthing in there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=417271
Hi guys, this is my first thread in XDA!
Been lurking around a bit though the past couple of weeks and let me point out how amazing this community is!
OK so here is my query (sorry if this has been posted here before):
I'm a Swede, living in Sweden. I've ordered the SNS (my first android device so bare with me) from the USA and it should arrive sometime next week.
I know that the phone doesn't come with any support for the Swedish language. My guess is that they just want to make it harder for retailers to grey import the phone to a region where it shouldn't be sold (even though it will be sold in Sweden soon...).
So, is it possible to add support for the Swedish language somehow? (Keyboard, dictionary, system language...etc).
If so, how do I do it? I've seen some keyboard apps (pre-Gingerbread keyboard) for the Swedish language on the market but some of them don't work with Gingerbread and most of them seem to come with a lot of bugs (except for Swype). Also, I would need a dictionary, and the system language is nice but not crucial.
Isn't there a better way?
Thanks in advance guys!
/matteb2
Hi, a swede with the NSN here as well
To my knowledge, there are no way to get native swedish language support on the stock rom. The "nödlösning", that actualy works quite well is to use a third party keybord. I'm using Swiftkey, that has a swedish dictionary and swedish text prediction.
But if someone know about a way to get a swedish stock gingerbread keyboard, I would be delighted to hear.
Thanks for the reply
I guess I'll have to use either Swiftkey or Swype. If anyone knows another solution I would be happy to hear it
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Thanks for the reply
I guess I'll have to use either Swiftkey or Swype. If anyone knows another solution I would be happy to hear it
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well, swedish will be supported once the NXS S comes to the nordic countrys. google already posted the support of swedish lang.
Hi all!
A lot of users want to use several input languages in their devices. Why not cooking a really multi-language ROM supporting UIs in different languages and multiple keyboard layouts? It is possible as some devices (e.g. Samsung OmniaPro) are delivered with a ROM supporting UI and HW/SW keyboard resources in several languages which every user can switch. I've also read about such custom ROMs for HTC Touch. Additionaly, in ROMs for non-latin languages (like Russian, Chinese) user can switch between latin and national keyboard layout by pressing the SYM button, and there are solutions like AEKMap.
What is to be done to create a ML ROM work, is to integrate
1) *.mui system files for several languages
2) an app (basically a registry updater) where user can activate a particular UI language and which keyboard layouts (one, or two, or maybe three?) have to be switched by pressing the SYM button.
My personal use case is as follows: I own a HTC P4350 with standard German ROM (6.0) and QWERTZ layout and need two things: 1) the additional Russian input for the hardware keyboard and 2) Russian UI. The only way now is flashing a Russian ROM - which will alas change QWERTZ (Ger) to QWERTY (Eng) and then using a tweak to set the layout back to QWERTY (yes, I've read those threads).
I've experimented a little bit without flashing, just by copying *.0419.mui files to the device (0419 for RU) and editing the registry like advised in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=366756. However there is obviously more to be changed or added than I could discover. The best method to catch all the differencies is probably to compare two registries of same ROM version but in different languages, or to check solutions for other devices.
What do you think? Can someone try to cook a ML ROM? No matter WM 6.0, 6.1 or 6.5.
You see the main problem in doing that is the conflicts that would occur in creating a ml ROM.
But what we can do is install apps like FingerKeyboard with ml support and doing as you're doing.
But the conflicts I am talking about may render your device useless.
Tribulattifather, thanks for your point.
1. Why should there be conflicts with P4350 if there are apparently none with other devices? Which conflicts for example?
2. FingerKeyboard is for the screen keyboard, but I'm talking about the hardware keyboard.
Look at this:
msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa911786.aspx
msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa913008.aspx
I apologize, I forgot to mention the problems in my last post. You see, I have actually tried to adopt a similar theory. The problems that I faced where in the process of cooking the ROM. The ROM would not boot. And when I finally got 1 ROM that was a German/WWE combo, the device would constantly shut down because the device was trying to call to an operation expecting one thing and getting another.
But maybe we can figure something out from an already cooked ROM in WWE. I will experiment and let you know what I find out.
Tribulattifather, what you describe sounds more like a kitchen problem, because, as I've already mentionned, there are official multilingual WM ROMs. I have another mobile device, a Samsung OmniaPro P7330, which runs under official WM6.5 with a ROM supporting English US, English UK, German, Italian, French and Spanish UIs. There is a menu item in Regional Settings for switching the UI, it requires a soft reset, and voila, after the reboot everything is in another language (but not the keyboard layout).
On the other hand, official ROMs for non-latin languages like Russian support two input methods, one for Russian and one for English.
It would be great to figure out how it works. Can a look into registry dumps from a Herald with Russian firmware and from my multilingual-UI'ed smartphone help you?
Ok, so I am still a newbie, and not yet allowed to ask questions in developers threads.
Well, I am left with no choice but to address the topic as a whole, not specifically to a special ROM.
The issue we have in the Middle East is the lack of Arabic support in many custom ROMs. I have been observing this issue for a long while, and ROMs with Arabic support come up way too long after the original ones appear. This means that we are either forced to stick to the stock ROM provided by manufacturer, or always agree to use an older version.
Sticking to original ROMs is a pain as you must know. I for instance have been having trouble with HTC ROMs forever. First, I got the Desire, when it was the number 1 in the world. HTC stuck me with an Islamic app that wouldn't be turned off, and that drew my battery (and my patience) out. Then came the sensation, in which HTC stuck me with their own car dock app with locations that I cannot change. The problem is that it runs locations in the background, which heats up the device. I also do not want to use GPS all the time. I ended up waiting for it to launch, then existing directly. Pretty convenient ha?
And yet, when I turn to custom ROMs, I am most of the time forced to try the ROM so I know whether or not it supports Arabic.
Would you developers pleaaaase list right to left languages support in the ROM specifications when releasing a new ROM? Please?
I agree with you, the pre-installed islamic apps are useless and don't function properly thus wasting space and battery and custom ROMs not supporting arabic lang. forces us to stick with the stock ROMs
There is a paid app in the store which installs several arabic fonts, I forgot the name of the app but the price is around 6 dollars and requires root.
Android 4 ( ICS ) Supports Arabic and rtl languages by default, so all the new roms based on it will be able to view Arabic texts correctly.
Additionally there are some patches that can be installed on gingerbread and froyo to add Arabic support, but I haven't tested any of them.
And I totally agree with you about the Islamic apps, they are useless and take a lot of space, I rooted my phone just to delete them.
I know how that feels man, thanks for the awesome dev community ive been using CM7 for the past 6months(it supports Arabic language). And Ive flashed CM9 ICS on my SGS 3 weeks ago and its awesome .. as they mentioned, ICS has native arabic support.
Hello everybody,
First off I'd like to thank all the developers and contributors to this Forum, you're doing a great job :good:. Although this is my first post, I've been following this forum for a while now and learned lots of good things.
Now the problem...
I have a Samsung Galaxy Core LTE (SM-G386W) from Fido Canada. It only came with 5 default system languages (English, French, Korean, Chinese and one more - don't really know what it is) and I'd like to know if it's possible to install others. I bought this phone for someone that doesn't understand/speak any of the languages above, I'd like to enable/install Romanian language pack.
Phone is rooted. I tried already a bunch of apps such as Language Enabler but the results aren't satisfactory, a few app names and messages get translated but the menus stay in English. Besides when I go to Language and input menu, it shows me Romanian (Romania) selected but if I press on it, the drop down list still only shows the original 5 languages I can chose from. Therefore I assume the enabling is not permanent nor complete.
I also tried flashing a ROM from the similar model in Europe (SM-G386F) but it didn't go through.
Any ideas anyone?
Thank you.
Hi mceuca
i have the same problem with the exact model phone.
How did you solve your issue?
Please help