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Hi,
Just got my HTC HD 2. And i taken liking in original HTC HD 2 keyboard. Mainly because of inbuild vibration feedback. But there is that one annoying thing. And thats emoticons. I would love to write "=*" or "=)" faster. Now i have to go to characters, get to the second screen for "=" and return for "*". So, is there a way to configure keyboard layout to have this emoticon typed when i hold choosen key?
Ofc i could get another keyboard thats supports easy remaping with touchresponse enabler and set it to vibrate only at keyboard and set my new keyboard as default with another program. But thats not so effective.
TL;DR: Any idea where to edit default keyboard layout?
Edit: Now that i think about it, is there a setting to make first letter in a sentence Capitalized?
Is there no way? Then someone know keyboard which looks like original an is editable? Thanks in advance
I have no idea if you can edit the keyboard, but you should check out FingerKeyboard (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=487677) its good looking, really accurate and has most of the standard emoticons on the regular layout.
Hi!
This keyboad can not to set disable T9 also!
Well I dont use T9 so I dont mind. And yes, Fingerkeyboard is nice one i tryed it already. But still couldnt edit to my favorite smileys. If I recall correctly, there was FingerKeyboard with indepth settings, but this 2.1 only has basic stuff. Gonna look at it again.
Still its kinda lame to have to use 3 programs to have default keyboard with emoticons xD
In my opinion, FKB is the worst replacement keyboard. The default keyboard would be perfect, if someone managed to remove the arrows so that you could have a bit bigger keys, and a row for numbers.
I applaud the dev for his time and blood, though.
Again, this is MY opinion. Agree or disagree, I don't really give a damn. That would be YOUR opinion.
nex7er said:
In my opinion, FKB is the worst replacement keyboard. The default keyboard would be perfect, if someone managed to remove the arrows so that you could have a bit bigger keys, and a row for numbers.
I applaud the dev for his time and blood, though.
Again, this is MY opinion. Agree or disagree, I don't really give a damn. That would be YOUR opinion.
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I'm not sure about the FKB with HD2, as I will be only getting the HD2 next week! But with my experience of FKB with Touch HD, I completely disagree with you. FKB is the best ever keyboard app to me, it is a must for me for many reasons.
And to the poster, I'm really glad of you posting up a thread with a proper title with [REQ] suggesting what your post is about! If everyone follows this basic rule, how much better and enjoyable browsing the forum for all of us!
Well I am now testing REAL 2.1 version (I downloaded bad link and got 2.0 =/ that was silly of me) Now if i get nice theme which looks like standart then its all nice (Vibration seems to be implemented which is great).
And I totaly agree with precsmo. If people really did follow rules, it would be totaly awesome for others. And posting [REQ] before request was obvious after reading this forum for about 30s. Dunno why others dont do it this way, its better for everybody.
I played with FKB a bit and found out it to be sorta buggy with HTC HD 2 and not so good as default keyboard is =/ what a shame that HTC doesnt care about smileys =/
nex7er said:
In my opinion, FKB is the worst replacement keyboard. The default keyboard would be perfect, if someone managed to remove the arrows so that you could have a bit bigger keys, and a row for numbers.
I applaud the dev for his time and blood, though.
Again, this is MY opinion. Agree or disagree, I don't really give a damn. That would be YOUR opinion.
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I disagree. Finger Keyboard is good and arrows in the default keyboard are great .
Swype
Have you tried "Swype"? It's an awesome keyboard..... try it - it should speed up your typing a lot
can anyone tell me how to swap the "£" for the "$" on the keyboard. $ is on the keyboard @ the moment but I have to search for the £ key.
thanks
Shala
ShalaHD2 said:
can anyone tell me how to swap the "£" for the "$" on the keyboard. $ is on the keyboard @ the moment but I have to search for the £ key.
thanks
Shala
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Find a cab in sense tweak thread, as I remember. There is a cab for currency keyboard or so called, then u can have option to choose that £ symbol when holding $
Sorry for asking in this thread, but is it possible to get a swedish layout on the htc keyboard? always have to long-press a for å and ä, and long-press o for ö... quite anoying. and i really dont want to replace the standard keyboard on my new hd2.
thanks in advance.
PentaMedia said:
Sorry for asking in this thread, but is it possible to get a swedish layout on the htc keyboard?
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should be possible and not that complicated,
for info on what and how check this thread, some additional info can be also found in threads on lithuanian and bulgarians keyboards
Hello! Colemak typist here.
Can you change the layout of the keyboard? I don't mind about the physical layout, just the software mapping. I have no idea how he keyboard is handled so could someone kindly work out if this is possible? And if Colemak is available?
Thanks!
Nobody with a keyboard who can quickly check this out for me?
If you don't get a reply shout me tonight and ill give it a go.
hmmmm. cant see anything that allows keyboard remapping in the settings.... which is a shame as my @ and " are not as per the layout ... which is odd .....
Could always try button remapper beta off the market. I don't know if it will work on the dock keyboard but I could remap some of the keys using a usb keyboard on my viewsonic g tab. Something to try at least.
kiz said:
Hello! Colemak typist here.
Can you change the layout of the keyboard? I don't mind about the physical layout, just the software mapping. I have no idea how he keyboard is handled so could someone kindly work out if this is possible? And if Colemak is available?
Thanks!
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One way to do it is go to this website to get a general idea about remapping. Then download the KeyTest.apk from the author.
When you start the app you can see which scancodes are created. Now go to /system/usr/keylayout (most likely requires root) and change the keyboard layout that is associated with your keyboard. If you don't know, download aLogCat from the market. When you connect a keyboard it will show up in the log. For special characters and shortcuts modify the appropriate keychar table in /system/usr/keychars.
Hope that helps. It worked on my XOOM for a generic BT keyboard that had lots of Apple keys.
Wonderful. Thankyou all for your helpful posts! Very glad to know there is a way to do this, even if it is not an official option.
Thanks again.
wilbur-force said:
hmmmm. cant see anything that allows keyboard remapping in the settings.... which is a shame as my @ and " are not as per the layout ... which is odd .....
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You need to change the software keyboard to the ASUS one in order to get correct layout on dock keyboard.
As a follow up post - I got a transformer with dock. Downgraded to 8.2.3.9, rooted and found the keyboard layout in /usr/xt9/keylayout/qwerty-en_GB.kl. I edited by hand (thankfully it's a lovely human readable text file) and now am enjoying colemak! Woot!
I might write a little how-to so that anyone can do it quickly and easily.
I have bought a bt keyboard from maplin here in the UK.. And some of the keys aren't right.
I have seen a tutorial on how to do it the hex editing way.. But I am wondering if there is anything in the market?
Sent from my HP Touchpad using xda premium
Same problem here,
I bought an azerty bluetooth keyboard (I'm french of course) and it's in qwerty in Android.
I need to remap the keyboard and I tried to edit the qwerty.kl and it's work for some letters but I can't remap everything.
Does anyone know where can I find a solution or how can I remap everything ?
I've red the [HOWTO] topic in Xoom section but it doesn't work on the TP (gingerbread vs honeycomb).
Thanks !
I planned on trying to work on this after finals this week, but I am no expert so there is no guarantee that I will do it well or fast. I googled and found some decent how-to's so we will see how it goes.
Oh and I have searched and searched and have not found a keymapping app, though there was a keyboard (hackers keyboard I think) that stated that the would include that in a later update.
*edit, it was bluetooth keyboard easyconnect that is adding keymap support.
Thank you for your interest. I'm following you.
Crap'$ said:
Same problem here,
I bought an azerty bluetooth keyboard (I'm french of course) and it's in qwerty in Android.
I need to remap the keyboard and I tried to edit the qwerty.kl and it's work for some letters but I can't remap everything.
Does anyone know where can I find a solution or how can I remap everything ?
I've red the [HOWTO] topic in Xoom section but it doesn't work on the TP (gingerbread vs honeycomb).
Thanks !
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You should search for a qwerty.kcm.bin that has the french layout. It should work for any azerty.
For example from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3616778&postcount=178
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=173725&d=1239106569
Just use the azerty.kcm.bin and put it in /system/usr/keychars as qwerty.kcm.bin
Make a backup. You need to remount system as rw.
If that's work you can go and modify /system/usr/keylayout.kl to map custom buttons on the keyboard.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work...
BlueInput should support different keyboard layouts (http://www.teksoftco.com/index.php?section=blueinputandroid).
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Unfortunately, it doesn't work...
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Hello,
I have make a patch for the touchpad Bluetooth AZERTY Keyboard
Install the zip file patch in Recovery Mode like a ROM.
French tutorial : goo.gl/uqypF
GoBZH
Thank you very much !!
It works very well
You can always make your own keylayout.kl and name it whatever your keyboard is named. I did this for my BT keyboard and it works well. Use this keytest app to find the key number for all the buttons, then go ahead and use the generic.kl and erase everything and start from scratch. It's not too hard, just follow the syntax and you're good to go.
Here's a link to all the possible key events too.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html
Worth trying:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apedroid.hwkeyboardhelperdemo
Use External Keyboard Helper
philicibine said:
I have bought a bt keyboard from maplin here in the UK.. And some of the keys aren't right.
I have seen a tutorial on how to do it the hex editing way.. But I am wondering if there is anything in the market?
Sent from my HP Touchpad using xda premium
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You need to be rooted....
You can change the key mapping using this app, but and you can also create some personal keyboard shortcuts ( which is what I do)
Hi all,
when using my TF with dock I bumped into a problem - the keyboard dock does not work well with 3rd party input methods (e.g. Go keyboard thumb layout). I was looking for an app or some other way to auto-switch current input method when docking/undocking.
When searching and googling I found a guide to auto-display input method chooser dialog when docked/undocked (Here).
Another related guide was about re-mapping keys on the dock keyboard (Here)
Well, my aim is to create an overall keyboard utility that would enable easy keyboard auto-switching and possibly re-mapping less useful keys (e.g. brightness) to something more practical.
I've started working on the application (well, spent a few hours over two evenings ), at the moment it is very simplistic. I just replicates the behavior from the Tasker guide, so that it shows the input method chooser dialog after docking and undocking (plus a config to enable/disable this). I did not want to purchase Tasker just for this.
I know that it is an intentional android security measure that apps cannot switch input methods at will, but if someone has an idea how to overcome this (for rooted devices), please, let me know.
Anyway, here is an initial version. Hopefully, someone else besides me will find it useful. Any comments, suggestions highly appreciated!
Thanks for the effort.
I consider this app as very useful. Unfortunately I cannot help you developing because I'm just a user but again the idea is great.
Regards
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk
I use tasker and confirm this works the same.
Your app does have 1 big advantage over tasker. With tasker everytime I close the tab&dock into their clamshell shape, when I unfold them and the screen turns on, tasker makes the pop up come on even though I did not undock the tab.
Your app does not do this which is great
good work, much appreciated!
Wow, this is awesome! The only thing that would make it better is the ability to switch input methods automatically without the pop-up. However - it is no problem to use the app as it is now. Great work!
OK, downloaded, installed and tested... awesome ! You just took my TF one step further on the way of perfection !
Very good idea, it's working great. SwiftKey tablet x is even better thanks to your simple app. Thanks!
Sent from my Transformer TF101
Awesome - thanks!
what an usefull app!i wonder if exists anything similar before....+1 for this little but awesome work mate!!
Brilliant! Now can you make an option to allow it to auto switch between says Asus keyboard layout when docked and Thumbs keyboard when undocked pretty please?
I've found that the keyboard choice dialog does come up when (un)undocking, but that it's "dead" (it ignores selections - NOTHING happens) - I have to tap outside the dialog to make it disappear, and then bring up the dialog "manually" via the settings menu.
Any solution?
Wildt666 said:
I've found that the keyboard choice dialog does come up when (un)undocking, but that it's "dead" (it ignores selections - NOTHING happens) - I have to tap outside the dialog to make it disappear, and then bring up the dialog "manually" via the settings menu.
Any solution?
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I have same "problem", but I just wait one minute and dialog unfreeze.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium
both of you, check out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1118164
using autostarts you can disable that pop up.
using the guide in this thread i remapped my dock keyboard so that i could use whatever soft keyboard i wanted ( i use smart keyboard pro) and the dock keys wouldnt change.
my problem was that the only way i could get the @ key on the dock keyboard to work was with the standard asus keyboard chosen on the tablet, any other soft keyboard and the @ key wouldnt work.
all solved now though!!
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Sigismund83 said:
Hi all,
when using my TF with dock I bumped into a problem - the keyboard dock does not work well with 3rd party input methods (e.g. Go keyboard thumb layout). I was looking for an app or some other way to auto-switch current input method when docking/undocking.
When searching and googling I found a guide to auto-display input method chooser dialog when docked/undocked (Here).
Another related guide was about re-mapping keys on the dock keyboard (Here)
Well, my aim is to create an overall keyboard utility that would enable easy keyboard auto-switching and possibly re-mapping less useful keys (e.g. brightness) to something more practical.
I've started working on the application (well, spent a few hours over two evenings ), at the moment it is very simplistic. I just replicates the behavior from the Tasker guide, so that it shows the input method chooser dialog after docking and undocking (plus a config to enable/disable this). I did not want to purchase Tasker just for this.
I know that it is an intentional android security measure that apps cannot switch input methods at will, but if someone has an idea how to overcome this (for rooted devices), please, let me know.
Anyway, here is an initial version. Hopefully, someone else besides me will find it useful. Any comments, suggestions highly appreciated!
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solved already!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1118164
turn off the pop op using autostarts
remap the keys however you wish.
Ok, help here, please..
I am lost in all these threads and guides and what not..
What I need is: how to make dock type in Cyrillic Serbian, like the on screen keyboard? I do not need the automatic change of KB, I just need the possibility to type in Cyrillic. When I select serbian, dock stays US and onscreen is changed only..
When you do the remapping from the already mentioned thread, is it possible after that to change to US easily?
Thanx
No pop-up?
Any luck updating this app so that there are two more selections in the configuration screen?
Soft Keyboard when undocked
Soft Keyboard when docked
Then when docking / undocking don't present a user prompt but just change to the selected keyboard?
Thanks!
Great idea! If you could add an option To remember the selection it would be perfect! Anyway GREAT WORK!!!
Bromius76 said:
Any luck updating this app so that there are two more selections in the configuration screen?
Soft Keyboard when undocked
Soft Keyboard when docked
Then when docking / undocking don't present a user prompt but just change to the selected keyboard?
Thanks!
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I would love this.
Anyone else having trouble selecting a different keyboard? I installed "Keyboard from Android 2.3+" by Steven Lin (he's done a lot of work on it besides porting the gb keyboard), and while I can toggle it "on" in Settings -> Language & keyboard, I cannot set it as the keyboard to be used. At least on past phones I had to turn it on and then select it as the keyboard to be used. I tried long presses and various swipes, nadda.
Semi-related. I would also like to use a different keyboard, but I would like one that wasn't so cluttered with symbols and worked more like the iPhone keyboard.
Also, it'd be nice if there was one that didn't take up so much of the screen. It's a 720p screen, I don't need the keys to be so tall!
Stock ICS keyboard works really great and doesn't take up a lot of space too.
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dasfiend said:
Anyone else having trouble selecting a different keyboard? I installed "Keyboard from Android 2.3+" by Steven Lin (he's done a lot of work on it besides porting the gb keyboard), and while I can toggle it "on" in Settings -> Language & keyboard, I cannot set it as the keyboard to be used. At least on past phones I had to turn it on and then select it as the keyboard to be used. I tried long presses and various swipes, nadda.
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Once enabled, go to any app that opens the keyboard.
Look at your notification bar. It'll be a mini keyboard icon in the left corner. Open the notification bar and it'll have an option to select input
I used to use FlexT9 but on this phone the keys are a little smaller than I'd like. So for now I'm using the stock one.
Sent from my HTC One X
truciet said:
Stock ICS keyboard works really great and doesn't take up a lot of space too.
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Once enabled, go to any app that opens the keyboard.
Look at your notification bar. It'll be a mini keyboard icon in the left corner. Open the notification bar and it'll have an option to select input
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Dude, exactly what I needed, thanks!
To the guy wanting a plain-ish keyboard, check this one : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moo.android.inputmethod.latin.free