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How change keyboard layout

Hi guys - I flashed my German Vodafone VPA compact II with the new Qtek ROM (incl.AKU2) 2.17.7.2 WWE. I love it, it works perfect - but there is only one problem : how can I change to the German keyboard layout (QWERTZ; the symbol layout (reachable with the red key) is also completely different from the US one !) ???
I already tried to modify the registry keys (HKCU/keyboard layout and HKCU/Control panel/keybd) but without any effect - the device stays with US keyboard layout !
Can somebody help me ??
Thanx
Joe

same problem here
the often posted reg edits don't seem to work on new rom.
please help
Regards,
Andreas

ah well.. wait for the new German ROM then I guess
/me hates on localization some

Keyboard layout
The issue is, that I will have the operating system all in english, but change only the locale for the German keyboard mapping ! Is it not possible to extract the ROM, patch the keybord table and then flash it back ?? I guess that they have removed the other mappings due to size problems and thats the reason why the reg settings don't work :?
Joe

I hope it is possible to change with some registry edits

OK, after reading more carefully all the other postings, finally I got it !
How to make it :
Insert a new key(MUST be string type NOT Dword !!) 'Locale' under HKCU/ControlPanel/Keybd. The value is then '0407' (this is for a German keyboard layout). After that do a soft reboot (switching device off/on with the power on/off switch) - works great. The only thing that remains unsolved, is the ability of typing 'umlaut'; i.e. [a]+[red key]+[space bar] should give 'ä' but results in 'à'.
When somebody has also a solution for this, let us now
Joe

the Umlaute are stated in the sym.txt in your windows folde. Just edit 'em or use my language pack for there are more "bugs" for Germans using english ROMs (e.g. Transcriber, autocomple,..)
look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=43680&highlight=german+language
Hades.

Hades77 said:
the Umlaute are stated in the sym.txt in your windows folde.
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Good one - I'll add that to the language changing WiKi.

problem with dopod gps-enabled keyboard

dear members
i've just installed the gps-enabled dopod rom and whenever i try to switch the built in key board to an arabic enabled keyboard that comes with the arabizer program (sold separetly from 2 companies, imaginet & informobility) , it refuses to change.
i even istalled resco keyboard pro but with the same problem.
does anybody know how to solve this problem?
is there a hack or a change in the registry that enables me to use any arabic enabled keyboard?
thanks for your help.

vasa vasorum said:
dear members
i've just installed the gps-enabled dopod rom and whenever i try to switch the built in key board to an arabic enabled keyboard that comes with the arabizer program (sold separetly from 2 companies, imaginet & informobility) , it refuses to change.
i even istalled resco keyboard pro but with the same problem.
does anybody know how to solve this problem?
is there a hack or a change in the registry that enables me to use any arabic enabled keyboard?
thanks for your help.
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I can't get RapidCalc keyboard to load either. Other people have complained about keyboard software not loading also. Hopefully a Rom upgrade will fix the issue.

dear matterhorn
thanks for your reply. hopefully there would be a solution for this problem.
waiting for the experts to reply.

please guys >>>>>>>>>>>> around 100 visits and only one reply
pleaseeeeeeeeeeee i need a help.

Have you tried to set the non-loading keyboard as default input method using SKTools or SIPChange?
It did the trick with HTC PhonePad which also refused to load.

Apoc said:
Have you tried to set the non-loading keyboard as default input method using SKTools or SIPChange?
It did the trick with HTC PhonePad which also refused to load.
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I Tried the SKTools, and my Trinity started to freeze right after softreset, so I had to do a Hard-reset
Tried the SIPChange, and viollaaaaaaaaaah my arabic keyboard is working now.... I didn't even change the defaults, I just installed the SIPChange and everything is normal
Thanks

dear apoc & mo7al
thanks for your response. i tried sktools but i couldnt figure out how to do it.
i have never heared about sipchange. can you send me the program and how to set the keyboard, please
thanks for your response

vasa vasorum said:
dear apoc & mo7al
thanks for your response. i tried sktools but i couldnt figure out how to do it.
i have never heared about sipchange. can you send me the program and how to set the keyboard, please
thanks for your response
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=271008

thanks a lot. you are really ra3eeha

hi there
still having the same problem ...
sipchange didnt work with me

RESCO Keyboard PRO worked for me.
You need to set ARABIC as the Primary Language, softrest.
I also tried another method and it worked as well. I extracted all the files from the extended rom beofore upgrading the ROM and then reinstalled them after the upgrade. The extended ROM files I extracted already included the IMAGINET Arabization.
Try these methods and let us know the results.

ajram said:
RESCO Keyboard PRO worked for me.
You need to set ARABIC as the Primary Language, softrest.
I also tried another method and it worked as well. I extracted all the files from the extended rom beofore upgrading the ROM and then reinstalled them after the upgrade. The extended ROM files I extracted already included the IMAGINET Arabization.
Try these methods and let us know the results.
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Put my unit did not have imaginet arabizer on it.
Can you upload this files?

dear ajram
thank you for your reply. we'll be gratefull if you can upload the imaginet files that are extracted from the arabic rom.
I am using vgakey now and it is working. but sometmes it refuses to appear.
waiting for you

Here you go!

Thanks for the files I will try and give you the result

Works perfect and the keyboard issue is solved (until now). Was there any other imaginet files (Like the Dictionary and prayer times). If yes please complete your kind effort and post them.
Thanks in advance

Glad it is working for all.
I think the 2 cab files PP_AKv30-DefaultPage_ALL.CAB and PP_AKv33-DefaultPage_ARA-0401.CAB are the ones that are making the difference.
With regards to the other maginet applications, they came on a seperate CD. I will try to upload them later if the size permitts.

Dear ajram
it worked perfictly
thanks a lot

ajram said:
Glad it is working for all.
I think the 2 cab files PP_AKv30-DefaultPage_ALL.CAB and PP_AKv33-DefaultPage_ARA-0401.CAB are the ones that are making the difference.
With regards to the other maginet applications, they came on a seperate CD. I will try to upload them later if the size permitts.
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Appreciate your help - waiting for your kind upload
Note : Until now (72 hours) Not a single problem with keyboard switch - thanks to ajram

Thank you very much, Realy it worked.
I belive you need only the 3 arabizer files to solve the problem which are,
CAB: \Extended_ROM\INCert_B377_2.CAB
CAB: \Extended_ROM\ACERTTahoma_HTC_B377_2.CAB
CAB: \Extended_ROM\MultiLang_AR_HTC_B377_2.CAB
These files are working on my device having no problem so far.
Thanks again.

Opal Keyboard Suite Fixed

So, I got it finaly working!!
I Wanted to use the Opal eT9 Keyboard Suite in my WWE Rom for quite some time now, but the T9 Menu with FN+Space maked it for me unuseable, because I need the function to produce ü,ä,ö for writing in German!!!!
I tried to make a fix cab but it didn't work...
So i made a cab with the Entire Suite which forwards the Original Funktion of the Fn-Space Key!
Many Thanks to DupinBJK for its original HTC Opal EzInput QVGA Project and MBarvian for his Keyboard Suite which i modified!!!
Update
So I think i got a working fix cab now!!
Just install it over the original HTC Opal EzInput or the MBavarian Keyboard Suite and it should work!
download it here : http://www.saddi.de/pda/downloads/Opal_Keyboard_Fix.cab
or the entire modified Suite (should be working with all languages now ) : http://www.saddi.de/pda/downloads/MBarvian_Opal_Keyboard_Suite_fixed.cab
or the OEM Package : http://www.saddi.de/pda/downloads/OEM_Input_Opal_Keyboards.rar

s4dd1 said:
So, I got it finaly working!!
I Wanted to use the Opal eT9 Keyboard Suite in my WWE Rom for quite some time now, but the T9 Menu with FN+Space maked it for me unuseable, because I need the function to produce ü,ä,ö for writing in German!!!!
I tried to make a fix cab but it didn't work...
So i made a cab with the Entire Suite which forwards the Original Funktion of the Fn-Space Key!
Many Thanks to DupinBJK for its original HTC Opal EzInput QVGA Project and MBarvian for his Keyboard Suite which i modified!!!
download it here : http://www.saddi.de/pda/downloads/Mbavarian_Keyboard_Suite_ger.cab
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Dude, this is only english? Any way to add more languages. Facing the same problem, want to use Opal Keyboard with portuguese language but I also need fn+space combination.
Can you help me with that?

not-available said:
Dude, this is only english? Any way to add more languages. Facing the same problem, want to use Opal Keyboard with portuguese language but I also need fn+space combination.
Can you help me with that?
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Maybe
Form your Signiture, i'm guessing that you useing a WWE Rom...
Maybe with Portugguese Input form http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=345426 ?!
For testing I need to know how your Device shoud behave if you press Fn-Space

s4dd1 said:
Maybe
Form your Signiture, i'm guessing that you useing a WWE Rom...
Maybe with Portugguese Input form http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=345426 ?!
For testing I need to know how your Device shoud behave if you press Fn-Space
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Hey dude,
Let me explain you what I did:
1- installed a wwe rom as you said;
2- went to this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=426281 and downloaded [Full Keyboard] - phones with full HW keyboard (cab here http://www.4shared.com/file/65653543/320f3183/BJK_HTC_EzInput_QVGA_FullKbd_0409-RC1.html ) and installed the language from the same post (cab here http://www.4shared.com/file/65653788/aec7369/BJK_HTC_EzInput_QVGA_LPack_PT-RC1.html )
I can now use that nice keyboard, but when I slice hardeware keyboard, before if I want to do a "á" I should write "a" and the click fn-space to choose à, á, ä, etc.
After install those cabs and do the fn-space combination I get a menu to choose T9 portuguese, abc, choose language of the keyboard, t9 settings and about t9.

you can try the Fix now (first post), hope it works for you!!

s4dd1 said:
you can try the Fix now (first post), hope it works for you!!
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Dude, one word. P E R F E C T.
Many thanks.
Regards

Moved this to Kaiser Software.

Changing keyboard language (and dictionary)

I have just installed a new rom for my S730 (from thread called NEW ROM FOR s730er(20279) )
Works pretty nifty (after changing language to english), but I got some other problems.
My old Æ, Ø, Å (danish letters) dosn't work anymore. Before they worked fine with the fn-key.. I guess it's some registry fix I have to make it work?
Also, is it possible to install some danish dictionary?
Thanks

My guess is that that ROM doesn not contain Danish xt9 ldb files (and probably it doesn't contain keymap as well). You'll need the 0406/1030 files. You can extract those from a WM6.1 rom that does, then copy the Danish files over to your English ROM, add registry entries and you're settled.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=360126 would be a good starting point, since the Vox (S710) and the Wings (S730) are more or less identical (for this matter, that is). Also read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319353.

I followed the instructions in the latter link above. The only thing to watch-out for is that in the registry you may get "Vox" instead of "Wings". Either rename the file or change the registry.
I've attached the keyboard data.
/Peter

French
I read this :
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/inde...Mobile Smartphone Internationalization Issues
and succeeded to make the cabs for french, you can find the cab's here :
http://dl.free.fr/B4Dd7F/HTC-S730
attached the cabs because the link doesn't work anymore

Russian
Need russian keyboard for S730. Any suggestions/files? Even without xT9...

I've managed to get Danish keyboard and dictionary just fine. One thing though. Before the 6.1 upgrade word-suggestion would suggest words with æøå even if I just wrote eoa. Example: If I wrote "star" it would suggest "står" too.
Any way to get that functionality back? Kinda of character alias function or similar.
Thanks for any input.

I would like to hear if it is possible to get original scandinavian "HTC WINGS S730" Keyboard settings - in a cab - ready to installation, so letters like æ ø å would be listed in their original places, on the HTC keyboard, like fn + arrow right = Å etc.
PS. I had before a working version of the WM6 on a S730 ..
Then i installed 6.1 US English(flashed version) and the danish keyboard layout suddenly disappeared.
Thanks in advance.

1plus1is2, I followed this to re-enable my keyboard.

robert.maas said:
I read this :
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/inde...Mobile Smartphone Internationalization Issues
and succeeded to make the cabs for french, you can find the cab's here :
http://dl.free.fr/B4Dd7F/HTC-S730
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The cab link is dead http://dl.free.fr/B4Dd7F/HTC-S730, can you repost it again please.

ok 4th post updated!!

Thank you Perfect (Merci). Thanks for the T9 as well exactly what I needed

Please Help ... How to return to the old keyword version?

Hello to everyone and thanks in advanced for your help ...
I would like to know how can I return to the Windows Mobile Old keyboard ... the one that has handwriting posibility .... I try several roms ... and I like them but I don't like the HTC new keyword ... I really prefer the old version because I think is fast for me writing than tiping ...
Actually I'm using Itje's Touch-IT v16 with winmo 6.1
Thaks a lot ....
The Maxx

This transcriber cab might work for you.
edit: If that doesn't work, or if you'd just like the entire OEM keyboard, here you go.

thanks ... but both cabs don't work or maybe I don't know how it work.

sfreirez said:
Hello to everyone and thanks in advanced for your help ...
I would like to know how can I return to the Windows Mobile Old keyboard ... the one that has handwriting posibility .... I try several roms ... and I like them but I don't like the HTC new keyword ... I really prefer the old version because I think is fast for me writing than tiping ...
Actually I'm using Itje's Touch-IT v16 with winmo 6.1
Thaks a lot ....
The Maxx
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Look for Calligrapher from phatware. It's the advanced version from the built in one.

jackleung said:
Look for Calligrapher from phatware. It's the advanced version from the built in one.
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Thanks I looking for it rigth now .... anyway Is possible disable the input way that the manila's rom has? maybe by regedit and return to the windows mobile original?

I just donwloaded the .cab file, but I think is not what I'm looking for ... I'm want to disable the HTC input method and use the old that came with windows mobile the one that has block recognizer, keyboard, letter recognizer and simbol pad. Please if some one knows how can I do that it will be very helpfull for me.
BR
The Maxx

sfreirez said:
I just donwloaded the .cab file, but I think is not what I'm looking for ... I'm want to disable the HTC input method and use the old that came with windows mobile the one that has block recognizer, keyboard, letter recognizer and simbol pad. Please if some one knows how can I do that it will be very helpfull for me.
BR
The Maxx
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Here's another stab at it. I've cabbed this up. Install it and soft reset. Let me know how this one works out.

TaurusBullba said:
Here's another stab at it. I've cabbed this up. Install it and soft reset. Let me know how this one works out.
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Thanks ... Downloading ... I'm going to try to use it with the Ijte's LEo 9 ROM. Thanks for your help ...
The Maxx

if you run a custom rom is it possible to change the software keyborad to nordic layout?? I have the smeberg cab for the hadeware keybord. But missing the nordic keybord in the soft keybord. So please help me out.
Regards.

strix75 said:
if you run a custom rom is it possible to change the software keyborad to nordic layout?? I have the smeberg cab for the hadeware keybord. But missing the nordic keybord in the soft keybord. So please help me out.
Regards.
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Give this one a try. Install the keyboard first, then dictionary... soft reset.

strix75 said:
if you run a custom rom is it possible to change the software keyborad to nordic layout?? I have the smeberg cab for the hadeware keybord. But missing the nordic keybord in the soft keybord. So please help me out.
Regards.
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I never find how to change layout for Microsoft software keyboard but if your rom use EZinput software keyboard, you can change the layout with that:
Go to HKLM\Software\Tegic\et9
Change the value of DefaultLanguage
0109 -> qwerty
010C -> azerty
0107 -> qwertz
There is also 0110 and 010A avalaible but I don't know for which layout it is so you may have to try yourself
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I do not know if nordic is supported and maybe there are other value than this ones but it is all that I know now...

Not Working
Hello again Taurusbulba... The cab don't work either .... I'm using the Ijte's TOUCH IT LEO 9 .... I did the follow: (1) Download the cab (2) copy to sd (3) install from SD (4) soft reset ... (5) Open word, excel and contacts and I have the same HTC Keyboard .... (6) try to setup the keyword from Start/Settings/Personal/Input ... and only have Touch Input....
Plese help me ...
Thanks a lot ....
The Maxx

strix75 said:
if you run a custom rom is it possible to change the software keyborad to nordic layout?? I have the smeberg cab for the hadeware keybord. But missing the nordic keybord in the soft keybord. So please help me out.
Regards.
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I removed your last post because you double-posted the same question. I answered you in post #10. Did you not see that? Try it out and let me know if it works.

sfreirez said:
Hello again Taurusbulba... The cab don't work either .... I'm using the Ijte's TOUCH IT LEO 9 .... I did the follow: (1) Download the cab (2) copy to sd (3) install from SD (4) soft reset ... (5) Open word, excel and contacts and I have the same HTC Keyboard .... (6) try to setup the keyword from Start/Settings/Personal/Input ... and only have Touch Input....
Plese help me ...
Thanks a lot ....
The Maxx
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Well that's not good. I'll keep my eye out for another OEM Microsoft keyboard, but I'm running out of resources. No guarantees I can find one that'll work for your device though.