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can't set keyboard any more (always qwertz)

Since a few days I cant set the soft-keybord in my xda diamond any more. It's now set as 'complete QWERTZ' and I like to set the phone-keybord but the small arrow next to the keybord symbol doesn't work.
Even when I open the input-settings under system-prefernences I can change the kind of keyboard but when I re-open the settings page it's again set as QWERTZ.
I tried some soft-resets and searched the forum.. Do anybody knows a solution??

you have qwertz keyboard??
how do you have it i have qwerty

May I know how to set the Font for the keyboard.
I'm having 'Courier' instead of 'Tahoma'.
Thanks in anticipation.

intel286 said:
you have qwertz keyboard??
how do you have it i have qwerty
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I bought the xda in germany, here we have QWERTZ ;-)
stuartwee said:
May I know how to set the Font for the keyboard.
I'm having 'Courier' instead of 'Tahoma'.
Thanks in anticipation.
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Is really the Font of your keyboard Courier or the trext you write with it?
If the Text is Courier you can set it in the Programm u use for typing, if the keyboard layout is really courier perhaps the font-file ist missing!?
Don't anybody has a Idea? I don't like to do an hard-reset because of that..

Hi, it's the the keyboard's font that tend to be in Courier, but changes sometime (Tahoma or back to Courier) after every soft-reset.
I didn't install any software to SMS or email.
Btw, kindly guide how to change the text font that we're typing (first time PPC user ).

how about changing your imput settings from phone settings ?

iliescu902 said:
how about changing your imput settings from phone settings ?
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That don't work! =(
I can change that setting but it don't take effect. And when I reopen the settings page after changing its "complete QWERTZ" again.
The only thing that had worked today is opening an program that that is using the keyboard-icon at other place and layout (like TRE Regeditor > small icon at the right bottom side). That was the only Programm where this arrow next to the the keybord-icon works. But even now I can't change the keyboard in any other programs, only in TRE. Don't know why =(

Only default keyboard works

I can install any keyboard (ezinput, resco...) but it shows only the default keyboard.
Some help?

now when I install resco keyboard, ask for reset, after that it works, but if I have to reset again it comes back to default keyboard and shows only that.
Some idea?

Use this to choose default keyboard. Credit to Sleuth.

anagarika said:
Use this to choose default keyboard. Credit to Sleuth.
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No luck, it doesn't work, I tried with 20sec too, but only the stupid and ugly default keyboard shows

[Q] After Rooted How to Home Icons and Keyboard Language??

Hello Guys,
I have rooted my NC. Everything is working as expected. Now I want to put some app icons on Home but I can't find how to do that.
Also the Keyboard setting is not working. If I go to Settings > Keyboard the NC go back to the prevous screen. I need to stop the auto-correct or change the language for autocorrect.
Any suggestion will be appreciated.
Regards,
Jorge

jorgeantonio said:
Hello Guys,
I have rooted my NC. Everything is working as expected. Now I want to put some app icons on Home but I can't find how to do that.
Also the Keyboard setting is not working. If I go to Settings > Keyboard the NC go back to the prevous screen. I need to stop the auto-correct or change the language for autocorrect.
Any suggestion will be appreciated.
Regards,
Jorge
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You'll need a 3rd party launcher to put icons on your homescreen (launcher pro,adw, zeam...).
The keyboard setting isn't working because rooting switched it to a new keyboard. It should work fine when you open a text field. There are threads on here about installing a variety of different keyboards.

Thanks wvcachi, I have installed another launcher and now I'm able to organize the home screen. Now I need to solve the issue with the keyboard. The keyboard is working well, the problem is the auto-correct, the is changing my words when I write in another language (spanish).
Can I just stop the auto correct?
Can I revert to the original Keyboard on NC?
Thanks for your help.

I have the same problem, I need to change the language of the keyboard, but I cannot get into the settings. I've tried different keboards, but with none I can change the particular settings nor language.

Hello, I got the fix downloading and installing a GBKB.APK from another sub-forum here (not nook subforum, I think android Dev subforum) after install that I'm able to select and use the gingerbread keyboard. Now in gb kb there is setting button where you can add another languages.
I hope this work for you.
Regards

The language of auto-correct is tied to the keyboard. Autonooting gives you the Droid X keyboard with American English autocorrection.
You can install a Chinese IME, Spanish keyboard, AZERTY with French auto-correct, or whatever else you desire. As the previous poster mentioned, there is a modified Gingerbread keyboard for 2.1 that includes Spanish dictionary. You can search for it in the Nook Color forums (the keyboard is from another forum, but there are directions for NC here). It's a very long thread, but the directions in the OP should work.

You can install Smart Keyboard or SwiftKey from the market (and moving the app to the System/app directory), and then, from the keyboard, enter to the specific settings.
In Smart Keyboard you have to long press the ABC or 123 key to enter settings, and in SwiftKey you have to long press the mic key. There you can change the language or disable autocorrect.
Additionally, if you want, you can change the language of the nook color (so that all programs menus and dates and stuff appear in spanish) using morelocale2 from the market.

Why only some keyboards?

Ultra Keyboard is not on the Market when viewed from the Nook Color (only the "dictionaries" are).
So I went on my phone and used Root Explorer to grab the apk from data\app.
I pasted it into system\app on my Nook Color and changed the permissions (rw-r--r--).
After a reboot, I can select Ultra Keyboard from the Nook Color Tools app, but going into any text field, the keyboard never appears.
What am I doing wrong?
Has anyone else gotten Ultra Keyboard to work?

Paul22000 said:
Ultra Keyboard is not on the Market when viewed from the Nook Color (only the "dictionaries" are).
So I went on my phone and used Root Explorer to grab the apk from data\app.
I pasted it into system\app on my Nook Color and changed the permissions (rw-r--r--).
After a reboot, I can select Ultra Keyboard from the Nook Color Tools app, but going into any text field, the keyboard never appears.
What am I doing wrong?
Has anyone else gotten Ultra Keyboard to work?
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I also would like to know the answer to this.

Does that keyboard app support the resolution of the NC?

Paul22000 said:
Ultra Keyboard is not on the Market when viewed from the Nook Color (only the "dictionaries" are).
So I went on my phone and used Root Explorer to grab the apk from data\app.
I pasted it into system\app on my Nook Color and changed the permissions (rw-r--r--).
After a reboot, I can select Ultra Keyboard from the Nook Color Tools app, but going into any text field, the keyboard never appears.
What am I doing wrong?
Has anyone else gotten Ultra Keyboard to work?
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Another thing to try is to copy system/app/LatinIME.apk to your sd card, then change Ultra keyboard's name to system/app/LatinIME.apk. Reboot.
Might not make a difference, but worth a try. If you end up with no keyboard, just move your backup back where it was.

I don't have any keyboards. What happened?

notinterested said:
Does that keyboard app support the resolution of the NC?
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No idea. How to check?
I'm just looking for a keyboard that has arrow buttons (and works on the NC), so if anyone knows of one, please let me know!

Paul22000 said:
No idea. How to check?
I'm just looking for a keyboard that has arrow buttons (and works on the NC), so if anyone knows of one, please let me know!
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I'm starting to sound like I work for SlideIT (trust me, I was a loyal Swype user until last week), but SlideIT has arrow keys buried back on the last page of special characters.

wvcachi said:
I'm starting to sound like I work for SlideIT (trust me, I was a loyal Swype user until last week), but SlideIT has arrow keys buried back on the last page of special characters.
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Oh wow! Thanks!

Thumb Keyboard works on the Nook COlor and has some of the best tablet features I have found -- including cursor arrow keys that work! It has several alternate keyboard layouts which all seem to work on my Nook Color -- except one standard QWERTY which failed to display the bottom row of keys that included the key to press that switches back to the layouts that work ... now I am stuck trying to figure out how to get out of the current layout ...

I am unable to get thumb keyboard too work! What did you do to get it to work? I tried everything...
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wvcachi said:
I'm starting to sound like I work for SlideIT (trust me, I was a loyal Swype user until last week), but SlideIT has arrow keys buried back on the last page of special characters.
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Swype has arrow keys. Swype from the swype key to the sym key and it comes up
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nacron said:
Swype has arrow keys. Swype from the swype key to the sym key and it comes up
Sent from my Galaxy Tab
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Yes, but does it work on the Nook Color?

Paul22000 said:
Yes, but does it work on the Nook Color?
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Unless he knows of some development we missed (this has been thoroughly researched - see link), then no, still no Swype on NookColor.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=880056

wvcachi said:
Unless he knows of some development we missed (this has been thoroughly researched - see link), then no, still no Swype on NookColor.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=880056
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Didn't realize that swype wasn't working on the nc. I'm here researching so I can root my wife's nc. I was simply going off the post that appeared to say that the poster had to switch from swype because of the lack of directional pad
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Just an FYI, shapewriter seems to work. It is small, but functional.

teknikk7 said:
I am unable to get thumb keyboard too work! What did you do to get it to work? I tried everything...
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I was actually just able to get it to work by copying the .apk into system/app with full permissions and then installing it from there. Didn't have to mess with LatinIME.apk and can switch back and forth easily.
Though I am having a problem when changing layouts and the row of keys with the spacebar/menu buttons disappearing.

mmarsman said:
Just an FYI, shapewriter seems to work. It is small, but functional.
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Does it have arrow keys?

Sunrisemix said:
I was actually just able to get it to work by copying the .apk into system/app with full permissions and then installing it from there. Didn't have to mess with LatinIME.apk and can switch back and forth easily.
Though I am having a problem when changing layouts and the row of keys with the spacebar/menu buttons disappearing.
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I'd love to know if you figure out the spacebar and menu buttons disappearing for the thumbs keyboard.
Edit: So I figured out that you can use Titanium Backup to wipe data and that resets the keyboard back to the large phone setting that allows spacebar and menu access. I cannot get any of the tablet keyboard options to work. None have the menu or spacebar option. I wanted the Thumbs keyboard because of the arrows. Unfortunately I can only find the arrows in the large phone keyboard which has a really weird layout. If anyone has any tips I'd appreciate it!
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ictguy78 said:
I'd love to know if you figure out the spacebar and menu buttons disappearing for the thumbs keyboard.
Edit: So I figured out that you can use Titanium Backup to wipe data and that resets the keyboard back to the large phone setting that allows spacebar and menu access. I cannot get any of the tablet keyboard options to work. None have the menu or spacebar option. I wanted the Thumbs keyboard because of the arrows. Unfortunately I can only find the arrows in the large phone keyboard which has a really weird layout. If anyone has any tips I'd appreciate it!
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I actually emailed the developer and they said they were working on sending out updates in the coming weeks and are aware of the problems with the tablet layout. He suggested deleting the XML file in the folder /data/data/com.beansoft.keyboardplus/shared-preferences and reboot the nook, to reset the keyboard. But using titanium backup might be quicker.

Paul22000 said:
Does it have arrow keys?
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Sadly it does not have arrows.

[Q] Russian keyboard

Any chance I could get Russian (Cyrillic) keyboard on my rooted Kindle Fire HD?

vadimus123 said:
Any chance I could get Russian (Cyrillic) keyboard on my rooted Kindle Fire HD?
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This is very easy. If you install Morelocale2 app, you will get Russian keyboard automaticly. But you wan't be able to switch it to English and back automatic ly. Or you can install any keyboard you want to system/app folder and use nook tools to switch keyboards.

Melodycd said:
This is very easy. If you install Morelocale2 app, you will get Russian keyboard automaticly. But you wan't be able to switch it to English and back automatic ly. Or you can install any keyboard you want to system/app folder and use nook tools to switch keyboards.
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Thanks for you response. I successfully installed Morelocale2 app and now I have UI in Russian. However, standard keyboard still shows only English characters even with Nook Tools showing keyboard language as 'Russian'
As for installing additional keyboard - any recommendations here? This is my first Android device so I don't have too much knowledge of it.I tried to install what was claimed to be a standard ICS keyboard but it kept crashing every few seconds...

Touchpal has a Russian language pack that will change your keyboard's layout to the Cyrillic lettering. And you can easily change between layouts on the fly without closing the keyboard.

soupmagnet said:
Touchpal has a Russian language pack that will change your keyboard's layout to the Cyrillic lettering. And you can easily change between layouts on the fly without closing the keyboard.
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This still does not work. Once I put "TouchPal_Keyboard_4.8.apk" into system/app, reboot and switch to it from Nook Tools I'm getting popup message "Touchpal Keyboard stopped" every 5 seconds and that's it.

Did you try to copy files from data/data/app.name/lib to the system/lib?
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timurg said:
Did you try to copy files from data/data/app.name/lib to the system/lib?
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Folder /data/data/com.cootek.smartinputv5/lib is empty

In my case, for Smart Keyboard Pro, full sequence looks like this:
1. install SKP;
2. copy apk to system/app;
3. change permissions to wr-r-r;
4. copy files from data/data/com.smartkeyboard/lib to system/lib;
5. reboot device;
6. choose SKP in Nook Color tools as a default;
7. profit)
Unexpected outcome: after I've selected the Russian layout as an option in SKP, in Nook color tools appears choice to mark the “Russian Amazon Keyboard“ as a default. In opposite to third party keyboards native amazon keyboard is not overlaid by navigational panel in landscape orientation. The obvious minus- there is no prediction dictionary for Russian.
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timurg said:
In my case, for Smart Keyboard Pro, full sequence looks like this:
1. install SKP;
2. copy apk to system/app;
3. change permissions to wr-r-r;
4. copy files from data/data/com.smartkeyboard/lib to system/lib;
5. reboot device;
6. choose SKP in Nook Color tools as a default;
7. profit)
Unexpected outcome: after I've selected the Russian layout as an option in SKP, in Nook color tools appears choice to mark the “Russian Amazon Keyboard“ as a default. In opposite to third party keyboards native amazon keyboard is not overlaid by navigational panel in landscape orientation. The obvious minus- there is no prediction dictionary for Russian.
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Well, I will try SKP tomorrow. Also, about #3 (permission change) - I noticed that Touchpal apk I copied into system/apps has rw-rw-rw. Should I remove writing permissions "group" and "other" or I can leave them as they are?

Sure, you have to remove write for other two groups, this is the point. Try it with your keyboard. it may help.
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timurg said:
Sure, you have to remove write for other two groups, this is the point. Try it with your keyboard. it may help.
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Just changed permissions for Touchpal apk in system/app - still same behavior.

So now restart your device, and install keyboard One more time. It should work now. I had the same problems with swype keyboard.
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Melodycd said:
So now restart your device, and install keyboard One more time. It should work now. I had the same problems with swype keyboard.
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Finally, I was able to get it working. It looks like it did not install properly first time - that's why 'lib' folder was empty. After I re-installed Touchpal I've got several files there. I copied them into /system/lib and after reboot I was able to switch to Touchpal keyboard with Nook Tools.
After that I realized that to be able to switch to Russian Touchpal needs to download Russian language pack and it always fails to do it from it's settings page. However, when I manually downloaded it from CooTek site and installed I've got Russian keyboard working!
The only question I have left is about keyboard itself. When I switch to landscape mode by rotating my Kindle the keyboard correctly changes its location staying on the bottom of screen, But, it does not extend it's width keeping it exactly same as in portrait mode.Is it normal or there is a setting somewhere I'm missing?
Anyway, thanks everyone for your help.

That is definitely not normal.

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That is definitely not normal.
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This is how all keyboards work on our KFHD, except stock Amazon keyboard. I think those keyboards doesn't support 'hidding' navigation bar and use all screen width to display the keyboard. As i understand, keyboards from market should be updated to work properly. I don't know any device, where navigation bar is popping up and then hide...

Still stock Amazon's keyboard is the best. Is it possible to modify keyboard apk to add language change button? How hard is it? I am sure that this kind of modified Amazon's keyboard would be very helpfull for all not US users... Just if somebody know the thread where we can ask for such modification, point me please! :laugh:

I‘m using space bar to toggle between layouts. I unistalled all third party keboards and Amazon one works like a charm for me.
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timurg said:
I‘m using space bar to toggle between layouts. I unistalled all third party keboards and Amazon one works like a charm for me.
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I did try your method, but it didn't work for me. I did install keyboard pro, but after that, long press in Amazon's keyboard give me an option to change keyboards, but not the language. As for now I have 4 keyboards installed.
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Try this one - in Nook Color Tools chose “all settings“ and the first option (without name) provide screen were you can choose different layouts.
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timurg said:
Try this one - in Nook Color Tools chose “all settings“ and the first option (without name) provide screen were you can choose different layouts.
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Wow! That's even better! Thanks a lot!