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Sliding Keyboard Sound gone!?!?

I searched and found a ton of "How do I customize the sliding keyboard sounds". But I am running Alex's multimedia ROM, and for the life of me can't figure out how to get the stock sliding keyboard sound back on my Tilt. I don't even have the option to turn it on in my settings anymore. It just appears to be gone.
Am I missing a setting? If not, is there a .cab to reinstall the sliding sounds option?
Thanks

over2land said:
I searched and found a ton of "How do I customize the sliding keyboard sounds". But I am running Alex's multimedia ROM, and for the life of me can't figure out how to get the stock sliding keyboard sound back on my Tilt. I don't even have the option to turn it on in my settings anymore. It just appears to be gone.
Am I missing a setting? If not, is there a .cab to reinstall the sliding sounds option?
Thanks
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http://rapidshare.com/files/79748184/SH4Y_Sliding_Sounds_Configure.cab

over2land said:
I searched and found a ton of "How do I customize the sliding keyboard sounds". But I am running Alex's multimedia ROM, and for the life of me can't figure out how to get the stock sliding keyboard sound back on my Tilt. I don't even have the option to turn it on in my settings anymore. It just appears to be gone.
Am I missing a setting? If not, is there a .cab to reinstall the sliding sounds option?
Thanks
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Try this CAB.

SH4YD33 said:
http://rapidshare.com/files/79748184/SH4Y_Sliding_Sounds_Configure.cab
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Thanks, but isn't that to modify existing sounds?
wpbear said:
Try this CAB.
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WP, that did it. Thanks. I did notice a slow down in regen when the screen is going from portrait to landscape though. However, I end up with the link in settings/personal, and the same sounds I had before I flashed.

I am using Alex ATT MM 1.6 and the sounds work too, but I dont see the link in settings/personal.
EDIT: Reboot and found it.

hello seniors,
http://rapidshare.com/files/79748184/SH4Y_Sliding_Sounds_Configure.cab this file does what? is it the software that allows the phone play a sound when opens and closes? OR is it configure the sound of the sliding keyboard? if i hd the software of keyboard sliding sound built in when i got this phone do i need to install this .cab? thanks
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total noob needs help with missing sliding sounds.
Hi I just downloaded the Tilt_SlidingSounds.CAB.
I then unzipped it on my computer and moved the folder containing the filles to my Vario III and put it in the windows folder. Using file explorer I found the folder opened it and hit setup. it worked but the sliding keyboard sound tweaker was placed in the windows folder too. So not saticefied with this I moved over the whole zip file to my phone and put it in my personal folder where I exicuted the cab. owever I could still only find it near the bottom of the windows folder and I want it in the settings/personal where my original one used to be before the phone got sent off for repair.
Although this tweaker works it only has 3 sounds to choose from. Is this right too?
Please give advice to all of this I am eager to learn and am still searching through the FAQs
Thanks
Hansaw

Beginning to edit Music.apk? Advice requested.

So, I have absolutely no knowledge of any type of Android coding, but I'm hoping to learn through trial and error. I've always hated the native Music app -- especially its appearance, but also certain features here and there. My question is, how can I go about editing this?
I'm in the process of re-skinning the APK, basically replacing the old images with better ones. But how would I go about more substantive edits? Suppose I wanted to change the background color to white and the text to black, or the time-jumper at the bottom of the screen from orange, how would I go about that? There's some XML files in the APK, but whenever I open them, I get a bunch of odd characters that I can't really make sense of.
Am I correct in assuming that the source code is not available for Music.apk? If it is, how do I get it and where do I go from there?
Like I said, I'm an absolutely beginner at app creation/modding, but I'm usually a pretty quick learner. I went from zero web design experience to replacing my University's housing website with a brand new one in less than a week, so if I get a push in the right direction, I should be good to go. I did a site search for tutorials on modding a system app, but couldn't find anything.
Any help?
PS: Once I get some edits started (if I ever get that far), I'll definitely be sharing it with XDA. So, any advice you could provide could be mutually beneficial!

jay652 said:
So, I have absolutely no knowledge of any type of Android coding, but I'm hoping to learn through trial and error. I've always hated the native Music app -- especially its appearance, but also certain features here and there. My question is, how can I go about editing this?
I'm in the process of re-skinning the APK, basically replacing the old images with better ones. But how would I go about more substantive edits? Suppose I wanted to change the background color to white and the text to black, or the time-jumper at the bottom of the screen from orange, how would I go about that? There's some XML files in the APK, but whenever I open them, I get a bunch of odd characters that I can't really make sense of.
Am I correct in assuming that the source code is not available for Music.apk? If it is, how do I get it and where do I go from there?
Like I said, I'm an absolutely beginner at app creation/modding, but I'm usually a pretty quick learner. I went from zero web design experience to replacing my University's housing website with a brand new one in less than a week, so if I get a push in the right direction, I should be good to go. I did a site search for tutorials on modding a system app, but couldn't find anything.
Any help?
PS: Once I get some edits started (if I ever get that far), I'll definitely be sharing it with XDA. So, any advice you could provide could be mutually beneficial!
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android_source_root/packages/apps/Music
Not exactly a secret.
Why wouldn't it be available?

Ipod touch music player
not even kidding and all apple hatred aside, i've always wanted a ipod touch style music player on android! the touch music player is nice looking and very easy to navigate through. if you could make something like that, it would be PERFECT!

pbonello said:
not even kidding and all apple hatred aside, i've always wanted a ipod touch style music player on android! the touch music player is nice looking and very easy to navigate through. if you could make something like that, it would be PERFECT!
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Something like that would be pretty simple cause its just list views that expand other list views.
As for starting to edit you can change most of the colors is the strings.xml and the layout xmls. For images make sure you dont replace .9.png with normal images. If you have the sdk setup use draw9patch in the tools folder.

lbcoder said:
android_source_root/packages/apps/Music
Not exactly a secret.
Why wouldn't it be available?
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Thanks, that helps. I'll get started by taking a look at that.
I'm not sure why I thought it was unavailable. I mean, some of Google's other apps are close-sourced, thought I suppose those are all part of the Google Experience.
I guess I thought that if the source code was available, someone would have improved the Music app substantially by now. In my opinion, it's terrible and could use a lot of work.

Dual keyboard? Portrait/landscape switch???

Is there any possible way to have two different keyboards depending on orientation without having to set it? I would love Swype in portrait and Smart Keyboard or HTC_IME in landscape and not have to change it manually. I'm sure there are others who would agree >;] I'm guessing it would have to be a frankenstein mashup of two keyboards or if there is a way to add it into the OS.

This is relevant to my interests.

I think the best approach would be a customizable one so people can choose different keyboards because I won't want the same two as the next person. Just an idea to throw around if any devs are looking for new cool things to work on. >;]

I have really been wracking my brain as to how to make this work. I'm with you--Swype in portrait, stock in landscape. A mashup keyboard would be possible, if you could get the source from both. But that would be very difficult. The most feasible (and useful) way would be to have an app automatically change your settings for you based on orientation. There's no way to do this without root, though--no app has permission to change your keyboard settings. This would open a huuuuge security hole for spyware. So, we need root to directly access the configuration files and forcibly change from one keyboard to another. This is a huge can of worms to open, but it might just be doable. Any thoughts?

+1
I would like to see this as well! Though the stock keyboard for landscape is my preference. HTC_IME is a little too cramped for my tastes and the vibration lags a bit more.

YES SIR! I would love to see this happen. I use Smartkeyboard in Landscape and Swype in portrait. this would be SO helpful.

Man, I hate shameless bumps, but this would be a huge deal. I just want to get someone with some more skill to take a notice, so...
*shameless bump*

BUMP
10chars

BUMPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!
swype in portrait...HTC in landscape....is it possible to delete stock android kb?

Someone make a app that lets you configure the keyboard for both based on your installed ones and sell it at $.99 and you'll make some good money.
(If you can do any of that)

+1 on willing to pay for my idea brought to life ^__^

good idea. would pay to see it. i love swype but hate the space bar placement when in landscape.

+1 i want this so badly!

Yeah this would be great... Normal swype method and landscape better keyboard or the default one.

Since apps are made to work together on android, would it be possible to make an app that basically would consider itself a keyboard and it would just choose one keyboard to run while in portrait and another to run while in landscape? Don't know programming too well, just wanna throw ideas out there..

+1 for this functionality
(Swype in portrait, stock in landscape)

great idea dev needed
+1 we need a dev to make an app that has settings for what keyboard launches in what orientation i dont think it would be that hard if we get someone who knows what their doing to make it id pay for it swype in portrait and htc ime in landscape for me just have the app let you choose from whatever keyboards you have installed for the orientation so everyone will be happy and be able to choose

+1
I would use this feature as well. I hope someone gets on this

i know
yourtravelboy said:
I would use this feature as well. I hope someone gets on this
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thats why im putting it all over twitter asking everybody if they think its a good idea so hopefully someone will pick up on it and dev it up

Guys...
By now, the fact that no one has done this or looked into it, it should be pretty clear that this is not possible to do.

Keyboard and Navbar?

Hi all, i've been searching for months for an answer to my simple questions but unfortunately i cannot find the remedy anywhere!! Now what i have been wondering is, with the new 2.1 ROMS, where the exit keyboard button is, on the Desire there is a smiley face button instead, i believe this was installed on one ROM, however i preferred to use a stock based ROM as my daily phone, now what i am wondering is, does anyone know where i can get the keyboard with the smiley, possibly as an update ZIP? i am certain it exists somewhere, but i am unable to find it anywhere!
Now my second question is about the stock navbar, i have found a couple of update ZIP's to make it transparent, but what i am after is a complete change of it so it resembles the Froyo navbar or to be honest, anything but the standard one! any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!!

sassnowwolf said:
now what i am wondering is, does anyone know where i can get the keyboard with the smiley, possibly as an update ZIP? i am certain it exists somewhere, but i am unable to find it anywhere!
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Swiftkey has a smiley on the right side of the keyboard and is a very good keyboard as well. It tries to guess what your next word will be and offers a choice to you.
It is in the market so downloading and installing is a breeze.

does sound good however i have quite dubious about installing third party keyboards, i'm almost 99% that i have oreviously seen a HTC IME keyboard?? (sp) that was flashable to the hero, i just can't seem to find it anywhere!!

hmmm.... it seems like you want this keyboard?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=624416
download the low resolution one

brilliant!!! only thing now is how do i install this!?! thanks so much

sassnowwolf said:
brilliant!!! only thing now is how do i install this!?! thanks so much
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Make sure you download the right one for your phone and follow the instruction on the page. I have pasted them here as well and added some addition notes.
Instructions:
* Download and unzip (not flashable update.zip!) This would be on your computer! After downloading extract or unzip the file. There will be 3 files in the folder after extracting counting the read me file.
* Install the two apks (HTC_IME & Clicker) using your favorite method (via a file manager or adb install -r). Sense users shouldn't (and needn't) install Clicker. (Put those two files on your SD card, and then using something like Astro file manager install them. You do this by opening your file manager, find the two files, click on them one at a time, and choose the option to install)
* There is no need to push anything to /system
* Go to Menu, Settings, Language & Keyboard. Activate "HTC_IME mod"
* To change keyboard, long press on lower left key on stock keyboard or any input field. Select input method in the menu.
* See note below if you have earlier versions than v22 installed already!
And as far as downloading 3rd party apps I wouldn't without reading some reviews as well. I have used the Swiftkey keyboard and like it very much. I have had zero issues with it and have tried it on several different roms.

Thanks a lot for your in depth reply, i got the keyboard working and i like it a lot! all i need now is another navbar, does anyone know of any replacements apart from the transparent standard ones?
thanks in advance!

sassnowwolf said:
does sound good however i have quite dubious about installing third party keyboards, i'm almost 99% that i have oreviously seen a HTC IME keyboard?? (sp) that was flashable to the hero, i just can't seem to find it anywhere!!
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You were probably using the HTC_IME MOD keyboard!
Anyway, I am unfamiliar with the term "Navbar". Do you mean the dock style area at the bottom of the screen? Many launchers seem to refer to this as the app drawer.

yes i think thats what it is, i've heard it called the Rosie too? its what separate launchers replace are there any replacements i can flash to the phone like the Expresso navbar? thanks

Norwegian Apple Wireless Keyboard settings and how to make your own

I have a Norwegian Samsung Galaxy Tab and Norwegian Apple Wireless Keyboard.
Norwegian letters "æøå" on bluetooth keyboards are not supported out-of-the-box, so I searched forums without much luck. I found some helpful threads and decided to solve the problem and share the solution. Others can make their own modified keyboard settings quite easily using the same methods.
Using "adb logcat" I found that the keyboard layout files used were the "Broadcom_Bluetooth_HID.kcm.bin" and "Broadcom_Bluetooth_HID.kl" (might not be the same on other devices - CHECK!). I had the "adb logcat" going while connecting and disconnecting the keyboard, so that I could see what keyboard files were used by the apple keyboard. I made a backup of these and started modifying them, with success.
DON'T BLAME ME IF YOU DESTROY YOUR DEVICE WITH THIS!
I offer no guarantee this will work for everybody!
HOW TO USE:
"Broadcom_Bluetooth_HID.kcm.bin" --> /system/usr/keychars/
"Broadcom_Bluetooth_HID.kl" --> /system/usr/keylayout/
I did this simply by copying the files with the app "Super Manager".
Make backup first. My backups are included just in case.
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN KEYBOARD SETTINGS:
I used a hex editor called UltraEdit on pc to change some symbols in the .kcm.bin-file, and I used the "KeyTest.apk" from github to make out all the scancodes and used them when editing the .kl-layout file in Notepad on the phone.
NB! If you use the hex editor, make sure you always change one symbol at a time and always do backups for each little change. Whenever I did some change that the system didn't like, it would turn to using the "qwerty.kcm.bin" as default, then I could use the backup to make it work again.
This is my first attempt of a sort of contribution to this great forum after
using it for years. Hope that others can use what I have learn't to make
their own settings. I have attached my original and edited settings files,
and a picture of the keyboard with scancodes.

I would be so happy if you could provide us with a swedish layout aswell as I am not so into programming!

mikaveikko said:
I would be so happy if you could provide us with a swedish layout aswell as I am not so into programming!
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+1. . .. . .

Danish would be nice aswell.
Atleast its the same letters and not all that weird swedish stuff... ;-D
Martin
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App

Nice find, qsarklam!
Could you post some info which hex key is which character, and how to identify individual buttons in the hex editor?

mikaveikko said:
I would be so happy if you could provide us with a swedish layout aswell as I am not so into programming!
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+1 ...........

I have exactly the same issue, need though the German layout. Can anyone from you help me with this?
I would also appreciate the Swedish layout so count me in that one aswell.
Thanks!!!

Spanish anyone?
Same issue, but in Spanish. The wireless Apple Spanish-ISO keyboard mostly works, even the Ñ, but some letters are not right and accented characters like áéíóú don't work. Also, the caps lock key LED doesn't light.
I tried using HexEditor on my rooted Samsung Galaxy Tab to edit the binaries but I can't figure out what maps to what so I'm stuck.
It's just so frustrating to have that nice keyboard sitting around. Would be a waste to have to buy and carry two keyboards, one for the iPhone and another one for the Tab.
To make matters more complicated, I like running the Galaxy Tab's Android UI in English, and I have a Mac so I can't run the suggested bin editors for Windows.
One would think that with the OS X being Unix-based and Android being Linux-based it should be as easy as copying a keyboard layout file from the Mac (or the iPhone) to the Tab, but it seems there is no such luck.

mikaveikko said:
I would be so happy if you could provide us with a swedish layout aswell as I am not so into programming!
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This thread is great! Anyone who has made a Swedish layout for the Apple Wireless Keyboard yet?

... I have attached my original and edited settings files,
and a picture of the keyboard with scancodes.
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I've got one apple wireless keyboard also, and i'm remapping it. Does your Fn button works? How did you manage to find the scancodes from the F1, F2 ... keys?
Are you able pass the lockscreen with the keyboard? without touching the screen i mean.

For those who are not rooted or just don't want to mess with a hexeditor I've got an app that takes care of this and allready supports a lot of different layouts:
http://www.apedroid.com/android-applications/external-keyboard-helper