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.
soupmagnet said:
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!
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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.
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
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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.
Hi,
I'm looking for a application for my Nook Touch to rotate the screen manually (because Nook Touch don't have sensors).
It will be very nice for web browser.
Did you know that kind of app?
There is nothing app like that. I tried create some, but without success, even start activity from another activity in landscape mode is not possible i think (please correct me, if you know how - I would like to finish tool for starting aplications in landscape mode), but still you can modify your apk.
1) download ApkTool code.google.com/p/android-apktool
2) download your apk application file (I tried on opera mini)
3) use apktool d your.apk apksource
4) edit AndroidManifest file : only add to activity android:screenOrientation="landscape"
5) use apktool b apksource your_modified.apk
6) then the hard part sign it with these steps or some others londatiga.net/it/how-to-sign-apk-zip-files/
7) use adb install your_signed.apk and thats it
Have fun
thank you for your informations.
I will try to modify Opera mini to use landscape mode but it will be easier to have a icon on the statut bar to do the rotation "on the fly"
Hmm, I've noticed that when I tap the status bar to launch the wifi settings popup, it always switches me back to Portrait mode. So that's at least half of the desired functionality.
Also, there's a lot of games (including Angry Birds) designed for Landscape view, launching them to change orientation and launching the application you want could work.
aivi said:
There is nothing app like that. I tried create some, but without success, even start activity from another activity in landscape mode is not possible i think (please correct me, if you know how - I would like to finish tool for starting aplications in landscape mode), but still you can modify your apk.
1) download ApkTool code.google.com/p/android-apktool
2) download your apk application file (I tried on opera mini)
3) use apktool d your.apk apksource
4) edit AndroidManifest file : only add to activity android:screenOrientation="landscape"
5) use apktool b apksource your_modified.apk
6) then the hard part sign it with these steps or some others londatiga.net/it/how-to-sign-apk-zip-files/
7) use adb install your_signed.apk and thats it
Have fun
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In Theory: Is it possible to modify Apps like Kindle and remove the transitions with ApkTool to make it more eink friendly?
Aldiko app does screen rotation
tebra said:
Hi,
I'm looking for a application for my Nook Touch to rotate the screen manually (because Nook Touch don't have sensors).
It will be very nice for web browser.
Did you know that kind of app?
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The Aldiko app permits screen rotation, and that rotation persists in other applications, although I don't recall if it does in a browser--the rotation persists in Kindle app.
So we know it is possible!
jahfaby said:
In Theory: Is it possible to modify Apps like Kindle and remove the transitions with ApkTool to make it more eink friendly?
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It could be possible if You have source code (It's not enough have apk, because apktool don't decompile it). There is "tutorial" how to optimize it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1183173
found out that the app permissions denied starts in landscape,
if you go back to your home screen while loading its stays in landscape and you can launch the most apps in landscape mode too (like aldiko workaround)
I just installed ADWLauncher EX on the touch and then went to ADWSettings. In UI Settings I selected Screen Preferences and changed my Home Orientation to landscape. Pretty much puts most apps in landscape, excepting stock nook ones. HTH.
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cymoze said:
I just installed ADWLauncher EX on the touch and then went to ADWSettings. In UI Settings I selected Screen Preferences and changed my Home Orientation to landscape. Pretty much puts most apps in landscape, excepting stock nook ones. HTH.
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That's very helpful! I'll try it. Thanks.
There's an app for that.
I'm sorry about the year-and-a-half bump, but this page is one of the top Google results. I have made an app for rotating the NOOK screen, and just about anything else's screen too. You install the app, and when it launches you are presented with two buttons: Portrait and Landscape. Click one and the app exits, sticking the screen in the new mode. Enjoy!
cymoze said:
I just installed ADWLauncher EX on the touch and then went to ADWSettings. In UI Settings I selected Screen Preferences and changed my Home Orientation to landscape. Pretty much puts most apps in landscape, excepting stock nook ones. HTH.
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Amazing
Hi,
I couldn't find solution for my problem so I made that thread.
I'm freaking out when I reboot my phone, wanna send message or something and ******* android default keyboard comes up. I must go back, go to the settings, laungage & keyboard and, set swype as default and then change input method. Can I replace system keyboard app with SWYPE? If yes then how?
Delete LatinIME.apk from /system/app
Amazing, it worked! Thanks. Problem solved.
No problem, you could delete Userdictionaryprovider too since its only used for the stock keyboard.
[Q] How to make transparent status bar?
made post not thread, sorry -.-
Now I am using KM Launcher (swype in portrait and smart keyboard pro in landscape mode) and again I must check everytime this keyboard in settings after reboot. What should I do?
kevinlekiller said:
Delete LatinIME.apk from /system/app
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This has been driving me mad too, but this worked a treat - thanks...
Swype as default keyboard
Simply ensure that swype is not installed to SD card.
Then, go to settings and set Swpe as default keyboard
When using keyboard, for the 1st time after this,
Long press TAB and again select Swype.
That is it
ckgosain said:
Simply ensure that swype is not installed to SD card.
Then, go to settings and set Swpe as default keyboard
When using keyboard, for the 1st time after this,
Long press TAB and again select Swype.
That is it
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Read before posting. He has done it already. And it is a very old thread...
I wrote a small app as a proof of concept that allows you to change between UK & US layouts when using the folio keyboard. This is designed to be used on the cyanogen port by Koshu.
I fixed up a small problem with the US layout recently (YEN symbol not recognised). If you'd like to try it out the APK is attached. The general usage is that you run the app, click the button of the language you want to use and:
1) If this is the first time you're doing it you may need to reboot the tablet
2) Otherwise just plug the folio out and back in again.
To be safe make a backup of /system/usr/keychars/Vendor_1241_Product_0003_Version_0110.kcm first and use that to restore your default keyboard layout if something is amiss. The restore button in the app needs a bit of work and all it does right now is to delete the files that it created.
Sounds very cool, but I don't have that file. Running 089 WE.
This is mainly designed for use with the Cyanogen port that Koshu is working on, sorry I forgot to mention that.
For stock ROMs I think lenovo edited the Generic.kcm, Generic.kl files to suit the keyboard layouts.