In WM6 are your keys messed up in contacts? For instance if I type the "f" key it thinks it's "m". "v" is "w", it seems it's effects the keys that are #'s. If I hit the "a" key it's "#". The keys seem to work fine in every other app. Thanks in advance.
Does this fix it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=296857
Thanks!! Using the Mobile registry editor worked.
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I'd like to report partial success and ask for your input.
I have a O2 XDA Cosmo (which is close to Excalibur but is somewhat different from Dash, eg. it does not have (x)T9) and was shocked to see how cumbersome it is to enter accented characters (eg. German Umlauts). In contrast to other HTC devices, one needs to press the SYM (symbol) key upon which a table pops up, then one needs to use the cursor to get to the right character and press enter. Outrageous.
I did a search and ended up using AEKmap. I did not succeed to reprogram the FN key. Alas, that would have been just what I wanted. Press FN once + "o", get "ö", press FN twice, get "_" (which is marked blue on the key). I could not pull this off, even though I know the code of the FN key and AEKmap can in principle do this (via the definition of both Accentkey and Accentkey2, setting them to the same value). No success.
Then I took the "Message key" (buttom row, far right, with the envelope on it) and used that as Accentkey. This works, sort of. When I activate the Remapping (I switch it on with the Symbol key, needs to be done only once per session, gets unfortunately lost on reboot), then I get something usable: pressing "o", produces "o", pressing "FN + o" produces "_" (as before), pressing "Message" + "o" gets "ö" and "Message+CAPS+o" gets even "Ö". So far so good, this works in email and SMS.
However, it does not work if I need to enter text in Calendar, or Tasks or in a Freeware Notes editor, because in those cases the Message key calls "messages" FIRST and transfers control to that app.
Does anyone know how I could prevent this. If the "message key" in deactivated totally (in the sense that it does not call "messages") that's ok, I do not need that function (or can reprogram the adjacent "Explorer" key to do that by changing the shortcut SHORT_IE in \Windows). But I can not delete the function attached to either of those keys, so that they do not call Messages or the IExplorer.
This all has probably to do with the fact that AEKmap is not a proper driver and therefore catches the key somewhat "late".
From this unqualified statement you can defer that I am not very skilled. So please help me if you can. I am determined to get this "project" done, as I think I might just love this device, if it was easy to enter those ä,ö,ü etc.
Thanxx for any help, Mixx
I found the solution here on these forums.
Cut and paste:
Fiddling around with WM6 Beta's eT9.Excalibur.0409.kmap.txt
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I discovered that by fiddling around with this file (found in the /windows folder, you can quickly change the keymappings in the beta version. For example, I've only done a quick test, but I remapped the '%" symbol on the Q to be a "!" when alt is pressed or a long press is done. This worked in both Outlook and Word on my test. No reboot was needed BTW.
Can you please, please be a bit more verbose?
I do not have the beta on my device, it is standard O2 Cosmos WM5 (very close to Excalibur). Can I do anything with that? I do n ot have T9 or ET9. Will this file still work? What do I need to change in it (syntax)?
Thanxx a million, Mixx
BrumBrum74 said:
I found the solution here on these forums.
Cut and paste:
Fiddling around with WM6 Beta's eT9.Excalibur.0409.kmap.txt
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I discovered that by fiddling around with this file (found in the /windows folder, you can quickly change the keymappings in the beta version. For example, I've only done a quick test, but I remapped the '%" symbol on the Q to be a "!" when alt is pressed or a long press is done. This worked in both Outlook and Word on my test. No reboot was needed BTW.
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I am using regedit to try and change the values of the soft keys on my today screen (wm 6.0 pro). I have used:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Today\Keys\112 to show the settings for one key - I assume the left key. But I can't find any other key in this folder to rflect the right soft key. I would like the left key to open SMS and the right to open contacts - How can I accomplish?
Use Schap's Advance Config to do it; much easier than editing the registry.
Thanks a bunch...1 More Thing...
is there a way to get one of the soft keys to read SMS rather than just messaging?
and do you currently have an app to turn the tilt completly off...
without pressing the power button? pocketman 2 doesnt seem to do it
Anyone know if its possible to rebind the sms/email keyboard keys somehow?
As an ssh user, I miss the control and tab keys on my touch pro. I'd rather rebind these 2 useless keys into something far more practical.....
Thanks!
Yeah I really want an Escape key for the same reason.
What SSH client are you using? Putty? My Func key is weird in Putty, when pressed it stays on even after another key is hit, and you have to press it three times in succession to turn it off.
token2shell, it's the best one i've ever found for wm.
http://choung.net/Token2Shell/Mobile/
Just tried editing the eT9.Rhodium.0410.kmap.txt files in \windows but no luck, changes didn't seem to take effect even after a soft reset. Tried modifying all the files as well as updating the registry.
Found the info here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=326683&page=3
5h4d0w said:
token2shell, it's the best one i've ever found for wm.
http://choung.net/Token2Shell/Mobile/
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You're right, it's way better than Putty. Thanks very much!
Incidentally I tried the remapping with AEBplus but couldn't get it to work.
Is there any way to get the SYM keystroke (FN+Spacebar) to behave like in some PPC's where you type a regular n followed by SYM and the n becomes ñ. I hate having to browse through that character map window every time I have to type an accented character - it takes my focus away from what I'm writing!
I tried the Rhodium Keyboard Controller but it just rendered the SYM keystroke and the OK key unusable. (The SYM keystroke when mapped, the OK key just by installing that driver.)
I was able to change the SYM behavior in a Samsung Epix with this registry mod...
Code:
HKLM\System\IME\SymbolSelector
Keycode (DWORD): changed from 122 to 116.
...But the HTC Fuze and Tilt2 already have the same value I was changing to in the Epix, and the reverse does not help.
Does anyone know how to get the desired SYM behavior? Many thanks.
Hello, I know it could seem strange, but I need that numeric part of Qwerty keyboard of Excalibur, acts like a normal keypad. Something like HTC tornado. What I want is when I press key marked as "2" three times, letter C appears.
Is it possible?
Thanks.