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I have managed to connect a USB keyboard to my danish Advantage. What I cannot figure out is, how to change the keyboard layout. It seems that the phone has one setting for the software keyboard and one for the built-in keyboard, but there must be a separate setting for the USB keyboard.
My danish settings are not revealed in the registry, the settings says US layout (0409) but the built-in one is danish. Has anybody figured out the relation between these three keyboards?
// Johan

you should prob ask here
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Additional hardware keyboard layout

is it possible to add additional hardware keyboard layout? and how?
now i have Shamanix WM6 Ultimate 2.1 FINAL ROM WWE on Japanese Softbank X01HT. have installed support for Japanese. so when i open hardware keyboard i can you it's japanese layout with hiragana/katakana and english layouts. is it possible to add any other layouts?
i need russian one. i have on-screen russian keyboard using pocketCM. but i need hardware one, cuz on screen is pretty bad, especially when i need to type a big volume of text. it just annoys me to use stylus (
I'm in the reverse of your situation: have russian and english and want pinyin.
You can try AEKMap (http://ae.inc.ru/aekmap.php), but it has side effect of disabling your OK key altogether.
By the way, can you just tell me in PM how did you get japanese layout and precisely how do you switch english/hiragana/katakana?
Koterpillar said:
I'm in the reverse of your situation: have russian and english and want pinyin.
You can try AEKMap (http://ae.inc.ru/aekmap.php), but it has side effect of disabling your OK key altogether.
By the way, can you just tell me in PM how did you get japanese layout and precisely how do you switch english/hiragana/katakana?
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read this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=298919
they say LetsJapanNo5.zip, but there is already LetsJapanNo6.zip. you can find it somewhere here on the forum, or i can send it to you, if you dont find it.
For those who still want it:
http://hn801.hkes.com/Data/SIP/CHS_IME_Q.zip adds Pinyin to any keyboard layout (which I changed to Russian). After that, you can toggle Russian <-> English by pressing the Tab/RU/whatever-you-have-to-the-left-of-Space and English <-> Chinese by tapping 英 and 拼 on Pinyin SIP.

Changing the input method?

I searched and found many topics about changing the soft keyboard language and layout, but I still have not found a way to change TP2 input method to anything but touch input! It's aggravating to me that it does not save my settings for keyboard, and my preference for the original keyboard.
Yeah, i was wondering how to make the default input meathod as xT9?

Changing HARDWARE keyboard Qwerty -> Azerty

Hi,
How can i change QWERTY hardware keyboard to AZERTY (not layout in rom),k hardware changing ?
is there a way ? i need this to..
Hi,
After installing a dutch ROM, your machine only recognises "QWERTY".
It is easy to switch to "AZERTY" :
Physical keyboard (=hardware keyboard) : you need to install the cab-file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5496980&postcount=938
Virtual Keyboard (= keyboard on touchscreen) :
When keyboard deployed, click the arrow next to the tiny keyboard onscreen. It will show you some options. From the dropdown menu, select the second from top item (which should be "Nederlands" in your case) and choose "Frans" instead. Unfortunately, by doing this, you will loose the auto-correction function for the Dutch language.
If somebody has a BETTER solution, I will be glad to read.
Have you tried the rhodium key controller. It is available here on xda. you can change any key to any function.
alvoryx said:
is there a way ? i need this to..
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How do you install the cab file?
My girlfriend has a galaxy pro with azerty keyboard but after I flashed it the keyboard acts like a qwerty...will this cab file work fir me?

[q] change language via physical keybaord

do anybody knows what keys to press on the physical keyboard to be able to change the input language?
i have Hebrew keyboard as well and i couldn't find any way to change the the language input on physical keyboard.
This is a limitation of the Android OS - you cannot change the language of the physical keyboard that easily - I never found a way to do it, but theoretically it would involve access to the software or a configfile for the text prediction so that it suypplies cues from the physical keyboard to another predictor for another language
Long-press individual keys for alternate letters, and there may be an app for converting the physical keyboard, but it will almost invariably require root. I would also try finding other nationalities who accomplished this and learn from them. -Ara
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as the mapping using the virtual keyboard of AnySoftKeyboard supports physical keyboard mapping i mange to make it work only when i change the virtual keyboard to Hebrew first and then slide the keyboard out.
this is very inconvenience cos every time i want to change the language i need to close the keyboard and switch to virtual one, change the language and star over.
maybe there is a way to add input option via the power button? like using jkay deluxe or something?
I can tell, how this problem is solved in case of russian layout, but not sure, if it works for hebrew.
Root, then use an app, called Keyboard swither from market.
After that, I installed the special verison of Russian keyboard, that had a layout, compatible with glide.
This version can be downloaded from here
the problem with keyboard switcher is that he just put an icon on desktop.
if i'm using sms app i need to close it to use the switcher, so its not the solution i need.
thanks for the help tough, we need to find a way to make a shortcut via combination of keys
to achieve this, maybe a script for int.d that can apply shortcut function on physical keyboard.
taiber2000 said:
the problem with keyboard switcher is that he just put an icon on desktop.
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Oops, sorry, i've named the wrong app, its called Keyboard manager (com.ne0fhykLabs.android.utility.kmLauncher).
How it works: it sets 3 types of keyboard for every device status - landscape, portrait, and the slide out one.
So, if you set the apropriate keyboard with a right layout and ability to swith languages via alt+space (like russian keyboard), you can use your HW keyboard with right char set (the software keyboard itself is hidden in this state).
braintweaker said:
Oops, sorry, i've named the wrong app, its called Keyboard manager (com.ne0fhykLabs.android.utility.kmLauncher).
How it works: it sets 3 types of keyboard for every device status - landscape, portrait, and the slide out one.
So, if you set the apropriate keyboard with a right layout and ability to swith languages via alt+space (like russian keyboard), you can use your HW keyboard with right char set (the software keyboard itself is hidden in this state).
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thanks man, that work great keyboard manger and the anysoftkeyboard combination is the fix i needed. i think it work as well when i'll upgrade to ics later on
taiber2000 said:
i think it work as well when i'll upgrade to ics later on
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Yep, it does. I use it at ICS rom with no problems.
anysoftkeyboard doesnt work for arabic
Thank you for sharing this, this method is great! it works for me with bulgarian keyboard but it doesn't with arabic.
Is there anyway I can use the physical keyboard to type in arabic?
are you on ICS or JB? cos if you are with stcok GB you wont have the arabic fonts.
taiber2000 said:
are you on ICS or JB? cos if you are with stcok GB you wont have the arabic fonts.
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I'm on ICS, I tried go keyboard with the same method it worked but its showing lots of non Arabic letters, probably Farsi or Urdu I guess, I'm still looking for another keyboard with physical support, I just looked at the language packs of AnySoftKeyboard, they say that they support physical keyboard mapping for Hebrew and Russian and probably other languages but not Arabic
If you know any other keyboards with multi-language physical support please share.
you should try it with anysoftkeyboard anyhow maybe it will work.
unfourtantly i don't know about other keybaord that support mapping of physical keybaord escpasly our right to left languages.

Keyboard layout changes based on context

Has anyone else noticed this? I have only enabled Finnish layout and when I use password or URL fields the layout changes to EN(UK) which is the system language.
It's really annoying because the letters move a slight amount to different places.
I wonder of any other languages has this issue. Google or reddit doesn't give any results for the issue.
I'm writing from a French device so I too need a few more layouts, but since physical keyboards can't shift themselves I changed all the layouts of all languages to Azerty to avoid always searching for keys.
Can you check if its enabled for yours too?

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