I've bought a not-rooted Desire Z from Germany which has a QWERTZ keyboard layout. I'd like to change this layout to QWERTY by software, but all posts I've read about that imply modifying some files in /system, which require rooting the phone (AFAIK).
I wonder if flashing a custom rom from a different region would change the layout to QWERTY. Is this possible? Does it have any drawback? (e.g. being excluded from OTAs)
Also, I've been unable to find an explanation of how to interpret the RUU names in shipped-roms.com. Could you please tell me where can I get some information? I have absolutely no idea on which file should I use.
Well, in the end I flashed a WWE rom and it didn't change the hardware keyboard at all.
This thread can be probably closed.
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Enabling Multilanguage Support for Touch Diamond. GSM ONLEY NOT CDMA
Do this at your own risk, I seek no reward for this and don’t hold me responsible for any information given here. I have tried this on my own devices which are xda Ignito and orange htc and it worked a treat.
Here you go Guys and Girls a step by step guide with photos to have all the
languages your heart desire (except Chinese) on your xda, mda and of
course htc diamond. If your preferred phone language is not Arabic, then you
can have the setting changed to WWE with your desired language enabled
to let you send and receive SMS, manage Microsoft one note and word
documents so you can read, edit and write in your chosen language with all
other MUI staying in English. To send SMS and edit in your chosen
language; you would, of course, need to add your own language keyboard
and there are plenty out there; I personally use Resco 4.1 multi language
keyboard, but that’s a personal choice. This support is available as an
extended package in htc WWE shipped ROMs for the Arab region, namely
version:
Diamond_MRII_RUU_Diamond_HTC_ARA_2.03.515_Radio_singed_Diamond_52.51.25.26_1.09.25.23_Ship which available to download from htc-Europe. If you try to download it from
the official site and you’re told that this is not suitable for your device after
you enter you SN don’t panic, htc will only let you download ROMs if your
device SN matches the region it was shipped for and that doesn’t mean that
it will not work on your European device. THIS IS DEFINATLY A WWE ROM.
If you don’t have a compatible SN and your phone is GSM, just do a Google
search for the ROM and you should find it.
For you who have flashed a ROM before,
flashing this ROM should be easy. However, I understand that there are
problems flashing 2.xx.xxx ROMs from a PC and you have to do
certain things to the ROM so you can flash it from the phone’s internal
storage.
Please read related threads for that, I used my PC to flash this rom using
olipro's NBHutil to extract the MB files from the main NBH file from the
ROM and rebuild it so it can be flashed using Diamond Custom RUU or
using the RUU that came with the ROM after deleting the SPL.NBH and the
original RUU_singed.nbh and replacing it with the modified nbh
built using NBHutil (Make sure you do not build the SPL back
into the modified NBH and have the relevant hard SPL) I’m not
going to dwell on this subject as this is not the object of this thread.
For you who have not flashed a ROM before,
if you don’t know what you’re doing and can’t be bothered reading or afraid
that if you flash your device you’ll lose your warranty; you can use a cab
file to enabble mltillanguage.
Just copyThe multillinguage cab to your device and install it on the main
memory.
This cab is, baiscaly, extracted from the same ROM and modified by a guy
called TSD over an Arabic forum, I don’t know if I can make reference to the
said forum or upload the cab as I might be breaking this forum’s rules. The
cab file is for free on that other forum. I shall leave this matter to the
Moderators to decide if I can post it or not.
The steps for installing the extended package is, of course, different if you
are flashing the ROM and you should know how to apply it. If not ask here
and I will go through it.
Whichever way you want to go, the illustration applies for both flashing and
adding the .cab file. The reason being is once you install this, your MUI will
be in Arabic and if you’re not an Arabic user you will definitely be struggling
to change it back to English. The whole idea of this is to have a WWE
device capable of handling your own language’s SMS read and write and
other stuff mentioned earlier. Now go through the pictures and enjoy.
I've loaded the HTC Asian WWE upgrade which is great, but the soft keyboard is CangJie, not English. I've searched the forum but everything refers to hardware keyboard changes. This might be a simple registry change or I might need some files from a European ROM?
Hello All Experts,
my HTC Desire Z was bought with a Netherland/Belgium Firmware but i operate it in german Language. It came therefore with a AZERTY Keyboard Layout which would't be a problem if i was able to change the prediction language of the hardware keyboard typing to german. But the problem is that this is only possible for french and english in the installed OS.
I read a lot of posts talking about the following solutions:
1. Change Hardware Keyboard Mapping (Still prediction missing)
2. Run some other firmware (Not sure if original firmware or overclocking is done to that firmware)
My Questions:
Is there a possible way of adding german spell prediction by a file to the system? If the mapping is only a file this should be possible.
Can someone point me to the original german 1.72 firmware which is still able to be updated (german delivery OS - without any modification).
Thank you all
i have the same issue, i have installed arabic language on my desire z from
http://ardoid.com/?p=189
and have the soft keyboard in arabic, but unfortunately i cant get the hardware keyboard to type arabic.
any suggestions?
Same Here.
Cant write arabic with HW Keyboard.
Help
same here no arabic on hw keyboard
Correct me if I'm wrong , but since Cyanogenmod is based on the stock android os, shouldn't it have the normal ,fully functioning , keyboard of gingerbread on this version? It seems to me that although you can choose any input language , there is no auto correct at all or prediction for any foreign language. I need prediction and auto correct for greek because it's really hard to type fast without it.
Is there any way to fix this (maybe dictionaries where kept out because of space and can be found somewhere?)
Edit: Suuure , 2 days and noone has any idea about it ... I worked out that I need a main.dict file to place in the proper folder , but can't find that file anywhere ...
If anyone has a greek gingerbread(AOSP) rom with a working keyboard or even only the dictionary file for 2.3's keyboard Pleeease post a link ?
It doesn't matter that it's build on a stock rom... they might have modified the keyboard to look better and also removed other languages dictionaries to save space and reduce the size of their rom...
you can use better soft keyboards or either download the appropriate dictionary for your phone and inject it into your phone!!!
MIMi King said:
download the appropriate dictionary
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Gladly mate... But I didn't find any decent dictionaries (or even half-decent)...
I am looking for a source but to no avail.. The keyboard is so annoying to use without any prediction at all , and I've found other problems with it lately... It was the thing that made me just go back to my own 2.29 and just keep the upgraded radio which actually did wonders for both battery and signal...
Hi,
the subject says all. After my update to ICS 4.0.4 (stock ROM) I lost my QWERTZ layout on the physical keyboard on the Xperia Pro. Sonys support is no help, they even didn't remember that they have phones with a real keyboard. They've sent me a fix for the screenkeyboard.
I looked in the language-settings, I have a hook at german and in brackets it says it has QWERTZ (the other choice was AZERTY). I googled and searched the forum, but I can't find a fix or hint, what to change. My phone is rooted. On plain linux I'd do a loadkeys de, but this is not working.
What can I do?
TIA
Dros
Mr.Dros said:
Hi,
the subject says all. After my update to ICS 4.0.4 (stock ROM) I lost my QWERTZ layout on the physical keyboard on the Xperia Pro. Sonys support is no help, they even didn't remember that they have phones with a real keyboard. They've sent me a fix for the screenkeyboard.
I looked in the language-settings, I have a hook at german and in brackets it says it has QWERTZ (the other choice was AZERTY). I googled and searched the forum, but I can't find a fix or hint, what to change. My phone is rooted. On plain linux I'd do a loadkeys de, but this is not working.
What can I do?
TIA
Dros
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i had the same issues.
solved by flashing keyboard layout:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1690889
Hi,
thanks a lot, that's what I wasn't able to find.
Better way for QWERTZ
Hi,
there's no need to flash the files of the above thread. If you have stock ROMs you need only to edit
/system/usr/keyboard-config/keyprint.xml to change your layout (root needed of course).
and change one line from
<Script name="latin" keylayout="arabic"/>
to
<Script name="latin" keylayout="qwertz"/>
save and reboot. Now I have the normal german QWERTZ back.
I took ES Explorer and ES Edit for that.