Mapping individual keyboard keys to something else than they normaly are? - 8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin

Hi all,
I have now spend whole night browsing these (and other) pages and tried to found answer to my problem - without any luck.
I have Cingular 8525 which, ofcourse, doesn't have ö and ä letters in the keyboard (like Swedish, Norvegian and Finnish versions have).
Broblem is basicly this: I have to write quite a lot messages / text files with also Ö and Ä letters and it is REALLY slow at the moment. Getting ö or ä letter takes 6 pushes! First push A, then hold the blue dot (what is it called?) and then push four times space-> extremely frustrating!
Is there any way to remap individual keys? Like if I normaly get PgUp if I push blue dot + up arrow, but after remapping I would get letter ö instead of PgUp. And if I would push blue dot + shift + up arrow I would get big Ö and so on.. (I could sacrifise PgUp and PgDn for letters ä and ö).
Or, even better, if I would push long (like one secong or more) letter a, then I would get ä etc..
If somebody could help me with this it would be great!

Soo....... ... .. this isn't possible?
Do I have any other choise than start to look other phone (or find somewhere scandinavian keyboard to my phone)?

-W- said:
Soo....... ... .. this isn't possible?
Do I have any other choise than start to look other phone (or find somewhere scandinavian keyboard to my phone)?
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I am in a good mood today, but please click on my signature below to search with google or read the mrvanx guide if you need info.
Here is the cab you need, do not forget to power off and back on after installing for it to work.

boz said:
I am in a good mood today, but please click on my signature below to search with google or read the mrvanx guide if you need info.
Here is the cab you need, do not forget to power off and back on after installing for it to work.
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I'm clad that you are in good mood today, so am I. Unfortunately you just didn't answer my question at all.
I can't use any nordic keyboard cab-files, because they chance the whole layout of the keyboard. And if you didn't happen to know, every special mark (marks which are in blue colour in the keyboard) are at completely different places in those nordic keyboards (which has Ä, Ö and Å letters). So that makes them quite useless for me..
I have know modified the file which assign the function of blue dot + space. This means that now I only have to push three buttons to get letters ä, ö and å. I still would like to know how to get rid of the third push.. How to map letters ä and ö in the way that I describet in the first message (to the places of PnUp and PgDn)
Ps. I can use Google too, believe or not.

I dont think there's a way. I've been trying to find a way to remap the Dot + right arrow to Resco Explorer instead of the ****ty ass built in File Explorer. But still haven't found a way. Checking within the registry. But the thing is that i dont know what the built in File Explorer is called. YOu have any idea? is it fileexplorer.exe or explorer.exe?

It has something to do with this.
HKLM/Hardware/Devicemap/KEYBD
In there.. there are a few values. I think I'll have to do it manually. Take out the keybddr.dll and edit it. Or maybe the Keyboard Function Keys. Not sure about this.

i'm looking to do the same and currently tweaking (trying out) a prog called AEKMAP. you can google it to learn more

Copy and paste the attached file to your \Windows directory, replacing the existing file. Note that you can't do this with the standard file explorer as you are replacing a system file, so download GSFinder+. When the file is copied, softreset and voila! Now you can write åäö by pressing the dot then a or o. Much quicker than using the symbols screen.
This file can be modified to other languages as well, however, make sure that the file is exactly 498 bytes before copying it to the device. If the file size changes or the encoding changes the keyboard will stop working until you restore a proper version of the file.

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How do I customize my keyboard layout? (Add umlauts)

I have a Touch Pro with a UK keyboard.
All I want to change now is to add the German umlauts to the fn+key of the characters.
I tried this in eT9.Raphael.wwe.kmap.txt:
{A A A Ä Ä 0x0a}
Works ok for the umlauts, but my SHIFT key stopped working.
The CAPS LED lights up but i still get lowercase letters.
The CAPS key pretty much works as expected but changes the SHIFT key to something else, popping up menus or closing the SMS program when combined with some keys.
With the FN key only 1 through 0 work, the rest either does nothing or calls other functions again.
Maybe I just messed up the file somehow.
Does anyone have an original WWE or 407 file for the Touch Pro?
What I also tried is this:
{E E E € € 0x02}
Doesn't work but pops up the symbol map.
Where do special keys like € and £ come into play?
Entering random characters into *.kmap.txt seems to work only for certain characters (or keys?).
All I need is the 4 cursed umlauts added to my standard keyboard layout.
Has anyone done this before or am I the first crazy enough to try?
Your input and ideas are highly appreciated.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2837568&postcount=1500
Pampilius86 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2837568&postcount=1500
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I don't want to change the keyboard layout.
That one has been asked and answered before.
My phone doesn't have the German QWERTZ layout but UK QWERTY.
Looks like this: IMAGE
So I just want to use a few additional characters with the FN key.
Does anyone know if the UK keyboard layout is different from the WWE and how I can use it?
I was never able to get the € and £ (printed in green on the E and W keys) to work.
you must search the forum with the keyword: "ezinput". click the first item in the search results -its caption is "[30-Nov-08] HTC EzInput Keyboard Suites - QVGA and VGA RC2 and ..."-
i think this will solve your problem
ps: i would like to give you the direct links but forum administrators don't allow some members to add links in their messages
Did u try this?

I found a way to Copy and Paste on Nook Tablet!

I have figured out a way to copy and paste on the Nook Tablet (well, in editable text fields at least).
You will need to install Hacker's Keyboard, as well as Swype. There is another thread with detailed instructions how to do that here: [Tutorial] Installing alternative Keyboards on the NT.
To copy text, you hold down shift on Hacker Keyboard and use the arrow keys to highlight the text you want to cut/copy. Long press on settings button on Hacker Keyboard, then change keyboards to Swype. Your text should still be highlighted. Then use the Swype keyboard shortcut ("swype" from the Swype button to c) to copy the text. This copies the text to the NT clipboard. Then navigate to wherever you want and paste the text using Swype-v. I have tested and this works even between different apps, so there is a system clipboard.
The copy paste shortcuts in Swype are like pressing ctrl-x,c, or v in Windows (cut, copy, paste, respectively). Also I should note for developers that the stock ROM does not seem to disable the clipboard, it's just that there is no way to highlight text, and then copy and paste it as these functions are disabled in the stock UI. But we can get around that using this method.
I know, it's a couple steps and a slight hassle, but it will have to do until one of the CM (or other ROMs) are ready. This method is still better for things like copying 15 character long gibberish passwords from KeePass though, for example.
Nice fix dude ....
Will help me till CM7 (or 9) gets ready ...
Is there any app to do this ? T'would be great if a program was written for this otherwise...
Can see it becoming hit (feature to button saviour maybe)
Shortly after posting this, I caught up on my reading and realized that an alpha version of CM7 had already been released. So I thought that my little workaround had been immediately deprecated. Well, it seems that now there are some issues with CM7, so maybe (at least in the short term) my little trick will see some use after all.
There are still reasons to stay with the stock B&N firmware, so the tip is still quite useful.
A small update. In another thread here about Keyboard?, ckevinwelch turned me on to an app called Keyboard Manager, which allows you to switch keyboards based on orientation. I now have Swype in vertical and Hackers in landscape. This is handy for all sorts of things, but especially copy and paste because the part where you switch between keyboards is faster.
Also (and unrelated to copy/paste), need to move over a few characters? Or insert the cursor precisely when editing (I always have a problem with this, maybe it's my fat fingers)? Just rotate to landscape, use Hackers arrow keys for precise positioning, then rotate back to Swype for the majority of typing. It's like getting the best of both keyboards, very handy!
I want to make a little addition.
Opera Mobile Web Browser has embedded selection and copy/paste functions, which are independent from keyboard or other apps.
I've found a way to enable the copy & paste permanently for all text fields - instructions & video at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1534757. Requires root.
I discovered a way to copy and paste using google docs. This doesn't help inputting urls or passwords, but it sure is handy to use when writing text into your Nook. The copy/paste comes as part of the google docs app. What's really neat is that your writing goes into the cloud and you can access it with any other computer.So since people where mentioning copy/paste function, I thought I'd add this comment.

Using physical keyboard to type accented words

Ok, so I've been searching around and trying different things but I still cannot get this to work like I expected: how can I use the physical keyboard on my Prime to type accented words without changing the keyboard layout?
On Windows I can get this done easily if I configure my keyboard layout as "US-International" and the input language as "Portuguese (Brazil)" (which is the language I want to type in). This way, when I press the single quote key, for instance, the system waits for the next typed letter to decide what to do: if I type a letter which accepts an accent (such as "a"), Windows will add the letter with the accent (in this case, "á"), otherwise it will just add the single quote.
On my Prime, if I change the default input language of the ASUS keyboard to Portuguese, I am able to type accented words but the keyboard layout is also changed to the Brazilian standard. This causes a problem: the positions of some keys are changed (about 8 of them). I could memorize the new positions of the keys, this would be fine except for the fact that I can't type question marks or slashes with this layout! (at least I didn't find any way to do so)
Then I tried using Swiftkey X, if I choose that as the default input method (with the Brazilian Portuguese dictionary enabled) and type using the physical keyboard I don't even need to type the accents because the auto-correct feature takes care of that for me, this is very good but there are some problems with this method:
- When typing question marks or exclamation points at the end of the sentences, the last word in the sentence ends up getting capitalized since I need to hold the "Shift" key to type those marks (I can work around this problem by typing the word, then a space and then the question mark or exclamation).
- If I need to type a word which is only one accented letter, depending on what the prediction engine does I might have to manually choose the right prediction by touching the screen (it gets the job done, but it's a little annoying). We have a few words like this in Portuguese, such as the word "é" which is used often (it means "is", while the word "e" means "and", that's why the prediction engine might suggest either of them).
Anyway, hopefully you guys understand the problem and have a good suggestion for me.
Currently I think the best solution is to use Swiftkey X and live with the small annoyances I mentioned (I'll e-mail them and maybe suggest they make improvements for this), but does anyone know of any other way I could make the physical keyboard on my Prime behave like the one on my Windows laptop?
Thanks in advance!
I re-posted this on the Q&A section (because that seems to be the correct one), please delete this thread and sorry about that
I don't know if this helps, but in Spanish, if you use a different software keyboard (like Swype, or others), this breaks the configuration of the physical keyboard and you can't use special spanish keys like Ñ. The solution is to root the device and edit a system file.
By the way, my keyboard is localized to spanish language, so I have no problems with it. Is your keyboard localized to portuguese?
Do you mean my physical keyboard? It's the US version, if I try to type "é" like I do in Windows (I type the single quote " ' " and then " e "), I end up getting " 'e ".
If I switch the language of the ASUS keyboard to Portuguese, it works like in Windows but there's the problem of the remapped key layout.
I read about the rooting solution you mentioned, perhaps that might work if I use it with the ASUS keyboard configured for Portuguese, I could change the layout to match that of the US keyboard. Problem is, I just bought the tablet and I'd lose my warranty, or is there a way to unroot it if I needed to?
Maybe you could type those letters by entering their ascii code.
I don't know if there's an unroot method, you should check in the development forums.
intre said:
Maybe you could type those letters by entering their ascii code.
I don't know if there's an unroot method, you should check in the development forums.
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That's a good suggestion, but I don't know if it would be too practical since quite a lot of words in portuguese use accented letters, but thanks anyway!
I think I'll root my Prime and then use the ASUS Portuguese keyboard with remapped keys...

[Q] Using physical keyboard to type accented words

Ok, so I've been searching around and trying different things but I still cannot get this to work like I expected: how can I use the physical keyboard on my Prime to type accented words without changing the keyboard layout?
On Windows I can get this done easily if I configure my keyboard layout as "US-International" and the input language as "Portuguese (Brazil)" (which is the language I want to type in). This way, when I press the single quote key, for instance, the system waits for the next typed letter to decide what to do: if I type a letter which accepts an accent (such as "a"), Windows will add the letter with the accent (in this case, "á"), otherwise it will just add the single quote.
On my Prime, if I change the default input language of the ASUS keyboard to Portuguese, I am able to type accented words but the keyboard layout is also changed to the Brazilian standard. This causes a problem: the positions of some keys are changed (about 8 of them). I could memorize the new positions of the keys, this would be fine except for the fact that I can't type question marks or slashes with this layout! (at least I didn't find any way to do so)
Then I tried using Swiftkey X, if I choose that as the default input method (with the Brazilian Portuguese dictionary enabled) and type using the physical keyboard I don't even need to type the accents because the auto-correct feature takes care of that for me, this is very good but there are some problems with this method:
- When typing question marks or exclamation points at the end of the sentences, the last word in the sentence ends up getting capitalized since I need to hold the "Shift" key to type those marks (I can work around this problem by typing the word, then a space and then the question mark or exclamation).
- If I need to type a word which is only one accented letter, depending on what the prediction engine does I might have to manually choose the right prediction by touching the screen (it gets the job done, but it's a little annoying). We have a few words like this in Portuguese, such as the word "é" which is used often (it means "is", while the word "e" means "and", that's why the prediction engine might suggest either of them).
Anyway, hopefully you guys understand the problem and have a good suggestion for me.
Currently I think the best solution is to use Swiftkey X and live with the small annoyances I mentioned (I'll e-mail them and maybe suggest they make improvements for this), but does anyone know of any other way I could make the physical keyboard on my Prime behave like the one on my Windows laptop?
Thanks in advance!

[Q]How to remap a BT keyboard's keys or how to find out it's V_ID and P_ID

I reecntly bought a Rapoo BT keyb (E6300), it is optimized for the Apple products therefore some keys do not behave as i wish with my Nexus S.
I'd like to find out how (as per title) remap the keys or at least find out Vendor and Product ID... anyone can help?
[solution on the way ]
so, using this command from the terminal: cat /proc/bus/input/devices
i discovered that my KB has Vendor=099a Product=0500.
now i'm gonna build a custom Keyboard layout, should i create a keyCharacterMap as well?
[solution still not reached...]
well, after some more digging, i think i won't need to make a KCM. Still i can't find a way to let my Keyb to use my keyboardlayout. According to catlog it still uses the generic.kl even if in the right directory a file with the keyb name exists...
really need some help here...
well now, renaming my keyboardlayout correctly (as the name of the device appearing on catlog), i finally made it use my layout... still the changes do not apply. I changed the escape key (scancode 1) from: MOVE_HOME to BACK. resulting in a key that does nothing but waking up the device when locked.
I hope this post is helping someone....
Aaaaaaaand custom layout is working. i managed to change the escape key to work as the back button , in the next few days i'm gonna total customize my Keyblayout.
Looks like a KCM was needed after all. atm i'm doing fine with a copy of the qwerty basic layout renamed as the KL.
i did not catch many readers, that's a shame, nonetheless i hope i'll help somebody with my post. i will update if any surprise comes out.
Tanks for reading.
kbkang said:
well now, renaming my keyboardlayout correctly (as the name of the device appearing on catlog), i finally made it use my layout... still the changes do not apply. I changed the escape key (scancode 1) from: MOVE_HOME to BACK. resulting in a key that does nothing but waking up the device when locked.
I hope this post is helping someone....
Aaaaaaaand custom layout is working. i managed to change the escape key to work as the back button , in the next few days i'm gonna total customize my Keyblayout.
Looks like a KCM was needed after all. atm i'm doing fine with a copy of the qwerty basic layout renamed as the KL.
i did not catch many readers, that's a shame, nonetheless i hope i'll help somebody with my post. i will update if any surprise comes out.
Tanks for reading.
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I know, this is a verry old thread, but I just have this problem now with my Rapoo keyboard and my phone. Did you end up with a working solution? If yes, could you send me a cpy of the files?
Thanks a lot and see you

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