Diamond Keyboard for Dual working with hardware keypad - Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development

It seems like I've fixed it. The diamond keyboard from Gullum a bit edited here and there... and it is working, including the hardware keypad, on my Dual 16 keys!!!!!
Method is the same as with Gullum:
Step one: depending on your version install one of the two cabs
for 16 keys hardware keypad install the Diamond Keys for Dual
for 20 keys hardware keypad install the Diamond Keys for Dual 20 keys from the cab in the 9th post of this thread. The old cab file didn't work correctly as stated by benpo. Therefore this new cab please let me know if it works correctly.
Step two: install one or more of the language packages of your choice.
Packages:
- Danish Keys for Dual
- Dutch Keys for Dual
- English Keys for Dual
- Finnish Keys for Dual
- French Keys for Dual
- German Keys for Dual
- Greek Keys for Dual
- Italian Keys for Dual
- Norwegian Keys for Dual
- Polish Keys for Dual
- Russian Keys for Dual
- Spanish Keys for Dual
- Swedish Keys for Dual
There is one bug that I'm aware off if you find others please report them:
- When switching to 123 on the software Touch Keypad it gets ****ed up.When you switch back to abc it's back to normal.
- With 16 keys version the keypad is named Touch Keypad instead of Touch Diamond Keypad. When I change it, the hardware keypad is in qwerty again.
Credits go out to Gullum off course for all his hard work.

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20key
could you make a fix for the HW keyboard of the 20keys?

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I'm not at home right now but when I am I will fix a version for the 20 keys hardware keypad.

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wmn79 said:
It seems like I've fixed it. The diamond keyboard from Gullum a bit edited here and there... and it is working, including the hardware keypad, on my Dual 16 keys!!!!!
Method is the same as with Gullum:
Step one: install the Diamond Keys for Dual
Step two: install one or more of the packages of your choice.
Packages:
- Danish Keys for Dual
- Dutch Keys for Dual
- English Keys for Dual
- Finnish Keys for Dual
- French Keys for Dual
- German Keys for Dual
- Italian Keys for Dual
- Norwegian Keys for Dual
- Polish Keys for Dual
- Russian Keys for Dual
- Spanish Keys for Dual
- Swedish Keys for Dual
There is one bug that I'm aware off if you find others please report them:
- When switching to 123 on the software Touch Keypad it gets ****ed up.When you switch back to abc it's back to normal.
- The keypad is named Touch Keypad instead of Touch Diamond Keypad. When I change it, the hardware keypad is in qwerty again.
Credits go out to Gullum off course for all his hard work.
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Absolutely brilliant, it also works on a Asus P750 for the hardware keyboard!

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Hoping my keybord will continue working as before a few days with it!

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I've put a 20 keys version in the startpost, please test if it works on a 20 keys Dual.

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doesn't work on 20 keys dual
Keys are not mapped correctly when typing from the hardware keyboard.
Appreciate the effort!
Really hope you will manage to resolve it soon.
If it helps, here's the mapping:
Key <> Shows
QW! <> @.!
ER1 <> AB1
TY2 <> DE2
UI3 <> GH3
OP. <> JK.
AS? <> MN?
DF4 <> PQ4
GH5 <> TU5
JK6 <> WX6
L, <> +,
[email protected] <> [NULL][NULL]@
CV7 <> [NULL][NULL]7
BN8 <> [NULL][NULL]8
M9 <> [NULL]9
BACKSPACE, SYM, Shift, Enter - seems to be fine.
The soft keyboard works great! Including the 123 mode!!
BTW, another interesting thing - one of the main reasons I am waiting to try out this keyboard is because of the problem with 3rd party apps, like Opera or especially Good Messaging (Goodlink) - with the standard Dual Keyboard, the HW keyboard is stuck in 123 mode and the XT9 button does not respond, so you can't switch to another mode.
With this keyboard, it seems that the keyboard works with letters, but the letters appears only in the autocomplete line and not inside the application text fields. I'm typing and no text appears there!
I found that if I work in ABC mode with all XT9 options turned off (checked-off), it works OK, besides from the wrong mapping above.
I like to get the XT9 working on 3rd party apps, but ABC is a huge leap for me. I'm now enxious to see it working.
Thanks!!

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20key Soft keyboard also not working on 3rd party apps
Just noticed that the soft keyboard also doesn't work with third party apps. It doesn't display anything, neither in ABC nor XT9 modes.
It does print out correctly symbols and numbers though.
Edit:
The above is relevant to the Touch Diamond Keyboard only.
The Touch Diamond Keypad does not work (sorry for misleading).
Touch Diamond Qwerty does work well as a soft keyboard also in 3rd part apps, in ABC mode (XT9 mode still does not work).

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Please try this new cab.
I have changed some things in the 20 keys cab version, please test if it works now.

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I have changed some things in the 20 keys cab version, please test if it works now.
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I use 20Key QWERTZ Hardware Keyboard
Key <> Shows
QW! <> Q
ER1 <> W
TZ2 <> E
UI3 <> R
OP. <> T
AS? <> Y
DF4 <> U
GH5 <> I
JK6 <> O
L, <> P
[email protected] <> A
CV7 <> S
BN8 <> D
M9 <> F

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Helping out?
Maybe we can help you out here, if you guide us in doing the HW buttons mapping, then we can try out various options and shorten the cycle

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Well actually I haven't found that out myself yet, you can have a look in the files: eT9.Nike.20Keys.0409.kmap.txt & eT9.Nike.20Keys.kmap.txt in your windows folder. My guess is the solution lies in there but I don't know how to fix it yet.

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Czech language
Hello,
please is it possible to made Czech T9? Anyway....excelent work.

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It is possible but I need a file from an rom with czech xt9 enabled. If you have one look in the windows folder, find the file cshpd.kdb and post it here.

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wmn79 said:
I have changed some things in the 20 keys cab version, please test if it works now.
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I tried this. While the softkey pad is great (better than the Dual's original) the hardware keypad is stuck on the "add new word" (the plus sign on the right) mode in all applications so it isn't very usable
e.g. you cannot search for contacts in the phone application etc.

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Do you mean that you always get the black line with the plus sign?
Can you be more specific?

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Czech T9
The Czech T9 for Diamond keyboard i found here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2198374, but after install - SW Diamond keyboard writing czech and HW keyboard writing only numbers. Any idea?

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Yes I am aware of that post as you can read in the startpost of this thread. That is the keyboard where I based all the files on.
But for the Dual we need a special file per language to enable the hardware keyboard for Czech that is the file cshpd.kdb and it can be found in the windows folder of a Touch Dual with the hardware keyboard enabled with Czech language.
So if you have the file or you can get an original Czech rom please post it and I will fix the cab file for czech language.

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wmn79 said:
Do you mean that you always get the black line with the plus sign?
Can you be more specific?
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Yes, when I slide out and try to use the hardware keyboard I always get the black line with the plus sign.

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As far as I know that's normal. The moment I slide out and push the first key on the keypad I get the black bar with the plus sign. But it functions normal for me. When a word is complete I push the space button and it starts with a new word.