[GUIDE] Wrong hardware keyboard layout - Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini

Okay. Since a lot of people are starting to link to this thread when people have problems with the hardware keyboard, I thought I would change this post to a guide instead
This guide is using ADB. Guide to root explorer method: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8971685&postcount=33 (Credits to the original poster).
1. Paste the following lines in a CMD (windows) or Terminal (mac) and it's assumed that you have root
Code:
adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock0 /system
cp /system/usr/keyboard-config/keyprint.xml /sdcard/keyprint.xml
Now you have the keyprint.xml on your SD Card. Open it with your favorite text editor (On your computer).
You will get a file looking like this:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
*********************************************************************
* ____ _____ _ *
* / ___| ___ _ __ _ _ | ____|_ __(_) ___ ___ ___ ___ _ __ *
* \___ \ / _ \| '_ \| | | | | _| | '__| |/ __/ __/ __|/ _ \| '_ \ *
* ___) | (_) | | | | |_| | | |___| | | | (__\__ \__ \ (_) | | | | *
* |____/ \___/|_| |_|\__, | |_____|_| |_|\___|___/___/\___/|_| |_| *
* |___/ *
* *
*********************************************************************
* Copyright 2010 Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB. *
* All rights, including trade secret rights, reserved. *
*********************************************************************
-->
<!--
Keyprint name: QWERTY Swedish/Finnish
-->
<keyprint>
<script name="cyrillic" keylayout="cyrillic"/>
<script name="greek" keylayout="greek"/>
<script name="latin" keylayout="qwerty-no-dk"/>
</keyprint>
It's the line
Code:
<script name="latin" keylayout="qwerty-no-dk"/>
We're interested in. "qwerty-no-dk" represents your hardware keyboard layout.
This can be changed to anything found in the layouts folder.
You can see the avaliable languages by typing the following commands (I assume you started a new CMD or terminal)
Code:
adb shell
su
cd /system/usr/keyboard-config/layouts
ls
Now you get a list of all the avaliable languages in your firmware. And can change the keyprint.xml file accordingly.
When you're done, save the file. It's now time to upload it again.
And again, type the following commands, in a new CMD or Terminal.
Code:
adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock0 /system
cd /system/usr/keyboard-config/
rm -r keyprint.xml
cp /sdcard/keyprint.xml /system/usr/keyboard-config/keyprint.xml
Now you need to reboot your phone, and you'll have the new hardware layout
ENJOY!
(Oh, and if there's any errors in this guide, please tell me. This is done out of my memory.)
Original post said:
Hey!
I've changed my build.prop file to a NG2 code yesterday, and got the 1.2 update for my X10 mini pro.
However, now the keyboard layout of the hardware keyboard is swedish or something. I want it to be danish!
Æ becomes ä
Ø becomes ö
But å is right.
What file/files should I look in for the config?
I've got danish language on the phone, it's just the layout for the hardware keyboard that's wrong.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7827223&postcount=88

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vlissine said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7827223&postcount=88
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hmm thanks. but it didn't work
I've got the file, and as I thought it said swedish / finish layout.
It looked like this:
Code:
<keyprint>
<script name="cyrillic" keylayout="cyrillic"/>
<script name="greek" keylayout="greek"/>
<script name="latin" keylayout="qwerty-se-fi"/>
</keyprint>
I've tried changing it to:
Code:
<keyprint>
<script name="cyrillic" keylayout="cyrillic"/>
<script name="greek" keylayout="greek"/>
<script name="latin" keylayout="qwerty-dk"/>
</keyprint>
didn't work.
Then I tried:
Code:
<keyprint>
<script name="cyrillic" keylayout="cyrillic"/>
<script name="greek" keylayout="greek"/>
<script name="latin" keylayout="qwerty-dan"/>
</keyprint>
And still no luck
Any ideas?

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How about qwerty-da?

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thekindladies said:
How about qwerty-da?
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nope
Checked the folder Layouts inside the keyboard-config folder. And in there there's a layout called qwerty-se-fi (like it was when I pulled the keyprint.xml the first time), and there's one called qwerty-no-dk and i've tried changing the keyprint file to qwerty-no-dk, but still no luck :S

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nevermind.. played around with the files, and now it works.. don't know what I did
But thanks for your help!

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and I was just about to tell you I was going to try it out on my phone. I might do it anyway. I might be asking for your help

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thekindladies said:
and I was just about to tell you I was going to try it out on my phone. I might do it anyway. I might be asking for your help
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hehe.. You just do that
think the trick is to delete the original keymap file from the phone before copying. and not just overwriting.
And maybe to do a restart immediatly after, and selecting the right language (again) in the settings..
That's what I did when it worked

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I simply moved my modified file to the keyboard-config folder with root explorer and it got overwritten. I now definitively have a qwerty keyboard. Tell me, where are those elusive Danish letters supposed to be?

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ok, found them. though i didn't need to change the language in settings. lovely. i shall certainly not be keeping azerty =D

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thekindladies said:
ok, found them. though i didn't need to change the language in settings. lovely. i shall certainly not be keeping azerty =D
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haha
maybe that's not what did the trick then.. As said, I don't know what I did

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change in the last of the 3 lines the "qwerty-se-fs" value to any name found in ./layout/ (without .xml added to the name of course)
(change description as well if you like)
delete keyprint.xml before copying modified keyprint.xml
don't know if deleting is necessary, but works definately
good work guys!
greets Mo

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Mooozer said:
change in the last of the 3 lines the "qwerty-se-fs" value to any name found in ./layout/ (without .xml added to the name of course)
(change description as well if you like)
delete keyprint.xml before copying modified keyprint.xml
don't know if deleting is necessary, but works definately
good work guys!
greets Mo
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can you please be a bit clearer?
which files do we change?

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he is talking about the keyprint.xml in system/usr/keyboard-config folder and the keyboard layout file (e.g. qwerty-se-fi.xml) in the system/usr/keyboard-config/layouts folder.
check the layouts that are already present in the layouts subfolder. if the one you need is already there, simply edit the keyprint.xml file to change the line before last to match the layout you need.
i have an azerty keyprint but if i needed the qwerty-se-fi layout, then i'd change the line <script name="latin" keylayout="azerty"/> to <script name="latin" keylayout="qwerty-se-fi"/>. there is another line where AZERTY comes up, but you don't actually need to edit that one, since it is only a comment and not a proper code.
now, if you need a layout that is not already present on the phone, you can edit a copy of an existing one in the layout subfolder.
i in the end kept my azerty keyboard with some modifications to suit my needs, like
<key id="16"
primaryNormal="a" primaryShifted="A"/>
associatedNormal=""" associatedShifted="""
<key id="17"
primaryNormal="z" primaryShifted="Z"
associatedNormal="ž" associatedShifted="Ž"/>
and so on.
it is fairly simple but make sure you overwrite the original keyprint.xml file with the modified one otherwise the system will still be reading that one instead of the new file.

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i am still on android 1.6. i don't know if the paths are the same in 2.1.

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this trick doesnt work for me
at default i get the swedish on the keyprint, it messed up with the hardware keyboard espesially with the comma, dot, ? and so on. and then i modified the keyprint
from qwerty-se-fi to qwerty-en
reboot
hey its still like that....didn't work HELP

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casablank0,
check the file again to verify that the changes were saved. i did exactly the same thing using root explorer and it works.

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i did, in fact i've tried many times, reboot many times....
didn't work....
totally confused

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maybe you could attached or paste the content of the file here so others can help out

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thekindladies said:
he is talking about the keyprint.xml in system/usr/keyboard-config folder and the keyboard layout file (e.g. qwerty-se-fi.xml) in the system/usr/keyboard-config/layouts folder.
check the layouts that are already present in the layouts subfolder. if the one you need is already there, simply edit the keyprint.xml file to change the line before last to match the layout you need.
i have an azerty keyprint but if i needed the qwerty-se-fi layout, then i'd change the line <script name="latin" keylayout="azerty"/> to <script name="latin" keylayout="qwerty-se-fi"/>. there is another line where AZERTY comes up, but you don't actually need to edit that one, since it is only a comment and not a proper code.
now, if you need a layout that is not already present on the phone, you can edit a copy of an existing one in the layout subfolder.
i in the end kept my azerty keyboard with some modifications to suit my needs, like
<key id="16"
primaryNormal="a" primaryShifted="A"/>
associatedNormal=""" associatedShifted="""
<key id="17"
primaryNormal="z" primaryShifted="Z"
associatedNormal="ž" associatedShifted="Ž"/>
and so on.
it is fairly simple but make sure you overwrite the original keyprint.xml file with the modified one otherwise the system will still be reading that one instead of the new file.
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that was very clear...thank you man.
but still no success here...
keyprint already says qwerty-en and that xml is in my layouts folder but its like the system is still reading the qwerty-se-fi layout!
i'm gonna try editing the qwerty-se-fi.xml to reflect the qwerty-en layout and see if it works...
*no go...
it's as if it's reading another keyprint.xml somewhere...
are all the ones editing the keyprint.xml here on 2.1?