[Q] Physical Keyboard fix for my Mini Pro [HELP] - Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A

NEED HELP
Can someone make a layout for my Physical keyboard?
I have a mini pro with a keyboard but it is the middle eastern one
None of the layouts Ive searched the net seem to exist
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Basically i want a layout for my keyboard, because I'm using the default one(Which came with cm9.1)
and basically when i press (Blue) + " _ " on my physical keyboard i end up with "$" on the screen
Ignore the Arabic
I mostly want the Alphabets and Symbols to be assigned properly
But it would be nice if you could put the Arabic letters (In white) as associated shifted (Ignore the Arabic accents, don't use it)
So this would be fine (Below)
PrimaryNormal - English Alphabets in white (lower case)
PrimaryShifted - English Alphabets in white (upper case)
AssociatedNormal - Symbols
AssociatedShifted - Arabic letters in white (If you want, its not preferred but would be nice if its added)
Please reply back to this post if you are planning to make one, or if it has been done or if i have to contact special keyboard developers
Please provide links
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I have copied this from a post i made in another thread but nobody replied
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2094572
Please go through the Photos and Links and reply back if you need details
Hope someone helps

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I think it is on the system thing call...well I forgot but it is a hardware keyboard layout file..
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Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1224511
long and hard enough to process, but it should work!!

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Which keyboard layout to set?
IcanIhsanuddin said:
Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1224511
long and hard enough to process, but it should work!!
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Hmmm.... I checked it out and I have a terminal emulator and whatnot but i dont get one thing
There is a step saying
4.following is a list of available keyboard layouts:
Code:
qwertz
qwerty-en
azerty
qwerty-br
qwerty-no-dk
qwerty-se-fi
latin-on-arabic
latin-on-arabic-azerty
latin-on-bopomofo
latin-on-cyrillic
latin-on-greek
latin-on-hebrew
latin-on-korean
latin-on-pinyin
latin-on-thai
now make note of the version u need...
now change to ur keyboard region (replace YOURREGIONLANG with the single code from above)
Code:
busybox sed -i 's/qwerty-en/YOURREGIONLANG/g' /system/usr/keyboard-config/keyprint.xml
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Now here is the thing
Which keyboard will give me this layout

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Naweed Reza said:
Hmmm.... I checked it out and I have a terminal emulator and whatnot but i dont get one thing
There is a step saying
Now here is the thing
Which keyboard will give me this layout
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That would be Arabic qwerty since you have the 'qwerty' keyboard
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UchihaDareNial said:
That would be Arabic qwerty since you have the 'qwerty' keyboard
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Sorry if im being a noob but does that mean i have to select latin-on-arabic?
btw, im not arab i just live in UAE so i want the middle eastern keyboard but dont want it arabic
I want the symbols to work properly and some of the letters since they are mapped differently in CM

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Well,just try it one by one and see if it working...make backup first
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UchihaDareNial said:
Well,just try it one by one and see if it working...make backup first
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Okay
So i entered the command to backup keyprint.xml
Which is
Code:
busybox cp /system/usr/keyboard-config/keyprint.xml /system/usr/keyboard-config/keyprint.xml.backup
But it said the location does not exist on my terminal emulator :/
I browsed through system/usr on root explorer and found there is no folder named 'keyboard-config'
These are all the folders i have in my system/usr folder:
icu
idc
keychars
keylayout
semc
share
srec
Now what?

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Naweed Reza said:
Okay
So i entered the command to backup keyprint.xml
Which is
Code:
busybox cp /system/usr/keyboard-config/keyprint.xml /system/usr/keyboard-config/keyprint.xml.backup
But it said the location does not exist on my terminal emulator :/
I browsed through system/usr on root explorer and found there is no folder named 'keyboard-config'
These are all the folders i have in my system/usr folder:
icu
idc
keychars
keylayout
semc
share
srec
Now what?
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Well,find where is the keyboard layout first...different rom = different location
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UchihaDareNial said:
Well,find where is the keyboard layout first...different rom = different location
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I have no idea where to start looking, i will just go through the files
But this has got me to a dead end
please try your best to help me out
Thanks

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Well honestly I never use CM for my XMP...so I don't know.Also,I never had any prob with keyboard while using custom rom unless mention by op of the thread of the rom
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UchihaDareNial said:
Well honestly I never use CM for my XMP...so I don't know.Also,I never had any prob with keyboard while using custom rom unless mention by op of the thread of the rom
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I live in Egypt and I do have the same problem after I installed the international ROM ICS .587 and I can't find my default ROM which was working normally with me... I wish we can find any solutions and by the way, I tried all the mentioned steps to change the qwerty and nothing worked with me.

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dolceka said:
I live in Egypt and I do have the same problem after I installed the international ROM ICS .587 and I can't find my default ROM which was working normally with me... I wish we can find any solutions and by the way, I tried all the mentioned steps to change the qwerty and nothing worked with me.
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Man, I solved it ))
use the following script after step 1 and 2 in the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1224511
busybox sed -i 's/qwerty-en/arabic/g' /system/usr/keyboard-config/keyprint.xml
Or use any root explorer and go system then usr then keyboard-config and then open keyprint.xml and when u find..
<Script name="latin" keylayout="qwerty-en"/>
Change it to...
<Script name="latin" keylayout="arabic"/>
Then Save
and it is done ya maw ))
Good luck

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did you try to change keyboard layout from "keyboard and input settings" ?
i think in cm9.1 changing keyboard layout will work
try it and hit thanks i i helped you

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faraj4 said:
did you try to change keyboard layout from "keyboard and input settings" ?
i think in cm9.1 changing keyboard layout will work
try it and hit thanks i i helped you
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ive tried but doesnt work :/
Will keep trying
I've been on this for so long

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dolceka said:
Man, I solved it ))
use the following script after step 1 and 2 in the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1224511
busybox sed -i 's/qwerty-en/arabic/g' /system/usr/keyboard-config/keyprint.xml
Or use any root explorer and go system then usr then keyboard-config and then open keyprint.xml and when u find..
<Script name="latin" keylayout="qwerty-en"/>
Change it to...
<Script name="latin" keylayout="arabic"/>
Then Save
and it is done ya maw ))
Good luck
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Hmm, here is my problem
i dont have such a "keyboard-config" folder in my phone :/
And the command you put, does it make the keyboard Arabic? because i dont want the keyboard to be in Arabic, i am a English speaker and typer

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No... I am talking about symbols while u r writting English your keyboard like mine and I had the same problem.. Try to search for this file and once u find it do what I told u and just reboot good luck man
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dolceka said:
No... I am talking about symbols while u r writting English your keyboard like mine and I had the same problem.. Try to search for this file and once u find it do what I told u and just reboot good luck man
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Oh symbols
Yeah that is what i want
I am desperately searching for the keyboard-config file
i cant seem to find it anywhere
any leads to where to search, thanks for informing though

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Search on system.. Or just sear for the file on any explorer's search with the name "keyprint.xml"
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dolceka said:
Search on system.. Or just sear for the file on any explorer's search with the name "keyprint.xml"
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-.^
No matched files found
I dont think such a file exists on my phone