i have an o2 xda trion that i bot in hongkong and the shop told me that they are from germany. i have discover today that the keys "Z" with the "1" and the key "Y" with the ' on it are in the wrong position. HTC printed the Z and the Y on the wrong key in the wrong place.
anyone has the same key mistakes? or its just mine?
thanks. eric
In Germany they have QWERTZ keybard
yes i know, and we have QWERT keyboard in hongkong too.
my keyboard has Z next to the T, and Y next to the X. they have printed the Z and the Y wrong on the keyboard.
just wonder if this is just my trion or this whole batch is printed wrong.
Attached photo of my keyboard. Typing is correct by the print on the key is not.
You have standard american QWERTY in Hong Kong.
In Germany they have QWERTZ keyboard layout. If You buy from Germany You have to aply a sticker with correct letter.
IT'S NOT A FACTORY MISTAKE!!!
Nothing wrong at all
kilowong,
There is nothing with the device or the factory. It is all about the locale of the device. You have bought a German version of XDA trion which has German locale and it for sure would have QWERTZ keyboard layout as standard. QWERTY layout is an "English" locale which is different from the German locale. If you bought one from France you would have AWERTY layout due to the French locale.
It will be a good idea to investigate the origin/locale of the device next time before you buy one! It will save yourself from a lots of confusions!
Cheers!
thanks for the info.
You can change with registry editor:
HKLM/Software/OEM/Qwerty
from 20409 (HEX)
to 20407(HEX)
And key Y become Z and so on.
Related
in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OEM\Qwerty\
change Layout from 0x10409 ( English (United States))
to 0x10 and the code area for the keyboard layout you want
ex.
to change the keyboard form usa to italian change the value to 0x10410
You can find the area code in the LCID Hexade column in this page:
http://www.science.co.il/Language/Locale-Codes.asp?s=codepage
Azhad
...and when you go to sleep, pray to the Keyboard Fairy that when you wake up, the buttons on the keyboard will have moved to match your registry setting.
Keep praying every night until they move. I promise you it will happen.
j/k
After I bought my T-Mobile MDA Pro I have upgraded the rom to the english jasjar, but the keyboard layout of the jasjar don't mach the hardware one.
So I fixed it.
Azhad
So i bought myself an o2 mini xda s - Wow it ran like a dog when i first got it. So i updated the rom with the latest imate ROM, after first unlocking the device. Works great, superrr fast!
However now my keyboard is mapped wrong. Physically on my "A" key i have also the "!" on "S" i have the "@". Now, after ROM update, pressing "!" will give me "~" pressing "@" gives me "!" - everything is shifted right one.
I was pointed at the shareware app AEKmapp, but its another app that has to load, and i dont like that. Its also not free, is there another solution to restore my keyboard?
i had this problem as well. The O2 mini S is a ENGLISH (UK) qwerty keyboard which is actually physically different from the K-Jam and 9100 keyboard. I have been using the registries tweak program in this forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=39725 which allows you to choose a UK or US keyboard layout. I assume there is a registry edit for it somewhere as well. but this is a good way to solve it as well.
Thanks for the thought of why the keyboard 'dot' characters are messed up. Here are the registry changes ....
16. Keyboard language
Registry: HKCU\ControlPanel\Keybd
Key: Locale (string)
Value: 0809 English UK
0409 English US
0407 German
0419 Russian
040C French
0410 Italian
040A Spanish
Thanks to "nicodekker" for publishing the list of hacks in the link above.
i had the exactly the same problem as ferrerpheonix. now everything is ok. thank you very much guys.
does an english wizard have the same physical keyboard (letters in the same positions) than an italian or french or german wizard?
Are the keyboards all the same?
thanx
nope.. T-Mobile germany's keyboards are QWERTZ:
http://www.mobilewhack.com/images/T-Mobile-MDA-Vario.jpg
While here's a French AZERTY:
http://www.smartphonefrance.info/img/Qtek9100-05.jpg
well...i need to know the italian and the english...do they match?
as far as letter and number keys go, yes - IT and EN are both:
QWERTYUIOP
ASDFGHJKL
ZXCVBNM
There may be some difference in the other keys, due to the italian language making use of extended letters a lot (thus putting them on the keyboard would be useful for users of it).
Haven't spotted a picture of an IT one yet
if the underlying question is: Can I use an english ROM with an italian device? The answer is : yes. You will find other posts that explain what registry changes will let you map correctly the keyboard. Like in France we use AZERTY keyboards, so making the correct registry changes, we can use our french keyboard and use the A key and get an A instead of a Q
yes but the problem is that in italian qwerty there are buttons for à,è,é,ò,ì,ù ...very used letter in my language...i just wonder if on english qwerty these letters/button ar present and primary.
Its' the same in French! If you have an italian device and if you update correctly the registry you should have all keys functionning as before. I've not tested it yet on my phone (still a french ROM) but I do it on my PC: french keyboard and english OS. I can use all the accented letters like if I were using a French keyboard with a French OS. I don't see why it should be otherwise on the PPC.
i can't explain...sorry!
what I mean is if the letter/button "è" (for instance) is NOT PHISICALLY present/written on the phisycal qwerty english tkeyboard BUT it is present ( and IT IS PRESENT because I use it everyday) on the italian qwerty...this answers to my question
Not quite sure what you are looking for exactly. Anyway, maybe this will help:
go to \HKCU\ControlPanel\Keybd
There should be a "Locale" string value. If it's not there create it! and give it the value "0410"
To get the accented letters like e
press e
then the blue dot (left bottom corner)
then the space bar
I hope I'm making sense.Good luck!
:x
He's asking whether the keys are physically there on the slide-out keyboard. I.e. is there a little label / sticker with "è" on it?
There isn't one the English version (you can still get that character by means of the Sym key in combination with the 'e' key).
just to add confusion to this problem.
i have a t mobile MDA and a frien has a O2 mini and the keyboard layout is different on both. the Mini gets the benefit of a '£' sign whilst i have to get the electronic keyboard out for this. i suppose i could do a reg edit, anyone know how???
Hi!
I am thinking about buying the M3100 from the UK and bring it with me to sweden. Mainly because the much cooler design and also buttonlayout.
I have two questions:
1. Can i change the rom on the device easily to the original HTC rom or does it require alot of fiddling?
2. How do i write swedish letters like Å Ä Ö on the keyboard, from what i can see the M3100 and HTC Tytn have the exact same keyboard layout, so whats the deal? where are the å ä ö letters and how do you swedish users get these?
Thank you!
I'm thinking of doing the exact same thing.
The problem is, the layout on the Swedish versions is not at alal the same when it comes to symbols, so flashing it with a Swedish ROM won't do it.
The best way would be to somehow map å, ä and ö to some buttons.
Check the attached photos for a comparison.
Nice to be back here, btw. It's been a while
hello,(sorry for my english)
I have a XDA mini S with german Rom and German keyboard!,so I changed my Rom to english,but now I have a new problem:
the place of some words and symbols in my drawer keyboard has changed,for example when I push the Z key it writes Y or....so I want to know that there is a way to define words for the keyboard and change it to standard form or not?I think we can do it with registry changing.please tell me what can I do,because if there is no way to solve my problem I must buy a k-jam keyboard.