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need help with remapping keys

i just got the dopod cht900 and it has the chinese keyboard and rom. i got it flashed to the english rom.
however, it seems that the keyboard secondary buttons (the one where you need to press the blue dot before pressing the key) are not in the right place. for example, on the keyboard it shows '!' if I press the 'W' key but instead it turns out to be '?'
is there any way to overcome this problem by hacking the registry and if so, where can i do it?
any help given is much appreciated.

This has been asked before in that forum, search b4 posting plz.
Look at the keyboard hack here:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Registry

pof said:
This has been asked before in that forum, search b4 posting plz.
Look at the keyboard hack here:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Registry
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Thanks for your help. Didnt see this when I was looking thru earlier. By the way, I can only use the second solution as the first does not work right?

right, and if the second isn't good for you you can try the first and modify the wiki adding the thing that works for you giving adivse to others... that's what's all about!

pof said:
right, and if the second isn't good for you you can try the first and modify the wiki adding the thing that works for you giving adivse to others... that's what's all about!
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wow it works great. had some problems initially because i got the hexadecimals and decimal values mixed up

All Keys AlphaNumeric and Symbols are Working Except for TAB Keys
I change the Reg Settings for Keyboard Layout from 20409 to 20404.
The Results are all AlphaNumeric and Symbols are in place and perfectly working but the only problem is the TAB Key is not working totally no response.
Any help you pls need your instruction?
Jesus loves you all

How to custum map ONE of the hardware keyboard buttons?

Specifically, can anyone instruct me how to change the "Windows" button on the hardware keyboard to become a "Ctl" button?

SportbikeRiderXX said:
Specifically, can anyone instruct me how to change the "Windows" button on the hardware keyboard to become a "Ctl" button?
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I use pqz to do that Search for "pqz" in google In the first page of the settings of pqz you can assign Ctl to any button you like. Hope i helped

zalaros, thank you for the info, I will definitely check out pqz.
Ideally, I'd like to make that ONE change without installing another program. I was thinking it's probably just a registry change, but I don't know WHAT to change. Does anyone know if it can be that simple?

[REQ] Auto keyboard by stylus.

I always use the full keyboard with the stylus, and the compact one with my fingers. Maybe somebody could develop an app that changes the keyboard layout on the stylus event?
Cheers...

Gulle69 said:
I always use the full keyboard with the stylus, and the compact one with my fingers. Maybe somebody could develop an app that changes the keyboard layout on the stylus event?
Cheers...
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Try butler. You'll need to change the unique IDs for each of the keyboards, but it should do what you want.

Ahh... I didn't find that one in my search...

Alternative
Here you have
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=414422
Look in some page I dont remember there are a cab to install it. Then change the keyboard that you want in the registry, Normally I use full Qwerty with the stylus in, and keyboard with the stylus out.
Sorry for my english
Carlos

Gulle69 said:
Ahh... I didn't find that one in my search...
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Don't worry, took me a while to find the first time too, and I didn't even know the one below existed!
calito said:
Here you have
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=414422
Look in some page I dont remember there are a cab to install it. Then change the keyboard that you want in the registry, Normally I use full Qwerty with the stylus in, and keyboard with the stylus out.
Sorry for my english
Carlos
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I use that SIP changer too, works like a charm!

[CAB] [10 MAY 10] SoftTouch MaxKey Keyboard: Now More Languages Supported

[Update May 10 2010:]
Huge thanks to Soul72 for adding other language support to MaxKey:
- English
- Italian
- German
- Norwegian
- Hungarian
Just follow the instructions below, but download the file below ending in "multilanguage." The other version just has English.
[Original Post:]
Ready for a screen keyboard that's easier to type on? This is a reconfiguration of the fabulous FingerKeyboard 2.1, so all respect to Exidler and Rozenthal. I have maximized the size of the keys as much as possible, focusing on keeping the edge keys further in given that protective cases may make these inaccessible. I also made the symbol keys much more standard (no longer 10 types of smiley faces!!! ) Moving the p and q up is a bit unorthodox, but I think you'll be pleased with the result.
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING BEFORE INSTALLING:
- You must have FingerKeyboard 2.1 installed for this to work
- FingerKeyboard must be installed on your device, NOT on the card
- The file that does not say "multilanguage" is is only for ENGLISH
- You can close MaxKey by pressing and holding the spacebar
- The attached cab also installs the X1 SoftTouch tweak to maximize your screens responsiveness, for best keyboard performance
- At the moment, uninstalling this requires a few steps that are relatively simple:
- - - Uninstall "Paco SoftTouch MaxKey 0.1" under Settings/System/Remove Programs
- - - Rename /Program Files/FingerKeyb/skin-02-wvga-port-01-eng-bak.txt to skin-02-wvga-port-01-eng.txt
- - - Move skin-02-wvga-port-01-eng.txt to /Program Files/FingerKeyb/Skins
- - - Next time you RE-select FingerKeyb in the SIP selector, the regular key configuration should be back
Install directions:
1. Install FingerKeyboard 2.1 to your device (not card!)
2. Download and install the SoftTouch MaxKey cab that is attached at the bottom of this post
3. Open the SIP selector which is the tiny triangle to the right of the keyboard selector in the middle of the bottom menu bar
4. Select FingerKeyb, and the MaxKey keyboard configuration should appear
5. To unistall, see above
If there is interest in this, I can try to keep developing for other languages and to make improvements based on suggestions. Donations would be highly appreciated.
Donate
Credits:
Exidler and Rozenthal for FingerKeyboard
Fards for teaching me how to make cabs
ChangeLog:
0.1 - First release
0.2 - Fixed the " and ? keys; slight tweak to symbols layout

nice, can you modify one to be a compact qwerty

c_legaspi said:
nice, can you modify one to be a compact qwerty
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Sorry, what do you mean by "compact qwerty?" Do you mean fewer rows of keys, like 4 rows instead of 5?

finger keyboard does not support compact qwerty(yet at least)

thats great ring-bearer....i ll give it a shot
btw from where u got that cool battery icon on top?

Compact qwerty would be nice, but I think it would probably conflict with the FingerKeyboard2 keymap, since a compact qwerty only has 12 buttons.
If you don't know how a compact qwerty looks like, take a look at an old mobile phone without touch screen or hardware keyboard and notice that the function of every key carries a number of letters, that you get by pressing various numbers of times. For example; I want to write "C". I press the number 2 three times, and the C appears.
I think it would be possible for someone to make a compact qwerty, since there is one in the new Touch Pro 2's and Diamond 2's. Also, if you look at the Xperia default dialer (or any dialer for that matter), there are 3 to 4 letters on every key - there's your ready made compact qwerty. Of course I don't know anything about making this myself, I'm just looking at the posibilities of someone making it.
Regards
/Felix

Nocturnal310 said:
thats great ring-bearer....i ll give it a shot
btw from where u got that cool battery icon on top?
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Hope you like it! I do think it has made a moderate difference in ease of text entry.
The great set of icons is from one of gtrabs' collections. I think it's the "X Series"

Spanish version?

Thanks, thanks, thanks!!! Finally keyboard that suites me...
p.s. key for ? doesn't work...

c_legaspi said:
nice, can you modify one to be a compact qwerty
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If you mean a keyboard where there are two letters on each key, there is a Touch IT compact qwerty that I believe Itje has made available.

xperiatomaja said:
Spanish version?
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Sure, I can put together a Spanish version.
Adios

thanks for your lovely work.i am having small issue with question mark.dot is working but when i long press question mark does not work.any solution for this.thanks in advance.

ring-bearer said:
If you mean a keyboard where there are two letters on each key, there is a Touch IT compact qwerty that I believe Itje has made available.
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yes that program is good as well but it makes my au key useless. im using fingerkeyb but i would like to get some bigger keys in portrait mode.

human75 said:
thanks for your lovely work.i am having small issue with question mark.dot is working but when i long press question mark does not work.any solution for this.thanks in advance.
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Good pickup - thanks a lot. I have uploaded a fixed version to the first post:
SoftTouch_MaxKey_0.2

Ah, looks like I was confused about the names - what I meant before was ''Phone Keypad'' and you can get this with EzInput so nevermind
Anyways, is it possible to get swedish? The only difference is that long press on J gets an Å, long press K gets you an Ä and L gets you Ö. That would be great!

this is most amazing keypad out there!
keypad vey responsive!
can i request something?
is it possible to remove the page up down etc.
on "EN" coz' you know in xperia they have some sort of a mouse to scroll
so that there will be more space for a key! very usefull if there will more space to press a single key.
and some character in the third row and so fort have minimal spacing
maybe it can help if you can try to edit this?
but you know this proram works well for me is just maybe you can do
enhance it for x1 users? thank you in advance!!! nice work

jhrenz said:
this is most amazing keypad out there!
keypad vey responsive!
can i request something?
is it possible to remove the page up down etc.
on "EN" coz' you know in xperia they have some sort of a mouse to scroll
so that there will be more space for a key! very usefull if there will more space to press a single key.
and some character in the third row and so fort have minimal spacing
maybe it can help if you can try to edit this?
but you know this proram works well for me is just maybe you can do
enhance it for x1 users? thank you in advance!!! nice work
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Yeah, I can try to do something like that. I also want to work on the placement of the 'enter' and 'backspace' keys because they aren't optimal right now. But the main problem for me was the size of the qwerty keys, and those are now as big as they can get without inventing a whole new layout. But I agree that those directional buttons are not highly needed. I also still want to develop for the other languages people requested, but it may be a couple of months because real life is crazy busy for a while.
I could also try to make a SIP much more tailored to the X1 from the ground up. My C++ skills aren't great though but if anyone wants to PM me the 'dvoraksip.sln' code that comes with the Windows Mobile Version 5.0 SDK, I could probably modify that. I just don't have the SDK or the example code that comes with it. Anyone?

Thnx for the keyboard.. Its just made my XPERIA perfect!
But I have a question.. When I open the keyboard on my phone, the bottom bar dissappears.. Is this something you programmed it to do, to maybe give larger screen above the keyboard, or it something wrong with my config?

This layout isn't very nice. I prefer a normal qwerty layout.

banni89 said:
Thnx for the keyboard.. Its just made my XPERIA perfect!
But I have a question.. When I open the keyboard on my phone, the bottom bar dissappears.. Is this something you programmed it to do, to maybe give larger screen above the keyboard, or it something wrong with my config?
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Hey, thanks for the feedback. To answer your question:
No, I didn't program that feature in. That is a changeable feature of FingerKeyboard. Just go to programs/fingerkeyboard/options then change Portrait from "Hide bar" to "Show bar."
You'll be all set!

How do you bind a key to SIP? (Onscreen keyboard)

Does anyone know how to bind a key to the SIP? (Onscreen keyboard)

Does someone know? Its so hard to click the SIP icon its so dang small and fingers dont click it good

Bind a key to this little program of mine,
and you'll have what you want...

the_ozyrys said:
Bind a key to this little program of mine,
and you'll have what you want...
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Thank you!!!!!!! Do you have the issue to?

Well, no - I've bound it to SYM key on my Raphael's HW keyboard,
since I've made a ROM without ezInput and eT9 and I'm using
custom FingerKeyboard layout on landscape as a replacement
for symbols selector...

just what i was looking for!
thanks a lot!

You're welcome, I'm glad I could help!
I'm now working on version that can change SIP from
command line parameter, is anybody interested?

the_ozyrys said:
Bind a key to this little program of mine,
and you'll have what you want...
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can you adapt this app, to auto select the phonepad for messaging, but keyboard for web browsing / emailing??
thanks - the app as it is, is ace,,,,

To do this, app must be constantly pooling for topmost window
name / class, with intervals short enough to be acceptable
(< 1s, I guess), and this will mean that your battery will last
shorter, so I would doubt if the game is worth the candle...
I would recommend using FingerKeyboard, which is best in any case...

Try Wisbar Advance
Winker-Omnia said:
can you adapt this app, to auto select the phonepad for messaging, but keyboard for web browsing / emailing??
thanks - the app as it is, is ace,,,,
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Hmm, the latest wisbar advance is able to auto-switch the SIP according to the active window... You might want to consider that option.