Hi,
Desire Z sold in certain countries has a 'layout/language switch' button on bottom-right corner. It is more or less known that Desire Z Stock-based ROMs (virtuous, test leaks) support this button properly, while other ROMs, either AOSP or non-Z Sense-based (cyanogenmod, coredroid) do not support it.
There is a workaround with alternative keyboard apps, but it does not use this 'layout/language switch' either; instead alternative keys combinations are used.
I am merely confused why this is a problem. I believe somebody has already investigated this, so is there any description of the problem or if anyone knows what should be done to solve it?
Also, I do not see sources for HTC firmware released apart from kernel. Does it means that no HTC components and modifications are published? If so, is it possible to easily distinguish stuff modified by HTC and stuff that comes from Android project and that is available in sources?
Thank you in advance.
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Hello,
I am not sure if this is the right forum where to ask this kind of question, so pls tolerate me
I've got my new HTC Desire and found out that among the keyboard layouts it offers by default, none of them contains the special accented characters I need. I installed HTC_IME keyboard in hope that it's rich configurability will let me also to configure the extended character list that opens up when you push&hold a key. But unfortunately it does not.
So, I figure, I'd be better of to create totally fresh language configuration that could be installed on the device and then activated. Maybe someone can suggest me how to do it?
take a look at this project:
http://code.google.com/p/softkeyboard/
hey devs!
we've been having a discussion at the blackstone android subforum about a touchscreen bug and on initial contact, the location isnt correct. this fixes micro seconds later to the actual finger location and android interprets it as a swipe.
it seems a few users are experiencing the problem now.
anyway, thats not the point of this post, but from something within that thread...
bug tracker.
would it be worth while (for both devs and users) to use something like this? users can see known issues, devs can see quantity of users experiencing that issue (some sort of vote system?), and if no bug is present, users can submit one (in the case of blackstone owners, touchscreen issues).
it would also bring the added benefit as an official central location for known issues in the android project, rather than having this subforum, and all the device-specific subforums.
going purely off our touchscreen issues, it seems it may be unknown to the devs and only now it's been mentioned, users are coming forward to say they too have issues.
anyway, just a sugestion - what do people think? (im not volunteering, just putting an idea forward for someone more knowledgeable to take action on)
veehexx said:
hey devs!
we've been having a discussion at the blackstone android subforum about a touchscreen bug and on initial contact, the location isnt correct. this fixes micro seconds later to the actual finger location and android interprets it as a swipe.
it seems a few users are experiencing the problem now.
anyway, thats not the point of this post, but from something within that thread...
bug tracker.
would it be worth while (for both devs and users) to use something like this? users can see known issues, devs can see quantity of users experiencing that issue (some sort of vote system?), and if no bug is present, users can submit one (in the case of blackstone owners, touchscreen issues).
it would also bring the added benefit as an official central location for known issues in the android project, rather than having this subforum, and all the device-specific subforums.
going purely off our touchscreen issues, it seems it may be unknown to the devs and only now it's been mentioned, users are coming forward to say they too have issues.
anyway, just a sugestion - what do people think? (im not volunteering, just putting an idea forward for someone more knowledgeable to take action on)
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actually, i would like to know some details about the module for touch screen.
maybe there is a chance to activate/implement a debug log ...
does anybody know ?
cu camel
Has anyone figured out how to get an alternate layout onto the hardware keyboard for the Z? The default keyboard makes some really stupid decisions - we dont need to have a euro, pound and dollar key! I know the guys over in the G2 forum came up with an alt layout file. I tried it on the Z and despite the source files having exactly the same md5 as the ones on the G2, the new files didnt work. I suspect Sense might be overriding those layouts, but I dont know.
erm they are for AOSP roms i believe and sense ui uses a different one i believe.
funny enough i want to keep my G2 layout and make that work with sense ui
there are several threads about this, including one started by me -- search and ye shall find
I'm running UltimateDroid right now and I'm loving it. The only problem I have is the same one as other ROMs ported from Droid X: the physical keyboard mapping is off for alt characters.
Anyone know how I can fix this? I've seen it noted in a couple threads that it's easy to do but no one has actually stated what needs to be done in order to do so.
Thanks in advance!
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Reading around this sounds like this is more hardware related than one might think. And I'm pretty sure the locked bootloader may make this impossible.
I would love to know this too so anyone with real knowledge on the subject please chime in!
[Q] A MIUI ROM with multi-lingual T9 support? (aka. "I can't find the ROM for me")
Hello everyone.
I keep playing around with my phone, trying all sorts of ROMs. As you can read in my sig, the "main" ROM I use is WinMo6.5 Energy, which, as far as WinMo ROMs go, is pretty darn sweet.
But I'd really REALLY like to give NAND Android a go.
Unfortunately, every version I try seems to have something missing, and I'm having a hard time finding one that's "just right". Especially since the features I'm looking for aren't at all so bizarre I think.
Sense ROMs lack "cleanliness" due to the graphical glitches. I know it's not the chefs fault, but until HTC kindly releases the source code, I think I'd rather stay clear of those.
Typhoon Cyn ROMs are smooth and fast, but the really interesting loader features require me to make a purchase. It's not an expensive application, but I'm a "try before you buy" sort of person. I can't really tell if I'd like to use it unless I keep using it on my phone for a few days first.
And finally, there's MIUI ROMs, which are awesome except for one, main thing: they lack a localized T9 dialer. I'm from Poland, and as you could expect, I've got a bunch of people in my contacts list who have weird letters like Ś or Ł in their names and NOT being able to dial their numbers (EDIT: dial their numbers "quickly" I should add) is a huge problem.
The only thing I found so far is this: http://forums.miuiandroid.com/showthread.php?7898-MOD-Multilanguage-T9-dialer-(ES-RU-GR-PL)
However, this doesn't seem to work: it installs fine, and then... nothing. An earlier version of this mod, which required manual install via recovery, DID enable the T9 dialer, but one of the main settings app would constantly FC afterwards.
There's also a small matter of MIUI ROMs having trouble with the theme manager and no smooth "flip" animation. Both of these are minor complaints however.
So... the question I'm laboriously trying to get to is this: Is there a MIUI ROM for the HD2 which would have a multilingual T9 dialer buil-in? If not, has anyone managed to get that mod working with any recent MIUI ROM on XDA and if so, how? Finally, perhaps some kind soul read my post and thought "ahh, I know exactly what this lad needs"... in which case, please share this knowledge.