Hi, I have a Rhodium with a strange keyboard layout. In the lower left corner ist the yellow FN key. Some other keys have additional yelloy sign, e.g. "N" has "\", "M" has "/" and so on. To my understanding I need to press the FN key first followed by the N key to get the \. This doesn't work. Pressing the FN key doesn't light the LED (the LED for the Shift key works OK) so I believed the FN key might be damaged. Now I found that pressing FN + H works like Backspace and FN + Y deletes the whole line. So FN is working but it does something I don't understand. Does anyboday have an idea how to fix that? I looked into the et9 files in the Windows folder but that didn't help me.
Regards, Michael
I assume you have custom rom on your phone... if so you might need to install a fix. do a search for hardware keyboard fix. sounds like you have the t-mobile version?
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I'd like to report partial success and ask for your input.
I have a O2 XDA Cosmo (which is close to Excalibur but is somewhat different from Dash, eg. it does not have (x)T9) and was shocked to see how cumbersome it is to enter accented characters (eg. German Umlauts). In contrast to other HTC devices, one needs to press the SYM (symbol) key upon which a table pops up, then one needs to use the cursor to get to the right character and press enter. Outrageous.
I did a search and ended up using AEKmap. I did not succeed to reprogram the FN key. Alas, that would have been just what I wanted. Press FN once + "o", get "ö", press FN twice, get "_" (which is marked blue on the key). I could not pull this off, even though I know the code of the FN key and AEKmap can in principle do this (via the definition of both Accentkey and Accentkey2, setting them to the same value). No success.
Then I took the "Message key" (buttom row, far right, with the envelope on it) and used that as Accentkey. This works, sort of. When I activate the Remapping (I switch it on with the Symbol key, needs to be done only once per session, gets unfortunately lost on reboot), then I get something usable: pressing "o", produces "o", pressing "FN + o" produces "_" (as before), pressing "Message" + "o" gets "ö" and "Message+CAPS+o" gets even "Ö". So far so good, this works in email and SMS.
However, it does not work if I need to enter text in Calendar, or Tasks or in a Freeware Notes editor, because in those cases the Message key calls "messages" FIRST and transfers control to that app.
Does anyone know how I could prevent this. If the "message key" in deactivated totally (in the sense that it does not call "messages") that's ok, I do not need that function (or can reprogram the adjacent "Explorer" key to do that by changing the shortcut SHORT_IE in \Windows). But I can not delete the function attached to either of those keys, so that they do not call Messages or the IExplorer.
This all has probably to do with the fact that AEKmap is not a proper driver and therefore catches the key somewhat "late".
From this unqualified statement you can defer that I am not very skilled. So please help me if you can. I am determined to get this "project" done, as I think I might just love this device, if it was easy to enter those ä,ö,ü etc.
Thanxx for any help, Mixx
I found the solution here on these forums.
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Fiddling around with WM6 Beta's eT9.Excalibur.0409.kmap.txt
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I discovered that by fiddling around with this file (found in the /windows folder, you can quickly change the keymappings in the beta version. For example, I've only done a quick test, but I remapped the '%" symbol on the Q to be a "!" when alt is pressed or a long press is done. This worked in both Outlook and Word on my test. No reboot was needed BTW.
Can you please, please be a bit more verbose?
I do not have the beta on my device, it is standard O2 Cosmos WM5 (very close to Excalibur). Can I do anything with that? I do n ot have T9 or ET9. Will this file still work? What do I need to change in it (syntax)?
Thanxx a million, Mixx
BrumBrum74 said:
I found the solution here on these forums.
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Fiddling around with WM6 Beta's eT9.Excalibur.0409.kmap.txt
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I discovered that by fiddling around with this file (found in the /windows folder, you can quickly change the keymappings in the beta version. For example, I've only done a quick test, but I remapped the '%" symbol on the Q to be a "!" when alt is pressed or a long press is done. This worked in both Outlook and Word on my test. No reboot was needed BTW.
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Hello all,
I need to map a letter, say 'i', to a hardware key, say the Green Button. So when I click or double click the green button its like I pushed the 'i' key on a QWERTY keyboard.
I have tried AEBplus and it seems it cannot do this.
I have a HTC Touch CDMA model.
Thanks,
livens
Hello,
I can't read anywhere why it's not possible to set hardware key mappings for keys other than phone answer.
Also using HButton I can't assign functions to home,back,end,vol up,vol down, ... is there a way?
Where can I read more?
AE Button plus works perfect for back key,volume key,green and red key
Alright, so I've tried AEButton plus, and dug around here for 2 days and haven't been able to find a solution.
I'd like to remap the "Home" and "Back" hardware buttons on my T-Mo TP2 to Arrow Down (for the Home) and Ok/Select for the Back. Since neither of those functions are an "application" I don't see how that would work.
A friend of mine wrote an app for the ATT Fuze that allows the PTT button to be visible in the standard button mapping area, but I don't know what the scan codes are for the Home and the Back buttons are. Anyone have an idea?
Otherwise, I'd love an application that actually... you know ... worked.
AEBplus can map to key strokes. I have Volume Up mapped to the Up arrow and Volume Down mapped to down arrow.
So I think you just need to:
* Add Button in AEBPlus
* Press the appropraite hardware button
* Select the new hardware button and edit it (I think you hit enter while it is selected).
* Choose the action as a keypress of Up Arrow or whatever you want.
when I try to add the volume buttons as a remap I just get the volume changed... any solution for that?
When I attempt to remap the Home and Back buttons on my T-Mobile TP2, it fails to map them. I've tried everything.
Volume kind of works, but I want those ... for the volume
Ghallo said:
but I don't know what the scan codes are for the Home and the Back buttons are. Anyone have an idea?
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I'm not totally sure what mean by scan codes, but are these them: http://ae.inc.ru/aebpluscline.php ?
Aebutton Plus no longer maps vol keys w stock 6.5
Someone else in this thread is reporting what I'm seeing -
Before the 6.5 upgrade, Aebutton plus would let me remap the volume keys to do nothing on single or double press, then execute the volume change on the third press. I liked this because I've always found that I tend to turn the volume off inadvertently - and not just on this phone.
Now, it won't do this, and I can't disable the single or double press.
I've tried it with simplemode set in registry (one volume control, vs. ring and system) in either setting.
Does anyone have an idea as to what they've changed? I'd really like to be able to put this back the way it was.
try to use the program on this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=554240. This is the one I am using right now to map my home key into start menu button.
Im having the same issue. I need something to remap my buttons in order to scroll up and down and open task manager. I have Sprint TP2 with the 6.5 update and tried AEB already, any solutions?
From time to time the physical keyboard stops responding. None of the buttons work, not even the search, menu, home, and back buttons. The touch buttons do work. The only way I have found to fix is to reboot the phone.
I have exactly the same problem from time to time. Normally after unlocking the phone. It seems if I leave it for a while (locked) it does start working again, but a reboot does fix it always.
okay, my keyboard is still functioning, but I choose to post here instead of making a new thread for my concern is also keyboard based.
Does everyone have uses the ALT key for entering numbers consecutively? I also do but quite a pain because unlike the SHIFT key, when I press it twice, it toggles CAPS LOCK, my ALT key does not toggle 2nf functions (blue keys) only when I double press. Is this normal? should I type fast to be able to get 2nd functions consecutively? thanks
gabby131 said:
okay, my keyboard is still functioning, but I choose to post here instead of making a new thread for my concern is also keyboard based.
Does everyone have uses the ALT key for entering numbers consecutively? I also do but quite a pain because unlike the SHIFT key, when I press it twice, it toggles CAPS LOCK, my ALT key does not toggle 2nf functions (blue keys) only when I double press. Is this normal? should I type fast to be able to get 2nd functions consecutively? thanks
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My alt key enters a blue key on the first press(one time), double pressing the alt key toggles blue keys instead of regular keys.
On my phone pressing Alt twice locks it and you can tell because the cursor changes. There are a couple of combinations. You can Alt lock and Shift lock at the same time. Again the cursor changes to show this.
Mine doesn't. I see the cursor change, but if i press a key or two, it will turn off the toggle....geeze and it's not defenitely a hw issue...
But if i toggle the alt key, i can type blue characters but i need to be fast..
EDIT: I think I have solved the issue now....I replaced my onscreen/virtual keyboard by the default one.....and now I can type 1234567890 without pain....I installed a 3rd party keyboard and think that triggers the issue. If someone could replicate, that will be appreciated. Thanks for everything.