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joejoe80
18th March 2006, 08:48 PM
Hi guys - I flashed my German Vodafone VPA compact II with the new Qtek ROM (incl.AKU2) 2.17.7.2 WWE. I love it, it works perfect - but there is only one problem : how can I change to the German keyboard layout (QWERTZ; the symbol layout (reachable with the red key) is also completely different from the US one !) ???
I already tried to modify the registry keys (HKCU/keyboard layout and HKCU/Control panel/keybd) but without any effect - the device stays with US keyboard layout !

Can somebody help me ??

Thanx

Joe
aro
19th March 2006, 12:50 AM
the often posted reg edits don't seem to work on new rom.

please help

Regards,
Andreas
ZeBoxx
19th March 2006, 05:52 AM
ah well.. wait for the new German ROM then I guess :)

/me hates on localization some ;)
joejoe80
19th March 2006, 09:36 AM
The issue is, that I will have the operating system all in english, but change only the locale for the German keyboard mapping ! Is it not possible to extract the ROM, patch the keybord table and then flash it back ?? I guess that they have removed the other mappings due to size problems and thats the reason why the reg settings don't work :?

Joe
aro
19th March 2006, 10:22 AM
I hope it is possible to change with some registry edits
joejoe80
19th March 2006, 12:20 PM
OK, after reading more carefully all the other postings, finally I got it !

How to make it :

Insert a new key(MUST be string type NOT Dword !!) 'Locale' under HKCU/ControlPanel/Keybd. The value is then '0407' (this is for a German keyboard layout). After that do a soft reboot (switching device off/on with the power on/off switch) - works great. The only thing that remains unsolved, is the ability of typing 'umlaut'; i.e. [a]+[red key]+[space bar] should give 'ä' but results in 'à'.

When somebody has also a solution for this, let us now :-)

Joe
Hades77
19th March 2006, 03:07 PM
the Umlaute are stated in the sym.txt in your windows folde. Just edit 'em or use my language pack for there are more "bugs" for Germans using english ROMs (e.g. Transcriber, autocomple,..)

look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=43680&highlight=german+language

Hades.
ZeBoxx
19th March 2006, 05:00 PM
the Umlaute are stated in the sym.txt in your windows folde.
Good one - I'll add that to the language changing WiKi.