S730 Keyboard Layout onto S710

[smccaldin]

Does anyone know how to change the keyboard layout on the Vox/S710 to match the S730.

E.g. Shift the top row of letters (QWERTYUIOP.) to (.QWERTYUIOP) so that typing is more natural?

Hope that makes sense! Any help greatly appreciated.

[Pikranus]

Hmm... My Vox comes with .QWERTY layout. Anyway, I think you should change the locale in system registry. Try this key (make sure you've created a registry backup first):
HKLM\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\KEYBD
Set the value "CurLang" to 0x409 (1049) and reboot the phone. That will probably shift your layout.

[ant1012]

wont this just complicate things as ur keys will be messed up. so the letters will be:
.qwertyuiop

but the buttons on the actual keyboard will say:
qwertyuiop.

way more trouble than its worth

[smccaldin]

Maybe... but I keep making mistakes when typing, as I'm assuming that the keyboard layout is as per a normal keyboard (or Hermes, which is what I used before).

The fix works nicely - for the top row.

But...

Now the number keys are not 'aligned', as per the layout on the keyboard. Is there a way to move these - bearing in mind that the numbers are used using the 'fn' lock?

[Pikranus]

You might want to try creating your custom layout. With AEKMap you can do most anything with hardware keys. Here (http://ae.inc.ru/aekmap.php) it is.
It would take a lot of time to create a layout from scratch, so I suggest using my (Roan) or other people's layouts as templates (http://ae.inc.ru/aekmaplayout.php?Language=&Keyboard=29&Format=0&Activation=all).

Hope this helps.

[Phrak]

Sounds like it's more trouble than it's worth. Depends on how much your personal (or work?) time is valued at I guess..

Just deal with it and get used to the keys. I'd expect it to be different to your Hermes, it's a different phone!