Cooked ROMs on devices with altered keyboard layouts (e.g., AT&T)

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Having just seen an image of the AT&T branded TP2 at engadget, I see they messed with the keyboard layout compared to the HTC original. Other carriers have also tinkered, such as moving the FN key and including or not the Ctrl key.

I've only ever flashed roms before on an Athena (Dopod U1000) and Ipaq hx4700, which didn't have this issue, so I never thought about this before. If I get the AT&T version, will there be compatibility problems when flashing cooked roms for the unbranded version? I know that cdma versions need their own cooked roms. Will it be the same situation for users of the AT&T and T-MO USA versions?

Thanks.

Originally Posted by evermore

Having just seen an image of the AT&T branded TP2 at engadget, I see they messed with the keyboard layout compared to the HTC original. Other carriers have also tinkered, such as moving the FN key and including or not the Ctrl key.

I've only ever flashed roms before on an Athena (Dopod U1000) and Ipaq hx4700, which didn't have this issue, so I never thought about this before. If I get the AT&T version, will there be compatibility problems when flashing cooked roms for the unbranded version? I know that cdma versions need their own cooked roms. Will it be the same situation for users of the AT&T and T-MO USA versions?

Thanks.

The same problem occured on the Kaiser, once Cooked ROM's appear I'm sure someone will make a CAB to set the keyboard layout right for your device. Just install the CAB after flashing each ROM and you'll be fine - put it in your UC / SASHMI script so you never forget .

Dave

Thanks very much, Dave. That's great news.

I think the Hardware Keyboard Layout is defined with that Registry entry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Tegic\eT9\IME\KeyboardLayouFiles]

For german TP2's it is:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Tegic\eT9\IME\KeyboardLayouFiles]
"07FF"="eT9.Rhodium.0407.kmap.txt"

and for WWE TP2's it is:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Tegic\eT9\IME\KeyboardLayouFiles]
"07FF"="eT9.Rhodium.WWE.kmap.txt"

After dumping the official ROM and making Packages, I found some interesting files inside the IME Engine Western package:

• eT9.Rhodium.0C0A.kmap.txt
• eT9.Rhodium.040C.kmap.txt
• eT9.Rhodium.0407.kmap.txt
• eT9.Rhodium.0410.kmap.txt
• eT9.Rhodium.0414.kmap.txt
• eT9.Rhodium.0419.kmap.txt
• eT9.Rhodium.Cingular_US.kmap.txt
• eT9.Rhodium.swiss.kmap.txt
• eT9.Rhodium.TMOUS.kmap.txt
• eT9.Rhodium.wwe.kmap.txt
• eT9.Rhodium.wwe_ara.kmap.txt
• eT9.Rhodium.wwe_rus.kmap.txt

Thanks animelover! This works in the new 6.5 NRG ROM for my german layout!

In [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Tegic\eT9\IME\KDBFiles] I changed the entry 07FF to "eT9.HQD_GER.kdb"
while in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Tegic\eT9\IME\Keyboard LayouFiles]
I changed the entry 07FF to "eT9.Rhodium.0407.kmap.txt" (as stated in the post above).

I'm not sure if the first step is 100% necessary, especially for other layouts, but it worked for me.

Note for users with the german layout: The kmap file needs to be edited by switching Z and Y in the VK column. My kmap is attached...

Has anyone gotten the T-Mobile TP2 layout to work?

Originally Posted by brianb7590

Has anyone gotten the T-Mobile TP2 layout to work?

no luck so far
I opened the eT9.Rhodium.TMOUS.kmap.txt from my \windows in notepad, but don't know how to fix it - the ALT key does not work (its called the FN key in the txt file - which makes sense since in Fuze and kaiser, it was FN key) and the CTRL key does not work - the txt file - leaves that as blank.
This is what it says:
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// Row 5
{0xEC 0xEC 0x00 0x00 0x00 0xff} // FN - 0xEC = FN
{0x11 0x11 0x00 0x00 0x00 0xff} // CTRL
{0xF2 0xF2 0x00 0x00 0x00 0xff} // MSG - 0xF2 = MSG
___



Any ideas?

what did control do on the original tmobile keyboard because now the ctrl key at least works as the alt key i just found out.

Originally Posted by hondamx525

what did control do on the original tmobile keyboard because now the ctrl key at least works as the alt key i just found out.

Ctrl + C - copy
CTRL+V - paste
just like on a desktop