Keys not correct on new dock

[Guest 2old2mould]

Hi All,

I received my shiny new keyboard dock this week and last night had a play with it. First impressions are that at times the key inputs appear to have some lag.

The major thing I've noticed is that the keyboard dock, while definitely a UK style keyboard recognises the @ key to be on the 2 key and the " is where the @ key should be, like on a US keyboard.

I've checked the unit's settings and they are definitely set to UK keyboard. I changed the settings to US keyboard and the same layout applies, on changing again to UK keyboard there was no change to the map.

I have seen threads that give advice on how to change the mapping but I cannot see how to change the @ and " signs around.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1144204

I am running Hr8 but have been thinking about swapping to Revolver as it's based on 3.2. Do you think this is an Hr8 issue perhaps?

Any advice on how to fix this would be welcome. It's a small niggle but it's driving me nuts!

Thanks all.

2o2m

[Guest Mr.Clark]

Assuming you've got a UK dock and want the UK key layout, you can do the following:

adb remount

adb shell

mv /system/usr/keychars/asusec.kcm /system/usr/keychars/asusec.kcm.old

cp /system/usr/xt9/keychars/qwerty-en_GB.kcm /system/usr/keychars/asusec.kcm

mv /system/usr/keylayout/asusec.kl /system/usr/keylayout/asusec.kl.old

cp /system/usr/xt9/keylayout/qwerty-en_GB.kl /system/usr/keylayout/asusec.kl[/code]
Then reboot your device.


Replace -en_GB with your native language if you don't want the UK layouts.


Thanks to this thread and a mate of mine who found the shell stuff (I was doing it via ADB pull and push!)



EDIT: You need root for the adb remount command to work. This happens if you're not using the default ASUS keyboard as the on-screen keyboard.

Edited September 8, 2011 by Mr.Clark

[Guest m_w_clarke]

Assuming you've got a UK dock and want the UK key layout, you can do the following:

adb remount

adb shell

mv /system/usr/keychars/asusec.kcm /system/usr/keychars/asusec.kcm.old

cp /system/usr/xt9/keychars/qwerty-en_GB.kcm /system/usr/keychars/asusec.kcm

mv /system/usr/keylayout/asusec.kl /system/usr/keylayout/asusec.kl.old

cp /system/usr/xt9/keylayout/qwerty-en_GB.kl /system/usr/keylayout/asusec.kl

Then reboot your device.

Replace -en_GB with your native language if you don't want the UK layouts.

Thanks to this thread and a mate of mine who found the shell stuff (I was doing it via ADB pull and push!)

EDIT: You need root for the adb remount command to work. This happens if you're not using the default ASUS keyboard as the on-screen keyboard.

Or.....

you could select the keyboard icon in the notification area (with the dock connected) and select ASUS English (UK) Keyboard.

That sorted the issued for me!

[Guest 2old2mould]

Mr Clark and MW Clarke (Hmmm, coincidence or conspiracy?!)

Havent had time to try the adb stuff but changing the k/b option on the taskbar has worked a treat... how bizarre? So basically the lang doesnt change in settings then. I checked and the change remains after reboot.

Top marks Clarkey (i'm sure adb stuff would have worked just as well!).

2o2m.

[Guest Mr.Clark]

Or.....

you could select the keyboard icon in the notification area (with the dock connected) and select ASUS English (UK) Keyboard.

That sorted the issued for me!

Doesn't that change the on-screen keyboard to the ASUS one? I'll admit I haven't used the ASUS keyboard since before 3.1 (once I found Thumb Keyboard, I've been hooked), but back then, if you didn't have the ASUS UK keyboard as your on-screen one, the dock defaulted to a US layout. And changing it every time you dock and undock is just too much like hard work.

Still, as long as the OP is happy, our work here is done.