desire Z aka G2 stuck on German key map

[Guest Speculatrix]

I returned my DesireZ to HTC for repair due to problems with flash corruption, and unrooted it before sending.

It came back with the keyboard map set to German, but although I have changed it in the settings, when I type Z it sends Y, and vice versa, and many of the punctuation keys are wrong too. I have checked, and chaneged

My language is set to English(United Kingdon). I go to Locale settings, I am offered

English(Austria)

English(Switzerland)

English(German)

but not English(England). The other locales are Deutsch, Francais, Italiano. no England! I changed it, just now, to something else and I can't go back to English(united kingdom). sigh.

Under Language&Keyboard->TouchInput->HardwareKeyboardSettings there's a choice of German or English. This doesn't make any difference. Under the International Keyboard option in same menu I can choose to allow switching between german or english, again, no effect.

so I am wonder if somehow when I returned the phone they flashed some central European firmware??

the strange thing is that the onscreen keyboard works fine, it shows English layout and the virtual keys work perfectly.

if I am operating in landscape mode the status bar shows "En" but keyboard is German. If I hit FUNCTION+SPACEBAR then it offers the option to switch between English and German keyboards, and status bar will switch between En and De, but the keyboard mapping doesn't change!

I am happy with the gingerbread 2.3.3 install that HTC put on it, but I am willing to flash VirtuousUnity as I used that in the past with a previous phone when I was loaned a DesireZ, but I am reluctant to put it on this phone as it made it unreliable which is why it had to go back to HTC!

thanks for any thoughts

Paul

Edited November 5, 2011 by Speculatrix

[Guest Speculatrix]

I have decided to try a reflash, since the phone is not rooted yet (I am waiting for ICS port), I need to flash to official HTC release.

as I understand it, I need an RUU, european generic variant.

I can't find a trusted place I can download it from?

thanks

[Guest Speculatrix]

I found a genuine WWE edition of RUU for Gingerbread and ran it to flash my DZ.

It didn't make a difference. And it caused the thing I wanted to avoid which was a total wipe :-(<br /><br />I decided to root and install virtuous unity, so I did the usual process of downgrading to original 1.34 rom, rooting etc, but I missed the crucial stage of checking/changing the CID before I upgraded to VU. The keyboard map was still wrong. I found the CID was wrongly set to HTC__102 which was HTC Germany, but the upgraded kernel didn't work with gfree. So I re-downgraded, used gfree to fix the CID, carefully checked S-OFF etc before finally re-upgrading to VUnity, and now everything's wonderful.<br /><br />So, the CID does more than control what firmware is allowed to be installed, it also causes the locale to be customised in a way you can't override.<br /><br />If you haven't tried one of the virtuousrom roms you're missing out. I didn't try affinity since I think it'd be *too* heavy with sense3.5, but unity and sense3.0 offers many improvements over older sense.

Edited November 30, 2011 by Speculatrix