How to permanently change the qwertz/azerty/qwerty keyboard mapping

[rwhitby]

You should read the Meta-Doctor documentation to understand the DEVICE and CARRIER required arguments.

-- Rod

[bebz]

Originally Posted by rwhitby

The Meta-Doctor solution will work on a Veer.

-- Rod

Originally Posted by rwhitby

You should read the Meta-Doctor documentation to understand the DEVICE and CARRIER required arguments.

-- Rod

Done, but i can't find the file castle.xml in the folder build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/webOS/


this is my log:

root@ubuntu:~/meta-doctor# make DEVICE=veer CARRIER=wr all unpack patch
[: 3: p160una: unexpected operator
[: 3: 2.1.1: unexpected operator
make unpack patch pack
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bebz/meta-doctor'
rm -rf build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1
mkdir -p build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1
cp downloads/webosdoctorp160una-wr-2.1.1.jar build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/webosdoctorp160una-wr-2.1.1.jar
( cd build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1 ; \
unzip -q webosdoctorp160una-wr-2.1.1.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF com/* \
resources/webOS.tar resources/recoverytool.config )
( cd build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1 ; \
unzip -q webosdoctorp160una-wr-2.1.1.jar resources/wr.tar )
mkdir -p build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/webOS
tar -C build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/webOS \
-f build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/resources/webOS.tar -x
cp scripts/WebOS-Internals.tga build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/webOS/BootLogo.tga
mkdir -p build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/carrier
tar -f build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/resources/wr.tar -t \
> build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/carrier-file-list.txt
tar -C build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/carrier \
-f build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/resources/wr.tar -x
gunzip -f build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/webOS/nova-cust-image-broadway.rootfs.tar.gz
mkdir -p build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs
tar -C build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs --wildcards \
-f build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/webOS/nova-cust-image-broadway.rootfs.tar \
-x ./usr/lib/ipkg/info
rm -f build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/ipkgs-file-list.txt
for package in com.palm.app.firstuse palmbuildinfo ; do \
if [ -f build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/usr/lib/ipkg/info/$package.list ] ; then \
cat build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/usr/lib/ipkg/info/$package.list | \
sed -e 's|^|.|' >> build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/ipkgs-file-list.txt ; \
fi ; \
done
tar -C build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs --wildcards \
-f build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/webOS/nova-cust-image-broadway.rootfs.tar \
-x -T build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/ipkgs-file-list.txt ./boot ./lib/modules ./md5sums*
touch build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/.unpacked
rm -f build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/.patched
[ -d patches/webos-2.1.1 ]
for package in com.palm.app.firstuse palmbuildinfo ; do \
mv build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/usr/lib/ipkg/info/$package.md5sums build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/usr/lib/ipkg/info/$package.md5sums.old ; \
( cd build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs ; \
cat ./usr/lib/ipkg/info/$package.list | sed -e 's|^|.|' | \
xargs -I '{}' find '{}' -type f -prune -print | xargs md5sum ) \
> build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/usr/lib/ipkg/info/$package.md5sums.new ; \
./scripts/replace-md5sums.py \
build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/usr/lib/ipkg/info/$package.md5sums.old build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/usr/lib/ipkg/info/$package.md5sums.new \
> build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/usr/lib/ipkg/info/$package.md5sums ; \
rm -f build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/usr/lib/ipkg/info/$package.md5sums.old build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/usr/lib/ipkg/info/$package.md5sums.new ; \
done
if [ -f build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/md5sums.gz ] ; then \
gunzip -c < build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/md5sums.gz > build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/md5sums ; \
fi
mv build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/md5sums build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/md5sums.old
( cd build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs ; find . -type f | xargs md5sum ) \
> build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/md5sums.new
./scripts/replace-md5sums.py build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/md5sums.old build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/md5sums.new > \
build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/md5sums
rm -f build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/md5sums.old build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/md5sums.new
touch build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/.patched
rm -f build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/.packed
( cd build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs ; mkdir -p ./boot ./lib/modules ./var/luna/preferences ./var/gadget ./var/home/root ./var/preferences ./var/palm/data )
rm -f build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/ipkgs-file-list.txt
for package in com.palm.app.firstuse palmbuildinfo ; do \
cat build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/usr/lib/ipkg/info/$package.list | \
sed -e 's|^|.|' >> build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/ipkgs-file-list.txt ; \
done
if [ -f build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/md5sums.gz ] ; then \
gzip -f build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs/md5sums ; \
fi
tar -C build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs --wildcards \
-f build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/webOS/nova-cust-image-broadway.rootfs.tar \
--delete -T build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/ipkgs-file-list.txt \
./usr/lib/ipkg/info ./boot ./lib/modules ./md5sums*
( cd build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/rootfs ; \
tar -f ../webOS/nova-cust-image-broadway.rootfs.tar \
--numeric-owner --owner=0 --group=0 \
--append -T ../ipkgs-file-list.txt \
./usr/lib/ipkg/info ./boot ./lib/modules ./var/luna/preferences ./var/gadget ./var/home/root ./var/preferences ./var/palm/data ./md5sums* )
gzip -f build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/webOS/nova-cust-image-broadway.rootfs.tar
( cd build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/webOS ; \
tar -f ../resources/webOS.tar \
--numeric-owner --owner=0 --group=0 -h \
-c . )
sed -i.orig -e '/^Name: /d' -e '/^SHA1-Digest: /d' -e '/^ /d' -e '/^\n$/d' \
build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
( cd build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1 ; \
zip -q -d webosdoctorp160una-wr-2.1.1.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF META-INF/JARKEY.* \
resources/webOS.tar resources/recoverytool.config )
( cd build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1 ; \
zip -q webosdoctorp160una-wr-2.1.1.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF \
resources/webOS.tar resources/recoverytool.config )
( cd build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/carrier ; \
tar -f ../resources/wr.tar \
--numeric-owner --owner=0 --group=0 -h \
-c -T ../carrier-file-list.txt )
( cd build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1 ; \
zip -q -d webosdoctorp160una-wr-2.1.1.jar resources/wr.tar )
( cd build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1 ; \
zip -q webosdoctorp160una-wr-2.1.1.jar resources/wr.tar )

Your custom doctor file has been created at build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/webosdoctorp160una-wr-2.1.1.jar

touch build/veer-p160una-wr-2.1.1/.packed
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bebz/meta-doctor'
make: Nothing to be done for `unpack'.
make: Nothing to be done for `patch'.

[rwhitby]

For the veer it will be broadway.xml

-- Rod

[bebz]

Originally Posted by rwhitby

For the veer it will be broadway.xml

-- Rod

Cool, thanks.

does this look right to you:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Installer Rules for Broadway Hardware -->
<TrenchCoat>
<CPU type="MSM7X30"/>
<Flash type="mmc" alignment="32768" reusePartitions="true" device="/dev/mmcblk0">
<Entry type="mbr" size="512" align="false"/>
<Entry type="space" partition="0x6" size="102400KB" reformat="false"/> <!-- p1, FAT (amss, chainbootie) -->
<Entry type="space" partition="0x4d" size="500KB" reformat="false"/> <!-- p2, CFG_DATA; dbl.mbn -->
<Entry type="space" partition="0x46" size="1500KB" reformat="false"/> <!-- p3, OSBL; osbl.mbn -->

<!-- Here begins the extended partitions (extended partition p4) -->
<Entry type="space" partition="0x4e" size="1MB" reformat="false"/> <!-- p5, EFS2 -->
<Entry type="space" partition="0x4c" size="1MB" reformat="false"/> <!-- p6, FOTA -->
<Entry type="space" partition="0x4a" size="3072KB" reformat="false"/> <!-- p7, MODEM_ST1 -->
<Entry type="space" partition="0x4b" size="3072KB" reformat="false"/> <!-- p8, MODEM_ST2 -->
<Entry type="space" partition="0x50" size="6000KB" reformat="false"/> <!-- p9, ADSP; adsp.mbn -->
<Entry type="space" partition="0x58" size="3072KB" reformat="false"/> <!-- p10, MODEM_GOLDEN -->
<Entry type="space" partition="0xff" size="3072KB" reformat="false"/> <!-- p11, MODEM_PAD -->

<!-- Here is palm territory. There be dragons. -->
<Entry type="bootloader" partition="0x48" size="2500KB" alignment="0x4000000" reusePartition="false" file="${BOOTIE}"/> <!-- p12, APPS (bootie) -->
<Entry type="nvram" size="4MB" reusePartition="false">
<Section name="env" type="env" size="16KB">
<Val name="installer" value="trenchcoat"/>
<Val name="autoboot" action="delete"/>
<Val name="bootfile" action="delete"/>
</Section>
<Section name="tokens" type="token" size="4KB">
<Val name="installer" value="trenchcoat"/>
<Val name="KEYoBRD" action="overwrite" value="z"/>
</Section>
<Section name="logo-boot" type="image" file="BootLogo.tga"/>
<Section name="logo-chg" type="image" file="Charging.tga"/>
<Section name="logo-badchg" type="image" file="NoPower.tga"/>
<Section name="logo-nobatt" type="image" file="NoBatt.tga"/>
<Section name="logo-badsys" type="image" file="BadSys.tga"/>
<Section name="logo-nosys" type="image" file="NoSys.tga"/>
<Section name="logo-sync" type="image" file="Sync.tga"/>
<Section name="logo-panic" type="image" file="Panic.tga"/>
<Section name="logo-disk" type="image" file="Disk.tga"/>
</Entry>
<Entry type="ext3" size="32MB" reusePartition="false" mount="/boot"/> <!-- p14, /boot -->
<Entry type="lvm" id="pv" size="*" alignment="0x4000000" reusePartition="false" metadatasize="8MB" metadatacopies="2"/> <!-- p15, LVM -->
</Flash>
<VolumeGroups>
<Group name="store" pv="pv" physicalextentsize="8MB">
<Volume id="root" type="ext3" size="456MB" mount="/"/>
<Volume id="var" type="ext3" size="64MB" mount="/var"/>
<Volume id="update" type="ext3" size="16MB" mount="/var/lib/update"/>
<Volume id="log" type="ext3" size="24MB" mount="/var/log"/>
<Volume id="mojodb" type="ext3" size="144MB" mount="/var/db"/>
<Volume id="filecache" type="ext3" size="136MB" inode_size="256" mount="/var/file-cache"/>
<Volume id="media" type="fat32" size="*" mount="/media/internal"/>
<Volume id="swap" size="104MB"/>
</Group>
</VolumeGroups>
<Filesystem fstab="/etc/fstab">
<Mount device="rootfs" mount="/" type="ext3" options="ro,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async,noatime" freq="1" passno="1"/>
<Mount id="var" options="noatime,data=writeback" freq="0" passno="0"/>
<Mount id="mojodb" options="noatime" freq="0" passno="0"/>
<Mount id="filecache" options="noatime,user_xattr" freq="0" passno="0"/>
<Mount id="log" options="noatime" freq="0" passno="0"/>
<Mount id="update" options="noauto,noatime" freq="0" passno="0"/>
<Mount device="proc" mount="/proc" type="proc" options="defaults" freq="0" passno="0"/>
<Mount device="devpts" mount="/dev/pts" type="devpts" options="mode=0620,gid=5" freq="0" passno="0"/>
<Mount device="tmpfs" mount="/tmp" type="tmpfs" options="size=32M,mode=1777" freq="0" passno="0"/>
<Mount device="tmpfs" mount="/var/run" type="tmpfs" options="size=16M,mode=1777" freq="0" passno="0"/>
<Mount device="tmpfs" mount="/var/tmp" type="tmpfs" options="size=32M,mode=1777" freq="0" passno="0"/>
<Mount device="tmpfs" mount="/media/ram" type="tmpfs" options="defaults" freq="0" passno="0"/>
<Mount id="media" options="utf8,shortname=mixed,umask=0000" freq="0" passno="0"/>
</Filesystem>
<Images>
<File file="${NOVATGZ}" target="/"/>
</Images>
<PostInstall file="/sbin/tcpostflash.sh"/>
</TrenchCoat>

[rwhitby]

The red line is correct. I assume the rest is unchanged.

-- Rod

[bebz]

Originally Posted by rwhitby

The red line is correct. I assume the rest is unchanged.

-- Rod

yup, what am i doing wrong here:

root@ubuntu:~/meta-doctor# make DEVICE=veer CARRIER=wr all pack
[: 3: p160una: unexpected operator
[: 3: 2.1.1: unexpected operator
make unpack patch pack
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bebz/meta-doctor'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `unpack'.
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `patch'.
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `pack'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bebz/meta-doctor'
make: Nothing to be done for `pack'.

[rwhitby]

Originally Posted by bebz

yup, what am i doing wrong here:

root@ubuntu:~/meta-doctor# make DEVICE=veer CARRIER=wr all pack
[: 3: p160una: unexpected operator
[: 3: 2.1.1: unexpected operator
make unpack patch pack
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bebz/meta-doctor'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `unpack'.
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `patch'.
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `pack'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bebz/meta-doctor'
make: Nothing to be done for `pack'.

Don't do pack the first time. Only pack after you've edited the xml file.

-- Rod

[bebz]

Originally Posted by rwhitby

Don't do pack the first time. Only pack after you've edited the xml file.

-- Rod

what do you mean? i edited the file then i did that command

[bebz]

i repeated the entire process and getting the same results. i only run the command after i edit the file and nothing. i even tried to test and doctored the veer, but nothing occured. what's the exact command to pack for the veer, i'm typing:

make DEVICE=veer CARRIER=wr all pack

Basically the process consists of the following steps once meta doctor is ready:
1. make clobber
2. make DEVICE=veer CARRIER=wr all unpack patch
3. edit the broadway.xml (attached)
4. save
5. make DEVICE=veer CARRIER=wr all pack

Please help, i cannot pack it to doctor

[rwhitby]

Originally Posted by bebz

i repeated the entire process and getting the same results. i only run the command after i edit the file and nothing. i even tried to test and doctored the veer, but nothing occured. what's the exact command to pack for the veer, i'm typing:

make DEVICE=veer CARRIER=wr all pack

Basically the process consists of the following steps once meta doctor is ready:
1. make clobber
2. make DEVICE=veer CARRIER=wr all unpack patch
3. edit the broadway.xml (attached)
4. save
5. make DEVICE=veer CARRIER=wr all pack

Please help, i cannot pack it to doctor

Leave out the 'all' from step 2.

-- Rod

[bebz]

Thanks to Rod and webos-internals.

always worth donating to webos-internals. Keep up the amazing work.

[pml]

As plenty of Germans ordered Pre3 phones via Palm Eurostore yesterday, there will soon be high demand in changing the keyboard layout from QWERTY to QWERTZ on the Pre3.

What do you think, will it work a similar way here on WebOS 2.2?

Other question: I guess modifying even the hardware layout, i.e. exchanging the keypad, is rather impossible?!

Thanks in advance!

[pml]

How about this solution, as it is not so demanding:
see: forums.precentral.net/palm-pre-pre-plus/243338-how-easily-change-qwertz-qwerty-pre.html
[I'm not allowed to post links yet...]

The questions then would be:
* Which keycodes to add for ä, ö, ü, ß, which are normally accessible via [Orange]+a, o, u, s
* There should be the concept of startup-scripts, right? So the keycodes could be set somewhere there?!

But I guess, these changes will be overwritten by an OTA upgrade (if there is any to come...), right?

[rwhitby]

Originally Posted by pml

As plenty of Germans ordered Pre3 phones via Palm Eurostore yesterday, there will soon be high demand in changing the keyboard layout from QWERTY to QWERTZ on the Pre3.

What do you think, will it work a similar way here on WebOS 2.2?

Other question: I guess modifying even the hardware layout, i.e. exchanging the keypad, is rather impossible?!

Thanks in advance!

I expect Meta-Doctor will be able to change the logical keyboard layout using the existing mechanism.

I also expect the keyboard symbols are just a plastic overlay, easily removable and replaceable like on previous devices too.

-- Rod

[gizmo21]

Originally Posted by pml

How about this solution, as it is not so demanding:
see: forums.precentral.net/palm-pre-pre-plus/243338-how-easily-change-qwertz-qwerty-pre.html
[I'm not allowed to post links yet...]

The questions then would be:
* Which keycodes to add for ä, ö, ü, ß, which are normally accessible via [Orange]+a, o, u, s
* There should be the concept of startup-scripts, right? So the keycodes could be set somewhere there?!

But I guess, these changes will be overwritten by an OTA upgrade (if there is any to come...), right?

I made a reply in the other thread regarding the non-metadoctor way.If you don't like to doctor now that shellscript i put there can save you a lot of work after luna restart. the umlauts are no prob sym&a works.
http://forums.precentral.net/palm-pr...ml#post3106843

[gizmo21]

i know this is kinda offtopic, but is there a way to have a qwertz bluetooth keyboard not acting as qwertY on webos 2. it seems to work on the touchpad, but i don't know in which systemfiles to look for to change the layout in bluetooth mode. any hint rod? i did to find so much regarding this on webosinternals
http://forums.precentral.net/palm-pr...rd-qwertz.html

[grinsekatze]

Just followed these instructions and reflashed my AZERTY-Pre3 to QWERTY.
Worked perfectly

[crayolarocks]

@grinsekatze just curious, but which instructions specifically? the one on the frontpage?

[grinsekatze]

Yes, the ones on the frontpage... for the Pre3 that is:

1. `make DEVICE=pre3 CARRIER=wr unpack patch'
2. modify `./build/pre3-p220manta-wr-2.2.0/webOS/mataray.xml'
3. `make DEVICE=pre3 CARRIER=wr all pack'

[czechdev]

Originally Posted by rwhitby

Leave out the 'all' from step 2.

-- Rod

Worked great on my QWERTZ Veer, thanks Rod! It's really easy using Meta-Doctor.