Monday, November 9, 2009

DayHand : Enable New Virtual Keyboards on Touchscreen Symbian Devices !

Posted on 06:18 by SlipKoRnSaad

This keyboard is far superior to Nokia/Samsung ones. A single key can have up to 5 characters (you get extra chars by tapping and dragging). It has copy, cut, paste, home, end, symbols table, T9 dictionary in qwerty mode, enables type-ahead in qwerty, international chars keyboard (customized), lets you type faster and, as I said, is fully customizable, letting the community create more and more layouts (like iPhone and Opera ones). For each mode (landscape and portrait) there are 7 different keyboards (selectable from a button): english qwerty, international qwerty, abc keypad, numeric mode, edit mode, symbols table, dictionary selection.




WHAT IS DAYHAND INPUT?
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A Chinese application developed to replace the original touch keyboard with one that supported Chinese characters.

I'M NOT CHINESE, WHY SHOULD I CARE?
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While it was developed to cover Chinese language, it also SUPPORTS English and is fully customizable. So, we have changed it all to get rid of the Chinese characters and turned it into a full English/International keyboard.

WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES?
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This keyboard is far superior to Nokia/Samsung ones. A single key can have up to 5 characters (you get extra chars by tapping and dragging). It has copy, cut, paste, home, end, symbols table, T9 dictionary in qwerty mode, enables type-ahead in qwerty, international chars keyboard (customized), lets you type faster and, as I said, is fully customizable, letting the community create more and more layouts (like iPhone and Opera ones). For each mode (landscape and portrait) there are 7 different keyboards (selectable from a button): english qwerty, international qwerty, abc keypad, numeric mode, edit mode, symbols table, dictionary selection.

WHICH VERSION, WHICH LANGUAGE?
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If your phone is hacked you should install the 19caps (19r3) version. If not, you can then sign and install the 17caps (17r3). The 17caps version has the same functionalities but due to permission restrictions the keyboard won't be used in some applications (known at the moment, Omnia's RoadSync+Pre-installed Office, Nokia Music Player).

In both packages you'll find English, International English, Finnish, Spanish and Portuguese languages to choose upon install. The only difference among them is that the regular qwerty keyboard have direct access to accented letters for those langs. But even the English keyboard has an special international keyboard with all accents.

HOW TO INSTALL?
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If you have it already installed, you have to disable it on settings otherwise you might get a "can't delete file" error. Download the zip file (link below), unzip it and install it as usual.

If you want to save some internal memory space you can now also select only the desired layouts on the installer. The "Chinese Pack" is meant for phones not originally supporting double byte characters. Leave it CHECKED and if you get an error, try to install again unchecking it.

DayHand_Input_by_Mr._Milk_17r4_unsigned.sis.zip
DayHand_Input_by_Mr._Milk_19r4_unsigned.sis.zip

HOW TO USE IT?
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After installing, make sure you REBOOT your phone. No need to setup, after reboot the keyboard will be active. You can test it by writing a new sms.




HOW TO CHOOSE ANOTHER LAYOUT?
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The installation process makes the Opera Mini (Portrait) and Opera Huge (Landscape) the default layouts. If you want to try the iPhone or the original one do this:




HOW DO I CREATE/CUSTOMIZE A LAYOUT?
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Google for more info about DayHand Input. There are hundreds of posts out there with everything you need to know.

WHAT IF I DON'T LIKE IT?
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You can easily disable it on the settings or completely uninstall it. To uninstall it, first you need to disable it.
To disable it, go the settings and on the first option of the first screen, tap and select "AknFEP".

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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A big round of applause (and reps) to ipitbull, caominh171, fenomeno83, genio_mex and all others who made all this possible.

By Mr. Milk

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