Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

Not sure if I introduced any negative side affects, but I replaced the PR1.1 keyboard plugins and libraries with the previous versions and I now have capitalization, space and backspace swiping back. I saved and copied over the following files, and then I rebooted:

/usr/lib/hildon-input-method/hildon-im-plugins.cache
/usr/lib/hildon-input-method/hildon_im_keyboard_monitor.so
/usr/lib/hildon-input-method/hildon_keyboard_assistant.so
/usr/lib/hildon-input-method/hildon_keyboard_assistant_scv.so
/usr/lib/hildon-input-method/hildon_western_fkb.so
/usr/lib/hildon-input-method/western_common_vim_settings.so
/usr/lib/libhildon-im-vkbrenderer.so.3
/usr/lib/libhildon-im-vkbrenderer.so.3.0.2
/usr/lib/libhildon-im-western-plugin-common.so.3
/usr/lib/libhildon-im-western-plugin-common.so.3.0.8

I'm not sure I can post the old files here, but if someone with authority says it's okay I would be happy to.

I wrote this post with the old files listed above on PR1.1

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

if the lib files and plugins are opensource i'm sure someone could create custom virtual keyboard.

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

Scrolling was sucking, so I replaced

/usr/lib/hildon-input-method/hildon_im_keyboard_monitor.so

with the PR1.1 version. I then ran hildon-im-recache and all is PR1.1 good.

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

I'm very interested in this but am a noob. what is back swiping on virtual keyboard?

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

I just made these terms up, but "backspace swiping" is when you mouse-down on one letter/symbol, and then mouse-up on the letter/symbol to the left. This is a shortcut for the backspace key.

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

Please share the old files, or if it is possible can you tell us where to find them. Is it imperattive that we reflash?

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

I don't think I can legally give them to you because some, if not all, are closed source Nokia binaries, and getting them from a fiasco image is non-trivial. If you can get Linux running on an x86 machine, see below if you're feeling bold. Good luck!

Get a OS 2009 version 1.2009.42-11 fiasco image from here for non-UK device or here for UK device.

DO NOT REFLASH WITH THIS IMAGE. YOU'RE JUST GOING TO EXTRACT FILES FROM IT.

EDIT: Goto qwerty12's post below. Then look at my first post. This is known as spaghetti posting. I'm leaving the following for archival purposes only

Then try following the quoted instructions below for getting and mounting the rootfs.jffs2 file. Once mounted, look at my first post in this thread.

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

daperl, the N900 doesn't use JFFS2. :)

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=403015 may be useful.

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

Maybe yours doesn't. :p

Thank you.

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

many many thanks. Seems a bit time consuming I will try it though. I suppose I do all this on my desktop, not the n900 am I correct?

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

Yes, on a desktop.

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

hmm I don't know what went wrong, now I don't have a vkb. I see only the textbox, backspace, return and tabs, with no keys. I restored the backed up files but I get the same thing. I suppose I have to rebuild some cache or sth, Any ideas?
I did all the steps, got the files from the image, and copied them to their locations overwriting the old ones.

is it possible my files got corrupt after being on a windows machine? the linux box was virtual, and I used windows to transfer them to the device

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

Sorry, I think I forgot to mention hildon-im-recache. Try running that as root and then reboot. Let me know how that goes because if that doesn't work I'll do some check sums to make sure we're on the same page. Also, I think there were 2 files removed from before to after PR1.1. I'll try and verify what those were, but they should already be listed in my first post. Did you create save directories for the PR1.1 files?

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

Here some info:

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

Here are the sums:

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

Sorry for all the posts, but I'm doing a few things at once.

I might have been wrong about the extra files thing. Also, don't mind my own extra files:

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

now i have reverted to the pr1.1 i have also done hildon-im-recache.
The checksum is the same as your save folder, but still no vkb.
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Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

I'm a little confused as to what is where. On your n900, can you run the following commands and post their output:

Also, can you list the sums, sizes and times for the files of interest from the fiasco image on your PC.

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

now I have the PR1.0 files "installed"
I
here are my saved files
I will list the files from the fiasco Image too in the next post
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Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

may be someone could release this as .deb file package to extra?

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Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

Did you miss the part where daperl says:
?

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

I think one of us has made a mistake. Are you sure you got the

OS 2009 version 1.2009.42-11

fiasco file? If so, based on your sums, I might be wrong as to what version goes with what update, and the firmware you need might not be available. This could suck. Let me do some more checking. I also have this older (but I think still the latest) VirtualBox SDK image; I'll see what's in there. That might still be available at the garage project.

If all else fails, you still own these files as far as I'm concerned, so maybe a note to qgil asking if these could be made available is an option.

Again, sorry for the cluster f*ck for something so trivial.

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

I downloaded the following file
http://miketest.outofbounds.gr/qwazi...co%20image.jpg

don't apologize, I am confident fiddling with my device, if i feared screwing up I wouldn't go that far

I think it must be something more trivial though, because I get the exact same result even when I move the original files back, it's something like the system does not reset its state, maybe I have to clear a cache, something that hildon-im-recache does not do

By the way hildon-im-recache, returns this
noticed the number of plugins processed does not match the number of the "processing" lines

I am really grateful for all the help!

edit: In the first sums post some files had remained from pr1.1 creating a mixed situation. (it must have been because of x-term quitting on me unexpectedly during file copying) Now I have doublechecked all the files, copied them rhrough ssh and they have exactly the same sums as yours, except the cache
yours -> 60845
mine -> 23493
but I suspect this might be because you have your own im

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

That's a bummer. I looked at file dates and I know when I got the device, and I can't believe it was the pre-PR1.1 that clobbered those files. Strange.

Anyway, I moved my hacking files out of the directory, and I too got your same output:

If you haven't already done so, maybe one last time try the following to restore:

Put everything back the way it was before this thread, that includes these library files:

/usr/lib/libhildon-im-vkbrenderer.so.3
/usr/lib/libhildon-im-vkbrenderer.so.3.0.2
/usr/lib/libhildon-im-western-plugin-common.so.3
/usr/lib/libhildon-im-western-plugin-common.so.3.0.8

Then, move hildon-im-plugins.cache to a save directory.

Reboot

You should now have no doubt what shared libraries are being used.

See if there's a new cache file:

/usr/lib/hildon-input-method/hildon-im-plugins.cache

If so, you might be good to go. If not, run hildon-im-recache one more time and reboot. Things should be back to the original state.

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

my virtual keyboard has predictive text but just cant accept the suggested word. no matter what key i pressed the highligted predictive text disappear.
pls help

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

i think we are going a little off topic but tap the prediction, and it should stay there

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

Touch your stylus to the blue portion of the text. Magic!

Oh, what he said.

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

@qwazix:

Did you get your keyboard back?

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

Still trying, I have run out of ideas. I've checked again and again all the files starting with libhildon-im, even the ones I didn't tamper with. All the sums are as expected. Neither PR1 nor PR11 version works. I tried installing ukeyboard also in case it restored something in place (some guys in another thread who lost their vkb said it came back after installing ukeyboard - it was a different situation, they had NO vkb whatsoever while I have an empty one, but anyway I had to try it - )
I know I can back up and reflash, but it has driven me crazy and I want to figure it out...
As for the hildon-im-plugins.cache it builds itself again when I do a recache with always the same sum (i tried deleting it completely) but still no-go.

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

What about your language setting(s)? Can you post a picture of what an empty vkb looks like.

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http://miketest.outofbounds.gr/qwazi...20keyboard.jpg

sorry about the bad quality, cant take screenshot (when I open the keyboard the vkb disappears)

I changed from greek to english in the language settings, I also changed to german to see if anything else happened.
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Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

I've seen blank keyboards, but yours is the first empty one. I think it's time to install sysklogd. It's in extras. Maybe it will tell you about an object file that couldn't be loaded or found. Also in extras, I recommend load-applet. You could then take screenshots with the keyboard closed.

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

I am fed up. I will flash and try it again.
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Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

I'm like you, I like to know how stuff works and it's fun figuring it out, but I don't use the hardware keyboard for entering text. So, even though I'll spend three days on something that would have taken others 60 minutes, this is one instance where I probably would have reflashed within the first three hours. There's no way I could have gone as long as you have without a vkb.

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

I am writing this from my brand-new PR1.0 virtual keyboard! Many many thanks!

I reflashed, did the same thing again and voila!
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Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

considering that any N900 owner can get the fiasco images, wouldn't be useful if I made a script which will run on the N900, unpack the fiasco image, make backups, and then copy the right files where they should be.
Is this ever possible?

the problem is I have to learn scripting...
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Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

Sure, this is very possible. Pseudo code the steps you want to take, then fill them in with real code. Piece of cake! :eek:

Scripting is your friend, and then are many examples already on your device. Here's a man page.

Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

I was reading the thread all over, and I wonder what was sucking about scrolling that made you prefer the pr1.1 monitor.
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Re: Virtual Keyboard hack returns things to pre-PR1.1
 

It might have just been a placebo affect of the upgrade. I can't remember.