Physical keyboard corrupted in new N900

In my new N900 the physical keybord is corrupted. E.g. the key "Z" writes a "Y" and vice versa, the key "." writes an "ä" etc.
Is somebody able to help me? Thank You.

I think your N900 just thinks it has a foreign keyboard attached.
If I am correct then you can solve your problem by changing the keyboard setting :
Settings -> Text Input->Hardware Keyboard Layout (choose your home country's keyboard e.g. English, Netherlands (which seems to be the right setting for the UK!)
Hope this helps.

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Physical keyboard lights are not working when display is fully up. Keyboard lights work only when display is halfway up. Lights go off just a millimeter before when display reach it top position.
Can anyone suggest is this a software issue or there is something physically wrong with phone (slider-switch is slightly misplaced or broken)?
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Thanks to all for content-rich reply..
-> to cpitchford: I downloaded package and entered the commands you suggested. X terminal reply after "sudo gainroot" was "Enable RD mode if you want to break your phone". I'm not at home with RD mode, so I rather don't mess with it.. After all it was mentioned to just monitor when the switch is on/off? Keyboard light comes ON when display bottom edge reaches middle of Q-letter (on keyboard) and go OFF after the "clunk". Then, if I slightly press down the display (1mm) the keyboard lights come ON again.
_> to DrEJV :I think the background light sensor is working OK - when I cover the light sensor with finger ,display dimes slightly. Problem is that keyboard light don't work at all when display is fully open, not even in total backround blackout.
Think that there might be wrong something with physical switch, as jlpils suggested, because now I know that they SHOULD be lighted
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Pathetic lack of 4G phones with no physical keyboard

I've been a Verizon customer since my first mobile phone and I was one of the first people to buy the original Droid when it launched, but the leaked news about the upcoming Droid 3 has me strongly leaning towards going with another carrier. I find it baffling that the Droid 3 would come out right now and not be 4G enabled. It hasn't even been released and it's already outdated, and yet Verizon will insist on sticking people with 2 year contracts for a phone that will never be able to connect to its fastest networks. I've yet to hear of any other 4G phone that even MIGHT come to Verizon with a physical keyboard, an absolute 100% dealbreaker for me. The loyal early adopters who jumped on the Android bandwagon and made it the juggernaut it is today come out of contract in July. We want physical keyboards and we want cutting edge phones. Where is the phone you think we're going to buy, Verizon? Because everything else I've seen is a joke.

This has been a significant frustration for me as well. I follow phones pretty closely and have kept up on all the rumors, leaks, and announcements on the various forums from BGR to droidforums and howardforums. What is killing me is that there is not so much as an obfuscated indication that Verizon will have a 4g with a physical keyboard any time in the future.
They are rolling out more and more candybar phones and there are, essentially, zero options for anyone who does not like the candybar models with only virtual keyboards. Meanwhile, the other 4g carriers all have phones out with physical keyboards. Sprint actually has at least 2 of their 4g phones with physical keyboards and have had them out for months now. Seriously, how hard is it for Verizon to get it together and diversify their offerings with something other than yet another candybar 4g phone?
The real kicker is Verizon put out the Droid 3 without 4g. Seriously. What are you guys thinking? 4g covers a huge part of the market and your only new Android phone with physical keyboard is only 3g? Was this an attempt at marketing suicide?
Those who say you don't really need a physical keyboard must not use the phone the same way many of us in professional environments with detailed and quick response demands migth use them. I have tried numerous virtual keyboards and none of them are responsive and fast enough to keep up with me. One my Droid 1, I can hammer out significantly detailed and thorough responses very quickly with little to no error. This is why so many BB users demand the physical keyboard of the BB. If the virtual keyboards were good enough, trust me, we would have switched long ago for the weight and size differences. The simple fact is no virtual keyboard is on par with a decent physical keyboard.
My contract is up in a few months, I am well into my upgrade period, and I am seriously considering switching to another carrier for 4g with a physical keyboard. I am not blowing my upgrade on a phone that will irritate the hell out of me, especially when it would mean locking into another 2-year contract with a carrier who clearly is not developing devices for professional users who prefer Android.

I have an idea for physical keyboard lovers

When I got my first iPhone 1st generation, I struggled to get used to the touch screen keyboard. I always wished to somehow modify the phone to have one. I eventually got used to the keyboard and its not bad. But with the release of ios4 and the ability to use bluetooth keyboard. I was thinking of a case that could cover the back of the phone, that would plug into the power of the iPhone and inside the cover would be a slide out keyboard with a bluetooth ability built into the case keyboard which is powered by the phone itself. This may decrease battery life slightly but if you feel the need to have a physical keyboard I guess you can suck it up.
Would you guys be interested in a product like this?
"iType"
I found this pic and I think it would look amazing on the new iPhone 4
http://images.mobilefun.co.uk/graphics/misc/Blogs/iPhone/iphone-pro-large.jpg
Thanks guys!

Apple.com/feedback
Ta-da!

Problem sending IM with physical keyboard

Motorola Droid 4 XT894 w/ CyanogenMod 10.1.3-maserati (Although it was same issue when I was on stock Android), Verizon and WiFi, Skype v4.4.0.31835
This has been a huge issue for me for a while, and I thought all the updates to Skype would eventually fix this bug...but apparently not.
My phone has a physical keyboard, and while I understand physical keyboards are being phased out, and that Skype is desigend around the touch screen, I feel it's still important to support these needs as I use Skype for chats as well.
The issue is that when I slide out my keyboard and type a message, the send button dissappears and I cannot send the message by pushing the enter key on the physical keyboard, which only creates a new line in the message. I physically have to slide the keyboard closed on the phone so that the on-screen keyboard shows up and then I can push "Send" on the screen to send a message. This is a physical nuisance, which brings me to another point... I really wish Skype did not change that the Enter key on the physical keyboard only creates a new line (which I understand is its intended function), because all the old versions of skype I was able to send messages just fine by hitting enter on the keypad. I wish there was a general setting that can be checked to say "Enter to Send" like all other popular text messaging apps so you can please both parties...
What I don't understand is that version 4.12.254 skype for my iPad (MC706LL/A), which I have a bluetooth keyboard linked I can push enter on the physical bluetooth keyboard and it will send the message...what the heck???
This occurence is 5/5 tries. Please do something about this! Thank you!
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Using my HP slatebook x2 (convertible netbook), i have come across the issue where i am not able to sent a message on skype, for the simple reason that there is no "sent" button on the screen.
The ENTER-key, will insert a new linebreak.
Using the software keyboard (android's default), there is a button (above the keyboard) to send the message.
When i reconnect my keyboard (remove it and then putting it back on), the button will show up, but only for one-time use.
skype vers.: 4.4.0.31835
android vers: 4.2.2 (stock)
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Hope the devs can resolve this issue, goodluck!!
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Iphone Physical Keyboard

I know a big deal breaker for alot of people on the Iphone is the lack of a physical keyboard. I ran across this today while looking at Iphone news :
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Yoga 13 - On-screen Keyboard Randomly Popping Up When Using Physical Keyboard?

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I bought a Lenovo IdeaPad tablet that came with Windows 8 Pro:
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Diff between logical and physical block corruption

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I have problem setting up a new wireless keyboard and my new Mac mini

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How to respond to physical block corruption??

Hi, all.
As far as I know, there are two types of block corruption.
1. logical block corruption
2. physical block corruption
In case of logical block corruption, there are a few method of how to take care of it.
such as BMR with rman, media recovery, and dbms package.
In case of physical block corruption, how can I respond to this type of errors?
Does physical block corruption of a disk mean disk failure??
If so, I have to replace the disk? Or, is there any other way to solve
this type of errors?
In addition, how can I know that the block corruption is caused by logical problems
or physical problems??
Thanks and Regards.

> In case of physical block corruption, how can I respond to this type of
errors?
Round around in circles, screaming at the top of your voice "we're all going to die!".
Hey, why that funny looks? It works. And it scares the stuffings out of management and colleagues... ;-)
> Does physical block corruption of a disk mean disk failure??
If by physical corruption you mean that reading a data block results in I/O errors and a corrupt/incomplete read buffer, then yes. The "disk" is failing - or more correctly, the I/O h/w is failing. It may not be the disk itself. It could be a problem with the HBA, a controller card, etc.
In exceptional cases it may not even be a h/w issue. It could be a s/w induced error. I once got physical I/O errors reported by Oracle. The problem was traced to an incompatibility between the ASMlib kernel module and EMC Powerpath. The SAN disks & h/w were fine.
> If so, I have to replace the disk? Or, is there any other way to solve
this type of errors?
There should be some kind of diagnostics you can run on the disks to determine if they are failing. Simply replacing a disk because there seems to be a physical corruption problem may not solve the problem itself.
You need to identify the actual problem. Which means looking at all Oracle traces/dumps in this regard, looking at the kernel logs, manually dumping blocks to see the results, using whatever I/O & disk diagnostic tools available, etc.
> In addition, how can I know that the block corruption is caused by logical
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That depends on what you define as logical and physical corruption. The latter means to me that I cannot get the data off the disk without some kind of I/O error. Logical means that the data can be read just fine, but is garbage. Which could simply mean GIGO without implying any kind of underlaying h/w failure.

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