IME update.zip installers (HTC_CIME, iWnn IME) [updated 2009-07-30]

jashsu · May 6, 2009

IMPORTANT WARNING: Before installing any /system IME, you must check whether you have enough free space in your /system partition! To check your remaining space, open Terminal Emulator and type df. Incompletely installed IMEs will crash/not work properly!

IME update.zip installers

About IMEs

OEM IMEs are input method editors that are included preinstalled on Android products released in regions that don't use a Latin keyboard. As with all preinstalled apps, they are by default contained in the /system partition. These update.zip installers allow you to quickly and simply reinstall an OEM IME onto your 1.5 or higher build Android using the recovery. Note that you must have the test-key certificates installed in order to use these (i.e. you need to be "rooted").

Installation

1. Check your remaining space in /system by opening Terminal Emulator and typing df. The third line or so should be:

Code:

/system: xxxxxK total, xxxxxK used, [COLOR=Red]xxxxxK available[/COLOR] (block size 4096)

(Remember that 1024KByte = 1MByte)

2. After confirming you have enough space in step 1, download the desired IME installer.
3. Rename the installer to update.zip and copy it to the root of your sdcard.
4. Reboot into recovery and use Alt+S to flash the updater. Reboot when done.
5. Open your settings to Locale & text and check the box next to the new IME. If you do not wish to use the multi-IME selector then uncheck the other unwanted IMEs.

HTC Chinese IME

The Chinese IME bundled with HTC-branded phones sold in Asia (e.g. HTC Magic & HTC Hero). CIME contains multiple input methods, including handwriting recognition, zhuyin, cangjie, pinyin, and stroke. CIME can recognize both traditional and simplified handwriting, but output for keyboard input methods will default to traditional or simplified based on your system locale setting.

15763fb6b374887906744790d6219637 htc_cime_haykuro_hero_6.9mb_update.zip 5.4MByte
74c842315eb779b23c3c315c5dba65fc htc_cime_cht_magic_6.6mb_update.zip 5.3MByte

iWnn Japanese IME

iWnn IME is a Japanese IME bundled with NTT DoCoMo's release of the HTC Sapphire hardware (rebadged as NTT DoCoMo HT-03a). iWnn IME contains three primary input schemes, a standard qwerty latin input, a qwerty-phoneme input, and a 9-key kana input. Predictive text performance is good. However, no handwriting recognition for kanji is available.

4b5f0c3ea534e03b55b1f335edad5de3 iwnn_ime_ntt_ht03a_1.1.0_11.3mb_update.zip 6.7MByte

2009-07-30: Changed the links to box.net as the files were starting to hit drop.io's 1000 download limit. =/
2009-07-28: Added back missing preview screenshots of CIME.

biAji · May 6, 2009

Greate!! So I don't need to adb push every so file myself .. It's so nice for lazy people like me.. lol

larrygates · May 6, 2009

Any chance of getting the non chinese vk, the one that just says touch input. Just wondering if it's the same issue as registering additional libraries.

But this is great btw.

comchan · May 6, 2009

Seems like everything is fixed.
This one look cool. Many Thanks!

jashsu · May 6, 2009

larrygates said:
Any chance of getting the non chinese vk, the one that just says touch input. Just wondering if it's the same issue as registering additional libraries.

But this is great btw.

I don't think key.apk is present in any Haykuro H build based on 1.5. I'll dig back to a 5.x version and see if it is compatible. It might not be possible to install it alongside HTC_CIME though?

emotionalsense · May 6, 2009

hey thanks for putting it all in an update.zip. Its
very quick and easy. Cant wait to try this ^_^

UnkzDomain · May 7, 2009

larrygates said:
Any chance of getting the non chinese vk, the one that just says touch input. Just wondering if it's the same issue as registering additional libraries.

But this is great btw.

I second this. Whenever I try just installing key.apk, I get force closes every 10 seconds and it gets annoying...

jashsu · May 7, 2009

amgupt01 said:
I second this. Whenever I try just installing key.apk, I get force closes every 10 seconds and it gets annoying...

Which Haykuro build are you extracting your key.apk from? You are probably missing some required libraries.

wilsonmui · May 7, 2009

great it work , full screen handwriting working now. a like it

but i don't know how to call up the handwriting input when horizontal screen. can somebody teach me now??

thx in advance

jashsu · May 7, 2009

wilsonmui said:
but i don't know how to call up the handwriting input when horizontal screen. can somebody teach me now??

Same method as handwriting input in vertical screen.

1. Put your app in horizontal mode (if you have autorotate enabled just rotate the phone)
2. Tap on text input field.
3. Tap the gear button. If you are in Latin entry mode, the gear button says "寫". Now you should have horizontal handwriting input.

n19htmare · May 7, 2009

What if I just want the vk and not the writing part of it. I like the HTC vk and just want that...

Possible?

jashsu · May 7, 2009

n19htmare said:
What if I just want the vk and not the writing part of it. I like the HTC vk and just want that...

Possible?

Not with CIME. I think the HTC Latin IME is available as key.apk, but I haven't the fortitude to dig around Haykuro 5.X to extract it.

Personally I prefer the look of the stock Android LIME. HTC's LIME is too iPhone-ish.

emotionalsense · May 7, 2009

I really like the keyboard.
However sometimes when I use the phone keyboard, I can switch between T9 and abc. For example when im using google search, I cant switch to T9.

n19htmare · May 7, 2009

I find the CIME to be more accurate and does a better job, much better job, at text prediction.

wilsonmui · May 7, 2009

jashsu said:
Same method as handwriting input in vertical screen.

1. Put your app in horizontal mode (if you have autorotate enabled just rotate the phone)
2. Tap on text input field.
3. Tap the gear button. If you are in Latin entry mode, the gear button says "寫". Now you should have horizontal handwriting input.

thx for helping. but my JF1.5 dunno why can't use auto rotate. and when i flip the keyboard out, it won't let me handwriting. even i long click the text field, choose handwriting input, nothing come up.

larrygates · May 7, 2009

If you could tell me how to pack an update.zip and grab the libraries, I would gladly make a working key.apk for all of us to use. It's the better keyboard out of all of them. The Google vk is very lackluster, and I can't believe it's the official cupcake one I keep seeing.

jashsu said:
Which Haykuro build are you extracting your key.apk from? You are probably missing some required libraries.

I will gladly install Haykuro 5.x on my emulator and extract whatever we need for the key.apk. Just need to know where to look.

jashsu said:
Not with CIME. I think the HTC Latin IME is available as key.apk, but I haven't the fortitude to dig around Haykuro 5.X to extract it.

Personally I prefer the look of the stock Android LIME. HTC's LIME is too iPhone-ish.

jashsu · May 7, 2009

wilsonmui said:
thx for helping. but my JF1.5 dunno why can't use auto rotate. and when i flip the keyboard out, it won't let me handwriting. even i long click the text field, choose handwriting input, nothing come up.

If you open the hardware kb, you cannot use onscreen kb. To auto-rotate, go into settings > sound & display. Turn on orientation option.

UnkzDomain · May 8, 2009

larrygates said:
If you could tell me how to pack an update.zip and grab the libraries, I would gladly make a working key.apk for all of us to use. It's the better keyboard out of all of them. The Google vk is very lackluster, and I can't believe it's the official cupcake one I keep seeing.

I will gladly install Haykuro 5.x on my emulator and extract whatever we need for the key.apk. Just need to know where to look.

Yeah, I can get the key.apk, but I don't know how to find what libraries it requires, either.
People say it's too iPhone-y, but honestly, it is the most responsive and the easiest to use (at least for me)

jashsu · May 8, 2009

amgupt01 said:
Yeah, I can get the key.apk, but I don't know how to find what libraries it requires, either.
People say it's too iPhone-y, but honestly, it is the most responsive and the easiest to use (at least for me)

What build are you guys extracting key.apk from? I can't find it in any of the Haykuros I have lying around.

n19htmare · May 8, 2009

amgupt01 said:
Yeah, I can get the key.apk, but I don't know how to find what libraries it requires, either.
People say it's too iPhone-y, but honestly, it is the most responsive and the easiest to use (at least for me)

exactly... it's a much better vk then the cupcake one. I can use the HTC vk and hardly have to correct what I type because it's so good at text correction. Now when i use the VK in the 1.5, it sucks at text correction and even proximity detection. It's HORRIBLE compared to HTC_CIME.....

I rather not have this use up 9MB of system memory, I only need the keyboard....

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