How to disable hardware keyboard?

[Nathan]

My device does not have a hardware keyboard, but for some reason Android still thinks it does.  The hardware keyboard appears in the Settings/Input Methods menu, and I have to manually disable it to get the software keyboards to appear.  Do I have to set a system property? or a build property? to disable the keyboard?  I am using Qualcomm's MSM8074 processor, and their default build for the MSM8974.

[Nathan]

Problem solved!

There is no configuration that defines this.  It actually happens at runtime when a keyboard is plugged in.  I did not know that the wireless mouse I was using identified itself also as a keyboard.  I used evtest_arm to look at all the /dev/input/eventX devices and found this out.  If this mouse was not plugged in, and I used a wired mouse, the hardware keyboard option was gone.

[shridutt kothari]

Good to know that fact.  

Thanks, Shridutt

[郭崇鑫]

You can do this to make SoftIME show in Android6.0 when hardware keyboard plugin:

diff --git a/frameworks/base/packages/SettingsProvider/res/values/defaults.xml b/frameworks/base/packages/SettingsProvider/res/values/defaults.xml

index d75b742edf..287fe505fb 100755

--- a/frameworks/base/packages/SettingsProvider/res/values/defaults.xml

+++ b/frameworks/base/packages/SettingsProvider/res/values/defaults.xml

@@ -166,6 +166,10 @@

     <!-- Development settings -->

     <bool name="def_stay_on_while_plugged_in">false</bool>

 

+    <bool name="def_show_ime_with_hard_keyboard">true</bool>

     <!-- Number of retries for connecting to DHCP.

          Value here is the same as WifiStateMachine.DEFAULT_MAX_DHCP_RETRIES -->

     <integer name="def_max_dhcp_retries">9</integer>

diff --git a/frameworks/base/packages/SettingsProvider/src/com/android/providers/settings/DatabaseHelper.java b/frameworks/base/packages/SettingsProvider/src/com/android/providers/settings/DatabaseHelper.java

index 0b122a412b..78ce05e6c1 100755

--- a/frameworks/base/packages/SettingsProvider/src/com/android/providers/settings/DatabaseHelper.java

+++ b/frameworks/base/packages/SettingsProvider/src/com/android/providers/settings/DatabaseHelper.java

@@ -2532,6 +2532,11 @@ class DatabaseHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper {

             loadBooleanSetting(stmt, Secure.LOCK_SCREEN_ALLOW_PRIVATE_NOTIFICATIONS,

                     R.bool.def_lock_screen_allow_private_notifications);

+            loadBooleanSetting(stmt, Settings.Secure.SHOW_IME_WITH_HARD_KEYBOARD,

+                    R.bool.def_show_ime_with_hard_keyboard);

             loadIntegerSetting(stmt, Settings.Secure.SLEEP_TIMEOUT,

                     R.integer.def_sleep_timeout);

 

2014-06-09 15:10 GMT+08:00 shridutt kothari <shridut...@gmail.com>:

Good to know that fact.  

Thanks, Shridutt

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