Recently I have been experiementing with Samsung Galaxy Note II(GT-N7100) with FSF approved OS: Replicant-6.0-0004-rc1. I have changed my phone carrier to Ting to accompany the outdated smart phone.

More specifically, I am used to inputting both traditional and simplified characters for occasional SMS, web-searches and grocery lists, but on this replicant phone I just can not do it yet.

My first attempt:

1. Settings
   1. Language & input
      1. Keyboard & input methods
         1. Android Keyboard (AOSP) (1)
            1. Languages
               1. Android Keyboard (AOSP) (2)
                  1. Use System language
                     
                     1. Uncheck this to ungrey out the below choices.
                        
               2. Active Input Methods
                  
                  1. Even though there is Hindi, Mongolian, Russian and Thai, no target language of Chinese (Neither Korean nor Japanese). (Could it be that these areas dont contribute to FSF? But I thought that Japan had made significant contributions?)
                  2. Exit.
                     

Anyway, without Chinese Keyboard, I then take the next logical step of installing a Chinese Input Method. Once installed, I then went back to:

1. Settings
   1. Language & input
      1. Keyboard & input methods
         1. Current Keyboard
            
            1. "Change Keyboard" dialog box pops out, choose "Choose Keyboards".
               
               1. Keyboard & input methods
                  
         2. Trime
            
            1. Input
               
               1. Schemas
                  1. Dialog Box pops-up: Schemas \n "Put default.yaml and schema files into user directory!"
               2. User Directory
                  1. User Directory: /sdcard/rime
                  2. I simply can not find this folder, perhaps I will have to root the phone to get upstream far enough to find this PATH.
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            2. Change Keyboard
               
               1. Trime
                  

When I went in either icecat or SMS and typed, the gaudy "Trime" keyboard was in the place of the sleek default keyboard. I typed some pinyin, and then held down on the lower left corner's "選單、中文" button (Translation: Chinese Character Candidate List). '
Then a "Trime" dialog box pops out with the same past error message: "Put default.yaml and schema files into user directory!".


Since I still could not type the character, I then created a blank default.yaml in my /storage/emulated/0/rime/ directory. After repeating the above, I still get the above error message. Next, I tried changing the user directory:

1. Settings
   1. Language & input
      1. Keyboard & input methods
         1. Trime
            
            1. Input
               
               1. User Directory
                  1. User Directory: /sdcard/rime
                  2. I changed Directory to: /storage/emulated/0/rime/default.yaml
                     

then exiting and then experiementing with this in both my SMS and newly installed icecat web browser, still the same problem persisted.


Github lists Credits :
I have obtained the email of osfans (sign into github to obtain it) and heiher, both which have Chinese email, and github lists osfans as being in the historical tourist attraction of the suburban City of SuZhou, in JiangSu Province, China. Their group claimed to have a qq email method, but when I sent an email to it with a "@qq.com" added the end, the undeliverable email error message came back immediately. I am sending an email, but I do not expect much of a response.

I can succeed inputing Han Characters with ChangJie, but it is not an input method I am established in, like Pinyin or Taiwan's ZhuYinFoHao. '

Might anyone else know how to remedy this problem?

You should probably NOT share these email addresses.

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I removed the partially shared non-public info.

Is there anyone who knows how to overcome this language configuration malfunction on Replicant OS for Galaxy Note II?

(I guess I will have to learn 倉頡輸入法.)