another soft keyboard/input device - Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development

Although not as pretty as fingertouch, (the animation is a bit off) it works more like a cross between FT and tengo.
It's also free until December 2008
Works fine in 128dpi
http://www.cootek.com/download.html
not certain whether I'll stick with it, but it's a heads-up for anyone wanting to try.
some discussion
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=334437

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installed, soft reset and after boot up tried to choose as the default sioentry but unable to load, maybe someone can advise on the correct manner to use it? using advantage WM6 original HTC ROM.

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Veeery interesting. Exactly what I was thinking with Teksoft's keyboard, except that one needs double tapping to get the letter on the right. At the time, I was wondering why someone didn't use a similar layout, but predict text based on the combinations.
Like Tengo, though, it uses a ton of space in landscape mode (haven't looked at portrait yet). Also, mine is slid al the way to the left in landscape, instead of centered. Haven't opened the other thread yet.
Thanks for posting, I wouldn't have known about it.
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lmf_slacker, you sound like you have the same problem I have with all of my soft-keyboards - I click the <3rd party keyboard>, but only get the standard one.
I use SIPChange (sorry, no link, but search for it in the forums), and use it to pick your <3rd party keyboard>. Soft reboot, and it should work ok.
There's some threads discussing this problem, and fixed, but I have not gotten a fix to work. Didn't care much, cause once I pick a keyboard (currently Phraze-It for me), I will use onlyit & the standard keyboard anyway.

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polstein said:
Like Tengo, though, it uses a ton of space in landscape mode (haven't looked at portrait yet). Also, mine is slid al the way to the left in landscape, instead of centered. Haven't opened the other thread yet.
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After installing, ensure you are in portrait mode the first time you select it (a common problem with 3rd party sips). If you then open it in landscape, the skin covers the keys as it should.
You're right though, it uses a lot of real estate. I do find it very good for finger use (which I tend to do a lot).

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Thanks, I'll try that as a test, although I stick mostly to landscape, so I'd have to make it a point to rotate, keyboard, rotate for it to be clean.
Wish there was a way to specify this keyboard as the portrait default, and Phraze-It as the landscape one (or something like that).
..or mebbe a way to make the keys smaller for landscape so it would take less space (will write to the guy about some skin/sizing options).
In other news, I still have a long delay (10-15 secs) if I try to change sips.
Also, if I try to change from 1 3rd party SIP to another, the new one is always a standard keyboard, and I have to use "SIPChange" to set a new default - then just that one works until i change it again - gotta do research on that problem..

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I can't find this fingetouch skin, any help???

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that is teksoft black for the athena
if you have our rom only then you will have that skin

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boinger66 said:
that is teksoft black for the athena
if you have our rom only then you will have that skin
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Can u extract it for me? Is there a separate CAB for it? I don't have that ROM, and I don't think it's compatible with my device.
Many thanks.