I sent SMS which was something like three SMSs chained together in Finnish language (Scandic letters äö etc.) to my girlfriend, and she said that only the first sentence was clear text, the rest was squares. Her phone is some old Sony Ericsson non-smartphone.
I told her to send the message back to me, and weird enough, first sentence is nearly as I wrote it, the "" smiley at the end of the sentence was two squares. After the squares, there's a few Chinese or Japanese Kanji characters and then again square or two, then again Kanji characters until end of the message chain.
Anybody seen this kind of problem? I think this should be reported to HTC if not already, I just don't know if this problem can be reproduced otherwise than sending similar awfully cute message to someone
sounds like some weird issue with the character sets being used (UTF-8 or Unicode etc.)
Don't know of any way to check what is being used on android....
disssko said:
Her phone is some old Sony Ericsson non-smartphone.
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I would suggest that your first port of call would be to try to send similar messages to friends who are using more up to date devices. It is possible that it is the SE that is failing to interpret the message correctly, rather than an issue with the Hero per se.
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Dave
Yes I have, and now that you mentioned it I double checked. I'm quite sure the problem is caused by having a letter with the tilde on top in the message instead of the proper åäö. This happens very easily, since the tilde versions are right next to correct ones on the popup lists of the touch keyboard and the difference on the fonts after typing is barely noticeable.
What I don't know is if those a the only problematic symbols and wheather the character encoding is screwed up on android, by the operator (elisa) or at the receiver phone (s40 I think). I just hope the next version of the HTC rom has Finnish language support so that it would be easier to type and avoid this.
For now, simply spell check you texting carefully before hitting send. Especially when sending to gf
whyj said:
Yes I have, and now that you mentioned it I double checked. I'm quite sure the problem is caused by having a letter with the tilde on top in the message instead of the proper åäö. This happens very easily, since the tilde versions are right next to correct ones on the popup lists of the touch keyboard and the difference on the fonts after typing is barely noticeable.
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Actually what I didn't mention was that there was one "õ" character in the first sentence just for the reason you mentioned. I'm constantly hitting those still after three weeks using Hero. It may indeed be the reason for this "Chinese" translator" feature!
Thanks for suggesting this, I'm also hoping that if the äö characters are not visible on the main keyboard view, they should at least be more accessible in the future for us Finns
Hello,
Same problem for me. This is a known issue with Android OS, there is many complaisn from all contries in Europe using any special characters like 'ê' in french. More information here:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2719
Lucas
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I'm curious as to how many people are using the Teksoft Fingertouch keyboard donated by Teksoft to the Athena Project. I've since abandoned by hardware keyboard and use Fingertouch only.
Anyone else using this only or using something else?
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I'm curious as to how many people are using the Teksoft Fingertouch keyboard donated by Teksoft to the Athena Project. I've since abandoned by hardware keyboard and use Fingertouch only.
Anyone else using this only or using something else?
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hehe im also a dump the hardware for fingertouch person.
The thing I hate about the onscreen keyboard is that whenever you tap the screen to enter data,
it automatically pops up. 95% of the time I use the hardware Keyboard, and if I'm filling at a large
form with many fields, the darn KB app pops up every frick'n time and I have to close it to continue.
Is there a hack/mod, that turns off this auto pop-up setting? Its really
getting on my nerves.
Madhadder said:
The thing I hate about the onscreen keyboard is that whenever you tap the screen to enter data,
it automatically pops up. 95% of the time I use the hardware Keyboard, and if I'm filling at a large
form with many fields, the darn KB app pops up every frick'n time and I have to close it to continue.
Is there a hack/mod, that turns off this auto pop-up setting? Its really
getting on my nerves.
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get a null SIP (SIP = onscreen keyb)
http://phm.lu has one, though i didn't try it on wm6
Hi, i removed the HW-keyboard too.
The Fingertouch-Soft-KB looks great but it's a little too big.
It lets only 1/5 of the screen show if selected pad 5.
If selected pad 1 still only 1/3 of the screen shown.
This isn't much. Is it somehow possible to make the keyboard smaller?
Now i use the standard Keyboard with big keys and gestures and this is still a little too small for fingertouching, but now i see what i'm typing.
Any app which has size between Fingertouch and standard keyboard i think will be better.
PAPPL said:
Hi, i removed the HW-keyboard too.
The Fingertouch-Soft-KB looks great but it's a little too big.
It lets only 1/5 of the screen show if selected pad 5.
If selected pad 1 still only 1/3 of the screen shown.
This isn't much. Is it somehow possible to make the keyboard smaller?
Now i use the standard Keyboard with big keys and gestures and this is still a little too small for fingertouching, but now i see what i'm typing.
Any app which has size between Fingertouch and standard keyboard i think will be better.
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Fingertouch can be skinned. I never did it as one of the guys at Fingertouch took care of this for us. If you visit their forum I'm sure they can help out or maybe there are instructions...hell they may even do it for you if you tell them you're using their product on your Athena. They donated, for free, their full version keyboard to help out. These guys are great. Their forum is also very helpful and they respond quickly based on my experience. I'm sure Fingertouch can be skinned/modified to be exactly what you want.
http://teksoftco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3656#3656
Thanks, i didn't know FT-KB isn't freeware.
Great to have it inside the ROM.
I use it in combination with the hardware keyboard. I tend to find the HW keyboard easier to use when 'stationary' i.e. sat at my desk. But when oot and aboot, its easier to use the fingertouch.
I did alter the registry so that it uses keyboard '1' rather than '5' as its easier to use. Just a shame there's no £ key and the \ key isn't a shift key on board 1.
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I use it in combination with the hardware keyboard. I tend to find the HW keyboard easier to use when 'stationary' i.e. sat at my desk. But when oot and aboot, its easier to use the fingertouch.
I did alter the registry so that it uses keyboard '1' rather than '5' as its easier to use. Just a shame there's no £ key and the \ key isn't a shift key on board 1.
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Yea I use the regular mode. FYI, you can set this in the options for the product, no need for the registry hack. ;-p
I use it alot but the lack of £ sign is driving me nuts ! that is when I resort to the HW keyboard as it is quicker than switching to the WM soft keyboard
ice_coffee said:
I use it alot but the lack of £ sign is driving me nuts ! that is when I resort to the HW keyboard as it is quicker than switching to the WM soft keyboard
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I think that can be customized within the template. Check out their forum, I'm sure there is a solution.
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I think that can be customized within the template. Check out their forum, I'm sure there is a solution.
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thanks, I will check it out.
I hardly use my HW keyboard now these days. It is a lot easier with FT but I do agree with some of the comments where sometime you can't see what you are typing. However, I have learned to live with it.
Thanks everyone and keep it coming. This type of feedback is useful for future ROMs.
lpsi2000 said:
I hardly use my HW keyboard now these days. It is a lot easier with FT but I do agree with some of the comments where sometime you can't see what you are typing. However, I have learned to live with it.
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ditto for me on issue of not being able to see what I an typing. I an just not that good of a typist!
graybip said:
ditto for me on issue of not being able to see what I an typing. I an just not that good of a typist!
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I'm hoping they resolve this issue as well. I've learned to work around this limitation but it does get annoying sometimes when I'm in a hurry.
Teksoft Appears Out Of Business? Try Yourself.
ltxda said:
I'm hoping they resolve this issue as well. I've learned to work around this limitation but it does get annoying sometimes when I'm in a hurry.
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I don't know if any of you are aware and it literally happened overnight but TEKSOfT APPEARS OUT OF BUSINESS and they were in business last Friday. How do I know this? SAT, SUN, AND MONDAY their website was compleltely down and yesterday and today, do the search yourself or type in their exact url you will get immediately redirected to a weird website and then click on TEKSOFT on the top right corner and it will say no results found. I hope I am wrong here but have tried directly from my device the Polaris to purchase from their online shop and it goes directly to some unknown website. kevin
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I don't know if any of you are aware and it literally happened overnight but TEKSOfT APPEARS OUT OF BUSINESS and they were in business last Friday. How do I know this? SAT, SUN, AND MONDAY their website was compleltely down and yesterday and today, do the search yourself or type in their exact url you will get immediately redirected to a weird website and then click on TEKSOFT on the top right corner and it will say no results found. I hope I am wrong here but have tried directly from my device the Polaris to purchase from their online shop and it goes directly to some unknown website. kevin
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Looks like maybe someone forgot to register the domain as it expired and maybe someone else snatched it up. The WHOIS expiration shows 01/10/2008, unless i'm reading the date below wrong. Unless they did go out of business and just let the domain expire.
Some of the WHOIS info
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Domain Name: teksoftco.com
Registrar: AAAQ.COM
Whois Server: whois.aaaq.com
Referral URL: http://www.aaaq.com
Name Server: ns.nozonenet.com
Name Server: ns2.nozonenet.com
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 2007-02-05
Creation Date: 2006-01-10
Expiration Date: 2008-01-10
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Much as I don't own an Athena anymore, the Fingertouch keyboard made a great difference and I never used the hardware keyboard. For an alternative I used a bluetooth keyboard. Without Fingertouch and the black ROM in general I would've got rid of my Athena much sooner.
I enjoy my hardware bluetooth keyboard a lot, as I work with translations and need to type out big bodies of text. As my fingers are accustomed to hardware keyboards I guess I am the conservative old goat who says "software keyboard?!?!?!"
I just updated my HD2 with official ROM (Asia WWE). However, I see some changes in keyboard. Earlier, after entering single letter 'i', it would get converted in upper case 'I' even if written in mid sentence. Its very convenient since you don't have to explicitly capitalize it. Now, after upgrade, it remains 'i'. Any workaround for this?
Also, when I would type wrong spelling it used to get corrected as I typed. But now, it is corrected after I press space or full stop. This is okay, however, I would like if it to work like old keyboard.
Thanks in advance.
Lets say I'm typing something and the last word is "end." If I hit enter to start a new line but then decide I want to add something to the previous sentence I would move the cursor back to the last word "end" and hit space... instead of inserting a space, it will insert the same word again "end"
So it looks like this "endend"
Anyone else have this problem
yeah i get that as well.
Yeah. Same here. It is annoying.
HTC Flyer / Tapatalk
I sent an email to the dev and explained the problem. He said he'd look into it. Do u think its fair to ask for a refund since it doesnt even work properly for us?
I'm having the same problem with Thumb Keyboard, I also installed Swiftkey X for Tablets and it has the same issue. Did anyone find anything out on this?
are you guys talking about in the notes app. because I get the same thing but only in the notes app. for example I typed this using thumbkeyboard and tried to replicate the issue and didn't have the problem. but when I typed this in notes I did have the problem.
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are you guys talking about in the notes app. because I get the same thing but only in the notes app. for example I typed this using thumbkeyboard and tried to replicate the issue and didn't have the problem. but when I typed this in notes I did have the problem.
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I too am only having an issue with the notes app. When I tested in gmail, the browser(in a contact text field), in evernote and all worked fine.
I can confirm the issue happens with swiftkey x
I also tested it with smart Keyboard pro and I didnt experience this issue.
Man, there is nothing more annoying than seeing the question you are thinking of, pop up almost word for word on google....then seeing that the only responses are "I am having the same problem!" Come on, so NO one knows how to fix when you are typing, and (for example) want to add a letter to the middle of a word, like you want to add a "E" to death, and the cursor automatically goes to the end of the word instead of actaully putting the letter where you want it.
Does ANYONE have a clue what settings the Tumbkeyboard needs set to in order o not have the cursor jump to the end of a word?
I gave up on thumb keyboard... really made typing difficult with the double words. Kii keyboard is where it's at now.
i'm the same issue
That's strange : I don't have this issue with mine (SwiftKey X tab last version) !
Anyone know how to get Voice Search to work like it's supposed to, to compose e-mails or texts? To elaborate, all instructions I have found, including the video, instruct you to say the following syntax (with the text in brackets being the recipient and your message):
"Send text to [John Smith] [I may be a little late.]"
Problem is that their name never goes into the "To" field, and instead goes into the Message Body field, so I get this:
To:
Message: to John Smith I maybe a little late
Whenever I click into the To: field, select the microphone icon, and speak a person's name, I get the "No Matches Found" error, no matter what name I say. This renders the app completely useless for sending texts and emails. Am I missing something?
I find similar issues but found a method that works for me when I use the built in Voice Search app. I would say "Text - John Smith" and nothing else. You should find the name has been entered into the "To" field. Now hit the Mic icon again and dictate your message, this seems the only way I got it to work, by doing it in two steps. Works the same on email as well.
hmm if i say send text to <person> <text>
it says:
to: <Person> <number>
message: <text>
Seems to be fine for me... CleanRom DE 1.4...
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I find similar issues but found a method that works for me when I use the built in Voice Search app. I would say "Text - John Smith" and nothing else. You should find the name has been entered into the "To" field. Now hit the Mic icon again and dictate your message, this seems the only way I got it to work, by doing it in two steps. Works the same on email as well.
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When I saw your post, I was excited, only to be sorely disappointed that I still get the name on the message field. GRRRR!
AshtonTS said:
hmm if i say send text to <person> <text>
it says:
to: <Person> <number>
message: <text>
Seems to be fine for me... CleanRom DE 1.4...
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Wait, what? It works fine for you? Using your same syntax, here's what I get:
If i say send text to <person> <text>
it says:
to:
message: To <Person> <text>
How do we compare what versions we have?
Just try to be more careful in your speaking, and leave a pause between the name of the person and the body of the message.
Also also also
Huge huge huge tip
Enable the "Personalized Recognition". It will go a LONG way to vastly improving the capabilities of Google's STT. I don't have the clearest voice, and there were some problems I had with STT in general. Once I turned that on, it's gotten much better.
Directly related to your example, I was trying to send a text to my friend Aaron. I think at first it got confused because I literally said 3 names for my text: " Send text to Aaron [pause] Oscar Mike "
At first it put Erin, and had Oscar as a last name. What's awesome is that when it shows those red underlines with an option to delete, I'm pretty sure it learns when you've chosen to delete something. I tried it two more times (2nd time it messed something else up) and on the 3rd try the result was perfect. Now, whenever I send him a text by voice, it always works.
My problem is not with the clarity of my speech, because it actually does recognize what I say quite well. The problem is that it NEVER puts the name in the To: field, even if I don't even say the message part. It ALWAYS puts whatever I say, regardless of what I say, or how I say it, into the Message field. When I click into the To: field and speak a contact's name, 99% of the time it comes back and says No Matches Found.
By comparison, when I choose the standard Messages app, and click in the To: field, it typically finds the right person. But, it sure would be nice if the Voice Seach Message function worked.
When I do Map To and Navigate To and all the other stuff in Voice Search it works just fine. I'm beginning to think there's a bug in the Message part of the version I have. Why else would it skip the To: field altogether? To clarify:
If I say "Send text to John Smith", I get:
To:
Message: To John Smith
If I say the message, too, I get:
To:
Message: To John Smith [message]
are you on GB or ICS?
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My problem is not with the clarity of my speech, because it actually does recognize what I say quite well. The problem is that it NEVER puts the name in the To: field, even if I don't even say the message part. It ALWAYS puts whatever I say, regardless of what I say, or how I say it, into the Message field. When I click into the To: field and speak a contact's name, 99% of the time it comes back and says No Matches Found.
By comparison, when I choose the standard Messages app, and click in the To: field, it typically finds the right person. But, it sure would be nice if the Voice Seach Message function worked.
When I do Map To and Navigate To and all the other stuff in Voice Search it works just fine. I'm beginning to think there's a bug in the Message part of the version I have. Why else would it skip the To: field altogether? To clarify:
If I say "Send text to John Smith", I get:
To:
Message: To John Smith
If I say the message, too, I get:
To:
Message: To John Smith [message]
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Yeah, that's odd. If all else fails, make a nandroid backup, fresh wipe/install, and try it again (after turning on personalized results) and see if you still get the same problems. Because I don't really have that issue anymore.
New replacement Rezound unit arrived today to replace the original Rezound for potential hardware issues. Before allowing the unit to update any apps (the other one did update Voice Search), I tried it and got the same results. As far as I can see, Voice Search, on my phone(s) anyways, does not know that the To: field exists! :crying:
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are you on GB or ICS?
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Must've missed this post.
I am on GB.
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What's awesome is that when it shows those red underlines with an option to delete, I'm pretty sure it learns when you've chosen to delete something.
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That's interesting... my version does not underline anything in red. It bolds stuff in blue! That sure sounds like a completely different app, doesn't it?
BTW, what kind of drum kit do you have?
xv-6800 said:
That's interesting... my version does not underline anything in red. It bolds stuff in blue! That sure sounds like a completely different app, doesn't it?
BTW, what kind of drum kit do you have?
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I am on ICS so that might have something to do with it. I think you're using an older version of voice search...maybe. Maybe that's the problem? Maybe you can sideload the most current Voice Search APK.
I have some cheap crappy drumset that was on sale over 10 years ago. 3 toms with one kick drum (or I guess floor tom is what they're officially called). I've never changed the heads and I still don't exactly understand the methodology of tuning them LOL. Like, I know how to physically do it, but I'm wondering if there's some deeper understanding I have to discover. I did add a DW7000 double kick pedal but I've moved numerous times and lost bits of the hardware. Also added a crash cymbal because it only came with a hi hat and crash/ride combo. I don't even have a throne, I just sit on whatever I can get! :laugh:
A guy I used to live with had a sweet set that he inherited from his cousin. It had so many pieces it needed one of those frame things. I think it had 4 or 5 toms in addition to the kick (with double pedals), and about 5 or 6 cymbals and two cowbells. It was too cramped for me to really make use of the double pedals though. Oh, and it had a mat thing for everything to be placed on. I played the **** out of those things while he played guitar. It was pretty awesome \m/
You?
voice search to text
I'm having the same problem since I updated to ICS .211 . Worked fine and as advertised on GB and Froyo but speaking "send" or "text to Joe" results in "to Joe" being inserted in the message field and nothing in the to field. I've used this many times in the past and have tried every combination I can think of to get it to work. It just doesn't. Also, I no longer have a microphone to click on in the message field to initiate voice to text dictation. ICS seems fine other than this. I should mention that I found this thread because of the problem, not the phone. I'm using a Droid Razr.
xv-6800 said:
"Send text to [John Smith] [I may be a little late.]"
Problem is that their name never goes into the "To" field, and instead goes into the Message Body field, so I get this:
To:
Message: to John Smith I maybe a little late
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I have same problem on HTC One XL stock ICS
Finally, someone else with the same problem. Misery loves company.
As has been the case since getting this Android phone, this is yet another buggy stock utility I've given up hope on getting resolved.
Now, I just say:
Send text [message], which puts the message in the message field. I then click in the To: field, click on the microphone and say just the first name, then scroll to find the proper person (because if I say the full name it always gives a no matches found error).
With so many steps, in the end, the utility is worthless for sending text and email messages. Using the microphone in the regular Message app is faster.
I just changed from an iPhone 5 to HTC ONE and I'm so frustrated at this issue. In iPhone, after sending a text message the keyboard stays on the screen in case you want to type something right after what you sent previously. In HTC One however, If I type "Hello" and press send, the keyboard will hide in bottom before I can type "How are you?" in the following separate text message. It's pretty frustrating to keep clicking the white part to bring back the keyboard up to send a follow up text. I've tried all kinds of things but just can not seem to find a solution to this problem. Any help will be appreciated. BTW it's running stock at&t software and nothing has been modified.
That's the way it's supposed to be there's no fix because nothing is broken
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 4
That's how a normal phone works. Why would you send multiple messages in a row?
Here is how a normal person sends a text:
Hi, how are you? Wanna meet at taco bell for lunch?
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Amazing
*s¡gned
I hate people like you. Text 1 Hello. 2. How are you? 3. Whats going on tonight?.
If your going to have a conversation with the person then call them if not then just get straight to the point. I think the fix is knowing when you make a phone call vs text.
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I just changed from an iPhone 5 to HTC ONE and I'm so frustrated at this issue. In iPhone, after sending a text message the keyboard stays on the screen in case you want to type something right after what you sent previously. In HTC One however, If I type "Hello" and press send, the keyboard will hide in bottom before I can type "How are you?" in the following separate text message. It's pretty frustrating to keep clicking the white part to bring back the keyboard up to send a follow up text. I've tried all kinds of things but just can not seem to find a solution to this problem. Any help will be appreciated. BTW it's running stock at&t software and nothing has been modified.
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as noted, this isn't a 'problem' with the phone. it's working properly. i almost dont want to dignify your questionw itha response due to, as others noted, your apparent penchant for sending a series of short texts taht could easily jsut be one message. part of the problem is you. that said, I will provide a response because i use an app that deservesplugging and is truly a spectacular addition to the phone. Get yourself the Chomp SMS app from the app store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.p1.chompsms and at chompsms.com). It's tremendous for about 1000 different reasons, one of which is that is allows you to control when the keyboard auto-hides.
to your credit, years ago when i switched to Android from iPhone i did find this setting odd. however, i got used to it and actually much prefer it now. i'd probably dropkick myself in teh face if i had to deal with the keyboard staying up and that tiny little screen on the iPhone again...you can only see about 2 messages! that was horrifically frustrating.
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lunaticX said:
I just changed from an iPhone 5 to HTC ONE and I'm so frustrated at this issue. In iPhone, after sending a text message the keyboard stays on the screen in case you want to type something right after what you sent previously. In HTC One however, If I type "Hello" and press send, the keyboard will hide in bottom before I can type "How are you?" in the following separate text message. It's pretty frustrating to keep clicking the white part to bring back the keyboard up to send a follow up text. I've tried all kinds of things but just can not seem to find a solution to this problem. Any help will be appreciated. BTW it's running stock at&t software and nothing has been modified.
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also, it really sucks that this is your first post in XDA. i know we're long past the days where these forums were saved for the dedicated developer and hardcore enthusiast, but this is just a sad introduction ot use on XDA. it's crap like this that's turning these forums into the new android/droid forums...do a little reasearch before posting, okay? maybe even read the rules of the forums?