[Q] Keyboard occupying entire screen after update to eclair - XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So before I upgraded to 2.1 i had a larger amount of keyboard options which have essentially vanished.
I had it set up so when i would type in things the keyboard would only cover half of the screen witch allowed me to see the text being entered into the field. now the keyboard covers the whole screen and i don't like that.
Is my only option to revert back to 1.6? or is there an x10 2.1 generic firmware which would allow me to keep the orignal slide lock too as i don't like the blue one that moves horizontally.
thanks for the help.

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Came across this registry hack that allows you to undock your SIP works on all screens not sure if anyone would use it but pretty neat all the same
Of course I take no responsobility for what you do to your phone so edit your registry with this warning. BE CAREFUL BACK IT UP
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\SIP and change the value of Dragstyle from 0 to 1. This can work on Keyboard, Transcriber, Block Recognizer, Letter Recognizer, etc.
On my Touch Pro it ads a black bar above the keyboard onscreen not sure why everything else works as it should T9 etc
Change back to 0 if you want to go to default behavior. Also you need a soft reset to get this to work
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[Q] Can the Phone icon on the dock always open Keypad?

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[Q] Shostock keyboard

I installed v1.8 of Shostock3 this morning -- did a full,wipe coming from v1.7. All seemed to be fine until I got a text. When I tapped to type, a new keyboard popped up -- one that I don't recognize. It's kind of a floating keyboard with a tab at the top that allows you to move it around. Unfortunately, the keyboard takes up a lot of screen real estate so it usually covers the input box so you can't see what you're typing. Also, the sym/123 keyboard is really different -- it doesnt show the numbers at all and has really big keys with symbols on them. Can anyone tell me what I have done to get this new keyboard? Is it an upgrade in 1.8? Is there anyway to go back to the one I had in 1.7? I have searched -- seems I'm the only lucky one with this keyboard? Any help would be appreciated.
hsc123 said:
I installed v1.8 of Shostock3 this morning -- did a full,wipe coming from v1.7. All seemed to be fine until I got a text. When I tapped to type, a new keyboard popped up -- one that I don't recognize. It's kind of a floating keyboard with a tab at the top that allows you to move it around. Unfortunately, the keyboard takes up a lot of screen real estate so it usually covers the input box so you can't see what you're typing. Also, the sym/123 keyboard is really different -- it doesnt show the numbers at all and has really big keys with symbols on them. Can anyone tell me what I have done to get this new keyboard? Is it an upgrade in 1.8? Is there anyway to go back to the one I had in 1.7? I have searched -- seems I'm the only lucky one with this keyboard? Any help would be appreciated.
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No problems here with 1.8 keyboard. Long press settings button on the keyboard and u will see an option to "dock" it
brandonarev said:
No problems here with 1.8 keyboard. Long press settings button on the keyboard and u will see an option to "dock" it
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That's what I needed -- thanks!

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Hi, is there a way to move the screens around without having to move all the icons one by one? It seems when you add the screen it puts it at the end and it is a pain in the neck to insert it somewhere in the middle. My phone is not rooted and I don't want to use a different launcher.
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