is there a way of modifying the keyboard layout to include arrow keys in it...
I miss arrow keys and ctrl key a lot.
please suggest ...
move over to swype.. you get arrow keys on there.
This is the one and only feature im missing from SE's 1.6 ROM, the arrows on the keyboard lol.
Why did they have to go and remove those
because now they have the scroll above the keyboard and you can move the sentence instead of moving the scroll!!!
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move over to swype.. you get arrow keys on there.
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where are the arrow keys in swype ?
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i'm using htc ime by jonasl... (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=624416) there you can assign your volume keys to move the cursor and much much more.. i find it very comfortable
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where are the arrow keys in swype ?
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It's been awhile since I've used it but, if I remember correctly, you need to swipe from the swipe key to Sym key.
That works
however not the most elegant of solutions.
i found one more solution Thumb keyboard.
that also looks good.
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It's been awhile since I've used it but, if I remember correctly, you need to swipe from the swipe key to Sym key.
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ARROW KEYS!!! in swype!!!!
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/07/02/tip-how-to-get-arrowcursor-keys-on-the-swype-keyboard/
TRusselo said:
ARROW KEYS!!! in swype!!!!
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/07/02/tip-how-to-get-arrowcursor-keys-on-the-swype-keyboard/
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I found a free solution i.e. full keyboard layout is good a lot of key combination which is generally required however it misses the autocorrection of standard keyboard.
can anyone suggest how to get the best of both.
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Hey guys,
I'm wondering, when I make a typo on my X10, how do I fine-select the text? I can tap, but it usually places the cursor at the wrong place and since we don't have a trackball: how do we fine-select (as in move the cursor 1 place to the left or right).
I tried the volume keys, but it doesn't work.. is it even possible?
Thanks in advance!
same issue
i have the same issue. i can get it prty close within a few charioteers ill just erase up to the point and re type ><
depends on the keyboard ur using i suppose. i use the standard android keyboard b/c it has the left and right arrows in the corner making it easier to tap on the line of txt that needs editing and then moving the cursor to the correct position ...
that's weird im using the default keyboard and i have no such arrows
The other option is that you can tap and hold your finger to drag the cursor left or right along the text. With a little practice, you can make this work very efficiently.
cobra1122 said:
that's weird im using the default keyboard and i have no such arrows
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Try the app ' smart keyboard pro'
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If you have the htc ime keyboard, you can go into its settings and set the cursor to be moved by the volume keys. I did this and its very helpful.
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The other option is that you can tap and hold your finger to drag the cursor left or right along the text. With a little practice, you can make this work very efficiently.
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Thats odd, i cannot do that at all...
if using swype you can just drag the swype key onto the SYM key to bring up editing mode (they are both on the bottom left of the keyboard)
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if using swype you can just drag the swype key onto the SYM key to bring up editing mode (they are both on the bottom left of the keyboard)
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Thanks for the great tip.
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if using swype you can just drag the swype key onto the SYM key to bring up editing mode (they are both on the bottom left of the keyboard)
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OMFG - I've been using swype for ages and I did not know this.... it's damned brilliant.. thanks!
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OMFG - I've been using swype for ages and I did not know this.... it's damned brilliant.. thanks!
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same here.. very good tip!! thanx!!
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If you have the htc ime keyboard, you can go into its settings and set the cursor to be moved by the volume keys. I did this and its very helpful.
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+1
The best keyboard so far! So many options...
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If you have the htc ime keyboard, you can go into its settings and set the cursor to be moved by the volume keys. I did this and its very helpful.
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I am obviously being particularly dim tonight cos I can't find this. Where is it!?!?!
To use volume keys to move your cursor with the htc keyboard do the following....
Settings > Locale & Text > HTC_IME settings > User Interface > Volume Keys and select "Move Cursor"
OMGosh I knew it would be so simple. Thank you, I thought I'd opened everything and looked. Oh well it had been a long day! And its sooo cool too. Cheers.
Are there any keyboards available with arrow keys ?
When editing files, it can be difficult to press at exactly the right point in the file to put the cursor.
Thanks !
Thumb Keyboard offers arrow keys.
In my opinion, it's THE best onscreen keyboard for the Nook anyway.
ADude said:
Are there any keyboards available with arrow keys ?
When editing files, it can be difficult to press at exactly the right point in the file to put the cursor.
Thanks !
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Thumb Keyboard has arrow keys.
Swiftkey has arrow keys too.
Arbelzapf said:
Thumb Keyboard offers arrow keys.
In my opinion, it's THE best onscreen keyboard for the Nook anyway.
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What he said
I like Smart Keyboard. It has a free trial/nag version. Don't forget to install the dictionary for it too.
I've got ultra keyboard and love it. Its got arrow keys, copy paste keys and much more. I highly recommend it
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Keyboards seem to be like olives in terms of the superlatives of their names:
- Better
- Ultra
- Smart
- Swift
the only one bucking the trend is:
- Thumb
khaytsus said:
Swiftkey has arrow keys too.
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Ironically, to the best of my knowledge, the tablet version does not., except when not in split mode. My vote goes to thumb keyboard.
SlideIT Keyboard has arrow keys.
Swype (my personal favorite) has arrow keys... just swype from the Swype button to the Sym button and the editing keyboard with arrows, cut, paste, etc. comes up.
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Swype (my personal favorite) has arrow keys... just swype from the Swype button to the Sym button and the editing keyboard with arrows, cut, paste, etc. comes up.
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I Agree, swype is the best.
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Swype (my personal favorite) has arrow keys... just swype from the Swype button to the Sym button and the editing keyboard with arrows, cut, paste, etc. comes up.
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OMG, I have been so frustrated with Swype on the NC because I missed Ultra Keyboard's arrow keys. I had no idea that editing keyboard was there!
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I didn't find it in mine. But I just bought Thumb and it's way better in landscape mode. The thumb thing is natural for holding the Nook. Maybe I'll use Slideit in portrait. By the way Thumbs is less than half the price.
Since nobody mentioned it yet, the Notion Ink keyboard (Available through this section) has a very traditional desktop keyboard layout, including arrow keys where you would expect them.
It's one of the, if not THE, best free keyboard available. And quite frankly, I think it beats Thumb Keyboard as well.
This isn't a too much of a big deal, but curiosity kills me. Since the SGS 2 looks like it lacks a dedicated search button, I wonder if it has a substitute?
What I appreciated on my Nexus One is the search button which is excellent to Google something on the fly and to activate Voice Search. So I'm just wondering if the SGS 2 will have something to generate a quick search or if the U.S. variants will have search buttons?
like the first galaxy S i9000 , you will be able to long press the menu button to simulate the search button
And for the voice search double pressing the home button will do the trick as seen on the vids floating the web
Search seems like the biggest waste of.a button ever. Never missed it on the i9000 at all.
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like the first galaxy S i9000 , you will be able to long press the menu button to simulate the search button
And for the voice search double pressing the home button will do the trick as seen on the vids floating the web
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I never used my search-button as it is now, but if the menu-button long-press is assigned to search, how do you switch on and off the on-screen keyboard?
On other android-devices a long-press of the menu-button will activate/deactivate the on-screen keyboard.
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I never used my search-button as it is now, but if the menu-button long-press is assigned to search, how do you switch on and off the on-screen keyboard?
On other android-devices a long-press of the menu-button will activate/deactivate the on-screen keyboard.
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I have a Hero, never ever have I had to long press the menu button to get the keyboard up/down. It comes up when it's needed, it disappears with a press of the "hide keyboard" button or the back button!
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I have a Hero, never ever have I had to long press the menu button to get the keyboard up/down. It comes up when it's needed, it disappears with a press of the "hide keyboard" button or the back button!
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The hide keyboard button is only on HTCs Sense keyboard no? It's certainly not there on the stock android keyboard.
I've had instances where the keyboard blocked part of the screen and if I had pressed the back button the program would've closed/gone to a previous screen and I wouldn't have been able to do what I wanted without pulling down the keyboard with a long press of the menu-button.
It might not be a big problem or something that occurs often, but it can be annoying and that's why I ask.
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I never used my search-button as it is now, but if the menu-button long-press is assigned to search, how do you switch on and off the on-screen keyboard?
On other android-devices a long-press of the menu-button will activate/deactivate the on-screen keyboard.
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You just hit the "Back" button to hide the keyboard
As he just explained, in certain programs (very few) pressing the "back" button to switch off the on-screen keyboard can quit the progrmam you are actually using. But samsung made a very neat trick for that since the first version of the Galaxy S i9000, just swipe down from the upper part of the keyboard to the bottom and the keyboard will disappear, no need for a specific button. I find it very intuitive personnaly, and in the same situation you can also swipe left or right in the keyboard area to switch from letters to numbers view back and forth.
That is an excellent feature. Do any other phones do this?
I don t know any other phone that do so natively, but there is some third party keyboards that copied that (just like CyanogenMod and everyone else copied the wifi, bluetooth etc toggles in the notification bar) "smart keyboard" or "better keyboard" I think.
Meh, I love the design but I love my search button; using Vlingo, I can hold the button and tell my phone to do whatever I want, much better than tgr default Google voice command app.
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That's no big deal, you can easily fix it with a third party app.
And btw it's a matter of time for Android 2.4 Ice cream to come.. and there are rumors that it won't need buttons at all...
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That's no big deal, you can easily fix it with a third party app.
And btw it's a matter of time for Android 2.4 Ice cream to come.. and there are rumors that it won't need buttons at all...
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Doubtful... Why would I want screen real estate taken up with buttons? It works on a tablet, It would be nonsensical on a phone.
samsung hasn't actually officially confirmed if there will be a 2.4 update...
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I don t know any other phone that do so natively, but there is some third party keyboards that copied that (just like CyanogenMod and everyone else copied the wifi, bluetooth etc toggles in the notification bar) "smart keyboard" or "better keyboard" I think.
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They haven't confirmed that the SGS will get Gingerbread either yet I'm running XXJVK which is Android 2.3.3.
Since Android 4.0, Google has declared war on the menu button and all devices come out with Recents - Home - Back buttons.
Samsung for some reason decided to move forward with the menu button.
Would it be easy to remap the left capacitive button and make it show the recents instead of the menu action?
Does it really bother you that much to keep the hardware-button pressed down for like 1 second to display the 'Recent' list?
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Does it really bother you that much to keep the hardware-button pressed down for like 1 second to display the 'Recent' list?
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It bothers me, that much
It bother me that much as well - it's just slow.
I think I'd prefer the mod to be double-click home button though, since I rarely use S Voice and it's no hassle to find and click the icon for it whenever I want to use it.
This bothers me too
Would be nice to have it on the menu button. Even an app/shortcut on the homescreen for it would be nice.
I wonder also if there is a way to limit the recent lists as well, if I don't check it sometimes the list can be massive - would be nice to limit this to like 5 items or something.
Olywa
Anyone who used the CM10 on screen nav buttons, knows how much better it is to have the recents key available on a beast like the sgs3.
I wish we could change it but I am afraid this will never be possible on a samsung rom
jastonas said:
Anyone who used the CM10 on screen nav buttons, knows how much better it is to have the recents key available on a beast like the sgs3.
I wish we could change it but I am afraid this will never be possible on a samsung rom
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open up Generic.kl in /system/usr/keylayout
change
key 139 MENU
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key 139 APP_SWITCH
that should work
graffixnyc said:
open up Generic.kl in /system/usr/keylayout
change
key 139 MENU
to
key 139 APP_SWITCH
that should work
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That's half working. It does work as APP_SWITCH but Android doesn't recognize the lack of the MENU button so it's doesn't show the settings buttons that are needed in most applications.
cm10 has implemented the button remap feature. now you can easily change the menu button long press to recent apps in cm10
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That's half working. It does work as APP_SWITCH but Android doesn't recognize the lack of the MENU button so it's doesn't show the settings buttons that are needed in most applications.
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Yeah, how do we let android recognize lack of menu button?
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wednesday13 said:
Yeah, how do we let android recognize lack of menu button?
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If you disable the hardware buttons, it just does.
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If you disable the hardware buttons, it just does.
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Damn, I guess I have to sacrifice without menu button
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I'm wondering if it's possible to remap the capacitive Search button to open up the ICS Recent Apps menu instead, exactly like described in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21501238
I'm on stock OTA 4.0.4 rooted, but I'm not sure if a custom rom has this functionality or I have to try to make it myself (no idea how!). There seem to be mods but are for other devices.
Currently if I modify the cy8c201xx.kl in /keylayout (i.e. change SEARCH to APP_SWITCH) it just opens up the old gingerbread app switcher.
Hmm.. This shouldn't be too hard to do.. I'll have a few friends of mine take a look into it with me, and come back with what I find They're long-time Android Hackers
EDIT: Talking with my friends, will be working on trying to get this to work Can't promise anything, but I'll sure try to get it working! lol.. It would be something that I want too
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Hmm.. This shouldn't be too hard to do.. I'll have a few friends of mine take a look into it with me, and come back with what I find They're long-time Android Hackers
EDIT: Talking with my friends, will be working on trying to get this to work Can't promise anything, but I'll sure try to get it working! lol.. It would be something that I want too
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That would be absolutely fantastic and much appreciated, thanks! :good:
Talked to one of my friends, he said it shouldn't be hard, but he didn't know exactly how to do it. Going to bed now, will look more into it tomorrow
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Any breakthrough ?
It's the last missing thing on this phone !
ulybu said:
Any breakthrough ?
It's the last missing thing on this phone !
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Try Long press home button
whirleyes said:
Try Long press home button
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Yeah sure, but we're trying to get it from the search key we never use..
I also get the GB recent app screen
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ulybu said:
Yeah sure, but we're trying to get it from the search key we never use..
I also get the GB recent app screen
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Hi, I found this on another Droid Forum:
You just need to edit the corresponding key mapping file in /system/usr/keylayout/ to make the changes you want. On my Razr Maxx the file that controls the 4 capacitive buttons is named cy8c201xx.kl. To swap the key functions you just change the word next to the key number: i.e. replace SEARCH with MENU and vice versa. Make sure to backup your original just in case.
You can set it to any function that is defined (POWER, AUTO_ROTATION, VOLUME_UP, etc.) you just need to know the proper name. I have read that recent apps may be APP_SWITCH but I have not tested it myself. I do not know how to create a new function if it is not already defined.
Hope it helps.
prabbie said:
Hi, I found this on another Droid Forum:
You just need to edit the corresponding key mapping file in /system/usr/keylayout/ to make the changes you want. On my Razr Maxx the file that controls the 4 capacitive buttons is named cy8c201xx.kl. To swap the key functions you just change the word next to the key number: i.e. replace SEARCH with MENU and vice versa. Make sure to backup your original just in case.
You can set it to any function that is defined (POWER, AUTO_ROTATION, VOLUME_UP, etc.) you just need to know the proper name. I have read that recent apps may be APP_SWITCH but I have not tested it myself. I do not know how to create a new function if it is not already defined.
Hope it helps.
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Can anyone confirm making this work? Search button really IS useless
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i love the search button... especially the long press to bring up sound hound search and others
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imdaman99 said:
Can anyone confirm making this work? Search button really IS useless
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Works Great on my XT912. I can now lock my screen by short pressing the cap search
I know that on phones that you have to use the power button to lock/unlock it is usally the first button to fail.
Now I need to figure out how to wake using a cap button.
Here's the original
Code:
key 158 BACK WAKE_DROPPED VIRTUAL
key 139 MENU WAKE_DROPPED VIRTUAL
key 217 SEARCH WAKE_DROPPED VIRTUAL
key 102 HOME WAKE VIRTUAL
Here's what I changed
Code:
key 158 BACK WAKE_DROPPED VIRTUAL
key 139 MENU WAKE_DROPPED VIRTUAL
key 217 POWER WAKE_DROPPED VIRTUAL
key 102 HOME WAKE VIRTUAL
imdaman99 said:
Can anyone confirm making this work? Search button really IS useless
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I just did this change on my Razr and it does work, but it brings up the GB sytle of switcher.
borgdog said:
I just did this change on my Razr and it does work, but it brings up the GB sytle of switcher.
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yes, me2. brings up GB style only .....