I'm fighting trying to get an external Bluetooth keyboard to work with my device, but in doing so have discovered that I no longer have "Input Method" under "Language and keyboard settings". Can anyone please advise how to get it back?
I don't use an external keyboard, but I have never seen input method in the Language and keyboard settings page.
To change the input method you have to long press in any text box.
More info here on setting the default keyboard. The article was written for a different phone, but the principals are the same.
I am not sure if using an external keyboard works differently.
Sorry I shouldn't have confused the issue by mentioning the external keyboard. Forget the external keyboard! I do have second soft keyboard installed (Swype), so there ought to be an "Input Method" menu to allow me to select between it and the Android Keyboard.
However ... long-pressing within text boxes does indeed bring up the Input method menu, so at least I have a workaround. Many thanks for that.
I am a keyboard junkie and have eight keyboards installed and have never seen an input method setting on the Language and keyboard settings page.
See
www.knowyourcell.com/other-cell-pho...nstall_a_new_keyboard_on_the_dell_streak.html
AidanBell said:
See
www.knowyourcell.com/other-cell-phones/dell/dell-streak/streak-guides/566336/how_to_install_a_new_keyboard_on_the_dell_streak.html
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Since that article was published in Aygust of 2010 I would guess that that setting was part of Dell's Android 1.6 rom on the Streak. My Streak was shipped to me with Android 2.2 so I have never used the 1.6 rom. Looking at some of the pics in the other guides on that site it looks like 1.6 to me.
Here is the keyboard guide at StreakSmart
You know what, I think you've just answered my question. That's where it disappeared to, then; when I upgraded from 1.6 to 2.2!
Many thanks indeed
AidanBell said:
You know what, I think you've just answered my question. That's where it disappeared to, then; when I upgraded from 1.6 to 2.2!
Many thanks indeed
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It's all perception. Since you had 1.6, the setting disappeared. Since I never had 1.6 I wasn't missing what I didn't have. Glad you figured it out and, as usual, the discussion taught me something.
Ditto. Totally
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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?
ltxda said:
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?!?!?!"
Hi, first time poster long time win-mobile user.
Has anyone else noticed the voice to text feature is unavailable in the 2.1 leak? I wonder if it's there but not accessible using the Eris's keyboard.
Otherwise, Wow what a fast rom! (even with the same program load I normally have 70/80 megs free)
I think you have to install it via the marketplace. At least I think that what it asked me to do.
You can use voice search but voice does not seem available anywhere else. A few things are missing so this is obviously not a complete 2.1 but it might be all they are giving us for the Eris.
Yeah I was figuring as much, at this point beggars can't be choosers. Still soo satisfied!
I installed "Better Keyboard" on my wife's Eris with 2.1 and it did provide speech-to-text function...sort of. The speech to text worked pretty well, but I couldn't get the auto-punctuate to work even though I had it enabled in settings. If you said "period" or "question mark", it typed them out. I tried contacting the developer for troubleshooting help, but he doesn't reply in a very timely manner and I didn't want to miss the window of opportunity for uninstall and refund, so I just did that. I've heard "Smart keyboard" is better than "better", but haven't tried it for myself yet. But speech to text is definitely not on-board without a 3rd party app.
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I installed "Better Keyboard" on my wife's Eris with 2.1 and it did provide speech-to-text function...sort of. The speech to text worked pretty well, but I couldn't get the auto-punctuate to work even though I had it enabled in settings. If you said "period" or "question mark", it typed them out. I tried contacting the developer for troubleshooting help, but he doesn't reply in a very timely manner and I didn't want to miss the window of opportunity for uninstall and refund, so I just did that. I've heard "Smart keyboard" is better than "better", but haven't tried it for myself yet. But speech to text is definitely not on-board without a 3rd party app.
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saweeeet! hmmm...
Now I wonder if I can find an .apk from an android 2.1 device (Nexus One maybe).
Better Keyboard does work. Now I wont kill someone whist driving. j/k
Hey folks,
May be a stupid question, though I've searched my phone and the net and couldn't find anything, though I'm not sure what I should be searching for anyway.
I'm hoping someone can tell me how to disable the box of words that pops up when typing something, trying to predict what you might be trying to say.
I'm sure it's only been showing up recently, possibly since I installed an application or something, as I don't remember it being there when I first got the phone, otherwise I would have asked this question by now.
I've attached an example of what I'm talking about.
I've tried going into Text Input Settings and enabling / disabling Spell Correction, Word Completion (XT9) and Word Complection (ABC) (all off at the moment) but it doesn't seem to make any difference, and it's really bugging me!
Any help would be really appreciated!
visualfin said:
Hey folks,
May be a stupid question, though I've searched my phone and the net and couldn't find anything, though I'm not sure what I should be searching for anyway.
I'm hoping someone can tell me how to disable the box of words that pops up when typing something, trying to predict what you might be trying to say.
I'm sure it's only been showing up recently, possibly since I installed an application or something, as I don't remember it being there when I first got the phone, otherwise I would have asked this question by now.
I've attached an example of what I'm talking about.
I've tried going into Text Input Settings and enabling / disabling Spell Correction, Word Completion (XT9) and Word Complection (ABC) (all off at the moment) but it doesn't seem to make any difference, and it's really bugging me!
Any help would be really appreciated!
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Have you looked in the Swype settings?
Yeah, have looked there, even though this was happening before I installed Swype, installed it recently in the hope it wouldn't use the predictive text stuff (also as I like to use it, too).
It's not just with Swype, it's any of the text input methods, using XT9 or ABC input method seems to make no difference, nor do the settings in the text input options, or indeed swype input options.
Anyone? Anything?
Have you tried, on the keyboard, to hold down the 'ABC' button for about a second. If it turns green then the XT9 predictive words don't appear?
if you have advanced config on your phone, open it up, click on input, and you can set how many preditive words you get. exit, soft reset and you should be good to go.
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if you have advanced config on your phone, open it up, click on input, and you can set how many preditive words you get. exit, soft reset and you should be good to go.
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I keep seeing people mention the ability to set the number of predictive words... but I can't find where to do this. I have a stock 2.13 ROM from TMOUS, with CHT running. Can you point me to the "advanced config" screen you reference above?
Thanks!
Advanced Config is a cab you install.
In Advanced Config, under Input, you should have an option called "Suggested Words" the default is 4, set it to 0.
I've downloaded, searched, and I think it's just a problem with the software. I first discovered this, when trying to add Japanese to the tablet. My Japanese girlfriend wants to input Japanese text. I said sure, although it wasn't listed in the Android Keyboards, I went to download an Android Keyboard App. But it wouldn't work!
Here's the problem:
I download and see it on the lists of keyboards to select, but it isn't selectable!
I ignored the problem, but when the SixxAxis.apk came out and I wanted to be able to play NES Roms, I can't select this controller in the keyboard section.
Anyone discover this also? Anyone have a fix for it?
Maybe the next version can include a Japanese input?
This is a known issue. The solution is to move the keyboard apk into the system apps folder. Root Explorer will do the trick.
If all that's required, you are a god send! Thank you for letting me know, I'm going to try this right now.
So all I do is put whatever keyboard into the system apps folder. Okay...
How about Japanese Text Input? Anywhere to install this as an Android Keyboard?
Okay, just tried it...and it won't let me. It says that the system/app folder is read protected. I'm pretty good with computers, but this tablet isn't working well for me.
I feel kind of noobish.
Any help? Can you put instructions if possible?
I think I found the reason... you have to touch the small mount button first.
When I go to select the keyboard it still won't select. I placed the apk in the system/app folder like mentioned, but no change.
Anything else that's needed?
I had forgotten the last step. Find a text input box and long press. Select input method and then select your desired keyboard. An alternate method can also be found here: http://viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummie...2-04-replace-soft-keyboard-in-tnt-based-roms-
I'm not a stupid user...but this is still not working. Btw, the link you posted didn't work with the file.
I really would like to use my PS3 controller on this thing. Japanese would make the woman happy too.
Anyone have any Japanese keyboards? Point me to the .apk!
Hello to everybody,
I have a small strange thing.
When I use ICS (or ICS+) browser on the xda site and wanting to do a search, here is what happens :
- I touch the "search this forum" button
- it opens the field below
- I touch the "free text area " to start typing
- I see the keyboard sliding up, and then as quickly, it slides back down and the search box closes...
as a result, I can not perform any search on the XDa site.
It does not do that with Opera nor with dolphin.
PS :as a matter of fact, that was yesterday, because this morning, there is not even the "search" button only the "forum tools" one... but I believe it is related to a temporary site issue.
Anyway, has anyone experienced this? Where could it be coming from?
Same here, quite frustrating....
Same here with stock browser.
If you use the keyboard dock it works. But when use a onscreen keyboard you cant type in this sorts of popup text fields
WOW, thanks for bringing this up. I have had this problem for god knows how long. I first noticed it with my rooted HTCEVO. I seem to have this problem with just about all the forums. Now my prime also.
Is it an Android thing? Did it work for you guys with a different browser? Weird, I havent been able to use the function for so long I havent even looked for the search, and now I too see that it is gone. Is it a Vbulletin vs Android thing?
Would love to know the problem/solution.
thanks.....
EDIT: I have a dock, but never tried the search function with it. Now I guess we cant, I dont see the ability to "search this forum". What happened?
Anyway, there seems to be something going on with the search function on the forum now...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1528883
edit 05/03/12 : search function is now back on the forum. I'll try again the ICS issue, see if it is still there...
Search function is still not working for me on browser+. However, I know it's not ideal for a quick search, but if it's any consolation the advance search field works.
Kind Regards,
JL888 said:
Search function is still not working for me on browser+. However, I know it's not ideal for a quick search, but if it's any consolation the advance search field works.
Kind Regards,
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+1 for the "advanced search" option... bothered me at first but, one more click isn't all that bad...