I hate the placment of the english/spanish button on the swype keyboard, i really dont even know why they have a quick key for this in the keyboard, this seems like it should be a menu setting, i keep accidently hitting it, is there any way to lock it into english?
no, not without killing it with fire!
(AKA rooting and installing beta swype) as far as I know
It's pissing me off bad.
install utlra keyboard. it's way better anyway. it's tracing is better if you like to trace
Not going to say how I really feel about this.
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use the stock keyboard and turn on trace in the keyboard settings, it's alot more accurate than swype has been on the 3vo
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Ok Getting tired of this.. I Hate HTC keyboard, but I love Gingerbreads.. However I hate the Fact that when I text someone or type its looks like this :
hello.this.is.a.test to. see what.happens
The Perioid is in the way or the spacebar needs to be bigger I cant decide? Anyone else have this issue?
I Tried using swype but I dont have the Patients for it. Its a great concept just not for me? Any Solutions out there?
Is there anyway to get the OG Droids soft keyboard layout on the Tbolt?
I don't know what's wrong with your keyboard but I'm typing this on gingerbread keyboard and its working fine. I don't have any issues with it. I have also used Swype but for some reason, lately it doesn't seem to figure out what I'm trying to swype so I switched to this keyboard and have been quite happy.
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Download the gingerbread keyboard from the market. That's what I finally had to do. I had the same issues. Just the way I use the keyboard i guess.
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I'm the same way. The only respite I've found is from using other keyboards from the market. Just look around and try some different ones, and find out which works best for you.
I found that if I make the settings key always hide and move the mic key to the symbols page it makes the spacebar a bit longer and easier to hit w/o touching the period. might be worth a shot for you guys.
bretnj said:
I found that if I make the settings key always hide and move the mic key to the symbols page it makes the spacebar a bit longer and easier to hit w/o touching the period. might be worth a shot for you guys.
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how do you do that?
nm I Found it.. Thanks I will Try it out.
bretnj said:
I found that if I make the settings key always hide and move the mic key to the symbols page it makes the spacebar a bit longer and easier to hit w/o touching the period. might be worth a shot for you guys.
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That did the trick!!! Thanks It made the Spacebar just big enough so that I quit hitting the period Button.. What a Life saver!! +1 Thanks!
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how do you do that?
nm I Found it.. Thanks I will Try it out.
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Care to share? I'm not seeing it.
Settings > language & keyboard > gb keyboard > voice input
You also might want to try out swiftkey, as I haven't had any issues with it. It is leaps and bounds better than the stock keyboard.
is there a way to change the "done" button to "send" like in the regular froyo keyboard? annoying to have to press the "done" button and select "send" in the next screen.
UPDATE: Noticed this only happens in landscape mode. Regular view shows "send" key and "attachment key". what gives? is this a flaw in the app?
IISiDeK1CKII said:
You also might want to try out swiftkey, as I haven't had any issues with it. It is leaps and bounds better than the stock keyboard.
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Nothing beats Swiftkey. Most ingenious keyboard around and works as well as advertised. I just don't like that sometimes it lags as it pulls predictions from my history. Maybe because I have so many SMS?
The trick with the mic and settings key (set to always hide) worked! Thanks. I like the GB keyboard for a change of pace.
adamd1169 said:
Download the gingerbread keyboard from the market. That's what I finally had to do. I had the same issues. Just the way I use the keyboard i guess.
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This. And I hid the voice and settings buttons to make the spacebar bigger. But I am using swiftkey, its better in my opinion. The prediction engine is excellent and saves me from typing at all.
i've been using virusROM RC1B3.1 almost exclusively for about a month now, and bouncing between ADW EX and LauncherPro Plus (leankernel normal 1.41).
at one point i was able to set the time required to presshold a keyboard button before it toggled, but i've lost that ability.
also, i changed the keyboard from GB to stock (or something similar), but am now unable to change back because there is no prefs button on the keyboard.
so there're my problems, now here're my questions:
where do those issues lie? in the ROM? in the launcher? in the keyboard package (and is that called the apk?)?
aaaand, is this something i can repair on the phone or am i gonna hafta finally set aside a saturday to learn adb?
thanks in advance!
No ideas? Nobody?
Cmon folks, I won't be a n00b forever
Hold on any text input screen and select input method. Then choose the keyboard you want to use.
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Thanks button: smacked. along with my forehead. Can't believe I missed such a basic function.
Makes me wonder how much other easy stuff I'm looking right past.
Thanks again
The stock HTC keyboard on the 3D has a swype feature built in found it in the settings last night
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interesting find...thanks...seems like you have to watch the tutorial then it'll give you and option to switch between swype and traditional keyboard. But can't use swype!
All I know is on a phone with this much power, not lagging at all would be a neat feature. I seriously don't know how they've managed to make a laggy keyboard but I'm betting it has to do with the addition of the swype-like features.
If you turn off pop up on key press it makes a noticeable difference in the stock keyboard. Also I disabled the sound and vibration it helps as well if your using the stock keyboard.
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If you turn off pop up on key press it makes a noticeable difference in the stock keyboard. Also I disabled the sound and vibration it helps as well if your using the stock keyboard.
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I'm not using it anymore but yeah, I keep all that disabled and there was still noticeable lag. SwiftKey, better keyboard, and smart keyboard all run perfect in comparison.
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I'm not using it anymore but yeah, I keep all that disabled and there was still noticeable lag. SwiftKey, better keyboard, and smart keyboard all run perfect in comparison.
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Cool. Yea I use Bette keyboard and its decent over stock as we'll.
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Friggin swype that came with the phone seems buggier than the "beta" I was using with my evo 4g... and has anyone been able to delete words out of the swype dictionary? It only brings up the word choice box when I highlight a word and hit the swype key
The little language switcher button on Photons stock Swype keyboard drives me insane i bump it all the time(clumsy fingers) and it takes a while to get my keyboard back to English, is there another Swype keyboard that i can use that wont have this?! It is honestly the biggest flaw i see with this device. Or is there perhaps a few files i can edit within the phone so the button doesn't do anything? I do like the capabilities of Swype, just hate this language button, guess its what happens when i get a global phone.. Thanks!
Seconded!
I have this problem, too. And what's with the "post too short" error?
So in Gingerbread if you wanted to switch between keyboards, it was pretty easy. You just did a long press in a text field, and you were presented with a list of "active" keyboards you could choose from.
This feature doesn't seem to exist in ICS, which is too bad, because there's one keyboard I like to use when typing (thumb keyboard) and another I like to use with the pen (Graffiti Pro), and it'd be nice to be able to do the long-press-switch move, or something similarly trivial.
Does anyone know if such a shortcut exists?
I'm going to answer my own question.
ICS doesn't allow the long press, but if you ever see the keyboard icon in the notifications bar, you can click it and it will bring up a list of keyboards to choose from. So... same difference.
Hope this info helps someone as confused as I was!
Also on most ICS keyboards, you can hold the scacebar to bring up a list of available keyboards.
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Neat. Though that doesn't appear to work on Thumb Keyboard, and Grafitti Pro doesn't use a keyboard.
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The LastPass keyboard also doesn't use the spacebar switching method. Looks like the notification bar is going to be the best way to do this in the OS. I'm also missing the long-press option.
I know I'm reviving an old thread, but I published Quick Keyboard Switch to accomplish just this a month ago.