happy with my tf201, however keyboard on dock set to US English format and not UK, by that i mean the " and @ keys are reversed so typing shift and 2 gives @ sign not " and vice versa, changed in settings to english uk and rebooted but still no joy , even rooted and installed virtuous rom, still same issue, anyone know how to resolve this? without taking to service centre
thanks for any help
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Go into Settings, select Language & Input and under Keyboard & Input methods you should have UK keyboard displayed. If not look at and change the Language & Input higher up the menu to UK and then go back to keyboard and if incorrect then click on its slider icon and select UK as the active input method under the Input Languages
Thanks,had it set as English UK since day one, but keys still swapped round @ instated of " and vice versa and $ instead of £,only happening when docked using hardware keyboard, works fine with touchscreen
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Are you sure that you have the Android keyboard (no dock) and the Asus keyboard (docked) both set to UK?
yes both set to uk, as i say issue only occurs when docked and using physical keyboard, was lile this on stock rom and now on virtous rom, even checked keyboard config files and their correct to how it should be mapping keys
Having tried another dock , issue resolved, fault with dock itself now replaced
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My dock arrived a little while ago, so I charged it and then connected to the tablet. It showed that an update was available so I installed the update.
While the mousepad works and it is currently charging the tablet ... none of the keys seem to work.
Any idea what could be wrong? Is mine defective or is there a simple configuration I'm not aware of? Just in case I disabled Thumb Keyboard and I have the Asus keyboard selected (Use physical keyboard is set to ON as well).
Pull tablet out of dock.
Put tablet back in dock.
Fixed?
Unfortunately no. Same situation. Cursor and multi-touch work, but no keys.
Should I assume no one has seen this issue?
try lock key
In the upper right? Doesn't appear to do anything
raistlin_ht said:
My dock arrived a little while ago, so I charged it and then connected to the tablet. It showed that an update was available so I installed the update.
While the mousepad works and it is currently charging the tablet ... none of the keys seem to work.
Any idea what could be wrong? Is mine defective or is there a simple configuration I'm not aware of? Just in case I disabled Thumb Keyboard and I have the Asus keyboard selected (Use physical keyboard is set to ON as well).
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Did you try the keyboard prior to the update, or is this a new problem post update?
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rockcrawler said:
Did you try the keyboard prior to the update, or is this a new problem post update?
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Unfortunately I didn't try it prior to the update since the notification appeared basically right away.
At that point I had only used the pad to move the cursor around. So it is possible the keys never worked, but I suppose it is also possible they worked pre-update.
dock problems of my own
I got the transformer about a little less than a week ago, installed the update, everything was fine. today i got the dock, it seemed to work, saw the firmware update, clicked to update, "Update Failed." Tried again, again failed. Now the transformer doesn't even recognized that its connected. No matter what I do, it won't be recognized... what should i do?
Thanks in advance.
Hi
yesterday, I bought my TF with keyboard. After playing a while, I decided to root them. After succesfully rooting process I installed custom ROM (3.1 from moDaCo page) . It was all the time inserted into dock station but for customising I pull it out. When I insert TF to dock the keyboard stops response. TouchScreen was active. I saw small icon with "!" that update for dock station failed. I re-run the update process (using touch navigation) but it won't progress at all (still 0). Then I reboot TF, and try to start update again. With success. Now all is working perfectly.
Maybe this description helps you somehow.
good luck.
Keyboard not working
I am now experiencing the original issue from this thread. I can not find any other threads describing this exact issue.
Here is the message that I sent Asus support. No reply yet.
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Keyboard on my docking station stopped working. no errors it just stops. Battery still charges the tablet....Touchpad still works (and buttons)....closing and opening the tablet still shuts off and turns on screen.
No keys work. If I disable the keyboard through the android interface (Use Physical Keyboard = Off) the onscreen keyboard works fine (Current Keyboard is set to ASUS Keyboard).
I have tried
multiple apps
rebooting
undocking and redocking
hitting every key one at a time
hitting every key at the same time
closing the tablet and reopening it
device has not taking any shocks
battery is full
no contact with water
Last time I touched it it worked. it just stopped working.
Here is some additional information that I have learned.
I have tried a second keyboard dock and it does not work either.
I have done a restore to factory state with no change.
Tablet: B50 32gb Not Rooted and current on all asus updates.
Keyboard: B60 no updates available from asus.
I have the same issue
First, put your keyboard on another tablet and make sure the keyboard works. If the keyboard fails on two tablets the keyboard ribbon tape in the dock may be bad, e.g. RMA.
Then, two steps that might work:
(1) reapply the latest update via manual update
(2) factory reset
Might try in any order:
1 & 2
2 & 1
others.
Good luck.
Bob Smith42 said:
First, put your keyboard on another tablet and make sure the keyboard works. If the keyboard fails on two tablets the keyboard ribbon tape in the dock may be bad, e.g. RMA.
Then, two steps that might work:
(1) reapply the latest update via manual update
(2) factory reset
Might try in any order:
1 & 2
2 & 1
others.
Good luck.
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As i stated above i tried two docks and both experienced the issue.
Mine started while the dock was plugged in so a damaged port is unlikely.
As stated above a factory reset has already been done.
I downloaded the firmware updater from the asus ftp site and extracted the asus folder to /microSD with no effect. I can't get a manual update to run. What might i be doing wrong.
I confirmed that the downloaded firmware and current firmware are US
I Confirmed that the zip file is in /asus/update
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sancmat said:
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I downloaded the firmware updater from the asus ftp site and extracted the asus folder to /microSD with no effect. I can't get a manual update to run. What might i be doing wrong.
I confirmed that the downloaded firmware and current firmware are US
I Confirmed that the zip file is in /asus/update
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Might check:
download file corruption
file name extension .zip or .ZIP ?
various folder locations, e.g. root folder microsd vs update
directory or filename might be case sensitive?
I searched for instructions from a couple threads and the ASUS pdf and tried a few things before it worked for me. I do not remember exactly which worked, sorry.
Best wishes and good luck!
This worked for me:
1.Make it so your screen is set to "NEVER" turn off. Put max brightness, maybe play a game or something. Let your battery die. (without the dock)
2.Charge your pad without the battery until it's 100% full. Test to see if it is working. It should be but no guarantees.
3. If you have a dock, charge it as well. You should be able to use your keyboard and the battery life should be visible.
mine has been fine. Not sure if step 1 is needed. If mine stops working again I'll try to reply here.
chickeneaterguy said:
This worked for me:
1.Make it so your screen is set to "NEVER" turn off. Put max brightness, maybe play a game or something. Let your battery die. (without the dock)
2.Charge your pad without the battery until it's 100% full. Test to see if it is working. It should be but no guarantees.
3. If you have a dock, charge it as well. You should be able to use your keyboard and the battery life should be visible.
mine has been fine. Not sure if step 1 is needed. If mine stops working again I'll try to reply here.
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I put screen to Never Turn off, max brightness, and played a game until the battery completly died.
I charged my pad with out the keyboard to 100%.
No effect.
I'm charging the keyboard right now.
Battery life has always been visible for me.
Well I finally got ahold of ASUS Support. They are having me RMA both my tablet and keyboard (not sure why the keyboard is being RMA'd since it works fine on my friends tablet) I hope I don't get a bad unit back as my current unit has minimal light bleed (not even noticable outside the boot screen) no creaking and my keyboard is a B60 so no issue with battery drain.
I had this issue but fixed it doing what I said. It hasn't come back for days! Also installed different roms and whatnot.
Im running 2.3.4 ay present international uk user however just docked my phone with the work n play kit and my keyboard buttons are all,over the place ie you press a and q pops up press 2 and get k any fix ive tried changing language via webtop but nothing
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Anyway to disable that annoying accent character popup when typing on a bluetooth keyboard?
I'm using a TP with CM7 3.5 with a Motorola BT KB. I'v googled this to death and haven't found any solutions.
I tried null keyboard. Don't work.
Can't find anything in settings.
Anyone know?
Thx
I have the same issue with the motor kbd. I believe the issue is in the kbd software not the tp.
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I called Motorola and Logitech (I have both keyboards and have the same issue with both) about the popup boxes. Both companies told me that it is a function of the operating system and is not hard coded into the keyboards. They said we should look into a software solution as the keyboard does not have the accent popup feature. Maybe this is a thing for the devs.
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Thx
I just noticed you get a accent box popup when long pressing the on screen keyboard.
There has to be some way to change this.
thabksssssss
I installed the Go Keyboard app and no longer get the accent box popup.
I just wish there was an app that would get rid of it. Or someone figure out how change the setting in Android.
I like using the BT KB with null keyboard. Which has no onscreen keyboard.
When using a BT KB with go keyboard, holding the shift does not capitalize letters. You have to tap the shift key once to capitalize. You can't hold it. I emailed the authors to try to get them to fix that.
I tried a few other addon keyboards and they all have that stupid popup.
My wife's android phone with a physicial keyboard phone gets the same accent popup.
The BlueInput soft doesn't have that problem.
I think you needed to pair the keyboard with their software and not with the buildit android one, but after that it doesn't show the annoying pop when long press on the keyboard keys.
I use it with one of those mini BT keyboards and works fine.
dubidu said:
The BlueInput soft doesn't have that problem.
I think you needed to pair the keyboard with their software and not with the buildit android one, but after that it doesn't show the annoying pop when long press on the keyboard keys.
I use it with one of those mini BT keyboards and works fine.
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YES! This works properly! Thx a LOT!
BlueInput doesn't work reliably. Mouse would not work with it. Uninstalled.
8(
Only tried with the crappy keyboard, but good to know that it doesn't pick the mouse.
I'm guessing the batteries in my mouse were almost dead. Even without Blueinput installed, mouse would not stay connected. I'v only had this mouse since Saturday. It came with Everready Energizers. This Motorolla mouse has an indicator that is supposed to flash orange when the batts are low, it didn't. So I thought they were still good.
After reading some reviews on some BT mice, some said the batts died really fast. So I installed some fresh duracell's today and mouse is working fine. I'll keep the switch off when not using it this time.
So I reinstalled Blueinput and just connected the KB through it. Left the mouse connected through android. I'm pretty sure the mouse would work through Blueint now with the fresh batts.
Just got myself a new BT keyboard with an integrated mouse, as you said, when paring/connecting using the BlueInput driver the mouse doesn't work which kind of sucks 8)
I found some another driver does appear to work fine (at least it allows me to use both the keyboard and mouse at the same time without the annoying "accent" popup window.
BlueKeyboard JP
https://market.android.com/details?id=elbrain.bluekeyboard.ime&hl=en
Still need to test a play a little bit more (see which layout fits my keyboard) but I think is more usable with this driver than the original/build-in CM7 one.
dubidu said:
Just got myself a new BT keyboard with an integrated mouse, as you said, when paring/connecting using the BlueInput driver the mouse doesn't work which kind of sucks 8)
I found some another driver does appear to work fine (at least it allows me to use both the keyboard and mouse at the same time without the annoying "accent" popup window.
BlueKeyboard JP
https://market.android.com/details?id=elbrain.bluekeyboard.ime&hl=en
Still need to test a play a little bit more (see which layout fits my keyboard) but I think is more usable with this driver than the original/build-in CM7 one.
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Works well. I have seen this before. Not sure why I didn't try it. Maybe I thought it was Japanese only. IDK. Tried so many.
Are you getting this when clicking on an iput box?
The setting of "selected keyboard" is not found.
It still works everytime. Just weird.
Oh I figured out that error. I had to actually select the kb in Bluekeyboard JP settings. I didn't select it before. I could see it there. I though it was already selected. It wasn't.
Another thing I noticed. When you select your BT KB in "Connecting process" in Bluekeyboard JP settings, everytime you click on an input box, there is a message box saying "connecting.. don't touch the keyboard yet". The KB still worked while that message was displayed.
I got rid of that by unchecking "Connecting process" in settings.
So now it works with no message boxes.
Blueinput JP FC's on every boot...
I normally use Hacker's Keyboard and change to the BT one when I connect the extenal keyboard,
just done a quick reboot and no FCs.
Still I think is good enough for me, I read somewhere than since Android 3.1 the keyboard is handled a litlle diferente (no more bin files for each keyboard, just plain text) so maybe whenever ICS is out we can have a better option 8) (xmast wish hehe)
Bluekeyboard JP works perfectly on CM9! No more FC's. Reconnects nicely.
I mistakenly called it Blueinput JP a couple of posts above.
I am constantly accidentally hitting the track pad when trying to type. On laptops there are programs that freeze the track pad when typing and I was wondering if anyone knew of an app that does similarly?
Liferules said:
I am constantly accidentally hitting the track pad when trying to type. On laptops there are programs that freeze the track pad when typing and I was wondering if anyone knew of an app that does similarly?
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Is there not a key on the top row that locks out the track pad?? I don't have one but have watched a ton of videos, lol.
Mine is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow.
i think he meant one which automagically turned it off when you start typing, i had a program like that on my hp laptop.
but nope havent found one so far, i find myself touching the screen mostly and barely using the trackpad (prefer wireless mouse anyways) so i just keep it on off position so far.
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On the dock its the 4th button from the left right above the numbers
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Thanks. Do you know if the dock remembers these settings between dockings? i.e. when I disconnect the tablet and then redock later in the day, is the "no mouse pad" setting remembered?
Liferules said:
Thanks. Do you know if the dock remembers these settings between dockings? i.e. when I disconnect the tablet and then redock later in the day, is the "no mouse pad" setting remembered?
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Just try it out yourself?
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Liferules said:
Thanks. Do you know if the dock remembers these settings between dockings? i.e. when I disconnect the tablet and then redock later in the day, is the "no mouse pad" setting remembered?
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Yes, yes it does.
Sorry if the title on this question isn't clear enough, hard to give a short clear title.
Since I've installs ICS on my Samsung Galaxy S II, I've been repeatedly annoyed by it that every single time I connect my Bluetooth keyboard, the OS automatically switches my virtual keyboard to the Samsung virtual keyboard.
The problem is the Samsung keyboard screws up everything I type on my Logitech bluetooth keyboard. I want to use either 'null keyboard' or 'hacker's keyboard' which are two virtual keyboards I installed that work great with my hardware bluetooth keyboard, but every time the keyboard sleeps and reconnects, the phone swiches back to the Samsung one.
I can't even disable it because the option to disable is locked out.
I have root access to the phone.
Thanks to anyone in advance.
mine problem as well:
Tab 10.1 + ZAGG keyboard case
default samsung kb is just stupid
prefer "hacker's" or "smart keyboard"
but tab does not support language switch unless it's "samsung keypad"
The Samsung keyboard I cannot help you get rid of unless you switch to CyanogenMod 9 which is what I run on my Galaxy Tab 8.9.
However if you can confirm if the language switching key on the Samsung keyboard has scancode 191 or 368 (or something else) then I'll try to make sure that the next version of External Keyboard Helper Pro will switch language using that key.
Either use the debugging option in External Keyboard Helper or this app to read the scancode of that key: https://github.com/chrisboyle/keytest/downloads
Thanks, any clue how to just get the OS to stop the auto-switch to the Samsung keyboard? Disabling it is just an option. If we can just stop the auto-switch upon detecting a bluetooth keyboard that'd be great.
Dav_Edward said:
Thanks, any clue how to just get the OS to stop the auto-switch to the Samsung keyboard? Disabling it is just an option. If we can just stop the auto-switch upon detecting a bluetooth keyboard that'd be great.
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The only way to stop this notification is to remove or disable all keyboards except the one you want. I get the same issue on my S2 and it looks like Samsung have locked their keyboard into the OS pretty tightly. I'm thinking Cyanogenmod or ParanoidAndroid or similar is our only option. Still looking but not much info anywhere.
Installing Keyboard Manager hasn't helped, even though it has an option to persist its own notification this app has no effect on stopping the default notification in ICS.
I must say the samsung keyboard is very annoying. Why they won't let us disable it baffles me, and why they forcefully make it take over every time a bluetooth keyboard is connected confuses me even more. The samsung keyboard has absolutely terrible support for bluetooth keyboards. Null Keyboard, Hacker's Keyboard, and Swiftkey 3 all properly support bluetooth keyboards connected and work great, but the Samsung one terribly messes up typical characters on a US layout keyboard, things like ' " ! ~ ? / \ [ ] $ # etc. all appear as accented or utterly wrong characters.
Possible solution to suppress Samsung keyboard
I understand this is an old thread, but I came across it when I was looking for a solution to suppress the Samsung keyboard for similar reasons as listed above. Maybe what seems to work for me can help others with similar issues. I have a Galaxy S III with stock JB 4.1.1 (rooted), so not sure if this solution works for other Samsung phones and ROMs.
I managed to prevent the Samsung keyboard from automatically being selected when connecting with a bluetooth keyboard (Logitech) by simply freezing the Samsung keyboard app with Titanium Backup (requires root). After rebooting the phone, the message that for using a bluetooth keyboard I have to select the Samsung keyboard does not appear anymore and the keyboard is not listed anymore under "Language and input" in Settings.
To further automate the selection of the right keyboard app (External Keyboard Helper Pro in my case) when the bluetooth keyboard connects, I am using a tasker (Llama) and Secure Settings to automatically select the right keyboard when the bluetooth keyboard connects/disconnects. This works well so far.
Best solution anyone could come up with so far. Thanks laanrobe.
laanrobe said:
I understand this is an old thread, but I came across it when I was looking for a solution to suppress the Samsung keyboard for similar reasons as listed above. Maybe what seems to work for me can help others with similar issues. I have a Galaxy S III with stock JB 4.1.1 (rooted), so not sure if this solution works for other Samsung phones and ROMs.
I managed to prevent the Samsung keyboard from automatically being selected when connecting with a bluetooth keyboard (Logitech) by simply freezing the Samsung keyboard app with Titanium Backup (requires root). After rebooting the phone, the message that for using a bluetooth keyboard I have to select the Samsung keyboard does not appear anymore and the keyboard is not listed anymore under "Language and input" in Settings.
To further automate the selection of the right keyboard app (External Keyboard Helper Pro in my case) when the bluetooth keyboard connects, I am using a tasker (Llama) and Secure Settings to automatically select the right keyboard when the bluetooth keyboard connects/disconnects. This works well so far.
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Hi, can you help me with same issue Please? I have same phone and same app (External Keyboard Helper Pro). I don't know how to set it up...
Thanks for your time.