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Can we do this w/o root?
Swype 2 sucks after the 3b version >_<
The installer requires you to disable swype (uncheck it as an available keyboard) before it will allow you to install the beta.
Work around thought;
backup on the 4g, restore to the 3d? But I think licensing problems will exist =(
On Swype site it says if your phone came with swype it won't work.
http://forum.swype.com/showthread.p...install-Swype-Swype-PreLoad-Production-Device
Last paragraph. Requires root. Third thread I've made this exact reply in.
lyric911 said:
http://forum.swype.com/showthread.p...install-Swype-Swype-PreLoad-Production-Device
Last paragraph. Requires root. Third thread I've made this exact reply in.
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Yeah, well, I thought maybe someone knew a trick.
If you go to HTC or Sprint's sites, they don't say the 4g can be rooted or custom roms can be flashed... Trust in the community
Anyway, I got it installed from a backup - and it works, I can tap/type with it, but the license isn't valid due to the strange install procedure, so no swyping
I uninstalled the "update" and it works again in 2.x mode :-/
Soon enough, I suppose.
Kalash said:
Yeah, well, I thought maybe someone knew a trick.
If you go to HTC or Sprint's sites, they don't say the 4g can be rooted or custom roms can be flashed... Trust in the community
Anyway, I got it installed from a backup - and it works, I can tap/type with it, but the license isn't valid due to the strange install procedure, so no swyping
I uninstalled the "update" and it works again in 2.x mode :-/
Soon enough, I suppose.
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try this and tell me if it works. make sure android keyboard is selected in kb settings. retore your backup of swype beta installer and swype kb, go open messaging and then change your imput method back to swype.
im thinking this will work
I have Swype 3 on my phone (Desire), it's awful, would love to go back to 2
mmace said:
I have Swype 3 on my phone (Desire), it's awful, would love to go back to 2
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And I have the new version on my Xoom, and think it's great, even as much as I love the Swiftkey tablet beta.
Kalash said:
Can we do this w/o root?
Swype 2 sucks after the 3b version >_<
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Completely agree. I was diggin' the 3 beta on my Hero and this version on the E3D is terrible.
I don't get why swype can't figure out how to let us update the app to the beta. seems rather simple but maybe im missing something.
polo79 said:
I don't get why swype can't figure out how to let us update the app to the beta. seems rather simple but maybe im missing something.
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Since the app is installed by the OEM in an area that doesn't allow writing to, you can't overwrite it with the new version. The OEMs also do not allow uninstalling of the app.
It sucks hard! Another reason to root.
The stock swype on the 3VO worked fine for a few days but the last two it has sucked some major ass. Its suggesting words in different languages and not picking anything close to what I intended when I swyped. Anyone else having this problem?
Also, I heard the HTC IME has a similar feature, how does that work for everyone?
fpineda101 said:
The stock swype on the 3VO worked fine for a few days but the last two it has sucked some major ass. Its suggesting words in different languages and not picking anything close to what I intended when I swyped. Anyone else having this problem?
Also, I heard the HTC IME has a similar feature, how does that work for everyone?
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Did you notice the little "en/es" Button on your keyboar next to your space bar? that annoying little UNREMOVABLE ****ER is whats causing that...
HTC!!! IM AM NOT BILINGUAL NEITHER SHOULD MY KEYBOARD BE!!!!
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Did you notice the little "en/es" Button on your keyboar next to your space bar? that annoying little UNREMOVABLE ****ER is whats causing that...
HTC!!! IM AM NOT BILINGUAL NEITHER SHOULD MY KEYBOARD BE!!!!
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Thanks Thaxx! That did it!
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Thanks Thaxx! That did it!
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you are quite welcome...
Hey, when I installed Bionix 1.3.1, I found out that Som thought it would be a good idea to take out the highly popular, easy, and fast (at least for me) Samsung Keyboard.
I am not stupid, I know how to change the keyboard...so don't ask me that.
Although the Samsung keyboard is not multi-touch, it is still better than any other keyboard I've been on.
So, how do I get that keyboard back?
Thanks.
Bloater will give you back all stock apps & Swype keyboard can be downloaded off their site just google swype. Good luck!
Thanks! I'll check it out and see if I can DL the Samsung keyboard. By the way, I'm not talking about Swype.
Thats kool, I was just sayin. It'll be in bloater either way tho. Good luck!
how can u not like swype??? so easy and so fast to text! especialy the new updated version
movieaddict said:
how can u not like swype??? so easy and so fast to text! especialy the new updated version
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It's only fast when typing with one hand. On the Samsung keyboard I type at about 70-100 words a minute.
I've had the SGS II for about three weeks now and have continuous issues with keyboard input accuracy. From the Samsung and stock Android keyboard, to the ICS hacked version (and then the Market version) as well as Swiftkey X - I make mistake after mistake regardless of whichever one I'm using. I'm coming from a Captivate where the text input seemed a non-issue on any keyboard I used. It almost feels like the touch panel/digitizer isn't aligned with where my fingers are touching.
Does anyone else have issues with keyboard accuracy? I love this phone but this issue is really preventing me from enjoying the experience.
I'd highly recommend the ICS keyboard linked later in this thread. Much better than what I initially posted.
Swiftkey X works perfectly fine for me.
I'm using the ported ICS keyboard found on the market and it works very well. There have not been any problems for me at all.
Just installed it and I find myself making the same mistakes as any of the other ones. It's so weird...I've never had this problem on the Captivate and other phones in the past.
PatriotXT92 said:
I'm using the ported ICS keyboard found on the market and it works very well. There have not been any problems for me at all.
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+9000
Happy camper here
I see a couple ICS keyboards on the Market, can ya provide a link? I'm always up for finding something new although as I mentioned already, I like SKP.
I am using go keyboard from the market with go launcher and I noticed the button( keys) are bigger. But honestly I don't have any issues with my keyboard calibration works fine. I sometimes not a wrong key but that is my fault and not a calibration issue. Possibly you can calibrate your screen? Never have done it but I think it can be done. Maybe a bad phone also?
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I was able to eliminate this problem by loading the cognition rom. Im not sure exactly why it fixed it but i assume it because it is an international rom that was ported.
im using the swype beta 3.6 doesnt really need to be "accurate" since all you do is "swype" it. but it is fairly accurate for me if i have to type with it.
I'm using the swype keyboard on mine Galaxy S2, I am a new convert from the iPhone and can barely type on this thing. Thank God for swipe. It appears to me that i have to hit the upper portion of the key to make an accurate key press. If I hit it dead on I get the key below it, strange.
Kadin said:
I'd highly recommend Smart Keyboard Pro as it's the only keyboard app I know of that has a built in calibration tool which has helped me big time. There's a free version but honestly I never looked at it. Bought it on a recommendation and never looked back...
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.cdeguet.smartkeyboardpro&feature=search_result
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I just downloaded this on your recommendation... I love the compact mode for portrait, reminds me of my blackberry keyboard, thank you
LMaui said:
I'm using the swype keyboard on mine Galaxy S2, I am a new convert from the iPhone and can barely type on this thing. Thank God for swipe. It appears to me that i have to hit the upper portion of the key to make an accurate key press. If I hit it dead on I get the key below it, strange.
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This is the exact problem I seem to be having.
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ICS keyboard form the market is awesome, fast and extremely accurate. I havent had any more keyboard problems.
I use the newest update of Swype and its definitely not as smooth and accurate as it was on my cappy. I'm On my second sgs2, and have had accuracy issues on both. It's not horrible, just not as good as my cappy. It's the only thing that was better on my cappy compared to this phone, so I'll deal with it.
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LMaui said:
I'm using the swype keyboard on mine Galaxy S2, I am a new convert from the iPhone and can barely type on this thing. Thank God for swipe. It appears to me that i have to hit the upper portion of the key to make an accurate key press. If I hit it dead on I get the key below it, strange.
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I have the exact same problem. Everytime I hit the n key In the middle I get a period.
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Well its a good thing I posted a solution to the problem and everyone chose to ignore the advice. Good night.
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seh6183 said:
Well its a good thing I posted a solution to the problem and everyone chose to ignore the advice. Good night.
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Yes.. flashing a rom and having no earthly idea why it just magically fixed is quite a solution! Let me jjust drop everything I'm doing, lose all of my time and effort of making my current rom the way i want it so I can flash the rom you are assuming fixed it without any facts or reasoning so I can make you happy.
Goodnight.
Goodnight!!!
..... I didn't want to be left out from saying goodnight
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LMaui said:
I'm using the swype keyboard on mine Galaxy S2, I am a new convert from the iPhone and can barely type on this thing. Thank God for swipe. It appears to me that i have to hit the upper portion of the key to make an accurate key press. If I hit it dead on I get the key below it, strange.
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Yes, it seems like you have to hit the letter you want about 2mm high. At first I thought it was because I was converting over from the iPhone, but two months later I still had problems. I have kind of retrained to hit the buttons on the upper half. I am going to try the ICS keyboard.
And a goodnight too.
Hey guys!
I have a small favor to ask, and I figure this is probably the best place. I was wondering if anyone with the Note could open up a quick text message with Swype on and try something for me.
When the keyboard pops up, take your index finger and swipe back and forth very quickly on the letters. You don't have to type anything specific, just go back and forth fast.
Could you let me know which of the two scenarios occur?
1) Nothing happens until you finally stop swiping and when you do, you get one long word and/or a message saying that it wasn't recognized; or,
2) You get a bunch of small words that are being entered WHILE you're going back and forth.
One of these two have to result, and I found some inconsistencies with the touch screen today.
Thanks <33
Both occur depending on speed when I go at the speed I would have used on my Captivate it breaks it up into little words (used swype for almost two years so quickly) but when I slow down it works normally. I found this issue out when I first got my phone and sadly had to switch from swype as I cant swype near "full speed".
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Both occur depending on speed when I go at the speed I would have used on my Captivate it breaks it up into little words (used swype for almost two years so quickly) but when I slow down it works normally. I found this issue out when I first got my phone and sadly had to switch from swype as I cant swype near "full speed".
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Ok, so I'm assuming that you're saying your Note is affected by this as well?
I ask because I was in the vicinity of a few other Notes today. The issue was confirmed on 2 out of the 5 devices. You could not force the Swype to break on the other 3 no matter how insanely fast you swiped. I have a feeling the issue is a little more wide-spread that I had originally thought. Swype is literally unusable for me in this state, I can't swipe nearly as fast as I'm used to, and it causes me to actually type way slower than I'm used to because of it. I have a replacement on the way, but I wanted to dig a little into the problem in the meantime.
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I wanted to add, it doesn't matter which rom I'm on, which version of Android, or which version of Swype. I've tried it all.
I don't have any issues on mine. I do use the s pen tho. Pretty damn fast too. Quick question though, do you usually Swype back and forth whilst typing etc.
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Kirksherratt said:
I don't have any issues on mine. I do use the s pen tho. Pretty damn fast too. Quick question though, do you usually Swype back and forth whilst typing etc.
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Swiping back and forth is just a surefire way to reproduce the problem. For someone that swipes fast, it makes the problem a real issue. A friend of mine on an unaffected Note tried using mine to swype and he instantly recognized that he wasn't able to.
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Ok, so I'm assuming that you're saying your Note is affected by this as well?
I ask because I was in the vicinity of a few other Notes today. The issue was confirmed on 2 out of the 5 devices. You could not force the Swype to break on the other 3 no matter how insanely fast you swiped. I have a feeling the issue is a little more wide-spread that I had originally thought. Swype is literally unusable for me in this state, I can't swipe nearly as fast as I'm used to, and it causes me to actually type way slower than I'm used to because of it. I have a replacement on the way, but I wanted to dig a little into the problem in the meantime.
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I wanted to add, it doesn't matter which rom I'm on, which version of Android, or which version of Swype. I've tried it all.
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Yes it also affects my note making it impossible to use swype. I figured this is true for all notes. And same doesn't matter it simply doesn't work though it may be my screen protector do you have one?
Kirksherratt said:
I don't have any issues on mine. I do use the s pen tho. Pretty damn fast too. Quick question though, do you usually Swype back and forth whilst typing etc.
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With the s-pen it works flawlessly on mine as well. XD
emcnelly said:
Yes it also affects my note making it impossible to use swype. I figured this is true for all notes. And same doesn't matter it simply doesn't work though it may be my screen protector do you have one?
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That's what I thought too until just recently. No screen protector here.
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That's what I thought too until just recently. No screen protector here.
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Darn.. I hope this can be figured out as I really like swype. To bad its not the protector thatd be a simply fix.
halonote
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I've got a glas.t screen protector on and when I Swype back and forth very quickly I usually get a long word, occasionally a "please try again" message.
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I'm on DAGr8's A2 and I'm using Swype version 3.26.92D.38303.t0.8611.ENSP from the International Note forum.
Edit: I have had the short word issue in the past on GB on the Note. I hadn't tried it on ICS yet. Just out of curiosity, and only because I just did this, what happens if you boot into CWM and format cache (not dalvik). It's the option under mounts and storage -> format cache. I did it just before this because of the CWM log errors on ICS.
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halonote
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Ok?...
lactardjosh said:
I've got a glas.t screen protector on and when I Swype back and forth very quickly I usually get a long word, occasionally a "please try again" message.
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I'm on DAGr8's A2 and I'm using Swype version 3.26.92D.38303.t0.8611.ENSP from the International Note forum.
Edit: I have had the short word issue in the past on GB on the Note. I hadn't tried it on ICS yet. Just out of curiosity, and only because I just did this, what happens if you boot into CWM and format cache (not dalvik). It's the option under mounts and storage -> format cache. I did it just before this because of the CWM log errors on ICS.
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Sounds like you have a good Note.
I've formatted the cache partition about 40 times since I've had the Note. My problem persists through all of that. It was an issue with the stock GB, and DAG's ROM, and the ICS roms that I'm testing now. They are all the same.
I am envious of you. Hopefully my new one will work right.
Other tweaks I've made since upgrading to ICS has been to reduce my animation transitions to .5x (from 1x) and reduce VM heap from 256 to 128.
Just trying to think of any little thing that might help for some reason.
Edit: also have 2D rendering forced on in developer settings.
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Other tweaks I've made since upgrading to ICS has been to reduce my animation transitions to .5x (from 1x) and reduce VM heap from 256 to 128.
Just trying to think of any little thing that might help for some reason.
Edit: also have 2D rendering forced on in developer settings.
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Hm, that's something I haven't tried. I'll definitely give it a go as soon as I have a chance and let you know.
Thanks!
Plexicle said:
Hm, that's something I haven't tried. I'll definitely give it a go as soon as I have a chance and let you know.
Thanks!
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Hope something works out...I feel your pain; I can't type on phones without Swype at this point. If I remember any other settings tweaks I'll be sure to post them.
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Hope something works out...I feel your pain; I can't type on phones without Swype at this point. If I remember any other settings tweaks I'll be sure to post them.
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Hah, I'm glad you understand the pain. It's tough to go back after getting used to using it!
Unfortunately none of the tweaks seemed to help.. but I'll continue to play with things while I wait for the replacement device . Thanks again!
Mine will not enter words until I finish no matter how fast I go. I've never had issues with my swype. I use the s.pen and a glas.t protector. Using the swype version from the international forums. On saurom r6. haven't changed any swype settings.
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Edit: interesting. just tried the same using my finger instead. get short words a lot. sometimes none, but often it starts breaking it up. So I think someone else reported this same finding so it must lie somewhere within that. To me though I hate using swype with my finger. Unless I just washed my hands there's way too much drag to swype quickly. With the s.pen I can go twice as fast and oddly enough this issue does not appear.
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[/COLOR]Edit: interesting. just tried the same using my finger instead. get short words a lot. sometimes none, but often it starts breaking it up. So I think someone else reported this same finding so it must lie somewhere within that. To me though I hate using swype with my finger. Unless I just washed my hands there's way too much drag to swype quickly. With the s.pen I can go twice as fast and oddly enough this issue does not appear.
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Yep, that's the issue. I dislike using the s-pen for Swype, but that's totally a preference thing. I can go as fast as I need to with my finger, most of the time.
There is a variable here somewhere. You are inflicted with the same issue with your finger that a couple of us have, where I've personally tested this on two Notes where I could confirm it wasn't a problem. I hate to just think it's some flaw in the touch screens, but I don't know what else to try.
Can you upload your build.prop? I want to compare it to mine.
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Can you upload your build.prop? I want to compare it to mine.
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I'll have to flash up again later. I'm currently testing an unannounced and unreleased ROM so I have to be careful which heavily modified files go out.
Are you on GB or ICS? I'll go stock later, confirm that the problem is still there, then I'll upload it.
I'm on ICS.
And I'm curious what you're testing...
I know in the market there is an ICS keyboard, but it's not as accurate as the normal ICS keyboard.
I have no problem putzing around with the system and replacing the files needed, but is there a way to extract the stock keyboard from my GSII backup (CM9) and install it on the GSIII?
EDIT: I found latinIME.apk, not sure if the one from the GSII CM9 can go into the GSIII but if it can, I'll report back. Nandroiding now so in case I screw it up, I can restore.
EDIT 2: SUCCESS! Writeup coming for Development.
The one from the market is the same thing as the one on CM9.
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The one from the market is the same thing as the one on CM9.
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Looks the same, definitely doesn't react the same way. I got more typos on it than I ever did with my GSII on CM9. I had the same issue with it before the GSII had CM9. Something is wonky about the autocorrect in it.
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Looks the same, definitely doesn't react the same way. I got more typos on it than I ever did with my GSII on CM9. I had the same issue with it before the GSII had CM9. Something is wonky about the autocorrect in it.
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Interesting, I never had any issues. Is your auto-correct aggressiveness different maybe?
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Interesting, I never had any issues. Is your auto-correct aggressiveness different maybe?
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Nope. I tried turning it up to see if it helped, never did. Something just weird about it. I know it's not 100% the same because the guy who released it, actually took feedback about the way the keyboard responded and added in features. Originally the keyboard wouldn't autocorrect ok to OK and I requested he fix it (since the GB keyboard had that) and he did. From what I could tell he built it from the ICS sources so it could be added to other devices not running ICS. That might explain why I had the issues I had. I don't know if the CM9 LatinIME.apk would run on a 2.3 device so that might be where his development of such came from.
I do speak of https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=inputmethod.latin.ported&hl=en He did also add theming to such and more. The stock CM9 keyboard has pretty much none of the extra modifications he added. I very well could be typing faster than his keyboard can keep up with, I have no idea, but I can say the only "Keyboard" that had accurate autocorrect was the CM9/ICS keyboard.
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Nope. I tried turning it up to see if it helped, never did. Something just weird about it. I know it's not 100% the same because the guy who released it, actually took feedback about the way the keyboard responded and added in features. Originally the keyboard wouldn't autocorrect ok to OK and I requested he fix it (since the GB keyboard had that) and he did. From what I could tell he built it from the ICS sources so it could be added to other devices not running ICS. That might explain why I had the issues I had. I don't know if the CM9 LatinIME.apk would run on a 2.3 device so that might be where his development of such came from.
I do speak of https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=inputmethod.latin.ported&hl=en He did also add theming to such and more. The stock CM9 keyboard has pretty much none of the extra modifications he added. I very well could be typing faster than his keyboard can keep up with, I have no idea, but I can say the only "Keyboard" that had accurate autocorrect was the CM9/ICS keyboard.
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There's also a few versions in the market so we might have had different ones. Either way, glad you got it to work
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There's also a few versions in the market so we might have had different ones. Either way, glad you got it to work
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Right, it very well could be another keyboard people installed, but rather than try to track down the perfect one, why not just install the right one straight from CM9?