The swipe keypad on my vibrant will randomly stop working. When I press any letters nothing happens. Sometimes it will still make the swype trail but it won't put the words in. Then if I change the input method to either the android or Samsung keyboard and go back to swype again it will work for a while but then stop again. It's very frustrating because i love swype! Has anyone else had this problem?
I was having a similar problem, but I switched to the android keyboard permanently because it was irrititating the hell out of me.
I finally just called T-Mobile because I couldn't find a solution anywhere. They said they'll just send me a new one. In the meantime though it's back to the android keyboard.
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.
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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.
so i hate this and its annoying, when i get a text the screen turns on, i had that problem on my galaxy s3 and was looking around and found a file to flash from the sprint glaxy s3 fourms so i flashed it on my verizon galaxy s3 and i was able to disable the screen on notification , i was thinking about trying that on my verizon note 2 but decided not to , figured i go here and ask if anyone knows how to disable it or know of any hack with out using a third party app please and thank you!
I just purchased a Zaggkeys Flex keyboard for a friend that has a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. I followed the instructions and paired the keyboard to the device, but it will not type when I press any of the keys. I paired the Flex keyboard to my Samsung Infuse 4g and it worked without any problems. However what I noticed is that when I connect the Flex keyboard to my Infuse it automatically switches from the Android on-screen keyboard to the Samsung on-screen keyboard as the input method and then it works. However when I looked at the input methods on the Galaxy Tab the only option available is the Android on-screen keyboard. The tablet is rooted and is running Cyanogenmod 10.1. I am not the one that rooted the tablet and I am wondering if the person that did deleted the Samsung keyboard or if this happens with Cyanogenmod 10.1 or if this is even the problem. I also tried using apps like blueinput and bluekeyboard, but when trying those I received the message that HID is not supported by the device which I don't believe is correct because I have seen many posts stating how easily this keyboard normally pairs with the Galaxy Tab.
Please let me know if you think it is something with the way the tablet was rooted or if it has to do with Cyanogenmod 10.1 or any other problems that may be causing this issue and any solutions you may have. Or at the very least is there anyway I can get the Samsung on-screen keyboard back onto the tablet to see if that is the problem?? This is very frustrating especially since this keyboard was supposed to be a graduation gift. Please help
I am on my 3rd replacement phone now because of this issue and just figured out why it is happening. everytime i get a replacement and update it from 5.0.2 to 5.1.1 is starts missing key strokes.. My current replacement i purposely didnt update and it works absolutely perfectly. I have tested 4 phones now and all of them have the same exact issue. I believe the reason most people dont realize it is because of word prediction. most of the time Word Prediction will put the correct word in even tho it misses keystroke. My brother has an s6 and he didnt even realize it till i had him test it like i tested mine. I did notice it tho and got really annoyed by it and started returning phones until i realized that they all had the same issue.. Worked perfectly on 5.0.2, but as soon as i updated to 5.1.1 they started missing keystrokes.
This is how i tested and proofed to Verizon that my phone was not working right:
disable "word prediction" in the samsung keyboard settings.
in the texting app type the first row of keys and press enter repeatedly so it looks like this:
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
repeat about 10 to 20 times. If your phone has the same issues as all my replacements you should see missed keys 2 to 5 times in your repeated words
Example:
qwertyuiop
qwetyuiop (missed the r)
qwertyuiop
qwertuiop (missed the y)
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
wertyuip (missed the q and o)
qwertyuiop
Cant wait to see what everyone comes up with! Lets get this to samsung asap for a fix!
Phones Affected
The phones ive tested so far have all been the following model so i dont know if it affects different phones or not. Please post if your phone is affected.
Samsung Galaxy S6 (Verizon)
Model: SM-G920V
Andriod version: 5.1.1