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I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a keyboard layout that has the letters in their "normal" places. I've tried a number of keyboard apps and none of them are laid out like a real keyboard.
While I'm at it, is there anyway to disable what I can only presume is "error correcting" that sometimes doesn't type a letter I press? I'll be typing a word like "well" and it will pop up the little preview on the keyboard as I type w and e, but only e will show up, presumably because it assumed that the w was a mi****. I've disabled all the obvious settings under keyboards in Settings. Perhaps it's a touchscreen thing, however, I'll look into it.
Also, with VEGAn 5.1, it's no longer acting correctly when connected to the PC via USB. It will appear to act correctly until I try to transfer a file at which point the PC hangs up and the connection is severed and the button on the gtab returns to "Turn On File Sharing". Not a deal breaker, but a bit annoying since now I have to transfer files via my micro sd card.
What is a normal keyboard for you ?
Where are you located, in US ?
You know that keyboard layout changes from country to country !
It changes minimally for most countries using roman characters. But yes, a US or UK keyboard would do the trick. I don't care if backspace or shift or whatever are in odd places, that I can get used to, but I can't seem to find a keyboard that has the three main rows of keys offset in the standard manner. I realize this is undoubtedly a side effect of android 2.2/.3 being a phone OS on a tablet, but I would hope that there would be a real keyboard somewhere. Maybe I'll need to look into what's involved in making a keyboard app.
xdzt,
I suggest you keep trying with the Tnt Western keyboard that is stock on it.
I had never used a touch keyboard before and used the stock kb for the first
time. Since then, I have used a few others that got installed in place of the
stock kb.
I like the spread out letters and the split let's my long thumb also do the "thumb"
thing. I also like the .com and @ and other extra things it automagically brings
up when you need them.
Who knows? It may grow on you!!!
Rev
Does anyone know if the stock TnT Western Keyboard is available as an apk? I would really like to run this keyboard under CM7.
Thanks,
JD
JD,
Not an expert on this, but yes, I'm pretty sure there is. You might search in the
forums -- this is not the first time someone has asked this. And yes, you might
also use Root Explorer or one of the other file managers to find it on the G-Tablet.
Rev
I want to get this tablet for sheet music.
Any ideas how I could buy or hack a foot pedal to turn the pages for me?
bluetooth mouse?
usb mouse?
usb footpedals?
Here is a USB foot pedal for $32
Scythe USB-2FOOTSWITCH Express Pedal USB Input
Would I be able to rig this up to go page forward and back on a gtablet?
You could probably do the same thing with a cheap usb mouse if you just taped it in place were you need it to click...But maybe someone else knows more about getting a peddle to work
'Supplemental USB Foot Switch Input Device for Keyboard /Mouse, such as Double Click, [Ctrl+S].
. Under the difficult or ineffective situation to use your hands, you can do entry task by your foot with this Foot Switch.'....This looks promising it might actually work I just cant verify that...sorry
How about just using Voice Actions?
Actually a laser mouse positioned above your foot would work as well. The way the mouse works is it takes pictures of the surface below and then identifies the movement. So you could place the mouse slightly above your foot and wear socks that have some sort of design on them. Map the page switch to any mouse movement.
nunjabusiness said:
How about just using Voice Actions?
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I'm just imagining that during a performance...nice concerto, then the pianist shouts "TURN!"
but I digress. I'll try some things out with a trackball. If buttons can be assigned a turn page command, than your foot pedal idea would work.
I just need to find an app that allows mouse usage
Didn't even see your link. I am pretty sure that could work as long as it just reports as an HID. If it just reports as a mouse, then its just about making the software respond to clicks.
Lets put it this way, if you get this going I am pretty sure you can turn this into a $9.99 app if it doesn't already exist.
I would pay for the app as I have no coding skills.
There are several apps that are specifically for guitar music and I would love to be able to use the pedal with one of them.
I've been searching, and from what I can see, it doesn't exist.
I plugged my logitech trackball into the g-tablet and it does work as a pointing device. However, it comes with some expected glitches.
First, there IS a small crosshair cursor on the screen. The axis' are off. Moving the ball right goes down, left goes up, up goes right, and down goes left. The right button doesn't seem to do anything at all, while the left button does initiate activity. I thought I could "trick" it by rotating the g-tablet, but alas, it does the same movements on all points of view.
I loaded a multiple page sheet music PDF into Ez PDF reader, and was able to turn pages. In portrait mode (ideal for reading sheet music) I was unable to get the cursor to the complete bottom of the page, where the selection is to turn a page. However, by keeping the cursor in the middle of the page, I clicked, and the page turned...BUT, turning BACK is REALLY tricky.
So, it works, it's glitchy, and it may not be the same with the pedal you're considering. Of course, a trackball can be placed on the floor. you can still navigate with the touch screen while it's plugged in.
All you'd need to do is set the cursor, and click the left button to get the page to advance.
I'm wondering if an app can be created that simply controls clicks, not mouse movement...so that it would be an ad-on for Adobe PDF viewer, Kindle Reader, or EZ PDF reader to simply institute a turn page command with each mouse click...forward with right click, backward with left...
Ah well...if only I knew enough to attempt to make an app.
in any case, there are my findings, it could work, but whether it works efficiently would depend on a future app to be written.
What instrument are you playing? My brother-in-law bought his iPad specifically for taking piano sheet music around with him. I know that he never had trouble turning pages on analog sheet music, so I didn't expect him to have a problem reaching up and swiping a screen, just as he would a real piece of paper.
I play bass, and the music (chord sheets) that I use I make sure to reduce to one page prior to scanning them, eliminating the need for page turning until the song is over and both hands are free.
This is a little off topic, but if an app like this could be created, or a tool found to do this, it would be an amazing tool for handicapped individuals to read books with a tablet. If simply click something with their feet/hand/wrist/elbow could turn the page, it could be used in a variety of situations.
I also wonder if broadening your search to include products or apps that are already out there but are marketed to the handicapped or disabled might help you find something.
Anyway, just a thought. My mom runs a daycare for handicapped children and young adults and something like this would be awesome for her kids to use.
I play guitar, ukulele and bass. I don't read sheet music so this would be just lyrics and chords usually.
Sometimes I change key or my buddy is playing capo 3 and I want to play uke or bass (no capo) and so one of the several apps that will import guitar tabs and change keys on the fly would be nice.
Changing the page isn't critical. It would be for the occasional song that I can't fit on one page or for seamlessly going from one song to the next.
When putting music on a stand, I can put three pages side-by-side which eliminates the need for a page turn.
Also, I know with some PDF viewers, you can make setlists. Does anyone know if any guitar chord apps would do this?
Cheap usb keyboard. Open it and wire a foot switch across the keyswitch for a key that does what you want like pgdn or enter?
Another option:
I am a working musician (guitar and vocals) and I use mine all the time for charts. I just paste them all together into a single doc using MS Word or whatever. I space them out between songs and I use a Calabri 14pt font and it works like a charm. A lot of the charts I use display on one screen in protrait mode. If I need to scroll I just swipe with my finger. It's really easy to do, much easier than it sounds. I use OfficeSuite Pro to display the docs. It has a full screen mode that is great for this purpose. Good luck!
Thanks frankencat.
Glad to hear it is working for you.
Have you had any problems with the viewing angle? I have heard the gtab can get a little picky.
I lead worship at my church and i use my tablet for my chords and lyrics. I use power point files and just swipe with my finger from song to song, but even that does break up the "flow" of the service slightly. I would absolutely love for this pedal to work just to go from slide to slide. It would be amazing. I would pay for any app it takes.
I am a worship leader as well. I use my gtablet for that purpose with pdfs. EZPDF Reader is the only pdf reader I have found that will work with my pedal. I use a pageflip bluetooth pedal. It will only work when set to send L & R commands.
I would insert a link, but haven't posted before. Google Pageflip Cicada...
80 dollars well spent!
Hope that helps!
Blessings!
Thanks Brandon. Glad to hear that it is working for you.
I am hoping to find an app that will let you change the keys of songs on the fly and make "set lists" of songs.
Anyone have any luck finding something like this for Android?
brandonhardin: Does your PDF app let you make setlists? or do you individually open up files or compile them in advance?
Do it with Bluetooth
Here are the parts you need:
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/bl...39_142&zenid=3d82021ce7f95ff23b4a7f97d9333d47
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/se...32_133&zenid=3d82021ce7f95ff23b4a7f97d9333d47
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/th...56_160&zenid=3d82021ce7f95ff23b4a7f97d9333d47
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/pl...78_184&zenid=3d82021ce7f95ff23b4a7f97d9333d47
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/ds...78_183&zenid=3d82021ce7f95ff23b4a7f97d9333d47
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/se...32_135&zenid=3d82021ce7f95ff23b4a7f97d9333d47
I can even help you write the code if you need to for the hardware as it would be really simple!
The Android code can be done using the APP INVENTOR so no super coding skills needed http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/
Basically, you will have your page turner act as a Bluetooth SPP connected to the Android phone. The page turner will need code that puts it in wait if pressed multiple times within 5-10min and goes into sleep if not continually activated with two buttons presses to wake up. this will save you massive battery life.
Just have the APK register whatever serial command you give over the SPP bluetooth to automatically turn the page.
Ka-Peche?
bob_frapples said:
Thanks frankencat.
Glad to hear it is working for you.
Have you had any problems with the viewing angle? I have heard the gtab can get a little picky.
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A little bit bit it's really not a problem. Sounds like I am in good company...I lead worship at my church too.
Childofthehorn said:
Here are the parts you need:
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/bl...39_142&zenid=3d82021ce7f95ff23b4a7f97d9333d47
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/se...32_133&zenid=3d82021ce7f95ff23b4a7f97d9333d47
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/th...56_160&zenid=3d82021ce7f95ff23b4a7f97d9333d47
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/pl...78_184&zenid=3d82021ce7f95ff23b4a7f97d9333d47
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/ds...78_183&zenid=3d82021ce7f95ff23b4a7f97d9333d47
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/se...32_135&zenid=3d82021ce7f95ff23b4a7f97d9333d47
I can even help you write the code if you need to for the hardware as it would be really simple!
The Android code can be done using the APP INVENTOR so no super coding skills needed http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/
Basically, you will have your page turner act as a Bluetooth SPP connected to the Android phone. The page turner will need code that puts it in wait if pressed multiple times within 5-10min and goes into sleep if not continually activated with two buttons presses to wake up. this will save you massive battery life.
Just have the APK register whatever serial command you give over the SPP bluetooth to automatically turn the page.
Ka-Peche?
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That is amazing, but I am afraid it is way over my head!
I'll have to test this when I get home, but -
This was actually THE REASON why I bought the g-tablet. I'm a pianist, and I wanted a screen to view music on.
I own a footpedal page turner, and I don't remember the model right now - but it's essentially a wireless keyboard with only two keys, PGUP and PGDWN. It's just difficult to put a laptop on top of a piano and be able to see it, so I was hoping this would work with my G-Tab... Until I realized I have a touchscreen, and could just swipe to turn pages.
I'll check out the pageturner footswitch and return with the brand information when I get home tonight.
As a pianist I have the freedom to use a hand to turn pages while still playing with the other, but I can see where many other instrumentalists would prefer a footswitch.
~A
Alright this is going to be a doozy of a post for my first one on XDA. While playing this game today called Exitium, I got a crazy idea in my head. "What if there was a way to take games with virtual controllers (D-Pad and buttons) and map them to physical keys?" Either on a built-in keyboard like the Droid 4, or the Xperia Play's keys, or even mapping them to a third party device such as a bluetooth keyboard or Wiimote/PS3 controller.
Obviously the easiest solution here is to contact the developer and request hardware button support within the game you are wanting to play. But...
I have looked everywhere and have not found an outside application that attempts to do this. So after a long talk with a friend of mine, we came up with some rough draft ideas of how this could be done. Unfortunately neither of us have a lick of sense when it comes to actual programming and the idea of creating this from the ground up seems impossible at our level.
So what I was wondering, is if there already is an app out there that can take a point on the touchscreen, and assign it to a keypress on a physical device? And if not, are there any developers out there willing to give this a stab (and I'd obviously give as much input as I possibly could), or someone willing to help me try to understand where I'd even begin to make something like this?
I know this probably sounds like a mess but I promise I tried to make it as simple and coherent as I possibly could. Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Hoping!! BEGGING!!!!
I would love to see this - like a more universal version of sixaxis mapper. it could work with keyboards or any game controller or mouse. even really useful for phones that have physical keyboards attached! Hope one of these pops up. I couldn't find any so far ...
I often use keyboard with my N7 and i have thought about this many times, it would be very useful for playing games... I'm sure that many ppl had the same idea.
I don't know about any apps that can do this, but it already exists as a built in feature in a kind of a console tablet hybrid called "archos gamepad", so hopefully some apps like this could soon come to google play...
To all developers: please make it, i would have no problem paying $5 for such an app.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
I have an android tablet I'm trying to use for a presentation. I have about 10 or 15 slides I need to use, but they aren't in any particular order. I may need to see slide 2, then 4, then 9, then back to 4, etc. It will always be different. I have been able to find programs that can display full screen photos, pdfs, powerpoints, or whatever, but none of them seem to allow more than up or down (forward, reverse). I could do that, but it isn't very elegant or pleasant for the viewers.
I purchased tasker and have used it for a variety of things. I would like to be able to link a button on my keyboard remote to specific slides (jpg, pdf, whatever). So, when I hit the "A" it goes to slide 11. I hope that makes sense. It seems I could use a tasker profile to make button presses, but not to have button presses link to actions. I assume I am wrong, but I can not figure it out.
Does anyone have a good solution to this? Are there other programs available that would be easier to set up? I could use pdf, powerpoint, any type of image, or even something I haven't thought of. I've even wondered if I would be better off using an old phone to connect with bluetooth and make tasker "buttons" to perform specific tasks, but that seems more complex and more prone to breaking than a hardware remote.
I have a few photo viewers that work reasonably well, but many like to do strange things to the formatting or still show the menu bar or have stuff pop up over the images.
I previously did this with a windows machine and made eventghost switch backgrounds based on remote buttons. However, I'm leary of doing that as android seems to be rather poor at correctly formatting a background image without zooming/cropping oddly.
Any help would be great. Thanks for even reading down this far.
Android Keyboard Issues
Hello. I am a new Android user who has purchased an RCA Viking Pro 10 2-in-1 Android Laptop running Android 6.0 with kernel version 3.18.22(not rooted). I use it to work on various projects on the go, offline about 95% of the time. I'm having some problems regarding the keyboard and cannot seem to root it. I would appreciate any help someone could offer.
My device is labeled as RCT6K03W13-Android6.0-v1.15.0-M00 and runs Android 6.0 kernel version 3.18.22. KingRoot fails to discover a rooting strategy, then tries anyway but fails. Please note that I have no other computer and only limited computer access.
The biggest issue involves to two cmd buttons that flank the spacebar. Pressing them opens Google App for a voice search, which I never use. This minimizes the app that I was using, starts google app, then minimizes that to show the search bar on the desktop (which I would also like to go away). Then a popup tells me that I'm not connected to the internet. Since I rarely am, this is extremely annoying. If I wanted to run a web search I would open Chrome myself. I certainly wouldn't want the results to appear in Google App, which doesn't work nearly as well. I blame RCA for poor design, placing hotkeys at the bottom of the keyboard where they're likely to be pressed accidentally (it is a small keyboard, after all).
I would like to remap the left and right Cmd buttons to the left and right mouse buttons. I tried External Keyboard Helper, but it can't remap the command buttons and won't remap anything to the mouse buttons anyway. The Viking Pro includes a touchpad mouse without buttons, which is fine for most Android users, but I intend to work extensively with Linux ports such as AndrOpen Office and GIMP Inkscape, and they require precision when dragging and dropping small objects.
Also, the two finger touchpad touch that's meant to simulate a right mouse button click works as a back button instead. I already have one of those on my screen and one on my keyboard, I certainly don't need a third. What I do need is a right mouse button. It should simulate a long press and/or the right button.
Unfortunately GIMP Inkscape and Pelya's linux translation layer don't run on Android 6, so I need to either run Linux Deploy, which requires ROOT, or go all out and just install Linux(perhaps Ubuntu Phone), which requires unlocking my boot manager. Perhaps I should have just bought a Linux Netbook instead, but the tablet was cheap and something about Android attracted me to it. I thought I would be able to find more g featured Linux ports, but Google did to good of a job when they monetized the package manager and locked out root access. I would think running x-11 over the framebuffer would be easy, and that people would port current versions of LibreOffice, Scribus, Inkscape, Blender, ext. I guess linux users are sore about google stealing Linux's thunder when they released Android just as Linux on phones, tablets, and netbooks was gaining traction.
As an old DOS gamer and amateur Linux programmer, I'm not averse to manually editing cfg files (or to setting jumpers to configure my hardware). Unfortunately, I'm new to Android and have limited internet access. Any help someone could offer to a 90s geek with out-of-date computer skills due to some legal problems would be greatly appreciated (the empty wallet hardly helps things).
Sincerely
Michael Palmer
[email protected]
MichaelCPalmer said:
Android Keyboard Issues
Hello. I am a new Android user who has purchased an RCA Viking Pro 10 2-in-1 Android Laptop running Android 6.0 with kernel version 3.18.22(not rooted). I use it to work on various projects on the go, offline about 95% of the time. I'm having some problems regarding the keyboard and cannot seem to root it. I would appreciate any help someone could offer.
My device is labeled as RCT6K03W13-Android6.0-v1.15.0-M00 and runs Android 6.0 kernel version 3.18.22. KingRoot fails to discover a rooting strategy, then tries anyway but fails. Please note that I have no other computer and only limited computer access.
The biggest issue involves to two cmd buttons that flank the spacebar. Pressing them opens Google App for a voice search, which I never use. This minimizes the app that I was using, starts google app, then minimizes that to show the search bar on the desktop (which I would also like to go away). Then a popup tells me that I'm not connected to the internet. Since I rarely am, this is extremely annoying. If I wanted to run a web search I would open Chrome myself. I certainly wouldn't want the results to appear in Google App, which doesn't work nearly as well. I blame RCA for poor design, placing hotkeys at the bottom of the keyboard where they're likely to be pressed accidentally (it is a small keyboard, after all).
I would like to remap the left and right Cmd buttons to the left and right mouse buttons. I tried External Keyboard Helper, but it can't remap the command buttons and won't remap anything to the mouse buttons anyway. The Viking Pro includes a touchpad mouse without buttons, which is fine for most Android users, but I intend to work extensively with Linux ports such as AndrOpen Office and GIMP Inkscape, and they require precision when dragging and dropping small objects.
Also, the two finger touchpad touch that's meant to simulate a right mouse button click works as a back button instead. I already have one of those on my screen and one on my keyboard, I certainly don't need a third. What I do need is a right mouse button. It should simulate a long press and/or the right button.
Unfortunately GIMP Inkscape and Pelya's linux translation layer don't run on Android 6, so I need to either run Linux Deploy, which requires ROOT, or go all out and just install Linux(perhaps Ubuntu Phone), which requires unlocking my boot manager. Perhaps I should have just bought a Linux Netbook instead, but the tablet was cheap and something about Android attracted me to it. I thought I would be able to find more g featured Linux ports, but Google did to good of a job when they monetized the package manager and locked out root access. I would think running x-11 over the framebuffer would be easy, and that people would port current versions of LibreOffice, Scribus, Inkscape, Blender, ext. I guess linux users are sore about google stealing Linux's thunder when they released Android just as Linux on phones, tablets, and netbooks was gaining traction.
As an old DOS gamer and amateur Linux programmer, I'm not averse to manually editing cfg files (or to setting jumpers to configure my hardware). Unfortunately, I'm new to Android and have limited internet access. Any help someone could offer to a 90s geek with out-of-date computer skills due to some legal problems would be greatly appreciated (the empty wallet hardly helps things).
Sincerely
Michael Palmer
[email protected]
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have youhad any luck rooting your device? i have the same one and tried ALL of the one click root apps with no luck
Hello everyone I am trying to route a tablet root model number is RCT6K03W13 I can’t seem to find any won that routes the device And it’s running android version 6.0
And kernel Version 3.18.22 can someone please help me I would greatly appreciate it