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Swype beta stopped working an not on list for upgrade. Now what damn it
Yeah, annoying, it still works as a keyboard, but you can't swype.......
Use SLIDE IT in the Market its Free and swypes OK or buy ULTIMATE KEYBOARD that has everything including a swype
I had the same problem with expired swype so installed ultra keyboard based on some recommendations and wow this thing works great on the streak! Seems like it was made for it. There is so much customization and the ability to keep the top row numbers active. Only downside I have seen with limited testing is the tracing is not that accurate. The ability to size the keyboard is especially valuable on this screen size. Try it out.
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As above, and can't see myself going back to swype after a mere 5 minutes with ultra keyboard. Thanks swype for locking me out so I could find a superior replacement!
Does anyone find the ultrakeyboard slow.
I have installed in 2 of my streaks and differents rom version and has always been slow.
Though i like the features included the lag is worrisome and does not allow me to type fast.
one doesn't seem to be able to resize fonts though. Swype had nice big characters.
Slide it is not free, just been on the market and its asking for 6 euro's stupid swype not working no more
zero.fx said:
Slide it is not free, just been on the market and its asking for 6 euro's stupid swype not working no more
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the trial version is
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.dasur.slideit.vt.lite
free
Ultra Keyboard is a little pokey (there is a brief pause after entering characters or swiping, so you can't hit the "search" key or "enter" key), but is overall great. It has so many other features (such as copy, cut, paste buttons, cursor movement buttons, and bunches of other goodies) that it makes it worth it. No big inconvenience, and being able to swipe text more than makes up for the issue.
okmft said:
Ultra Keyboard is a little pokey (there is a brief pause after entering characters or swiping, so you can't hit the "search" key or "enter" key), but is overall great. It has so many other features (such as copy, cut, paste buttons, cursor movement buttons, and bunches of other goodies) that it makes it worth it. No big inconvenience, and being able to swipe text more than makes up for the issue.
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I had a similar problem and made a change to: Ultra Keyboard Settings->Typing->Protected Controls->Deselect "Enter Key"
phjnky said:
I had a similar problem and made a change to: Ultra Keyboard Settings->Typing->Protected Controls->Deselect "Enter Key"
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*Very nice*!!! That little "feature" has now been disabled, and I thank you for the information. Seriously. That will teach me to remember to go through every possible menu and setting on an important piece of software like a new keyboard.
Okay, so I'm lookin on the T-Mobile website and in the features list it says there is Trace and Swype. I looked around a little on the web and couldn't find much about Trace. It almost sounds like a replica of Swype. So could somebody like fill me in what it is. Thanks.
That pretty much is sums it up.
I, for one, hate it and installed Swype. Trace has a white keyboard and I prefer the darker tones of Swype. On Swype if you hold down the backspace key, it auto deletes the last word, where as trace acts as a computer keyboard and goes letter by letter.
Trace was decent and quite accurate. Of the other third party keyboard apps I've used, I'd put it #2 behind Swype, but after adjusting the accuracy/speed ratio, Swype is still is better IMHO.
Basically what it means is that there is no Swype license with your phone any more.
Spovik said:
That pretty much is sums it up.
I, for one, hate it and installed Swype. Trace has a white keyboard and I prefer the darker tones of Swype. On Swype if you hold down the backspace key, it auto deletes the last word, where as trace acts as a computer keyboard and goes letter by letter.
Trace was decent and quite accurate. Of the other third party keyboard apps I've used, I'd put it #2 behind Swype, but after adjusting the accuracy/speed ratio, Swype is still is better IMHO.
Basically what it means is that there is no Swype license with your phone any more.
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Thanks so much for clearing that up.
Swype is still king!
Spovik said:
That pretty much is sums it up.
I, for one, hate it and installed Swype. Trace has a white keyboard and I prefer the darker tones of Swype. On Swype if you hold down the backspace key, it auto deletes the last word, where as trace acts as a computer keyboard and goes letter by letter.
Trace was decent and quite accurate. Of the other third party keyboard apps I've used, I'd put it #2 behind Swype, but after adjusting the accuracy/speed ratio, Swype is still is better IMHO.
Basically what it means is that there is no Swype license with your phone any more.
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Swype is much more advanced than trace. Swype let's you adjust the trail left behind when you swipe letters whereas trace the line stays until the next word, sometimes get's hard to see where the letters are. IMO, Peace, V
Spovik said:
That pretty much is sums it up.
I, for one, hate it and installed Swype. Trace has a white keyboard and I prefer the darker tones of Swype. On Swype if you hold down the backspace key, it auto deletes the last word, where as trace acts as a computer keyboard and goes letter by letter.
Trace was decent and quite accurate. Of the other third party keyboard apps I've used, I'd put it #2 behind Swype, but after adjusting the accuracy/speed ratio, Swype is still is better IMHO.
Basically what it means is that there is no Swype license with your phone any more.
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I've never used swype but with trace on my phone, the last word stays highlighted until you start the next word and tapping the backspace key while the word is highlighted will delete the whole word. Seems to work well for me.
vvveith said:
Swype is much more advanced than trace. Swype let's you adjust the trail left behind when you swipe letters whereas trace the line stays until the next word, sometimes get's hard to see where the letters are. IMO, Peace, V
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Again, trace on my phone does not exhibit this behavior. As soon as I'm done tracing the word, the line always goes away.
For me, it seems that Trace is a tad more accurate than Swype.
The one thing I do miss about Swype is being able to double-tap a word, and choose a replacement word. Trace just highlights the word for you, requiring you to delete the word and then re-type a new word.
TouchPal Keyboard
I like the free TouchPal keyboard I got from the Android Market much better than Swype.
Been using it for over a month now exclusively .
And I was a die hard beta Swype adopter before Tmo started putting it on their phones.
That's pretty good, I hadn't seen it before. I'll have to give it a little longer to see if I like it better, but it's definitely a great alternative.
Does anyone here use Swiftkey 3 Tablet, and do you find it laggy? There's a delay with every key stroke that slows my typing down, especially when I use it in a text editor (like Jota) and want to do fast typing. Their predictive engine is amazing, I'd swear it's psychic. It gives you three predictions even before you type a single letter of the next word. Sometimes I'll enter a whole sentence without typing a single letter, just choosing words it's predicted. If not for the lag, I'd use it every time.
Thumb Keyboard is great, zero delay when I type, their predictive engine isn't as good, it gives you a bunch of predictions, but not until you type at least one letter in the next word.
Is Swiftkey not optimized for the Nook Color? Or is there something I'm missing here?
IF you have the Swiftkey beta 3 get rid of it and install the latest released version. Beta had terrible lag. the current version for me has no lag at all.
I use also latest official Swiftkey and works just fine
Okay, it seems that Jota and Swiftkey don't work very well together, at least on my tablet. One of the reviewers for Swiftkey also mentions this. I tried Swiftkey with another text editor (NTW) and there's no lag, so I'll switch. It works fine in all my other apps. Too bad, I do like Jota. The lag is very minor, but enough to take me out of a flow when I type in Jota.
Yes, I've been using the release version, not the beta.
I was a Thumb keyboard user forever. But fiund myself constantly hitting the period key instead of the space bar, and often the b and n keys. I would have to spend time cleaning up every post. I tried Swiftkey and love it much more than my Thumb kb. Hardly any wrong keys entered and no more misplaced periods.
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Swiftkey 3 for Tablet FTW! I love it because its quite fast and thumb keyboard I hit too many buttons i didnt want to.
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Swiftkey 3 for Tablet FTW! I love it because its quite fast and thumb keyboard I hit too many buttons i didnt want to.
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I used to use swiftkey but I've hopelessly fallen in love with Swype beta. XD. To those who haven't tried it yet, you should, just Google it. Also it's free. Or you can just go the crazy route and hook up a mechanical keyboard to your nook through host mode like me. ;P
Best of Luck,
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Thumb keyboard has been working great for me in just about everything except Firefox for some reason.
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k8108 said:
I was a Thumb keyboard user forever. But fiund myself constantly hitting the period key instead of the space bar, and often the b and n keys. I would have to spend time cleaning up every post.
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Oh man, I do this all the time. Tried training myselfnto.use (see, SEE!) the left thumb for space, but still can't get it 100%. Still 5x better than stock keyboard. I may have to give swiftkey a try as per this thread.
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Maybe this is an android thing. I'm using the stock keyboard on Skyraider 1.3 with no other mods. It behaved the same on stock and Froyo. I don't use any prediction at all, so the experience is as manual as can be. I have used swiftkey before but I don't remember it behavind better.
I cannot type as fast as I want because sometimes the letters overwrite as I type.
For example:
I type "gotcha"
It comes out as "gotca"
As far as I know it doesn't seem to happen more often with any combos of letter, but I'm not sure I'd notice if it did.
Sometimes the cursor will jump back a few spaces as I type. It's almost like a reverse TAB.
Also, when I'm typing sometimes the keyboard loads and drags the screen far below where I'm working. So much so that I cannot see what I'm typing. So, I exit out of the keyboard, scroll back up, manually place the cursor, and as soon as I type...bam it goes to the bottom of the screen again. I think this happens most while using a browser or e-mail client. And tapatalk.
Lastly, with my SMS messages sometimes it'll completely wig out and bring up the message log of the person I'm typing to prompting me to delete what I have check boxed, which thankfully is nothing.
What's going on here? Is it user error?
Duely blundered from my thunderdolt.
I think your typing issue is from accidently moving the cursor while hitting keys on the top row. I do it frequently, its either that or accidently hitting word suggestions, which is why i turned mine off to, that is far more annoying.
I also have that problem with not being able to see what I'm typing in certain apps. I think its just an app problem, oversight by the developers.
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What keyboards have you guys been using for your lg2?
For my comparisons just wanted to state that I type >60 wpm on a regular keyboard and probably 30-40 wpm on the phone. I usually hold the phone and peck with two thumbs, sometimes use one handed Swype peck combo. Also I use a lot of slang and abbreviations when I type.
Google keyboard-
Positives- perfect and consistent level of vibration on key touches. No lag, 7/10 accurate swiping, change of long press duration. I like the spacing between the keys. Like the clean look.
Negatives-3/10 predictive text (usually just predicts words like the, a, on etc.). New update ugly black and white. New update removes comma if you want google voice on your keyboard.
Swiftkey- highest rated. I have used a ton.
Positives- best predictive text engine 9/10. Good cobalt color scheme. Able to shorten long press duration. On lg2 almost lag free and can mostly keep up with me.
Negatives- if you make a mistake it is more difficult to fix errors because of predictive engine. Swype is least accurate to me (2/10). Sometimes the vibration is heavy then soft which I find annoying. Swyping shows you next word,instead of current word. Sometimes I type fast and trigger the Swype = error. No spacing between keys
Touchpal
Positives- cool popup graphics and floating corrections (also negative as can be distracting), almost lag free, but slightly more lag than Swiftkey when typing fast. Swyping very good 8/10. Cool editing option. Many themes.
Negatives- a bit annoying to Swype up and down for numbers and punctuation when tap typing. Cannot long press for numbers as delay not adjustable and takes too long. Sometimes double tap space does not put in a period- very annoying. Does not use Google voice dictation system. No spacing between keys. Very inconsistent vibration while typing.
Swype-
Positives- best swiping keyboard by far 9/10.
Negatives- laggy at times and very laggy to tap type. Difficult using slang or non proper English. Tougher to edit mistakes.
Lg stock-
Poo pooed this one out of the box, using it for last few days.
Positives- great spacing of keys. Good looking with a few skins. Number row and symbols row at top after finish a word (makes up for non adjustable long long press delay). Good swiping (7/10). Good predictions not as good as Swiftkey). No lag. Vibration consistent. Uses Google voice.
Negatives-vibration a bit too strong and not adjustable. Long press delay not adjustable. Wish comma was to left of space (but getting used to this). Hard to get to "-" key which I use a lot.
Believe it or not my overall keyboard of choice (this week) is the lg2 stock! Can't believe it. Any lag automatically kills a keyboard for me.
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I've used the old FlexT9 Nuance since 2011 and I was pretty attached to it. I loaded it on every device I used for a long time. But since I got a G2, I like the LG stock one just fine. I don't even think about using another keyboard on it..
For the LG keyboard I'm going to have to disagree with you on the prediction. In fact it miss-predicts almost every word I trace. I think at best its 50% accurate. I have been a long to time user and fan of Swype because it is super accurate, but alas it has no number row. Anyone that has used a keyboard without a number row knows how nice it is to have one and not need to long press. This is the only place I have seen the LG keyboard win out. Otherwise, every time I use the LG keyboard I get so frustrated and swear I'm going back to Swype... I still haven't, but only because of the number row!
Personally I'm using the Google keyboard. I love the default LG one, but I cannot stand that the spacebar on the bottom is spaced a little to the left. Whoever works at LG and made it that way needs a punch in the face, because otherwise it feels much better than the rest and even has the number keys on top. With the way it is I keep inputting a comma in when it should be a space and cannot get used to it.
I completely agree that any lag kills a keyboard which is why I don't use swiftkey. I keep seeing rave reviews for it. It's one of the best selling apps. Luckily I got the full version free from the Amazon app store when they put it up for free to download. The slight lag completely kills it for me. The keyboard itself looks nice and functions well except for the lag.
Now the Google keyboard isn't perfect either and the recent changes made it worse. It functions very well, no lag, but seriously lacking emoji and other cool looking symbols the other keyboards have. On top of that now you can't place the mic button on the symbols keyboard anymore. It's either on the main keyboard or completely off. Why on earth did they have to change that??? It was perfect the way it was. Stupid Google.
Why on earth can't anyone out there make the perfect keyboard?? It would need;
1)The keys to be spaced right and the space bar at the bottom wide
2)No lag at all
3)Number keys on top
4)Being able to switch from typing to mic on the fly and not be intrusive.
And last of lesser importance 5)good swipe function and predictive text.
I've tried using the Google Keyboard, I've tried using the stock LG keyboard, but I find myself continually going back to SwiftKey just for the simple fact of the punctuation key. I love that I can swipe left for an exclamation mark or right for a question mark. I know it may seem stupid, but that's why I always come back to SwiftKey.
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I always come back to SwiftKey
Reasons:
- Keyboard layout
- Best text prediction
- You can swype whole sentences in one go.
On a sidenote, keyboards are def. one of the main reasons I use Android. It would be a living nightmare to go back to the iOS keyboard for me.
Using Google Keyboard! LG's one is great but it's absolutely ugly, to the point where I simply can't stand it.
For me it's SwiftKey hands down... I do experience the different strength vibrations, but that hasn't been until the last update I do not believe. But I definitely don't experience any lag at all... I used to on my galaxy nexus, but not on my g2 .
My one complaint about SwiftKey is that sometimes it doesn't learn new words or especially has problems learning combinations of words. But overall it's the only keyboard that I keep coming back to, no others even compare.
But I will say that I typically use two hands like you and peck at it with my thumbs. What I absolutely love about SwiftKey is that I can type strings of three or four words together and it figures it out
I too find myself coming back to SwiftKey. On older phones I would find myself flipping between different keyboards because SwiftKey has that bit of lag. But on this phone, while I can still make it lag if I really try, it is so much smoother than any previous phone I have used and the lag is very rare and slight at worst. And even when laggy on old phones, the simple fact of the matter was that with the way I type, I can consistently type faster and more accurately on SwiftKey than on any other keyboard. That is what has kept me using it. The fact that it looks nice and clean compared to say, TouchPal is a plus. The old Google keyboard is nice too, simple and quick but I can type faster with others. LG's keyboard I wish I could give a holo theme or something, but for the most part I like it. The number bar has been quite useful. But again, most of the time, I type faster with TouchPal and SwiftKey. TouchPal is a bit ugly, it's just busy looking, but it's theming capability has mitigated that somewhat, not by directly reducing that but by adding a nice elements to the look to compensate I guess. I can type much faster on it than Google or LG. But in the end, I still type the fastest and most comfortably with SwiftKey. No question about it.
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I've tried using the Google Keyboard, I've tried using the stock LG keyboard, but I find myself continually going back to SwiftKey just for the simple fact of the punctuation key. I love that I can swipe left for an exclamation mark or right for a question mark. I know it may seem stupid, but that's why I always come back to SwiftKey.
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I know what you're saying. I don't understand why other keyboards make it so tough to find punctuation. Only thing that I don't like about SwiftKey is they recently changed the layout for the special characters but I don't use them that often so it's not a huge deal.
The lg stock keyboard has definitely grown on me but one thing i have noticed is that i have way more typos than on swift key or Google keyboard.
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The LG keyboard was autocorrecting words to things that weren't even real words, and in general having terrible prediction. Had to get rid of it. Plus the punctuation keys changing the short press every time I long pressed to get to a different punctuation was annoying. Swiftkey is the best predictor out there by far that I've used.
Used either Google or Thumb Keyboard on the old GNex. Haven't yet found one I really like on the G2. I don't swipe so that's irrelevant for me. Never tried Swiftkey, but I probably will.
The LG board blows for the most part. Amazingly poor auto correct and the comma key should be left of the space bar, IMO.
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LG hands down for me for just the Number row alone! But I do mess up on the space bar often. I'm sure I'll adjust soon.
Google keyboard or Kii Keyboard. Kii Keyboard is probably the best I've ever used. Try it out
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Fleksy beta for me. I find it really accurate. It doesn't have any swiping capabilities but I don't swipe at all so I love it. It does have a learning curve to it though.
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v2.2v said:
Google keyboard or Kii Keyboard. Kii Keyboard is probably the best I've ever used. Try it out
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I've been using Kii for a while now, too. Definitely the best I've used. All keyboards have faults, but this one doesn't have many (occasional autocorrect with duplicate words comes to mind)
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I used big buttons keyboard for years but liking the stock keyboard. Just wish there was some nice themes for it...the stock ones are boring
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After a few days went back to the grey boring Google keyboards. Damn its just too fast and the multi touch makes me fastest in it. Boring but true. Also takes up much less real estate.
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