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anybody know any full functional touch key board that will work on touch cruise?
I tried touch keyboard, the full qwerty only show up when i click on menus, but when i want to type something in notes, or word mobile, i can't get to the keyboard but it keep showing 3 letter in 1 key. the only things is that it has full set of symbols.
PCM keyboard is too simple. touchpal don't have symbol set.
anybody know a good freeware touch keyboard has full qwerty keyboard and symbol set?

citrix80 said:
anybody know any full functional touch key board that will work on touch cruise?
touchpal don't have symbol set.
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Touchpal has the largest symbol set that I have seen for any kb. I am not sure though whether the PRO edition has more symbols.

touch keyboard v1.0 has 11 pages of symbols, version 1.5 has 4 pages of symbols. touchpal is good, but i don't see too many symbols, maybe PRO has more, but not free.

citrix80 said:
touch keyboard v1.0 has 11 pages of symbols, version 1.5 has 4 pages of symbols. touchpal is good, but i don't see too many symbols, maybe PRO has more, but not free.
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TP 3.0 Pro also has 4 pages including http stuff. You can access it by swiping horizontally on the symbol page.

i like the iphone style keyboard that has 11 pages of symbols, but i'm using the WM6.1 rom by bepe, it has built in touch style keyboard + keypad 1.5, it has 4 pages of symbols. the iphone keyboard has 11 pages says it is touch keyboard 1.0.
anybody know where i can find latest version full QWERTY touch keyboard with all symbol set?

I don't know about custom roms, but on the stock ROM while in text entry mode a soft press of the camera button will bring up pages and pages of symbols regardless of what SIP you are using.
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I think it's not working now, I am using wm6.1 pro premium edition by bepe. it used to work on original HTC WM6 rom. do you know how to fix this?

Tip for an on-screen keyboard only with directional arrows?

Hi everyone, I bought Samsung Epix, which is a wonderful device, except that the optical joystick/touchpad sucks.
So, I wanted to ask if you know about software keyboard that would contain only directional arrows (as for example navigating a word or two back is a catastrophe - the touchpad reacts with delay, and it takes a lot of attempts to put the cursor where I wanted - and using it in mouse mode to click between two concrete letters is a pain too).
I created a mockup of what I would like - is there existing keyboard like this, or some lightweight skinnable one for which I could make an arrows-only skin?
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Thank you!

Great idea, but it doesn't exist because the Epix and the Saga are the only phones that really need this.

FingerKeyboard skin
Some time ago, when I used FingerKeyboard 2.0, I wanted this same thing and did it by "cheating." Make made layout in another language and put only the four arrow keys that layout. If you use FingerKeyboard, doing this isn't diffficult as the skins are just text files.
If you'd like me to dig through my old files, I can look for my skin, However, I have a lot lined up as work this week and probably won't get to it until Friday.

manicotti said:
Some time ago, when I used FingerKeyboard 2.0, I wanted this same thing and did it by "cheating." Make made layout in another language and put only the four arrow keys that layout. If you use FingerKeyboard, doing this isn't diffficult as the skins are just text files.
If you'd like me to dig through my old files, I can look for my skin, However, I have a lot lined up as work this week and probably won't get to it until Friday.
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Thanks, that shouldn't be necessary - just a tip for a concrete configurable SIP and the 'custom language' trick is enough, thank you!

Landscape keyboard?

Hi everyone!
I stopped using the dodgy default keyboard and switched to the HTC keyboard. Wow, it's a whole new phone now! One question though, I use IM a lot (ebuddy, msntalk and msndroid) and everytime I go to the landscape keyboard, it fills up the whole screen so I cannot see what someone has just said while I'm typing. Is there anyway to stop the landscape keyboard from filling up the whole screen (similar to the iPhone)?
Thanks!

Better Keyboard
Herr Noobien said:
Hi everyone!
I stopped using the dodgy default keyboard and switched to the HTC keyboard. Wow, it's a whole new phone now! One question though, I use IM a lot (ebuddy, msntalk and msndroid) and everytime I go to the landscape keyboard, it fills up the whole screen so I cannot see what someone has just said while I'm typing. Is there anyway to stop the landscape keyboard from filling up the whole screen (similar to the iPhone)?
Thanks!
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Use Better keyboard with custom skins keyboard sizes its accurate and fast and doesn't use the whole screen cost as little a couple of dollars with load of additional skins to install too for free.

Doesn't quite work. When I go into landscape mode on ebuddy the keyboard and textbox still cover the whole screen. Is there a setting to remove the textbox so I can see what is going on in the app?
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As opposed to this:
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Herr Noobien said:
Hi everyone!
I stopped using the dodgy default keyboard and switched to the HTC keyboard. Wow, it's a whole new phone now! One question though, I use IM a lot (ebuddy, msntalk and msndroid) and everytime I go to the landscape keyboard, it fills up the whole screen so I cannot see what someone has just said while I'm typing. Is there anyway to stop the landscape keyboard from filling up the whole screen (similar to the iPhone)?
Thanks!
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If you use htc_ime by jonasl then you can go into Setting -> User interface -> No landscape fullscreen
Just check that box and you will get what you want
I use v27 of jonasl htc_ime_hires

rodak said:
If you use htc_ime by jonasl then you can go into Setting -> User interface -> No landscape fullscreen
Just check that box and you will get what you want
I use v27 of jonasl htc_ime_hires
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Perfect!
Thank you so much mate

wow didn't know about this. thanks.

(now with pictures!) Just bought Thumb Keyboard...

I have just recently bought Thumb keyboard when trying to find a good split keyboard for the Tab Plus and I do have say say it is VERY nice.
The keyboard split is much easier on the thumbs for typing in Landscape mode. In between the two keypads are more keys and you also hold down a key and a numeric pad comes on top of the keyboard and goes away when you let it go. If some people have hands that are on the smaller side (like me) I highly recommend this keyboard it's so much more comfortable than the ones that come stock.
I will also note I did try SwiftKey Tablet X and I didn't like it as much. The landscape keys were slightly smaller and the portrait mode for had REALLY small keys and it only had 3 themes to play with.
Thumb Keyboard comes with 29 themes and the ability to adjust the size of the keyboard all on it's own (default being 100% and can go all the way to 100%) along with different layouts and optimized layouts for different tablet sizes (eg 7 inch, another 7 inch, 10.1 inch) and you can customize it to your liking.
My only gripe is the portrait mode keyboard is a little odd but not enough for me to completely dislike if anything it's easier to use.
In the end it is $2.29, but to me it was well worth it and should be given a try.
And I would put pictures of it up but I can't seem to screen cap the keyboard... :'(
Edit:
Go to the 4th post to see pictures! or click here

Screenshot ER for screen shots of the keyboard.
Sent from my ICS powered Galaxy S2

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Ah thank you! Now I can put up some pictures!
1. This is the landscape keyboard:
2. This is the landscape while holding the numeric button (which still can just be pressed) to bring up other functions and quick numeric pad:
3. This is the portrait mode. The pads are a little odd but it works for me. I could probably change it just haven't messed with it enough yet:

You can actually get a different portait layout so it doesn't look like that. I use this for my soft keyboard on my tablet as well and it's my favorite. It would get even better if they were to put a see-thru/transparency control. My peeve with soft keyboards is they usually take up so much screen space you can't see what you're typing. Making the keys transparent to a degree solves that.

I agree about being able to see through the keyboard. That would be an interesting feature to have and decently useful too.
And thanks for letting me know that I can change the portrait mode keyboard layout, but I might even end up change it back since I'm getting used to it.

tnx for sharing this out , well thumb keyboard has been out for like one year ! everybody knows its the best keyboard on the market specially for tabs , i have been using it with my Gtab7,Gtab7+ and the Gtab10.1, works the best for me from all.

Well still, I'm completely new to Android so this was a good find to me and needed to tell the world about it... Or at least people who actually care about Android...

Well I am trying it out as we speak. So far so good. Gonna take some getting used to though. Just have to play with the settings and what not. Nice on my 7+....

What is most important about a keyboard?

Hello ,everyone!
I am recently engaged with keyboard .I wonder what is most important about a keyboard to most users.
Would you please kindly share your precious opinion with us?Thank you very much!

Main thing it is usability, example real PC keyboard - good -phone screen keyboard - suxx.

Depends per example, I use fleksy cause I like the custom themes (that you can make) and because of ther size and it just types nice
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I also sometimes switch to swiftkey. swiftkey also has themes but you can not edit them yourself but it does feature swype and quit good predictions

Prediction!

Thank you for your detailed reply!
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Depends per example, I use fleksy cause I like the custom themes (that you can make) and because of ther size and it just types nice
I also sometimes switch to swiftkey. swiftkey also has themes but you can not edit them yourself but it does feature swype and quit good predictions
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koyou1991 said:
Thank you for your detailed reply!
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No problem, I am here to help.

For me, ideal english keyboard has numbers above letters for quick access. That's probably all I'm missing in standart Android keyboard.
But if you are thinking in non English world also, there is space for improvement in autocorrect (for example default android keyboard tries to correct every word it doesn't know, which makes autocorrect totaly useless in my language). Also it's really annoying to write special characters (for example á,š,č...), because you have to press letter, wait for a second and than choose from a sub menu. That's actually quite a big delay because you normally have to write many of these characters.
I hope it helps you somehow and sorry for my English.

For me is Accuracy and Predictions.