Hey guys, I was wondering if there's a way to get the normal android stock keyboard on my HTC hero (Sprint). Thanks!
Jason
i was wondering this as well?
is the stock keyboard more responsive or quicker then htc's? ido love htc keyboard but if stock is any quicker and faster i might try that
Using the search function of the site pulled up this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5223276
Once again, using the SEARCH function I was able to find that in no time at all. Try it sometime.
Not trying to be a **** about it but yeah... Anyway try swype. It is pretty awesome once you get used to it. I wasn't convinced that I was typing faster using swype but when I flashed a rom that put me back on the HTC keyboard I realized just how slow and weird it felt to tap the keys instead of drawing on the keyboard. Not that I suggest it, but it makes it much easier to text and drive as well. But don't do that. Focus on the xda-forum search for now. Its up at the top.
already tried swype, liked it just wanna try stock, and on that post noone can get it to work
samrozzi said:
already tried swype, liked it just wanna try stock, and on that post noone can get it to work
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So.... maybe what if it doesn't work? Gasp
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The XDA keyboard is great an all, but I've really loved the AOSP Keyboard on the older DarchLegend roms. I don't see it on any of his new roms, and i can't find an .apk for it.
I've searched for awhile, no luck. Anyone know where it's at?
are you talking about the OEM android keyboard? if so then i second that. i'd love to find out how to get the keyboard back. i hate the htc keyboard with a passion
Yeah. The HTC keyboard, and our version of it, arent great. I also find them very laggy at times; I have to type very slowly and deliberately, which isn't cool.
This should work, just flash from recovery.
http://www.mediafire.com/?qjymjydmw0m
EDIT: Works with latest Sprint Leak, but also works with old Legend leak.
So try it on the new
Perfect, thanks!
So I flashed this keyboard and it shows up under my Keyboard settings but the HTC Keyboard still shows up when I want to type. Is there something I'm missing? I'm using a flashed version of the Sprint 2.1 leak.
Decad3nce said:
This should work, just flash from recovery.
http://www.mediafire.com/?qjymjydmw0m
EDIT: Works with latest Sprint Leak, but also works with old Legend leak.
So try it on the new
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dude thank you!!! i was so sick of the htc keyboard. very big help! how did you do that by the way? i want to be able to do this for some htc apps that i dont have
aggreyj said:
So I flashed this keyboard and it shows up under my Keyboard settings but the HTC Keyboard still shows up when I want to type. Is there something I'm missing? I'm using a flashed version of the Sprint 2.1 leak.
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yeah just long press any input box, select input method, select android keyboard
yeah just long press any input box, select input method, select android keyboard
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Awesome, thanks a bunch. I've only had the phone for a week. Learn something new every day hehe
I tried out this keyboard, and it's no faster than the HTC keyboard. Swype seems like the only input method that isn't ridiculously laggy on this phone.
Leon H said:
I tried out this keyboard, and it's no faster than the HTC keyboard. Swype seems like the only input method that isn't ridiculously laggy on this phone.
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actually it's a lot less laggy and much more accurate.
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actually it's a lot less laggy and much more accurate.
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Not in my experience. With the sound and vibration off, it's just as fast as the sense keyboard with sound and vibration off, same goes for them both on. Also, it keeps giving me nonsensical autocorrections. It tries to correct common words like "an" to "Android".
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Not in my experience. With the sound and vibration off, it's just as fast as the sense keyboard with sound and vibration off, same goes for them both on. Also, it keeps giving me nonsensical autocorrections. It tries to correct common words like "an" to "Android".
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to each it's own i guess.
this keyboard makes my life a lot easier
what i'm really interested in is how to do it for future apps?
It seems that alot of cooks are cooking in the XDA Sense keyboard and I have found it extremely laggy. Glad I found this to install. Thanks.
When I installed the AOSP keyboard, the a and l both have gaps on the side of them and are transparent, is there any way to fix this?
Using the keyboard in Darchdroid has made me like my phone again. The HTC keyboard is so painfully laggy its mindnumbing. The stock Android keyboard is instant and accurate, love it.
coldsweat said:
Using the keyboard in Darchdroid has made me like my phone again. The HTC keyboard is so painfully laggy its mindnumbing. The stock Android keyboard is instant and accurate, love it.
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Same here. I have been using it for awhile and I like it alot more. The keys are smaller which as I get more accurate I have found I can type faster than on the htc keyboard.
Searched around here and found a few posted, but none of them seemed to work. Tired installing through Astro and ADB on Frost ROM. Both times, when changing to Android Keyboard input method and going to type into a text box, I get an immediate FC on the keyboard.
Anyone have a good APK?
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Searched around here and found a few posted, but none of them seemed to work. Tired installing through Astro and ADB on Frost ROM. Both times, when changing to Android Keyboard input method and going to type into a text box, I get an immediate FC on the keyboard.
Anyone have a good APK?
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In an effort to quickly get you something that is useable, I would point you in the direction of the Droid Multi Touch Keyboards. They are rather similiar in look and feel to the AOSP keyboards.
EDIT: I know this isn't exactly what you are looking for, but it satisfied my need for an AOSP keyboard for the longest time so I figured I would at least share. Hope this helps at least somewhat.
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In an effort to quickly get you something that is useable, I would point you in the direction of the Droid Multi Touch Keyboards. They are rather similiar in look and feel to the AOSP keyboards.
EDIT: I know this isn't exactly what you are looking for, but it satisfied my need for an AOSP keyboard for the longest time so I figured I would at least share. Hope this helps at least somewhat.
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Thanks alot, I was going to give that a shot, but I had the DroidX and I hated that keyboard. But I guess it can't be worse than the HTC keyboard... or can it?
I will give it a try, thanks! Anyone else know of any that work?
this keyboard is the best I've used yet. it's like swype except it learns from it's mistakes and adapts to your typing style.
It's in beta so you can try to get on, or if not search for it you can easily find it.
i highly recommend it!
Here's a video of it in action:
Gotta try it, thanks for the heads up! But if it's buggy, I'll revert back to Swiftkey X.
Hzu said:
Gotta try it, thanks for the heads up! But if it's buggy, I'll revert back to Swiftkey X.
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it isn't buggy at all!! try it for at least an hour to let it learn your typing style, you will be amazed. It never gets a word wrong for me now
Yeah, It's pretty impressive, Hadn't even heard of it before I installed Erickwill's rom, It's pre-installed on that rom as the default keyboard, I wanted to delete it immediately but gave it a few hours & I really like it now & I'm using it
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Yeah, It's pretty impressive, Hadn't even heard of it before I installed Erickwill's rom, It's pre-installed on that rom as the default keyboard, I wanted to delete it immediately but gave it a few hours & I really like it now & I'm using it
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is it the 4.8 beta on erickwills rom??
That you can swype on?
If so I didn't know that!! It's fairly new
hmm i just looked and I don't think he is using the 4.8 beta, the one listed is the old touchpal without swyping ability
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is it the 4.8 beta on erickwills rom??
That you can swype on?
If so I didn't know that!! It's fairly new
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the version reads v4.8.16391
& yes you can swype on, It has touchpal curve, you mean that right?
is it the same version?
I couldn't cope with the auto correction when pressing space bar .. and if i turned that off it wouldn't suggest words for me. Plus the swype was having problems with the word prediction. They are releasing a newer beta for it soon that should fix some of these problem though may have to re-try it again once that comes out.
Back to smart keyboard pro for me
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the version reads v4.8.16391
& yes you can swype on, It has touchpal curve, you mean that right?
is it the same version?
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yeah that would be the one!
I love it, i find it a lot better than swype
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I couldn't cope with the auto correction when pressing space bar .. and if i turned that off it wouldn't suggest words for me. Plus the swype was having problems with the word prediction. They are releasing a newer beta for it soon that should fix some of these problem though may have to re-try it again once that comes out.
Back to smart keyboard pro for me
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I found I had to give it an hour, and type some "words" out once normally.
Then it learned my style and now it never makes a mistake
Thanks for the tip. Does anyone know what happened to Blindtype? It was supposed to be the next big thing. Haven't heard anything since it was acquired by Google. Check out its videos.
blaze16 said:
Thanks for the tip. Does anyone know what happened to Blindtype? It was supposed to be the next big thing. Haven't heard anything since it was acquired by Google. Check out its videos.
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weird.. why buy it to let it die lol
If I remember correctly they are putting blind type on this keyboard at a later date.
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So I've been trying some of the many new ROMs we've seen lately. I've read through the bug reports and searched around cannot find anyone else having this issue. I install Swype Beta on every ROM and usually it works fine. However on some of the new ones it randomly won't want to swipe anymore. It starts acting like a normal keyboard. It worked just fine on the CM rom port Alpha 6. But it messes up on the recent Miui and the new Mik Sense v0.4 or something along those lines. Is this swypes fault or the ROM? should I reinstall one or the other?
I've had the same issues with Mik Sense v0.4. It might be a multi-touch thing because I was having similar issues with other apps.
I have the same issue intermittantly on CM9 and JB using FlexT9. The added dimension is that voice to text won't work either when the swype typing is jacked. When the swype typing is OK so is voice to text.
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement
I vaguely recall having issues with getting the default keyboard to work when removing swype from bulletproof - doubt that info helps, but it did cause a headache on a modified stock gingerbread build.
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I've had the same issues with Mik Sense v0.4. It might be a multi-touch thing because I was having similar issues with other apps.
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I think you're dead on with the multi-touch issue. It only happens if I've been pecking the keyboard instead of swiping. For instance, if I type half a text by just pressing letters then try to swipe, it wont work. But then after the screen is inactive awhile it goes back to working. So now I'm guessing it's the rom itself?
On Sense ROMS there is a really cook function called trace. It uses the Stock KB but allows you to swype around to text.
My opinion is Swype sucks, it always has and always will*Please don't flame for my opinions. Anyways trace won't help on AOSP but it will sure fix the Sense issue.
I'm not thinking its due to multitouch at all, we always had issues on the HTC EVO Shift not wanting to swype for us after a few so once we all learned about what HTC provided in the keyboard settings we all loved it.
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strapped365 said:
On Sense ROMS there is a really cook function called trace. It uses the Stock KB but allows you to swype around to text.
My opinion is Swype sucks, it always has and always will*Please don't flame for my opinions. Anyways trace won't help on AOSP but it will sure fix the Sense issue.
I'm not thinking its due to multitouch at all, we always had issues on the HTC EVO Shift not wanting to swype for us after a few so once we all learned about what HTC provided in the keyboard settings we all loved it.
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Could you elaborate on this trace a little? I've been running sense and never even heard of it. I really liked the ROM besides me not being able to use swype. If this is an adequate replacement I'm definitely up for testing it out.
xzuhto said:
Could you elaborate on this trace a little? I've been running sense and never even heard of it. I really liked the ROM besides me not being able to use swype. If this is an adequate replacement I'm definitely up for testing it out.
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Its in the keyboard and ROM settings. Give me a bit to flash back to virtuous infinity and ill post a screen shot or 2. Also so I can remember how to activate it ( I suffer short term memory loss, but who don't lmao ) be back in a bit man
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Mind if I do?
Settings->Language & keyboard->HTC Sense Input->Trace keyboard
And this is how it looks. You can change the trace color under the advanced settings
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And this is how it looks. You can change the trace color under the advanced settings
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Sweet, I'll definitely try this out. I just downloaded VI so we'll see how it goes. Thanks for the info.
I liked the prediction on the ROM that came with my HTC ChaCha while buying it. It used to give suggestions of words while i was typing a few characters and if i wanted the selected suggestion, i just had to press space. I liked it that way and got kinda used to it. Recently rooted my phone and installed CM10. Any suggestions on some similar app that'll help me with that, or to bring back that feature on CM 10? I want to keep CM10 cos its really awesome, and there are minimal problems for me with it.
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I liked the prediction on the ROM that came with my HTC ChaCha while buying it. It used to give suggestions of words while i was typing a few characters and if i wanted the selected suggestion, i just had to press space. I liked it that way and got kinda used to it. Recently rooted my phone and installed CM10. Any suggestions on some similar app that'll help me with that, or to bring back that feature on CM 10? I want to keep CM10 cos its really awesome, and there are minimal problems for me with it.
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Your talking about searching your phone? Or are you talking about when texting? The two apps I think you are looking for are Quickdroid and Swiftkey.
Hope that helps.
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Your talking about searching your phone? Or are you talking about when texting? The two apps I think you are looking for are Quickdroid and Swiftkey.
Hope that helps.
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I'm talking about texting. does swiftkey work for htc chacha? it has a physical keyboard and all? also, isnt it supposed to be a paid app?