Hi All,
I'm looking at getting the Captivate as my first Android phone. I noticed that it doesn't have a D-Pad like the original Galaxy S or a trackball. Is that going to be a problem? Is Android still usable without it?
Thanks for the help,
Josh
The Galaxy S does not have an optical d pad/track pad. It is just a big square button
Swype an and samsung keyboard have directional buttons. No real need for physical ones I can see so far.
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emulators?
With the 4 inch screen, I suspect emulators and other games requiring a D-Pad could fit a virtual one at the bottom of the screen. Perhaps a virtual trackpad would work too? A little circle that you swipe your finger over and it acts like an optical trackpad?
For the short while that I had an EVO 4G, I never did think about a D-pad. Before the EVO I had a Samsung Epix and I used the optical pad as D-pad and I was very used to using it in that configuration. The EVO was my first android phone and all of the menus are easily accessible with finger swipes and touches. I did not miss the D-pad at all.
I'll definitely pick up the Captivate. The android experience is so much better than wm6.x.
jhulst said:
Hi All,
I'm looking at getting the Captivate as my first Android phone. I noticed that it doesn't have a D-Pad like the original Galaxy S or a trackball. Is that going to be a problem? Is Android still usable without it?
Thanks for the help,
dont need it , with the 4" touch screen ...lol just played with it at at&t......the speed is incredible....
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Some ROMs don't have dpad enabled keyboards, the TrueDvorak Pro keyboard has a nice gesture based dpad. Multilingual keyboard also has a press and hold to access dpad option, like the samsung one.
oldarney said:
Some ROMs don't have dpad enabled keyboards, the TrueDvorak Pro keyboard has a nice gesture based dpad. Multilingual keyboard also has a press and hold to access dpad option, like the samsung one.
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What press-n-hold Samsung d-pad? I hate the Samsung keyboard but I do need a d-pad sometimes and I don't want to install a third party keyboard (I usually install Full Keyboard though, it has one).
oldarney said:
Some ROMs don't have dpad enabled keyboards, the TrueDvorak Pro keyboard has a nice gesture based dpad. Multilingual keyboard also has a press and hold to access dpad option, like the samsung one.
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What does that have to do with the Captivate and why did you resurrect an almost year old thread to say it?
Welcome to pretty much all samsung android phones. If you need a d-pad or trackball look elsewhere.
Though most high end HTC, LG and Motos dont have them either.
Hey guys! I wanna ask you guys if any of you know how to change the KEYBOARD layout buttons on the android keyboard.
But not change entire keyboard to a different one.
Lets say instead of the default android smiley "" at the bottom right corner. I wanna put something else there such as ""
How is that possible?
Instead of a period key next to the space bar i wanna put something else. How do i do this?
THanks guys!
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Hi all,
Running Cyanogenmod 9 nightlies (Currently March 25 version) and all is working well.
One thing though is I really prefer the onscreen keyboard on my Galaxy Nexus over the one on the transformer. Specifically, I like how the top row of buttons on the Samsung has long-press for numbers.
I can't seem to find any other keyboards marked as being ICS compatible after searching here.
Does anyone know if there is the Samsung keyboard available for install on the TF101, or another one, or something I can do to tweak mine to get the desired functionality?
Have you tried Swype keyboard?
It's friggin amazing. I like it with auto-correction turned off though.
It has numbers in the top row that can be long-pressed.
hackers keyboard ftw.
Hello.
Can you would add the left and right navigation key on the keyboard google?
I really like is keyboard, and I think that's the only thing it lacks.
is impossible?
a response is not a luxury
nothing?
This may be your best bet
There is a app in Google play called Hacker's Keyboard. It comes as close to a computer keyboard as possible. Even things such as Control-C and Control-V Work! It has the arrow keys you have requested. Check it out and report back
thank you, but I would just be to the left and right arrows on the keyboard google I found the best key for me.
How can I assign a new function to only one key on the physical keyboard?
Example: I can't type "/" in my language/layout ("Brazilian"), and i don't wanna have to be changing my language/layout all the time that i had to use a especific sign.
Model: TBJ606-F 6G+182GB
OS: Android 11
You can't, this keyboard layouts are the most stupid thing in the whole tablet, look in the playstore "More physical keyboard layouts" helped me with another problem, hope it helps you either