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Ah it looks like the swype betas expired again tonight...bummer...
Was there any talk of reopenning the beta?

Use slideit.
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anguslaw said:
Use slideit.
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I'm not paying for another app. Already purchased UltraKeyboard. It's ok.. but really annoying at times too..
I really wish I had never used Swype.. it's like giving a piece of candy to a kid and telling them they are not allowed to eat it!

Yea, mine quit also.
Any thoughts? I'm pretty much going crazy over here.
I would gladly pay in upwards of 10 to 15 bucks for this one, drives me nuts that they won't just give it to us...not even for some $$.

Yea im thinkinh its got something to do with the whole sold it to oem's. Kinda rediculous and very apple–ish if i must say so.

Should we start working on breaking the time limit on the beta app?

Do a search in the droid incredible forums. There's working swype apks there. Using it right now. Maybe it will work on your phone.
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I installed Swype on an Android HTC HD2 just yesterday and I began the download from the private mail sent from them (I had registered here http://beta.swype.com ) and it actually WORKS fine.

why are swype taking so long to get out of beta?
slide it works great..almost no bugs.give it a shot

Swiftkey keyboard skin?

Was wondering if you can change the skin of the key? Thanks

Bump please!

I've been waiting for this too, been using SwiftKey since release, if am correct i read on another forum that they would add the skins on a future update. Hope it's soon..
HtcEvo 4G

SwiftKey is my favorite keyboard too and was not satisfied with the graphics in general.
So I decided to decompile and reskin it completely.
The result is astonishing. I'll post a screenshot soon.
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LowrentV said:
SwiftKey is my favorite keyboard too and was not satisfied with the graphics in general.
So I decided to decompile and reskin it completely.
The result is astonishing. I'll post a screenshot soon.
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Yes would like to see this! Thanks

That's what my latest version looks like.
I'm still working on the Suggestions buttons (not in screenshot) and I have a couple of tweaks to do (1 or 2 more pixels of space between microphone and cog...)
After skinning is done, i'll work on the layouts.
I want to have fewer keys and make them bigger.
There is no reason to have separate keys for { [ and <.
I'll make a key for < and put [ and { in the pop-up.
All currencies can be on one key.
You get the idea...

Very nicely done! I've been using SwiftKey as my main keyboard for the last month or so on my Evo, and my only complaint is that it's a bit ugly. Yours looks much better.
Any download coming soon so we can apply this ourselves?

LowrentV said:
That's what my latest version looks like.
I'm still working on the Suggestions buttons (not in screenshot) and I have a couple of tweaks to do (1 or 2 more pixels of space between microphone and cog...)
After skinning is done, i'll work on the layouts.
I want to have fewer keys and make them bigger.
There is no reason to have separate keys for { [ and <.
I'll make a key for < and put [ and { in the pop-up.
All currencies can be on one key.
You get the idea...
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Perfect job! How can we get this?? Thanks

I'm pretty sure it's illegal to distribute the .apk file.
To stay legit, I could zip only the files I created by myself and instructions on how to mod your app by yourself. I guess... ?

LowrentV said:
I'm pretty sure it's illegal to distribute the .apk file.
To stay legit, I could zip only the files I created by myself and instructions on how to mod your app by yourself. I guess... ?
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I'm ready to attempt this..

i could do a pull from my purchased version (paid $.99 when it was the special. i don't see why that wouldn't be legit, or if you had steps to modify that would be great. Especially one to go along with Myn's theme.
LowrentV said:
I'm pretty sure it's illegal to distribute the .apk file.
To stay legit, I could zip only the files I created by myself and instructions on how to mod your app by yourself. I guess... ?
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If you want finish what you started to have it complete.. Thanks

LowrentV said:
That's what my latest version looks like.
I'm still working on the Suggestions buttons (not in screenshot) and I have a couple of tweaks to do (1 or 2 more pixels of space between microphone and cog...)
After skinning is done, i'll work on the layouts.
I want to have fewer keys and make them bigger.
There is no reason to have separate keys for { [ and
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Hi guys,
I work for the company that makes SwiftKey, and I'm sorry we've yet to release a version you can customize!
Soon we'll be releasing a new skin, and soon after than we'll be introducing custom skinning. We'd be intrigued to see the changes you made though, so would be grateful if you got in touch!
I'm on joe [at] touchtype - online dot com.
Thanks!
Joe

xlGmanlx said:
i could do a pull from my purchased version (paid $.99 when it was the special. i don't see why that wouldn't be legit, or if you had steps to modify that would be great. Especially one to go along with Myn's theme.
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+1 Just let me know what I need to do to get my hands on the theme or instructions to do it myself.

mysterfix said:
+1 Just let me know what I need to do to get my hands on the theme or instructions to do it myself.
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+2 let me know also.. thanks

It's my favorite keyboard, but the look needs tweaking, any love for beta users turned full version owners haha?
JoeBeats said:
Hi guys,
I work for the company that makes SwiftKey, and I'm sorry we've yet to release a version you can customize!
Soon we'll be releasing a new skin, and soon after than we'll be introducing custom skinning. We'd be intrigued to see the changes you made though, so would be grateful if you got in touch!
I'm on joe [at] touchtype - online dot com.
Thanks!
Joe
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We'd love to give you guys special love. We've just set up a VIP area on our website for this purpose. If you sign up at swiftkey dot net forwardslash vip I'll be sure to see you guys are approved.
In there we're going to start releasing beta versions of our latest work. But I'd still love to hear from the guy who hacked it
Joe

Joe, signed up
JoeBeats said:
We'd love to give you guys special love. We've just set up a VIP area on our website for this purpose. If you sign up at swiftkey dot net forwardslash vip I'll be sure to see you guys are approved.
In there we're going to start releasing beta versions of our latest work. But I'd still love to hear from the guy who hacked it
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Joe,
I signed up too. I would love to beta test for you guys, I use your keyboard exclusively. Tried out some others but always come back ;-)

TouchPal keyboard 4.8 beta

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

riginal said:
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

scoobysnacks said:
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

riginal said:
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

indesisiv said:
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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[Q] Backed Up System Apps Not Installing

When I got my phone, I rooted the phone without removing or modifying the stock ROM, just used Odin to give me root, so I was left with my stock experience. Yesterday, mostly because of the constant nagging of the uninstallable OTA update that Verizon kept sending me, I flashed the Tweaked Gingerbread ROM to my phone, and it's working fine, except that it removed all of my Samsung apps for some strange reason (every other app, and its data was left intact).
The problem is I used the Samsung screen capture utility, the stocks widget, and the Samsung keyboard. I thought that even though they were removed, my foresight in backing up my ROM using CWM's built-in NANDroid backup would be beneficial. So I used Nandroid Browser to look up my apps that were missing. The first one I found was the screen shot service, so I opened that with the package manager, and it seemed to open just fine, and gave me this:
www(dot)thecdrive(do)com/images/shot_000002.png
So I clicked Install, and it then gave me this:
www(dot)thecdrive(dot)com/images/shot_000003.png
Why is installing these backed up apps failing? And also, why is there a green "success!" check mark next to the failure message? I thought it succeeded before I read the message, lol.

Nandroid backups are rather problematic for this device. You can get some of your apps back through Tweaktools.
And the stock screencap and keyboard SUCK.
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kvswim said:
Nandroid backups are rather problematic for this device. You can get some of your apps back through Tweaktools.
And the stock screencap and keyboard SUCK.
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Frankly that's your opinion. I can't find a better screen capture application, and the "Android Keyboard" and the other strange one that the ROM came with don't work correctly. That aside, is "Tweaktools" on my ROM or do I need to obtain it from somewhere?

Master_Taco said:
Frankly that's your opinion. I can't find a better screen capture application, and the "Android Keyboard" and the other strange one that the ROM came with don't work correctly. That aside, is "Tweaktools" on my ROM or do I need to obtain it from somewhere?
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My opinion...and everyone else's. ShootMe is a much better screencap alternative, and SwiftKey 3 is the best keyboard I've used, though some prefer others. Swype (the "other" keyboard that you say doesn't work but you probably don't know how to use it) is also pretty good for one handed typing.
Obviously you haven't read the OP in the Tweaked thread, otherwise you would know Tweaktools is easily accessible through Terminal. Or, you could download a stock ROM zip and pull out the apks you want from /system/app and put them in your own /system/app.
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kvswim said:
My opinion...and everyone else's. ShootMe is a much better screencap alternative, and SwiftKey 3 is the best keyboard I've used, though some prefer others. Swype (the "other" keyboard that you say doesn't work but you probably don't know how to use it) is also pretty good for one handed typing.
Obviously you haven't read the OP in the Tweaked thread, otherwise you would know Tweaktools is easily accessible through Terminal. Or, you could download a stock ROM zip and pull out the apks you want from /system/app and put them in your own /system/app.
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The popular opinion does not mean it's the right opinion for me... The "Other" keyboard is NOT Swype (That was also removed from my phone when the ROM was installed) it's called "Eyes-Free keyboard". Also, I very much know how to use Swype, my ex loved the stupid thing, and I hate it. I prefer a normal keyboard. I will look up SwiftKey. Does insulting someone's intelligence make you feel better about yourself?

Master_Taco said:
The popular opinion does not mean it's the right opinion for me... The "Other" keyboard is NOT Swype (That was also removed from my phone when the ROM was installed) it's called "Eyes-Free keyboard". Also, I very much know how to use Swype, my ex loved the stupid thing, and I hate it. I prefer a normal keyboard. I will look up SwiftKey. Does insulting someone's intelligence make you feel better about yourself?
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No, it's just -slightly- annoying when people ask the same exact questions all the time, but REALLY annoying when you're helping someone who acts like they're entitled to other experienced user's assistance (read: have a stick up their ass).
I've never heard, seen, or used this "Eyes free" keyboard. Maybe it's something that comes stock, but I would never know since I spent about one day stock.
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No, it's just -slightly- annoying when people ask the same exact questions all the time, but REALLY annoying when you're helping someone who acts like they're entitled to other experienced user's assistance (read: have a stick up their ass).
I've never heard, seen, or used this "Eyes free" keyboard. Maybe it's something that comes stock, but I would never know since I spent about one day stock.
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Excuse me? Entitled? Hardly. I asked a question of anyone on this forum, because I could not find a solution to the specific problem I was having. I asked why restoring .apk files from Nandroid backups was failing, and you replied by pushing YOUR OPINION in my face, as if using the Samsung keyboard was a crime. In absolutely NO WAY was I demanding or acting entitled to anything. I simply asked a question, and expected a reply that wasn't condemning my choice in software!
In short, I appreciate your suggestions (I really do, Tweaktools worked fine for everything but the keyboard) but I don't appreciate your Elitist attitude. Sure you know more about the inner workings of this telephone than I, but that gives you absolutely no right to talk down to people who are only trying to learn.
Edit: Also "Eyes-Free" came with the ROM not with my phone. My phone shipped with the Samsung Keyboard, and Swype. That's it. This ROM replaced the Samsung keyboard with the Android keyboard, and Swype with Eyes Free.

Master_Taco said:
... Edit: Also "Eyes-Free" came with the ROM not with my phone. My phone shipped with the Samsung Keyboard, and Swype. That's it. This ROM replaced the Samsung keyboard with the Android keyboard, and Swype with Eyes Free.
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Hmm... I never heard of eyes-free. It's a keyboard that comes in tweaked?
And fwiw - I plan on changing the keyboard next update.

dwitherell said:
Hmm... I never heard of eyes-free. It's a keyboard that comes in tweaked?
And fwiw - I plan on changing the keyboard next update.
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include swiftkey3
I also heard from a coworker that swiftkey and swype are owned by the same company so very soon swype will have the same suggestion based algorithms swiftkey has making it the best keyboard on the market. Be prepared my fellow chargians

p2kmafia said:
include swiftkey3
I also heard from a coworker that swiftkey and swype are owned by the same company so very soon swype will have the same suggestion based algorithms swiftkey has making it the best keyboard on the market. Be prepared my fellow chargians
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They aren't. Swype is owned by Nuance and SwiftKey is owned by TouchType. SwiftKey is TouchType's only product and there isn't a free version, other than the demo. Nuance has a free beta of Swype and they also own the Dragon TTS products.
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Whats the best keyboard for nexus 5

What is the beat keyboard for nexus 5 that is fast and learns from what I write and looks good but please don't tell me Swiftkey because I don't like the themes also don't tell me about the themed Swiftkey because you can't learn from Facebook

Swiftkey.

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Swiftkey.
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fleksy for gods sake!
its minimal and fun 2 use

There is no "best". What's a preference to one, might not be to another.

Swiftkey for its prediction but Fleksy is cool to use.

Lethargy said:
There is no "best". What's a preference to one, might not be to another.
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Primokorn said:
Swiftkey for its prediction but Fleksy is cool to use.
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Fleksy is cool, but it stopped working for me after version 3 and support couldn't fix it. They just wanted to blame the custom rom, which to be fair - it did work on stock... But other people had the same version on the same rom.... They basically said go stock or refund. Refund it was...
The next best for me so far has been Kii... Hate SwiftKey, Touchpal is OK... bit messy interface..
But it's all about your personal style

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Fleksy is cool, but it stopped working for me after version 3 and support couldn't fix it. They just wanted to blame the custom rom, which to be fair - it did work on stock... But other people had the same version on the same rom.... They basically said go stock or refund. Refund it was...
The next best for me so far has been Kii... Hate SwiftKey, Touchpal is OK... bit messy interface..
But it's all about your personal style
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I tested Kii a few months ago but I didn't like very much. Because of your post I have downloaded it again and I would say that the app is really better now with great word predictions. The UI is nice too however having to go to the Play Store to download a separate package for the language is annoying.
All features of Swiftkey are free which is a benefit compared with Kii.

I speak 3 languages, and Swiftkey does a great job at managing them simultaneously.

Either stock or Swiftkey. They're both excellent

Primokorn said:
I tested Kii a few months ago but I didn't like very much. Because of your post I have downloaded it again and I would say that the app is really better now with great word predictions. The UI is nice too however having to go to the Play Store to download a separate package for the language is annoying.
All features of Swiftkey are free which is a benefit compared with Kii.
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Yeas it works well for me but I dont expect it for everyone. I've paid for a few keyboards recently. I do wish I could make my own themes for kii though, but I have it looking quite nice.
I had problems with correction on smartkey. I cant remember what exactly, I thinks its punctuation or spaces, although kii also annoyingly puts a space after selecting a correction

Totally agree on SwiftKey and touch pal although I paid for SwiftKey while was paid tried Fleksy and its working great on stock rom and I'm going to try kii

Stock keyboard feels way more responsive than Swiftkey.

Lethargy said:
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This. I can only say that I use Google Keyboard or SwiftKey. Doesn't mean it's the best though.

The best keyboard is the one that you're most familiar / comfortable with. As good as change is, the change factor takes several days or weeks for it to take effect.
Think of it this way... if you ask the question, "what is the best car?" people will reply the car that they're currently using. Doesn't mean that its the best, just because one particular guy likes driving trucks, that doesn't mean its for you. One shoe doesn't fit everybody, give them all a try. If you're truly happy with the one you have, stick with it. Unless there are problems, theres no need to change unless you're curious to going out of your comfort zone.
The most popular keyboard is definitely for sure SwiftKey according to Play Store. Doesn't mean that its the best though.

Mazen Amr said:
What is the beat keyboard for nexus 5 that is fast and learns from what I write and looks good but please don't tell me Swiftkey because I don't like the themes also don't tell me about the themed Swiftkey because you can't learn from Facebook
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SwiftKey.

That is a bit of personal taste. I use Swiftkey,has everything I need and manages multilanguage that I often use pretty well. Predictions are awesome too.
Second one I tried but found a bit messy but equally good in predictions is TouchPal. Since I use multi language often there isn't a LOT of choices. I'm going to try Kii soon, just waiting for better multi language support. Give them a go.
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What do you think about Swype keyboard?

MidnightDevil said:
That is a bit of personal taste. I use Swiftkey,has everything I need and manages multilanguage that I often use pretty well. Predictions are awesome too.
Second one I tried but found a bit messy but equally good in predictions is TouchPal. Since I use multi language often there isn't a LOT of choices. I'm going to try Kii soon, just waiting for better multi language support. Give them a go.
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Also try Fleksy it's great

Will do thanks