I got a XV6700 off of ebay,
worked pretty well for a few months. Eventually the keyboard went bad. The presses felt weird and some of the keys stopped working. Took it apart and I can tell there is no way to remove the keyboard without destroying it. UTStarcomm's support is pretty crappy. Sounds like a hand full of people in a small office in NY city. I called a few times and got the same two ladies. Was hoping they'd forward me to a real tech that could sell me the part for the keyboard.
Is there even a snowball chance in h e double hockey sticks that I can get a replacement keyboard? Going to just ebay it for parts if I can't.
Really your best bet is to look for a 6700 with a cracked screen and salvage it for your keyboard. Or just get use to using the on-screen keyboard. There is some s/w out there that the makes on-screen keyboard look better and easer to use.
I'm looking at getting another keyboard for my x7510 as mine had a slight accident. Following a drop that indented the one corner somewhat, it still works fine, but the Z key now results in a Y being typed, and vice versa!
Bloody annoying!
So, are any of you guys not using your keyboard at all, and if so, what would you charge me for it?
Hi NanoRuler,
do you have difference with symbol keys, because the inversion of the Y and the Z keys is exactly the difference between german/swiss keyboard and english/US keyboard.
May be you just have a configuration problem. The Advantage exist with a german keyboard, it can use this configuration.
Merry Christmas.
Keyboard for X7510
I saw it on ebay the other day, maybe the guy will post it again.
I've noticed that the Galaxy has the same keyboard as the Vodafone Magic, but the Magic keyboard can handle accidental presses better..I think because it recognizes two thumbs
The Galaxy just get completely wonkers when you accidentally touch the keyboard with two fingers..like letter "a" and "k", it will wobble to "g" or something..
I was wondering if there is any distant hope to get the code from the Magic onto the Galaxy to handle the keyboard press' better?
thx devs for some insight on this!
Are there better onscreen keyboards for the vzw tp2? The keys are too small and I have a lot of typos since they're too close together. I have a perfect time on my ipod touch and would like to somehow change the onscreen keyboard on the tp2 so the keys are bigger or something.
Also it doesn't auto correct spelling either when typing messages, emails etc. If anything all it does is capitalize the first letter of the first word in aqnew sentence and that's it. Is there a way to make it work like on the ipod? That is perfect.
Thanks.
1: rotate phone 90 degrees counter-clockwise
2ush upward with thumbs
3. Tada! Best mobile keyboard.
buggs1a said:
Is there a way to make it work like on the ipod? That is perfect.
Thanks.
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Buy an iPhone?
Or as football0552 pointed it out, just slide the keyboard out. On-screen keyboard is meant for only replying "OK" to a friend =D
hardware keyboard too small.
iphone sucks. apple sucks.
onscreen keyboard is not meant for only ok. it is meant for all typing. hardware keyboard for me is even worse then the onscreen one.
buggs1a said:
hardware keyboard too small.
iphone sucks. apple sucks.
onscreen keyboard is not meant for only ok. it is meant for all typing. hardware keyboard for me is even worse then the onscreen one.
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Too Small??? Oo
Well, try some other keyboards, there are some lying around here somewhere, search for resco keyboard and finger keyboard
buggs1a said:
hardware keyboard too small.
iphone sucks. apple sucks.
onscreen keyboard is not meant for only ok. it is meant for all typing. hardware keyboard for me is even worse then the onscreen one.
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Apple sux??? and you have a Ipod Touch? And Hardware Keyboard is too small?? Are you serious, this keyboard is gigantic compared to any other slideout KB out there. Just search for other KB out there, I havent found a WVGA one yet. I use the Compact Qwerty KB that is on Mightey Mikes new rom. I think its the best for texting if you dont feel like whipping out the KB bro.
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Really?? I thought it is the best. Definitely the best hardware keyboard for a phone...but anyway I have used SBP Keyboard. It works pretty good and you can download different skins that have different layouts and bigger and smaller keys so you can kind of customize it to your liking.
Here is the cab for the keyboard: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ODHE7PK9
I just hate it when someone asks for help and then people go suggesting other stuff. eg iphone.
Thanks for the suggestion for the sbp. I still think its keys are way too small. Look how skinny they are. Way smaller then my thumbs.
The hardware keyboard on the tp2 is yes, the best I have seen, but still too close together by far. You look at yer thumb and how wide it is and I need a bigger onscreen keyboard.
The sbp I tried and I think it is slightly better then the default onscreen keyboard. Only thing is it doesn't stick to that when I reboot the phone etc. At least mine went back to the default.
That may be. I mostly used it on my touch pro and it stayed as the default on that one. I haven't used it a lot on my TP2
I assume you've had your device for a while now. They all take getting used to, so my only suggestion would be to practice a bit more with both keyboards. I came from using Treos (no problem using a keyboard that size for me when I had them). I am by no means small of hand: the top joint of my thumb covers 15 of the physical keys at a time, and I have zero problems selecting individual keys. The virtual keyboard, while not the easiest to use, is one I still can use with very few mistakes, actually better than I expected.
Sorry to not have a solution to your exact question, merely a suggestion, but I hope you stick with it. This is too good a device to give up on IMO.
Afterthought question: what were you using previously that had bigger keys than this?
i have ipod touch 2g and love the onscreen keyboard. maybe its better not only from size but it is capacitive on glass solid screen? could the screen be the difference? i just have to type very slow with tp2 hardware kbrd and onscreen. im not giving up on my tp2. what makes this such a wonderful phone anyway? i just wish the onscreen kbrd keys were wider. but my thumbs maybe dont slip to next key on ipod cus its capacitive. i dunno.
are you typing with the ends of your thumbs or the actual pads? I have noticed that Cap screens are pretty lenient in allowing you to use big blunt things like the pads of your thumbs whereas resistive screens are somewhat more picky so using the ends of your thumbs, fingers, nails are better off used in this case. Same would go for physical keyboards of smaller size.
I would strongly suggest using the fingernail to type on the screen. A solid tap right over top of the intended key then moving on to the next letter lets me type very fast on the screen. Possibly faster than the physical keyboard (but only for shorter messages/search phrases). Just tap with your index fingernail and trust that the screen picked it up. that's what i do
I don't use the very tip of my thumbs or fingers but just below that with fingers or the middle/fatter part on the thumb because of how you hold the phone. But even if I use closer to the tip that doesn't help much on tp2.
I really have towonder if a big thing here is capacitive iPod touch (glass?) vs tp2 resistive. My fingers thumbs don't seem to slip as much on iPod but maybe that's cus iPod keys are a bit wider which of course they are I think.
The hardware keyboard on the tp2 I use the tip of fingers/thumbs a bit more for sure. They're way to clse and flat otherwise when using the fatter middle part of my thumbs.
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I just hate it when someone asks for help and then people go suggesting other stuff. eg iphone.
Thanks for the suggestion for the sbp. I still think its keys are way too small. Look how skinny they are. Way smaller then my thumbs.
The hardware keyboard on the tp2 is yes, the best I have seen, but still too close together by far. You look at yer thumb and how wide it is and I need a bigger onscreen keyboard.
The sbp I tried and I think it is slightly better then the default onscreen keyboard. Only thing is it doesn't stick to that when I reboot the phone etc. At least mine went back to the default.
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I don't use the very tip of my thumbs or fingers but just below that with fingers or the middle/fatter part on the thumb because of how you hold the phone. But even if I use closer to the tip that doesn't help much on tp2.
I really have towonder if a big thing here is capacitive iPod touch (glass?) vs tp2 resistive. My fingers thumbs don't seem to slip as much on iPod but maybe that's cus iPod keys are a bit wider which of course they are I think.
The hardware keyboard on the tp2 I use the tip of fingers/thumbs a bit more for sure. They're way to clse and flat otherwise when using the fatter middle part of my thumbs.
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I've got pretty big hands and an iPod Touch 32GB (1G) and I have a harder time with the iPod's keyboard vs. the TP2.
I use the TP2's 'full qwerty' on-screen keyboard for texting and the hardware keyboard for emails.. I find it easier to format emails with the hardware keyboard.
Anyway, my suggestion is to use that little nub in the middle of your thumb and teach yourself to type over a few day period.. that's what I did and it only took me a few days to follow the learning curve from my Storm 1 (now THAT'S a HUGE difference)
-mak
Maybe what I'm seeing is iPod is glass and the tp2 is plastic. Much easier to use the iPod onscreen then tp2 for me. With tp2 I think what happens is I slip to the next letter and i have to manually correct it. I get auto correction on iPod but my fingers/thumbs don't slip to the next letters. The hardness of my iPod screen feels so much better then the tp2 screen.
Is what I'm talking about capacitive vs resistive? Is it the iPod glass screen/hardness vs the tp2 softer screen?
And does anyone know how to get the tp2 to auto correct like iPod does?
Perhaps what we really need to know is what all the typing is for? Are these just little SMS messages or are you doing a lot of work on your phone?
The only way you're going to get physically bigger is by going to a full size (more r less) Bluetooth keyboard. Actually quite nice if you are doing a considerable amount of work on your phone. Maybe not so hot if you are only looking for a solution to tap out some SMS messages once in a while.
You can only make each key so big and still fit them all on a certain size screen. Does your iPud have a larger screen? You can look for other software keyboards, but the keys can only get so big & keep them all on screen.
A resistive screen needs to receive pressure. A capacitive screen only needs to register the electrostatic ground you provide. And yes, a capacitive screen is more like glass if not actually made of glass. Perhaps the capacitive screen of your iPud works better for you and the properties of the resistive screen just don't get along with your fingers. There are just now WM phones coming out with capacitive screens, HTC HD2 for instance.
These two are simply things that can't be changed with this phone. They are physical properties. If these are the problems, you need to look at other phones.
If you want the software to do others things like auto-correction, you need to look at other software keyboards.
Wikipedia & internet searching are your friends.
p.s. Please look up the proper usage of the words "then" and "than".
... How is this CMDA specific again?
which one is better to get.
i can get both phone on almost same price in used condition.
Mmm hard one, if you like a d-pad & hardware keyboard the x1 is your device, I just set up a Diamond 2 for a work friend, quite a nice device but I did miss d-pad & a hardware keyboard is simply better than any touchscreen for serious typing.
any suggestions?
As a diamond2 user myself, i would definitely go for the x1 just for the keyboard.
If typing is not that important to you, you should probably go for diamond2.
I have X1 for about year and a half. After few months of use it developed a crack in the housing (standard issue). Today physical keyboard is pain to use, since bottom row buttons barely register presses (sometimes nothing, sometimes 3-4 letters at once). At least in my case, my xperia's build quality is terrible.
Another issue is the SOD (appears on most ROM's with Sense), when phone freezes overnight just when just have to wake up on time in the morning.
If I was looking for a used phone with a keyboard, I would probably look some more for a TouchPro.
well typing is not that important to me.
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well typing is not that important to me.
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Well in that case I would probably go with a Diamond 2 & load it with a 6.5.3 series ROM making it more UI touch friendly.
The Diamond is a nice sized device, has g-sensor & a practical notification LED.
Another plus is build quality is good & the Topaz forum is very active.
how about screen resolution?
which one has the more sharp colors and bright screen?
Have a look here for a detailed comparative where all your questions will be answered