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Anyone have the new version of Swype?

I read that some people are seeing the new version of Swype that's supposed to be released 6/16 in the market but I'm not. If anyone has it could you please post the .apk? Thanks.

its not on the market you have to go to beta.swype.com and give them an email address you can access from your evo and they will provide the instructions...better hurry, no telling how long they will be offering it. I got it on mine earlier today.

skantman69 said:
better hurry, no telling how long they will be offering it. I got it on mine earlier today.
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Did you get the final version? I've only seen the beta version 1.56 that has been kicking around for a week already.

I believe this is a new version.had its own installer.don't recall there being anything on it about a beta like
Before.
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Sent on my Sprint EVO using 4G speed

The version released today that some of us have is beta release 1.56.30.7625.t100

I just tried installing it, but it failed twice on my EVO. Gave up.
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thanks, i just registered and am waiting for the email

I got an email last night at around 10pm.
Downloaded it... it was it's own installer. Installed it, works awesome. Not sure if it's new or old or what.
It says "version 7625" in the manage applications menu.

yes just got the update link yesterday
yes swype is back open for beta testing I dont know if it is truly an open beta as i tried for the last beta only to get this yesterday whitch was good I was using a hacked swype

they need to put the option of adding a period after hitting spacebar twice and add an icon for speech to text on the keyboard

You can get the period after swyping from "period" to "space"

speech to text would make swype perfection.
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Jramz, sent from my evo with swype.
Evo 4g
Root w/ perma-recovery & unlocked nand
Fresh Evo 0.2

whats kinda weird is when i put in numbers ..
i hit the symbol button and the numbers are there but in a weird setting.
if i hit the shift button and then the symbol button twice.. then i get the regular phone pad which makes it easier ..

iTouch24 said:
whats kinda weird is when i put in numbers ..
i hit the symbol button and the numbers are there but in a weird setting.
if i hit the shift button and then the symbol button twice.. then i get the regular phone pad which makes it easier ..
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Try swyping from the "swype" button to the letter "F" (the number 5) on the keyboard to bring that up without having to do all that.

ballr4lyf said:
Try swyping from the "swype" button to the letter "F" (the number 5) on the keyboard to bring that up without having to do all that.
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thanks so much .. that works so much faster ... !!!!

yeah, thanks that is a sweet tip!

*techknow files*
Code:
[URL="http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/add46/com.swype.android.inputmethod.apk"]NEW Swype Beta:: Download[/URL]
[URL="http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/add46/com.swype.android.inputmethod.zip"]ZIPPED Swype:: Download[/URL]
You know how I do <(^_\\<)

swype
Tekno ftw that's wassup.

Yeaaah, appreciate it Techno.
Edit: After I install this everything works fine (installed fine, tap text) except when I actually try to 'swype'. The little blue box lights up around keyboard, and I get the blue line that follows my finger but nothing ever shows up on-screen. I have to put in each letter just like the normal keyboard.

huzvi88 said:
Yeaaah, appreciate it Techno.
Edit: After I install this everything works fine (installed fine, tap text) except when I actually try to 'swype'. The little blue box lights up around keyboard, and I get the blue line that follows my finger but nothing ever shows up on-screen. I have to put in each letter just like the normal keyboard.
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Strange, I had this issue when I first tried installing the new Swype (it was cause by it claiming that the app was meant for a different device). After re-downloading it through the stock web browser the keyboard worked great. I guess make sure you have fully uninstalled Swype and then try installing the links above again, and if that doesn't work see what logcat results are when you try swyping.

droidx keyboard for d/l

hey not sure if this is new or not didnt see it but
http://www.droid-life.com/2010/06/24/download-multi-touch-keyboard-from-droid-x/
havent tested yet

It's pretty all right, but honestly, I prefer HTC_IME mod right now. The autocorrect options are better, it's far more customizable, and--most importantly--there's a comma on the damned keyboard for which I don't have to take any special action to use. However, once we have, say, a Multitouch_Keyboard mod, I will **** many bricks, and be pleased.

downloading now will report.

yeah by far. htc keyboard for correction and style etc... but if somehow implemented multitouch into htc. yeah thatd be great. im curious if this works on evo. havent tried

Ehh no force feedback... And why is there no dedicated comma button?

Ehh no force feedback... And why is there no dedicated comma button?
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It's disabled by default, but you can turn feedback back on. I don't know if it works (I don't like it and haven't tried to use it with this keyboard), but the option is certainly there. Now, as for the comma--no clue. I'm sad about it, though.

mrkmrk said:
It's pretty all right, but honestly, I prefer HTC_IME mod right now. The autocorrect options are better, it's far more customizable, and--most importantly--there's a comma on the damned keyboard for which I don't have to take any special action to use. However, once we have, say, a Multitouch_Keyboard mod, I will **** many bricks, and be pleased.
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dumb question but what is the HTC_IME mod?

Haptic feedback doesn't work even if enabled through the option. Sound works though. Although this keyboard looks nice, I still prefer the Swype keyboard more.

shadowhawk2020 said:
dumb question but what is the HTC_IME mod?
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Google is your friend.
But it is a customized HTC keyboard that has a plethora of added features. It is IMHO one of the best tap keyboards available. I use Swype though, which is IMHO the best gesture based input system available on Android.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=624416

UM you press the period comma button twice and it gives you a comma

Dude i live thus keyboard, works awesome for me because i've been waiting for a multitouch keyboard since the iceage!

UM you press the period comma button twice and it gives you a comma
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...Oh. I was wondering why it had both on there. THERE MAY BE HOPE YET.

tried it out, actually kinda crappy keyboard imo. its slower, not as good for prediction. yeah it can multitouch, but not important if its not as good. maybe if they implemented multitouch into htc

when i heard about the droid_x dump by gbhil, i grabbed it ripped this and a few other things out and tossed them in an update for my newest mod. i normally use swype, but if its going to be a regular kb i like the latin ime vanilla android kb with voice. i havent tested this one extensively, but from what i see its clean looking and fairly responsive. i just hate no longpress #'s. that killed it for me​

MagnusRagnarok said:
when i heard about the droid_x dump by gbhil, i grabbed it ripped this and a few other things out and tossed them in an update for my newest mod. i normally use swype, but if its going to be a regular kb i like the latin ime vanilla android kb with voice. i havent tested this one extensively, but from what i see its clean looking and fairly responsive. i just hate no longpress #'s. that killed it for me​
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You already posted this when someone called you out. Can't you just be normal and type in normal face or do you ALWAYS feel the need to stand out like most QUEENS and make a scene? I'm not trying to flame but...

Yes, I said what most are thinking and/or have told me.

don't know how any of you got this to work, i tried all roms and even went back to stock, it would either give me FC or just not show up..

Worked without issue for me... actually, it seemes to hav some trouble installing, but it showed up without issue after it installed for sure. Using it right now, actually. Needs better correction, predicition, and long-press for special chatacters. If I knew anything about leet hax, I would be all over combining this with HTC_IME mod right now... I'd like to keep the look and multitouch of this keyboard, obviously, and eerything else from HTC_IME mod.
/me keeps on dreaming

where can i find swype apk from?

From the beta, perhaps? Just go to their site, and it should be there.

Question about Nexus S keyboard

Hi,
When you press the SEARCH key, and typing in the text field ...
Does the keyboard give you text prediction?
And also when you search in the Market app ...
If not, is possible to enable text prediction on all input fields?
Thanks.

Negative on the text prediction for search. I get text prediction in the form of app suggestions on the market, but I don't know if that's quite what you're looking for.
As far as enabling it, I have no idea. I don't recall if any of my past Android devices did text prediction on search. :/
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

Take a look at SwiftKey. Text prediction is one of the reasons that my wife and I moved to it. We like this keyboard much better than stock, for us it was well worth the money.

This is common for several fields in several different apps. I work for Swype, so I've seen this myself, but since our keyboard doesn't typically work this way it's only been a curiosity for me. I believe it is considered a "feature" since you might want to explicitly type something else other than what prediction guesses. If you want to give Swype a try, the beta is currently open at: http://beta.swype.com/

Hi there,
Thanks for your info. I still find it odd, to not have this common behavior on all input fields.
Heck, the old HTC_IME hack on HTC Desire works pretty well with all the options to have prediction in all kind of input fields (thanks to the modder, jonasl). I still have this on my signature below.
But recently, I like the new Nexus S keyboard. It look slick, easy to type. But yeah, I missed some of the HTC_IME improvements, like SMILEY button!
As for SWYPE, granted, it is a very nice keyboard. But, I don't use ENGLISH that much I am using south-east asian language which is not supported
So, I am afraid that it does not offer much advantage.
Chinpokomon said:
This is common for several fields in several different apps. I work for Swype, so I've seen this myself, but since our keyboard doesn't typically work this way it's only been a curiosity for me. I believe it is considered a "feature" since you might want to explicitly type something else other than what prediction guesses. If you want to give Swype a try, the beta is currently open at: http://beta.swype.com/
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gogol said:
Hi there,
Thanks for your info. I still find it odd, to not have this common behavior on all input fields.
Heck, the old HTC_IME hack on HTC Desire works pretty well with all the options to have prediction in all kind of input fields (thanks to the modder, jonasl). I still have this on my signature below.
But recently, I like the new Nexus S keyboard. It look slick, easy to type. But yeah, I missed some of the HTC_IME improvements, like SMILEY button!
As for SWYPE, granted, it is a very nice keyboard. But, I don't use ENGLISH that much I am using south-east asian language which is not supported
So, I am afraid that it does not offer much advantage.
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The built in Gingerbread keyboard does have a smiley button. It's a "smart" keyboard, it knows what you're doing and shows you the appropriate keys/features/functions.
Go write a txt message, and you'll see a smiley key on the bottom right.

They should've taken out the period and extended the space bar. Its very frustrating when I'm trying to type fast. IPhone still had the best touch keyboard available
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Thanks, I did not know that.
Obviously because I am using Nexus S keyboard on my HTC Desire! Probably it does not work fully as designed (I did not see that smiley button).
But, does that smiley button also appear when you type in EMAIL or TEXT AREA like replying to forum like this using the web browser?
Or when typing comments on Facebook app! That would be very nice.
nxt said:
The built in Gingerbread keyboard does have a smiley button. It's a "smart" keyboard, it knows what you're doing and shows you the appropriate keys/features/functions.
Go write a txt message, and you'll see a smiley key on the bottom right.
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gogol said:
Thanks, I did not know that.
Obviously because I am using Nexus S keyboard on my HTC Desire! Probably it does not work fully as designed (I did not see that smiley button).
But, does that smiley button also appear when you type in EMAIL or TEXT AREA like replying to forum like this using the web browser?
Or when typing comments on Facebook app! That would be very nice.
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I only see it in the Messaging app.

[Q] Swype not saving words to dictionary?

For anyone else that is doing the Swype beta v3 is it saving words to the dictionary? Mine isn't.

xnifex said:
For anyone else that is doing the Swype beta v3 is it saving words to the dictionary? Mine isn't.
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not having any issues here with the latest beta :\ you tried reinstalling.

yep, no luck unfortunately. gonna email swype

xnifex said:
yep, no luck unfortunately. gonna email swype
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in your swype settings, do you have word prediction ticked?
you always need to tick that on installing! lol
so just go to keyboard setting, or tap the swype key when your writing then pres options, andmake sure its ticked
. that should cure it.

word suggestion& auto-correction are on.

xnifex said:
word suggestion& auto-correction are on.
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definitely puzzling. Did you download a new installer. Then the beta. If you downloaded english spanish beta. Try fill or vice versa
Swyped from my HTC Sensation Pyramid using my thumb and eyes

I tried both. i even uninstalled, cleared all swype data & tried that, no dice. charging phone now to do a hard reset & see if that works

Just did a hard reset & still getting this stupid bug.

For me to add a new word that doesn't exists, I first have to manually type it and select it on the word suggestion bard (because auto correct will try to suggest a "correct" word). After I select the word, the option to "add <word> to dictionary" will appear for me on the word suggestion bar and pressing it will add it to the dictionary (Somewhat like stock gingerbread keyboard).

yeah I do that & it says that it added the word, yet when I reswipe it it's not added. I can do this 10 times in a row & it still won't stick

So I'm apparently an idiot & my Swype does work. I was under the impression that when it said 'Add "xnifex" to the dictionary' it was notifying me that that's what it was doing. I wasn't aware that you had to tap that notification for it to work. On the HD2 if you manually type in a word it's automatically added to the dictionary so I thought it was the same behavior. Yay for the swype team helping me out.
http://forum.swype.com/showthread.php?3769-Can-t-add-words-to-dictionary-on-brand-new-install

Did you actually clicked on "add <word> to dictionary"? Unlike on Froyo, where Swype saves a word after hitting space, now the users have to confirm the action by clicking on the right above the keyboard.
I was so used to the old swype, it took me 2 days to realize that...

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Did you actually clicked on "add <word> to dictionary"? Unlike on Froyo, where Swype saves a word after hitting space, now the users have to confirm the action by clicking on the right above the keyboard.
I was so used to the old swype, it took me 2 days to realize that...
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Yep, now I know this too. Had the admin brian over on the swype forums tell me about it. I'm used to the old swype as well.

xnifex said:
So I'm apparently an idiot & my Swype does work. I was under the impression that when it said 'Add "xnifex" to the dictionary' it was notifying me that that's what it was doing. I wasn't aware that you had to tap that notification for it to work. On the HD2 if you manually type in a word it's automatically added to the dictionary so I thought it was the same behavior. Yay for the swype team helping me out.
http://forum.swype.com/showthread.php?3769-Can-t-add-words-to-dictionary-on-brand-new-install
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Lol well done mate
Swyped from my HTC Sensation Pyramid using my thumb and eyes

I'd just like to add that I had this problem, I was tapping to add to dictionary and there were literally no words in the dictionary, it was basically a tap keyboard. I uninstalled with Titanium Backup, then installed the Full version instead of the English/Other language one. This one has a dictionary and will save new words to it.

Thanks guys, I learned something new today;-)
Swyped from HTC Pyramid, using XDA Premium App.

I just want to say that I had the exact same issue as the OP. I thought that it was automatically adding the words to the dictionary, but some bug prevented them from appearing or something. I just wasn't clicking the "Add "word" to dictionary".
To be fair, it's not very clear on the UI that it's something that you can or should press. It doesn't have a question mark at the end, which would make you realise that it's ASKING you something, not telling you something.
That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

Swype is the best. My only problem is the word bar above the keyboard. I find it distracting, and hard to get used to. I've looked everywhere trying to find a way to turn it off. Besides that, swype is 1,000x better than what comes with the sensation.
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LISTEN EVERYONE..to solve the problem download a app called ''SMS to swype'' and it picks up every word you type from all the keyboards you used and saves them to the dictionary SOLVED
https://market.android.com/details?id=ch.zimmbi.sms2swype&feature=search_result

WorldWide60 said:
Swype is the best. My only problem is the word bar above the keyboard. I find it distracting, and hard to get used to. I've looked everywhere trying to find a way to turn it off. Besides that, swype is 1,000x better than what comes with the sensation.
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Turn off the word suggestion?
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[TIP] CM10 - What to Do if Your Physical Keyboard Shift or Capslock Keys Don't Work i

EDIT - so seems this isn't working. Sigh, thought this was the end of this particular problem. I'll keep researching and post if I find something.
Found this on the Droid 4 forum (link below). So I always had an issue with not being able use symbols, capitalize stuff, etc. when using Chrome, Naked Browser, whatever. Figured it was a software issue but finally decided to Google it and the fix is easy:
-Settings
-Language/Input
- AOSP Settings
- Language
- Uncheck 'Use System Language'
- Scroll down, uncheck English
- Scroll Down to No Language - QWERTY (seriously, says that), check
Should be good to go. Not sure if it works on stock but worth a shot. I hated having to use my on screen keyboard for passwords and crap.
Soure: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...shift-key-not-working-most-punctuation-4.html

Ah, I did always wonder why some text fields seemed to be created differently than others...
Input field racism I tell you!
Nice find, thanks
Edit - just tried it, perhaps I need to restart... I still need to hold shift in order to get special characters to appear in fields on Chrome...

Yea, still having issues myself. Seems to work in the url field but not in password fields, etc. I'll see if I can find anything else in the link or online.
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brandontowey said:
Yea, still having issues myself. Seems to work in the url field but not in password fields, etc. I'll see if I can find anything else in the link or online.
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Bummer, I was hoping I did something wrong, lol.
I'm trying to remember what apps were misbehaving here as well... there were a few, which probably just used webUI frontends for their app instead of making true context-aware Android fields.

I know it works in Words with Friends, text messaging and most other apps (can't remember any not working) and seems to be only in the browser. Really annoying but holding the shift key is better than before where I just opened up Swype.
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brandontowey said:
I know it works in Words with Friends, text messaging and most other apps (can't remember any not working) and seems to be only in the browser. Really annoying but holding the shift key is better than before where I just opened up Swype.
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Oh holding shift in the browser always worked for me... I was always able to put in the special characters holding shift, even before this mod.
Still, it's confusing why different text fields receive different treatment...

It never even occured to me to hold the shift key down, honestly. I just dealt with it. I don't really know the inner workings of android well enough to say why it doesn't work but I think it's weird that it works in mobile apps like USAA and Ebay, which I always thought just took the website and displayed it in a better format than a browser.
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Hi,
First of a i'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but it is hardware keyboard related. So if it is misplaced please forgive me!
How do you disable the special characters that are typed when you quickly double press for example the letter e. example: I want to type steel, but i end up with stél.

Settings - Advanced - multipress. Two options, you pick one. The multipress interval let's you disable the feature completely.

mrvek said:
Settings - Advanced - multipress. Two options, you pick one. The multipress interval let's you disable the feature completely.
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Wow thanx a lot, didn't expect it would be so simple.

arrrghhh said:
Still, it's confusing why different text fields receive different treatment...
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So I was messing around a bit and it seems I don't need to hold the shift key to get a special character, just press the character key right after the shift key. I ridiculously quick press that requires two hands anyways. So maybe the browsers aren't correctly interperting the 'hold' the shift key normally sends (I know very little about coding so hopefully this makes sense) and releasing it way too soon? I think I've exhausted Google search options as of now.