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Install different keyboard?

Why is it when i install a different keyboard it wont override the stupid HTC keyboard?
For example, i wantto install the droid x keyboard, but when i go to activate it in the keyboard settings, it leaves the HTC keyboard as the main keyboard. Is there something im missing?

Long press in a text box and then release and press input method to change keyboards.
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He's right, wrong section to post though.
Mods will be soon to move it.
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craigkal said:
Long press in a text box and then release and press input method to change keyboards.
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It force closes, any suggestions?
Sorry if im in wrong section

Try reinstalling if you get a force close. Go into Settings>Language and Keyboard and check your settings for the custom keyboard.

Just download swiftkeyboard....best keyboard EVER

jflexe99 said:
Just download swiftkeyboard....best keyboard EVER
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swiftkeyboard lags, it cant keep up with my fingers
and i tried uninstalling, no go....

Unless it was ported over doubt it would work, if it is actual droid x keyboard

HTC Trace Keyboard (Swype) Update for Desire S?

http://www.androidcentral.com/htc-sensation-include-swype-htc-trace-keyboard
Check this out! HTC's own version of Swype?!
Would be cool if the older devices get this update! Won't require dual core for it, if thats htc's pathetic excuse again!

maybe？
oh it's crazy i think 。。for me。it never minds

muyongyin said:
maybe？
oh it's crazy i think 。。for me。it never minds
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Only time will tell

As someone thats very recently learned to love the free (beta) swype application, I'm hoping that the htc v3.0 htc trace application gets ported to our device and soon
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I wonder if this will be better than Swype and SwiftKey.

i donot need it ，but thank you for sharing all the same

Hello, I've searched for swype and HTC Trace in the market, but I didn't find none of them. What is the exact name of the application to install, to have the swype active?

fbcyborg said:
Hello, I've searched for swype and HTC Trace in the market, but I didn't find none of them. What is the exact name of the application to install, to have the swype active?
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From memory when I installed swype you have to get it through your browser on your phone and download it from their site,though I'm sure someone will correct me if my memory is failing.

det66 said:
From memory when I installed swype you have to get it through your browser on your phone and download it from their site,though I'm sure someone will correct me if my memory is failing.
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You are correct! Download the beta for Swype from here...
http://beta.swype.com/android/get/
You need to sign up to an account first though.
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Thanks, but, is this something that overrides the default keyboard adding the swype function or is it a new one?

No it won't override, merely give you an alternate keyboard option. Its not obvious how to turn it on though so once installed, do the following;
In settings, go to 'languages & keyboard' and put a tick in the 'Swype' box.
Then in any text entry box, do a long press, and select 'Input Method' and choose Swype.
Nice Swype tip: It has a nice (hidden) cursor keyboard. Access it by Swyping from the bottom-left menu button, to the button to the right of it.
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Some nice themed Swype keyboards here (although the cursor board is missing some keys)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1124639
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Thanks.
Is there some keyboard that looks like the default one? (I mean the original one)
I've seen that these keyboards need to be flashed. Is there a way to come back to the stock one just in case I don't like the new one? I've seen there is some keyboard zip file here on xda, but I'm not sure of what is the stock one.
EDIT: for instance, I've found this thread. There is a so called "HTC_Keyboard_Without_Arrows"; I guess it is the stock one. Isn't it?

fbcyborg said:
Thanks.
Is there some keyboard that looks like the default one? (I mean the original one)
I've seen that these keyboards need to be flashed. Is there a way to come back to the stock one just in case I don't like the new one? I've seen there is some keyboard zip file here on xda, but I'm not sure of what is the stock one.
EDIT: for instance, I've found this thread. There is a so called "HTC_Keyboard_Without_Arrows"; I guess it is the stock one. Isn't it?
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Check my post in the Hyperion thread
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Enable HTC Trace Keyboard

How can I enable the HTC Trace Keyboard?
When I tick the box in the keyboard settings it still doesn't work
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If u do that and it still don't work, idk what else you can do. They a reboot maybe?

Doesn't seem to work - no biggie as I use Swype anyway. Infinitely better!

Mine is working. It's in keyboard setting.
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sromer said:
How can I enable the HTC Trace Keyboard?
When I tick the box in the keyboard settings it still doesn't work
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You do NOT have an extra keyboard called "Trace Keyboard" or whatever by long pressing. After enabling it, just slide as if you were using swype with the regular HTC keyboard.

tsekh501 said:
You do NOT have an extra keyboard called "Trace Keyboard" or whatever by long pressing. After enabling it, just slide as if you were using swype with the regular HTC keyboard.
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Doesn't work for me.

tsekh501 said:
You do NOT have an extra keyboard called "Trace Keyboard" or whatever by long pressing. After enabling it, just slide as if you were using swype with the regular HTC keyboard.
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I know what Trace is.....
After enabling it just doesn't work

Settings - keyboard and languages - touch input - trace keyboard - enable.
Then long press any text entry screen and choose "Input Method" then "Touch Input". Works fine for me.
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EDIT : Okay turned out you have to enable the prediction feature for trace to work, without prediction it just ignores your trace inputs.

reckoner_85 said:
EDIT : Okay turned out you have to enable the prediction feature for trace to work, without prediction it just ignores your trace inputs.
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Thanks, that solved the problem

Sorry for the double post, but it keeps not working.
any suggestions?

not sure mate.. try disabling and renabling it?
i had no issues getting mine working and i find it quite handy. i tap away most of the time, but in landscape mode its good for bigger words. i dont tend to use it in portrait mode much.

Hi
Just wondering if Trace can be added/flashed separately if its not included in the Rom?
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leighaus said:
not sure mate.. try disabling and renabling it?
i had no issues getting mine working and i find it quite handy. i tap away most of the time, but in landscape mode its good for bigger words. i dont tend to use it in portrait mode much.
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Now it's working again
Is it meant to work with all text input?

I've never got it working but I just use Swype instead

EddyOS said:
I've never got it working but I just use Swype instead
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I've got it working for messages, facebook and twitter.
I was just wondering if it's meant to work in the market and when you're using the internet

colinmc8 said:
Hi
Just wondering if Trace can be added/flashed separately if its not included in the Rom?
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Anyone?
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since it's solved now .. I recommand u try swype app it works a lot better than the stock one

sromer said:
I've got it working for messages, facebook and twitter.
I was just wondering if it's meant to work in the market and when you're using the internet
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mine has been flawless, and i just checked market. doesnt work there. i only use it for SMS anyway.

leighaus said:
mine has been flawless, and i just checked market. doesnt work there. i only use it for SMS anyway.
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Okay, thanks for checking i wasn't sure if it was meant to or not.

[APK] Dialer Shortcut (for missing lockscreen dialer shortcuts)

Ran into the issue where the lockscreen shortcut wasn't showing the Phone in the list. It was kind of pissing me off, so I made a simple app that will simply launch the Phone app. That's it. It's just a shortcut essentially.
Install as a regular APK.
I've named it "Phone" in the app drawer and gave it the same icon (as seen in screenshots below). I can rename it to like Dialer or something if you guys prefer to be able to distinguish it, but I'm sure this will do the trick for the majority who have this issue.

Works great thanks! It was pissing me off too after flashing ROMs it would dissappear
Thanks
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Would the market app: Any Cut work also?
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igotpunkipowa said:
Would the market app: Any Cut work also?
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I don't think so, unless it's able to create shortcuts in your app drawer

thanks! works great!!!!

It works perfectly. You are a scholar and a gentlemen sir!

Thank you sir! This was bugging me too, and your shortcut did the trick!

Thank you for the assist!

GorillaPimp said:
Thank you for the assist!
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I love your user name. A lot.
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How do you install this on your sensation? I tried clicking the link and installing as a regular apk as I normally would and it says the content is not supported on the phone. No application can be found to open this file. I even tried scanning the QR Code and it doesn't seem to work as well. Any suggestions? I appreciate your help as I am a noob on here.

bustinstugots24 said:
How do you install this on your sensation? I tried clicking the link and installing as a regular apk as I normally would and it says the content is not supported on the phone. No application can be found to open this file. I even tried scanning the QR Code and it doesn't seem to work as well. Any suggestions? I appreciate your help as I am a noob on here.
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Install astro and look in options, there should be a setting to enable all downloads from the internet.

Man, thanks so much for this APK. Just ran into this issue myself, and your solution worked out perfectly.

Any help for this issue? Got a "The application DialerShortcut (process com.roman.dialershortcut) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. This happens everytime I try to press on the shortcut. Additionally, on my home screen, everytime I try to press "Phone" at the bottom of the screen, nothing pops up...

kooshnedo said:
Any help for this issue? Got a "The application DialerShortcut (process com.roman.dialershortcut) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. This happens everytime I try to press on the shortcut. Additionally, on my home screen, everytime I try to press "Phone" at the bottom of the screen, nothing pops up...
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Sounds like you deleted your phone apk... lol

Romanbb said:
Ran into the issue where the lockscreen shortcut wasn't showing the Phone in the list. It was kind of pissing me off, so I made a simple app that will simply launch the Phone app. That's it. It's just a shortcut essentially.
Install as a regular APK.
I've named it "Phone" in the app drawer and gave it the same icon (as seen in screenshots below). I can rename it to like Dialer or something if you guys prefer to be able to distinguish it, but I'm sure this will do the trick for the majority who have this issue.
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DUDE! You ROCK!!! This just happened to me today ans it was really pissing me off. I was trying everything I could think of short of a factory reset. Thanks you saved me from having to wipe my phone.

Same here, thank you for saving me from having to factory reset.
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Excellent! Was driving me crazy. (Tossing a buck in the tip jar).
- Dayton - Tue. 09/27/2011 @ 19:22:53

Thanks beyond a million for the apk!! As a company, why the hell would they remove the damn dialer shortcut!?!?!

this worked for my HTC sensation, I really appreciate you creating this app, thank you.

Hi Roman,
Do you mind sharing this piece of source code? I am newbie and want to create a shortcut to other applications in the draws. Thanks.

(ICS) How to change input method without going too settings?

Hey just curious on how to change my keyboard while in any app that uses the keyboard to input text. I tried to press and hold an empty space on the screen and the input method never pops up like on all other Android versions.
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Nevermind I figured it out. When you are typing there is a keyboard notification at the top and you just have to click it to change keyboard
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Thanks! I was caught off guard too.

Long pressing the space bar also does the job. I miss gb where all you do is swipe the spare bar to change languages

Any way to do this automatically "per-application"?
When I'm in terminal emulator I want to use hackers keyboard, but I'm fine with standard in other places (like writting sms).

I feel retarded
adleyh2000 said:
Nevermind I figured it out. When you are typing there is a keyboard notification at the top and you just have to click it to change keyboard
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THANK YOU!!! I saw this when I first updated then forgot. Thanks for the reminder!!!

dpc.ucore.info said:
Any way to do this automatically "per-application"?
When I'm in terminal emulator I want to use hackers keyboard, but I'm fine with standard in other places (like writting sms).
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I would love to be able to do that. I use chrome as my browser and it does not play nice with swype. When deleting text it skips to the middle of words and sometimes when typing a word it will use the suggestion automatically before I'm even done typing the word.

agentfusion said:
I would love to be able to do that. I use chrome as my browser and it does not play nice with swype. When deleting text it skips to the middle of words and sometimes when typing a word it will use the suggestion automatically before I'm even done typing the word.
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u would have to see whtas happening with my Swype on JB from time to time... hahaha

adleyh2000 said:
Nevermind I figured it out. When you are typing there is a keyboard notification at the top and you just have to click it to change keyboard
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tnx for your good reply...:good:

Thanks a milion
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