So this may seem like kind of an oddball question, as every search I did turned up nothing but requests FOR this button (though it apparently replaced an old smiley button, which seems even more useless), but I was wondering if any modders out there had made a version of swype that had no voice input button. Ideally the real estate would be reclaimed for the space bar and/or enter keys, both of which are positively tiny in portrait mode. As a secondary consideration, it'd be nice to remove the Swype help/options button on the bottom-left, too, and an option for arrow keys (sometimes I like having them and sometimes I don't, but the option would be nice).
Just curious if anyone else cares/has worked on something like this. Thanks in advance!
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All the new Roms for many of the phones here are streamlined for one handed use. Though there is one problem. One cannot change the sip mode unless she clicks on the tiny arrow next to the keyboard icon. This is really difficult with the size of my thumb, and taking into consideration the slugginess of my prophet's processor, the menu takes a second or two to open, during which I impatiently and accidentally press one or both the soft buttons
I tried a lot to find a macro recorder, or a way to assign a hard button to that little arrow but nothing. Does anybody know a way to change sip's easily?
Try Wisbar Advance. There's a feature that enable the autochanging of sip base on what program you are running. You won't even need to change sip forever if it's properly configured.
unluckily I just have different sip's for greek and english, so I would like to change on the fly, maybe several times during a message. So that does not seem very helpful, although I will sure give it a try. Thanx.
I've disabled all of the auto-correct and suggestion SIP options on the TP and that works great, HOWEVER (heh, heh)...
Is there any way to turn off that annoying "what-you're-typing-preview" that always appears on-screen as you type? It is such a waste of screen real estate.
Do you know what I mean? I'll explain...
For example:
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PREVIEW STYLE 1
1. Start a new text message.
2. Pop out your physical keyboard
3. Start typing!
You will see what you type appear in a little "preview window" at the bottom of your screen.
Now here's the REALLY annoying one...
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PREVIEW STYLE 2
1. Open an existing SMS message (threaded view)
2. Pop out your physical keyboard
3. Start typing...
You will see the preview appear *above* your text this time. Even MORE annoying since it's taking up real estate in the typing area this time around.
I've been scrounging for a solution to this and really hope one exists.
Thanks for everything, guys!
press ctrl + space and choose abc
Thank-you VERY MUCH, Brendo!
I thought that I had already done this but I realize now that it was probably in my dreams.
(YES -- I dream about my TP -- don't lie -- YOU DO, TOO!!!).
Lol.
Take care.
Hi Guys, probably very silly of me, but 'choose abc'. Do we have a 'abc' button? I can't seem to find out what you mean with this. Also pressing cntrl + space and typing abc does nothing (obviously). Help me. I also find the typing preview window quite annoying, especially since I have been so happy to be able to turn the auto correct options off.
It can be found on the SIP - pop up keyboard, providing you have "full keyboard", phone keyboard etc selected and not the windows default keyboard. You will see a button marked ABC->T9. Make sure T9 is not selected.
Gee thnx ardsar, this was clear and worked. Indeed I had to change the layout of my pop up keyboard, as I hardly ever use it and had it in the default keyboard mode.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU (yes, I'm shouting )
If there was anything that pissed me off on this phone, it was the goddamn useless preview!
Why do they expect that you're a retard, if you bought HTC phone? I thought these phones were for smart people
That's kool that it will take the dialog away but while I'm in programs it still types the letters in the background and causes them to skip. Is there any way to disable the typing of keys in the background while still reading the keystrokes. Let's say I'm using PocketNES while I'm in the game it reads the hardware keyboard as typing letters when I'm not trying to type any message. I would just like to use the letters as buttons instead. Hopefully someone has found a solution to the problem!
I'm just about getting used to the HD2 keyboard but one major annoyance for me is that button to switch between T9/ABC.
I CONSTANTLY catch it with my thumb as it is placed in a really stupid position right next to the 'A' button. Is there any way someone could tweak the default keyboard so that t9 is an option in the MENU rather than a button?? I rarely need to switch between them and I fail to see why ANYONE needs a 'convenient' switch to catch inadvertently as most people either use T9 or DON'T use it, without switching between it.....things like the searchbar automatically switch it off anyway.
To my mind it is a stupid button and often I catch it unknowingly and type a load of gobbledeegook before I even realise.
Anyone else suffering the same annoyance? I'm considering testing out a different HTC keyboard, like perhaps the Diamond 2 one if they don't have this annoying button on them.
It's been asked before mate, and the usual advice is to try a 3rd party keyboard.
Fingerkeyboard was developed by a fellow xda user, and that's not too dissimilar to the HTC one, but it has extras.
Maybe try that instead?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=487677
The above link takes you to an old version that's been discontinued, but it has pics on it so you can see what it looks like. There's a link there to the latest version.
Hope this helps
i too have the same problem, tried fingerkeyboard, but i feel the standard keyboard to be more accurate [larger button], i actually like fingerkeyboard layout but i always have more errors than standard keyboard.
one thing i don't like with standard keyboard is the XT9 button. is there a way to remove or disable that button? reg tweak maybe?
maybe this?
leoni1980 said:
I'm just about getting used to the HD2 keyboard but one major annoyance for me is that button to switch between T9/ABC.
I CONSTANTLY catch it with my thumb as it is placed in a really stupid position right next to the 'A' button. Is there any way someone could tweak the default keyboard so that t9 is an option in the MENU rather than a button?? I rarely need to switch between them and I fail to see why ANYONE needs a 'convenient' switch to catch inadvertently as most people either use T9 or DON'T use it, without switching between it.....things like the searchbar automatically switch it off anyway.
To my mind it is a stupid button and often I catch it unknowingly and type a load of gobbledeegook before I even realise.
Anyone else suffering the same annoyance? I'm considering testing out a different HTC keyboard, like perhaps the Diamond 2 one if they don't have this annoying button on them.
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Disable or try VNkeyB 2.2 with some skin......:
for as long as I've had my phone, which, of course, is as long as I've had it rooted, my messaging app has acted extremely odd.
Using the arrow keys and the back-space key causes strange, and often app-breaking, behavior. it seems to be registering the key presses in at least 2 other areas of the app. it always scrolls to the top of the conversation, it highlights conversations in the main message window, and it highlights options in the menus before I even have them open. it seems that the window that lists the conversations, as well as the options menu, are still listening to key presses, even when I'm writing a text. often, the arrow keys and the back-space key stop working all together until I back out of the text-input and re-open the keyboard. this happens litterally every time i write a text message, which is a lot.
all I want the arrow keys to do when I'm in a text field is move the cursor, not jump the highlight to the send button, not scroll through auto-complete options, not jump to the conversation window and scroll through individual texts, and certainly not control the selection of items in windows and menus that I don't even have open.
Also, when pressing 2 keys in quick succession, it often only registers one, TH, especially. I'd say its just registering the second press as a movement of the first contact point, istead of a second touch, like old laptop track-pads, but this device is more than capable of registering multi-touch. also, if you hold one key, and press another, the letter from the first appears on the second key for a brief second...
I'm using virtuous ville v.1.4.0 stock, but I've installed and uninstalled a couple other keyboard apps, can I re-install the stock ICS keyboard? is it a sense keyboard? is this happening to anyone else with this rom or with the 4.0.3 os?
thanks for your help
-Peter
god I miss my G1... stupid friggin slabs. this was the first, and will be the last phone that I ever buy without a real keyboard. this touch-screen only nonsense is ridiculous. it would be fast if it were possible to be accurate and keys weren't literally touching each other. why can't I tell it how much space I want between the keys, so I press nothing, instead of the wrong key? there would be no haptic feedback so I knew to press it again, and I wouldn't constantly be pressing the shift, space, and num keys, which the auto-correct doesn't account for in the slightest, instead of the A key or any of the bottom row of letters .I'm tired of sacrificing so much functionality just so phones can look slicker and break easier.
Don't know why it fails, sorry.... The stock ICS keyboard is not a sense keyboard, there is one on market looks like this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/....android.inputmethod.latin.ice_cream_sandwich
Or you could grab a keyboard from any CM9 or AOKP rom zip file, it's named Latin-IME.apk iirc. The jellybean keyboard is similar but nicer somehow, possible it works on ICS. Also SwiftKey is really good.
Thanks for the suggestions! I do, in fact, have a sense keyboard and I do need arrow keys, which the non-sense keyboards, including the jellybean apk don't seem to have. I still can't fathom why anyone would ever prefer these to a real keyboard and a d-pad... also, the jellybean keyboard still has the same trouble with TH's. has anyone here, who shares my frustration with soft keyboards, found a decent keyboard app?
I wish there were decent quality, mini keyboards, too. Wireless or micro-usb would both work, as I'd probably make a case to hold it with my phone. I've only seen a couple, and they're either too big to be practical, or poor quality.
I apologize for my negative attitude. this is just frustrating, as texting is my main form of communication, and I post to forums from my phone quite often, so typing is important to me.
thanks again
-Peter
This is what SwiftKey 3 looks like if you activate the arrows and the Holo theme... One month trial.
First, just want to say thanks for the development on the Note Pro. CM on this thing is awesome. That said, I still have a couple of lingering issues, hoping someone may have found some work arounds/solutions. Inevitably there will be someone that will reply with "USE THE SEARCH!". For those that do, I will offer you my sincere admiration. Your search foo is only exceeded by your wit. For those that are still willing to read on and assist, know that I've come up empty in my search attempts. Believe me, I'd rather have found a simple search result than to have typed all this up... In any case:
1. Hardware keys and navbar -
CM has a setting for "Enable on-screen navigation bar and disable hardware buttons". Checking this box enables the navbar, but fails to actually disable the capacitive and physical buttons. This causes me some grief when using the tablet in portrait mode. I've tried hacking around in the build.prop and the Generic.kl files, but haven't found that magical combination of new lines/commented out lines. Maybe CM does this differently than other roms? (I've not observed a difference in these files when toggling back and forth in the settings, so there must be something else I'm missing.) Any pointers?
2. Key Mapping -
I have the Logitech Pro Keyboard Case. Seems to work well, for the most part. (I'm typing on it now...) However, not all of the keys work. Example - there are keys on the top left row for "back", "menu" and "task switching". Nothing appears to happen when pressing these now. Again, probably something in a .kl file somewhere, but I'm coming up empty. There doesn't appear to be a Vendor-Specific.kl file, but Generic.kl doesn't seem to cut it either.
3. On-Screen keyboard still displays when using bluetooth keyboard.
Well, that about says it all really. I've tried using both the Google keybard, and SwiftKey. Both continue to show up on-screen, even though I'm typing on the bluetooth keyboard. Swiftkey even tells me that it cannot detect a physcial keyboard. Probably related to the key mapping issue from above, but...
Again, thanks for all the work on this. Having CM saved my tablet from it's date with eBay.
Thanks!
- Bri
1. i thought about it but now i haven't spare time to implement. next week maybe.. but i dont promise
2. and 3. try this programm https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apedroid.hwkeyboardhelper
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Thanks! I'll give the app a shot. I'm concerned that it seems to replace any other keyboard though. I'd like to find a way to keep SwiftKey's corrections/prediction functionality. Nevertheless, I'll give it a go.
- Bri
bribash said:
Thanks! I'll give the app a shot. I'm concerned that it seems to replace any other keyboard though. I'd like to find a way to keep SwiftKey's corrections/prediction functionality. Nevertheless, I'll give it a go.
- Bri
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Hey, try going with Null Keyboard, enable all your keyboards, and switch between them depending on whether the device is connected or not