I have an annoying problem with my text input suddenly forcing All CAPS for no apparent reason. I am using the dock and this happens when I don't even have the caps lock button enabled. this sometimes happens if I choose to capitalise a letter using the shift> letter command, after doing this it seems that all text is capitalized. Sometimes I am able to switch off the caps by deleting to the previous sentence where things were normal, but sometimes this won't work.
I'm using SWIFTKEY TABLET X if that makes any difference. Incidentally the capitalisation stated when I typed the capital x just before when I was typing SwiftKey. The capitals would not switch off until I navigated back to some lower case text and typed some stuff, but before returning to where I left off.
Super frustrating and can't seem to resolve it. Not sure if this is a SwiftKey issue or something that others using stock honeycomb keyboard are experiencing?
All help appreciated.
I noticed that same thing. It happens after I come out of sleep. I thought it was the cover resting on the shift key, but it even happens with the dock open.
Pressing the shift key once seems to fix it. I've got a B8O dock with a B5O tablet. The only other non-stock thing I have is WiFi off in sleep. How about you?
Think of the keyboard on the dock as an extension of the software keyboard you are using. In this case, what's probably occurring here is that you're hitting shift twice, and therefore putting the software keyboard into Caps Lock. Just hit shift again to return it to normal. Also, it really is a good idea to switch your keyboard to the stock on when you have the tablet docked.
I doubt I was double shifting (anything like double clutching???), but I'll pay more attention to this.
I was using the standard keyboard. I'll try using the Asus keyboard and see if that resolves the issue.
Anyone still having issues with this?
I am still having the problems, although the shift thing does resolve it a lot of the time.
Shame that ASUS decided to do nothing about this..... REALLY grinds my gears that the vast majority of companies just take the cash and run, and leaving behind a product that could be so much more.
Thankfully we have XDA.
Anyone figured out any way to change the launch buttons on the dock? Since I don't ever use the stock browser this button has become useless.
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I'm running the stock ROM from Alltel. Lately my TP has been sucking when it comes to typing on the keyboard. Random keys at random times will stick and the spacebar is the only way for it to stop typing. When I press the delete key once, it will just sit there until I hit the spacebar. Then it will delete the letter and type a space.
I have restarted the phone and the problem persists. I'm thinking the keyboard is going out on me. I don't think it is the OS because the display keyboard works fine.
Any thoughts?
I have the same issues with lag and sticky keys.
I am using stock HTC Touch Pro ROM.
Pressing the center D-Pad button stops the sticky key,
then I need to clean up the mess.
David
Anybody else with this issue?
I found a solution. Press the spacebar real hard. Apparently there is a connection lead under it. Worked for me. KB has not gone crazy on me for over a week.
Ok. So I'm a longtime iPhone user. Ordered a Nexus One before they disappear for software development reasons and just sheer curiosity on my part.
I absolutely loathe the default software keyboard on the Nexus One. What a pile of trash in comparison to the iPhone keyboard.
I've done a bit of research on software keyboard replacements. Seems other people feel the same way I do about the default keyboard.
So I snagged ThickButtons from the Market... it's "ok" but not a huge upgrade. The button placement is odd. For example. If you click the 123 button to get the number/special symbols keyboard in the bottom left. Once you click that the ABC button is not in the same location, it's moved one button to the right. Meaning I can't just tap, tap, tap and be done. it's more like tap, tap, move, tap.
So my question to you guys/gals is what keyboard do you use and why? If any other iPhone users out there can comment as well if you found anything remotely similar to the iPhone keyboard. At this point I'm switching back and forth between iPhone and Nexus One every other day or so. And by far, the keyboard is the worst part of the Android experience.
thanks
I used the iphone for a bit and personally I am very happy with the Android default. I can't really find any major difference between them? Although I do not use predictive text, I can type pretty quickly.
What exactly do you find better about the iphone keyboard? Maybe you are just used to it. *shrugs*
berardi said:
I used the iphone for a bit and personally I am very happy with the Android default. I can't really find any major difference between them? Although I do not use predictive text, I can type pretty quickly.
What exactly do you find better about the iphone keyboard? Maybe you are just used to it. *shrugs*
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No doubt a lot of the problem is in fact the result of being used to it.
The problem I have is that the iPhone tends to try to predict which word you are typing and as it does so increases the size of the touch area for letters that are most likely to be next. The size of the buttons does not change on screen, just the area that causes them to be touched. So if you type "S" it will make the touch area surrounding likely next letters such as "o" and "t" larger while making the area surrounding letters least likely to be touched next "x" "z" "m" etc smaller.
Thick Buttons does something similar, but it actually changes the size of the buttons themselves. So the layout of the keyboard fluctuates as you type which is both distracting and harder to adjust to since you might be eyeing where the next key is but it'll move on you after the previous button was pressed.
The default keyboard is just hard to type on. It's also very sensitive to multiple touches... which I hear is just a symptom of the keyboard not supporting multi-touch...
Also the layout of the iPhone keyboard just makes sense. I haven't tried Better Keyboard (for cost reasons I'm trying to avoid it), nor have I tried Swype (though I'd like to)...
Just really hoping there's something better out there. After using an iPhone for so long this is really just the most difficult thing to type on. Makes me feel like the whole hardware keyboard thing is sort of a requirement with Android and that's why people are so unwilling to try the iPhone due to only having a software keyboard.
I think the single largest problem I have is that tapping the space button is impossible on both Thick Buttons and the default. I typically have to tap twice and the second one is a tap with authority as it's getting really frustrating having to do it over and over after each word. If I try to type fast i end up with multiple words without spaces between them scattered through out. Very stupid.
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The problem I have is that the iPhone tends to try to predict which word you are typing and as it does so increases the size of the touch area for letters that are most likely to be next. The size of the buttons does not change on screen, just the area that causes them to be touched. So if you type "S" it will make the touch area surrounding likely next letters such as "o" and "t" larger while making the area surrounding letters least likely to be touched next "x" "z" "m" etc smaller.
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Default Android keyboard also has word prediction. Just write "oresicyion" - you will get "prediction". It's not the same, as you described, but effects are exactly the same. You don't have to click letters precisely, because they have larger area than they looks alike.
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But I didn't use iPhone a lot, just "clicked it" few times, so maybe I just don't know, what is so better in this iPhone approach
Bought Better Keyboard. Much better. I'd recommend it to anyone really.
swype is the best keyboard. But to use it properly, read the tutorial first. after that no one can out wps you using 1 finger ;D
I'm ready to throw my dock into the wall. The trackpad on it has become terrible since I've updated the firmware. As I'm navigating in the browser, it's clicking whatever it likes and I somehow end up at the homescreen.
Anyone else having issues?
I thought I was having the same issue with my trackpad, but it is very sensitive. If you'll notice two things....while you're typing you might accidentally be hitting the trackpad with your palm, but the most common issue that I faced with my mouse clicking things when trying to move and scroll like you was that the trackpad was responding to my two fingers touching the trackpad as a click, which causes you to inadvertently click things when you don't want to. I always disable the two finger or long press click on laptops, so I am hoping that they will make that an option in future firmware updates also.
All of my errors were happening in the browser, while using the trackpad to navigate, click, and two finger scroll.
I did more testing and I found out that the dock works fine when plugged into a power source. It starts going crazy when it's running on battery.
I'm going to RMA it to Newegg.
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.
Anyone have an issue where the Samsung keyboard will stop responding to SwiftFlow, also known as "swiping"?
For example, sometimes when I want to input text, the Samsung keyboard appears, but instead of being able to swipe through letters, It will only detect "tapping" or the first letter I touch.
The simple fix is to hit the "back" button on the phone which will close the keyboard, then bring the keyboard back and SwiftFlow/Swyping will work again. The problem is I seem to be running into this a few times a day during heavy use, so it's obviously annoying when it happens.