I just wanted to share my experience with Bluetooth HID devices workinng with my HTC Sensation 4G. Basically I needed to do spreadsheets on the go, without using a laptop. I already had HD revolution 3.1.1 flashed. I went to the local future shop to buy a logitech android keyboard and logitech Bluetooth mouse.
futureshop(dot)ca/en-CA/product/logitech-logitech-android-wireless-keyboard-920-003403/10173134(dot)aspx?path=902fd20a590d03742113c5cd756fc422en02
futureshop(dot)ca/en-CA/product/logitech-logitech-cordless-notebook-mouse-v470-white-910-000303/10100648(dot)aspx?path=38e834986aaafafd127af4248a3fb305en02
Both devices paired fine, but a couple of the buttons on the keyboard including some function keys didn't work and the mouse on worked with swiping motions(no cursor). When I switched the phone into landscape mode the order of ui elements was weird and the arrow keys didn't react as they should nor did the mouse.
Later that night I proceeded to flash Sensation CM7 SelfKang Alphafied rom. I had to pair my devices again, but the phone would ask for a pass-code and there wasn't any default one provided. I finally got it to work by entering 0000 on the phone as the password and then 0000 on the keyboard followed by enter. Now I had both the mouse and keyboard paired. Using this ROM I now have a proper cursor that isn't affected by the ui layout.
The calendar, volume, music, browser, return, search and menu funnction keys work.
The email, pause/play and home function keys still do not work.
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Hi all,
In case anyone was wondering, the following Bluetooth keyboards work with the Infuse, running Gingerbread 2.3.3.
General Note: all devices below paired up seamlessly. They were immediately detected, and simply required me to key in a 6 digit passkey (4 digits for the Apple Magic Mouse).
1) Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard: in all honesty, this keyboard worked the BEST out of all three that I tried today. As an FYI, F1 triggered Menu, Home triggered Home, and Esc triggered back. Reason why I didn't dig it all to much was the rather 'flimsy' build quality, although I do use the 7000 Entertainment set at home.
2) Logitech Tablet Keyboard for Android (3.0+?): Ignoring the 3.0 spin, and focusing on the fact that it's an HID-compliant BT device, I picked this up to give it a whirl. Niceties include the case that it comes with, which doubles into a stand for your device. Major setback that made me return it: the Menu button didn't work for me! Otherwise, a fantastic setup.
3) The keeper: Motorola Xoom BT Keyboard. Very similar in functionality to the Logitech offering. Started off pretty bummed because the built-in Menu keys on this kb didn't work either. Where the Moto saves itself, though, is that they keep they have a 5th row, atop the rest of the keyboard similar to a standard desktop keyboard (the Logitech trimmed these off and only had 4 rows), and within that 5th row, was an F1 key (which, after trial and error on the MS kb, triggers Menu). All in all, a nice package. Good to know I can rip away at longer emails with this thing, if I ever need to.
4) Apple Magic Mouse: nothing special here - paired easily, works like a mouse.
Quirks: 1
1) When pairing the Moto to a non-Moto device, you need to hold down the keys V, A and R when initiating the pair (don't worry, it's in the manual).
2) When the screen times out while paired to the KB (not the mouse), a cursor mysteriously appears, and is persistent until I disable BT connectivity on the device.
3) If you use a pattern to unlock your device, you might want to switch to a PIN or password, if you'd really like to be able to unlock your device from the keyboard...
4) "End" on the keyboard locks the screen. From my round of testing, all keys can unlocks (pretty neat) as long as you don't have a pattern set (meaning, you unlock with a PIN or password.)
5) The kb stays paired; the mighty mouse, i need to tap on to connect from within Settings each time.
That's about it. Feel free to ask me any questions if you had any, or correct me if you've me off base with any.
Can you give us some amazon links per keyboard so we can check specifications on the keyboard and maybe purchase one. I'm gonna need one that works with both the infuse and the motorola atrix.
Thanks
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997R
Any idea if these will work with the stock at&t rom?
Apples Magic Mouse
Are we saying the magic mouse works on the xoom just like a normal mouse would?
Hi everyone. I have this bluetooth mouse and tried to use it with my sensation (running stock ics shared by rmk40 here.
But i'm having two issues:
1) When connected to the mouse, my onscreen keyboard never appears. I think my phone recognizes it as both mouse and keyboard (it says connected to bluetooth mouse in bluetooth settings, though).
2) Left and right clicks of the mouse performs the same action (the normal left click action) while the right click is supposed to perform as "back" button.
Any ideas, fixes?
I'm experiencing the same issues with a bluetooth mouse from A4Tech, model BT-310.
The right button does not go back, instead it performs the same action as a normal click.
No on screen keyboard while using the mouse.
Did you find any fixes for this?
I am using ViperSs 1.0.0 ROM.
Nope. Found nothing.. Asked on general android section here . Hope there's someone knows the solution!
It's just so silly that ICS didn't get at least basic mouse & keyboard configuration panel : D
Google's approach to software projects is one of the worst in the entire world
Im curently using a half size bluetooth keyboard paired to my phone (nexus 4) which is running RemoteDroid. That is used to forward keystrokes to my PC. Why? because I have a broken collarbone and cant use my fullsize wired keyboard properly So im using my phone as an intermediate device (BluetoothK/B->Phone->WiFi->PC) to be able to use the bluetooth keyboard. Putting the phone in close proximity to the K/B means It has a much better range and signal quality via WiFi. The phone itself also has a better bluetoooth receiver than any laptop or desktop USB bluetooth receivers ive tried, giving much more reliable keystrokes at higher typing speed than gong straight to PC
The problem is some of the keys dont work correctly and I believe its because Android is interpreting them differently. i.e. 'Tab/Delete/Insert/Home/End/num +/ num -.. etc' dont get forwarded to the PC,And some keystrokes are simply incorrect` i.e. the right shift key acts more like CTRL for some things. Shift+2 becomes " instead of @ (need to press alt 2 instead) and so on
In addition I have a touchpad on the little keyboard and that only works in a limitted fashion
Is there an app out there that can 'grab' the Android inputs of a device and remap them? so i.e. mouse click could be emulated as pressing the Enter key if I so wished
Additionally` is there a progam that can forward these 'raw inputs' to a PC via USB/WiFi/Bluetooth? remotedroid does indeed forward some inputs of key presses as best it can (arrow keys for instance) but it seems to do it 'after' the android OS (i.e. alt+tab makes the android program switch applications, rather than forwarding the 'alt' and 'tab' keys to the PC)
It does not however forward mouse inputs (havnt tried gamepad) so its not possible to use a mouse or trackpad as intended. I have to emulate a screen press (hold left click on trackpad and move the cursor across the remotedroid screen)
Hope the above makes sense, and yes im aware I could simply bluetooth directly to the PC but wheres the fun in that?
I recently bought a lenovo s580 phone. It has android 4.2.2 installed. I was able to pair an apple bluetooth keyboard with the phone and the keyboard is working fine. But there are several keys not working.
I found out that the phone has TouchPanel Gesture. I have never seen this feature before. This feature has an alphabet gesture in it. There are several keys in alphabet gesture including: o,w,m,e,c,s,v,z, left, right, up, down. These keys when pressed from bluetooth keyboard, it flashes a window saying Invalid Application: Application not set.
Basically this flash window keep on poping up and won't allow normal typing on bluetooth keyboard.
I tried to delete tpgesture app from system app list, it removed the window messaging, but the keys are still not working.
I've been trying to tackle this problem for a week now and could not find any other post about this issue.
Can any one help me solve this issue?
By the way, the touchpanel gesture otherwise works fine, I can assign any app to 's' key and pressing physical s key will launch the app. But this effectively makes the physical keyboard completely useless. I really want this feature be entirely gone so I can type normally.
I just bought an iPega 9023 gamepad for my Note 4 (rooted stock 5.1.1), and while it is awesome, it completely disables my on-screen keyboard in all apps while connected. This happens whether the gamepad is paried in keyboard mode (where that would make sense) or gamepad mode (where it doesn't make any sense at all).
As long as the gamepad is connected, any time I tap on any text field expecting the keyboard to show up, nothing shows up, or in the case of Swiftkey, only the suggestion bar shows up on the bottom of the screen, no keys. Doesn't matter what keyboard I use, even hacker's keyboard gets disabled.
How can I use my gamepad and use the on screen keyboard at the same time?