Could we have a sticky listing bluetooth keyboards that people have found work with the Sensation?
Maybe just start by everyone who has had a keyboard working posting the make and model in this thread?
mrcharly said:
Could we have a sticky listing bluetooth keyboards that people have found work with the Sensation?
Maybe just start by everyone who has had a keyboard working posting the make and model in this thread?
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i-Tech virtual kb. Oldie but goodie. I had to buy the drivers from a site (I forget where lol) Works like 80% of the time, but cool looking! LOL
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My rom is Android revolution HD 6.4.0
My bluetooth keyboard is a dell Y-RAQ-DEL2
Seems to work ok. Wish I had a bluetooth mouse to go with it. Pairing is simple. Just go to the bluetooth screen on android. Now turn the keyboard on and hold down the pairing bluetooth button on the back til the dell keyboard is detected on the android side. A key will be listed so just type it in and the pairing is finished.
Rom: VI 4.0
Bluetooth keyboard: Apple bluetooth keyboard
I did pair the mouse but it didn't seam to do anything
I've had luck using the keyboard for the Motorola Xoom/Atrix. You just need to put the keyboard into computer pair mode by turning it on while holding keys V+A+R, and you can pair it to admitting else with Bluetooth. I've used it with my sensation, Xoom and touchpad.
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Hi,
I just bought this one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004EFZ2FA/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=
So far it's okay. The keypad is fairly squashed and is a bit awkward to use because it's laid out in a 'chocolate box style' rather than staggered, but at the same time it's not quite small enough to hold in your hands and reach all of the keys with your hands. The keys feel pretty cheap, but for £20, what do you expect, especially as it has a mouse too : )
However, having said that, now that ICS is here the mouse function works everywhere, not just in certain apps. This gives almost full control of the phone. The only thing missing initially (that I've noticed) was the ability to press 'Menu'. I've solved this by altering the keyboard layout file as per the instrustions here: http://chris.boyle.name/2010/08/android-keymaps. I chose to re-map the 'Alt Gr' to menu.
By trial and error I'm finding all sorts of Ctrl key combinations to do various things, such as open bookmarks in the web browser (Ctrl B), history (Ctrl H) and so on.
On the plus side it will be small enough to go in a suitcase to take on holiday along with my MHL cable so I can plug it into tvs in the hotel room. Yeah baby!!!
Related
Have any of you seen the Finger Mouse on the Samsung Epix? That thing is the shiz. You know how our Touch Pro's have that touch-sensitive center button right... does anyone think they can either rip and port the Epix driver over to the Pro or can a smart person write up an app that does the same? That would be Awsome!!!
Finger mouse as in.....
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GaZ said:
Finger mouse as in.....
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haha i lold
AFAIK mouse pointer in Pocket PC was first bought out by HTC in their P3300 Pocket PC a.k.a HTC Artemis. The mouse is controlled by a trackball which was initially bought out on Blackberry. Now Samsung Epix seems to have a mouse pointer on screen which can be controlled by a small touchpad something similar to the ones you have on laptops.
yes.
but raphael have a touch panel around the center button.
so, that place can be useful, to make a "mouse"
The whole area downthere is actually touchsensitive
Yeah, I know, it can mean at least 2 things but I mean that the whole area under the screen i touchsensitive and not only around the button.
haha. this is the third "idea" of this.
in my post i already looked into it, but because i am new to programming on Windows mobile and also in accessing the touchpad, i was not able to call it right.
The next problem was that the SDK provided by someone, the message of a touch is only called when the window is open and in front and the demo of this sdk shows that it is also only called when you touch and release your finger of the touchpad.
Maybe this are only restrictions of the SDK programming but it seems to be not possible for my little SDK, WM, NET programming skill.
I still hope someone will make this tool or will help by / fix this SDK.
some other idea already mentioned is to use the touchpad as alternative left/right/top/bottom keypad because it is not really handy on the Touch Diamond/Touch Pro.
I recently bought a Nokia BH-503 Bluetooth headset, and it has 4 buttons, 3 for media, that work flawlessly, and a Call button. Here's an image:
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Since the Xoom doesn't have phone functions, this button is unusable for me, so I thought about remapping it, but couldn't find any app that could do it. Most apps would work with headsets with 3 buttons.
If possible, I want to remap it for voice commands/action, I'm not sure what is supported on the Xoom (I had some problems with one of my tests, saying Voice Commands are unsupported), so, anything that I could touch the button, speak a function, and receive it by sound.
I searched and couldn't find, in fact, when searching for headsets and Android, usually I would find that calls works, and media not.
Xoom Wifi - Stock ICS 4.0.3 - Rooted
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My tries [None worked]
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I tried Headset Button ControllerTrial, but not only the Debug mode didn't work, there were no options related to a "fourth button".
I also tried Button Remapper, and it found the buttons, but...
It shows me the buttons (If I disconnect the headset, it crashes, so I believe they are all from it) (I don't know shy it won't show the 3 hardware buttons...), but there are buttons that just don't exist.
I tried changing the only button not directly specified on the phone controls, the Stop button, to Search, but nothing changed and the buttons are doing the exact same thing.
Thoughts
I have started researching this subject but have made little progress.
I believe how the remapping software you are using just modifies the Keyboard layout files in order to remap the functions (just an assumption). I tried doing this myself and it failed.
I think the reason is because bluetooth commands are handled separately from the keylayout mapping. It is built into the android system itself so it needs a custom program to intercept the command and set another function.
For reference, I would suggest you read this: stackoverflow.()com/questions/6287116/android-registering-a-headset-button-click-with-broadcastreceiver
The only solution I can come up with is writing a custom app. It is doable, but will take some time.
Debating getting this but which of these behaviours does this device follow?
Galaxy S5 / stock Android behaviour: connecting USB / BT keyboard just works.
TouchWiz 4.0 - 4.3 / Galaxy Note 8.0 on 4.4.2 behaviour: connecting USB / BT keyboard force changes software keyboard to stock Samsung Keyboard app.
Currently using SwiftKey with my Note Pro which previously had bugs/issues but now seems to work rather well. I just started this reply in Tapatalk and plugged in a USB keyboard using a USB 3.0 OTG cable and it works fine. The only issue I see is that the predictive text bar is still showing at the very bottom of my screen. Odd behavior but at least it's not defaulting to the stock Samsung Keyboard as you're describing in your behavior #2.
Sent from my SM-P900 using Tapatalk
Thank goodness, the force switch behaviour has been annoying as heck. When I saw my S5 doesn't share it, I was hoping that most devices launched on Kit Kat might act normally.
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The only issue I see is that the predictive text bar is still showing at the very bottom of my screen.
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There's a setting in some keyboard apps to control whether or not to display that when using a physical keyboard but I'm not sure whether or not SwiftKey has a thing to turn that off. I think it used to have a off switch but I might be thinking of another app.
Using the Logitech K801 BT keyboard & Swiftkey as default: (p905 LTE International.)
Just connected it, it leaves Swiftkey as default.
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It does this:
Clicking on the 'Choose Input Method' brings up this menu.
And when I turn the on-screen keyboard on, this appears. Note the Swiftkey icon in the bottom left. (Droidedit doesn't support predictive text)
(Yes I changed the theme.)
I have both microsoft bluetooth connected with my nexus 9 at the same time.
https://goo.gl/photos/9AwovJ2Y26HmhDwx9
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The keyboard just work fine and easy to setup.
The arc touch is also easy to setup on my ... LG G3, It won't work on Nexus 9.
The mouse point can't be shown and I find it is connected as a physical keyboard.
I am on pure nexus rom and fire-ice kernel , any possible to fix it?
https://goo.gl/photos/uQwBnaxVdk8BiW258
Have you went to "Dev options>Show pointer location" to see if it is connected but not showing up?
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Have you went to "Dev options>Show pointer location" to see if it is connected but not showing up?
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Same problem with on my Shield K1 running android 6.0 and the shield 1.1 software.
Arc mouse shows as connected and paired via Bluetooth but is listed as a physical keyboard rather than a pointing device.
Anybody ever get this solved? I'm trying to use my Arc w/ a Nexus 9 - no pointer.
Bluetooth kernel issue
Same goes for my Apple trackpad
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39665
This issue is a little more than 2 years old and has been addressed but hasn't been fixed so all left is to wait for Google to fix this.
The link I posted is for the Apple trackpad but addresses the Bluetooth issues in general regarding pointer devices hope this cleared things up.
Same issue
Same issue with Lenovo Yoga Flex and Samsung Galaxy s8, the arc touch mouse pairs but does not connect.
This may not be what anyone wants to hear, but it may just be incompatible hardware. I purchased the Arc Mouse SE a few years back and it has seen some things. I recently replaced it with the newer Arc Mouse (that has the touchpad). Decided to dedicate the SE to a Shield TV and was able to connect, but not get a response. Out of curiosity, I paired the newer mouse. It worked flawlessly. It seems the SE just isn't compatible with newer Android as a mouse.
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It's not a real tactile keyboard but at least it's a new landscape keyboard-ish phone with new hardware. I'm disappointed it is a screen but if it's customizable then that would make a bit more sense instead of it just being a silly gimmick. I don't need a camera button on my keyboard, I'm not sure what's beside the 1 key or the left/right arrows, I don't need a symbol button where backspace should be and it looks like a whole row worth of space is wasted where there is just the speaker symbol.
It might be better than the landscape mode blackberry options though but there's no way I'll be able to type on it without looking as well as having a tactile and real physical keyboard. At first I thought it was a real keyboard and got so excited. I have come down off that high now.
pimpmasters said:
It's not a real tactile keyboard but at least it's a new landscape keyboard-ish phone with new hardware. I'm disappointed it is a screen but if it's customizable then that would make a bit more sense instead of it just being a silly gimmick. I don't need a camera button on my keyboard, I'm not sure what's beside the 1 key or the left/right arrows, I don't need a symbol button where backspace should be and it looks like a whole row worth of space is wasted where there is just the speaker symbol.
It might be better than the landscape mode blackberry options though but there's no way I'll be able to type on it without looking as well as having a tactile and real physical keyboard. At first I thought it was a real keyboard and got so excited. I have come down off that high now.
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Damn...it was a hoax. Just some sort of concept art someone was using to get their name out there for graphic design.
https://thetechreviewer.com/tech-news/samsung-galaxy-oxygen/
https://www.readyfx.com/
Not sure if this was posted previously, please share. Coming from the same folks that developed a keyboard mod for the Moto z phones
Sincerely hope the device is successful
I have a love for QWERTYs (look at my past phones). Spread the word please!
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https://www.readyfx.com/
Not sure if this was posted previously, please share. Coming from the same folks that developed a keyboard mod for the Moto z phones
Sincerely hope the device is successful
I have a love for QWERTYs (look at my past phones). Spread the word please!
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Just discovered this tonight via another website. Looks great.
pimpmasters said:
Damn...it was a hoax. Just some sort of concept art someone was using to get their name out there for graphic design.
https://thetechreviewer.com/tech-news/samsung-galaxy-oxygen/
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instead of adding that in a 2nd post, you should edit your OP to remove the unsourced clickbait fake pic and rumors... then replace it all with the actual *factual* new landscape slider, which *is real*, has *legit sources*, and details could be found since mid to late 2018, now directly at https://www.fxtec.com/pro1 or just delete this "fake news" thread entirely.