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Best SMS input software?

Hey guys,
As we all know with using a mobile phone, SMS has played an integral part of out daily lives. The problem with the XDA is that unlike a mobile phone, there is no way for us to input SMS messages like a regular sony ericsson or nokia (which i swtiched from). I have been actively rummaging for some sort of software that would be able to enable such a feature. I don't need the T9 or predictive text. I just need the regular 12 big buttons, with their corresponding letters. (ie. 2 (pressed once) = a, 2 (pressed twice) = b, etc.). Is there any software out there that could do this? Preferably so I could just text using 1 hand?
If not, does anyone have any suggestions on what the best SMS input software might be? I've looked at TenGo, Full Screen Keyboard and Jetkey, as well as 1HandSMS (which apparently no one has, taken off the pocketbeam website due to infringement?) so far. Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks in advance!

I thinking about to write an SMS like input panel.
But wheel I no time, I am only thinking about it..

1HandSMS
Can somebody please upload 1HandSMS?? wanna try it.

There's a software DesignLab - SMS Writer. You can write only SMS with it.
But take a look to my project:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=56239

I don't understand. The biggest advantage of the XDA over a phone is the ability to use handwriting instead of being limited to 10 buttons, and you want to go back to the old way...??

Carlos said:
I don't understand. The biggest advantage of the XDA over a phone is the ability to use handwriting instead of being limited to 10 buttons, and you want to go back to the old way...??
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Sometimes the SMS-like writing is better, for example if you take a phone converstation (With line-phone) and like to quickly search a contact with half hand. Or when you travel with a public transport and the bus shake you, you can't use lettter recognizer...
Any other case, the handwriting is good. But IMHO SMS-like writing neither slow.
Other thing, in my surround, who has a PDA everybody use soft-keyboard in stead of the letter recognizer. Don't know why...

Number Keys vs. Punctuation [Includes a Rave xD]

Well when I first saw the reviews on the fuze, pretty much the primary gripe was the number keys weren't on top. I too was like woah...why in god's green earth would they do that. I previously had a verizon enV so that why i went to the fuze to begin with. Not to mention I had to switch to AT&T because everyone else was on it.
Now I thought it was extremely stupid of AT&T to mess with a cell phone's QWERTY keyboard, after all every cell phone with a QWERTY keyboard has a number row and I couldn't have imagined not having a number row. But now that I have been using the fuze I see why they would consider it.
Since this was beyond a typical smartphone and is one of the most advanced, the highest speced, and overall the fastest phone on the market (kicks the iPhone's behind in the RAM department) you begin to shift away from simply sending short bursts of information by texting, like on my enV, and more to doing things you would normally do on your laptop like going on forums, writing emails, etc. Thats when your like damn this is brilliant. Now that you are writing sophisticated messages that require punctuation and grammar, you use punctuation more often and have better grammar. I even notice that now when I text I put commas in my messages and question marks and basically write like I would on a laptop. After all, don't you use a lot more punctuation in your emails and even texts than you do numbers? I mean people use numbers for short texts on their keypads because it requires less characters. And it takes a lot longer to write out messages on keypads.
For example, "c u l8er
can i b ova 2nite"
And now that your 'sophisticated' with your snobby qwerty keyboard and touch screen keyboard (still kicks ass, one hand messaging ftw!) you don't write txts you write messages xD. For example us sophisticated fuze users we write messages like. "hey, i'll see you later. oh and btw, can I, please come over tonight? " (meh we are still too lazy to capitalize, next up is the entire bottom row as a shift key, jk)
Not only that but I personally think even inputting numbers is more comfortable on the fuze because its in a more natural faster keypad configurations. Everyone knows keypads are faster and heck every desktop PC keyboard has a keypad. So its a win win. Either way using the keypad and having to press fn is still just as fast, and more natural, than using a number row.
Just my little rant.
Btw. I am so happy with my fuze. i really think it is a better aesthetically than the touch pro. It feels a lot smoother and is a lot more original. Its very simple but at the same time the back is pretty nifty. I am especially happy with it because now that I have bodyguardz on my phone the back isn't a fingerprint magnet but its still nice and glossy and nifty. Overall I am not a big fan of the touch pros iPhonesque chrome. I think it look nifty on the iphone because its such a simple streamlined phone but the raphael doesn't really pull off chrome as well. I like the fuze better than the touch pro because its more hard lined, and more bold. It not the streamlined design of the iPhone and many other phones. It has hard lines and is not smooth, especially the back.
The fuze spits in the face of conventional designs. It is unique and wonderful. It is not made to steal iPhone users or be another "iPhone Killer". It is doing its own thing and could care less whether the other kids think its cool or not. Its got a small size factor and feels small but its design makes a bold impact. It feels solid and amazingly built. It is it's own phone and unlike other big name phones you can do whatever you want with it.
It's yours and you don't have to go to an "app store". You don't need to follow an "API" or an "SDK". Don't like the radio driver? Go try a different version.
Don't like the touchflo, just turn it off and install one of plethora of established today screen products. You can get a nice clean ROM (DA_G Clean Rom is fantastic btw) and install what you want. You can disregard the apps they give you.
PS: And the PTT button is awesome. Sure no one cares about PTT or uses it but it sure makes for an invaluable hardware addition. I remapped with AE Button Plus and now I got a button that is great just for launching little apps. I can put my browser, the camera, vibrate, and a task manager all on the same button. Trust me that little "worthless" button is great. The Raphael doesn't really have too many buttons so you really don't have any other buttons to use for apps. Sure you can use AE Button plus to map your buttons but its nice to have a little button that's doesn't do any necessary function. It's just yours. One man's POS PTT button is another man's interface enhancement.

need help with my fuze experience - by an ex Blackberry user (long)

Hi Guys,
First thank you all for such a great community. XDA truly "sold" me the HTC fuze...as I was very excited about such an excellent user base. I lurked here for a few days before I bought, and have lurked a few more days while I have played with the phone, so far with very positive experiences...
So here is my question...
I am an ex blackberry user...4 years running. Had the 7290 and the more recent 8800. I liked the phones but were frequently frustrated by things such as lack of home-brew software (or at least lack of software easy to find and well supported), lack of a decent web browser, lack of an attractive UI (albeit theirs was very functional) and lack of 3G (on att at the moment). Now I know that the BB Bold fixed some of this, but to me its the same ole blackberry tricks (do email real well, slack off on the rest), and I was really ready for a highly extensible smart phone.
Enter the HTC fuze...
I love the apps, love the idea of custom ROMS, love that it runs a very common platform (windows mobile, important as some companies write apps that only run on windows mobile), and love the sheer power of the HTC fuze (can easily browse filesystem, look at memory usage...its essentially a very small laptop), but I have one primary complaint...it does all these cool things, but IMO it does NOT do email/messaging/contact management well...and worse, I have not been as impressed with the web browser as I thought I would be (using opera, have not tried IE...also some of this is my fault, I am trying to use fat-client web pages vs mobile web pages, which are faster and just perform better). Now before I get flamed, let me clarify that I am using the Energy Rom 3.0, so some of my griefing may be self inflicted. That being said, here are some specifics of what irritations Ive ran into with messaging/email/contact management...ill list them out categorized in order of importance (can you tell I am an engineer?)
Email
1. No heads up display of new messages on the home screen (have to poke around to the email area to see if you have new messages)
2. Does not enter an @ and . symbol when hitting spacebar key while typing email address in "To:" field (ex-blackberry users will sympathize)
3. I get too many emails for the graphical envelope to be useful...it looks cool, but when I am 30 emails deep i really don't want to have to click menu to get to all messages, just let the mail icon take me right to the goodies please...
4. read/unread/replied messages are not well represented (could be that it is just different that the blackberry feel, but a different color or something would be nice...the standard is bold/yellow/dark is unread and light/white/shadowy is read...and replied as some sort of representation as well
There are a few others but those are the main ones
Messaging
1. Clicking the message, and then immediately beginning to type (as in to reply) will take you to the address book!!, in order to start a new message! It is beyond me why it does not just start entering text as a reply for your current message you are viewing, and this is a huge annoyance!
2. Found this the other day...replying to an MMS message by clicking gives an error (wont deliver) but hitting menu and then reply will then prompt for "MMS or SMS reply?" and the message goes through fine...irritating!
3. Tapping spacebar twice does not place a period, although not capitalizing the first letter in a sentence auto-capitalizes - this is a blackberry feature that is not here and i miss it :'(
4. Once again lack of proper heads up in the home menu....why is the clock giant??? Looks cool but waste of space...I would rather have a breakdown of my messages/emails/missed calls with limited details so I can see whats going on, on my home screen.
5. General slowness when going from the message browsing with the envelopes to the reply, detailed view.
Contact Management
1. Adding a contact is no where near simple...and there are too many "mines" you can accidentally click in the process which will do odd things like add an address book entry with no name in it, or call someone!
2. The "people" tab is useless...i removed it (not really a complaint as I fixed it...but I just don't understand that concept of favorites....that being said my background is in database administration so all data is good data to me, the more the merrier...explains my 500+ contacts, half of which i prob dont need but keep around just in case)
3. Last name first???? Blackberry was always first name last...further more, I entered a business the other day in my contact list, and it put the second part of the business name as the last name, leading to a very odd address book entry...I did not like that bit of assumption on the phones part.
So I guess you could probably sum up all my complaints into 3 things:
1. I am way too used to blackberry shortcuts and having a hard time weening myself off
2. There are 10 ways to do the same things and get to the same places on the phone, and some times a few of those ways are less buggy/intuitive than others...why not just have the best methods enabled only?
3. Too many buttons take you places you did not intend to be...its not one way in one way out of each module (mail, messaging, ect.)...its 5 ways in, 10 ways deeper, uh....im lost, how do I make a phone call? (I'm being facetious of course but you get my drift)
Anyways, I am not trying to slam the phone, it is slick, sexy, and free (refurb through an ATT deal), but I just need some ROM/tweak/psychological suggestions to make it "fit" me better.
Thank you all truly,
Crackberry addict in serious withdrawal

Ok, so piece by piece:
Email:
1. For a pop-up for new email messages, go to start>settings>sounds&notifications>notifications. There you can choose messaging: new email message, and select display message on screen. This will give you a pop up at the bottom every time you get a new email. you can do this for all those other events that are in the drop down too.
2. Don't know of anything to do this
3. There should be a inbox button for your i think left soft-key. Two clicks isn't much more than 1
4. Don't know of anything
Messaging:
1. This happens jut because of lag in the system. You have to wait until everything loads up to start typing. Sounds like you need a cooked rom
2. Bug?
3. My phone does what you ask, although I am running 6.5. My settings in input have "enable auto correct" with a check mark next to them. Don't know if this solves the problem in 6.1
4. Regular Today screen. Try something like TouchFlo Detacher, which allows you with the soft key button to easily and quickly switch back and forth between the regular today screen, which would have all that info that you desire, and touchflo. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=480475
5. Cooked rom, bigger pagepool
Contact Management:
1. Sorry this is just winmo. Contact entry area is not exactly the most finger friendly menu. Try the stylus. I know what you mean, though.
2. Basically the people tab is just for people you call on a daily basis, and it looks cool lol
3. You can change that in the contact's settings where it says "file as"; I like first name first also, so I just changed it so that was the way it is displayed.
Overall Points:
1. It is difficult to go from blackberry to winmo, but everything does have a slight learning curve.
2. Most view this to be the beauty of winmo. You have infinite possibilities, since everyone likes to do things differently. If microsoft wanted to assume that everyone wanted to do everything the same way and that there was one, best, all-powerful way to do things, then they could just merge with apple
3. Lol don't understand this one
Any more questions, I'd be happy to help

thanks
hey,
thanks for the detailed reply. got most of the answers i needed...I am using a cooked rom (energy 3.0) which runs WM 6.5, but it comes with the Manila skin. After doing some research I think I need to ditch that and start from there...any other pointers?

You could try to use the default WM6.5 home plugin instead of TF3D, it may suit your needs better.

[Q] Any reason not to enable multiple keyboards

Long-time Android user and always wondered this. Over time I have tried lots of keyboards. There are things I like about Better Keyboard, Swiftkey and Swype and I tend to alternate every now and then.
Is there any reason not to keep them all enabled so I can switch just from a long press?
-Steve

Yes, the world may explode.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

My concern is that maybe it makes texts or emails load more slowly or something?

Indeed, but it would be due to the world having exploded.
(Nonsarcastic answer: No because only one keyboard is active at a time)
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

I don't think switching between multiple keyboards is a problem. I do it, and I haven't seen any significant slowdowns in overall performance.
I'd like to say...
Typing on the Android remains one of the few sore spots in my personal Android experience. I have been switching and experimenting with all sorts of keyboards for a long time. It's a bit frustrating that not a single keyboard format can mimic the smoothness and accuracy of the experience typing on an iPhone (or even an iPod Touch). Some do come close:
First, the stock Gingerbread keyboard is a vast improvement over past iterations, however I'm still experiencing oddities like missed presses (particularly with the space bar, resulting in words likethis, or when missing letters, words like tis or ths) or the complete opposite with overly sensitive touches (resulting in double hits like tthis or thiss) -- all frustrating. It's unfortunate the experience can be so polarizing.
Second, Smart Keyboard Pro is quite amazing. It's fully loaded with features and customizations (like custom auto-correction, something which is so helpful which I don't understand why it isn't implemented in the stock keyboard). However, I think until the developer optimizes it for Gingerbread, it remains a bit laggy. I've been in contact with the developer and he says he's looking into updating soon.
Lastly, I've recently been experimenting with Better Keyboard Beta 8 (fully optimized for Gingerbread) and I have to say I'm very impressed. I've only been using it for two days, but my initial impressions are positive. It doesn't seem to misfire too much, and the auto correction is incredibly smart. I'm excited for the potentials of this.
As for others, like Swype and Swiftkey, I find they are novel ideas but can work counter-intuitively to thumbing out long and quick messages. Swype is cumbersome when you're trying to write personal/custom words (slang, etc.) or when you're attempting to write long words (it's easy to lose track). And Swiftkey, when it lands and predicts accurately your sentences, is very impressive. Unfortunately, this happens rarely. More often than not, the predictions are off, and you end up having to type out nearly every letter of a word anyway. Also, because you are so busy focusing on picking the next and correct predicted words, it ironically makes completing messages slower. Even Swiftkey's own website says the predictions will be 1/3 correct. Impressive as that is itself, those odds don't translate to a fluid typing experience in the real world.
Having said all that, I'm hoping Blindtype will be implemented soon and change all of this. Until then, the typing experience on Android, regardless of which keyboard, feels second rate. It continues to be one of the few areas of Android I can't enjoy.

[Q] Math Input Panel

Hi,
You probably know about the Microsoft's Math Input Panel of windows (if you don't, type it in the search on start and get amazed).
So, as a student, which I use my laptop at study alot, I use the math input panel for easy equations and math letters by handwriting and it really makes life easier instead of typing it manually in word.
So now I also got an Android device (HTC Desire HD), and I thought why wouldn't I use the fantastic touch screen of it as a pad, and instead of "Handwriting" with the mouse on the laptop, I will use a real handwriting on the mobile (with stylus or finger) and it would send it or transfer it to the PC, it could be live, like when I writing something on my mobile, it will be appeared on the laptop display immediately,
or it can be like, writing the whole equation or something, then press Send, and it will send it all to the Math Input Panel.
If the "working with an exist software [the Microsoft's Math Panel]" is too difficult to make so I wouldn't mind that the whole "Math Handwriting recognizing" will be on the mobile as a app..
So, here is my idea,
If any developer would read it and start it up, it would be great, let me know
Or if this is already exist in a sort of a way, also tell me, although I looked pretty hard for such a thing, and found nothing relevant.
Thanks for any kind of help,
Yarden,