I had a problem after rooting my nook touch where the no keyboard was capable of displaying a suggestions bar. Word predictions, dictionaries, etc. have no problem and if set to automatically choose the first prediction, it would work fine as 'auto text prediction'. I've tried about 10 different keyboards/input methods and they all seem to work except the suggestion bar is gone from all of them. This is regardless of which application or application settings.
The main problem with this is, the first prediction isn't always the right one, and it makes 9 key keyboards impossible, as well as any non romanized language (particularly Chinese which depends on the bar to choose the correct character).
So, I'm wondering what in the firmware could cause this effect, and is there any thing I can do to patch it?
My device details:
Rooted nook simple touch (touchnooter) running on 1.1 firmware with android 2.1.
The keyboards were installed (as required) to system/app by installing to data/app and then copying the apk into system/app and rebooting. This is necessary supposedly for the nook touch as the keyboard settings screen is absent (the normal android settings menu has been totally replaced with the nook one) and default keyboard must be set by another application which requires the apk to be in the systems directory.
Hopefully there is some android guru's out there who can figure out what may have caused this weird problem. Thanks!!
Here are some pictures to illustrate:
How it SHOULD look with the word suggestions:
How it should look (left), and how mine looks (right):
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MORE IMAGES for how it should look:
How keyboards on my device look without word suggestion bar
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The OS is WM2003SE. At present when scrolling through Programs Folder or Games Folder using the D-pad the cursor moves left to right & will not go down or up until you reach the last program icon on each horizontal line.
Does anyone know a reg hack or program that will change the cursor to move up & down freely.
Hope you can understand what I mean ! quite simple issue really but not so simple to put into words.
Many thanks.
I don't this is really possible normally because of the way the listview is implemented in Programs. However, if you use VJSmallIcons II it will let you change the way the icons are displayed, and it might work then.
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Yes your app will allow me to scroll through my programs using the "list view".
Thank you.
I'm sure I saw a reg hack to adjust the D-pad movement, have searched on here & with google.
Thank god for forums like this & trusty google, WM would be junk without 3rd party experts correcting annoying bugs/problems.
Well another problem I solved with MortScript.
Wrote a script that allows me to use button 1 & 2 to scroll through my program list just when Programs is active.
Not as good as the cursor movement in WM5 but damn close.
With a few tweaks 2003SE is as good as WM5 for stylus free use & has some other advantage too.
Well, not ported as they already mostly worked, just fixed a couple of hiccups. Nothing very clever going on here, but may be of interest to some folks.
As per request in another thread, I've fixed the Desktop Home app for the Samsung Vibrant so that the one thing that doesn't seem to work properly, the "Alarm" button, is now ok.
You can grab the APK from:
http://db.tt/bFXrBWr
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I've also partially fixed the Vibrant Car Home app so that the icons are centered and the "Contacts" link works. The "Search" button doesn't seem to do anything and it seems to be hit & miss as to if you get a "Browser" icon or a "Voice Search" icon as pictured below. It may be a compatibility issue with the JME firmware I'm running, I'll have a play later. Anyway, you can grab the .APK from:
http://db.tt/qN07wwk
The app is incredibly no-frills, there's no other settings or options whatsoever other than what appears on the screen. I'd suggest using the Car Home v3 app from the market instead, although this one does look pretty.
The apps don't lock the screen on either so are probably not terribly useful without an actual dock.
If I can decipher the decompiled smali code some more, I'll replace the "Search" icon with a "Music" one. Changing the app an icon runs is easy, implementing it when it's not already doing something is less so.
So I got a iRobot 7in Android tablet (WM2.1.2_105)... was about $86 shipped.
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I've had quite a bit of experience with these kinds of devices so it was fairly easy to get it rooted, hacked, optimized for best performance and working with Android Market.
...but optimized or no, it's still a low-spec device (256MB RAM, I'm quite sure the processor is below 600mHz... no 2D or 3D acceleration, 800x480 display), and I'm fine with that because I only got it because paying $160 for a Kindle that just reads books and nothing else seemed kinda retarded... especially when Android has a Kindle app.
Anyway, the keyboard (standard virtual keyboard) is actually the problem I've been having here. If I try to type the speed I'm used to typing, the device will skip strokes because it's not fast enough to keep up with me, and has all this predictive stuff+key enlargement effects slowing it down (of course, I tried the obvious solutions of disabling everything I can in Keyboard settings... still slow).
Are there any bare-bones keyboard apps with no added "under the hood" functions that you guys know of?
try this link..
scroll at the middle of the page.. u will see a download option.. download those keyboard apps.. it can also run or other devices besides htc.. download your correct resolution keyboard (download all and see which works best for you)
you will download a zip file.. install the two apk's...
GO HERE
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5475283
GOOD DAY
Hey guys!
I've got a JB 4.1 ROM on my device (well, all of the devices released with it, anyways, as it's stock) which has a peculiar problem in the SMS app. Watch this:
( http://i.imgur.com/ZsCvsIL.png )
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See? the keyboard "overlaps" the latest two SMS. Watch closely the highlighted SMS, notice it doesn't appear on the wrong behaviour comparison? I want to archieve the behaviour in the rightmost screenshot (this was photoshopped )
Now, this isn't a "normal" behaviour as I didn't see it happen on ICS (previous stock ROM, too). This behaviour also doesn't happen on other apps which use the keyboard, such as Facebook Messenger or Whatsapp. I've also tried other keyboards but the same problem appears.
I'm really tempted on editing the MMS.apk but I don't know where to start, it could be a .xml editing or it could be a .smali editing, I dunno.
I've uploaded the MMS.apk in case any of you wanna take a look at it - you don't have to, though, but at least if you can provide some guidelines or hints on how should I proceed, that'll help at least.
I've done some googling too and haven't found anything relevant, only this http://www.droidforums.net/forum/team-d1-miui/112623-keyboard-covers-latest-sms-messaging-app.html but it's for MIUI and also the file was hosted on megaupload which we all know got KIA so...
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
- DARKGuy
Bump!... though I hate bumping, but has nobody looked into this? I've read it happens on other JB-based ROMs...
Bump bumpity bump-a-bump
I've tried several keyboards that allow swiping and they all malfunction when I try to use them. They work some of the time, but very often the swipe trail will veer down to the space bar in the middle of each word. This happens on the stock Samsung keyboard, the Google keyboard, Swiftkey and Swype. I'm guessing it has to be a screen problem, but have no idea how to troubleshoot or fix it. It's out of warranty by about six months, but it's in perfect condition otherwise. Running rooted KitKat.
Any ideas?
911jason said:
I've tried several keyboards that allow swiping and they all malfunction when I try to use them. They work some of the time, but very often the swipe trail will veer down to the space bar in the middle of each word. This happens on the stock Samsung keyboard, the Google keyboard, Swiftkey and Swype. I'm guessing it has to be a screen problem, but have no idea how to troubleshoot or fix it. It's out of warranty by about six months, but it's in perfect condition otherwise. Running rooted KitKat.
Any ideas?
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You can check the touchscreen function in Factory Mode.
Use calculator to enter the code:
(+30012012732+
In Factory Mode, then enter
*#0*#
Your tablet will have a menu of many tests, including the touchscreen test. Use BACK button to exit testing and factory mode.
This is an example, if all are green, it will pass and exit the test
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