I can connect my old blutooth keybaord to my andriod devices (samsung captivate and dell streak 7) without any need of additional driver. Its working fine, except the soft keyboard keep on popping up. Is there any dummy keyboard driver, or other trick I can permanently disable soft keyboard when blutooth keybaord is connected?
Thanks in advance.
Well, you could uninstall the LatinIME.apk... But I think some keyboard come with a "hide" button, so you could try that.
Hello.
I'm interested in a Transformer Prime pad, but don't have one (yet…? ), so, please pardon the question… Anyway…
Is the keyboard from the KeyDock also usable (as a keyboard…), if the display isn't docked in?
Oh, and if the keyboard is used, does Android then also display the (in this case) useless on screen keyboard when text is entered? I hope not…
Lastly, I'm interested in the keyboard layout; how many keys does it have? Does it also have a <ctrl> key? It would be awesome, if somebody could please post a picture of the keyboard (or a link to one…).
I'm asking, because I'd like to figure out, how feasible it might be, to use the thing as a SSH client (using e.g. ConnectBot).
Thx,
Alexander
No, no, lots (could you not look at a picture?), yes. Connectbot works okay, but key combos don't always work. ConnnectBot needs to be updated for full support
Thx for the quick response!
I suppose connecting a Bluetooth keyboard to it would work, wouldn't it?
I know, I'm getting Off Topic, but… How about a USB and/or Bluetooth mouse? On YouTube, I found the video "How to Use a Bluetooth Mouse With the Acer Iconia A500", which shows that BT keyboard & mouse work with 3.1 — on the Acer device. How about Asus?
And, if mouse works, is copy/paste in ConnectBot as easy as it is on a "proper" Linux xterm or as in PuTTY?
Thanks again,
Alexander
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I use a bluetooth keyboard with Connectbot, and yes the stupid on-screen keyboard appears, but pressing the Back softkey (or Esc on the keyboard, in my case,) hides it.
Key combos don't work for me, because Ctrl is not passed into the app, I think that's my S3 being dumb, but the Menu key on the keyboard brings up the menu with copy/paste and other options, so that at least is OK.
I think a mouse would technically work, but most apps are designed for touch-only, so I don't know if they would handle a mouse correctly. And it would probably be an app-by-app question.
I'm loving ics on the hp touchpad but I'm having a lot of problems with the hp Bluetooth keyboard in android. Note it's pairing up just fine but Ihave the forllowing issues.
Not all keys on the keyboard work properly, ie the shift and caps lock don't work. Notice all the missing caps in the this post. Only caps are auto entreated by the spell checker.
The soft or virtual keyboard always pops up for any input and Ihave to close it to get it out for the way.
any help in resolving these issues would be greatly appreciated.
note I'm using classicnerd v2 but I've had the same problems no matter what rom. I've installed.
Thanks
Bob
I AM USING MY HP KEYBOARD RIGHT NOW. caps work SHIFT works....most of the xtra keys on top work...i.e. volume, power button...brightness does not but search and home do work...maybe change your batteries.
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
I have the latest mate pad 11 pro from Huawei.
It came with physical keyboard.
When it's attached it works automatically. But it's working through Bluetooth.
So when the tablet is detached it's still working even if away. I don't get the on screen keyboard to work automatically. I have to disconnect the physical keyboard manually from settings or turn off the Bluetooth.
Any solution for that great xda.