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Hey guys, I was wondering if there's a way to get the normal android stock keyboard on my HTC hero (Sprint). Thanks!
Jason
i was wondering this as well?
is the stock keyboard more responsive or quicker then htc's? ido love htc keyboard but if stock is any quicker and faster i might try that
Using the search function of the site pulled up this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5223276
Once again, using the SEARCH function I was able to find that in no time at all. Try it sometime.
Not trying to be a **** about it but yeah... Anyway try swype. It is pretty awesome once you get used to it. I wasn't convinced that I was typing faster using swype but when I flashed a rom that put me back on the HTC keyboard I realized just how slow and weird it felt to tap the keys instead of drawing on the keyboard. Not that I suggest it, but it makes it much easier to text and drive as well. But don't do that. Focus on the xda-forum search for now. Its up at the top.
already tried swype, liked it just wanna try stock, and on that post noone can get it to work
samrozzi said:
already tried swype, liked it just wanna try stock, and on that post noone can get it to work
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So.... maybe what if it doesn't work? Gasp
I dont know how many of you all knw about this i did a search and no thread came up so im sharing info. Im running the latest damage, and i found this keyboard app in the market called ThickButtons, its easily the best keyboard out there that ive ever used in my opinion. What it does is when youre typing it makes the keys that it assumes you want to click big, like it enlarges the letters so that it makes it easier to type. Also it never lags dudes. I encourage you guys to give thickbuttons a try i fell in love with it. I looked for it in 1.5 but it seems to only be in the newest market. enjoy this info if you care. When you guys try it come let me know if you agree with me.
Awesome, ill look into it.
Powers16 said:
Awesome, ill look into it.
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dude its so sweet, its just so free of lag and it kicks swipes ass
Funny how they based this off the Android Keyboard.
VinceOB said:
Funny how they based this off the Android Keyboard.
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it is funny, but they know how crappy and laggy stock htc keyboard is dude.
Demoyo23 said:
it is funny, but they know how crappy and laggy stock htc keyboard is dude.
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Ive honestly never had any lag issues with the stock HTC Keyboard...I use the Android Keyboard cause it looks nicer...Hopefully this app is better than that pile of **** they call Better Keyboard.
VinceOB said:
Ive honestly never had any lag issues with the stock HTC Keyboard...I use the Android Keyboard cause it looks nicer...Hopefully this app is better than that pile of **** they call Better Keyboard.
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better keyboard is crap, but you can only try out this one and see if its what you like dude
Demoyo23 said:
better keyboard is crap, but you can only try out this one and see if its what you like dude
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Yea, I heard about this app months ago. Just never tried it out. You would think after so many versions of Better Keyboard they would make it better and more responsive.
They should call it not better than stock keyboard lmfao
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VinceOB said:
Ive honestly never had any lag issues with the stock HTC Keyboard...I use the Android Keyboard cause it looks nicer...Hopefully this app is better than that pile of **** they call Better Keyboard.
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so what kb do u really use. Ive seen u say u use swype and that you use android. I do know for a fact that you dont use either better keyboard or smart keyboard. lol
a mod move this to themes and apps section plz?
VinceOB said:
Ive honestly never had any lag issues with the stock HTC Keyboard...I use the Android Keyboard cause it looks nicer...Hopefully this app is better than that pile of **** they call Better Keyboard.
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cbarlan said:
so what kb do u really use. Ive seen u say u use swype and that you use android. I do know for a fact that you dont use either better keyboard or smart keyboard. lol
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I would never EVER use Swype. I think its garbage.
I tried this and I had more lag and I'm use to the buttons where they are and when this app makes keys bigger I hit the wrong button. My stock keyboard runs with almost no lag.
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Holy crap. The lag on this keyboard is horrendous.
I just went into sms and typed "This is a test for the new thick buttons keyboard". I then set the phone down, and 45 seconds later it finished typing it out, and it said "This id w trdt of thw nee tjivk nuttins keubiatd".
I'll try rebooting, maybe that will fix it.
drummingfool said:
Holy crap. The lag on this keyboard is horrendous.
I just went into sms and typed "This is a test for the new thick buttons keyboard". I then set the phone down, and 45 seconds later it finished typing it out, and it said "This id w trdt of thw nee tjivk nuttins keubiatd".
I'll try rebooting, maybe that will fix it.
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thats insane because it doesnt lag at all for me
wow!! we have a few different thoughts on this kb. But &roid rage is a reliable source so ill have to pass. swype,android and htc kb are all built into my rom so this is no great loss. Personally i dont really use any kb on a phone since i hate them, but if i MUST be tortured, for me its a tie between the swype swype, and the android kb responsiveness
I did a search for it in the marketplace and can't get any results guys...please advise
joeman24 said:
I did a search for it in the marketplace and can't get any results guys...please advise
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I just searched "thick" in the market and it was the first result.
Demoyo23 said:
thats insane because it doesnt lag at all for me
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A reboot got rid of the lag a little bit, but I just cant get used to it. Oh well. I'm sure it works great for others, just like I LOVE swype but others dont. To each their own.
drummingfool said:
A reboot got rid of the lag a little bit, but I just cant get used to it. Oh well. I'm sure it works great for others, just like I LOVE swype but others dont. To each their own.
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I did that as well...Im not rooted does that matter
Searched around here and found a few posted, but none of them seemed to work. Tired installing through Astro and ADB on Frost ROM. Both times, when changing to Android Keyboard input method and going to type into a text box, I get an immediate FC on the keyboard.
Anyone have a good APK?
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Searched around here and found a few posted, but none of them seemed to work. Tired installing through Astro and ADB on Frost ROM. Both times, when changing to Android Keyboard input method and going to type into a text box, I get an immediate FC on the keyboard.
Anyone have a good APK?
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In an effort to quickly get you something that is useable, I would point you in the direction of the Droid Multi Touch Keyboards. They are rather similiar in look and feel to the AOSP keyboards.
EDIT: I know this isn't exactly what you are looking for, but it satisfied my need for an AOSP keyboard for the longest time so I figured I would at least share. Hope this helps at least somewhat.
Karadorde said:
In an effort to quickly get you something that is useable, I would point you in the direction of the Droid Multi Touch Keyboards. They are rather similiar in look and feel to the AOSP keyboards.
EDIT: I know this isn't exactly what you are looking for, but it satisfied my need for an AOSP keyboard for the longest time so I figured I would at least share. Hope this helps at least somewhat.
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Thanks alot, I was going to give that a shot, but I had the DroidX and I hated that keyboard. But I guess it can't be worse than the HTC keyboard... or can it?
I will give it a try, thanks! Anyone else know of any that work?
this keyboard is the best I've used yet. it's like swype except it learns from it's mistakes and adapts to your typing style.
It's in beta so you can try to get on, or if not search for it you can easily find it.
i highly recommend it!
Here's a video of it in action:
Gotta try it, thanks for the heads up! But if it's buggy, I'll revert back to Swiftkey X.
Hzu said:
Gotta try it, thanks for the heads up! But if it's buggy, I'll revert back to Swiftkey X.
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it isn't buggy at all!! try it for at least an hour to let it learn your typing style, you will be amazed. It never gets a word wrong for me now
Yeah, It's pretty impressive, Hadn't even heard of it before I installed Erickwill's rom, It's pre-installed on that rom as the default keyboard, I wanted to delete it immediately but gave it a few hours & I really like it now & I'm using it
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Yeah, It's pretty impressive, Hadn't even heard of it before I installed Erickwill's rom, It's pre-installed on that rom as the default keyboard, I wanted to delete it immediately but gave it a few hours & I really like it now & I'm using it
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is it the 4.8 beta on erickwills rom??
That you can swype on?
If so I didn't know that!! It's fairly new
hmm i just looked and I don't think he is using the 4.8 beta, the one listed is the old touchpal without swyping ability
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is it the 4.8 beta on erickwills rom??
That you can swype on?
If so I didn't know that!! It's fairly new
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the version reads v4.8.16391
& yes you can swype on, It has touchpal curve, you mean that right?
is it the same version?
I couldn't cope with the auto correction when pressing space bar .. and if i turned that off it wouldn't suggest words for me. Plus the swype was having problems with the word prediction. They are releasing a newer beta for it soon that should fix some of these problem though may have to re-try it again once that comes out.
Back to smart keyboard pro for me
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the version reads v4.8.16391
& yes you can swype on, It has touchpal curve, you mean that right?
is it the same version?
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yeah that would be the one!
I love it, i find it a lot better than swype
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I couldn't cope with the auto correction when pressing space bar .. and if i turned that off it wouldn't suggest words for me. Plus the swype was having problems with the word prediction. They are releasing a newer beta for it soon that should fix some of these problem though may have to re-try it again once that comes out.
Back to smart keyboard pro for me
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I found I had to give it an hour, and type some "words" out once normally.
Then it learned my style and now it never makes a mistake
Thanks for the tip. Does anyone know what happened to Blindtype? It was supposed to be the next big thing. Haven't heard anything since it was acquired by Google. Check out its videos.
blaze16 said:
Thanks for the tip. Does anyone know what happened to Blindtype? It was supposed to be the next big thing. Haven't heard anything since it was acquired by Google. Check out its videos.
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weird.. why buy it to let it die lol
If I remember correctly they are putting blind type on this keyboard at a later date.
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When I got my phone, I rooted the phone without removing or modifying the stock ROM, just used Odin to give me root, so I was left with my stock experience. Yesterday, mostly because of the constant nagging of the uninstallable OTA update that Verizon kept sending me, I flashed the Tweaked Gingerbread ROM to my phone, and it's working fine, except that it removed all of my Samsung apps for some strange reason (every other app, and its data was left intact).
The problem is I used the Samsung screen capture utility, the stocks widget, and the Samsung keyboard. I thought that even though they were removed, my foresight in backing up my ROM using CWM's built-in NANDroid backup would be beneficial. So I used Nandroid Browser to look up my apps that were missing. The first one I found was the screen shot service, so I opened that with the package manager, and it seemed to open just fine, and gave me this:
www(dot)thecdrive(do)com/images/shot_000002.png
So I clicked Install, and it then gave me this:
www(dot)thecdrive(dot)com/images/shot_000003.png
Why is installing these backed up apps failing? And also, why is there a green "success!" check mark next to the failure message? I thought it succeeded before I read the message, lol.
Nandroid backups are rather problematic for this device. You can get some of your apps back through Tweaktools.
And the stock screencap and keyboard SUCK.
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Nandroid backups are rather problematic for this device. You can get some of your apps back through Tweaktools.
And the stock screencap and keyboard SUCK.
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Frankly that's your opinion. I can't find a better screen capture application, and the "Android Keyboard" and the other strange one that the ROM came with don't work correctly. That aside, is "Tweaktools" on my ROM or do I need to obtain it from somewhere?
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Frankly that's your opinion. I can't find a better screen capture application, and the "Android Keyboard" and the other strange one that the ROM came with don't work correctly. That aside, is "Tweaktools" on my ROM or do I need to obtain it from somewhere?
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My opinion...and everyone else's. ShootMe is a much better screencap alternative, and SwiftKey 3 is the best keyboard I've used, though some prefer others. Swype (the "other" keyboard that you say doesn't work but you probably don't know how to use it) is also pretty good for one handed typing.
Obviously you haven't read the OP in the Tweaked thread, otherwise you would know Tweaktools is easily accessible through Terminal. Or, you could download a stock ROM zip and pull out the apks you want from /system/app and put them in your own /system/app.
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My opinion...and everyone else's. ShootMe is a much better screencap alternative, and SwiftKey 3 is the best keyboard I've used, though some prefer others. Swype (the "other" keyboard that you say doesn't work but you probably don't know how to use it) is also pretty good for one handed typing.
Obviously you haven't read the OP in the Tweaked thread, otherwise you would know Tweaktools is easily accessible through Terminal. Or, you could download a stock ROM zip and pull out the apks you want from /system/app and put them in your own /system/app.
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The popular opinion does not mean it's the right opinion for me... The "Other" keyboard is NOT Swype (That was also removed from my phone when the ROM was installed) it's called "Eyes-Free keyboard". Also, I very much know how to use Swype, my ex loved the stupid thing, and I hate it. I prefer a normal keyboard. I will look up SwiftKey. Does insulting someone's intelligence make you feel better about yourself?
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The popular opinion does not mean it's the right opinion for me... The "Other" keyboard is NOT Swype (That was also removed from my phone when the ROM was installed) it's called "Eyes-Free keyboard". Also, I very much know how to use Swype, my ex loved the stupid thing, and I hate it. I prefer a normal keyboard. I will look up SwiftKey. Does insulting someone's intelligence make you feel better about yourself?
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No, it's just -slightly- annoying when people ask the same exact questions all the time, but REALLY annoying when you're helping someone who acts like they're entitled to other experienced user's assistance (read: have a stick up their ass).
I've never heard, seen, or used this "Eyes free" keyboard. Maybe it's something that comes stock, but I would never know since I spent about one day stock.
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No, it's just -slightly- annoying when people ask the same exact questions all the time, but REALLY annoying when you're helping someone who acts like they're entitled to other experienced user's assistance (read: have a stick up their ass).
I've never heard, seen, or used this "Eyes free" keyboard. Maybe it's something that comes stock, but I would never know since I spent about one day stock.
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Excuse me? Entitled? Hardly. I asked a question of anyone on this forum, because I could not find a solution to the specific problem I was having. I asked why restoring .apk files from Nandroid backups was failing, and you replied by pushing YOUR OPINION in my face, as if using the Samsung keyboard was a crime. In absolutely NO WAY was I demanding or acting entitled to anything. I simply asked a question, and expected a reply that wasn't condemning my choice in software!
In short, I appreciate your suggestions (I really do, Tweaktools worked fine for everything but the keyboard) but I don't appreciate your Elitist attitude. Sure you know more about the inner workings of this telephone than I, but that gives you absolutely no right to talk down to people who are only trying to learn.
Edit: Also "Eyes-Free" came with the ROM not with my phone. My phone shipped with the Samsung Keyboard, and Swype. That's it. This ROM replaced the Samsung keyboard with the Android keyboard, and Swype with Eyes Free.
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... Edit: Also "Eyes-Free" came with the ROM not with my phone. My phone shipped with the Samsung Keyboard, and Swype. That's it. This ROM replaced the Samsung keyboard with the Android keyboard, and Swype with Eyes Free.
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Hmm... I never heard of eyes-free. It's a keyboard that comes in tweaked?
And fwiw - I plan on changing the keyboard next update.
dwitherell said:
Hmm... I never heard of eyes-free. It's a keyboard that comes in tweaked?
And fwiw - I plan on changing the keyboard next update.
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include swiftkey3
I also heard from a coworker that swiftkey and swype are owned by the same company so very soon swype will have the same suggestion based algorithms swiftkey has making it the best keyboard on the market. Be prepared my fellow chargians
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I also heard from a coworker that swiftkey and swype are owned by the same company so very soon swype will have the same suggestion based algorithms swiftkey has making it the best keyboard on the market. Be prepared my fellow chargians
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They aren't. Swype is owned by Nuance and SwiftKey is owned by TouchType. SwiftKey is TouchType's only product and there isn't a free version, other than the demo. Nuance has a free beta of Swype and they also own the Dragon TTS products.
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