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Question about Nexus S keyboard

Hi,
When you press the SEARCH key, and typing in the text field ...
Does the keyboard give you text prediction?
And also when you search in the Market app ...
If not, is possible to enable text prediction on all input fields?
Thanks.

Negative on the text prediction for search. I get text prediction in the form of app suggestions on the market, but I don't know if that's quite what you're looking for.
As far as enabling it, I have no idea. I don't recall if any of my past Android devices did text prediction on search. :/
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Take a look at SwiftKey. Text prediction is one of the reasons that my wife and I moved to it. We like this keyboard much better than stock, for us it was well worth the money.

This is common for several fields in several different apps. I work for Swype, so I've seen this myself, but since our keyboard doesn't typically work this way it's only been a curiosity for me. I believe it is considered a "feature" since you might want to explicitly type something else other than what prediction guesses. If you want to give Swype a try, the beta is currently open at: http://beta.swype.com/

Hi there,
Thanks for your info. I still find it odd, to not have this common behavior on all input fields.
Heck, the old HTC_IME hack on HTC Desire works pretty well with all the options to have prediction in all kind of input fields (thanks to the modder, jonasl). I still have this on my signature below.
But recently, I like the new Nexus S keyboard. It look slick, easy to type. But yeah, I missed some of the HTC_IME improvements, like SMILEY button!
As for SWYPE, granted, it is a very nice keyboard. But, I don't use ENGLISH that much I am using south-east asian language which is not supported
So, I am afraid that it does not offer much advantage.
Chinpokomon said:
This is common for several fields in several different apps. I work for Swype, so I've seen this myself, but since our keyboard doesn't typically work this way it's only been a curiosity for me. I believe it is considered a "feature" since you might want to explicitly type something else other than what prediction guesses. If you want to give Swype a try, the beta is currently open at: http://beta.swype.com/
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gogol said:
Hi there,
Thanks for your info. I still find it odd, to not have this common behavior on all input fields.
Heck, the old HTC_IME hack on HTC Desire works pretty well with all the options to have prediction in all kind of input fields (thanks to the modder, jonasl). I still have this on my signature below.
But recently, I like the new Nexus S keyboard. It look slick, easy to type. But yeah, I missed some of the HTC_IME improvements, like SMILEY button!
As for SWYPE, granted, it is a very nice keyboard. But, I don't use ENGLISH that much I am using south-east asian language which is not supported
So, I am afraid that it does not offer much advantage.
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The built in Gingerbread keyboard does have a smiley button. It's a "smart" keyboard, it knows what you're doing and shows you the appropriate keys/features/functions.
Go write a txt message, and you'll see a smiley key on the bottom right.

They should've taken out the period and extended the space bar. Its very frustrating when I'm trying to type fast. IPhone still had the best touch keyboard available
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Thanks, I did not know that.
Obviously because I am using Nexus S keyboard on my HTC Desire! Probably it does not work fully as designed (I did not see that smiley button).
But, does that smiley button also appear when you type in EMAIL or TEXT AREA like replying to forum like this using the web browser?
Or when typing comments on Facebook app! That would be very nice.
nxt said:
The built in Gingerbread keyboard does have a smiley button. It's a "smart" keyboard, it knows what you're doing and shows you the appropriate keys/features/functions.
Go write a txt message, and you'll see a smiley key on the bottom right.
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gogol said:
Thanks, I did not know that.
Obviously because I am using Nexus S keyboard on my HTC Desire! Probably it does not work fully as designed (I did not see that smiley button).
But, does that smiley button also appear when you type in EMAIL or TEXT AREA like replying to forum like this using the web browser?
Or when typing comments on Facebook app! That would be very nice.
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I only see it in the Messaging app.

[Q] Swype not saving words to dictionary?

For anyone else that is doing the Swype beta v3 is it saving words to the dictionary? Mine isn't.

xnifex said:
For anyone else that is doing the Swype beta v3 is it saving words to the dictionary? Mine isn't.
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not having any issues here with the latest beta :\ you tried reinstalling.

yep, no luck unfortunately. gonna email swype

xnifex said:
yep, no luck unfortunately. gonna email swype
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in your swype settings, do you have word prediction ticked?
you always need to tick that on installing! lol
so just go to keyboard setting, or tap the swype key when your writing then pres options, andmake sure its ticked
. that should cure it.

word suggestion& auto-correction are on.

xnifex said:
word suggestion& auto-correction are on.
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definitely puzzling. Did you download a new installer. Then the beta. If you downloaded english spanish beta. Try fill or vice versa
Swyped from my HTC Sensation Pyramid using my thumb and eyes

I tried both. i even uninstalled, cleared all swype data & tried that, no dice. charging phone now to do a hard reset & see if that works

Just did a hard reset & still getting this stupid bug.

For me to add a new word that doesn't exists, I first have to manually type it and select it on the word suggestion bard (because auto correct will try to suggest a "correct" word). After I select the word, the option to "add <word> to dictionary" will appear for me on the word suggestion bar and pressing it will add it to the dictionary (Somewhat like stock gingerbread keyboard).

yeah I do that & it says that it added the word, yet when I reswipe it it's not added. I can do this 10 times in a row & it still won't stick

So I'm apparently an idiot & my Swype does work. I was under the impression that when it said 'Add "xnifex" to the dictionary' it was notifying me that that's what it was doing. I wasn't aware that you had to tap that notification for it to work. On the HD2 if you manually type in a word it's automatically added to the dictionary so I thought it was the same behavior. Yay for the swype team helping me out.
http://forum.swype.com/showthread.php?3769-Can-t-add-words-to-dictionary-on-brand-new-install

Did you actually clicked on "add <word> to dictionary"? Unlike on Froyo, where Swype saves a word after hitting space, now the users have to confirm the action by clicking on the right above the keyboard.
I was so used to the old swype, it took me 2 days to realize that...

jparity said:
Did you actually clicked on "add <word> to dictionary"? Unlike on Froyo, where Swype saves a word after hitting space, now the users have to confirm the action by clicking on the right above the keyboard.
I was so used to the old swype, it took me 2 days to realize that...
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Yep, now I know this too. Had the admin brian over on the swype forums tell me about it. I'm used to the old swype as well.

xnifex said:
So I'm apparently an idiot & my Swype does work. I was under the impression that when it said 'Add "xnifex" to the dictionary' it was notifying me that that's what it was doing. I wasn't aware that you had to tap that notification for it to work. On the HD2 if you manually type in a word it's automatically added to the dictionary so I thought it was the same behavior. Yay for the swype team helping me out.
http://forum.swype.com/showthread.php?3769-Can-t-add-words-to-dictionary-on-brand-new-install
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Lol well done mate
Swyped from my HTC Sensation Pyramid using my thumb and eyes

I'd just like to add that I had this problem, I was tapping to add to dictionary and there were literally no words in the dictionary, it was basically a tap keyboard. I uninstalled with Titanium Backup, then installed the Full version instead of the English/Other language one. This one has a dictionary and will save new words to it.

Thanks guys, I learned something new today;-)
Swyped from HTC Pyramid, using XDA Premium App.

I just want to say that I had the exact same issue as the OP. I thought that it was automatically adding the words to the dictionary, but some bug prevented them from appearing or something. I just wasn't clicking the "Add "word" to dictionary".
To be fair, it's not very clear on the UI that it's something that you can or should press. It doesn't have a question mark at the end, which would make you realise that it's ASKING you something, not telling you something.
That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

Swype is the best. My only problem is the word bar above the keyboard. I find it distracting, and hard to get used to. I've looked everywhere trying to find a way to turn it off. Besides that, swype is 1,000x better than what comes with the sensation.
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LISTEN EVERYONE..to solve the problem download a app called ''SMS to swype'' and it picks up every word you type from all the keyboards you used and saves them to the dictionary SOLVED
https://market.android.com/details?id=ch.zimmbi.sms2swype&feature=search_result

WorldWide60 said:
Swype is the best. My only problem is the word bar above the keyboard. I find it distracting, and hard to get used to. I've looked everywhere trying to find a way to turn it off. Besides that, swype is 1,000x better than what comes with the sensation.
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Turn off the word suggestion?
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Swype 3.0

Just installed the newest release of Swype, beta 3.0, on my CM 7.0.3. The predictive is vastly improved. But, there is some significant lag on the entries sometimes. Going to sere if that improves with a couple of reboots.
How is everyone else doing with it and on what roms?

Tells me I have an invalid license on miui. I've been a beta tester since their first sign ups... their customer service sux cuz I have emailed them about this a few times with no reply.
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Stoney 666 said:
Tells me I have an invalid license on miui. I've been a beta tester since their first sign ups... their customer service sux cuz I have emailed them about this a few times with no reply.
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Yeah, I couldn't get it to work with MIUI at all.
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Does the 3.0 have a mic?

parkschr said:
Does the 3.0 have a mic?
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Mic doesn't work for me. I see a blue outline like when something in Swype is broken when I try to use it. However, the improvements to me are worth the upgrade. It has a better word selector, more similar to stock/sense keyboard.
Worked fine on CM7 and Synergy for me. I always restore data for the installer from ROM to ROM. I think that preserves the license correctly. I also ran it fine on Hybrid Sense 3.0 as well.

I'm really not liking some aspects of it.
1. Before, it would pop up a list of word possibilities and I could hit the little x if I didn't like any of the choices. Now, I have to delete the word manually to give it another try. Takes longer.
2. I like the single-click correction, but it causes grief sometimes. For example, if I know I want to insert a letter or apostrophe into a word, I click on the word and the cursor immediately jumps to the end, and then I have to click again in the position where I want to insert, or use the track pad. Again, takes longer and sometimes it jumps to the end of the word a second time. Very annoying.
3. I don't like having to touch a new word twice to store it. Much rather have the previous implementation where I just manually typed the word and it was forever memorized.
Some things are nicer, like being able to use predictive text when typing each letter, but overall I think I'd like to revert to the previous addition. I'll give it a few more days.
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I like so far, like that when I'm writing a weird word, like a product number I'm googling, it does not get stored. also the fact that I always get the word selector, sometimes I it annoyed me that it would not pop up on common words with similar trace lines as non common.
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So far so good for me. In previous versions after a reboot Swype stopped working and I had to re select it to get it to work. I haven't had this problem with V3.0
Microphone is also working well now.
Running on Optimized Shift now with no problems.

parkschr said:
Does the 3.0 have a mic?
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Mic has been fine for me. I used it to type this post.
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Experienced same thing. Uninstalled and and ran the installer which installed 3.0. After new install it worked for a day or two until it said Beta Expired so had to generate new code but took just about 10 seconds.
The backspace is a real pain in the butt when the predictive text is incorrect and for those of us who have a foul mouth in text with our friends, it likes to replace a certain F word with duck no matter how many times I add the F word.

any way to get the predictive bar to stay there all the time so it doesnt snap the keyboard up/down ALL the time?

crazyg0od33 said:
any way to get the predictive bar to stay there all the time so it doesnt snap the keyboard up/down ALL the time?
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It stays in landscape, vanished in vertical.

FWIW, it seems to be working great for me on MIUI. I do have to admit the jumping up and down with the predictive bar gets annoying.

My predictive bar is always on top of the keyboard, just blank inbetween words, not sure what everyone is talking about regarding the jumping around *shrug*.
I love the new word choice style. I used to always tap the bottom word when trying to go to the second page of choices and now that mistake has been eliminated. While it does lessen screen real estate a little, it also doesn't cover what you're typing, the webpage you're on, etc which is nice.
I also love that I have the choice to add words after typing them rather than being automatic. Before, captcha phrases, words like aaaaaahhh!, etc were always added and got in the way sometimes.
The automatic correction is okay for typing but it annoyed me that I had to confirm my choice when I swyped or else if I moved the cursor somewhere else to add a word in, the cursor would go back to the end and replace the last word instead. I just turned the auto correct option off and everything is perfect for my tastes!
As for the person upset about losing one touch delete/undo for wrong words via the 'x' button, if you tap the swype key it highlights the word behind your cursor and you can swype over it with a new word, which is pretty close, it just involves one more tap to delete if you don't want any word there at all.
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Google Keyboard - settings more like AOSP/Android Keyboard

I find the Google Keyboard maddening. Always requiring mode flipping between keyboard character sets. The AOSP/Android Keyboard has a ton of punctuation readily available by long keypresses which is really convenient.
Am I missing some setting on the Google Keyboard that makes it perform the same way? Having to press three keys in a row to get something besides a letter every time is crazy.
Or does Google just think people type "omg lol cu" all the time? I mean, obviously not given the crazy and incredibly rare word suggestions it makes. (Which incidentally is another peeve!)
Do I have to side load the AOSP keyboard? Wish it was on the Play Store!

I came here to ask this exact question. One post I found suggested that you can swipe from the shift key to the punctuation you want, which is a bit better than {tap shift, tap ?}, for example, but it does seem silly to me to hide so much important punctuation behind another "page" of buttons. Considering loading AOSP as well...

I don't know if you already have, but you guys have got to check out SwiftKey. It's my second most important app.

PhilipTD said:
I don't know if you already have, but you guys have got to check out SwiftKey. It's my second most important app.
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I used SwiftKey *years* and years ago -- I think it must have been on *Donut* -- and while I liked the idea, when Swype came along I found it was just much faster for me. If SK now supports swipe-typing too, though.... well, that's tempting. I might just try it!

Ghengis042 said:
...If SK now supports swipe-typing too, though.... well, that's tempting. I might just try it!
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It sure does. I can actually keep up with my kids on Hangouts now. I tried pretty much all of the keyboards, and prefer SwiftKey.

My first android app

It took me several hours to write such a dumb and useless app ^^ But at least I have learned something.

Does it do something?
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Really, lozohcum? My Grumpy App?
This is what the app does: it has a text field and two buttons - Save and Reset. Typing in the text field and pressing Save causes the text you typed to be shown above the text box. Tapping Reset resets the text to Empty.
Bugs: Menu > Settings does not work.
Seriously, though, nice work! Doubt I could've done that, amount of Java I know [none].

O, i tought it enter somewhere and do something. If that's it it works except the settings button it doesn't do anything like NSDCars5 said. Great work if you need testers or something I'm here
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NSDCars5 said:
Really, lozohcum? My Grumpy App?
This is what the app does: it has a text field and two buttons - Save and Reset. Typing in the text field and pressing Save causes the text you typed to be shown above the text box. Tapping Reset resets the text to Empty.
Bugs: Menu > Settings does not work.
Seriously, though, nice work! Doubt I could've done that, amount of Java I know [none].
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according to my avatar ^^
I barely undestand how this code works ;D
but every journey starts with a single step

just keep walking buddy [emoji106]
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lozohcum said:
according to my avatar ^^
I barely undestand how this code works ;D
but every journey starts with a single step
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"Barely understand how this code works" is good - when I code, I have no idea what crap I'm writing.

If you need any help with the ui[graphics and stuff] let me know