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Swype for Android 1.5

Newest Version: Believed to be the same version on newer T-Mobile MyTouch 3Gs
Older Version: (uninstall previous version first)
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Oldest Version: Said to work on the Eris
Just installed it and it works on my Hero
1. Download swype here. (if for some reason it downloads as .zip, just change the file extension to .apk)
2. Transfer to your Eris via USB
3. Settings -> Application settings -> Check Unknown sources (You all prob have done this before but my n00b friends had not so I thought I would mention it anyways)
4. Use a file manager program such as Astro File Manager and go to the location you stored the .apk
5. Install
6. After install go to Settings -> Locale & Text -> Check Swype
7. Open any email/text client and hold down the text box and you will get a popup asking what you want for input. Select Swype. You only have to do this once and it will do it for all your programs.
8. Disable Audio Warnings as it seems to give errors as well located at Phone settings -> Locale & text -> Swype
<b>I recommend reading the tutorial. Helped me. This is very sick. I now love one handed emailing and texting as its so simple.
alternative link:
*known bugs*
1) If you do not check "Disable Audio Warnings" in the Locale & Test > Swype Settings you will get repeated force closes.
2) Installing seems to disable the ability to click and hold to delete icons on the homescreen, widgets work fine.
3) There is no option to tap on a word to edit it while in Portrait mode, reports that landscape mode works fine.
[highlight]Mod Edit: No Swype Links Allowed[/highlight]

holy balls i might need to include this in my rom.

Incredile simply put! Thanks ALOT!!!!

i think my mind has just been blown away...

if you get force closes, disable the sounds in the settings... i did until i turned them off
also, doesn't seem like you can select and edit words like it says in the tutorial

thx! It works awesome! except, you can't just hide it when you want to I noticed, like the normal HTC keyboard.

ro_bro said:
thx! It works awesome! except, you can't just hide it when you want to I noticed, like the normal HTC keyboard.
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just press the hardware "back" key. works fine for me

http://www.swypeinc.com/
This?

abcdfv said:
This?
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yes
too short

Does it have support for other languages beside English?

the only language setting i see is english, maybe there is a way to install more.

skanndelus said:
the only language setting i see is english, maybe there is a way to install more.
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Just saw the Spanish dictionary in there so great.

Man, I was sceptical about swype when I first heard about it, but it is freakin wicked!

I wasn't too sure about this either, but it's growing on me! I'll have to run it through it's paces over the next few days and see how well it works for me. So far so good.
I suggest going through the entire tutorial.
Also, those not sure how to get it running as your default text input, just tap and hold onto a text input place to select the new default, you can always disable swipe at any time by doing the same thing. It doesn't replace anything that I can see, just another app to use.
Thanks for sharing OP!

this just made text input infinitely easier on this phone.

Wow love this so far thanks for the find.
Works great but I get FC when i hold down the backspace button to delete words. Works great if i just tap it but holding it down will always FC
EDIT: Turning off sounds fixed the FC

i used to HATE text input, but now i'm texing everyone i know! my grandmother! my ex-girlfriend! my sister's husband!
its awesome. if your skeptical just try it. (only takes a second to install) its freakin awesome.

thedudejdog said:
i used to HATE text input, but now i'm texing everyone i know! my grandmother! my ex-girlfriend! my sister's husband!
its awesome. if your skeptical just try it. (only takes a second to install) its freakin awesome.
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ya it takes about 10 mins of use to be fully acclimated to swype!
now that i'm using this i will start showing it off to everyone,YAAAY
p.s. and thanks for showing how to make it the default!!!!

zippy-man said:
Wow love this so far thanks for the find.
Works great but I get FC when i hold down the backspace button to delete words. Works great if i just tap it but holding it down will always FC
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go into settings and disable sounds, fixed mine.

edit: nevermind

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.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA Premium App

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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[TIP] CM10 - What to Do if Your Physical Keyboard Shift or Capslock Keys Don't Work i

EDIT - so seems this isn't working. Sigh, thought this was the end of this particular problem. I'll keep researching and post if I find something.
Found this on the Droid 4 forum (link below). So I always had an issue with not being able use symbols, capitalize stuff, etc. when using Chrome, Naked Browser, whatever. Figured it was a software issue but finally decided to Google it and the fix is easy:
-Settings
-Language/Input
- AOSP Settings
- Language
- Uncheck 'Use System Language'
- Scroll down, uncheck English
- Scroll Down to No Language - QWERTY (seriously, says that), check
Should be good to go. Not sure if it works on stock but worth a shot. I hated having to use my on screen keyboard for passwords and crap.
Soure: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...shift-key-not-working-most-punctuation-4.html

Ah, I did always wonder why some text fields seemed to be created differently than others...
Input field racism I tell you!
Nice find, thanks
Edit - just tried it, perhaps I need to restart... I still need to hold shift in order to get special characters to appear in fields on Chrome...

Yea, still having issues myself. Seems to work in the url field but not in password fields, etc. I'll see if I can find anything else in the link or online.
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brandontowey said:
Yea, still having issues myself. Seems to work in the url field but not in password fields, etc. I'll see if I can find anything else in the link or online.
Sent from my XT897 using Tapatalk 2
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Bummer, I was hoping I did something wrong, lol.
I'm trying to remember what apps were misbehaving here as well... there were a few, which probably just used webUI frontends for their app instead of making true context-aware Android fields.

I know it works in Words with Friends, text messaging and most other apps (can't remember any not working) and seems to be only in the browser. Really annoying but holding the shift key is better than before where I just opened up Swype.
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brandontowey said:
I know it works in Words with Friends, text messaging and most other apps (can't remember any not working) and seems to be only in the browser. Really annoying but holding the shift key is better than before where I just opened up Swype.
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Oh holding shift in the browser always worked for me... I was always able to put in the special characters holding shift, even before this mod.
Still, it's confusing why different text fields receive different treatment...

It never even occured to me to hold the shift key down, honestly. I just dealt with it. I don't really know the inner workings of android well enough to say why it doesn't work but I think it's weird that it works in mobile apps like USAA and Ebay, which I always thought just took the website and displayed it in a better format than a browser.
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Hi,
First of a i'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but it is hardware keyboard related. So if it is misplaced please forgive me!
How do you disable the special characters that are typed when you quickly double press for example the letter e. example: I want to type steel, but i end up with stél.

Settings - Advanced - multipress. Two options, you pick one. The multipress interval let's you disable the feature completely.

mrvek said:
Settings - Advanced - multipress. Two options, you pick one. The multipress interval let's you disable the feature completely.
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Wow thanx a lot, didn't expect it would be so simple.

arrrghhh said:
Still, it's confusing why different text fields receive different treatment...
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So I was messing around a bit and it seems I don't need to hold the shift key to get a special character, just press the character key right after the shift key. I ridiculously quick press that requires two hands anyways. So maybe the browsers aren't correctly interperting the 'hold' the shift key normally sends (I know very little about coding so hopefully this makes sense) and releasing it way too soon? I think I've exhausted Google search options as of now.

Chrome copy/paste

How do I copy past url addresses from chrome to things like email / sms? I tried to long press the Web link in the address bar but all that does is zoom in on a specific word.
Any ideas?

Double-tap the text? That seems to work for me...

dagrim1 said:
Double-tap the text? That seems to work for me...
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doesn't work for me. still highlights and magnifies whatever part of the link i clicked on
edit: nevermind found the solution

And what was the solution?

vram81 said:
And what was the solution?
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i faced with the same trouble
the solution is double tap, but u have to move finger down in second tap. So tap - tap+down.
Not the best thing after moving from ios.
still have no clue how to copy text in playstore

Ah I think I've got it. Try triple tapping the text

vram81 said:
Ah I think I've got it. Try triple tapping the text
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Kind of a triple tapping but the logic behind it is that the first tap is to get focus (just move to the text area) and then the double tap will bring you the options to copy-cut-paste.

Nope. I cant select text using double tap. Not even after focusing.

It's mostly system wide (email, sms, etc). Tap to focus, doubletap to select all. Move sliders to select what you want

yxycman said:
Nope. I cant select text using double tap. Not even after focusing.
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Weird that it doesn't work for you. I was puzzled by inconsistent results over the last few days but clicking once to select the URL in chrome, then double clicking (without moving) brings up the two markers and the usual options at the top of the screen every time. It's annoying that you can't copy text from the Play Store, though. Why can't I copy text from every app, always, in exactly the same way? With the power of Android/the Z3 it should really be possible to copy text from images, not struggle with this basic stuff which has worked on Windows for 20+ years!

poldie said:
Weird that it doesn't work for you. I was puzzled by inconsistent results over the last few days but clicking once to select the URL in chrome, then double clicking (without moving) brings up the two markers and the usual options at the top of the screen every time. It's annoying that you can't copy text from the Play Store, though. Why can't I copy text from every app, always, in exactly the same way? With the power of Android/the Z3 it should really be possible to copy text from images, not struggle with this basic stuff which has worked on Windows for 20+ years!
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As i mentioned earlier, i have to tap+(tap+down). Strange behavior. My device is z3 compact, maybe, that is the point ?)
In a fact, my colleague with Samsung on 4.1.2 cant copy text from Play Store too

double tapped worked for me, thank goodness for this thread I was freaking out big time.

S9 useful features

Let's face it. Samsung is known for tossing in everything but the kitchen sink. Sometimes the features stick. Sometimes they're complete duds. List some of the features you actually use that you wouldn't find in stock Android
Something I've found very useful is the edge panel smart select. For instance if something's in a language I don't understand. Select rectangular, highlight the text I want. Hit Bixby vision and it gets translated. Or an item I want to purchase it will recognize it. It's actually quite good
The option to make volume controls control media by default. Something I wish stock Android would adopt because 90% of the time when I want to turn the volume down or up its media. So I like that I can make that the primary control

zathus said:
Something I've found very useful is the edge panel smart select. For instance if something's in a language I don't understand. Select rectangular, highlight the text I want. Hit Bixby vision and it gets translated. Or an item I want to purchase it will recognize it. It's actually quite good
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I have try this but I can't find a way to do it.... I'm stuck in the step where you "Hit Bixby vision and it gets translated"
I can't find a way to open Bixby vision... the only thing that I can do when with smart selection I have selected the text is to save the text as photo...

I thought the Bixby button was the kitchen sink?

tsiglas said:
I have try this but I can't find a way to do it.... I'm stuck in the step where you "Hit Bixby vision and it gets translated"
I can't find a way to open Bixby vision... the only thing that I can do when with smart selection I have selected the text is to save the text as photo...
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Low left corner. There is eye like looking icon just tap that.

xtrustkillx said:
Low left corner. There is eye like looking icon just tap that.
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There is no eye icon or I'm missing something... Look at the screen shot... The word "ΤΕΛΟΣ" means "Finish" and that save the text as a photo... There isn't any icon of vision eye in all this procedure!
I'm using a text from opera browser and I try the same with a text from a photo... The same thing...
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tsiglas said:
There is no eye icon or I'm missing something... Look at the screen shot... The word "ΤΕΛΟΣ" means "Finish" and that save the text as a photo... There isn't any icon of vision eye in all this procedure!
I'm using a text from opera browser and I try the same with a text from a photo... The same thing...
Exynos, Europe, Greece
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Tap that button and then youll get this. If not try to install ocr service.

It didn't seem to work all the time though?
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Yes I have noticed the same problem... Sometimes works and sometimes doesn't....

Did u actually enable the whole bixby vision service? Where u have to install it and "allow" for permissions. Pretty sure its in camera app. Then once bixby vision is good to go u should be able to use it in smart select/other places

I think the size of your selection matters. I was trying to pull a tracking number my wife sent. The first time I selected just the number. No bixby vision option. I selected more area and the option appeared.
Something else I noticed really cool is that pin to screen option. OMG so usful.

Bixby vision isssue
zathus said:
Let's face it. Samsung is known for tossing in everything but the kitchen sink. Sometimes the features stick. Sometimes they're complete duds. List some of the features you actually use that you wouldn't find in stock Android
Something I've found very useful is the edge panel smart select. For instance if something's in a language I don't understand. Select rectangular, highlight the text I want. Hit Bixby vision and it gets translated. Or an item I want to purchase it will recognize it. It's actually quite good
The option to make volume controls control media by default. Something I wish stock Android would adopt because 90% of the time when I want to turn the volume down or up its media. So I like that I can make that the primary control
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Hi,
i bought s9+ in Bosnia and Herzegovina and i paid a lot of money for it but the problem i can not use the phone in full capacity (especially bixby vision)
my question is : if i flashed new firmware (UK for example) am i going to have problem to use it with different sim cards or any other issue
bootloader ver G965FXXU2BRH1
pda ver same as previous
csc ver G965FXXU2BRG8

sarni84 said:
Did u actually enable the whole bixby vision service? Where u have to install it and "allow" for permissions. Pretty sure its in camera app. Then once bixby vision is good to go u should be able to use it in smart select/other places
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Yeah... i cant find it too -_- maybe he manually installed something?

drpop79 said:
Hi,
i bought s9+ in Bosnia and Herzegovina and i paid a lot of money for it but the problem i can not use the phone in full capacity (especially bixby vision)
my question is : if i flashed new firmware (UK for example) am i going to have problem to use it with different sim cards or any other issue
bootloader ver G965FXXU2BRH1
pda ver same as previous
csc ver G965FXXU2BRG8
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I go to great lengths to make my device not have bixby ?
You really aren't missing anything at all. Install Google Assistant if you're into this sort of app. You will be way ahead of stock Samsung ???