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Stock Keyboard?

I was wondering if anyone had installed the stock android keyboard on their MT4G successfully?
I installed a custom HTC keyboard from gimpsta.com, but after selecting it as my keyboard in Settings, I still get the swype keyboard.

theinternot said:
I was wondering if anyone had installed the stock android keyboard on their MT4G successfully?
I installed a custom HTC keyboard from gimpsta.com, but after selecting it as my keyboard in Settings, I still get the swype keyboard.
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Long press on a text input field, e.g. browser field, message body field, email body field, etc, select "INPUT," then chose the keyboard of your liking. The Touch Input keyboard is HTC's, though, not default Android.

D'oh!
Thank you!! Works perfect.
The keyboard I am using is the HTC IME with a customized skin from gimpsta.com.
Works perfect. I like having my number keys all in a row, also mic input now an option and smiley emoticon button is there.
unremarked said:
Long press on a text input field, e.g. browser field, message body field, email body field, etc, select "INPUT," then chose the keyboard of your liking. The Touch Input keyboard is HTC's, though, not default Android.
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So I think you're right. Just changed and love it now. Than you.
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Thanks for this, I spent hours looking for this in settings. Do you know if its possible to download and install the "default" Android keyboard?

Elfabaa said:
Thanks for this, I spent hours looking for this in settings. Do you know if its possible to download and install the "default" Android keyboard?
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You can use smart keyboard pro which has the skin for the default android keyboard plus others like iphone,htc, and different colors for the default keyboard.

Elfabaa said:
Thanks for this, I spent hours looking for this in settings. Do you know if its possible to download and install the "default" Android keyboard?
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You can also activate the vlingo keyboard if you use it.
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I just want the normal swype keyboard that had the microphone and similies button. How did you go about getting it?

[Q] Keyboard Replacements?

Has anyone been able to get keyboard replacements to work?
I installed 'iphone keyboard' and 'slide IT keyboard Demo', and both show up in Settings -> Language & Keyboard -> but when you try to enable them, you get the warning about keystroke sniffing and if you click OK they still are not enabled.
I mostly want this for Voice input on all fields and something similar to Swype.
While I am at it, I would love it if, from Home Screen I could hit Menu, Settings, to get to the settings screen.
I do like the way the Settings screens work, layering what are separate activity screens next to each other on the tablet. Something Google should keep in mind for Honeycomb, it is a great way to make use of the extra real estate of the Tablet and should be an easy conditional for programmers, or even the OS to take into account depending on device type (user agent?)
I ramble, time for bed
Day 2 of my GTablet changed me from a returner to a keeper.
Thanks xda.
Johnny

Instructions here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858107&highlight=wii you really just put the apk from data/app to system/app but need root explorer to do it

I have swype working. Were can not post how to do it here but check out the tegratab forums.

flashlight1 said:
Instructions here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858107&highlight=wii you really just put the apk from data/app to system/app but need root explorer to do it
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broke down and bought root explorer. writing with slideIt.
benefits over default keyboard:
swype style writing
voice button
return key in portrait mode
thanks again.

OK...
<-- noob
to be clear, the only way to replace the keyboard apk in TnT lite 2.2 is to use a pay app (root explorer)?

With slideit keyboard are the a an return buttons hard to press? I seem to have trouble with all the non stock keyboards

Canadoc said:
With slideit keyboard are the a an return buttons hard to press? I seem to have trouble with all the non stock keyboards
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No problem for me.

Life in LA said:
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to be clear, the only way to replace the keyboard apk in TnT lite 2.2 is to use a pay app (root explorer)?
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If you're comfortable with command line, you can do it w/o root explorer:
Root using z4root
Use a terminal to
Mount /system R/W
Copy the apk from /data/app to /system/app
Change apk perms
Reboot
There's an app in market called system r/w that can do the remount, and many terms under market.
Jim

Canadoc said:
With slideit keyboard are the a an return buttons hard to press? I seem to have trouble with all the non stock keyboards
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I had a very similar problem with the a and l (L) keys. There is a weird fix that worked for me. Search the g tablet developers forum for "configuration.ini".
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UPDATE... its on this page http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853310&page=34

[Q] How easy is it to use Thumb Keyboard on this tablet?

I've read somewhere that the bezel is a bit thick to comfortably typing using two thumbs. Can anyone verify that?
Thanks!

In landscape it is certainly quite difficult for me to type with any of the keyboards. Thumb keyboard is the best so far, but I wouldn't like to spend too much time typing like this.

Works well for me.. I can hold the tablet securely and touch my thumbs together, then and again, I do have quite large hands.
I tend to stick to the default Android keyboard because of this.. the keys are bigger so I make less mistakes. I guess everyone is different.

Thumb keyboard all the way for me. The tablet rests at the base of my knuckles and I can reach the keys with minimal effort. Perhaps you need to adjust the settings? I know I could never use this stock keyboard.

another vote for thumb keyboad when holding in both hands.. e.g when lying on the sofa.. having the split keyboard with numberpad in the middle is cool.. the predictive text aint bad either and height adjustable keyboard makes it quite useful

I didn't want to make a new thread but here is the link (courtesy of the G-Tablet forum here on xda) to download a beta version of Thumb Keyboard.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034547

Is there an app/solution to having one keyboard for landscape mode (default android layout) and another for portrait mode (thumb keyboard) which appears automatically dependant on the orientation of the tablet? I'm fed up with having to keep switching it via the settings.

The best solution would be a more customizable keyboard...
For example, I do like the stock one, but usually use the Asus keyboard just because the '@' character is very counter-intuitive on the stock one. On the other hand, the spacebar in the Asus one is way too short for my linking (and I end up missing it quite a lot)
Having a keyboard where you can customize the layout would be really cool.

stuntdouble said:
Is there an app/solution to having one keyboard for landscape mode (default android layout) and another for portrait mode (thumb keyboard) which appears automatically dependant on the orientation of the tablet? I'm fed up with having to keep switching it via the settings.
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I could've sworn that Thumb Keyboard automatically offers different layouts depending on tablet orientation.. or do you not like the version offered in portrait mode?

It does, its down in the settings, Layout Keyboard.
There is a check box you and then you can select seperate layouts for portrait and landscape.

Also the new beta is built for 10.1 tablets and has been extended
http://thumb4beta.blogspot.com/
The xoom forum is getting a lot of app love, due to it being the first baby on the block. I wish there was a way to get these all in sync, because Honeycomb really is somewhat the same across the board for now.
R.

how do you toggle between different keyboards

combat goofwing said:
how do you toggle between different keyboards
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The quick way is to press an icon on the taskbar in the lower right while a keyboard is open. There's a good video of it in the link below. I'm looking forward to trying out the swiftkey tablet keyboard shown in the video (currently unreleased).
http://www.androidcentral.com/honeycomb-allows-quick-change-screen-keyboards

corruptz0r said:
I'm using Swiftkey for tablets (beta) right now and it is amazing. I strongly recommend it.
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Where did you find the download for the beta?
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IIJBII said:
Where did you find the download for the beta?
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It's in a closed invite only beta. You need a special SwiftKey VIP invite code in order to participate.
http://www.androidcentral.com/swiftkey-tablet-beta-now-available-vip-forum-members

Swift key tablet beta, and needs vip access, but it is amazing and looks like tron 2
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...but what invite code do you use at the bottom ?

i'm using the "Tablet Keyboard" Free version. It's okay... really wish the swiftkey one wasn't a closed beta

Need a keyboard supporting arrows

Iam using swiftkey keyboard on my Note 1 N7000 and love the arrows feautre to move between words to correct or change words, this feature is not available for swiftkey keyboard tablet version,or the stock keybord, any other recommendations?

I admit this is a major failing for Swiftkey keyboard, which is otherwise a cracking keyboard.
Thumb keyboard has multiple layouts for tablets and also includes arrow keys.

will look at it, do you use it? how is it compared with swiftkey?
Edit
ooops, does not support my native language (Arabic):crying:

Have you tried Hacker's Keyboard in the Play Store. I think it is one of the best layouts available.

dmarchant said:
Have you tried Hacker's Keyboard in the Play Store. I think it is one of the best layouts available.
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+1

tried Hacker's Keyboard, it has everything i need, still testing it
Thank you all

dmarchant said:
Have you tried Hacker's Keyboard in the Play Store. I think it is one of the best layouts available.
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Thanks for the suggestion; I'm diggin' the Hackers Keyboard. :good:

dmarchant said:
Have you tried Hacker's Keyboard in the Play Store. I think it is one of the best layouts available.
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thermax04 said:
tried Hacker's Keyboard, it has everything i need, still testing it
Thank you all
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sunnyelm24 said:
Thanks for the suggestion; I'm diggin' the Hackers Keyboard. :good:
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:crying: dose not support swipe feature

sunnyelm24 said:
Thanks for the suggestion; I'm diggin' the Hackers Keyboard. :good:
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Just another tip (especially for those needing some greek letters for math symbols, i.e. α, β, γ, δ, ε, θ, λ, μ, π, ρ, φ, ψ, ω, Γ, Π, Σ, Φ, Ψ, Ω....)
You may ask yourself (as I did): "How can I insert all those symbols if there's no "sym" button?"
Simple answer: in the "Settings" - "Input languages" select "Eλληνικά [el]" (Greek) as an additional input language. After that, with a quick slide on the spacebar, you'll have all those Greek letters in the Greek keyboard layout.
Other examples of symbols that can be typed with the "Hacker's keyboard" are:
≤, ≥, ≈, √, ā, ∞ (x±y)²=x²+y²±2x•y
And, if you use the the Circle key another plenty of exotic symbols can be added, such as
♥ ⓚ a₁ ⅘2ⁿ...
(see this and this links)
It would be much simpler by using the traditional ALT+CharCode combination for the Ascii characters, but I didn't find a way to use that method (the Alt key seems not to combine with the character numeric code).
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thermax04 said:
:crying: dose not support swipe feature
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Have you tried enabling the "Sliding key events" in the options? I've tried and it seems it doesn't actually work to be used as a swipe feature. But I'm no "swipe" expert so I can't be sure....

sphere314 said:
Have you tried enabling the "Sliding key events" in the options? I've tried and it seems it doesn't actually work to be used as a swipe feature. But I'm no "swipe" expert so I can't be sure....
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I choosed the recommended settings: Ignore keys during sliding movement, and dose not do any thing
tried all other settings and no swipe
I have the latest version: 1.34rc9

I am using swiftkey phone edition on my tablet and it has both swipe and arrows. (i did not see a reason why i had to buy a different version for my tablet and I'm glad I didn't).

Airtioteclint said:
I am using swiftkey phone edition on my tablet and it has both swipe and arrows. (i did not see a reason why i had to buy a different version for my tablet and I'm glad I didn't).
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so , phone version is working on note 10?!!
will try it

Take a look at Kii. Got it today after seeing this thread and doing a bit of looking. Liking it so far. Arrows, numerics, special characters with long press and several templates.
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Another great keyboard is Ultra keyboard. One time it was very famous. I have been using it for a few years now.

Keyboard question?

Hi.
Is there an option to make keyboard with numerical above letters. I don't like to push and hold e.g. letter Q for number 1. Or to swith to numerical. I'd like to have both on one screen.
If there no such an option which keyboard do you recommend do download?

i recommend downloading Google keyboard

I have google keyboard but there are no such option.
howdid said:
i recommend downloading Google keyboard
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wolkowicz said:
I have google keyboard but there are no such option.
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Try swiftkey then

You can enable numbers row in Google keyboard. Follow this guide.
http://m.androidcentral.com/how-add-dedicated-number-row-google-keyboard
Not the best designed but still usable.

lopri said:
You can enable numbers row in Google keyboard. Follow this guide.
http://m.androidcentral.com/how-add-dedicated-number-row-google-keyboard
Not the best designed but still usable.
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I have numbers on top of letters in G keyboard by default, I'm not sure why it happens to EMUI

Keyboard Question
wolkowicz said:
Hi.
Is there an option to make keyboard with numerical above letters. I don't like to push and hold e.g. letter Q for number 1. Or to swith to numerical. I'd like to have both on one screen.
If there no such an option which keyboard do you recommend do download?
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Unfortunately, there is no internal setting that allows for you to put your numbers at the top of your keyboard. We advise that you browse the Google Play Store for third-party options. (ED)

I recommend swiftkey.

I use Swype + Dragon and its a great keyboard, easily awitching from letters to numbers, bilingual usage and great theming. Or try something different as Fleksy for instance, also a great keyboard and you can set a numbers row in permanently.

PalakMi said:
I have numbers on top of letters in G keyboard by default, I'm not sure why it happens to EMUI
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It happens only under certain conditions, I think. I remember seeing it but cannot recall where.

lopri said:
It happens only under certain conditions, I think. I remember seeing it but cannot recall where.
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Well, I have it always there, no matter what ROM I'm running

google keyboard,swiftkey both are good alternatives

I like G keyboard more