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Usefull app request - T9 Touch type app

I used to touch type on old candy bar and slide phones without having to look at the screen, by feeling the dialpad keys I knew what button I was on and using the T9 dictionary it was easy, I really miss this in new phones now.
I wanted to buy a dialpad phone with Android as a 2nd phone but there are none being made so I think they are going the way of the dodo.
There is no feesable way to touch type on new phones, qwerty keyboards have too many keys, haptic feedback is in its infancy, so I propose a full screen T9 keyboard for touch typing.
The whole display would be filled with 9 or 10 buttons representing 0-9 like a standard dialpad.
This wouldn't be the main input method, I think it would be good for it to activate by pressing the volume down button twice while in a text field and deactivate by doing the same thing. Hopefully it should be possible to touch type without haptic feedback when the whole screen is filled with only 9 buttons.
Let me know what you guys think.

why the full screen??? my htc hero has softkb with t9, fills half the screen. I never use qwerty. Works like a charm. you can get the htc_ime.apk and use that.

I havent heard of anyone being able to touch type on a touchscreen phone yet, ie writing an sms while driving without looking at their phone.
If it is literally filling the whole screen it may be possible on a 3.7" screen the buttons will be big, you are either pressing one of the corners, middle or sides.
If it is filling only half the screen it becomes a lot more difficult if not impossible.

[Q] FN Function Key turns on CAPS Lock

Hi: I just bought a used HTC AT&T Fuze. It works pretty well but there seems to be something whacky with the external keyboard. When I press the FN key, instead of allowing me to type numbers and symbols, it simply turns the caps lock on. It seems like the keyboard is functioning like a full QWERTY PC keyboard instead of a custom one for the phone. For example, when I type along the top row, instead of it typing the various symbols across the top of the keyboard, it types the numbers 1, 2, 3... When I use the CAPS lock, it inputs a TAB - which is exactly where the tab key is on a regular keyboard. (BTW, the FN key is exactly where the CAPS lock key is on a regular keyboard...) Anybody have any ideas what might be going on? I've tried a hard reset twice now - with no success.
SOLVED: Just updated the firmware and all is working perfectly now.
Thanks,
Dave

Swype, keyboard, weird menu popped up?

I was curious about my Swype keyboard on my Galaxy.
I hit something by accident and the input keyboard area turned into a bunch of big buttons with arrows and direction on them.
Anyone know what this is or how to get it to show again?
I hit the return key fast before I realized it was too late. lol
Thanks.

koooba said:
I was curious about my Swype keyboard on my Galaxy.
I hit something by accident and the input keyboard area turned into a bunch of big buttons with arrows and direction on them.
Anyone know what this is or how to get it to show again?
I hit the return key fast before I realized it was too late. lol
Thanks.
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Swype from the tips key (the one in the bottom left) to the SYM key (the one to the right of it) and you'll pull up a new set of inputs designed to help you navigate text.

for me the swype keyboard keeps freezing and i have to switch inputs to the regular keyboard, then back to swype to reset it. it will last for about a day then freezes up again. I'm running a stock rom on evo 3d. im planning on rooting and running a custom rom, but i was wondering if it happens to more than just my phone.

soft keyboard behavior and breakage. re-install? good replacement?

for as long as I've had my phone, which, of course, is as long as I've had it rooted, my messaging app has acted extremely odd.
Using the arrow keys and the back-space key causes strange, and often app-breaking, behavior. it seems to be registering the key presses in at least 2 other areas of the app. it always scrolls to the top of the conversation, it highlights conversations in the main message window, and it highlights options in the menus before I even have them open. it seems that the window that lists the conversations, as well as the options menu, are still listening to key presses, even when I'm writing a text. often, the arrow keys and the back-space key stop working all together until I back out of the text-input and re-open the keyboard. this happens litterally every time i write a text message, which is a lot.
all I want the arrow keys to do when I'm in a text field is move the cursor, not jump the highlight to the send button, not scroll through auto-complete options, not jump to the conversation window and scroll through individual texts, and certainly not control the selection of items in windows and menus that I don't even have open.
Also, when pressing 2 keys in quick succession, it often only registers one, TH, especially. I'd say its just registering the second press as a movement of the first contact point, istead of a second touch, like old laptop track-pads, but this device is more than capable of registering multi-touch. also, if you hold one key, and press another, the letter from the first appears on the second key for a brief second...
I'm using virtuous ville v.1.4.0 stock, but I've installed and uninstalled a couple other keyboard apps, can I re-install the stock ICS keyboard? is it a sense keyboard? is this happening to anyone else with this rom or with the 4.0.3 os?
thanks for your help
-Peter
god I miss my G1... stupid friggin slabs. this was the first, and will be the last phone that I ever buy without a real keyboard. this touch-screen only nonsense is ridiculous. it would be fast if it were possible to be accurate and keys weren't literally touching each other. why can't I tell it how much space I want between the keys, so I press nothing, instead of the wrong key? there would be no haptic feedback so I knew to press it again, and I wouldn't constantly be pressing the shift, space, and num keys, which the auto-correct doesn't account for in the slightest, instead of the A key or any of the bottom row of letters .I'm tired of sacrificing so much functionality just so phones can look slicker and break easier.

Don't know why it fails, sorry.... The stock ICS keyboard is not a sense keyboard, there is one on market looks like this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/....android.inputmethod.latin.ice_cream_sandwich
Or you could grab a keyboard from any CM9 or AOKP rom zip file, it's named Latin-IME.apk iirc. The jellybean keyboard is similar but nicer somehow, possible it works on ICS. Also SwiftKey is really good.

Thanks for the suggestions! I do, in fact, have a sense keyboard and I do need arrow keys, which the non-sense keyboards, including the jellybean apk don't seem to have. I still can't fathom why anyone would ever prefer these to a real keyboard and a d-pad... also, the jellybean keyboard still has the same trouble with TH's. has anyone here, who shares my frustration with soft keyboards, found a decent keyboard app?
I wish there were decent quality, mini keyboards, too. Wireless or micro-usb would both work, as I'd probably make a case to hold it with my phone. I've only seen a couple, and they're either too big to be practical, or poor quality.
I apologize for my negative attitude. this is just frustrating, as texting is my main form of communication, and I post to forums from my phone quite often, so typing is important to me.
thanks again
-Peter

This is what SwiftKey 3 looks like if you activate the arrows and the Holo theme... One month trial.

Samsung keyboard - no long press symbols???

My last Samsung phone was S2, since than i have used several Sony's and LG's and i have used to brilliant default keyboards with long press symbols and i cant believed it when i sol default keyboard on Best phone S7 - no option for this, no customization's, nothing.......
So i install Swift keyboard i am disappointed
Otherwise S7 is brilliant phone (might be to hot after LG G4?)

What do you mean? Like symbols in the top right corner of each key?

FlyingColors said:
What do you mean? Like symbols in the top right corner of each key?
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Here is the screenshot i have circled exclamation mark - You press and hold the key and ! is typed fast and ease

Too hot? What do you mean?
And Samsung's keyboards have always been terrible.. The first thing I do is change them.

pesho00 said:
Here is the screenshot i have circled exclamation mark - You press and hold the key and ! is typed fast and ease
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I can do the same thing on my S7. Although I don't even use Samsung's keyboard

Samsung Keyboard is terrible and I'll be downloading SwiftKey as well like I have on my S4

XavierAD said:
Samsung Keyboard is terrible and I'll be downloading SwiftKey as well like I have on my S4
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My point exactly

XavierAD said:
Samsung Keyboard is terrible and I'll be downloading SwiftKey as well like I have on my S4
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Samsung Keyboard uses SwiftKey prediction anyway.

Samsung keyboard is actually my favorite. It's the only one I can find that doesn't do key pop-ups (Very distracting for me), shows a number row above letters, and has long press for symbols. Every other keyboard is missing one of those 3 features for me.

quicky2g said:
Samsung keyboard is actually my favorite. It's the only one I can find that doesn't do key pop-ups (Very distracting for me), shows a number row above letters, and has long press for symbols. Every other keyboard is missing one of those 3 features for me.
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Please tell me how you do "long press for symbols" with samsung keyboard?

pesho00 said:
Please tell me how you do "long press for symbols" with samsung keyboard?
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I have a Galaxy Note 3 right now (Waiting for S7 pre-order). Samsung keyboard was stock. The long press for symbols works by default. Symbols show as a smaller font above each of the normal keys. The number row at the top doesn't have any symbols. Didn't have to change any settings for that behavior.

I used the Wanam xposed module which has an option to add symbols on my Tab S2 and S5

Im using stock keyboard and i do not have the long press for symbols either, nothing in settings to enable it either.

I think only the US versions have the long press symbols.

I also use the sammy keyboard with note 3 and it has the long press option. It's a great keyboard, IMO. Hopefully they haven't changed it.
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XavierAD said:
Samsung Keyboard is terrible and I'll be downloading SwiftKey as well like I have on my S4
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swift key suchs it dont support japanese/chinese, and samsung do

I have symbols option under keyboard layout settings.

If you want 'long-press-symbols' to show on the samsung keyboard, go to keyboard settings -> customization -> keyboard layout -> turn on alternative characters
You'll get the 'long-press-symbols' by doing this