Think Outside Bluetooth keyboard - nearly works with Touch Pro 2. - Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General

I had a Think Outside Stowaway Bluetooth keyboard for my old Palm Treo, and before I dispatched it to the box of old gadgets in the loft, I decided to try it with the Pro 2.
It paired no problem at all, and firing up PocketWord showed that it was all working as expected - typing, cursor keys, page up/down, ctrl-c and ctrl-v. However, a bit more playing revealed that everything was working except for using shift with the number keys and the period and comma. Shift with all other keys did what you expected, but shift with 0-9, period and comma produced the non-shifted character. This makes it pretty much useless - not being able to add punctuation is a bit of a drawback!
I downloaded the latest driver available from Think Outside (they no longer support their keyboards, so there is no specific driver for WM6), which installed fine, but then crashed the Bluetooth on the TP2 when it rebooted, so I uninstalled it again.
I've just tried the keyboard with a colleague's Nokia 5800, and the keyboard all works perfectly with the default Symbian BT keyboard drivers, so this looks like an issue with the WM default BT driver.
Anyone seen this problem? Any ideas for a fix? Are there any patches for the WM default BT driver?
Thanks in advance.

I have a fusi n560 and a keyboard like you have. It worked with the original wm 5.0 (fusi came with it). Than I have upgraded my pda to wm 6.0 (newplow's unofficial upgrade) and the keyboard still works. But I have installed the keyboard's driver to the pda as i did for wm 5.0. Even the bt mouse - from the same manufacturer - works with it, sharing the bt connection simultaneously with the keyboard. So imho it should work with wm6.0.

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Microsoft 6000 Bluetooth Keyboard works with SGS2!

Hi Everyone, just unboxed my SGS2 and also a new Microsoft 6000 series bluetooth keyboard, and i have managed to pair them successfuly.
I have not been able to use it a lot yet, but the pairing is functional, the arrow keys move the focus of the cursor, typing is fluid in Office app as well as sms (Except it seems to capitalize randomly) Backspace seems to work slow, but like i said i have not tested fully yet! the function keys also seem to respond and perform functions like Lock screen and others. The volume up down keys on the keyboard work just fine while playing music videos.
More Testing needed but i just thought i would share the good news
The device paired almost instantly as an HID device.
The phone is running on stock Samsung Rom Android version 2.3.3
Picture will be nice
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[Q] tilt2 + bt keyboard + sip=off = bt kbd first-row problem

Hi everyone. This is my first post, a question, and I have tried to find a solution, without success:
Components of problem:
a) I have an ATT Tilt2
b) I have a generic Bluetooth keyboard (same problem occurred with iGo Freedom Bluetooth keyboard)
c) there is no issue with the bluetooth connection to/from the keyboard
d) the problem is this
IF (the SIP is not displayed) THEN (the top row of the bluetooth keyboard, instead of producing NUMBERS, produces the SYMBOLS that are on top of the slide-out keyboard of the Tilt2)
IF (the SIP is displayed/visible) THEN (problem goes away, and when the keys on top of the bluetooth keyboard are pressed (numbers) the numbers correctly come through)
** so in some way, the invocation of the SIP corrects the "wrongness" of what happens on the first row of keys, of the bluetooth keyboard **
Here is what I have tried:
1) I tried to find an app that keeps the SIP "always on", so that I could keep using the bluetooth keyboard, without having to keep pressing the touchscreen to make the SIP re-appear........couldn't find one.
2) Tried different bluetooth keyboards (that is why i bought the generic BT keyboard, in hopes that same problem with the iGo keyboard would go away).....didn't help
Any help or direction-to-help is appreciated,
Peter
Wait, isn't the whole point of the TP2 is that it has a dedicated keyboard, so there's no need for a BT kb?
Sorry, I'm no help.
petechinw said:
Hi everyone. This is my first post, a question, and I have tried to find a solution, without success:
Components of problem:
a) I have an ATT Tilt2
b) I have a generic Bluetooth keyboard (same problem occurred with iGo Freedom Bluetooth keyboard)
c) there is no issue with the bluetooth connection to/from the keyboard
d) the problem is this
IF (the SIP is not displayed) THEN (the top row of the bluetooth keyboard, instead of producing NUMBERS, produces the SYMBOLS that are on top of the slide-out keyboard of the Tilt2)
IF (the SIP is displayed/visible) THEN (problem goes away, and when the keys on top of the bluetooth keyboard are pressed (numbers) the numbers correctly come through)
** so in some way, the invocation of the SIP corrects the "wrongness" of what happens on the first row of keys, of the bluetooth keyboard **
Here is what I have tried:
1) I tried to find an app that keeps the SIP "always on", so that I could keep using the bluetooth keyboard, without having to keep pressing the touchscreen to make the SIP re-appear........couldn't find one.
2) Tried different bluetooth keyboards (that is why i bought the generic BT keyboard, in hopes that same problem with the iGo keyboard would go away).....didn't help
Any help or direction-to-help is appreciated,
Peter
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Did you try using the FN key with the top of your BT keyboard. Try that if you haven't.
petechinw said:
Hi everyone. This is my first post, a question, and I have tried to find a solution, without success:
Components of problem:
a) I have an ATT Tilt2
b) I have a generic Bluetooth keyboard (same problem occurred with iGo Freedom Bluetooth keyboard)
c) there is no issue with the bluetooth connection to/from the keyboard
d) the problem is this
IF (the SIP is not displayed) THEN (the top row of the bluetooth keyboard, instead of producing NUMBERS, produces the SYMBOLS that are on top of the slide-out keyboard of the Tilt2)
IF (the SIP is displayed/visible) THEN (problem goes away, and when the keys on top of the bluetooth keyboard are pressed (numbers) the numbers correctly come through)
** so in some way, the invocation of the SIP corrects the "wrongness" of what happens on the first row of keys, of the bluetooth keyboard **
Here is what I have tried:
1) I tried to find an app that keeps the SIP "always on", so that I could keep using the bluetooth keyboard, without having to keep pressing the touchscreen to make the SIP re-appear........couldn't find one.
2) Tried different bluetooth keyboards (that is why i bought the generic BT keyboard, in hopes that same problem with the iGo keyboard would go away).....didn't help
Any help or direction-to-help is appreciated,
Peter
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Sounds like SIP alters the keyboard layout or keyboard state. Editing registry setting might help here. See the "status" value here:
hxxp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms892476.aspx
or check for layouts:
hxxp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms892476.aspx
Alternatively, it is possible to change the key mapping on WM, maybe you can create a mapping that works for you with and without SIP visible. hxxp://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/HTC_Rhodium/ChangingKeyboardLayout

[Q] Bluetooth Keyboard Question, Geek'n out

My question: When I use the Bluetooth keyboard I still get the onscreen keyboard popping up, is there a way to prevent this from happening?
Loving the GS3 so far, was able to connect natively a white Microsoft Bluetooth mouse and a compact bluetooth keyboard and both work pretty decent, although keys on keyboard are mapped to work with an ipad, looking for a better keyboard, but just used the one I had to test with.
I'm testing a complete "geek out" senario here, I manage a few websites for where I work, and I have the cisco VPN app and I'm able to connect to my work network, and both rdp and vnc into my pc and imac, it's cool esp if something needs to be updated in a pinch.
My only gripe is that the software keyboard takes up the whole MF'n screen in landscape view, I'd like to prevent that if possible when using a hardware keyboard.
On my epic 4G, the slide out keyboard disabled the onscreen from popping up, can I do something similar?

[Q] Problems getting MAME4Droid working with a Bluetooth keyboard.

I got myself a Merry Christmas to me present: a 2nd gen Nexus 7, wi-fi only, with 32GB RAM.
Works great, I've been playing with it a lot.
And more recently, I just got a keyboard & case for it, a MiniSuit keyboard and case. The Bluetooth keyboard that came with this seems to be working fine - it charged up, paired up, works in all my apps...
...except Mame4Droid 0.139u1.
When I try to map game buttons, and the coin & start buttons to keys on this keyboard, things don't work. I can't get the coin or start buttons to respond at all when I map them to keyboard keys.
MAME seems to think my keyboard is actually a game controller, and expects it to have Select and Start buttons.
Are there any tricks to getting MAME to play well with a basic Bluetooth keyboard?

Bluetooth keyboard flaw

Quote:
Originally Posted by sometimesido View Post
My logitech keyboard (the one with tablet stand and says android 3+ on it) is all over the place.
FN keys work(volume, mail, etc), but when I open a note taking app, it repeatedly gets stuck on keys.
It types like this: "I like XDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
I'm hoping it's a keyboard issue, not the Nexus. Unfortunately, I do not have another bluetooth keyboard to test this out.
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I've had the same problem in several ROMs between my Minisuit keyboard and my Note 8. Connected and worked flawlessy with stock ROM. Now I'm on Carbonrom and it will pair but never connect. Works just fine with my plantronics headphones.
Looks like major flaws for all the ROMs that exist for Note 8.
The definition of LAME.

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