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Playing games, screen is always upside down? Can't use keyboard

Hi, I want to use the keyboard for games like Worms World Party, Age of Empires, and Call of Duty 2.
When I open it up however, the screen goes awry and I can't use the countries or the screen!
I saw someone on youtube playing COD2 and his keyboard is open. What do I have to do to fix this orientation issue?

I have the same problem - games like Warcraft 2 and Starcraft 2 are inverted than the keyboard. Any idea to fix this?

This would be cool.
Must be a reg key somewhere?

You could try to to set up your shortcuts in the settings. Then you could use e.g. one of the Softkeys to reverse the screen orientation manually.

Qremp said:
I have the same problem - games like Warcraft 2 and Starcraft 2 are inverted than the keyboard. Any idea to fix this?
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Where can I get Starcraft 2? Does it work on the Xperia?

It does, check here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=495136

Calvin H said:
It does, check here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=495136
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Thanks, I've been in this thread before, but I didn't notice the starcraft link.

switched from iPhone to Desire. Keyboard alternatives?

And so far i'm so glad i did. My only gripe is that the keyboard on the iPhone seems much easier to use. does anyone else agree? What good keyboard mods are there out there which could help?

coriron said:
And so far i'm so glad i did. My only gripe is that the keyboard on the iPhone seems much easier to use. does anyone else agree? What good keyboard mods are there out there which could help?
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This has me totally lost. You switched from an iPhone keyboard to a Desire one, and are glad you did, but you find the iPhone one easier to use?
No offense but that isn't making too much sense to me
Do you mean you had an iphone and now have a Desire but would like a new iPhone type keyboard on it?

socktug said:
This has me totally lost. You switched from an iPhone keyboard to a Desire one, and are glad you did, but you find the iPhone one easier to use?
No offense but that isn't making too much sense to me
Do you mean you had an iphone and now have a Desire but would like a new iPhone type keyboard on it?
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sorry...the topic wasnt really correct...
I've switched from the iphone to the HTC Desire, and i really like the desire, however i find the keyboard harder to use than the iphones one. just want an alternative keyboard that maybe has the buttons spaced better. just find i'm mis-typing a lot. (i know you can go landscape, and i know you can have compact qwerty etc but i want a normal portrait keyboard)

Not exactly what you are asking for, but you could do a search for swype.
It's a keyboard that you just swipe your finger across the correct letters and it somehow works out what you want to type! It's really very accurate.
Failing that you could try better keyboard or smart keyboard pro. I can't remember which, but one of them has skins and iPhone is an option on it.

I recommend Smart Keyboard Pro. Has an iPhone setting I believe.

sbdags said:
I recommend Smart Keyboard Pro. Has an iPhone setting I believe.
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i second smartkeyboard pro, very similar to the iphone keyboard.
fwiw i understood your question, seemed pretty clear to me

coriron said:
And so far i'm so glad i did. My only gripe is that the keyboard on the iPhone seems much easier to use. does anyone else agree? What good keyboard mods are there out there which could help?
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You'll have to live with this problem mate. It's not the keyboard that's the problem. The iPhone has a feature that guesses which letter your gonna press and it works perfect. Android doesn't have this feature so you have to press the correct key most of the time coz prediction isn't always correct. One tried all the downloadable keyboards but they are not as good as the HTC keyboard. Which Is a shame coz that's not too clever.
P.S
I'm still not used to the keyboard after 2 months. I'm constantly making mistakes.
I now use the phone keypad as its faster to type and more accurate.

swype is the way forward.......imo

Get a swype keyboard.
Start it. Feel frustrated and think what's the hype?
Type some random stuff for fifteen minutes.
You will never look back.

I went with "better keyboard" and have it set to put a dot on the key after it is pressed.
After typing a word, I notice how often I've pressed the wrong keys, yet still it has predicted the correct word/spelling.
Have tried swype, and whilst it's got a certain wow factor, I prefer to touch like a traditional keyboard

.Hodgy. said:
swype is the way forward.......imo
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Swype ... FTW!!!!

doinbox said:
You'll have to live with this problem mate. It's not the keyboard that's the problem. The iPhone has a feature that guesses which letter your gonna press and it works perfect. Android doesn't have this feature so you have to press the correct key most of the time coz prediction isn't always correct.
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Errrr, wrong.

JohnSteveDoe said:
Errrr, wrong.
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youtube is blocked at my work....cant see what you've posted

ceratti said:
Get a swype keyboard.
Start it. Feel frustrated and think what's the hype?
Type some random stuff for fifteen minutes.
You will never look back.
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hmmm...gotta try and fine somewhere to download it from now as the beta has closed....

JohnSteveDoe said:
Errrr, wrong.
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What's your point?
Thats nothing like an iPhone keyboard.
But that looks like a good solution so thanks for posting that.

coriron said:
youtube is blocked at my work....cant see what you've posted
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Just tried this its called thickbuttons and its free on the market.
It's terrible. It moves keys about as you type so you can only type slowly. So thanks but no thanks.

I found a really good replacement. I'm using it to type this and its awsome. It's called swiftkey. And its free to use. Search for it on the market. You'll be massively impressed.

What is a good swype keyboard then? As the market comes up blank when searching for swype

SwiftKey is fantastic for me. Has replaced my custom htc ime mod keyboard.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

I like the guessing features in swiftkey a lot. But my wish is to have swiftkey work on the phone keypad layout. This is much faster for me and easier to use one handed. At the moment it's only on qwerty type layouts.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

SwiftKey X - compatible with ics

hi, im wonder if some 1 try the SwiftKey X keyboard on the GN ?
its my favorite keyboard and i cant sure that its working (fine) on ics.

liorra3 said:
hi, im wonder if some 1 try the SwiftKey X keyboard on the GN ?
its my favorite keyboard and i cant sure that its working (fine) on ics.
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Hiya,
the one from the market works fine on my Galaxy Nexus, but the last VIP beta i tried wouldn't let me into the settings. The cool blue theme goes really well with ICS on the phone - enjoy!

It works for the mast part with ICS, but it is currently bugged in it's display / GUI. The devs are aware of the issue, and are hoping to have it resolved within the week.

rich_bown said:
Hiya,
the one from the market works fine on my Galaxy Nexus, but the last VIP beta i tried wouldn't let me into the settings. The cool blue theme goes really well with ICS on the phone - enjoy!
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Can we use old dictionaries from Gingerbread with it? My dictionary did specialize quite a lot with months and months of use and I'd like to use it with ICS again. Did anyone try that?

Does anyone using SwitfKey have a keyboard icon in the notification bar which says "Select Input Method" ?

olivierlee said:
Does anyone using SwitfKey have a keyboard icon in the notification bar which says "Select Input Method" ?
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Yep.
10char

olivierlee said:
Does anyone using SwitfKey have a keyboard icon in the notification bar which says "Select Input Method" ?
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Happens as soon as you install any third party keyboard. It's the same in honeycomb and i think it's a quite good feature.
Sent from my X10i using XDA App

[Q] what keyboard?

When I first got this phone ,the keyboard I could click on voice or I had the option to use my finger to spell out the word on the screen instead of typing it out .hopefully that makes sense

fuzzylax said:
Anyone know what keyboard you can use with stiles?I had it on lg before and can't remember if it was stock lg one or what.I don't post on here enough to thank all the developers on here for all their hard work.
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Uh...stiles?

Sounds like SwiftKey?

The stock LG keyboard allows tracing as well as the new SwiftKey
Edit: typos
Sent from my LG-LS970

Also Swype.

Google Keyboard doesnt work right... can someone confirm this?

Hi,
i wanted to replace touchpal with google keyboard. but i cant safe custom words in dictionary. when i hit + button it closes....
can someone confirm?
maybe with screenshots if it works.
thanks

i dont know if it helps... but
please !?

Works fine for me on 5.0 keyboard.

B-Man2005 said:
Hi,
i wanted to replace touchpal with google keyboard. but i cant safe custom words in dictionary. when i hit + button it closes....
can someone confirm?
maybe with screenshots if it works.
thanks
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works fine ....

Haldi4803 said:
Works fine for me on 5.0 keyboard.
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SacredDeviL666 said:
works fine ....
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oh damn.... hard to believe
can you post a screenshot? maybe it doesnt work with germany ...
does someone know why it doesnt work ?
:crying:

Google keyboard 5.0 or 5.1 still doesn't allow us to use personal dictionary. Weird... But that's the fact... Until the dictionary and shortcut is back I won't use it...