Even without holding the Evo, I can go ahead and imagine that i'd prefer a landscape keyboard without the arrows to the right that htc_ime includes with the EVO. Being unfamiliar with sense, will the standard android keyboard be available to be set as default? or will the desire keyboard be available to flash over the existing one? Thanks
I have always disliked the arrows too. Sometimes they are hit by accident while typing. It's quite annoying. And this was on my HD2.
However I will probably use better keyboard.
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Saw that there is now a cab file for the HTC Diamond keyboard. [link]. Anyone know if this will work on the Touch?
Yes it does
I put it on my xv6900 & my xv6800- works fine.
any feelings on this keyboard? I started with the older HTC keyboard, then moved to TouchPal. I'm curious to try it out, but it looks like its just a skinned and mildly updated version of HTC keyboard.
Using the diamond keyboard on the VZW Touch right now. Works well, no real issues found as of yet. Like it for the fact that it has more buttons and I love the "Switch" for the ABC and xT9.
~JMD
It works well but in QWERTY mode, the letter Z is missing
Mine has the Z on both phones.
I like that I'm not stuck with the qwerty keyboard in opera now on my touch
wonder if the diamond keyboard originally has the sound when you select the keys like the htc phonepad had?
Touch User P3450
this Diamond Keboard Work's But its realy slow ....Delay each time U tap...
Word completion
I have it installed, but have lost word completion. Anyone else?
I don't know, i really like the PCM Keyboard. I can't find one that's as simple to use and functions well.
purelithium said:
I don't know, i really like the PCM Keyboard. I can't find one that's as simple to use and functions well.
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I'm going to try out the Diamond kb, currently using PCM also. I also really appreciate the simplicity of the PCM and how it takes up very little screen space (compared to others), but I really hate that I have to change layouts to get to the period (.) key. IMO, this should be on the main layout, being a such often used key.
wow....has anyone failed to mention that the "qwerty" mode doesnt work in landscape?????? that is a huge drawback for such a nicely skinned keyboard....hope this gets fixed soon
I mainly use the keyboard layout. When I hit the shift key the characters show as caps and types a cap, but then stay displayed that way even though they are no longer typing caps (at least until I enter a space, then the displayed letters return to normal). Makes it hard to tell when I have caps turned on/off. If I tap the shift key a couple more times then the display will change back, but it's annoying. The landscape qwerty seems to be working fine for me, unlike what another user said (and it's not showing the shift display problem I mentioned).
It would be nice if when a key is pressed the enlarged view of the key displayed above the key, so that my finger is not covering it up. What I mean is like the way the PCM keyboard works, or like the iPhone.
Hi,
I'm just coming from the Hero. I love the EVO, esp with the MIUI rom!
But I do miss one thing about the Hero. The trackball. It was very helpful in helping me scroll through words/letters to get the cursor to the accurate location, esp when I have typos to correct.
The delivered HTC keyboard has arrows on the bottom to account for that, but with the stock Gingerbread type keyboard on the MIUI rom, it's missing.
Is there anyway that you can accurately position the cursor as with the trackball? My fat finger is not accurate enough.
Thank you.
ro_bro said:
Hi,
I'm just coming from the Hero. I love the EVO, esp with the MIUI rom!
But I do miss one thing about the Hero. The trackball. It was very helpful in helping me scroll through words/letters to get the cursor to the accurate location, esp when I have typos to correct.
The delivered HTC keyboard has arrows on the bottom to account for that, but with the stock Gingerbread type keyboard on the MIUI rom, it's missing.
Is there anyway that you can accurately position the cursor as with the trackball? My fat finger is not accurate enough.
Thank you.
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Hmm, not that I'm aware of. As you already noted, the stock HTC keyboard has the arrows, but no other keyboard that I know of does. I don't recall which keyboard it was, but there was one that I used at one point in time that allowed you to enable a setting, that would allow you to use the volume rockers to move the cursor. That was a pretty cool feature. I just wish I could remember which keyboard that was. I don't recall, but I think it was the native keyboards on one of Myn's older ROMs, but couldn't say for sure.
Swype has arrows.
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SlideIt also has the arrows, but they are buried in one of the alternate keyboards.
I'm coming from a phone with a trackball... a MyTouch 3G that I had kept current thanks to CyanogenMod. This is much better lol.
I used that trackball though, all the time, mostly for selecting text that I'd screwed up... or to move the cursor between words where I wanted to add a sentence. But sometimes was nice too, for moving to the next form field, or scrolling focus to the "submit" button, etc.
I'm pretty happy with my Swiftkey X keyboard - it's got an option to enable arrow keys. I'm surprised Swype doesn't? I'm used to Swype and really would like to use that.
So my question is twofold:
Any other good keyboards with either a simulated trackpad or arrow keys?
and/or...
How do you live without it? I can adapt if I know the tricks.
geolemon said:
I'm coming from a phone with a trackball... a MyTouch 3G that I had kept current thanks to CyanogenMod. This is much better lol.
I used that trackball though, all the time, mostly for selecting text that I'd screwed up... or to move the cursor between words where I wanted to add a sentence. But sometimes was nice too, for moving to the next form field, or scrolling focus to the "submit" button, etc.
I'm pretty happy with my Swiftkey X keyboard - it's got an option to enable arrow keys. I'm surprised Swype doesn't? I'm used to Swype and really would like to use that.
So my question is twofold:
Any other good keyboards with either a simulated trackpad or arrow keys?
and/or...
How do you live without it? I can adapt if I know the tricks.
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Hackers keyboard is nice. Has the four arrows and a number row. Plus you can enlarge or reduce the keys.
The best solution I have found so far is an app called GameKeyboard. The dpad simulates the repeated keypress of a held down arrow key, or joystick (which is essential for many games).
However, it has bugs, and the qwerty mode is slow (you swipe horizontally across the keyboard to switch between gamepad mode and keyboard mode). I enable it specifically for games, and then switch back to my main keyboard (i.e. swype) for everything else.
Here's a link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.locnet.gamekeyboard
in swype there is an arrow option. swype from the swype/option button to the sym/123 button and a arrow keypad comes up. also from sym/123 button to "f" brings up a number pad.
thumb keyboard has arrows
Using the keyboard, when I long-press on the period (.), a pop up shows me a bunch of other punctuation marks. It seems though that to select one of them, you have to move to the spot just below the punctuation mark.
Was this intentional on the programmer's part to allow you to see the punctuation mark you're selecting?
It seems counter intuitive that this is the only part of the keyboard that works this way, but wanted to see if there was something off about my phone or if it's supposed to behave that way.
the stock keyboard works for me like that too.
on a side note: i bought SwiftKey X keyboard. I like that one MUCH better. I prefer its key layout much better and the prediction is fantastic.
I remember back in the days of my htc desire, right after it came out there was a customized version of the stock keyboard (which was my keyboard of choice on the phone)
It was mostly the same, but it had lots of options for say, replacing what the default smiley faces were, what some of the long hold options were for keys, some of the layout stuff etc.
Is there anything like this around/planned for the ICS keyboard per chance?