I downloaded the Android Terminal Emulator from the Market and it works great. But my stupid backlight on my keyboard sucks, plus I hate using the keyboard, I want to get my onscreen Keyboard up... old myTouch was press and hold menu, the Slide doesn't seem to give that option.
Am I missing something? Is there a better Termianl app (other than "Better Terminal")?
I use "SU File Manager & Terminal", it has a menu option to open the onscreen keyboard.
Oh yeah, I completely forgot about that program's built in Terminal app, I loved SU but hadn't tried it yet.
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I want to play canabalt on my evo, but it requires you to have a keyboard open to hit "x or c."
Is there any way to force the keypad to open while in the browser? (Stock OTA update rom).
Thanks
Hold the Menu key on any screen to bring up the keyboard.
SEVINN said:
I want to play canabalt on my evo, but it requires you to have a keyboard open to hit "x or c."
Is there any way to force the keypad to open while in the browser? (Stock OTA update rom).
Thanks
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If I recall correctly, you should be able to long-press the Menu button (the "physical" one) and that will toggle the keyboard.
Could be mistaken, but give it a shot.
EDIT: Aw man.. you beat me to it. Well done.
is there another keyboard that has arrows like the one on the bottom of the stock 2.2 keyboard? i like the stock keyboard in all but its not like the multitouch droid keyboard. i wish someone could put those arrows on that keyboard
Swype has a special editing keyboard, by swyping from the Swype key to the SYM key.
Alternatively, there's a keyboard called Full Keyboard in the market. It's not great for day-to-day typing, and doesn't have a horizontal mode, but it has all of the editing keys you could want (arrows, del, insert, etc.) as well as Ctrl+*letter* keys, making it great for SSH sessions in ConnectBot.
I've been using the demo of Smart Keyboard, available in the Market. You tap the number key twice and it brings up a screen with arrows, a delete key, Tab and and Enter key. Then you switch back by hitting the ABC key. The skin I'm using is the iPhone skin. It has small spaces between the keys. It works for me.
I really like SwiftKey the best. It not only guesses the words you're typing, but also the next word. Works really well, but no arrows.
I also found a useful little app that allows you to have a virtual trackball, called Virtual Trackball. It's useful for moving around when you're trying to edit text. It also allows for a virtual d-pad. It's in the Market and costs .99 Euro. I think it's worth it. The developer is very responsive and is adding more features. I used to have trouble with it going away when running a lot of apps, but the new update seems to have made it persist better. If it disappears, you just hold on the home key to bring up recent apps and turn it on again.
I just updated to the latest rom (3.70.651.1) on my EVO. Does anyone know if you can switch between Swype and the standard keyboard after you set it up. Tried digging thru the settings menu and I do not see any way of switching between if needed.
In the area that you you need yo type, press and hold and select input method. There you can choose between swype and what ever keyboard you like.
There is an app (requires root) that will automatically switch between two keyboards you prefer in portrait and landscape. I'm using it now and is awesome.
Thanks for the reply
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Hi to all Since i couldn't find an easy way to switch between Phone Keypad and Full qwerty easily, i wrote a small script in order to do that You don't have to install anything, just run the script (unzip it first) You can assign it to a hardware button or even better assign it to a double swipe gesture in the app called LMT (you can find it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=629263) I hope you find it usefull
Edit: This script is tested in HD Mini's default keyboard (WWE version) only.
Nice I will test on my other decives with htc
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can it assigned to 'hold shift button' to show the compact, full, or phone keypad menu? i find this feature in xperia x2, it quite usefull..
Is there still any way to bring up the virtual keyboard under Chrome (on the new N7 at least), even when you are not on a text box element?
Some sites capture key presses to do various activities, and the inability to use the keyboard is a definite problem.
An example being ajaxterm (implements a remote terminal emulator via javascript and AJAX, quite handy going through overly restrictive firewalls), no keyboard renders the entire thing useless.
Any suggestions?
I'm not sure. The best solution I can think of off the top of my head is to use a custom rom with button mapping. You can set press and hold functions to software keys and hardware (I think).
I'd say a long press on the Recents button to pull up the IME. Typically Back(Hold) is force close, Home(Back) is Search, nothing is assigned to recents(Hold).
That or an app that sits in the notification tray that has a button for IME....
Or again, the quick notification toggles on custom Roms has an IME enable/disable, I think.
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