[Q] Swype on Rom doesn't work! - G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I downloaded a swype.apk and installed it.
My ROM is Virtuous.
When I go to settings>Language and Keyboard, I see swype, and I check it.
But when I go to type with onscreen keyboard, Swype doesn't come up.
What gives?

Try long pressing in the text field and select input method and then swype. Alternate way is in the settings, language and keyboard where you checked swype. Uncheck android keyboard. Both methods shoulds work.
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convolution said:
I downloaded a swype.apk and installed it.
My ROM is Virtuous.
When I go to settings>Language and Keyboard, I see swype, and I check it.
But when I go to type with onscreen keyboard, Swype doesn't come up.
What gives?
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If you are installing swype, I assume you have flashed a non-stock ROM. You also need to restore libSywpeCore.so to the system\lib. This can be done through root explorer on the phone or through adb commands.
Try searching here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=837599.

[FIX]
I slid my keyboard open and long pressed the txt thing and i selected swype.
TEE HEE IT WORKED!
SHould I post the apk file up on here?

convolution said:
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I slid my keyboard open and long pressed the txt thing and i selected swype.
TEE HEE IT WORKED!
SHould I post the apk file up on here?
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DO NOT post the apk file here, it is considered warez and you can and likely will be banned(or suspended)

Why do you have to push the libcore? I pulled the swype apk from a different rom and installed via root manager and it is working fine.

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Is there any way to install the stock android keyboard?

As above, I'm using htc desire by the way.
Anyone can help out on this?
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I think what you're looking for is called LatinIME.apk.
You can either get it and extract it from a ROM that already has it - LeeDroid 1.8 (in sys/apps) for instance and use adb to push it to your device (or copy it to your sd card and use a file manager like Android Mate that you can download from the market and use the 'instal' tab) - or, search about and you might find someone has created a zip file that you can flash from recovery.
Does that mean there is no apk that I can install with?
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I'd like this keyboard too! It's by far the best one I've used on my desire.
However. It seems to be very difficult to get it!
OK - here's how I did it...
* Download the attached apk file to the root of your SD card.
* Install the apk
I used 'Android Mate' to do this (available for free from the market). This is done by selecting the install tab across the top of Android Mate which will find the apk you just downloaded. Tap on it to install.
There are probably a heap of different ways to install the apk - I just find the Android Mate way the easiest - no need for commands etc. and the software is free.
* Restart your Desire.
* Go to email, select menu > compose and hold your finger down on the text input area. This will give you an option to select 'input method'. Choose Android Keyboard and off you go.
Does that mean that if i want to use the keyboard, I have to keep doing 'Go to email, select menu > compose and hold your finger down on the text input area. This will give you an option to select 'input method'. Choose Android Keyboard and off you go.' ?
bryant_16 said:
Does that mean that if i want to use the keyboard, I have to keep doing 'Go to email, select menu > compose and hold your finger down on the text input area. This will give you an option to select 'input method'. Choose Android Keyboard and off you go.' ?
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Nup - do it once and it becomes the default.
You can always change it back to the HTC keyboard using the same method (tap and hold) if you want.
Hi there, I downloaded the apk that you have posted but can't install it. I think the apk that you have sent is faulty.
Yup, I could not install the apk that you have posted.
bryant_16 said:
Yup, I could not install the apk that you have posted.
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What message does it give?
Is your device rooted?
Do you have it set to load applications from unknown sources? (settings > applications> tick the unknown sources box)?
My device is not rooted. It says the file cannot be parsed.
Yup.. still cannot...

[REF] Stock Android 2.2 Keyboard on Samsung Galaxy S

Tested on JPC, should work on other ROMs to.
It's very simple to add the stock android keyboard.
You need root and the following 2 files
Code:
/system/app/LatinIME.apk
/system/lib/libjni_latinime.so
Copy these 2 files to the phone and «Android keyboard» will appear.
I used the two files from CyanogenMod 6 for Nexus One, they are attached in a zip (IT'S NOT A update.zip).
Hi I have a rooted phone but cannot use Astro to transfer to my /system directory... how else can i do this? thanks!
milkaa13 said:
Hi I have a rooted phone but cannot use Astro to transfer to my /system directory... how else can i do this? thanks!
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Root Explorer you need
Works great.
I´ve created a signed update.zip to simplify this procedure.
Android 2.2 (Froyo) Stock Keyboard
Download: http://www.multiupload.com/BP6TY8Z4CG
Note: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!
Instructions:
- Download
- copy "update.zip" to your internal SD-Card
- Power off your Phone
- VOLUME UP + HOME + POWER to enter Recovery Mode
- apply update.zip
- Reboot
- Goto Settings -> Language and Text-Input
- Now there should be a new Entry named "Android Keyboard"
Not working on Eclair, I guess?
vlefevre86 said:
Not working on Eclair, I guess?
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Anybody? Work it on Eclair 2.1 ?
Thanks on answer
I tried on eclair (JM8):
update.zip doesn't work, so i copied the files manually, but i don't see "Android Keyboard". SO it seems not to work on eclair
uhhh i think update.zip method is disabled in all 2.2 releases so it only works with 2.1 if im right.
miro666 said:
Anybody? Work it on Eclair 2.1 ?
Thanks on answer
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it should work with eclair.
Bierfreund said:
I tried on eclair (JM8):
update.zip doesn't work, so i copied the files manually, but i don't see "Android Keyboard". SO it seems not to work on eclair
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reboot and check again. the stock android keyboard should work.
SquirtingCherry said:
uhhh i think update.zip method is disabled in all 2.2 releases so it only works with 2.1 if im right.
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yes, you are correct. but if you downgrade your recovery module from 3e to 2e, which i did, then the update.zip should work as it will not seek for any signed verification.
SquirtingCherry said:
uhhh i think update.zip method is disabled in all 2.2 releases so it only works with 2.1 if im right.
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I think update.zip method only works with clockwork mod recovery because this update.zip is self-signed.
g00ndu said:
it should work with eclair.
reboot and check again. the stock android keyboard should work.
yes, you are correct. but if you downgrade your recovery module from 3e to 2e, which i did, then the update.zip should work as it will not seek for any signed verification.
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How do you downgrade just the recovery? I did a search but can't find anything. Thanks!
ocyrus99 said:
How do you downgrade just the recovery? I did a search but can't find anything. Thanks!
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go to samdroid and look for the creator, Leshak. the update zip he created during rooting process also downgrade the reccovery. but cwm still will not work, because the mount points for eclair and froyo are different.
I'm on froyo JPC and recovery module 3e. Any other ways to get the stock android keyboard besides having to purchase the root explorer app?
No good with commands.. If there are any instructions, kindly advise. Thanks.
samsung keyboard took 17mb ram. ive tried this stock keyboard, works great on jpc.
ty
milkaa13 said:
I'm on froyo JPC and recovery module 3e. Any other ways to get the stock android keyboard besides having to purchase the root explorer app?
No good with commands.. If there are any instructions, kindly advise. Thanks.
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- connect phone to pc
- enable mass-storgage mode
- copy both files to root of your internal sd-card
- disconnect phone
- enable usb-debugging
- connect to pc
- adb shell
- su
- cp /sdcard/LatinIME.apk /system/app/LatinIME.apk
- cp /sdcard/libjni_latinime.so /system/lib/libjni_latinime.so
- done
Quite a while back..I didnt root..i just use the deodex Nexus One keyboard (Froyo) apk..,it installed properly on XXJP3..with Astro file manager..
Do we really need to root to work..
Instead of all that, use the APK from the thread below. Stock Google keyboard as an APK file which you can just copy to phone, touch and use.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=740301
Thanks to GXFX.
Aery said:
- connect phone to pc
- enable mass-storgage mode
- copy both files to root of your internal sd-card
- disconnect phone
- enable usb-debugging
- connect to pc
- adb shell
- su
- cp /sdcard/LatinIME.apk /system/app/LatinIME.apk
- cp /sdcard/libjni_latinime.so /system/lib/libjni_latinime.so
- done
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seraerie said:
Instead of all that, use the APK from the thread below. Stock Google keyboard as an APK file which you can just copy to phone, touch and use.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=740301
Thanks to GXFX.
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Thanks all for your help. Since there's an apk, I opted the easy way out. All okay and I'm ecstatic to get back the native android keyboard on my phone. But "Vibrate on keypress" option did not work on my SGS. Could it be JPC? Could anyone kindly verify that its working in JPC? Thanks.
milkaa13 said:
Thanks all for your help. Since there's an apk, I opted the easy way out. All okay and I'm ecstatic to get back the native android keyboard on my phone. But "Vibrate on keypress" option did not work on my SGS. Could it be JPC? Could anyone kindly verify that its working in JPC? Thanks.
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Doesnt work on SGS. Don´t know why.

Swype on MIUI roms?

Quick question for all the rooting gurus out there. I put an updated MIUI rom on my phone and went to re-load Swype from their website, completely legit.
I get an error message when I go to run it saying that my device isn't supported and will run with limited function.
Has anybody found a way around this error messages? Are people finding it with other roms?
Thanks!
That would be happening because you are using ur wrong version...
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ianian28 said:
Quick question for all the rooting gurus out there. I put an updated MIUI rom on my phone and went to re-load Swype from their website, completely legit.
I get an error message when I go to run it saying that my device isn't supported and will run with limited function.
Has anybody found a way around this error messages? Are people finding it with other roms?
Thanks!
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It says that because it thanks your phone is an iPhone because of the Rom your using.... atleast that's my guess.... you might ask on the miui thread they may have a version that works
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It's a bit bootleg but the only way I've been able to do it so far:
1. Download and install root explorer. You'll have to pay but it's a useful app and worth it
1. Download swype installer and install swype
2. After installation, there will be a screen with 4 options:
a. watch video
b. start tutorial
c. generate license
d. finish
Click "Generate license"
3. Click "select android keyboard" and change the radio button from "swype" to "android keyboard"
4. Press the home button to exit swype installer and open root installer
5. Go to /data/app
6. Click on "com.swype.android.inputmethod-1.apk" and long hold to bring up the options menu
7. Click move, scroll to /sdcard/download and click "paste"
8. Press the home button to exit root explorer
9. Open swype installer. You should get a force close error. If you do not and instead see the screen with "disable swype", click the back button which will bring you back to the home screen then click swype installer again. Do not continue until swype installer force closes.
10. Go back to root explorer and move "com.swype.android.inputmethod-1.apk" back to /data/app
11. Go back to the home screen and open swype installer
12. Click "select swype" and then select swype
13. Click "finish"
14. Enjoy
Hope that helps. If you have any questions, let me know.
dan0100 said:
It's a bit bootleg but the only way I've been able to do it so far:
1. Download and install root explorer. You'll have to pay but it's a useful app and worth it
1. Download swype installer and install swype
2. After installation, there will be a screen with 4 options:
a. watch video
b. start tutorial
c. generate license
d. finish
Click "Generate license"
3. Click "select android keyboard" and change the radio button from "swype" to "android keyboard"
4. Press the home button to exit swype installer and open root installer
5. Go to /data/app
6. Click on "com.swype.android.inputmethod-1.apk" and long hold to bring up the options menu
7. Click move, scroll to /sdcard/download and click "paste"
8. Press the home button to exit root explorer
9. Open swype installer. You should get a force close error. If you do not and instead see the screen with "disable swype", click the back button which will bring you back to the home screen then click swype installer again. Do not continue until swype installer force closes.
10. Go back to root explorer and move "com.swype.android.inputmethod-1.apk" back to /data/app
11. Go back to the home screen and open swype installer
12. Click "select swype" and then select swype
13. Click "finish"
14. Enjoy
Hope that helps. If you have any questions, let me know.
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You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar... I tried so many different things and wasted hours until I found this post. Follow his instructions step by step and you'll be up on swype in no time
This worked for me too. Just to add on, the root permissions for the com.swype.android.inputmethod-1.apk should be rw-r--r--. Set this permission in root explorer after long pressing it from data/app after you have completed everything. This is for people who are not able to see swype after rebooting their phone
I usually use TB to backup my swype from a sense rom (or any other rom where swype works correctly) then when I use MIUI i go to Tb and restore. Always worked for me!
Has anybody got this to work with the new Swype 3 beta? I have tried this twice to no avail.
JLO73 said:
Has anybody got this to work with the new Swype 3 beta? I have tried this twice to no avail.
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I got swype 3 and it is working perfectly on my MIUI
I've got it downloaded and installed but it will not let me license it. Tried the above trick twice and cannot get it to work.
JLO73 said:
I've got it downloaded and installed but it will not let me license it. Tried the above trick twice and cannot get it to work.
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Found this solution from MIUI.us forums, it requires that you have an already licensed version of swype 2.x
Ok.. have a workaround. Miui automatically enables keyboards so no way to disable it.
1) If you have titanium backup you can first backup swype (not the installer), then uninstall swype, long press home and re-open the swype installer and proceed to login and reinstall swype.
2) Once installed don't press "Done. Long press home and switch back to titanium backup and restore your copy of swype, then re-open the installer (or press Done if already open).
3) Installer should now show something like "your copy is licensed, select swype" Just press select and choose swype, then click Finish. (Do not click Generate license).
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That did the trick. Titanium backup had already backed up the new version and it kept reinstalling it and would not work. Found a backup of the 2.x and was able to restore it. Thanks for all the help.
Thankyou so much
dan0100 said:
It's a bit bootleg but the only way I've been able to do it so far:
1. Download and install root explorer. You'll have to pay but it's a useful app and worth it
1. Download swype installer and install swype
2. After installation, there will be a screen with 4 options:
a. watch video
b. start tutorial
c. generate license
d. finish
Click "Generate license"
3. Click "select android keyboard" and change the radio button from "swype" to "android keyboard"
4. Press the home button to exit swype installer and open root installer
5. Go to /data/app
6. Click on "com.swype.android.inputmethod-1.apk" and long hold to bring up the options menu
7. Click move, scroll to /sdcard/download and click "paste"
8. Press the home button to exit root explorer
9. Open swype installer. You should get a force close error. If you do not and instead see the screen with "disable swype", click the back button which will bring you back to the home screen then click swype installer again. Do not continue until swype installer force closes.
10. Go back to root explorer and move "com.swype.android.inputmethod-1.apk" back to /data/app
11. Go back to the home screen and open swype installer
12. Click "select swype" and then select swype
13. Click "finish"
14. Enjoy
Hope that helps. If you have any questions, let me know.
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I looked everywhere for a way to get swype 3.x to work on my vibrant with MIUI but none of the stuff I found actually worked, EXCEPT THIS.
Like someone said right after your post:
You Sir, are a gentleman and a scholar...
This way took a couple of tries but it definitely worked
Tried the Titanium method thousands of times and variants on my Nexus S and didn't got it working.
The File Manager method worked like a charm, on the second try. Don't know if it matters, but worked after rebooting the phone and following rhe guide.
The good news is you don't need to expend money buying the Root Explorer App. I've used ES file explorer without any problem.
i didn't do anyspecial "trick" to get mine working, i just went thru and unistalled all the older version.. cleared cahces of app and installer, installed a redownloaded version off webpage.. then just went all the way thru till the 4 part screen, "generate license" just select the swype option and then i think i hit finish... can't remember the rest.. sorry..
dan0100 said:
It's a bit bootleg but the only way I've been able to do it so far:
1. Download and install root explorer. You'll have to pay but it's a useful app and worth it
1. Download swype installer and install swype
2. After installation, there will be a screen with 4 options:
a. watch video
b. start tutorial
c. generate license
d. finish
Click "Generate license"
3. Click "select android keyboard" and change the radio button from "swype" to "android keyboard"
4. Press the home button to exit swype installer and open root installer
5. Go to /data/app
6. Click on "com.swype.android.inputmethod-1.apk" and long hold to bring up the options menu
7. Click move, scroll to /sdcard/download and click "paste"
8. Press the home button to exit root explorer
9. Open swype installer. You should get a force close error. If you do not and instead see the screen with "disable swype", click the back button which will bring you back to the home screen then click swype installer again. Do not continue until swype installer force closes.
10. Go back to root explorer and move "com.swype.android.inputmethod-1.apk" back to /data/app
11. Go back to the home screen and open swype installer
12. Click "select swype" and then select swype
13. Click "finish"
14. Enjoy
Hope that helps. If you have any questions, let me know.
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This is the only thing that worked for me. NOTE: It only worked for me after I tried it with the Full Swype Beta instead of the English/Spanish version.
oh my..
ure soo great,,
thanks alot,,
thanks button for u
This is a known bug on the Swype website. They have posted a workaround which I tried and it worked after several attempts:
"Unable to install Swype on MIUI Rom
When Swype is installed it needs to be unloaded from Android at the time the Swype Installer passes the authentication key to the Swype program. MIUI attempts automatically load and enable any input device into memory as soon as they are available. Because of this there is no reliable way of getting Swype working on MIUI, and even if you do it may not stay enabled for long.
However if you'd like to try, Android Peak has developed a workaround that works some of the time.
UPDATE: marchief has found a workaround which does not require the use of Titanium Backup, may produce more consistant results:
Download installer
Download and install swype
At the enable step leave the installer and select swype as the input device
Reboot your phone
After Reboot, open the swype installer again
Select "Select Android keyboard" and change input back to android keyboard
Choose disable swype, go to applications and uninstall swype but NOT THE INSTALLER
Go back to the installer and generate license
This should put you through the download process again so just follow it and re-install swype
Once re-installed it should generate the license, but it still won't work
Reboot your phone again and all should work, enjoy!"
dan0100 said:
It's a bit bootleg but the only way I've been able to do it so far:
1. Download and install root explorer. You'll have to pay but it's a useful app and worth it
1. Download swype installer and install swype
2. After installation, there will be a screen with 4 options:
a. watch video
b. start tutorial
c. generate license
d. finish
Click "Generate license"
3. Click "select android keyboard" and change the radio button from "swype" to "android keyboard"
4. Press the home button to exit swype installer and open root installer
5. Go to /data/app
6. Click on "com.swype.android.inputmethod-1.apk" and long hold to bring up the options menu
7. Click move, scroll to /sdcard/download and click "paste"
8. Press the home button to exit root explorer
9. Open swype installer. You should get a force close error. If you do not and instead see the screen with "disable swype", click the back button which will bring you back to the home screen then click swype installer again. Do not continue until swype installer force closes.
10. Go back to root explorer and move "com.swype.android.inputmethod-1.apk" back to /data/app
11. Go back to the home screen and open swype installer
12. Click "select swype" and then select swype
13. Click "finish"
14. Enjoy
Hope that helps. If you have any questions, let me know.
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I have been trying to get Swype to work since I installed MIUI 1.7.15 last Saturday, and nothing seemed to work. Followed your guide and it works great! Thanks SO much.

[HOW TO] Get SWYPE beta working when it fails to enable and select

Ok I installed CM7 WhiteRabbit (the 2.3.6 version) and think its great but I missed SWYPE!!
I got the beta version (used it in CM9 ICS no problems) but on this one when installing and went to enable it kept disabling it straight away. I done a reboot and it said it was enabled then but when I went to select swype it would go back to the install page and say select. When selecting it in the SMS part or in the settings part it would not select ether.
Now I got this from a site for the KINDLE but it works if your having the same trouble.
1) Download the installer from your beta email or transfer it from one of your other devices (If you get an error saying "Sorry! This is not an Android Phone..." make sure your browser is set to mobile view and not desktop.)
2) Log in
3) Select your Beta version
4) Install the Swype keyboard
5) Use Root Explorer and navigate to /data/apps and find the Swype apk
6) Move the Swype apk (not the installer) to /system/apps
7) Make sure permissions are rw- r-- r--
8) Reboot your device
9) Long press on a text field, select input method, then Swype
10)When you use Swype it will constantly Force Close
11)Go back into system/app and press install on the swype apk file that you placed there
12)Then delete the same apk from system/app and reboot.
Worked perfect for me I rebooted and into SMS enable SWYPE and all the how to use and settings pages show up and now its going great guns. Cheers to the author of the kindle thread. Sorry to take your lime light but its great to know it works for Defy +

Swype typing in AOSP keyboard

I miss swype typing in AOSP keyboard. In older custom ROM's I restarted to recovery, copied two files libjni_keyboarddecoder.so and libjni_latinmegoogle.so to /system/lib64 and changed their permissions. When I booted the system a new menu item appeared in keyboard settings where I could enable swype typing. It doesn't work like that any more, at least in Android 10 and 11. How can I get it working there?

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