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<Q> The keyboard is weird! Help!

I dont know since when this problem persisted but the keyboard on my desire is weird.
Everytime i try to type fast, there's other letter i don't touch appear in the screen as if i touch it. Mostly the letters appear are y, g, and v.
Knowing that, i then did some test. I tried to type fast only using the letters near my left and right thumbs like a/s and l/k and i did it continuously. As the result, i could see the letter g touched itself while i never touched it AT ALL and then it appeared on the screen.
Then i tried the other line by touching q/w and o/p and the letter y appeared just like the letter g.
That also happened with the third line with the letter v.
This happens everytime i use keyboard (messaging, notes, email, etc)
I dont know if the ROM i'm using causes this because I have tried using some ROMs (not all yet but plenty)and the only one I did not experience this is when i'm using Open Desire ROM. But I dont like Open Desire because I want Sense on it.
I also believe the applications did not cause this since this problem appears just after i flash the ROM and havent installed any application yet
Anybody knows why it happens and how to solve the problem?
FYI my Desire is rooted with Unrevoked way and right now using Lambros ROM.
Any reply is appreciated. Thanks.

Edit:
After trying using Open Desire again, it looks like the problem also occurs with it. I also have calibrated the keyboard but the problem's still there.
Still waiting for anyone can help.

Hi!
I have the exact same problem! (I'm using standard Froyo on a non-rooted Desire).
There's something else, when I type faster than usual and the random letters start appearing the backspace key stops working. I can't delete anything at all and the only solution is to retract the keyboard and then bring it up again. If I do that it works perfectly... until it starts acting up again!
My solution? Well.. I tried Swype and it seems to work just fine! Sure, it's WAY different but it's worth it. It just works flawlessly. And if I don't want to swype I can always type normally, it works for that as well and it doesn't malfunction like htc's keyboard.

Opalid said:
Hi!
I have the exact same problem! (I'm using standard Froyo on a non-rooted Desire).
There's something else, when I type faster than usual and the random letters start appearing the backspace key stops working. I can't delete anything at all and the only solution is to retract the keyboard and then bring it up again. If I do that it works perfectly... until it starts acting up again!
My solution? Well.. I tried Swype and it seems to work just fine! Sure, it's WAY different but it's worth it. It just works flawlessly. And if I don't want to swype I can always type normally, it works for that as well and it doesn't malfunction like htc's keyboard.
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Thank you very much for the reply and the solution.
Me have the same problem with the backspace either. I will try using swype although i don't use english often for text messaging or else.
Still waiting for other input which might have another solution without installing third party application or add-on.
So does the official froyo cause this? because i haven't had a problem like this when i was using eclair based custom ROM or N1 froyo based custom ROM as i recall

better keyboard is fab !!!!!! and it works very well typing fast .. the swype thing is rubbish , as I cant spell very well...

dgattenb said:
better keyboard is fab !!!!!! and it works very well typing fast .. the swype thing is rubbish , as I cant spell very well...
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Well it doesn't matter any application you want to use since that's not the main concern. I'll try Better Keyboard as well. But when I tried to search it in the market with keyword 'better keyboard', I couldn't find it because too many add-ons and the application itself was beneath them. Can anyone help me with it? I can also not find Swype since there's only one application appear when I type 'swype' on the market and it's not Swype

this is beacause desire has no real multitouch.
any keyboard will have same issue

Better keyboard is a paid app. Can't see those if you are not living in eligible country...

snudel said:
this is beacause desire has no real multitouch.
any keyboard will have same issue
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So this means that all Desire have this kind of problem?
Tenhi said:
Better keyboard is a paid app. Can't see those if you are not living in eligible country...
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I see. I tried the one in blapkmarket but it's still the same

It's been so long and i finally got the solution after all this time.
My friend told me that this problem is caused by multitouch error and that means hardware problem. He had the same problem but his is HTC Hero.
Then, I tried changing my ROM to MIUI J-Style 10.29 and unexpectedly the problem is gone. From that, I at least can conclude that this is not hardware problem. Anybody having similar problem can try having MIUI for the device's ROM. But maybe some Android-freak dislike it because it has iOS look.

swype moody

i'm having issues with swype i have beta access and the installer but i've noticed that it works when it wants to when i swype a word the keyboard flashes and is outlined in blue.... has this happened to anyone else?
If so is there a fix? open to suggestions for a fix i don't want to use the regular keyboard anymore......

If this happened to me, I would just switch keyboards by long pressing a text box and change the input method to the stock keyboard and then again to change it back to swype.
Would fix the problem for me, it seems that you might get it more often though. If the problem persists after doing this and after restarting your phone, maybe you should reinstall.

Yeah I've been doing that but its kinda messed up
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[Q] swype turns off on me...

anyone know why swype would turn it self off on my dinc?
I have to go into settings and turn it back on at least once a day....
I'm runnin cm nightlys as a rom
thanx
Rob

This is a known issue with swype. After reboot it will need to be reactivated.
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Swype fix
Dont bother going through settings, just open an email or sms, long press on the text box, change input method to touch input, then repeat, selecting swype. It's a little quicker. Hope to see a real fix soon!
CK

atsoca said:
anyone know why swype would turn it self off on my dinc?
I have to go into settings and turn it back on at least once a day....
I'm runnin cm nightlys as a rom
thanx
Rob
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You have to take it out to dinner first. Maybe a little Barry White.
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Welp
Kauffman_c said:
Dont bother going through settings, just open an email or sms, long press on the text box, change input method to touch input, then repeat, selecting swype. It's a little quicker.
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Trust me when I tell you that doing this gets REAL old REAL fast. I do it, but it is disheartening to jump through this hoop when you go to do something and realize, ooops, you can't because it turned itself off again.

Have you guys tried fixing your permissions in rom manager or cw recovery? If that doesn't work, uninstall and reinstall. I've has this problem previously and this always fixed it.

I had some issues with a nightly a little while back (maybe 10 or 11?) that all seemed to start with trying to get swype to work and I had to completely wipe and go back to virtuous. I haven't had time to flash the latest nightly yet and try again though...
In the end you're basically running "beta" software on an alpha ROM. All those bugs probably don't play well together - it's a lot of buggy software for one device.

Screen not responding in all regions

All of a sudden regions of my screen are not responding to touch and it seems like the calibration is off. For instance, when typing, the backspace is always typing the letter 'L' above and I'm unable to pull the notification bar down (it thinks I'm touching below it).
Is my phone toast, or is there a way to recalibrate the screen?

Did you try the touch calibration under language and keyboard? Are you stock, rooted sense, or AOSP?
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I'm rooted, on Aerovan's CM7.2. About 5 minutes ago the notification bar was working fine, but then I locked the phone and it stopped working again. When I touch the notification bar, it thinks I'm touching below it.
I've tried formatting and loading default CM7.2 to no avail. Dipped phone in dry rice all last night to no avail.
Not sure what to try at this point. I can't find any calibration tools in the Settings, including the one in the keyboard/input area.

also happening for me

brymaster5000 said:
Did you try the touch calibration under language and keyboard? Are you stock, rooted sense, or AOSP?
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Tkanks for the post I was having the same issue and saw ur post to calibrate the screen and that works so thanks

jheathco said:
I'm rooted, on Aerovan's CM7.2. About 5 minutes ago the notification bar was working fine, but then I locked the phone and it stopped working again. When I touch the notification bar, it thinks I'm touching below it.
I've tried formatting and loading default CM7.2 to no avail. Dipped phone in dry rice all last night to no avail.
Not sure what to try at this point. I can't find any calibration tools in the Settings, including the one in the keyboard/input area.
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I haven't run CM7.2 for a while, so I can't remember if there is a keyboard calibration like in Sense (I'm on SkyRaider Zeus). Hopefully someone running it can chime in.

Unfortunately I can't even find Skyraider to download. But this screen issue is bugging me BIG TIME. I have a dialer in the launcher bar at the bottom left that responds when I touch it. If I'm in an app however and touch that area, it doesn't respond.
WTF is going on?!
I've tried reformatting on clean CM7.2 and CM9. Stock is my last hope...

brymaster5000 said:
I haven't run CM7.2 for a while, so I can't remember if there is a keyboard calibration like in Sense (I'm on SkyRaider Zeus). Hopefully someone running it can chime in.
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I got skyraider 1.3 from their website but pull down goggles and set up just force closes. I am not the only one. Think they uploaded a bad zip I would love to try again if it worked. I downloaded twice and seen a post today I am not the only one with this issue.

Dude I have so many issues like that, even on pure stock. Idk...but on cm9 I had some serious issues
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Sense keyboard takes over even after installing Swype

First day with the one x, first thing I did was install swype, the correct way using the official swype installer. I enabled swype, and everything was fine. Then about an hour later without even rebooting or anything, swype was usurped by the sense keyboard. Since then I have been unable to make swype the default keyboard despite the fact that it is turned on. The sense keyboard continues to load instead.
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same: i have the swype beta installed and it doesn't pop up when i go to type something. i also have swiftkey 3 installed...not sure if that's hindering it or something.

when your keyboard is activated, you should be able to select input method in notification list

tomascus said:
when your keyboard is activated, you should be able to select input method in notification list
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Yes, just pop down notification centre and select your keyboard.
It's working great on my one X, I love the themes and they keyboard feels far better than swiftkey.

that seems to work, but i think only temporarily. i will get back to you in a few days. Thanks.

I'm having the same issue, the solution above only works temporarily, but after a while it goes back to Sense.