Just a quick question as to a feature on the GB keyboard (maybe just a GB feature) is the little arrow when using the keyboard to move the cursor when typing a keyboard feature or a 2.3 feature? Thanks in advanced and I apologize if it already been brought up.
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No, the arrows that allow you to move your cursor around have been removed in gingerbread. However the touch interface for cursor placement has been improved and is more accurate than the froyo keyboard.
Thank you
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All,
I have a desire and have come from the winmo world. I am struggling to find the cursor keys on my keyboard, can anyone help?
All the best,
Sam
PianoSam said:
All,
I have a desire and have come from the winmo world. I am struggling to find the cursor keys on my keyboard, can anyone help?
All the best,
Sam
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There are none. You just use the optical trackpad instead.
Thanks for the prompt reply, but I am very clumsy and wonder if there is a keyboard out there I could load to get cursor keys back?
All the best,
Sam.
Use this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=663608
You can map the volume button to move cursor
smarter keyboard pro allows you to have the keyboard arrows
in fact it's so good that when using the normal keyboard, you can just swipe in an direction to have the arrow keys displayed
also provides you with the stock android keyboard
would recommend
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 am using CM7 but want the stock keyboard... I can't function without the arrows and a trackball....
anyone help?
On the text fields there is now a slider to slide the cursor around. Have you tried using this? I, personally, find this more intuitive and useful than the arrow keys.
the stock keyboard I can help you get on CM7, but no arrows.
drtchocky said:
I am using CM7 but want the stock keyboard... I can't function without the arrows and a trackball....
anyone help?
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You should check out swift key beta x and after you install u can go into the settings under theme and layout section enable arrow keys its free for now and its a really good keyboard I think better then stock. I use the fast prediction of settings.
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On the gingerbread keyboard you can press the spacebar and drag up to get arrow keys.
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
Hey guys... I'm using the version of the HTC IME keyboard that is included in Calkulin's rom (which is great), but it has a divided spacebar with a ".com" on half of it.
I used to use an HTC IME keyboard on another device that had a wide spacebar, with no ".com" on it, and I am wondering if anyone could kindly point me in the right direction for that keyboard that would be compatible with the E4GT. I keep hitting the ".com" when I'm trying to space.
Thanks for the help!
Smart keyboard, better keyboard or ai keyboard (to my knowkedge). You can adjust the size and length and the keyboard
Thanks guys. I actually started using the ICS keyboard and I'm really liking it.