Last night I made the decision to use CM7 on my rooted device. Its working better than I expected. I don't miss any of the HTC bloat. Except one thing.
Before when I used the physical keyboard to type, there was this bar which appeared which gave me choices of words it thought I wanted and the ability to add custom words.
Is there a way of restoring this or a similar app I can use?
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X82X said:
Last night I made the decision to use CM7 on my rooted device. Its working better than I expected. I don't miss any of the HTC bloat. Except one thing.
Before when I used the physical keyboard to type, there was this bar which appeared which gave me choices of words it thought I wanted and the ability to add custom words.
Is there a way of restoring this or a similar app I can use?
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I dont think youcan get the htc keyboard in CM7, yet! I uae swiftkey from the market. The word prediction is awesome.
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I second Swiftkey, its prediction is fantastic. The only options missing are having it not automatically insert a space after punctuation and having it not try to predict when typing numbers. The first isn't a big issue really, but if you type numbers a lot it gets annoying when it tries to guess what number you're typing.
Well i was here to add another vote for Swiftkey,.... but.... just tried the HTC IME,.... and it works fine,... with prediction in on the hardware keyboard. Note.... you may have to reboot or something as the prediction didnt work straight away,... hmmm... actuali, not working here either, but definitely working fine for sms. Search for HTC IME.
Huh?.... now it is working here. Odd.
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Thanks all. After a search, now I knew what I was searching for, I found the solution. Still trying to get it to work properly though.
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I have ticked all the boxes that relate to prediction in settings. ..... I have found that just pressing on the cursor with my finger before I start typing enables the predictions. Give that a try.
Yes! Excellent. That works everytime. Its annoying yes, but at least it works. Hope this problem is fixed soon.
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found this on the nexus one forums.
I installed the froyo version and it works great
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=624416
credit goes to Jonasl
just thought I'd share it with those that don't have it and what not
Is this because you don't like swype? The stock on-screen keyboard is already installed, you know?
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Stock sux. Htc ime rules, but swype is basically the same. I may go back to htc ime just because I like the color better. On the otherhand, swyping is nice to have when you feel like using it. I usually just touch tho.
This hardware keyboard sux compared to G1 which already sucked compared to Touch Pro. I am very dissapointed and might send it back.
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You my friend need some help. The froyo stock keyboard is really good now with the improvements they continue to make. And the hardware keyboard is the best hardware keyboard on any android device, G1 included.
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For vk I prefer HTC over Google...its all preference that's all.... until Google drops a new vk based off blindtype, then I will def switch to that one lol
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This is the virtual keyboard I have used on my G1, Vibrant, and G2. Swype is ok but I feel that I can type faster on this virtual keyboard instead.
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You my friend need some help. The froyo stock keyboard is really good now with the improvements they continue to make. And the hardware keyboard is the best hardware keyboard on any android device, G1 included.
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1) The Froyo VK doesn't have a voice input button. Even though I hardly ever use it, I like knowing I can "type" in to any box using my voice while driving my car.
2) Really wide keys means much more finger movement. Missing number row on top sucks (much more fn-key bs). The fact that the letters are on the left side of each key means I press it off-center which feels weird. The screen has accidentally slid closed (or at least half way) many times while trying to hold the phone and type fast. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO TYPE "<" or ">" using the G2 hardware keyboard. I really just can't believe how much it sucks or that anyone likes it. G1 was better. Nothing compares to old HTC Touch Pro. I would give my left nut for a clone of the HTC Touch Pro that had a capacitive TS and could run Froyo with Flash as quickly as the G2.
Thank you for posting this. This is EASILY THE BEST KEYBOARD I have ever used that wasn't a hardware one. And I'm counting the iPhone keyboard. Amazing!
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1) The Froyo VK doesn't have a voice input button. Even though I hardly ever use it, I like knowing I can "type" in to any box using my voice while driving my car.
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What are you talking about?? The stock keyboard was the first to get voice input and has had it ever since. Have you not used the phone?
swype rocks!! > HTC_IME > Stock VK.
Nah, the g1s keys were very flat. Give it some time, ul get used to it.
Htc ime keyboard is the most visually appealing imo.
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Does anyone ever have a problem with their Keyboard not responding when you type really fast? I type fast and for some reason when using my keyboard if I'm typing to fast it will not type the letter I press down. Its so frustrating. So now i type slower than my swype. Lame. Thinking of getting rid of this thing. J/K but is it my phone or should i get a replacement? I'm running Bonsai 1.1.4 if that helps any.
The Epic has an issue with the hardware keyboard, that if you type too fast, it doesn't respond. I believe it's just a fault with the phone. I think there's a setting to fix it, but the topic with this problem was a longg time ago and I can't seem to find it now.
Sorry!
I've heard that if you disable swype, the keyboard skips less. Haven't tested it, though.
Yup. The keyboard just sucks. Too bad because it's got 5 rows which great
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The Epic has an issue with the hardware keyboard, that if you type too fast, it doesn't respond. I believe it's just a fault with the phone. I think there's a setting to fix it, but the topic with this problem was a longg time ago and I can't seem to find it now.
Sorry!
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I don't think it's a hardware problem. When I play emulated games using the keyboard, it never skips keys.
Ps, I just barely started using SwiftKey and it seems to not be slipping keys
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I created a thread like this a long time ago. I use swiftkeys keyboard and it hardly skips a beat. When using swype then using the keyboard I found it to be much worse so I just leave it disabled it. I do not believe it is a hardware problem, it is more of a software problem. No fixes yet I believe.
give SwiftKeys a try bruda.
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I created a thread like this a long time ago. I use swiftkeys keyboard and it hardly skips a beat. When using swype then using the keyboard I found it to be much worse so I just leave it disabled it. I do not believe it is a hardware problem, it is more of a software problem. No fixes yet I believe.
give SwiftKeys a try bruda.
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Same with me.... My physical keyboard skips keys quite often. I currently only have the gingerbread keyboard installed and it doesn't skip as much as when swype was installed also. I found that it skipped the least amount when I used smart keyboard. The problem is I like the gingerbread keyboard a lot more so I just have to put up with the skipping keys. I still haven't found a fix for it.
Just by intuition I want to say it is probably a buffer issue. I just don't know how that input is routed on our phones. I need to set up a dev environment and start playing with it.
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Just by intuition I want to say it is probably a buffer issue. I just don't know how that input is routed on our phones. I need to set up a dev environment and start playing with it.
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That would be wonderful.
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Just unchecked samsung keyboard and swype and had no skips at all just like one mistake for hitting the wrong letter for trying to type fast lol
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Alright I'm gonna try that out and let you guys know if there is any change to it.
Thanks for all the responses. I will try turing off swype and then test my keyboard.
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Thanks for all the responses. I will try turing off swype and then test my keyboard.
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Please tell us if it works! I've been having this problem forever and I HATE IT.
Turning off Swype didnt help for me. It still does it frequently. It is SOOOOO frustrating. But thats the only gripe I have so I deal...
yeah it's still skipping letters for me, but not as bad. Someone said it could possibly be an issue for when you hold down a key too long you get that stupid special character menu for certain letters. What if they could remove that? Or increase the time it takes to hold the key down in order to make that menu pop up? I mean I don't know what else it could possibly be besides faulty hardware.
Sweet thanks!
I have just upgraded from the HTC evo4g. I firstly rooted, then installed smart keyboard pro. I need a keyboard that types English as well as Korean, and smart keyboard pro has been my favorite so far.
The only problem is, the keyboard lags like crazy. If I type quickly, a whole bunch of letters gt skipped. For example, if I type "Mary had a little lamb" quickly, I get "Mry hd littl amb." Sometimes, some letters start becoming symbols as if I had held the key down to get a symbol.
I tried downloading other keyboards. Something called Multiling keyboard looked promising, with a very high rating. But it lags just as much with the same results.
Right now I am using google ime for korean using something called "Korean keyboard" from the market. I hate this keyboard but at least it doesnt lag so damn much.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a good multi language keyboard that wont skip letters? I mean, most multilanguage keyboards lag like hell on this phone. They also seem to not be multi-touch enabled, even when they are...
Please help me out, I am so disappointed by this small (but critical!) annoyance. Thanks.
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My fav keyboard is the gingerbread keyboard. Its multi-touch and should be multilanguage (i think at least)
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.moo.android.inputmethod.latin.free&hl=en
Thanks for the suggestion supdawg. Yeah I like the gingerbread keyboard but unfortuneately it doesnt support Korean input.
I actually found something called Go Keyboard and it seems promising so far. The problem with it is that the spacebar will only work if I press it two times everytime I want to space. Lol...
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absolute00matt said:
Thanks for the suggestion supdawg. Yeah I like the gingerbread keyboard but unfortuneately it doesnt support Korean input.
I actually found something called Go Keyboard and it seems promising so far. The problem with it is that the spacebar will only work if I press it two times everytime I want to space. Lol...
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That sounds like something that could be fixed in the settings.
I have noticed this too. It seems the Evo4G has the best digitizer I've experienced - my ET4G consistently lags like yours. I have to type super slow or else it will only display a few letters. I've found Thumb Keyboard works better. I don't know about additional languages though.
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I have noticed this too. It seems the Evo4G has the best digitizer I've experienced - my ET4G consistently lags like yours. I have to type super slow or else it will only display a few letters. I've found Thumb Keyboard works better. I don't know about additional languages though.
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Try "Thumb Keyboard 4"
I type really fast and this keyboard seems to keep up with me the best. Not sure if it support Korean though
If you have the hepatic feed back on i found that adds to the lag i turn the sound and haptic off and it works fine
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Try "go keyboard", i think it has chinese, try it and c how it is, doesnt lag for me one bit.
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Yeah I have my haptic feedback and sound off. I hate haptic feedback anyway. The spinny thing in the phone that makes the phone vibrate, that thing saps your battery. Also my thumbs tickle if the haptic is on.
Anyway, yeah I tried to Go Keyboard. It still lags, but nowhere near as much as smart keyboard pro. It seems to be the best so far, but the only annoying thing is that there are no symbols above the letters. Also it's very hard to make fine adjustments if I mistype some word. I can't simply take the cursor where the error is and delete each letter, I have to delete starting from the end.
Why is this phone so laggy with the inputs? Sometimes I feel like there MUST be some options somewhere, regarding the touchscreen sensitivity etc... Or, maybe we have to use terminal emulator to change some values somewhere. I swear this phone sometimes feels like it doesn't support multitouch. type 2 letters really quick, and only 1 of them inputs. What the...hell.
I have the same pet peave with the lag issue. I don't know about multi language support, but my favorite one is Better Keyboard 8 available in the Amazon appstore. Its not perfect but its the best I've seen so far with being able to handle fast typing. The keys are spaced well and the are elongated slightly vertically and seem ideal for fast accurate typing. Give it a try and let me know how you like it.
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I've never experienced this. I only use SwiftKey, occasionally ill use swype for longer conversations or im sessions.
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Have you tried LoStKernel? It has a touchscreen lag fix..
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Have you tried LoStKernel? It has a touchscreen lag fix..
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Yeah dude I would recommend you try Lostkernel, but first try Thumb Keyboard. It's the only keyboard that doesn't lag.
I was going to recommend SwiftKeyX, but there's no Korean support. I have noticed a bit of keyboard lag (words with the same letter twice) but it's prediction and word completion have always overcome the issue. Perhaps worth looking into if/when they add Asian languages.
I have thumb keyboard, and generally like it. But it (along with other keyboards I've tried) has the weird issue that it starts out great with the auto-correct suggestions, then it stops suggesting until the entire word has been typed. My wife is experiencing this oddity as well on her ET4G. Anyone else?
Chris, thanks for the suggestion to use the Lost kernel. I will give it a try and report back here how it works out.
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my keyboard only lags when I have it charging. Does anyone else have this problem? I use thumb keyboard and swiftkey
Another thing I noticed, if you turn "Popup on keypress" off, the lag seems to go away.
I have found the solution. Better keyboard 8 from the amazon market. Whoever suggested it will get thanks soon as I get to my laptop.
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I'm so happy. Sooooo happy. Whoever has keyboard lag must download better keyboard 8 from the amazon app store.
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I just got the One X today from Rogers.
I checked the keyboard settings, there is a swipe option.
That`s htc swype. wtf.
Well, I am going to test it a bit to compare.
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I just got the One X today from Rogers.
I checked the keyboard settings, there is a swipe option.
That`s htc swype. wtf.
Well, I am going to test it a bit to compare.
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as the actual swype app is unable to size itself correctly and the developer refuses to comment in his own forums, i've switched to the htc swipe keyboard myself. It does actually work, it's just not as nice as swype was.
Hopefully swype will be updated soon.
HTC phones already have the Trace keyboard. I use it on my stock desire s.
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I started using the Trace Keyboard a couple of days ago and to be honest I find it really responsive and very easy to use. I've kept it on and I'm actually texting quicker than ever before now!
Just an FYI, especially for those who upgraded to stock ICS, Swype Beta just released a new update and it's very nice.
http://beta.swype.com/
This relieves the issue of the bouncing text screen too, so no more boggled eyeballs while swyping! Also it's much more accurate.
Did you remove the stock version first? Or, did the beta install cleanly over the stock version as an upgrade?
With the new beta you can install it along side the non beta Swype. You don't need to remove the old one first.
Thanks OP downloading now.
Edit: Seems nice so far! YES! No more bouncing! Only issue so far that simply requires a change of habit...in the old Swype if you touch the backspace button it backspaces one character, and if you hold down the back button it backspaces one word. With this new one, touch the backspace button once it backspaces one word, and holding it down sends it into continuous backspace mode. Not a huge biggie considering the improvements!
Installation was clean, easy and flawless. Just needed to disable the ROM based version as the input default after installation.
Thanks!
Installation was good just installed over the old sywpe now as far as the backspace button goes I can delete 1 word at a time
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It's very nice and I'm using it now
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Another thing I have noticed is that it has a sort of pseudo spell checker when it does not know a word it highlights it in red. I do like the old way of backspace deleting.
Also, maybe it's just because the ROM I am using is more responsive than my old one, but the Dragon Naturally Speaking thing seems to work much better.
The only thing that I don't like is that the swyping is slightly less fast than it used to be, but still completely usable.
Stupid installer won't take my password. Says login failed/invalid password even though I know for a fact it's correct.
Sent from my beastly Galaxy S 2.
Thanks
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Another thing I have noticed is that it has a sort of pseudo spell checker when it does not know a word it highlights it in red. I do like the old way of backspace deleting.
Also, maybe it's just because the ROM I am using is more responsive than my old one, but the Dragon Naturally Speaking thing seems to work much better.
The only thing that I don't like is that the swyping is slightly less fast than it used to be, but still completely usable.
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Yea I do miss the old delete where it deletes each word one by one not the first word then each letter one by one, it's a but confusing but does make a bit of sense
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they should let the stock be updated for real im rooted much better then stock
Hatefly said:
Another thing I have noticed is that it has a sort of pseudo spell checker when it does not know a word it highlights it in red. I do like the old way of backspace deleting.
Also, maybe it's just because the ROM I am using is more responsive than my old one, but the Dragon Naturally Speaking thing seems to work much better.
The only thing that I don't like is that the swyping is slightly less fast than it used to be, but still completely usable.
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Agree the Dragon does respond faster than previous beta's. The lag on the swyping was annoying at first but I have gotten used to it.
Does not have multi language download option
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I'm not impressed with this update at all. It looks nicer but they keep changing things on us. Why do they keep moving the alternate keys/symbols around!? When tapping a text field, as the keyboard pops up, the screen flashes some weird graphics glitch for a split second. The new delete method is laggy and freezes. Overall, it seems to be slower and more glitchy than the previous version.
I've been using this for a bit and while it is nicer and it fixed some things it also messes up if you go over the space bar so I now end up deleting a ton extra... if they fix this it would help a lot and also the auto correct is a bit off and they give you no option to choose for speedy or correction like before :thumbdown:
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