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It's not a big deal, but I wanna know if this irritates anyone else. When I try to type "it's" in lower case letters, it keeps wanting to auto correct to "its". Seriously, they are two different words with two different meanings so why doesn't Android keyboards (HTC's or Stock's) recognize "it's" as a word?
There's a bunch like that, but "it's" is the one that, by far, gets to me the most. Anyone know a fix or is anyone else at least irritated with Android's apparent hatred for proper grammar?
Simple answer to a technical quesiton....
programmers are better at programming then they are at grammar. Computer science, not English major, ya know.
AbsolutZeroGI said:
It's not a big deal, but I wanna know if this irritates anyone else. When I try to type "it's" in lower case letters, it keeps wanting to auto correct to "its". Seriously, they are two different words with two different meanings so why doesn't Android keyboards (HTC's or Stock's) recognize "it's" as a word?
There's a bunch like that, but "it's" is the one that, by far, gets to me the most. Anyone know a fix or is anyone else at least irritated with Android's apparent hatred for proper grammar?
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I've run into the same problem. It is rather annoying and I've found now fix for it. Before I rooted, it recognized that when I would type "its" that I primarily meant "it's," although it provided options for "its" and "it's." I don't know what happened, if it was a fluke in the system and completely unrelated to rooting, or what.
Also, trying to press the arrow for more options when having typed "its" provides no option "it's," I've noticed. One workaround, I've found, is to only type "it" and the option for "it's" will usually be the fourth option listed, without the need to press the arrow to look for other suggestions.
Just something I've noticed.
Is does come with the option to add words, correct? Is it hard to add a word that you deem should be there? When I type it's with the HTC keyboard nothing else shows up. Unless I forget the ' then it shows its and It's...
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craigbailey1986 said:
Is does come with the option to add words, correct? Is it hard to add a word that you deem should be there? When I type it's with the HTC keyboard nothing else shows up. Unless I forget the ' then it shows its and It's...
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On the HTC keyboard, that's my primary problem. Can't add "it's" because it's already in the dictionary. If I want the grammatically correct "it's" I either have to type the apostrophe myself or settle for it being capitalized.
As for the gingerbread keyboards. I don't think there is a fix. It's in the dictionary, but typing "i", "it" or even "its" doesn't pop the option up.
I guess I'm doomed to avoiding that word entirely or just sucking it up and typing it out.
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swype has "it's" and it can be swyped very easily. Maybe it's time I adopted it entirely and used it exclusively.
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On the HTC keyboard, that's my primary problem. Can't add "it's" because it's already in the dictionary. If I want the grammatically correct "it's" I either have to type the apostrophe myself or settle for it being capitalized.
As for the gingerbread keyboards. I don't think there is a fix. It's in the dictionary, but typing "i", "it" or even "its" doesn't pop the option up.
I guess I'm doomed to avoiding that word entirely or just sucking it up and typing it out.
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swype has "it's" and it can be swyped very easily. Maybe it's time I adopted it entirely and used it exclusively.
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Well grammatically speaking you would have to put the apostrophe there, so I assume you are looking for it to automatically be there with out you imputting it?
**Also cant check now because I am changing roms and phone stuck on htc screen, but have you checked the down arrow to see if it shows "it's" in lower case?
So let me get this straight, you are complaining that tapping "its" outputs "its" and that you have to tap "it's" to output "it's" right?
PS: not that I don't trust you but being that this is on the internet I need proof of a sample sentence to prove you are using the proper "its/it's."
PPS: I use Swype and often you have to Swype over the apostrophe to get certain words to work right. "Don't" for example can be picky if not Swyped exactly (comes up doubt a lot for me, but I'm a sloppy Swyper).
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So let me get this straight, you are complaining that tapping "its" outputs "its" and that you have to tap "it's" to output "it's" right?
PS: not that I don't trust you but being that this is on the internet I need proof of a sample sentence to prove you are using the proper "its/it's."
PPS: I use Swype and often you have to Swype over the apostrophe to get certain words to work right. "Don't" for example can be picky if not Swyped exactly (comes up doubt a lot for me, but I'm a sloppy Swyper).
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My problem, good sir, is that when I want to type "it's", it wants to auto correct to "its". Therefore, every time I type out "it's", I must also tap on "it's" in the auto correct bar so that it stays that way.
Proper usage:
"It's a nice day outside." A contraction of it and is. It can also be a contraction of it or has. Thus, "It's been a good time, man!"
"I don't know what it is, but you should probably get out of its way." "Its" being a possessive pronoun in that sentence. You can tell if you want to tell the difference, you can substitute "her" or "his". If it still fits, then you're using the possessive pronoun version and not the contraction version.
The problem is the keyboard only wants to enter the possessive pronoun and not the contraction.
As for swype, I love that you can just swype over the apostrophe without having to change tot he symbols keyboard or hold down the symbols keyboard button and move over to select it. Most of my friends don't even care, but I kind of do.
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Well grammatically speaking you would have to put the apostrophe there, so I assume you are looking for it to automatically be there with out you imputting it?
**Also cant check now because I am changing roms and phone stuck on htc screen, but have you checked the down arrow to see if it shows "it's" in lower case?
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The option for "it's" doesn't even come up in the auto spell and yes, I'd like it to. I would like to type "its" and have the option to choose "its" or "it's" but I do not get that option. I know on the Gingerbread keyboard, you have to type "Il" to get "I'll" to pop up in the auto spell, but it won't pop up for "ill". It's silly, I know, but it's also stupid. Someone in the programming chain needs to add contractions to the dictionary and make them options. To be frank, it would not be that hard.
AbsolutZeroGI said:
My problem, good sir, is that when I want to type "it's", it wants to auto correct to "its". Therefore, every time I type out "it's", I must also tap on "it's" in the auto correct bar so that it stays that way.
Proper usage:
"It's a nice day outside." A contraction of it and is. It can also be a contraction of it or has. Thus, "It's been a good time, man!"
"I don't know what it is, but you should probably get out of its way." "Its" being a possessive pronoun in that sentence. You can tell if you want to tell the difference, you can substitute "her" or "his". If it still fits, then you're using the possessive pronoun version and not the contraction version.
The problem is the keyboard only wants to enter the possessive pronoun and not the contraction.
As for swype, I love that you can just swype over the apostrophe without having to change tot he symbols keyboard or hold down the symbols keyboard button and move over to select it. Most of my friends don't even care, but I kind of do.
The option for "it's" doesn't even come up in the auto spell and yes, I'd like it to. I would like to type "its" and have the option to choose "its" or "it's" but I do not get that option. I know on the Gingerbread keyboard, you have to type "Il" to get "I'll" to pop up in the auto spell, but it won't pop up for "ill". It's silly, I know, but it's also stupid. Someone in the programming chain needs to add contractions to the dictionary and make them options. To be frank, it would not be that hard.
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Well hope you figure something out, obviously it's really bothering you.... though I don't think it's that big of a deal. The time it takes you to look for the "it's" in the auto correct feel you could have hit the '.....also I tried to add it to the dictionary and guess what it added it!!!!!!
Once I type "it" it's shows up in the auto correct field!!!!!!!!!!
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AbsolutZeroGI said:
My problem, good sir, is that when I want to type "it's", it wants to auto correct to "its". Therefore, every time I type out "it's", I must also tap on "it's" in the auto correct bar so that it stays that way.
Proper usage:
"It's a nice day outside." A contraction of it and is. It can also be a contraction of it or has. Thus, "It's been a good time, man!"
"I don't know what it is, but you should probably get out of its way." "Its" being a possessive pronoun in that sentence. You can tell if you want to tell the difference, you can substitute "her" or "his". If it still fits, then you're using the possessive pronoun version and not the contraction version.
The problem is the keyboard only wants to enter the possessive pronoun and not the contraction.
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Very well then. I must have misread or mistook someone else's post. I didn't realize you were, in fact, using the apostrophe. In that case I am of no help. These weren't the droids I was looking for.
craigbailey1986 said:
Well hope you figure something out, obviously it's really bothering you.... though I don't think it's that big of a deal. The time it takes you to look for the "it's" in the auto correct feel you could have hit the '.....also I tried to add it to the dictionary and guess what it added it!!!!!!
Once I type "it" it's shows up in the auto correct field!!!!!!!!!!
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It does it for pretty much all 3 letter contraction (I'll, it's, etc) which keyboard are you using? It definitely won't work on Gingerbread because that's what I'm using right now. HTC IME is sketchy, it depends on whether it's stock or themed; or so it would seem. It's not a problem so much as being annoying. If I'm not paying attention, it'll enter the wrong word. Then, because I'm OCD about my spelling and grammar (at least in text messages), I gotta go back and change it.
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*snip* These weren't the droids I was looking for.
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Darn, thank you for your time, sir!
AbsolutZeroGI said:
It does it for pretty much all 3 letter contraction (I'll, it's, etc) which keyboard are you using? It definitely won't work on Gingerbread because that's what I'm using right now. HTC IME is sketchy, it depends on whether it's stock or themed; or so it would seem. It's not a problem so much as being annoying. If I'm not paying attention, it'll enter the wrong word. Then, because I'm OCD about my spelling and grammar (at least in text messages), I gotta go back and change it.
Darn, thank you for your time, sir!
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I am using a regular HTC IME keyboard. But not the one with the arrows, but it is working for me
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For what it's worth I used all three keyboards I have installed (Swype, Gingerbread Stock, and Swiftkey) and typed (or Swyped) its and all three had it's as an option. In fact, with Swiftkey I only typed it and it was an option. If you hurry Swiftkey is free from the Amazon App Store today only.
This could be because of my own dictionary so take it for what it's worth.
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I am using a regular HTC IME keyboard. But not the one with the arrows, but it is working for me
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I'll have to give it a try, I've only used the one with the arrows. Maybe there's a difference?
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I just realized that double tapping a word highlights the entire word and gives the option to replace it with a drop down list of suggested words. Has anyone found any other tricks to working the 4.2 keyboard?
Blown 89 said:
I just realized that double tapping a word highlights the entire word and gives the option to replace it with a drop down list of suggested words. Has anyone found any other tricks to working the 4.2 keyboard?
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Wow!!! I was looking for that! Thanks!
Cheers... Sounds like a good idea.
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wow... no reason whatsoever to use swype now. thanks!
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I just realized that double tapping a word highlights the entire word and gives the option to replace it with a drop down list of suggested words. Has anyone found any other tricks to working the 4.2 keyboard?
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Thanks- I was wondering how that worked!
v3rk said:
wow... no reason whatsoever to use swype now. thanks!
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Swype is still phenomenally better. The typing gets more accurate with use, and it is always much more accurate and has better punctuation. It takes one tap to add a word to the dictionary. I add a word to the Google dictionary and it still doesn't show up. It randomly censors out words and autocorrects to words that don't even exist. It's a bloody mess.
Have you even tried to write the word "sex"? It keeps on changing it to "sec" and won't even allow me to add it to the dictionary.
Google should have just bought Swype and incorporated it...
I wonder if it's possible to disable it from automatically creating a space after each word, there are times when I want to disable it.
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i found the new native keyboard a great improvement, but for me and my uses, doesn't get close to swype. one thing i miss in the native keyboard is cut/copy/paste/select all with just a swype, the ability to move de cursor by swiping too, it has tab (->), a big numerical only keyboard mode, &c.
Of course it's a matter of personal preferences, but swype has more useful features, that i find myself using everyday, than the new native keyboard. And I did delay my coming back to swype trying to get used to the new keyboard. But eventually, after a few days, I'm back with swype.
all the best
You can also tap and hold a word to get the options too.
Of course, predicting words could be better and punctuation marks on swype are more natural to enter.
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montrealguy said:
Have you even tried to write the word "sex"? It keeps on changing it to "sec" and won't even allow me to add it to the dictionary.
Google should have just bought Swype and incorporated it...
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I noticed that too. How dare they restrict the English language, the bayards. Oops I mean b*stards!
How do you manually add words to the dictionary? Is there a method of doing it other than the default type it out and touch again to save?
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Pheno.menon said:
How do you manually add words to the dictionary? Is there a method of doing it other than the default type it out and touch again to save?
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It's under the language and input section in the settings menu.
Swype Beta was just updated to 1.4. Update details per Android Central, "added Living Language, which takes auto correction and word prediction to a new level with crowd sourced data". Other additions include, "The correction engine has gotten an upgrade, and the new Smart Editor now analyzes your entire sentence, flagging any errors for correction or suggesting the best substitution based on the context of what you're saying, not just the word order."
Please share your thoughts on this version. Download is here: http://beta.swype.com/
That video was hilarious
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Thanks Dave, I've always been a huge Swype fan, wouldn't buy a phone unless it was capable of using Swype. This version is pretty nice. Still playing with it. One thing I noticed is, it's not quite as easy to use punctuation as before (like anyone uses punctuation in texts anyway). I used to be able to tap on the last word I wrote and it would give me the option of ! , ? or whatever, now you have to long press the appropriate letter. Not a biggie just something I noticed. Still playing, but thanks for the heads up! :good:
I'm liking the built in themes!
Thanks for the info. Just updated. Hopefully the update will address the problem with personal dictionary disappearing followed by no longer able to add new words.
mkuo said:
Thanks for the info. Just updated. Hopefully the update will address the problem with personal dictionary disappearing followed by no longer able to add new words.
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same concern here..
mkuo said:
Thanks for the info. Just updated. Hopefully the update will address the problem with personal dictionary disappearing followed by no longer able to add new words.
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I've been messing with it for about an hour or so. The smart editor and next word prediction must take time to populate. As for the personal dictionary disappearing, I don't get why they have a register option, but no log in and sync dictionary option :thumbdown: As for adding words, I have had no issues there. One last thing I noticed is that Dragon seems a little more accurate. May be my imagination
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One thing I really wish they had was an option to disable Dragon and use Google for voice typing.
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brianray14 said:
I've been messing with it for about an hour or so. The smart editor and next word prediction must take time to populate. As for the personal dictionary disappearing, I don't get why they have a register option, but no log in and sync dictionary option :thumbdown: As for adding words, I have had no issues there. One last thing I noticed is that Dragon seems a little more accurate. May be my imagination
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There is login and the supposedly sync dictionary option. Under Swype connect, just tap into your registered email/account. Although I'm not sure how it works; I don't see any syncing between my two devices using the same account.
If this is your first time using Swype, then the dictionary disappearing issue I was referring to usually happens in a few days. Whatever triggered it I'm still unclear; I've tried with or without an account, checked and unchecked syncing option, and many other combinations... and it's usually after that disappearance the word addition ceases to work.
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One thing I really wish they had was an option to disable Dragon and use Google for voice typing.
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I've never had any issues with the voice typing. It works pretty good for me, even when I talk faster or stutter, it picks up remarkable well. Maybe it's just your Canadian accent :laugh:
RTBee said:
I've never had any issues with the voice typing. It works pretty good for me, even when I talk faster or stutter, it picks up remarkable well. Maybe it's just your Canadian accent :laugh:
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Lol! I just find Google voice typing works so well. Also I regularly hit the Dragon button by error due to its proximity to the enter button.
On another note, after a day of use, I have definitely noticed an improvement in word selection while swyping.
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Swiftkey Flow kills this.
EVOme said:
Swiftkey Flow kills this.
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I am always open minded to better options & different ideas, but if you are going to post a statement like this, please explain how you have arrived at this conclusion.
I don't think anyone can debate the fact that Swiftkey has the best prediction machine out there for regular typing. I actually use Swiftkey on my tablet, and when drafting long emails on my phone in landscape. Given this I was very excited to try Swiftkey Flow, which I did, for both versions. In my experience, Swiftkey still has a long way to go to catch Swype when it comes to swype typing. Swiftkey Flow is not as accurate or smooth as Swype when swyping. My typing speeds on Swype are 25% faster than when using Swiftkey Flow. This is not surprising given Swype has been doing this since it was founded almost 10 years ago in 2003.
David Dee said:
I am always open minded to better options & different ideas, but if you are going to post a statement like this, please explain how you have arrived at this conclusion.
I don't think anyone can debate the fact that Swiftkey has the best prediction machine out there for regular typing. I actually use Swiftkey on my tablet, and when drafting long emails on my phone in landscape. Given this I was very excited to try Swiftkey Flow, which I did, for both versions. In my experience, Swiftkey still has a long way to go to catch Swype when it comes to swype typing. Swiftkey Flow is not as accurate or smooth as Swype when swyping. My typing speeds on Swype are 25% faster than when using Swiftkey Flow. This is not surprising given Swype has been doing this since it was founded almost 10 years ago in 2003.
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OK..I like the fact it auto spaces after punctuation. I can tell it to learn how I type from SMS, FB, or Twit. It goes out and does it's thing and says it learned. I can now to "Swiping" words in shorthand that I used in GOsms. Genius. I can swipe left quick quick quick and it will start to remove text I may want to remove. The keyboard has a fresh look with various themes. All Swype boards look the same to me. I bid you to try the latest version of flow. ...61. It's much improved
RTBee said:
One thing I noticed is, it's not quite as easy to use punctuation as before (like anyone uses punctuation in texts anyway). I used to be able to tap on the last word I wrote and it would give me the option of ! , ? or whatever, now you have to long press the appropriate letter.
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If you like to swype, you can do a period-to-space swype (same for question, exclamation mark, comma, colon, and double-quote). You can also double-tap space to get period-space now. I'm not sure when that was added though.
I love the punct gestures; long press is too slow.
When you stop on a letter and wait for the menu to pop up with the available choices, it would be nice to see the uppercase version of the letter there as well.
Otherwise I have been using Swype since this summer when I got my SG3 and love it.
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OK..I like the fact it auto spaces after punctuation. I can tell it to learn how I type from SMS, FB, or Twit. It goes out and does it's thing and says it learned. I can now to "Swiping" words in shorthand that I used in GOsms. Genius. I can swipe left quick quick quick and it will start to remove text I may want to remove. The keyboard has a fresh look with various themes. All Swype boards look the same to me. I bid you to try the latest version of flow. ...61. It's much improved
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Swype also auto spaces after punctuation. I have tried both versions of Swiftkey flow. There is no brand loyalty here, I just want the best solution for me.
At the end of the day, this decision is personal and very much driven by what one is accustomed to. Let's bury the comparison discussion for now, the purpose of this thread is for discussion around the new Swype release.
Or just swype from the question mark or exclamation point to the space bar and it will input whatever special character your swyped from..... It's the easiest way.
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Swype also auto spaces after punctuation. I have tried both versions of Swiftkey flow. There is no brand loyalty here, I just want the best solution for me.
At the end of the day, this decision is personal and very much driven by what one is accustomed to. Let's bury the comparison discussion for now, the purpose of this thread is for discussion around the new Swype release.
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Sorry for thread jacking.
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Sorry for thread jacking.
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No worries, I appreciate your input and understanding of the desire to get back on topic.
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is it possible to theme swype? would it be hard to mode the app to be inverted lets say
Ok so this is just an annoying pet peeve...but as one example, I often mistype the word "just" as "juat," and I've never clicked to save the word or have in my personal dictionary, but now the keyboard autocorrect stops changing "juat" to "just." Other words included are "thks" for "this," "garvage" to "garbage" and "lll" to "lol." To clarify, thks problem comes with the LG Optimus keyboard, it's not like the standard/stock ice cream sandwich one. Not sure exactly how to describe it...I included a picture.
Just wondering if anyone else had this issue as well...not a dire hazard but it's extremely annoying. If anyone has experienced this, what did you do? Again, these words aren't in the phones dictionary, they actually come up as spelling errors and are underlined in red while composing text.
Thanks!!
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Ok so this is just an annoying pet peeve...but as one example, I often mistype the word "just" as "juat," and I've never clicked to save the word or have in my personal dictionary, but now the keyboard autocorrect stops changing "juat" to "just." Other words included are "thks" for "this," "garvage" to "garbage" and "lll" to "lol." To clarify, thks problem comes with the LG Optimus keyboard, it's not like the standard/stock ice cream sandwich one. Not sure exactly how to describe it...I included a picture.
Just wondering if anyone else had this issue as well...not a dire hazard but it's extremely annoying. If anyone has experienced this, what did you do? Again, these words aren't in the phones dictionary, they actually come up as spelling errors and are underlined in red while composing text.
Thanks!!
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If you check Settings<Language and Input<SpellCheck, you could disable that. I believe an option to see the contents of your personal dictionary are there too. Just in case you accidentally added those words.
I myself am a sloppy typer, often missing letter in a word, so I've found that the stock 4.2.2 keyboard that Google offers in the play store, has a better correction engine. And it offers swype, which is convenient with our huge phones! I'd also look into Swiftkey as well, as that is also an amazing keyboard I've used with previous phones, although it adheres to a more rigid correction system. Just my two cents!
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If you check Settings<Language and Input<SpellCheck, you could disable that.
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Unfortunately, I did not see the option for "SpellCheck" unless it is somewhere else. The issue I'm having is not with the personal dictionary, as I have checked in there and there is no entry for such words as "juat" and "thks." The issue is with the actual keyboard and how it corrects, because right now it is failing to correct some of these errors I make. The system does not recognize them as correctly spelled words, but the keyboard still lets them get through. Not sure if there's another remedy for this
Is it possible to remove the special accented characters from the stock (4.3) keyboard? I didn't have this issue before flashing 4.3, but now almost every time I try to do a long-press when swyping I end up with a special accented character instead of the , or ( or : or @, etc. I thought that if I removed the language (like Spanish) they would likely go away, but I can't even find a way to even do that through settings. I am rooted and really not afraid to delete stuff via a file manager if someone can point me to the right files.
I'd love to know how to do this too. The special characters are killing me. I don't mind the characters like ! and @, but I hate the others because, like you, I keep accidentally switching to them.
Thanks for the confirmation of sanity. I was thinking I was the only one. Never did figure out how to do it but it's still bugging the crap out of me.
Me three! Anyone know how to do this?
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Thanks for the confirmation of sanity. I was thinking I was the only one. Never did figure out how to do it but it's still bugging the crap out of me.
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You try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2471321 I havent but did a little searching..
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Never thought to search for the reverse (adding languages) as a solution, but it might just work. I'm on vacation and don't want to hose my phone, but I'll try it when I get home this weekend.
Delved into the suggested solution above pretty deep, but couldn't get those characters to go away even after removing what I believe was Spanish languages/characters from that configuration file. I rebooted with each change, but still no go. I suspect the problem is that we're not actually using the stock Samsung keyboard config, but are using some sort of add-on SwiftKey keyboard that is built in to the stock ROM. I think the config file that needs the edited has something to do with SwiftKey instead of the OS. I don't really like Swype so I might try the paid version of SwiftKey to see if it has a way to remove those chars but have a similar keyboard layout that I'm used to. Hopefully they won't even be there by default.
I have the same problem. I try to end a question with? But end up with ñ
Fking maddening