since the gingerbread update the hardware keyboard of my desire z is unusable.
there are some keys that do strange things when I press them, I have not changed any settings since the update.
I'm talking about this:
when I press "G" my phone automatically goes to gmail
when I press "S" my phone goes to my messages
when I press "B" it goes to my browser
I tought about shortcuts but in the menu there I can't see any shortcuts dedicated to this keys.
anybody an idea how to fix?
other people having the same problem?
I've ran into this a couple of times as well, as far as I know it's supposed to be a feature rather than a bug. Try pressing "FN" and then "SYM" and go back to composing your message, this usually fixes things for me.
As this has been answered a bunch of times....
Settings -> Applications -> Quick launch.
Remove every shortcut and you're done
dumraden said:
As this has been answered a bunch of times....
Settings -> Applications -> Quick launch.
Remove every shortcut and you're done
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While that does address the issue at hand, my question is how did they get activated, I never had this problem before i updated to 2.3.3.
I have no idea either. The quick launch settings are there when you first flash a rom. The strange thing is they go crazy and start working without the need to press the "search" button on the keyboard...
I have been on CM7 for the longest time and haven't updated to a newer nightlies for a the past couple of weeks, but I am having the same issue.
UPDATE:
Tried pressing the search button on the keyboard a couple times and it is now working fine. I guess the search button was "stuck"? Funny because I never used the button before.
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Hi,
Didn't find any posting to this issue, so maybe my Defy is the only one with this problem:
If I press the seach button for long time, nothing happens. All other long press functions (menu, home) are working.
The search button (short press) is working.
On rare occasions I managed to get the popup menu (Quick Settings is installed, so I saw that in the menu) from the long press search, so I know, the function is there.
I checked the key codes, every thing looks OK. This behaviour was there from the beginning (I didn't even know of this function untill I read about it). So it is nothing related to any modifications I made.
So I would appreciate, if some of the defy owners would report, if the function on their phone is OK. Then I at least know, if I should replace my phone...
Thanks in advance.
Got answers on a different forum now:
normally long press search works on the defy. Seems to be a problem with my hardware.
Anyway, if anybody has a similar problem, please give a message.
If i long press on my search key it brings up voice search. On Nordic deblur.
I used some days ago a program name Buttonremmap from the Market.
U can change, ou re configure your buttons. (if it is not hardware problems, of course)
Thanks for the answers!
Now I figured out how to start the function on my phone:
I have to tap the search button three times and leave the finger on it after the last tap. Like da-da-daaaaah . Really, I'm not making this up!
Kind of strange, but I can live with it. At least I have a really individual phone
Sometimes this has happened to me and I was wondering on how to fix it and if anyone else has had this issue. Recently when I am in an app and I try to use my Hard keyboard if I press any of these keys it launches an app
(e - email
l - calender
p - don't recall.
g - gmail)
Anyone else see this ever. Usually I just use the onscreen keyboard when this happens and later it works again. This happened to me in the facebook app and also in dolphin browser.
dudejb said:
Sometimes this has happened to me and I was wondering on how to fix it and if anyone else has had this issue. Recently when I am in an app and I try to use my Hard keyboard if I press any of these keys it launches an app
(e - email
l - calender
p - don't recall.
g - gmail)
Anyone else see this ever. Usually I just use the onscreen keyboard when this happens and later it works again. This happened to me in the facebook app and also in dolphin browser.
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Check Applications --> Quick Launch and see if you have any keys assigned to those apps.
It's my quick launch I think my search key was acting like it was pressed even though it wasn't. Thank you. Most have been stuck. Thank you.
It happens when you press the app key once by accident on the top left of the keyboard. Press it again and it turns off the shortcuts.
The app key? Which one is that? This happens to me a lot and I just mash on the keyboard until it goes away. I also am having problems with the keyboard not working at all. Sometimes I open the phone up and the whole keyboard stops working and I have to reboot the phone.
Also once I was on Dolphin browser and I was logging into Google plus and my numbers were acting funny. I could not press the ALT button to activate the numbers I had to hold the ALT then press the numbers. I thought that was weird.
vil33 said:
Check Applications --> Quick Launch and see if you have any keys assigned to those apps.
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Do you know any way to disable Quick Launch? Or maybe disabling all the pre-assigned things? --Do Not Want--
Thanks
L4T
Lookin4Trouble said:
Do you know any way to disable Quick Launch? Or maybe disabling all the pre-assigned things? --Do Not Want--
Thanks
L4T
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Long press on the shortcut and it should give you an option to clear it.
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The app key? Which one is that? This happens to me a lot and I just mash on the keyboard until it goes away. I also am having problems with the keyboard not working at all. Sometimes I open the phone up and the whole keyboard stops working and I have to reboot the phone.
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The default shortcuts are the search button plus a letter. It happened to me once, and after pushing the search button on the top right of my keyboard a few times, everything started working fine again. Hope that helps.
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Keyboard not working...at all
Hey all
CM11, official with apps installed the Captivate Glide physical keyboard is hit or miss. Since the physical keyboard is the WHOLE REASON to try to modify this older phone, its functionality is important. Physical keyboard ALT commands (#'s etc) do not work in any application. The letter keys works...sometimes. I have used default keyboard settings and have no idea whehter there is a fix on the main CM11 thread.
Many thansk!:good:
Alt is a non stick key
kevlarheart said:
Hey all
CM11, official with apps installed the Captivate Glide physical keyboard is hit or miss. Since the physical keyboard is the WHOLE REASON to try to modify this older phone, its functionality is important. Physical keyboard ALT commands (#'s etc) do not work in any application. The letter keys works...sometimes. I have used default keyboard settings and have no idea whehter there is a fix on the main CM11 thread.
Many thansk!:good:
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Well the thing is alt in cm11 is not a sticky key but its non stick . What i mean by that is that if you wanna type '1'. Keep 'ALT' pressed and hit the number '1' in blue on the keyboard. the alt key dosent seem to stick for some reason.
this is actually cause of the google ime treating our physical qwerty as a desktop keyboard i think where alt is also non stick.
thefusor said:
Well the thing is alt in cm11 is not a sticky key but its non stick . What i mean by that is that if you wanna type '1'. Keep 'ALT' pressed and hit the number '1' in blue on the keyboard. the alt key dosent seem to stick for some reason.
this is actually cause of the google ime treating our physical qwerty as a desktop keyboard i think where alt is also non stick.
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"Alt" doesn't work at all -- even if held during typing. I will keep searching for keyboard fixes I guess. Since the keyboard is 100% of the reason to use the Captivate Glide, it's utility is a major issue. Many thanks for your reply!
So about five or six times now my keyboard has gone a bit crazy. When I slide out the keypad to answer a text or whathaveyou my keys do their own thing. Like I hit one button and it does something else. Most of the keys become shortcuts like for apps or start an online search.
Shutting the keyboard and hitting home or back then trying again has the same effect.
If I reboot the phone all is well. Haven't had a chance to do a logcat or really bother to test at all but just curious if this ever has happened to others.
Oh and this has never happened on an aosp rom or miui, just cyanogen based roms.
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I've had this happen to me as well, It has something with the ATL/Menu keys I slipped and accidentally pressed one of them and some of the keys changed to short keys.
Only thing I could recommend is to reflash or SuperWipe. Being that your a CM7 user have you experienced any double spacing when you press the space key? When I press it instead of a single space its doing a double space not all the time but enough where it gets annoying.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1189760#16103547
mine used to the above on gingerbread... have not experienced it recently tho
Go to Settings - > Apps - > Quick Launch. Disable everything. Done.
anybody else having problems with there physical keyboard? It doesnt happen all the time but sometimes when im typing with it, certain buttons will start opening shortcuts. Once I restart the phone it goes back to normal but its starting to get annoying!
drewdown757 said:
anybody else having problems with there physical keyboard? It doesnt happen all the time but sometimes when im typing with it, certain buttons will start opening shortcuts. Once I restart the phone it goes back to normal but its starting to get annoying!
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It happens to me every now and then. When you hold down the search button and hit certain keys it acts like a shortcut. Search + g = gmail. I don't have to restart the phone, just hit the search button to clear up the stuck key/input. Also I think you can disable these shortcuts in the settings menu.
Hope someone can help, I've searched but couldn't find the answer.
I have a really annoying problem in that if I lock my phone then unlock it, if i open an already open app, the bottom key bar (which contains the back key, home key and open apps key) is unresponsive apart from the home button. If I'm in messaging, the keyboard will be as well. If I press the back button for example, it shows it being pressed but does nothing. Sometimes the Google search thing pops up when you hold the home button. To remedy the only way is to press home then open again without locking the screen. Any ideas?
Ya samething happens to my phone also but not always. Wait buddy you will get more bugs like this its sony.
RichRoberts44, what is your FW? Do you have root? Did U unlock bootloader? More info is needed to even try to find a solution
This happens to me also from time to time and I don't even use the key bar, I use gestures with a 3rd party app. When this happens only home gesture works. It does happen rarely though.
The same problem began on my phone two weeks ago. Over the last two weeks, it increased. I had to restart my phone all the time. Besides the two issues you describe, I had two additional issues:
The clock on the lock screen didn't always appear when I managed to turn on the phone.
When I put the phone to sleep, I often couldn't turn it back on for several minutes.
Over the two weeks, all the problems occurred still more often. At the end, it was so annoying, that I backed up all my stuff and did a factory reset and recovered the backup. Now it is working perfectly again.
I run 14.4.A.0.157
are y0u r00ted 0r what?h0w ab0ut the running apps?is it t00 many?
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