My keyboard has randomly disappeared.
When I long press the input box, nothing comes up. There are no keyboards listed in the settings menu.
I rebooted normally and also pulled the battery.
I have installed Better Keyboard and I was able to get it to come up after a reboot but it is still the only keyboard that shows up. I really like the stock HTC keyboard and would like to get it back.
Has anyone has this happen or have any ideas?
Maybe you can do a restore from boot loader.
My last backup was September 9th. I'd really prefer to not have to recover a backup or factory reset.
oren09 said:
My last backup was September 9th. I'd really prefer to not have to recover a backup or factory reset.
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does the keyboard f/c??
try holding the menu button to bring keyboard up...
Go into settings, Lang&Keyboard and see if you have something installed thats taking over.
Like andybones said long pressing the menu button in some roms will bring up the keyboard no mater what is on the screen.
I have 3 aftermarket keyboards (FlexT9, Swiftkey X, & Thumb Keyboard 4) installed on my DInc2 for different things I do each one is better than the other, and long pressing the field I am typing in gives the "Input method" popup so I can swap keyboards on the fly. Not sure why yours isnt showing up.
Might also try to see if the "stock HTC keyboard" you like so much is installed if its not that might be your problem. check under setting/applications/manage application in the "all" tab not sure what the HTC keyboard is listed as, but my ASOP rom has a "Android Keyboard" in there.
Also just clearing the cache would be a good start it you have a custom recovery installed that would be the easiest way to do that.
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Hey everyone!
This may seem a tad bit of an odd question but follow me here. My touchscreen is currently just...dead. have an RMA in but in the meantime ive gotten pretty good at getting around just using the keyboard. Problem is I cant seem to find any way to select the two options at the bottom that i would normally just touch when a popup comes up. ive tried to hit enter and ok along with a ton of other keys but nothing seems to work. for example right now im on the carrier selection screen for NRG rom and cant obviously touch "next" to proceed. what really blows is when i see an option for "tap ok to continue" and just pressing the OK key doesnt work. Guess this is maybe a challenge in a way too. see if you can change settings, go through menus without touching the screen. Thanks all!
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Hey everyone!
This may seem a tad bit of an odd question but follow me here. My touchscreen is currently just...dead. have an RMA in but in the meantime ive gotten pretty good at getting around just using the keyboard. Problem is I cant seem to find any way to select the two options at the bottom that i would normally just touch when a popup comes up. ive tried to hit enter and ok along with a ton of other keys but nothing seems to work. for example right now im on the carrier selection screen for NRG rom and cant obviously touch "next" to proceed. what really blows is when i see an option for "tap ok to continue" and just pressing the OK key doesnt work. Guess this is maybe a challenge in a way too. see if you can change settings, go through menus without touching the screen. Thanks all!
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Try installing MyMobiler - freeware utility that will allow you to control your phone from your computer and it allows for the softkey press through menus. That's all I have for you, maybe someone else has a better solution
wow. strangly that was the one thing i had just found today..and was actually the only thing so far that has let me install some of these apps i need to try to help me do things..."better?".
Hello. So I got into a problem this morning while updating Golauncher EX. I updated it and when I pressed home, I accidentally chose to have GoTo (a lockscreen application) the default app for that. Now my phone can't return to launcher at all.
When I reboot I just get a blank screen and can't do anything besides bring the notification bar down.
I know I can easily fix this by going into settings, but I can't get to that without launcher. So I tried to get into safe mode (boot holding vol down, track pad, and menu) and I can get there after the phone vibrates (it says safe mode in bottom corner), but before I can do anything the phone reboots. I don't really want to resort to a factory reset yet, so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions.
Also I haven't rooted my phone yet.
Thanks for any help you can offer!
The only thing i can think of is press the search button, and see if that brings up the search screen. I would navigate my way to market or something, install adw, then hit home. The pop up for default should come up again, then you can make golauncher ex default?
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Delete it from phone with computer. I think all the files pertaining to the app should be in sdcard/data and data/data...
Thanks for the tips guys. btw I tried using search, but nothing would pop up, but for some reason hitting menu would make a keyboard appear.
Anyways, something weird happened where when I tried booting into safe mode, my phone seemed to wipe all my settings and went into the normal launcher. It didn't delete all my apps, but made the majority of them strangely force close whenever I opened them.
In the end I just rooted my phone and everything is perfect now!
Good to hear.
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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.
Earlier this morning, I pulled out my phone to add something to the calendar, and I found that it had frozen. After ensuring that the power button didn't work, I pulled the battery and rebooted. It came up fine, except that the long presses on the physical keyboard have now stopped working. The SYM key also provides "\", rather than the expected behavior. The FN button in combination with keys still works, but I can't get accented characters like åäö, which was working before.
I tried reflashing my current keymap, but no dice.
I tried changing the keyboard language to something else, but no dice.
Has anybody had a similar issue before, and how did you solve it?
What rom do you use?
Also, double-check lang&input settings.
I'm using this ROM: [ROM][14-04-2012][Sense 4.0A][ICS][IceZSense beta 2 | HTC One V Port], http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1555309
I've used it for a fairly long time, and the keymap has worked fine since the pre-release of beta2. It worked perfectly fine until this freeze and hard reboot.
I guess I could re-flash the rom, and wipe my settings, but ideally I want to avoid that. While I've backed my apps at least up with Titanium Backup, I don't know about the system settings. Furthermore, it could be that any system settings that ARE backed up are causing this issue... =(
I tried changing the system language, both going from "English (Germany)" (my default) to "English (Sweden)" and "Swedish (Sweden)". Neither brings any changes.
I can't change the hardware keyboard layout, as only "English" is available.
Some keys, when held down, cause the letter to be repeated. Others simply cause the letter to appear and then nothing happens. There seems to be no reason why certain letters would behave this way. It's always the same letters, though. My guess is that letters that have multiple options for long press are those who do not repeat.
For some reason, I've got a strange bug on my HTC One that causes random apps to do the strange behavior seen in the attachment. I talked to the developer of the app, then realized occasionally the stock HTC apps like gallery and calendar menus would do this too, as well as the old Quora app which would almost always have every menu option after hitting a button to open a menu have nothing but ... on each menu option. Sometimes a letter or two would survive, like "Pr..." or "M..." but I chalked it up to Quora being buggy. New Quora doesn't have this problem. Thinking further, the older version of Sleep as Android and SleepStats would do this with the menus too, before they had the options in the left drawer. Once again, no screenshot of this.
However, this issue only occurs in portrait mode, not landscape. It seems to happen on apps that have a similar feel to their UI, with a menu button in the upper right. Sorry I don't have more information, I should have taken more screenshots.
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For some reason, I've got a strange bug on my HTC One that causes random apps to do the strange behavior seen in the attachment. I talked to the developer of the app, then realized occasionally the stock HTC apps like gallery and calendar menus would do this too, as well as the old Quora app which would almost always have every menu option after hitting a button to open a menu have nothing but ... on each menu option. Sometimes a letter or two would survive, like "Pr..." or "M..." but I chalked it up to Quora being buggy. New Quora doesn't have this problem. Thinking further, the older version of Sleep as Android and SleepStats would do this with the menus too, before they had the options in the left drawer. Once again, no screenshot of this.
However, this issue only occurs in portrait mode, not landscape. It seems to happen on apps that have a similar feel to their UI, with a menu button in the upper right. Sorry I don't have more information, I should have taken more screenshots.
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have you tried wiping cache for the apps that are affected?
synisterwolf said:
have you tried wiping cache for the apps that are affected?
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Still doing it.
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Still doing it.
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if you're 100% stock and this is happening, you might need to do a factory reset.
Reboot to bootloader (hold down power for approx 10-15secs and when screen shuts off hold down the vol down button also). Use volume keys to select "recovery" press power button to select recovery. When in recovery, select wipe cache and then reboot. If this doesn't work, you might need a factory reset, which will clear data partition. All apps, texts, etc will be reset to factory defaults and should be like almost just out of box condition.
Edit: to back up your data while not being rooted, look up PC apps like "Mobile Go" to back everything up to your PC.
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