I remember back in the days of my htc desire, right after it came out there was a customized version of the stock keyboard (which was my keyboard of choice on the phone)
It was mostly the same, but it had lots of options for say, replacing what the default smiley faces were, what some of the long hold options were for keys, some of the layout stuff etc.
Is there anything like this around/planned for the ICS keyboard per chance?
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Even without holding the Evo, I can go ahead and imagine that i'd prefer a landscape keyboard without the arrows to the right that htc_ime includes with the EVO. Being unfamiliar with sense, will the standard android keyboard be available to be set as default? or will the desire keyboard be available to flash over the existing one? Thanks
I have always disliked the arrows too. Sometimes they are hit by accident while typing. It's quite annoying. And this was on my HD2.
However I will probably use better keyboard.
i love everything about the rom except the keyboard when the phone is held sideways. i hate the layout of the buttons and the space bar on the side.
i have downloaded the HTC keyboard zip from the synergy thread and flashed it but still cant get anything other than the new one with the space bar i hate.
can anyone point out what i am doing wrong?
thanks
I suggest Smart Keyboard, there is a trial and a pro version. The keyboard is awesome. The skins that come preloaded are iPhone, Android, Gingerbread, Galaxy, HTC, Gray, White and Black. Long press options in all the right places. Long hold enter for smiley shortcut. Option to have arrows on screen all the time, non of the time or only when sideways. Number pad option... anyways I highly recommended.
Is there a way to have the stock messaging app with a return button instead of the happy face button?
Yes!! Please someone make it happen...
SlideIT Keyboard has options for this. You can even theme it to match 4.0 (or 3.x if you like the subtle blue coloring better). It also features the ability to do either tap or swipe text entry. I, personally, like it better than Swype, but you should try it out.
Smart Keyboard has this functionality as well (As I'm sure lots of non-stock keyboards do too). I really like smart keyboard; comes with different skins to change the look and I really like how every key you can long-press for various punctuation/special character.
dont need to edit the sms app just the keyboard or download this itll work great and exactly what u want
https://market.android.com/details?...sMSwyLDEsImlucHV0bWV0aG9kLmxhdGluLnBvcnRlZCJd
By that I mean, the E4GT has the four Gingerbread-based buttons always on the bottom--settings, home, back, and search. ICS only has three, IIRC, as the home and back got merged or something. And the icons changed.
My question is, what happens to the GB buttons on ICS roms, since the buttons themselves are stuck at the bottom of the phone? Do they retain their GB functionality or do they work like their ICS equivalents?
If Ice Cream Sandwich is installed on a device that makes use of physical navigation buttons, the on-screen navigation bar disappears and the hardware buttons are used. Long-pressing Home brings up multitasking, Menu brings up the options menu, etc.
(Copied from an ICS sticky in the GN forums)
No changes made on ICS. The same button works as same way as GB.
The behavior of the button has been changed a little but the same concept and same operation.
Depending on the launcher, it may work a little differently because the launcher actually control the buttons.
If any button does not work properly, please provide more details about it. We will check it out.
If you want the onscreen buttons, you will have to enable them by decompiling the framework.apk, then open /res/values/bools.xml, find "config_showNavigationBar" and set to true
It is set to false for all phones but the gnex
I recently flashed from Cyanogenmod 7.2 (had been running it as a daily driver for about a year and a half) to tiny's 10.1 then back again after about a month. Somewhere through the different backups and nands I lost the keyboard or keyboard mod I use to love so much in cyanogenmod 7.
I want regular stock android keyboard, I do not want the smiley key I just want the return key.
I'm currently using one of the ime mods, and I've tried quite a few, and although I finally settled on one, this one is too tall, the keys too widely spaced and the alt buttons are long presses of regular qwerty characters, which is fine and workable, but I really want and miss my trusty bone stock keyboard.
If I remember right it was just regular android keyboard with advanced settings. I seem to remember seeing an ime mod too but none of the ones I tried are what I need.
Can anyone help me find it?