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SERIOUS QUESTION: how do i do caps lock on the keyboard of the orbit..

yes im not joking
i do need to know this,

OK - I'll bite. Select the keyboard as input method. Hit CAP key on left hand side. Job done.

bford said:
OK - I'll bite. Select the keyboard as input method. Hit CAP key on left hand side. Job done.
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nope not on the orbit
think you'd be clever but you deserve to hit the door or derserve a slap for that
orbit doesnt have that option
anyone..

Every orbit I've seen works as the previous poster explained.
Sure you're not just being a little stooooopid?

Yep definately a CAP key on mine too.
Are you using a Keyboard mod? eg. Happy tapping, if so it's SHIFT twice.

Hi aciforums,
Can you post us a screenshot of your keyboard please?
Does sound a little odd.
If you edit your name as I have written it you may no longer have a problem.

uniqueboy said:
If you edit your name as I have written it you may no longer have a problem.
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LOL i mean lol

Sorry for unintentional misspelling ACIDFORUMS.

You may have gestures selected for your keyboard. Go to the keyboard options and then de-select "use gestures for the following keys". This seems to remove the CAPS key amongst others on mine anyway.

abcarso said:
You may have gestures selected for your keyboard. Go to the keyboard options and then de-select "use gestures for the following keys". This seems to remove the CAPS key amongst others on mine anyway.
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Well seemed to solve the problem on my orbit,thanks.

Gajet said:
Yep definately a CAP key on mine too.
Are you using a Keyboard mod? eg. Happy tapping, if so it's SHIFT twice.
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I've got a new Orbit and it doesn't have a CAPS key, only SHIFT even with gestures turned off. Although SHIFT twice works fine!

What works on all Win Mobile Version I know: Tap the Key you want to have as capital letter, hold the stylus down and slide up.
Press key - slide up - done!

The CAPS key seems to disappear when you have 'Large Keys' selected in the Input options.
HTH
Gaz

key mapping software

for those who r familiar with HTC Tytn ll, we can key map each one & every button for designated software.
Is there any software out there for Xperia to do the same?

KeySwop for the 2 Hardware Keys for example

Lex85 said:
KeySwop for the 2 Hardware Keys for example
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KeySwop only for the soft key. I'm looking 4 software to customize the buttons

Oh sorry, right...KeySwop is for the softkeys! But you can remap the hardkeys with windows itself! Start - Settings - Personal - Keys or Buttons (i have a german Rom and there it´s called "Tasten")
Or do you want to change all the buttons, not just the 2 hardkey buttons?

Lex85 said:
Oh sorry, right...KeySwop is for the softkeys! But you can remap the hardkeys with windows itself! Start - Settings - Personal - Keys or Buttons (i have a german Rom and there it´s called "Tasten")
Or do you want to change all the buttons, not just the 2 hardkey buttons?
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change all buttons if possible. there's a s.ware i think........ not really sure.

p_nair said:
change all buttons if possible. there's a s.ware i think........ not really sure.
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AEButton-Plus for the hard keys on the front.
AEKMap for the whole hardware keyboard - Useful for making completely customized layouts

key swap is fine for me

Hi, I recently installed the TF3D as a panel. However, despite having remapped the two front softkeys using SKTools, it still shows Phone and Camera respectively irregardless of what keys I mapped them to.
Any advice, please?

battlestartaurus said:
Hi, I recently installed the TF3D as a panel. However, despite having remapped the two front softkeys using SKTools, it still shows Phone and Camera respectively irregardless of what keys I mapped them to.
Any advice, please?
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u can reassign these buttons by:
select settings>personal>buttons. I'm using TF3D 3 too but not as a panel... it worked 4 me

Hi,
I did that for my hard buttons but the soft buttons can't use that method.

u can use advance configuration software then. available on the net for free. but must install msoft net s.ware 1st

battlestartaurus said:
Hi, I recently installed the TF3D as a panel. However, despite having remapped the two front softkeys using SKTools, it still shows Phone and Camera respectively irregardless of what keys I mapped them to.
Any advice, please?
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re-mapping the softkeys is just what it does, it changes the physical key press action, it does not remap the softkeys on the touch screen, to do that you have to go into the registry and change htc/windows etc. etc.

[Q] Hardware key for typing language?

Hello!
i use two languages when typing and since we have a hardware keyboard i would like to ask if there is a hardware key to change between those two languages that i use...i am on CM 6.1.1 currently!

Maybe i didnt phrase it correctly..
I meant,is there a way to switch between languages from the hardware keyboard?
Because having to close the hinge, rottate the phone to on screen keyboard and then switch, to go up and pull out the keyboard again..

chris2busy said:
Maybe i didnt phrase it correctly..
I meant,is there a way to switch between languages from the hardware keyboard?
Because having to close the hinge, rottate the phone to on screen keyboard and then switch, to go up and pull out the keyboard again..
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Perhaps look into using one of the quick keys into being a toggle?
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OriginalGabriel said:
Perhaps look into using one of the quick keys into being a toggle?
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I do not know about sense roms..but in Cm i couldnt get any such, i tried..

chris2busy said:
I do not know about sense roms..but in Cm i couldnt get any such, i tried..
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Where is it you switch the language?
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OriginalGabriel said:
Where is it you switch the language?
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Nevermind, found it ... select an unassigned quick key, select continue, select settings, select language and keyboard settings.
It won't act as a toggle (without programming a script and installing it) but it'll let you jump between the two via the HW keyboard
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OriginalGabriel said:
Nevermind, found it ... select an unassigned quick key, select continue, select settings, select language and keyboard settings.
It won't act as a toggle (without programming a script and installing it) but it'll let you jump between the two via the HW keyboard
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nothing happens with this, it just lets u select which languages u wanna use on the osd keyboard..

Just fyi...in sense roms the language switch is the magnify lense button (long press) that switches betweeen the selected languages...still struggling to find anything similar for CM roms though :/

Hi..I run into question like this before...kind of annoying little issue
One less hassle way to switch is long press(same as what you do when try to select text for copying) the text box then a a tiny window will pop up for input method option. in there you can change your input method so you hardware keyboard can be used for other input method.
And if the second language input happen to be Chinese. Suggest you use sogou input.
You only have to long press the text box once and switch to sogou input...and it has build in english mode so you can just use shift+space to taggle between sougo english/chinese mode.

[Q] Arrow-Keys like HTC Sense Keyboard in codefireX

Hi.
Is there some possibility, to activate arrow-keys (left, right, up, down) in the codefireX keyboard, as in the htc-sense-keyboard ?
Also: How do I hide the keyboard on some input-field ? HTC-original has a key bottom left to hide it !
Thanks
Micha_he
e.g.: The 'HTC_IME MOD v30' does not work unfortunately with JB4.2 !

No, but codefireX has an option to enable left and right keys in the navbar (if you enable it) and/or use volume keys to move the cursor left/right. If you must have all direction keys in the keyboard, use a keyboard that has the feature like SwiftKey or SwiftKey Flow Beta (if you want swiping).
To hide the keyboard in an input field, just press back.
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Ok. I will wait for a new version of "HTC IME MOD"-keyboard.
sashank said:
To hide the keyboard in an input field, just press back.
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Thanks, that was easy

Lol. I'd suggest you try SwiftKey Flow. It's a million times better than the HTC keyboard.
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Ok, ok. I'll take a look to SwiftKey Flow. But the video and the screenshots i have found, show no cursor-keys

I've had a look to 'SwiftKey Flow Beta'. It's right, you can add the cursor-keys at the bottom of the keyboard, under the config-options.
Thanks to sashank....

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Ok, ok. I'll take a look to SwiftKey Flow. But the video and the screenshots i have found, show no cursor-keys
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Many of the 3rd party keyboards in the Play Store have an option to add arrow keys. Another really nice one, if you don't need gesture typing, is Smart Keyboard Pro.

Gemini Keyboard Shortcuts

Got my Gemini on Saturday and just working my way around it.
Was looking at shortcuts for the Gemini Keyboard and found the documentation, however all shortcuts are a combination of a key labelled ? (magnifying glass) plus another key.
For the life of me I cannot find the key that is supposed to be the magnifying glass.
Anyone know which key this is supposed to be
Thanks in advance

larah said:
Got my Gemini on Saturday and just working my way around it.
Was looking at shortcuts for the Gemini Keyboard and found the documentation, however all shortcuts are a combination of a key labelled (magnifying glass) plus another key.
For the life of me I cannot find the key that is supposed to be the magnifying glass.
Anyone know which key this is supposed to be
Thanks in advance
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I think those docs are for generic android with a keyboard; google has been pushing putting a "search" key directly onto keyboards.
The gemini shortcuts are mostly the "Fn" key plus another, which should be labelled. e.g. on mine (UK kbd):
ESC: "back" key, or hold down for "Power"
Fn+ESC: "power"
Fn+D: Android "home" key (desktop, not to be confused with traditional editing "home" key)
Fn+A: Android "recent" key (App switcher)
Alt+Tab: App switcher (standard android binding)
Fn+C: Volume down
Fn+V: Volume up
Fn+B: Brightness down
Fn+N: Brightness up
Fn+Alt: Phone app
Fn+Del: Settings
Fn+T: Mute microphone
Fn+R: Screenshot
etc.

Hope I am not hijacking this thread, but continued question about Fn usage
How does one get all the "strange" characters from the keyboard?
By strange, I mean stuff like "{}[]`/" and similar ones.
From the keyboard looks (symbols imprinted at the bottom of the key) I assumed its a combo of Fn+symbol, but it doesn't work.
I am using US keyboard layout and set to use Gemini keyboard as input method.

matrix200200 said:
How does one get all the "strange" characters from the keyboard?
By strange, I mean stuff like "{}[]`/" and similar ones.
From the keyboard looks (symbols imprinted at the bottom of the key) I assumed its a combo of Fn+symbol, but it doesn't work.
I am using US keyboard layout and set to use Gemini keyboard as input method.
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Did you figure this out? I'm trying to find that out now too.

It is [Fn] +'/ ' to bring up the symbols keyboard and you can select them from there. {}[]℅™®©¥¢√π∆~ etc...

Function key
Veritas06 said:
Did you figure this out? I'm trying to find that out now too.
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When you use the Gemini Keyboard app to configure the Gemini US English layout there is actually one more step it seems. Once you've gone through the setup you should receive a notification to configure your keyboard. Select this and select the Gemini keyboard and you will be good to go. I ignored the notification for a while, believing it was prompting me to go through the setup process again but that was not the case.
Hope this helps.