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[Q] use G2 keyboard to control other android devices possible?

Has anyone found a way to use their G2 keyboard to control other android devices? I know programs like Gmote can control a PC with appropriate server side software installed.
However, I'd love something that allows me to use my G2 keyboard like a standard HID keyboard through bluetooth so I could pair it with another computer without installing the server side software... and better yet, being able to pair and enter text into my android tablet! I hate to carry both devices + a portable keyboard when I have a perfectly good one on my phone already!
Is there something like this out there already? Or could someone easily build one?
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[Q]-A working BT keyboard

Dear god and baby jesus in heaven. Save me from spending more money and resources on a working BT keyboard for my Tbolt lol. So far I've tried both a HYPE mini BT keyboard and the Freedom Pro. Both result in the same outcome.
The HYPE was the first one I snagged. It works on my itouch, main PC with a BT adaptor, laptop with BT built in and my HP touchpad running CM9 (ICS). The touchpad was running GB at the time of the first pairing and it worked there too. After doing some research and seeing most BT keyboards don't play so well with the tbolt, I saw a few people say the Freedom Pro does. So I snagged one of them. It has the exact same issue. It pairs properly but then never connects once paired. Basically the phone acts like a cat. You push the KB entry in the BT list and it acts like you didn't touch it. Clicking other BT items in the list do attempt to initiate the connection.
Are there ANY BT keyboards people here have working? I found a thread linking to the EVO forums where somebody got a Dell BT keyboard to work but that's a bit too big for what I want. I just want a BT keyboard to work with my phone so I'm not always undocking it to reply to a text. The drivers for the HYPE install but never register with the net either over wifi or 4G. The Freedom Pro ones install but don't seem to change the issue. Is it a ROM thing or a phone thing? I'm shocked the Freedom Pro didn't work as people have said this one has worked. My phone is Android 2.34 under the current ROM and a BT of 2.1+EDR

Are you looking for a full-size keyboard? I personally have the Logitech MediaBoard Pro for the PS3 (routinely on sale lately for $30) and it works really well. I've also been using AOKP roms, I'm not sure if that makes a difference.

I'm hoping NOT to go full size if I can help it. I'd rather something not much bigger than the freedom pro. I saw a link to a desktop replacement using an EVO that somebody used a Dell BT keyboard (with the EVO at least). This is the kind of setup I'd rather avoid. Can you post your BT stack info? I'd like to compare it to mine. I'm using Bootmanager and have a Thunderstick ROM going and ODJDub.

Whatever you do, avoid the Motorola Xoom keyboard... HTC phones reject it every time...
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Actually interested in this.
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Hi Moss. If you want a working BT keyboard, get Thundershed. This rom works with BT keyboards.

NapalmDawn said:
Hi Moss. If you want a working BT keyboard, get Thundershed. This rom works with BT keyboards.
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I think any non sense rom would work great. for example my ps3 controller works great on thundershed, liquid etc, but any bamf sense roms doesn't work at all

RetributionSK said:
I think any non sense rom would work great. for example my ps3 controller works great on thundershed, liquid etc, but any bamf sense roms doesn't work at all
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I am beginning to see proof of this with sense related roms on devices other than just our t-bolts. I asked the t-shed creator if he could release his bluetooth stack in something that is flashable but he seems pretty busy.

[Q] Need USB OTG and Tethering - what is best ROM to flash?

Hi,
I'm on Samsung SGH-i927 (Captivate Glide) from AT&T currently running stock (but rooted) Gingerbread (was rooted by the ebay seller I guess).
I basically just need two more features to work:
USB OTG so I can connect USB hard drives (via a hub) and keyboards
USB and wifi and preferably Bluetooth tethering so I can use phone's internet on my laptop
What is the best course of action? Should I upgrade to ICS or JB or CM10, or are there some fixes to Gingerbread available? I wouldn't like to lose any currently available features (e.g. physical keyboard working 100% - I'm a heavy VX ConnectBot user).
I tried to look around but the CyanogenMod things seem to be very beta still, and I'm not quite sure if the AT&T 4.0.4 upgrade will fix my issues or not. I wouldn't want to upgrade unless necessary, and when I do upgrade I'd rather use the best available version out there.
Many thanks

Your best bet is one of ninthsense's ROMs with the SYM key hack. I don't think you'll need a dedicated voice search or ".com" button for ConnectBot

roothorick said:
Your best bet is one of ninthsense's ROMs with the SYM key hack. I don't think you'll need a dedicated voice search or ".com" button for ConnectBot
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Thanks, I'll check it out.
Thing with voice search and the .com button is they act as Tab and Esc, and I use Tab quite a lot for autocomplete... And Esc to change windows in irssi. I guess I could live with them remapped, but not sure how to do it in VX ConnectBot.

Could you post a link to these ninthsense's ROMs? I can't quite find them here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621350
And google wasn't very helpful either.
Thanks.

His two ROMs are:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2057288
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2053471
I know he put the SYM key hack in one of them, I don't recall which. It may be in both.
Alternately, the hack can be applied to any of the AOSP based ROMs (CM10 etc) with a little putzing around in ADB, and then it sticks until you next flash a ROM.

Many thanks, they look pretty cool!
Do you know if the voice-search and .com keys are completely dead in these ROMs? I'd be happy for them to not function i.e. in the browser, but maybe they work in VX ConnectBot?

uukgoblin said:
Many thanks, they look pretty cool!
Do you know if the voice-search and .com keys are completely dead in these ROMs? I'd be happy for them to not function i.e. in the browser, but maybe they work in VX ConnectBot?
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Both my ROM's have the sym key hack after you apply the fixes given in the respective threads. The voice key is a simple search key now inside apps and brings up google voice otherwise and the .com has been mapped to <> and some more symbols.
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[Q] SwiftKey keyboard : can I get phone layout on tablet?

I have had a nexus 4 and 7; now I have a 5 and 7 2013. All run 4.4.2.
5 and 7 2013 are rooted.
SwiftKey beta 4.5.0.68 (I also have the paid version)
When I bought SwiftKey I was able to install the phone version on all my devices. Some time ago they merged the apps into one, but the keyboard layout is different between my phone and my tablet. I far prefer the one on the phone which has all the arrow keys, not just the left and right on the tablet. To me it is illogical when the tablet has a bigger screen to out less on it. Also I find it frustrating having slightly different keys and hence touch typing is that but more difficult.
Is it possible to fool the app into thinking it is installed on a phone? I only want this one app fooled, not every app.
Just in case someone suggests installing the old phone app, no thanks, SwiftKey has moved on significantly since then.
I have Xposed installed, but the App Settings module does not work for keyboards.

Google Keyboard (GBoard), no one handed mode

Hi all,
I´ve a small but interesting Question. For a couple of Weeks I tried installing the Google Keyboard (GBoard) on my Tablet. I was hoping to be able to use the one handed mode (hold Tablet firmly with one, and type freely with the other). But after I installed, reinstalled, googled and everything. I can´t find a way to enable it. It should be as easy as longpressing the "," and from there access the settings and the one handed mode. Well, it doesn´t work. By the way my device isn´t rooted.
Any suggestions, may be some of you with a rooted device can give it a try? Or maybe some with the Lineage OS?
Thanks a lot,

Not on LOS either... Using SwiftKey for now...

I don't think that this feature is supported for some reason on tablets, which is very disappointing and frustrating. Even if they didn't think it would be used a lot, since the feature already exists, shouldn't Google have just left the feature in and let the users decide if it was useful?
I would seriously use this feature everyday, especially in landscape mode!

Just installed LOS 7.1.2 on a phone and on a tablet. On the phone´s Gboard I can activate One-Handed-Mode, on the tablet I can´t. So same OS version, same Gboard version, still no option to select. Switching back to Swiftkey.

does anyone have a solution yet?
xposed/magisk module maybe?

+1 to landscape one handed !!!

Not supported for tablets, i presume.
Traditionally Android contains a tablet, phablet and phone mode, but this might have changed in recent years.
Altering the DPI value and other scaling options should force the system into another mode. Along with other changes, like dual column view gone in apps, bars and buttons too big...