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I just got my G2 today, and I've noticed that even though I have all of the Android Keyboard Settings enabled (Quick FIxes, Show Suggestions, and Auto-complete) none of them seem to be active.
I have been searching to see if this is a known bug and if anyone has figured out a resolution to get these features to work.
I have tried disabling and re-enabling the features.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
Just to be clear... the "android keyboard" is not the physical keyboard.
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Correct. This is on the touch screen. I use the same features on my G1 all of the time.
Ok first make sure you are using the Android keyboard, on the text input box long hold on the screen click input method and make sure Android keyboard is selected not swype.
This should fix it swype keyboard is not the same as the Android keyboard I wish it was hope this helps.
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Thank you. That was it. Such a shame. I liked to flip between swype and typing.
Good to see it worked, it does suck that you can't use both.
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Ive been using Swiftkey for a few days now and its definitely the best Virtual Keyboard I have used for Android and it can also correct your Physical Keyboard inputs as well. I can't think of any other keyboard that offers Virtual and Physical auto-correction better than Swiftkey.
There is a paid version and a beta in the marketplace, you should definitely give the free Beta a try. The G2 already gives the One-Two punch of having the best of both worlds, its only just that it has the One-Two punch for software as well .
I tried it and didn't like it personally. However I found HTC_IME Mod keyboard to work better. I'm not a big fan of Swype either.
Swype is "too" smart for me sometime lol...To be specific, the auto suggestion and completion is junk. The Numbers and symbols layout are not the best.
Anyway, does anyone know how to update Swype version? I tried to download and install the lastest version to see any improvements but haven't got successful
It autocorrects the physical keyboard too? Does it do word suggestion for the physical keyboard?
Edit: wow it does auto correct the physical keyboard also. It be nice if someone couple make this work with the stock or other sense like imd mod soft keyboard.
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androidtoy09 said:
I found HTC_IME Mod keyboard to work better. (
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That is the keyboard that I was using before Swiftkey and it does alot of things really well. The MAIN thing that stopped me from using it is no Multitouch Support. I would type so fast on the virtual keyboard that the word "Smartphone" would look like Smtpne.
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It autocorrects the physical keyboard too? Does it do word suggestion for the physical keyboard?
Edit: wow it does auto correct the physical keyboard also. It be nice if someone couple make this work with the stock or other sense like imd mod soft keyboard.
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I agree, if I could combine the Physical Keyboard Auto-Correction and Multitouch from Swiftkey with HTC_IME it would be the perfect keyboard.
actually..better keyboard provides auto correction and word suggestions for the physical keyboard as well. search for it from the market..its a pretty decent app..and quite accurate as well
better keyboard by better android
Akulamenuri said:
That is the keyboard that I was using before Swiftkey and it does alot of things really well. The MAIN thing that stopped me from using it is no Multitouch Support. I would type so fast on the virtual keyboard that the word "Smartphone" would look like Smtpne.
I agree, if I could combine the Physical Keyboard Auto-Correction and Multitouch from Swiftkey with HTC_IME it would be the perfect keyboard.
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I agree. Swiftkey for the physical keyboard and swype for the virtual is a perfect combination. Maybe there will be a way to configure that eventually.
I'm still waiting on BlindType
I don't mean to hi Jack the tread tried better keyboard pro and damn its good. It looks very nice.
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im going to try swiftkey.. no free trial for better keyboard?
This exactly what I was looking for as there was no spell check in the email. This is great. Thanks
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i tried swift and while i liked the auto correct on the physical keyboard it annoyed the hell out of me when i was trying to type in spanish.. so i ended taking it out.. maybe ill purchase the full version in the future so i could have more than one language pack
I have been seeing a few new Andriod users out there that are unfamiliar with the way things work (software wise). One annoying repetitive complaint is "I installed a custom rom and now my swype is gone!ZOMGWTF!"... Well DUH you formatted you phone and installed over anything that was originally your phone...
But fear not PC challenged newbs, there is a simple solution:
Sign up for Swype Beta at beta.swype.com and install that, this info is everywhere but one more place can't hurt...
(Yellow box, vibrate, and no output with Swype enabled.)
Well now here come the other typical complaints (and solutions),
"Now I have to select Swype as user input everytime I want to type or it doesn't work, pfft FAIL!!!"
(Solution 1: Do not install to Swype as an App2SD and be sure it resides on your phone like a good little app.
Solution 2: Using a root uninstall application (or manually) remove the gingerbread 2.3.3 keyboard (or other version that is not Swype).)
Re-install the gingerbread keyboard if you really want it and you are winning bigger than Charlie Sheen, the keyboard will now no longer trump the Swype and you can go about your merry way. EDIT: Some phones lose connection to the Swype library even if Swype is the only soft keyboard installed and is not on the SD card, in this case installing a second soft keyboard AFTER installing Swype will fix the issue.
"Now every reboot I have to re-select the Swype keyboard."
See Complaint #2
So basically if you want Swype with no issues, install it after ROM flash and then uninstall other keyboards using root.
Now people please quit *****ing about Swype not being inlcuded in your "favorite" ROM and take some initiative and fix it yourself.
And for those that say ... Ha ha ha, should have used Titanium Backup, you are dead WRONG and have never used Titanium Backup to restore a factory installed Swype... It won't work no matter how hard you rub Buddah's belly.
EDIT: Posted this info to keep the threads a bit more cleaner from all the non-ROM related issues people post... I'm so sorry that your phone cannot microwave my pizza while bluetoothing with a custom ROM. Hopefully someone else feels my sarcasm.
The important thing I've noticed is to just make sure the keyboard is installed onto the phone. You shouldn't have any problems with it disappearing after a reboot if it's on your phone instead of the SD. This will make it so you don't have to bother with the hassle of removing the stock keyboard.
these methods should help but i believe swype on this phone is garbage (i have big fingers), but it is helpfull my wife enjoys the swype keyboard and this helps me when i go to root her phone.
Glad to help. Hope I didn't come off too sarcastic and some people got a laugh. Also to explain why it cannot be on a ROM, it is licensed software not available under the GNU.
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Use the SlideIt keyboard. It is much easier to use. You an go from tap to slide mid word and a bunch of other intuitive moves. Plus, it doesn't have the voice command button for you to accidentally hit.
I have signed up for the swype beta before and im not sure if i had it on sd or not, but when i tried typing a yellow box would come around the swype keyboard and i had to select the stock keyboard and then select the swype keyboard again for it to work right, will having it on the phone fix that?
Uninstall stock keyboard, then reinstall keyboard. Goofy I know but it works. Should be on the OP. There seems to be a bug in the software when reconnecting to the library if it is not the only or first installed soft keyboard. I had to do this as well and have not had a problem since.
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inb4 "Why doesn't Swype swipe?"
Swype often doesn't swipe after you reboot your phone. The easiest way to fix that is switch your Input Method away from Swype (e.g. to the stock keyboard) then back to Swype.
If you follow my OP Swype will always work.
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I uninstalled the main gingerbread keyboard and left swype as my only one and still get the no swyping error often. I had to download a kb from the market just to reinstall swype and see if it will behave now.
My Swype only works when it was installed stock kb removed and a new kb from the market was installed in that order, other ov might not require a kb installed. One of my ov phones doesn't.
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theres probably an easier way. check the g2 forums. i think there is an app called swyperestore or soemthing along those lines. basically it imports your swype with your swype license to your new rom from a nandroid.
although...not sure if it would work on the v....
Anyone tried what I do on the g2? I'll try today, moving the lib file swype has and installing swype along with it makes it work on my g2.
My current fix is I used titanium backup to freeze and delete the android keyboard.when I reset the phone if swype still isn't working I freeze and unfreeze swype in titanium and it's worked every time.I'm working on changing how android associates with the keyboard to see if it's maybe still trying to use droid keys
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installed swype beta. worked. rebooted blue box error. used a root uninstaller app to uninstall android keyboard. rebooted and it worked
Congrats, glad the how-to helped. Would be rough typing on this tiny keyboard without Swype or other similar program.
Anybody find themselves pressing the . instead of the space far too often? It gets kind of annoying, at least in portrait view. Also, "at" being constantly mistaken for "arty" seems kind of ridiculous. Despite that, I love swype, and this is coming from a physical qwerty junkie!
Awesome, thank you. No issues with your OP.
How do you remove the GB KB?
My swype beta didn't work, so I junked it. Now after reading this, my only question is what app or how do I remove the Gingerbread keyboard? (I don't see it as an app, is there an app that will remove it?)
Thx.
Use titanium backup.
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I've installed cyanogen 7 in my motorola defy and since then I'm experiencing a problem with the use of multiple keyboards in it.
I have Swype, Better Keyboard and SwiftKey installed, and frequently when I'm into some app and I try to choose which keypad to use, I only have Android Keyboard active.
And no mater whether I have only one more extra keyboard selected alongside with AK or if I have all of them selected, it always end up to AK being the sole active keypad.
Has anyone been through something like this? Or, is it there a way to patch or solve it?
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leonardomdc said:
I've installed cyanogen 7 in my motorola defy and since then I'm experiencing a problem with the use of multiple keyboards in it.
I have Swype, Better Keyboard and SwiftKey installed, and frequently when I'm into some app and I try to choose which keypad to use, I only have Android Keyboard active.
And no mater whether I have only one more extra keyboard selected alongside with AK or if I have all of them selected, it always end up to AK being the sole active keypad.
Has anyone been through something like this? Or, is it there a way to patch or solve it?
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I'm running the Nordic Rom with CM7 and had the similar experience. I resolved this by
1. Selecting the 'swype' as input method in settings/language & Keyboards
2. Opening up the default email and selecting compose
3. Select the options button, (visible on the bottom left of the android keyboard)
4. Selected swype as input method.
This appears to have now default swype across all apps. I've rebooted several times and it has stayed as swype. No idea how to then change to another keyboard
btw i rebooted several times and it has stayed as android keyboard,if got solutions pls teach us how to patch inside cm7.thank!!
Not sure if this will help, or is the issue, but I had a same kind of problem. It turned out the keyboards were on the SD card, and not on the phone. Once I moved them back to the phone I had no problems. I can just long press in a text field, and all my keyboards show. Oh and this is basic, but sometimes we miss it. Installing a new ROM or factory reset means you need to go to the keyboard settings, and checking each box of the keyboards you have installed all over again. I only point this out as I had to to a hard reset, and couldn't figure out why I only had the Android one available. Oops.
This is a strange one for me. When typing on the keyboard it doesn't automatically correct typos and mispellings. It does give you options to choose to correct while typing but it doesn't automatically select the correct word. I have yet to figure out how to make it select the correct word automatically. Any suggestions?
Wondering also...
searched but didn't found.
on the market i used Jelly Bean Keyboard from VLLWP wich does it.
But it's a shame to install it on a already JB phone.
totophil said:
Wondering also...
searched but didn't found.
on the market i used Jelly Bean Keyboard from VLLWP wich does it.
But it's a shame to install it on a already JB phone.
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And with another keyboard we lose multi-screen functionality and handwriting recognition. We lose sooooo many features just to have this. Its hard to make that jump
You said it! But jump had to be made! Using perfecy keyboard, its very good. If auto correct was there I'd stay
Darn i thought i was just missing the setting lol.. The positive part of samsung's keyboard is you can select the word and correct it with two clicks. That is really nice. It does it much better than other keyboards.
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And with another keyboard we lose multi-screen functionality and handwriting recognition. We lose sooooo many features just to have this. Its hard to make that jump
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If have SwiftKey installed and multi-window works fine. No handwriting recognition of course.
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I like it how it is now.
I don't use auto correct, and now if i see that i have one wrong spelling in a word, i can just tap it.
Might make my typing slower, but at least with less errors.
From the western part of Norway, so we don't use English.
seltaeb said:
If have SwiftKey installed and multi-window works fine. No handwriting recognition of course.
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Yea swiftkey 3 and multi- window works fine. In all honesty, I dont think anyone uses handwriting other than to show off
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If have SwiftKey installed and multi-window works fine. No handwriting recognition of course.
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Multi-window works but you no longer have a floating keyboard so when you want to input text the bottom window is completely blocked.
Yeah thats really strange... Hadn't the time to open up a thread, so thanks for this one...
I'm wondering if this was intended by Samsung?
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Anyway around this?
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Swype, New version released 1.3
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Goodm7sn said:
Anyway around this?
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Sadly you just have to switch keyboards.
The Samsung keyboard is the best. I've used Swiftkey and Swype but Samsung tops both. Prediction has become better over time than Swiftkey and I thought Swiftkey was fantastic. I can write almost whole messages just by using the predictive text. I like having the numbers at the top as well as almost everything I need on the front page. I can Swype if I want. Could use a theme.
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The Samsung keyboard is the best. I've used Swiftkey and Swype but Samsung tops both. Prediction has become better over time than Swiftkey and I thought Swiftkey was fantastic. I can write almost whole messages just by using the predictive text. I like having the numbers at the top as well as almost everything I need on the front page. I can Swype if I want. Could use a theme.
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what I dislike about the samsung keyboard is that symbols like @ and exclamation point, ect... you have to press the button on the right of the space bar then a pop up appears, then when you select the symbols you want, the pop up will not go unless you press somewhere on the screen or you press the arrow down button.
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what I dislike about the samsung keyboard is that symbols like @ and exclamation point, ect... you have to press the button on the right of the space bar then a pop up appears, then when you select the symbols you want, the pop up will not go unless you press somewhere on the screen or you press the arrow down button.
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yeah thats quite irritating
It does have a custom button for you to choose what you want.
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Sebring5 said:
The Samsung keyboard is the best. I've used Swiftkey and Swype but Samsung tops both. Prediction has become better over time than Swiftkey and I thought Swiftkey was fantastic. I can write almost whole messages just by using the predictive text. I like having the numbers at the top as well as almost everything I need on the front page. I can Swype if I want. Could use a theme.
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Samsung keyboard is made by swifkey, so the prediction it is the same, they only changed very few features
i am starting to like samsung keyboard as well. not as feature rich as swiftkey or swype individually but it beats both by being able to type and swype. plus the handwriting is quite nifty, it recognises my scribbles quite well and there's not need to change your handwriting too much to accomodate it. just scribble away!
sunwee said:
i am starting to like samsung keyboard as well. not as feature rich as swiftkey or swype individually but it beats both by being able to type and swype. plus the handwriting is quite nifty, it recognises my scribbles quite well and there's not need to change your handwriting too much to accomodate it. just scribble away!
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+1
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