The LG keyboard is grayed out in settings and I can't select it though it is still the keyboard I'm using when I'm typing. It doesn't offer any next word predictions though from I'm reading online, it's supposed to. I like swiftkeys predictions but I'm not crazy about the layout.
The Clowdy ROM works exactly the way I want with text prediction
I'm still figuring if it was added or if it's just working correctly in the custom ROM but it's very good.
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Hi!
I feel the stock Samsung keyboard has potential but the word correction just seems meh (could be due to danish dictionary).
I'd like to see a comparison of the keyboards and what people feel about each one.
Swiftkey
Samsung keyboard (multi touch)
Swype (drawing type keyboard)
HTC_IME (the xda one with online kitchen)
Handcent
Droid X (multi touch)
Currently i feel the HTC_IME is best for me atleast, since it supports danish and it has some added features (XDA). It's slower than the Samsung Keyboard though, probably the multi touch making Samsung faster. I'd like to try Swype or SwiftKey, but danish support seems a while off. Handcent i haven't tried, but as far as i remember it looks alot like the HTC_IME one?
If none of them improves soon, i guess i'll try to code one myself. Swiftkey prediction with multi touch would be pretty awesome
I love the vlingo keyboard, it pwns all the others I've tried.
text using profile: mails/notes/todos/sms, typing rather fast, languages: german & english
HTC_IME, Handcent (is that built into the app?), Vlingo - haven't tried those
Swype
- unique feature: swipe to type
- my favourite; i nearly can type as fast as i can on a real keyboard, which is quite fast
Samsung keyboard (multi touch)
- unique feature: none that i know of
- nice, seems to be a lookalike from the iphone keyboard; works good, just 2 points at once though
- if i want to use multitouch typing while wanting to type as fast as i can i always switch over to this one:
Droid X (multi touch)
- unique feature: multitouch with more than 2 points
- IMHO best multi touch keyboard out there
Swiftkey
- unique feature: text prediction
- useful: using several languages simultaneously (HUGE benefit for me! TouchPal does this as well)
- just installed it while it's in beta, can't say much about it
- using it for just a couple of minutes doesn't reveal much about the real benefit of this keyboard (text prediction)
- looks amazing, i'll definitely use this regularly to see where it goes!
ThickButtons
- unique feature: keyboard-buttons get enlarged when being predicted by the dictionary as possibly the next letter in the current word
- tried this for a couple of text messages, need more time for a thorough test
- runs stable but a bit slow
TouchPal
- seems to be a very good chinese input keyboard, although i'm far from able to confirm that
- useful: using several languages simultaneously (like Swiftkey)
- just testing this for a couple of minutes, seems to be very good!
my wishes :
Swype should implement multi touch support & easy language switch while simultaneously using he built in keyboard - then it's the only keyboard i'll ever need
Swiftkey should come out of beta as soon as it's ready and be as cheap as possible
UPDATE
added Swiftkey & TouchPal
Intratech said:
I love the vlingo keyboard, it pwns all the others I've tried.
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Er really? It's identical to the default Android keyboard, doesn't support multi-touch.
So far, I think the HTC keyboard would rock with multi-touch, but without it it just cannot keep up with fast typing, rendering it useless!
Advantages of default Samsung Keyboard:
- Multi-touch
- Decent text prediction
- Arrow keys appear when you long-press on symbols (big plus)
Disadvantages:
- You can't capitalise random letters in a word!!! (You can't write something like McDonald's for example, because pressing shift will either capitalise ALL letters in the word or the first letter only. This is also painful when you have to type in a username for some app but the text field has prediction enabled.)
- The numbers/symbols layout is dreadful! Seriously, why is the colon on the 2nd page? And why does the last used page open instead of the first one when you press symbols?
Advantages of Droid X keyboard:
- Better multi-touch than Samsung (shift + many keys is possible)
- Much better symbols layout
Disadvantages:
-Auto-capitalisation doesn't work
- No control of the dictionary! And the dictionary has random incorrect words in it like ob and od and im which get substituted when you make a typing mistake.
I'm using the Droid X keyboard right now but desperately looking for something with better dictionary control
Do any of these keyboards have the ability for speech-to-text like the nexus one? I don't see the speaker icon on the samsung keyboards.
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Do any of these keyboards have the ability for speech-to-text like the nexus one? I don't see the speaker icon on the samsung keyboards.
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Droid X one does
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Do any of these keyboards have the ability for speech-to-text like the nexus one? I don't see the speaker icon on the samsung keyboards.
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Vlingo does and I can type fast on it without worrying about it missing my letters and the auto correction is good on it.
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Er really? It's identical to the default Android keyboard, doesn't support multi-touch.
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I don't care about multi touch just about typing fast and accurately.
I like the standard Android keyboard, if only it had multi-touch.
The Samsung keyboard is capable for multi touch? Even if it does the multi touch implementation doesn't seems to her close to the one of Droid X, at least I can't feel it. Also the ptedicion and correction doesn't works well. I'm using an IME called CEDIME which I need the Chinese input, the English keyboard included us even better than the Samsung one.
The Droid X multi touch keyboard works well but the prediction will need some improvement, although by using it more you can add more words to it's dictionary.
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Using Swiftkey Beta here, and other than some curious auto-complete choices, it's brilliant, rather large though...
I love SWYPE, it is SOOO accurate with English... Though I use Vietnamese quiet often to text my Vietnamese friend and can't seem to find Vietname SWYPE Dictionary ... So i'm teaching SWYPE, but its learning fast...
So overall, I love it!
Hi,
There is a keyboard from Android 2.3 Gingerbread on the market which you should try.
I only got it for the multitouch but the spacing etc makes you type faster.
Search it on the market and try it.
Once you download it, go to settings - locale and text and tick Gingerbread keyboard. Then go to gingerbread keyboard settings - advanced and change the custom vibration to normal if you want the vibration on keypress.
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I can't find it in market
EDIT: Ok I found it. It's called "Keyboard from Android 2.3" and for me Polish dictionary is not working
Can I ask if the prediction bar in samsung keyboard still has the same behavior? You know, it comes and goes as you type and it causes the text box above to jump up and down, it is actually making me dizzy.
Everytime I start to type a word, the prediction bar pops up and the text box jumps up too. Between words the prediction bar dissapears, and the text box drops down again. This is very irritating behavior because I of course always look up at the text box when writing. It's not easy to fokus on what is written when it's jumping up and down like that.
There are many kayboards on the market that have the prediction bar up all the time even when no words are typed. But there are very few with norwegian dictionarys. The one that have norwegian dictionary is not as good as the stock in Galaxy
So how can I get in touch with developers of Galaxy to force them to make the prediction bar stay up all the time??
The prediction bar shows symbols like ? ! , " etc when you're not typing so it stays up all of the time and wont jump.
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Hi,
I'm very, very impressed with my Galaxy Nexus and it's a superb phone.
However, as you've probably noticed, text prediction doesn't currently work in the browser and it's somewhat annoying.
Is there are workaround for this, or do we need to wait for an update?
I think it depends on the website however it is very annoying. It will still pick up spelling mistakes AFTER you've typed the word. The lack of automatic punctuation is annoying as well. Eg instead of I've it'll type it without the apostrophe.
I've tried toggling the auto correct settings but this doesn't do anything.
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I use a different keyboard and it still does it when I type into the address bar. It is annoying but I think it is because if you want to type something custom into the address bar. Using the search box on a website puts it back to prediction though.
normal. Even with gingerbread and donut there was never text prediction in the browser
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normal. Even with gingerbread and donut there was never text prediction in the browser
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I'm almost positive text correction did work in the gingerbread browser. I too noticed it no longer works in the browser on ICE. Very frustrating.
dwang said:
normal. Even with gingerbread and donut there was never text prediction in the browser
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Yes there was.
text prediction was never enabled in the browser search bar in gingerbread. Maybe it was enabled in other text boxes in the browser but not in the search box.
i would think itd be better without it because of how many website names or paths dont actually use real words, might be a pain in the ass always having it auto correct
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i would think itd be better without it because of how many website names or paths dont actually use real words, might be a pain in the ass always having it auto correct
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that's exactly the reason why it isn't enabled.
Its not just the address bar, but also text and memo fields where text prediction isn't enabled.
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Cheyse said:
Its not just the address bar, but also text and memo fields where text prediction isn't enabled.
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OK then that should be fixed.
It's only because most people would prefer if auto-correct didn't screw up their website address bar typing.
If the browser address bar had text prediction it would drive me crazy...
Most of you are missing the point. For the address bar this makes sense, for text fields on websites and text boxes on forums it does not.
It's annoying.
It's a bug, and it's fixed in 4.0.3 (albeit at the cost of some very laggy typing).
Hey all, this isn't really gnex specific but I have a question about the stock jb keyboard: I'm really liking it and all, but having just come from iOS there's something that irks me a bit. Specifically while it does autocorrect on typing a space or punctuation, it doesn't do so when, for example, hitting send in the text message or email editor. This is annoying for me because I'd become used to that behaviour in iOS and now am sending off texts in which the last word is essentially gibberish...
Any way to change this in the stock keyboard? Alternatively, is there a different (and good) keyboard with this feature?
Cheers
Zslev said:
Hey all, this isn't really gnex specific but I have a question about the stock jb keyboard: I'm really liking it and all, but having just come from iOS there's something that irks me a bit. Specifically while it does autocorrect on typing a space or punctuation, it doesn't do so when, for example, hitting send in the text message or email editor. This is annoying for me because I'd become used to that behaviour in iOS and now am sending off texts in which the last word is essentially gibberish...
Any way to change this in the stock keyboard? Alternatively, is there a different (and good) keyboard with this feature?
Cheers
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Add a space at the end. It will not auto correct until it knows you are done with the word. What you are describing is predictive text and it does not "auto predict". It will predict and show words above the keyboard that you can choose, but that is all.
Hello everyone, a friend of mine made me notice that predictive text does not work on my stock keyboard. The phone is clean, no root, no rom, everything's stock (4.2.2).
The option in the keyboard settings is checked, but when I write a word and then I insert a space, there is no word suggestion on the top of the keyboard. Automatic correction when I'm writing a word works fine, predictive text doesn't.
Is there something I can do?
Do not say to install swiftkey or any other keyboard, I love the stock one and I just wanted to know why predictive text doesn't work, thanks
Tommolo said:
Hello everyone, a friend of mine made me notice that predictive text does not work on my stock keyboard. The phone is clean, no root, no rom, everything's stock (4.2.2).
The option in the keyboard settings is checked, but when I write a word and then I insert a space, there is no word suggestion on the top of the keyboard. Automatic correction when I'm writing a word works fine, predictive text doesn't.
Is there something I can do?
Do not say to install swiftkey or any other keyboard, I love the stock one and I just wanted to know why predictive text doesn't work, thanks
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This is a common problem after upgrading the OS actually....try a soft reset....pull battery leave for a min and reinsert
JamesPumaEnjoi said:
This is a common problem after upgrading the OS actually....try a soft reset....pull battery leave for a min and reinsert
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Just tried, it's not working anyway...
What language are you using?
I have the feeling that it isn't fully implemented/working for languages other than English.
I tried to write an e-mail in German and I didn't get a single prediction.
After switching to English I got them.