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How to enable alphabetic sidebar for contacts?

Hey all,
in WM6 there is (on some roms) a slim "sidebar" next to the contact list with A-Z on it.
It helps you navigate quickly. Does anyone know how to activate it? A friend of mine had it but accidentally disabled it, now we cant figure out how to enable it again.
If you do not know what i am talking about, you can see it on this picture (second row, second column):
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/7343/scrselegance21iu5.jpg
Thanks a lot.
PS: I tried the search but its kind of hard to find if you dont know what its called.

ZakMcRofl said:
Hey all,
in WM6 there is (on some roms) a slim "sidebar" next to the contact list with A-Z on it.
It helps you navigate quickly. Does anyone know how to activate it? A friend of mine had it but accidentally disabled it, now we cant figure out how to enable it again.
If you do not know what i am talking about, you can see it on this picture (second row, second column):
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/7343/scrselegance21iu5.jpg
Thanks a lot.
PS: I tried the search but its kind of hard to find if you dont know what its called.
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It's called Random Access and you can search for it in the foruns now

Awesome, thanks. Slightly misleading name but who cares. Now I know, thanks to you

Hi,
try this:
http://w13.easy-share.com/1699738099.html
bye bye,
cipi

FInixNOver said:
It's called Random Access and you can search for it in the foruns now
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why arent this showing on your rom while in text message contacts? Theres not even the top alphabet? is this a bug? perhaps wrong thread to discuss this, but...

It works
cipi said:
Hi,
try this:
http://w13.easy-share.com/1699738099.html
bye bye,
cipi
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Hi Cipi,
thanks... it works very well...
To disactivate the old "letter-bar" at the top of the screen you have to click: Menu-->Options-->unflag first option...
Ciao
Tompo

Tompo81 said:
Hi Cipi,
thanks... it works very well...
To disactivate the old "letter-bar" at the top of the screen you have to click: Menu-->Options-->unflag first option...
Ciao
Tompo
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nice hint...works now!!!
Thanks

Thanks for the tip.
However, my Random Access bar only works 70% of the time. The rest of the time only a simple scroll bar appears.
It seems to work more often if I launch Contacts then fully exit and re-launch Contacts a second time. Wierd.
Anyone else experience this?

i installed this, but the vertical alpha list bar does not work.
i do not even see the app under program window. do i need to invoke this?
how do i make this work??

Very stupid question

So after having my new Tilt 2 for a couple of days I was cleaning out my inbox and I realized that because there is no d-pad I cannot select an e-mail without opening it, unless I have the keyboard out and use the arrows
This means that if I want to delete an e-mail that is not at the top of the list I need to press once to open, once to open menu and again to delete. Does not seem right.
I think I saw something that allowed the zoom slider to be used as a dpad of sorts but I actually like it the way it is.
I feel really stupid asking this and I did search but could not easily find an asnwer.

click on the small letter, you will see the menu that will allow use to manage the mail without seeing it.

dcdivenut said:
So after having my new Tilt 2 for a couple of days I was cleaning out my inbox and I realized that because there is no d-pad I cannot select an e-mail without opening it, unless I have the keyboard out and use the arrows
This means that if I want to delete an e-mail that is not at the top of the list I need to press once to open, once to open menu and again to delete. Does not seem right.
I think I saw something that allowed the zoom slider to be used as a dpad of sorts but I actually like it the way it is.
I feel really stupid asking this and I did search but could not easily find an asnwer.
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Here's one hard-key solution that re-maps the volume keys on the side of the phone:
VolDpad
...from a post on another XDA board

vigohz said:
click on the small letter, you will see the menu that will allow use to manage the mail without seeing it.
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That's a great tip! I never realized that! You should put that in the wiki!

Thanks
Thanks to both vigohz and MCBrian!

You can also press and hold the message in the list you wish to do something with and you will get the same list of actions as if you tapped on the small letter.

SPL doesn't match
Hi
trying to unlock my HTC 8925 and going into rom mode it shows:
KAIS1*O
SPL-1-56.000
CPLD-8
While running the step one its doesn't let me update rom. Also my rom is 1.57.00.000 but the kaiser rom show1.00.000. Can you please help me what the problem is
Thank You
Yonzon

yonzon1 said:
Hi
trying to unlock my HTC 8925 and going into rom mode it shows:
KAIS1*O
SPL-1-56.000
CPLD-8
While running the step one its doesn't let me update rom. Also my rom is 1.57.00.000 but the kaiser rom show1.00.000. Can you please help me what the problem is
Thank You
Yonzon
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You seem to be lost...you have a Kaiser, not a Rhodium.
You should be posting in one of the Kaiser sub-forums.

bigparahandy said:
You can also press and hold the message in the list you wish to do something with and you will get the same list of actions as if you tapped on the small letter.
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Wow, I did not know either of these two tips, I had been opening the onscreen keypad and using the arrow keys to move down to the message. Thanks to both of you!

Manually launch HTC Keyboard?

Is there a way to manually launch the keyboard?
The reason I ask is I my partner visits one of her forums on Phone and when it comes to adding posts (using a system not to disimilar to these boards) she can't get the keyboard to appear?
Any suggestions?
If anyone needs to know the forums are on babycentre.co.uk

Press and hold menu I think.

What do you mean by "manual launch"? When you click in the textarea or input field it shows up - is that not manual?

mhewitson said:
Press and hold menu I think.
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It works! That's a new one for me. Cheers...

Karolis said:
It works! That's a new one for me. Cheers...
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Yeah - even if your not in a text area you can fore it open. it has some uses im sure....

its the same as the quick reply box on here. You can't get a cursor to type in the text box. Is there a workaround

Balor said:
its the same as the quick reply box on here. You can't get a cursor to type in the text box. Is there a workaround
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Please click one of the Quick Reply icons in the post above to activate Quick Reply?

I suspect that the forum doesn't support the latest Android browser she used to have issues browsing the site when she used her g1 but she could at least edit the text box

It's ok I disabled javascript on her phone and can now use the reply box. Cheers anyway. Oh and holding menu did nothing on either of our desires. :/

Balor said:
Is there a way to manually launch the keyboard?
The reason I ask is I my partner visits one of her forums on Phone and when it comes to adding posts (using a system not to disimilar to these boards) she can't get the keyboard to appear?
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One solution could be to manually relaunch your partner, but that is probably a more cumbersome and less satisfying method.

[Q] After word prediction, prevent adding space character

Hello all,
Before M8 i owned HTC Sensation. I think at that phone word prediction was more pratical.
For example;
when i would like to write a longer word like "swimming", firstly i was typing "sw" and the phone predict me the word "swim" and for not typing all the rest letters i was clicking the "swim" word and after then i could continue directly this word. Type "ming" and voila the word "swimming"
But at M8, when i click the "swim" word the phone add automatically a space character and if i continue to typing "ming" it creates like this "swim ming" . So is there any way to prevent adding this space character ?

Somewhere in the settings for the keyboard likely. Just look around the settings.
If not, try a keyboard or two to replace it. That option is on most of them.

KJ said:
Somewhere in the settings for the keyboard likely. Just look around the settings.
If not, try a keyboard or two to replace it. That option is on most of them.
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Thank you for help.
İ look and try the settings options but I can not find a solution also I try others keyboards too but in my opinion stock keyboard is better it exists just this problem I hope there is a solution
Sent from my HTC One_M8 using XDA Free mobile app

Then is it better? ?

any idea ?

Keyboard to replace the LG default input

I would like to replace the LG keyboard, I find the prediction and the recognition of the trace horrible. Is there a port of the AOSP keyboard or something similar that works in LG G7? not Google Board if possible

kadyt said:
I would like to replace the LG keyboard, I find the prediction and the recognition of the trace horrible. Is there a port of the AOSP keyboard or something similar that works in LG G7? not Google Board if possible
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.inputmethod.latin

washwash said:
or touchpal
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Isn't touchpal banned by google for hiding a nasty adware?

guest_999 said:
Isn't touchpal banned by google for hiding a nasty adware?
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last time i checked was not, now is gone, i was using a really old version, the prediction was perfect and it had the copy paste cut arrow and so on function, but was slugghish and i removed it for the nextapp keyboard

washwash said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.inputmethod.latin
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Thanks for the suggestion, I have installed it and it looks like the type of keyboard I'm looking for
But how can I enable the trace? It says I need to install a typing library but when I press in Install Library it says Choose Library but I don't know what I have to install
Thanks

kadyt said:
Thanks for the suggestion, I have installed it and it looks like the type of keyboard I'm looking for
But how can I enable the trace? It says I need to install a typing library but when I press in Install Library it says Choose Library but I don't know what I have to install
Thanks
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i don't use the swipe function because i don't feel it may works well with any keyboard.
anyway just a quick search brang me to https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=74847386#post74847386
i can't help you further because i don't use that function

washwash said:
i don't use the swipe function because i don't feel it may works well with any keyboard.
anyway just a quick search brang me to https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=74847386#post74847386
i can't help you further because i don't use that function
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Oh it is a good trace function what I'm interested in, in another phone that I have with AOSP keyboard it works flawless, that's what I was interesting in AOSP for G7 but I haven't been able to activate the trace in G7 neither with these options nor even with Google Keyboard. I've also tried AnySoftKeyboard that has the trace function but it's almost useless in practice. So I think I will keep using LG Keyboard, even with all its flaws it turns out it has the best trace function I've found so far (of course that does not mean it's good).
Thanks for your help :good:

I'll get my LG the next days, but i guess I'll use the old Xperia keyboard again. This is by far the best keyboard I've ever used:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...ard-phones-t3346736/post72947258#post72947258

alagga said:
I'll get my LG the next days, but i guess I'll use the old Xperia keyboard again. This is by far the best keyboard I've ever used:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...ard-phones-t3346736/post72947258#post72947258
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Thanks for the heads-up, but I see it was last optimized for Marshmallow. I'm afraid if it could cause problems in Pie. If you're decided to install it for sure, I'd appreciate if you could give some feedback afterwards. Thanks!

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Thanks for the heads-up, but I see it was last optimized for Marshmallow. I'm afraid if it could cause problems in Pie. If you're decided to install it for sure, I'd appreciate if you could give some feedback afterwards. Thanks!
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I'm using this right now on Pie but will give you feedback anyway the next days on the G7

So it's working like a Charme. Still the best keyboard Imo.
I'm also using a Magisk Module to get Whatsapp Emojis systemwide (and so on the keyboard too). You can find it in the official repo.

alagga said:
So it's working like a Charme. Still the best keyboard Imo.
I'm also using a Magisk Module to get Whatsapp Emojis systemwide (and so on the keyboard too). You can find it in the official repo.
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Thanks for the feedback. I'm also using it now and yes I like it more than LG's and I think the trace works better
However it is not perfect and it has some drawbacks:
- When the word selected by the trace is not the expected, pressing delete does not immediately delete it as it does the LG keyboard, you have to delete it letter by letter
- When you type letter by letter a word that you want but it is not recognized and the keyboard replaces it by a "valid" word, if you press delete in the LG keyboard, the word that you typed is restored and you can keep writting with your word not modified. In Xperia keyboard you need to delete letter by letter the "valid" word and rewrite your word again and if it is a long word, it is replaced again and your only choice is to add it to your personal dictionary - even if you only want to use in this context and do not want it to be offered as a valid word in general
- And related to this, if you type a not recognized word and then push it to keep it in the text as it is, LG keyboard gives you the choice to add it to your personal dictionary or not, but Xperia always add it to your dictionary
But even with this, yes I prefer it

kadyt said:
Thanks for the feedback. I'm also using it now and yes I like it more than LG's and I think the trace works better
However it is not perfect and it has some drawbacks:
- When the word selected by the trace is not the expected, pressing delete does not immediately delete it as it does the LG keyboard, you have to delete it letter by letter
- When you type letter by letter a word that you want but it is not recognized and the keyboard replaces it by a "valid" word, if you press delete in the LG keyboard, the word that you typed is restored and you can keep writting with your word not modified. In Xperia keyboard you need to delete letter by letter the "valid" word and rewrite your word again and if it is a long word, it is replaced again and your only choice is to add it to your personal dictionary - even if you only want to use in this context and do not want it to be offered as a valid word in general
- And related to this, if you type a not recognized word and then push it to keep it in the text as it is, LG keyboard gives you the choice to add it to your personal dictionary or not, but Xperia always add it to your dictionary
But even with this, yes I prefer it
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1. Yes that's true
2. After you typed a nonvalid word just press delete 1 time (to go back to the word) and then you can choose the before written nonvalid word from the upper left of the keyboard.
3. True again
Greets