Hi, after searching on this forum, I didn't found anything about how to install a bigger keyboard on screen so I can easily text SMS and e-mails without having to use the stylus
As I'm sure someone has already wondered if it would be possible, could you help me to find this CAB
Thank you very much
You can try Phone Pad.
google SPB Full Screen Keyboard
I use SPB Full Screen Keyboard - it is good but I would like to see a screen shot of phone pad.
try the forums for Happy tapping keyboard, its a bigger keyboard with an iphone skin thats ok for a child's fingers in portrait(most keyboards are like this) and alot better in landscape.....
Does anyone know any screen keyboard where we could type our text messages like that in the nokia phones and razor? thanks!
do you mean this??
http://freewareppc.com/communication/taptapsms.shtml
If you mean a Phone Keypad with T9 functionality, you can install Phone Pad. Search for the cab in XDADev and choose one of the versions - there's the original from HTC, a Gray skinned one and a Touch themed one available for download.
Phone pad is what you want, although i find if you are a fast typer the touch screen might give you grief. But its worth a try
Hello all. I recently got the Bluetooth Motorola Keyboard and I was wondering if anyone would be able to explain how to change any of the hardware keys on the keyboard to open an application. Thanks in advance.
any ideas?/shameless bump
At this time there is no way to change any of the keys. There are people working on this at this time but so far nothing has come out of it. I have the same keyboard but haven't found any need to change anything. What are you trying to do?
I like the keyboard I just wish the messaging button was mapped and be able open the process list (last 5 apps running)
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I hope somebody figures something out with this. (I was just Google searching for something on this, found nothing and figured we'd have something here on the subject.) The messaging button for example, does nothing. If it atleast opened Google Talk that would make things easier. Would make my usual Talk/Browser/Gmail switching much easier when using the keyboard.
And being able to change the contacts key to something else wouldn't be awful either. I don't think I've ever used contacts on my Xoom besides looking at it once and noting a pretty interface. So many other apps would be more useful.
I may be able to help with this. Can someone zip and post up your "/system/usr/keylayout" and "/system/usr/keychars" directories and post them up?
You should not have a /data/usr/keychars and /data/usr/keylayout directories, but give me a copy of those as well if they exist!
Still need those files if you will please good sirs.
I have no idea how to find the files you need. I plugged in my Xoom but I could never get into the system files. I R DUM
here they are
I came across this in the AOSP dev site http://source.android.com/porting/keymaps_keyboard_input.html#androidKeymapKeyLayoutMapTitle
I checked out my system/usr/keylayout/ folder and it shows 3 vendor layout files. i'm guessing those are the moto keyboard.
It looks like it can be done. Although the your xoom would have to be rooted to push a modded file.
looks like someone fixed this!
http://tinyw.in/078
What about generic bluetooth keyboards? I've seen that many for example use Apple keyboards. I was thinking about getting a generic bt keyboard from eBay and remap the keys. Is there any chance that can be done?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016594
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onicrom said:
looks like someone fixed this!
http://tinyw.in/078
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B Dizzle said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016594
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No they didn't fix it. All they did was show how to change what was in the config files for the keyboards and add a WAKE function to an existing button function in order to wake the tablet with the keyboard.
What it looks like is being asked here is how to remap the default application buttons on the motorola keyboard (ie,.. messaging, browser, music, etc). The messaging button does nothing on the Xoom since it can't send text messages and the button was really meant to perform this function on the Atrix. There has also been questions as to how you could remap the browser button to another browser since setting the default browser to something other than the chrome one does nothing.
I've looked over that entire file and not once in there did it show a mapping for those keys to their respective functions. The function buttons have settings there, but I don't know if changing those would have any affect.
Anyone???
in case anyone didn't know, you can press the "search" key + a letter to open up applications. For example, "search" + T opens up Google Talk.
tlkid064 said:
Hello all. I recently got the Bluetooth Motorola Keyboard and I was wondering if anyone would be able to explain how to change any of the hardware keys on the keyboard to open an application. Thanks in advance.
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A bit late to reply, but maybe this can help you.
As 'gadgetluva' already mentioned, you can use the "search" key + a letter to launch some applications.
Previous versions of android allowed you to change the assignment of these in the settings. But somehow that option is gone in Honeycomb. The code to do it is still in there, but I didn't find any UI entry to it in the settings.
But, there is a dirty work around if you really want to change them. The application Task Switcher (there are multiple ones, I'm talking about the one from Jason Parekh) can be downloaded for free from the market. It's a nice and useful application, but you can also use it to open the hidden "Quick Launch" settings dialog. You do that by going to the settings of Task Switcher and choose Shortcut. That will open the "Quick Launch" settings dialog. In there you can (re-)assign the "search" key shortcuts at will.
It's a bit involved, but you only have to do this once ...
PS: Once you have Task Switcher installed, you can as well bind it to a key your not using with the free application exsbar. That way you also have a quick shortcut to switch between the running applications. A little bit like the Alt-Tab in windows.
The G4 has a copy/paste manager named Clip Tray. Apparently, this is a long-standing 'feature' of LG phones and tablets and has been baked into a number of previous LG devices.
When you select and copy some text or invoke the copy command in one of your apps, it presents you with a slide-out menu containing thumbnails of both the current and all previous text snippets it has stored in memory.
There's a lock button that seems to allow you to make selected clippings persist across reboots (really? why?) and a trash button that you can use to manually delete any or all clippings in the tray.
As useful as this might be, it could also lead to all sorts of problems - the whole thing seems designed to solve a problem nobody has (and to create all sorts of security issues), namely to make clippings persist in the clipboard for a long as possible. Why on earth would anybody want to keep potentially sensitive information in the clipboard 'forever'...?
Questions:
How do I manage the Clip Tray behaviour? I want to be able to set it so that it only remembers the last operation (like a 'traditional' clipboard), and a clipboard time-out.
What's the max number of clippings is it capable of holding? It would be rather worrisome if there was no limit on the number of copy/paste operations (other than your 3GB of RAM) it can store (and no way to manage it).
Is there a way to disable Clip Tray altogether? - I assume a clipboard manager such as Clipper would take over from Clip Tray when installed on your device, but I would like to explicitly disable it if possible.
Some have suggested that clearing the Clip Tray can fix input lag. I'm testing this theory now.
I cleared it and now the horrible almost one second lag on the QSlide Calculator is gone. I filled the clip tray with big URLs from the browser and left them there for a few days and the calculator was slightly laggy, but not as bad as before.
I too would like this gone, but for now I just hit the small arrow button that appears on the lower right of the screen after a Clip Tray operation and clear it manually each time. I wonder if the carrier and LG spyware index the Clip Tray too?
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The G4 has a copy/paste manager named Clip Tray. Apparently, this is a long-standing 'feature' of LG phones and tablets and has been baked into a number of previous LG devices.
When you select and copy some text or invoke the copy command in one of your apps, it presents you with a slide-out menu containing thumbnails of both the current and all previous text snippets it has stored in memory.
There's a lock button that seems to allow you to make selected clippings persist across reboots (really? why?) and a trash button that you can use to manually delete any or all clippings in the tray.
As useful as this might be, it could also lead to all sorts of problems - the whole thing seems designed to solve a problem nobody has (and to create all sorts of security issues), namely to make clippings persist in the clipboard for a long as possible. Why on earth would anybody want to keep potentially sensitive information in the clipboard 'forever'...?
Questions:
How do I manage the Clip Tray behaviour? I want to be able to set it so that it only remembers the last operation (like a 'traditional' clipboard), and a clipboard time-out.
What's the max number of clippings is it capable of holding? It would be rather worrisome if there was no limit on the number of copy/paste operations (other than your 3GB of RAM) it can store (and no way to manage it).
Is there a way to disable Clip Tray altogether? - I assume a clipboard manager such as Clipper would take over from Clip Tray when installed on your device, but I would like to explicitly disable it if possible.
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Been looking into this myself, the Clip Tray seems to be part of the LG Keyboard app, with no viable way to disable it without disabling the native keyboard completely. I'm still looking into it atm.
I tried freezing the official LG keyboard but the clip tray still appears when text is copied. Surely there is a way to disable this with root access by renaming certain system files?
l_p_4_7 said:
I tried freezing the official LG keyboard but the clip tray still appears when text is copied. Surely there is a way to disable this with root access by renaming certain system files?
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You know what thinking about it, it's probably incorporated into the SystemUI apk as it's built into the copy/paste function. So it's unlikely it can be hacked out easily. Really wish LG provided user control for it. It's so dam insecure.
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You know what thinking about it, it's probably incorporated into the SystemUI apk as it's built into the copy/paste function. So it's unlikely it can be hacked out easily. Really wish LG provided user control for it. It's so dam insecure.
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Yeah, it's not only annoying but a security risk. We can only hope that LG will provide an option to disable in a future update, or maybe there will be an Xposed module that removes it (when Xposed finally works with G4).
l_p_4_7 said:
Yeah, it's not only annoying but a security risk. We can only hope that LG will provide an option to disable in a future update, or maybe there will be an Xposed module that removes it (when Xposed finally works with G4).
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Won't be using Xposed, I only plan to. unlock once/if Cyanogenmod or a decent AOSP variant becomes available.
you can disable cliptray.
1. go into cliptray, and delete everything in there
2. go to /system/etc/permissions/com.lge.software.cliptray.xml and comment out the following line:
Code:
<feature name="com.lge.software.cliptray"/>
just add <!-- to the front, and --> to the end so it looks like:
Code:
<!-- <feature name="com.lge.software.cliptray"/> -->
reboot. and enjoy. unfortunately when you go to paste something, you'll still see "Paste, Cliptray", but cliptray wont work, nor will you see any dialogs
ExTREmE99 said:
you can disable cliptray.
1. go into cliptray, and delete everything in there
2. go to /system/etc/permissions/com.lge.software.cliptray.xml and comment out the following line:
Code:
<feature name="com.lge.software.cliptray"/>
just add <!-- to the front, and --> to the end so it looks like:
Code:
<!-- <feature name="com.lge.software.cliptray"/> -->
reboot. and enjoy. unfortunately when you go to paste something, you'll still see "Paste, Cliptray", but cliptray wont work, nor will you see any dialogs
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Or just disable the LG Keyboard (as long as you have another installed) this disables clip tray and removes all trace of it from copy and paste.
IIIIkoolaidIIII said:
Or just disable the LG Keyboard (as long as you have another installed) this disables clip tray and removes all trace of it from copy and paste.
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that never worked for me. i disabled the LG keyboard as soon as i installed debloater
ExTREmE99 said:
that never worked for me. i disabled the LG keyboard as soon as i installed debloater
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Works grat for me, have you got root? I just rooted my device using the new method and used titanium backup to freeze the LG keyboard and all gone.
IIIIkoolaidIIII said:
Works grat for me, have you got root? I just rooted my device using the new method and used titanium backup to freeze the LG keyboard and all gone.
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obviously i have root, otherwise i wouldnt be able to disable cliptray with the method i posted above.
Yep, disabling the LG keyboard should do the trick. Unfortunately that only works on rooted devices - you cannot fully disable the LG keyboard on a non-rooted phone right now. I agree with everyone else saying LG really should make that available with an update. It's a security issue, and as such disabling Clip tray, or even simply adjusting its behaviour, should be available to everyone.
They could simply add settings to Clip Tray that allow you to put a time limit (say 60s, 3 minutes) on stuff being stored there, and more importantly to create a blacklist of apps like password managers that should never use Clip Tray.
caffeinated.pants said:
Yep, disabling the LG keyboard should do the trick.
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Not for me. The above mentioned xml edit works though.
0rigin said:
Not for me. The above mentioned xml edit works though.
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unfortunately, i learned recently that disabling cliptray, also screws up screenshots. if you take a screenshot, the systemui tries to write the screenshot to the cliptray, and cant, since it's disabled, so the "Saving Screenshot.." notification gets stuck. the only way to remove the notification is to force close systemui or reboot. you can still take screenshots with 3rd party apps, or quickmemo, but the built in android screenshot function (volume down + power key) breaks until someone can remove the offending cliptray code from systemui
ExTREmE99 said:
unfortunately, i learned recently that disabling cliptray, also screws up screenshots. if you take a screenshot, the systemui tries to write the screenshot to the cliptray, and cant, since it's disabled, so the "Saving Screenshot.." notification gets stuck. the only way to remove the notification is to force close systemui or reboot. you can still take screenshots with 3rd party apps, or quickmemo, but the built in android screenshot function (volume down + power key) breaks until someone can remove the offending cliptray code from systemui
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With the "notify clean" module you can disable some notifications while not disabling others from the same app. Might help you.
ExTREmE99 said:
you can disable cliptray.
1. go into cliptray, and delete everything in there
2. go to /system/etc/permissions/com.lge.software.cliptray.xml and comment out the following line:
Code:
<feature name="com.lge.software.cliptray"/>
just add <!-- to the front, and --> to the end so it looks like:
Code:
<!-- <feature name="com.lge.software.cliptray"/> -->
reboot. and enjoy. unfortunately when you go to paste something, you'll still see "Paste, Cliptray", but cliptray wont work, nor will you see any dialogs
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Or just disable the LG Keyboard (as long as you have another installed) this disables clip tray and removes all trace of it from copy and paste.
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Thx a lot. That worked with lg g4 and 10e software.
I'll think that is a great security hole from lg.
I am using keepass and all my passwords was visible in the clip tray.
Now they are gone
Thx
popy2006 said:
Thx a lot. That worked with lg g4 and 10e software.
I'll think that is a great security hole from lg.
I am using keepass and all my passwords was visible in the clip tray.
Now they are gone
Thx
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Btw, keepass has an option where you can tell it to never use the Android clipboard - if enabled, which I strongly recommend, your passwords won't show up in LG's Clip Tray either.
If only the suggestions here were remotely helpful. I have root also, disabling the lg keyboard does absolutely nothing to stop the annoyance of clip tray. i cannot even paste properly with this fking thing, when i hold to paste, clit tray stupidly selects the surrounding letters/word next to the cursor, i cannot simply paste something in without replacing something else (not at all what i want) like how i need to on occasion. Is lg really this shortsighted?
There's a thread on reddit about disabling ClipTray and preserving the screenshot functionality:
reddit.com/r/lgg4/comments/3ywx84/psa_how_to_disable_clip_tray_requires_root_or_twrp/cyig5lt
For me this works beautifully
I'm looking for something similar to the note 3's keyboard. number buttons on top and there's a "@" and ".com" buttons on the bottom.
I'm pretty sure I tried every single free keyboard on the playstore...
if someone could direct me to a zip or apk of note 3 keyboard that would work on my lg g3 I would love you eternally.
my phone is rooted btw.
LG's stock keyboard has "@" and ".com" buttons.
It also has numbers at the top.
When I'm writing an email in the gmail app, the @ and the .com appear automatically in the email field. When I change to subject field, the keyboard returns to normal. This is the normal procedure. I'm using Swype.