Hi, i have the keyboard dock and love it. Each time the tab goes to sleep it reverts the onscreen keyboard to the orignal android keyboard. And to get the most out of the dock you need the samsung onscreen keyboard. Anyoneone experiencing on their tab and know how to stop this or is this a current bug in the software.
Is there any way to make a swype keyboard with the arrow keys like in HTC's default keyboard? I think then it would be the perfect keyboard lol.
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Fyi, the newest Swype beta has arrows, just not on the main keyboard. You Swype from the info key to sym and an arrow Sven comes up. Hope this helps
tylerlawhon said:
Is there any way to make a swype keyboard with the arrow keys like in HTC's default keyboard? I think then it would be the perfect keyboard lol.
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fwiw the htc_ime trace kb in sense 3 roms/patches has the arrows and is a swype knockoff
I recently installed Swiftkey to give it a go to replace the samsung keyboard just because it lags a bit, and i was how if possible, can i make Swiftkey look like the samsung keyboard? I find that with Swiftkey, the keys are too big and prefer the look of samsung keyboard. Is there are way to make Swiftkey look like the samsung keyboard?
Thanks
twizller said:
I recently installed Swiftkey to give it a go to replace the samsung keyboard just because it lags a bit, and i was how if possible, can i make Swiftkey look like the samsung keyboard? I find that with Swiftkey, the keys are too big and prefer the look of samsung keyboard. Is there are way to make Swiftkey look like the samsung keyboard?
Thanks
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Are you rooted ?
If not try Kii keyboard
Have you adjusted the height of the keys in the SwiftKey settings?
I use Swype in my Galaxy S4 Active (comes for free) and I have a customized dictionary with my own words. I like it so much I bought the app for my Note 8.0 (on sale for $0.99).
However, I found out that Swype TOOK OVER the S-Pen feature and host of other stuff, such as:
- NO button to switch to other keyboard, including S-Pen
- DISABLE automatic switch to S-Pen handwriting when the pen is detached
- DISABLE Google text-to-speech and replaced it with Swype own voice recognition.
Do you guys see the same thing, even with other replacement keyboard such as Swiftkey?
UPDATE: I downloaded Swiftkey (FAOTD from Amazon) and it does the same thing - the S-Pen handwriting pop-up is DISABLED. I.e. I can no longer do handwriting recognition.
Unless someone can chime in, I think I can safely concludes that MOST of the popular keyboard replacement app DISABLE a lot of S-Pen and Voice functionality on the Note 8.0.
Kinda suck because the Samsung Keyboard, with swipe capability, is not as robust as Swiftkey or Swype.
I am on the same boat... except I am on AOSP rom...
Wish there was a Swiftkey + S-Pen keyboard. I want the handwriting recognition.
EDIT: Actually I found this! no need for the default Samsung Keyboard now!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.visionobjects.stylusmobile.v3_2_store
Swype has it's own inbuilt handwriting recognition
it is be the pen button, 3rd from left in bottom row
current keyboard can be changed during writing via notification icon, although it's not very convenient
p107r0 said:
Swype has it's own inbuilt handwriting recognition
it is be the pen button, 3rd from left in bottom row
current keyboard can be changed during writing via notification icon, although it's not very convenient
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Swype also replace Google Voice recognition button with their own, which sucks because I prefer Google's.
lanwarrior said:
UPDATE: I downloaded Swiftkey (FAOTD from Amazon) and it does the same thing - the S-Pen handwriting pop-up is DISABLED. I.e. I can no longer do handwriting recognition.
Unless someone can chime in, I think I can safely concludes that MOST of the popular keyboard replacement app DISABLE a lot of S-Pen and Voice functionality on the Note 8.0.
Kinda suck because the Samsung Keyboard, with swipe capability, is not as robust as Swiftkey or Swype.
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I'm obviously a bit slow on this. I have the paid Swiftkey Tablet keyboard set as default but don't really understand the issue. Can someone please tell me how to test this stuff out? If I have the keyboard open and pull out the pen the keyboard closes and SNote pops out. Also, my voice recognition prompted from the keyboard appears to be Google. What am I not doing that you guys are to test?
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I'm obviously a bit slow on this. I have the paid Swiftkey Tablet keyboard set as default but don't really understand the issue. Can someone please tell me how to test this stuff out? If I have the keyboard open and pull out the pen the keyboard closes and SNote pops out. Also, my voice recognition prompted from the keyboard appears to be Google. What am I not doing that you guys are to test?
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I am not talking about S-Note, but the S-Pen input function. Once you selected Swiftkey, the ONLY way to have the S-Pen input shows up is to do this:
1). Swipe down on the notificaiton bar and select the Input method (you'll see a small keyboard icon)
2). Select Samsung Keyboard
3). Select S-Pen input
For Google Voice recognition, I only see Swype's own, called Dragon, not Google Voice recognition.
PS: This is not the Google Voice app, which is used for phone and SMS functions.
If you are rooted... look up S Pen Board Switcher... I am using that app on my Note 8.0 AOSP rom.
What it does is, when you remove your S Pen it will switch to which ever keyboard when the S Pen is out... and switch back to the which ever keyboard you want when the Pen is in.
So in my case... I use Swiftkey Tablet and Stylus (Beta). So when I pull out my S Pen, the keyboard automatically goes to Stylus (Beta) (which gives me handwriting recognition like Samsung's Keyboard, but much better). And when my S Pen is in the slot, it switches back to Swiftkey Tablet keyboard for my fingers to type on.
Hello,
Did Samsung cut that num-pad style keyboard layout? Would be terrified. Any possibility to bring it back? What MOD or APP would you recommend?
p.s.
There is only 'dot' key in the qwerty keyboard layout (vertical) - is there a way to put 'colon' instead? Because colon is more often used and that dot we can get by double pressing space... who invited that keyboard in Samsung...
Thanks in advance for any help (especially in 3x4 keyboard).