Develop Bugs

Swype: Can't highlight words with double tap?

You guys notice that you can't double tap the word to highlight with the stock version of Swype included with the SGSII? Not sure why this is no longer available, really helped speed things up with editing on the SGS versions of Swype.

Yes I noticed that, makes it annoying to fix typos...

it's to do with the samsung "correction" system.
It is possible to edit words via swype, but its a bit clunky, you long press the word, click select word, and then wait 2 seconds for the samsung crap to get out of the way.
I'm sure that the correction thing can be disabled letting us use swype more intuitively.

Apparently you can just uninstall the swype that comes on the phone and install the latest beta from the swype website and get that feature back.

drm111 said:
Apparently you can just uninstall the swype that comes on the phone and install the latest beta from the swype website and get that feature back.
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I think I might just do that, definitely makes it a lot more difficult to go back and edit!
EDIT: NOPE, that didn't work. Don't bother, it's something with the OS.

I think this is actually a gingerbread thing.
Froyo used to do it fine but when I upgraded my
Old phone to gingerbread I could no longer do it.
The text selection is different.
You can click on the word you want to change then
Press the swype button once to get up the word list.
Hope this helps.

Also, once you have the word list up, you can press the 'Shift' key to get a list of capitalisation options for the word, e.g. word, Word, WORD.
Swype is the main reason I'm on an Android phone. I like the SGS2, of course, but having played with dual boot WP7 and Android on an HD2, Swype was the main reason for going Android. No regrets, mind you

I would LOVEEEE to fix this.., someone freaking sticky this.. I tried installing my swype from sgs1 froyo but no good.. I also hate how , comma is where space bar used to be.. always hit it instead of space
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Gustopher said:
Also, once you have the word list up, you can press the 'Shift' key to get a list of capitalisation options for the word, e.g. word, Word, WORD.
Swype is the main reason I'm on an Android phone. I like the SGS2, of course, but having played with dual boot WP7 and Android on an HD2, Swype was the main reason for going Android. No regrets, mind you
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Cool man I share your passion for swype. Been using it since day one.
As soon as I have some means to instal them like recovery I'm going to
Port my skins over and I can make custom versions for peeps.

if we can get old swype back all problems would be,gone
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soraxd said:
if we can get old swype back all problems would be,gone
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Hmm well I have apks for the beta, my own custom version,
Maybe If I can change the name,.sign then instal it along side
Our built in version. I do prefer the beta too. Too many buttons
At the bottom on this version, but as I said, it might be gingerbreads
New way of text selection causing the problem cos it happened on
My old phone. Very annoying.
Edit : I wouldn't be able to post it here tho as its against the rules.

If you want to edit the word, just single tap the word and tap the swype icon on the bottom left of the keyboard which brings up all your options.

zxz88 said:
If you want to edit the world, just single tap the word and tap the swype icon on the bottom left of the keyboard which brings up all your options.
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We have a winner. Don't double tap, long press, or highlight the word. as long as the cursor is next to the word, the swype button will show the suggested words list.
Burko

Thanks for solving that for me zxz88!
Now, how do I ad words to it?

press anywhere on the word you want to correct to get the cursor there, then just press the swype key in the bottom left corner of the keyboard.....does the trick without having to select the whole word again....i had the same problem you did, then realized there must be another way....

actually.. that isn't too bad, I still don't like how much of the spacebar was cut to add 2 new keys tho.. I ALWAYS hit ,,,,,, for space
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zxz88 said:
If you want to edit the word, just single tap the word and tap the swype icon on the bottom left of the keyboard which brings up all your options.
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Yes, but Swype previously you could just double tap to bring up the word choice, one less step = faster.
BTW, this looks to be a Gingerbread bug, not Swype's... and is documented on Swype's forum: http://forum.swype.com/showthread.php?2928-Gingerbread-2.3.3-Double-Tap-opening-Edit-Menu.
On a side note... can one of you nice people post up the "libswypecore.so" file from XWKE2's /system/lib directory? It got deleted when I installed the beta version, I think the stock version runs faster.
Thanks!

cmd512 said:
Yes, but Swype previously you could just double tap to bring up the word choice, one less step = faster.
BTW, this looks to be a Gingerbread bug, not Swype's... and is documented on Swype's forum: http://forum.swype.com/showthread.php?2928-Gingerbread-2.3.3-Double-Tap-opening-Edit-Menu.
On a side note... can one of you nice people post up the "libswypecore.so" file from XWKE2's /system/lib directory? It got deleted when I installed the beta version, I think the stock version runs faster.
Thanks!
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Surely a double tap and 2 separate taps are the same number of steps? I find the new way more intuitive in day to day use.
In fact if you are correcting the word you have just typed, you don't have to double tap at all anymore. One less step = faster right?
Burko

f0ffen said:
Thanks for solving that for me zxz88!
Now, how do I ad words to it?
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No problem, to add words I believe you just type out the new word instead of swyping it gets added as a new word so the next time you can swype it!

Burko said:
Surely a double tap and 2 separate taps are the same number of steps? I find the new way more intuitive in day to day use.
In fact if you are correcting the word you have just typed, you don't have to double tap at all anymore. One less step = faster right?
Burko
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Wrong, it's all about WHERE you're tapping. If I quickly double tap on the word, my finger doesn't move from that spot and I can immediately pick the replacement word. If I have to put the cursor on the word, then move down to the keyboard all the way to the lower left to hit the option button, and then move back up to select word, of course that's slower.
Pretty straightforward really... how could you say the two are the same? It's like saying you're both driving from points A to B, who cares about distance, lol.

Swype beta!!!

It has been brought to my attention that posting the apk itself is against site rules so I have removed the link. I have however left the official website link for anyone that wants the app just visit the site and download the apk. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Just go to http://beta.swype.com/ and register to test!

Is this for Beta 1.3?

Beta 1.3
jastonas said:
Is this for Beta 1.3?
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Yes it is,

Thanks for the post.I had the beta installed a few weeks back but all of a sudden it stopped working a few days ago so now it's working again with the new beta
Sent from my SG3

It's abit troublesome if you need to use numbers snd decimal points, you need to switch from alphabet to numeric in order to get it. I think they should add decimal point in the numerical pads too without switching to and fro.

It is against XDA rules to post Swype as a standalone apk.

Why????
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It is against XDA rules to post Swype as a standalone apk.
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It's a free apk at the moment while it's in BETA, if it is against the rule I will remove it but I thought been as it's a FREE BETA it would be no problem??? Am I wrong???

Ttblondey said:
It's abit troublesome if you need to use numbers snd decimal points, you need to switch from alphabet to numeric in order to get it. I think they should add decimal point in the numerical pads too without switching to and fro.
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If you hold down the button that changes to numeric it brings up a different numeric pad with decimal point, enjoy!

Been using this for a while now and works flawlessly! Really liking the keyboard themes

Switching from languages need a long press.

Ttblondey said:
Switching from languages need a long press.
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Which really really sucks if you use two languages.
Anyway, Swype was never very supportive for people that used more than one language. Even the version where you press a single button to switch languages, sometimes it doesn't change at all, and when it does, it's always less snapier than any other keyboard I have tried.

Using stock prediction more worse than swype.

Banwell13 said:
It's a free apk at the moment while it's in BETA, if it is against the rule I will remove it but I thought been as it's a FREE BETA it would be no problem??? Am I wrong???
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Read this..
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/official-stance-from-swype-inc-regarding-its-distribution/

Sorry
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Read this..
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/official-stance-from-swype-inc-regarding-its-distribution/
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Thanks for the head up, apks removed, I appologize for unknowingly breaking the rules.

jastonas said:
Which really really sucks if you use two languages.
Anyway, Swype was never very supportive for people that used more than one language. Even the version where you press a single button to switch languages, sometimes it doesn't change at all, and when it does, it's always less snapier than any other keyboard I have tried.
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Did you know the shortcut to change language on swype?
Swipe your finger from the swype button to the spacebar. You don't need to longpress anything.
There are several more shortcuts, it's in the settings, you can look after.
Sent from SGS III GT-I9300

zoot1 said:
Read this..
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/official-stance-from-swype-inc-regarding-its-distribution/
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Everybody makes mistakes.No hard feelings

Tried this one cause the Samsungs continues input doesn't work. Afrter a quick testing, this one is worth trying if you wanna use swiping for text input.

marcedli said:
Did you know the shortcut to change language on swype?
Swipe your finger from the swype button to the spacebar. You don't need to longpress anything.
There are several more shortcuts, it's in the settings, you can look after.
Sent from SGS III GT-I9300
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Yes! :good:
In case anyone is having trouble with the quick language switch gesture, you just have to make sure to select a second active language before you can toggle between languages.

anyone experiences an occasional hang time before swype comes out? may be just me....keeping fingers crossed for swiftkey flow

SexyIceCream said:
anyone experiences an occasional hang time before swype comes out? may be just me....keeping fingers crossed for swiftkey flow
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Yes, but i solved it with a clean reinstall of Swype. Now it works normally.

4.2 Keyboard tips?

I just realized that double tapping a word highlights the entire word and gives the option to replace it with a drop down list of suggested words. Has anyone found any other tricks to working the 4.2 keyboard?

Blown 89 said:
I just realized that double tapping a word highlights the entire word and gives the option to replace it with a drop down list of suggested words. Has anyone found any other tricks to working the 4.2 keyboard?
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Wow!!! I was looking for that! Thanks!

Cheers... Sounds like a good idea.
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wow... no reason whatsoever to use swype now. thanks!

Blown 89 said:
I just realized that double tapping a word highlights the entire word and gives the option to replace it with a drop down list of suggested words. Has anyone found any other tricks to working the 4.2 keyboard?
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Thanks- I was wondering how that worked!
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wow... no reason whatsoever to use swype now. thanks!
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Swype is still phenomenally better. The typing gets more accurate with use, and it is always much more accurate and has better punctuation. It takes one tap to add a word to the dictionary. I add a word to the Google dictionary and it still doesn't show up. It randomly censors out words and autocorrects to words that don't even exist. It's a bloody mess.
Have you even tried to write the word "sex"? It keeps on changing it to "sec" and won't even allow me to add it to the dictionary.
Google should have just bought Swype and incorporated it...

I wonder if it's possible to disable it from automatically creating a space after each word, there are times when I want to disable it.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

i found the new native keyboard a great improvement, but for me and my uses, doesn't get close to swype. one thing i miss in the native keyboard is cut/copy/paste/select all with just a swype, the ability to move de cursor by swiping too, it has tab (->), a big numerical only keyboard mode, &c.
Of course it's a matter of personal preferences, but swype has more useful features, that i find myself using everyday, than the new native keyboard. And I did delay my coming back to swype trying to get used to the new keyboard. But eventually, after a few days, I'm back with swype.
all the best

You can also tap and hold a word to get the options too.
Of course, predicting words could be better and punctuation marks on swype are more natural to enter.
sent from my mini tractor

montrealguy said:
Have you even tried to write the word "sex"? It keeps on changing it to "sec" and won't even allow me to add it to the dictionary.
Google should have just bought Swype and incorporated it...
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I noticed that too. How dare they restrict the English language, the bayards. Oops I mean b*stards!

How do you manually add words to the dictionary? Is there a method of doing it other than the default type it out and touch again to save?
Transmission sent from my Galaxy Nexus.

Pheno.menon said:
How do you manually add words to the dictionary? Is there a method of doing it other than the default type it out and touch again to save?
Transmission sent from my Galaxy Nexus.
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It's under the language and input section in the settings menu.

[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
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Then is it better? ?

any idea ?

keyboard settings on C6502 + 5.x.x

hello everybody
i had a looooong e-mail battle with Sony support team to include option "disable autocapitalisation" for keyboard settings
can anybody confirm or deny the presence of this checkbox in settings for lollipop? because that is basically the one and only reason for me to upgrade and i'm not sure whether i'm should go with it
thanks in advance
cheers

i don't know what exactly are you asking, but i'll try.
In the keyboard, while typing, the first letter is capital. You can tap the capitalisation arrow to make even the first letter small, but you have to do this every time you want the first letter to be in small letters.
hope this helps.

control freak said:
i don't know what exactly are you asking, but i'll try.
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i never experienced a problem with clarity of my speech, but anyway
BEHOLD!
exibit A: some unknown Samsung phone of my coworker
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exibit B: my C6502
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(replace spaces with dots)
so, my question: does SONY included this option in the new android version or not
i can install third-party keyboard, like, google's. and the google keyboard do have the "autocapitalization" option. but i really like the appearance and layout of Sony's keyboard, so, i want them to change
if you have a ZL and update it for Android 5.x.x - just go to the keyboard settings. if you see the checkbox for autocorrection - tell me. if you don't see it - tell me anyway, hehe
thank you in advance once again!

forgive me my friend for not understanding the first time.
I have updated my Xperia to 5.1.1
as I told you earlier, the keyboard DOES auto capitalise the first letter.(you can change this behaviour on the fly with the Upward arrow below the letter "a" as shown in the screenshots.)
here are these screenshots you requested. see for yourself. if you want any help, I will surely help you

OK, auto-capitalization is still turned on by defaut and still unswitchable
guess, i'll stick with KitKat for now
thanks