I love the physical qwerty keyboard but would prefer using the phone keypad when typing in portrait mode using the touch screen. Is there an option for this? Phone is TP2 with stock software. Thanks,
NoRotate is small utility application, that will enable or disable device rotating.
Why would someone want to disable rotating?
Maybe I'm only one that wants this but im using it for 2 main reasons:
I'm mostly using device in portait mode. When i want to type something i have to slide keyboard, type and slide keyboard back. But when i slide keyboard, i have to wait for OS to rotate. Disbling roation makes typing much faster.
Lots of apps dont support rotating or even causes problems on device. For exapmle if you accidentally move keyboard while using MorphGear in RawFrameBuffer mode, device will freeze and you will have to soft reset
Camera key is not working when rotating is disabled. Use "launch camera" button in application to launch it.
Thanks, that`s very usefull for me.
Hi, this is Driving me NUTS about the note 2.
I will be typing on the keyboard, and itl just switch to left or right handed mode. I then have to go to settings and disable left / right hand mode, and go back to typing.
2 mins later pressing some typing combination it does it again....
What controls this damn thing, nothing in the samsung help says anything about gestures or how it turns to small mode.
I like the keyboard and am now feeling forced to download a new one because i simply cannot be forced to go to settings and disable (left right hand mode) every 2 mins of typing.
how do fix this?
Pinch to zoom in/out.
If you pinch on the stock/default keyboard it goes into "mini" mode.
Pinch out and it goes back to normal mode.
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dnanj said:
Pinch to zoom in/out.
If you pinch on the stock/default keyboard it goes into "mini" mode.
Pinch out and it goes back to normal mode.
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wow yes that did it, its a bit finicky on the keyboard takes 2-3 pinch to zooms.
man that is SOOOOO annoying, i wish i could disable this crap.
Unable to disable.
cenkaetaya said:
Hi, this is Driving me NUTS about the note 2.
I will be typing on the keyboard, and itl just switch to left or right handed mode. I then have to go to settings and disable left / right hand mode, and go back to typing.
2 mins later pressing some typing combination it does it again....
What controls this damn thing, nothing in the samsung help says anything about gestures or how it turns to small mode.
I like the keyboard and am now feeling forced to download a new one because i simply cannot be forced to go to settings and disable (left right hand mode) every 2 mins of typing.
how do fix this?
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This function "One-handed" input is activated by pinching or by the settings menu. You cannot however disable it. Weird indeed.
I've landed in mini keyboard a few times. Any pointers on the pinching, as all I end up doing is typing random letters.
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Yeah they really should have made it to where you can actually disable it. I did it a couple times when I first go the phone, but then I put my swiftkey on there and didn't have to worry about it anymore.
dnanj said:
Pinch to zoom in/out.
If you pinch on the stock/default keyboard it goes into "mini" mode.
Pinch out and it goes back to normal mode.
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This is so ridiculously awesome, thank you for pointing out the feature! I am finding fewer and fewer reasons to stick with the Swype Betas.
just try a few times, when i first did it, it didnt work either.
its super awkward and i wish this feature could be totally removed, i do it every 2-3 mins of typing.
i think i will be forced to dl another keyboard app.
I turned it off in settings and haven't had it happen since.
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HI all,
I'm so confused about this. I know you can go to settings (both one handed operation and keyboard setting) and turn on/off one handed operation, but how do you toggle back and forth without going into settings?
Apparently pinch to zoom on the keyboard works for some people. It does NOT work for me.
others saying you need to hold shift, then press space then "L", again never worked once for me
I've also seen people saying use 2 fingers to slide left or right. Not working for me.
Some saying it switches on its own while typing (which annoyed them), but they are not sure how it happened.
Does anyone know? One handed is useful in some situations, but going to settings to change it just seems too hard.
Thanks,
You are not alone with this problem. I first read about the pinch toggle feature in a forum post and decided to try itiimmediately. No luck. No luck. No luck. Success. It was just as hard to toggle back to the normal keyboard. I had the most luck pinching my fingers together near or on the spacebar.
I personally use a wierd but brilliant keyboard called "messagease". I have the 4.2 android keyboard installed, SwiftKey Flow, Keymonk and Samsungs stock Swype keyboardbut I still end up using messagease for 90% of my writing.
HW removed this feature from the one handed mode, which is very useful for such a big phone.
it's so annoying to stretch my thumb to make phone call now!