Entering text in calender when switching to landscape - 8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General

Hi, this is a really stupid little problem but it's really annoying as it happens everyday:
In portrait mode, I go to my calender and click Menu -> New Appointment with the soft keys, and then it opens and the cursor is flashing in the subject field. However, as it's doing that, I like to flip it into landscape mode so I can type the subject quickly.
My problem is that 5 seconds after I flip it into landscape mode, it decides that I've finished with that field and stops letting me type. It's really annoying as I'll be a few characters into writing the subject, when the cursor disappears. I then am forced to pull out my stylus and click the subject field, or use my finger.
Any idea how I can solve this, besides opening in landscape mode before I do Menu -> New Appointment?
Thanks

I have noticed the same issue, and I think it's a bug.
You can tab and back tab to get to the field without using the stylus, that's one way to overcome it, the other of course is to remember to switch before entering any data.
cheerio
Howard

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i am having the same problem also.. but recently it stopped.. idk wuts going on?
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Im using pocketcm and it pops up when ever im sending a text.
I checked in the regestry and i tried sktools, but its an older release.
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jomo25 said:
On my Kaiser, if it pops up in landscape mode, if I just start typing with my hardware keyboard, it goes away automatically. Does the Hermes not do that?
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It does, but not when i use contactcm. Even now i noticed when i use null keyboard contactcm it still shows 2 send buttons on the screen and the keyboard comes back but u cant see it.. so null didnt really help with that program, No biggie ill just tap the screen to drop the keyboard. once i do that it dosnt pop back up, unless i close the program.. only happends on 2 programs i use.

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start, settings, personal, sceen allows you to rotate orientation.
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I love swype, however I have one major problem when using it with a chat program like Gtalk.
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