Has anyone been able to activate the symbols menu from the keypad that appears on the space bar key? It would be nice to enter a back slash without opening the onscreen keyboard.
Thanks in advance.
jmgbonds said:
Has anyone been able to activate the symbols menu from the keypad that appears on the space bar key? It would be nice to enter a back slash without opening the onscreen keyboard.
Thanks in advance.
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Explain, please.
Do you mean without opening the sliding hardware keyboard? You said "onscreen"; I think you mean with the onscreen keyboard.
on the hardware keyboard there is no backslash, so you have to use the software keyboard. I too didn't find a way to easily enter some "symbol" mode...
if you type the forward slash and still have the unit in symbol mode and hit space, it will change it to a back slash and then cycle through more symbols if you continue to hit space in symbol mode.
I thought of something like that... The only problem with that technique is, that you don't know which symbol is on which key (/\ is quite obvious of course ). Much nicher would be some table that pops up with symbols and you can chose there (communicator had that)
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if you type the forward slash and still have the unit in symbol mode and hit space, it will change it to a back slash and then cycle through more symbols if you continue to hit space in symbol mode.
How do you get it into symbol mode once you slide open the keyboard? Typed forward slash then hit space and it moved forward. Just want to type a backslash without opening the onscreen keyboard.
Thanks in advance.
Hold the Button with the red dot while typing space bar. As with the whole keyboard, the red dot button accesses the red labels of the keys... so the "Sym" is written in red on the space bar, abviously this means it's accessed the same way.
Didn't work the first time. Got it now. Tyvm.
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Sorry for the stuoid question but... I can't find the symbols ("!", "@" ecc...) on the keyboard of my Jam...
Tap on "Shift" on the keyboard, and enjoy it.
I find the "!" but I can't find all the "standard symbols".... for example the "@"!!
Sorry, probably I'm still sleeping today!
Come on Markino, Its beside the "!" symbol !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well actually, on my keyboard the @ symbol is 2 spaces to the left of te space bar. Either way, it's there! Other symbols are found by either tapping "Shift" or the button in the top left corner with "123". Not really hard to work out.
Easy question...
For the life of me, I can't fathom out how to enter a £ symbol using the hardware keyboard, the 'soft' keyboard or the transcriber.
Can anyone help?
How much time/effort did you put to solve this problem, huh?
For soft keyboard, just click on the '123' on the top left will give you a number and symbol keyboard with £ around.
For transcribe, you just draw the £ normally. If you have problem how the symbol is drawn, click on the second-from-the-left button at the bottom, click on the right-arrow to locate the £ symbol. At the top, tap on the picture for it to show you how to draw them.
Excellent thanks v much!
It's amazing what you forget after 2 or 3 weeks sans-Wizard on holiday!!
Just need to work out how to do similar with the keyboard now, but at least I have a workaround!
double tap the red dot to put on symbol lock, tap g, then tap the space bar twice. double tap the red dot again to take symbol lock off.
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on my htchd2 its on the phone type key board, how do i put it back to the qwerty key board..
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If you keep the keyboard-button pressed you should get a menu where you can choose. So far I haven't really figured out why, but in 8 out of 10 trys it doesn't work, so you just have to keep trying. If you have Total Commander installed then do it in that program, in there I get the menu almost every time...
No, you don't press on the keyboard but the small arrow on the right-hand side of the keyboard icon. That will show all available onscreen keyboards
I had my keypad open in portrait mode and next thing I know it's not the letters, numbers or symbols window. It was some sort of page up, page down type of window. Now I can't get it back. Anyone know how to activate it?
Yeah, swipe from the Swype Key to the SYM Key to bring that screen back.
Dose anyone know how to change the input method with keyboard? Thanks a lot
If you want to use the alternate character for the key you can long press the individual key, press fn for a single use or long press fn for a locked position. The up arrow works the exact same way for capitalization. The ae key brings up the special characters for the entered letter and the smiley face is the emoticon button. The sym key brings up the onscreen keyboard symbols and don't forget to use the .com button while browsing.
Take a look at page 17 of the user manual and it explains things pretty well.
Also note that if you enter the people, messaging, email and search and a couple other things with the keyboard closed you can slide the keyboard open after entering and it will place you in the text field ready to type without an extra screen press. This is a very good keyboard if you get used to it.