I am just wondering what a lot of people use as their default Input Method on their PPCs.
I've used almost all of them except transcriber. Which is strange cause sometimes it makes the best sense. But the slight delay in recognition always kept me from making it my input method of choice.
So will everyone share what methods they have used? are using or prefer using? Does it differ based on what you are doing? I pick one and stick to it. Mostly its Letter Recognizer but lately I've been using the keyboard a lot.
I've noticed one issue with letter recognizer. I used it "full-time" on my previous pda and after a while because of excessive use of the graffiti input area, that area of the screen became a little insensitive to input so i had to press harder than usual for it to recognize my input.. Did this ever happen toyou or anyone?
So after that I'm a little scared to do the same thing to my XDA II therefore i am using the keyboard so that my screen taps are more evenly spread out. But i prefer the letter recognizer. Anyone else have similar experiences?
Personally I like keyb, transcriber, or my targus keyb.
Also,
when you click the selection box to choose which input method to use, go to options, select transcriber, and click options. You can change how long it takes to translate, and with what quality. I have mine set to high quality with almost no delay. I can write a word, and by the time my stylus is back to where I started, it's ready for the next. Although, I wish I could custom write a recognition DB instead of using MS's standard DB. Alot of letters I write a little differently or specificly (like 6 or b).
I've been using Calligrapher for a number of years now and find it superb.
I too am a long time user of CalliGrapher and am very happy with it. The recognition works very well and I do not have to alter my writing style at all. It's software keyboard is also very good and suggests many more words as you type (which you can then select instead of typing the entire word).
I was a little disappointed when PhadPad applet was removed and developed into a separate stand alone application but I found it so useful I elected to buy it anyway.
Ed
I am trying Decuma OnSpot. its a really nice and easy to use input method for the Palm and PPC. I havent tried caligrapher.
Has anyone else used both these products? Can you compare them? I am pretty happy with the Decuma (as of last night).
Tried TenGo and found it quite good for normal notes etc. However when you go to write an SMS, the other inputs - Keyboard, Letter Recogniser etc will auto find your contact after the first couple of letters in the address to: field.
I find that TenGo does not do this and for me that makes it not as useful.
Also, tried Fitaly, jury is still out decided if I like it or not. To be honest it's 'clumsy' the letters in different positions is sooooo consfusing initially. Mostly I use letter recogniser which I get on well with.
Cheers
I always use the Letter Recognizer, and the standard Keyboard when entering passwords etc. the Block Recognizer and Transcriber I have never got on with!!
settings
Perhaps you guys can help. I found the registry setting to set the input method permanently be letter recogniser. So when every you turn of the the device or reset it it alays comes up with lettere recogoniser. But I had a crash recently and now I cannnot remember what it was.
Any ideas?
Re: What's your favourite input method? Do you use any softw
humayunl said:
that area of the screen became a little insensitive
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I usually use letter recognizer, I think it's a quite fast method. But it can't write "ő" and "ű" letters, only "o~" and "u^" :-(
Yes, yes. Sreen become insensitive after a half or one year useage.
I use a self-made input method, it's name Blimkeys. You can write letters on your XDA similar to write letters on a generic mobile phone. Support different languages. Check my signature!
Gábor
I use MessageEase from www.exideas.com. It took me a little while to get used to the layout but I find it extremely easy to use.
I prefer it to fitaly as I tried that but tended to use message ease a lot more.
The advantage with MessageEase is that you can change it into a larger size panel and u can even use your finger to write.
mindracing said:
I've been using Calligrapher for a number of years now and find it superb.
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Amen to that!
I've written a couple of comparative reviews regarding input methods for the XdaII/Pocket PC, they can be found here...
Comparative review of alternative input methods for the XDA II
Follow-up Review of Input Methods for the Xda II
Personally I found letter recognizer is quite. Maybe I just need to enter standard english so special characters won't bother me at all!
I use the kb mainly for almost anything, is the fastest using two my well groomed thumb-nails tapping technique.. Once a while I will use transcriber for composing long letter/notes. Given up on those letter/block recognizer since I ruined my cassiopeia through excessive use.
Unlocking
having problems with unlocking Xda II using both softwares
it comes up with the error
xda2unlock.exe v2.2
Welcome to your Himalaya network locking repair tool!
This tool is free of charge....... (Or so it was when it left the factory)
Start of repair process......
Preparing modem ......
performing magic ....
Read: 9, [] []ERROR [] []
Failed to do magic
Unfortunately it seems the repair was not successful. Maybe you can find help at http://forum.xda-developers.com which I went to down loaded but stil cut unlock.
When I discount the USB the screen on Xda stays at USB v1.01 so cant do anything with it any reason why this would happen
Please help
registry settings for default input method
Just so it is here because it took me ages to find it. :lol:
Set Letter Recognizer as default input method
Whenever you soft-reset, the input method reverts to the keyboard. Changing this registry entry will set it to your desired default each time.
KEY: \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Sip\
NEW VALUES: DefaultIm =
Input type
Set to this String value
Keyboard {42429667-ae04-11d0-a4f8-00aa00a749b9}
Letter Recognizer {42429690-ae04-11d0-a4f8-00aa00a749b9}
Block Recognizer {42429691-ae04-11d0-a4f8-00aa00a749b9}
Re: registry settings for default input method
thanks for registry settings - a great help, Cheers
humayunl said:
I am trying Decuma OnSpot. its a really nice and easy to use input method for the Palm and PPC. I havent tried caligrapher.
Has anyone else used both these products? Can you compare them? I am pretty happy with the Decuma (as of last night).
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I've tried both of them and more besides - I still come back to Calligrapher, nothing else to touch it IMHO. See my comparitive reviews here and here.
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Sallala said:
humayunl said:
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I usually use letter recognizer, I think it's a quite fast method. But it can't write "ő" and "ű" letters, only "o~" and "u^" :-(
Yes, yes. Sreen become insensitive after a half or one year useage.
I use a self-made input method, it's name Blimkeys. You can write letters on your XDA similar to write letters on a generic mobile phone. Support different languages. Check my signature!
Gábor
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Hi Gábor!
Blimkeys is great.
Had to adjust it for German characters and for big thumbs like mine (not only bigger fields but also fatter frames around the fields).
Hi,
I installed the 6.5 rom on my Hermes/TYTN but have some input issues.
When entering text something very annoying happens.
After typing the first or second character of a word the cursor always jumps back one or two places, as result the rest of the word is put in front of the first character(s).
For example, if I want type "handheld", I get this result "ndheldHa".
As you understand this is very annoying and I have to pay attention every time.
This occurs in almost every application (Agenda, Tasks, Excel, ...) but it never happens with the first word, only on the next ones.
The only application which is not affected is SMS (fortunately).
I already tried changing the input, keyboard and dictionary options but did not find a solution.
Does anyone has a clue how to resolve this ?
Couldn't find any trace on Google or the forum either ...
Thanks in advance
i got the same problem here
With the physical keyboard being the main selling point on this phone, one would think that it would work exceptionally. Apparently this isn't the case...Many people, including myself, have noticed that the physical keyboard "misses" or skips keys every so often, more for some applications and less for others. It appears that it could be a software problem and it would be great if one of the many developers here could take a look into the problem. Perhaps, as suggested in the link below, it could be a buffer issue with the keyboard?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=840177
-Thanks in advance
Hello,
when I bought the phone, I have under sms option for lower cost. That means it replaced the diacritic chars like "ě š č ř ž ý" with normal, so one sms was longer. However with new firmwares it's missing and I have no idea why. Is there anybody who have same problem, or solved the problem?
I miss that function too! I believe most people using any other language than English, miss this function.
Try installing SWYPE. Repalcing national characters is embedded there!
Hello everybody,
I thought I should give Windows 8 a try as well and I can say I do infact like it But one Thing that bugs me is the autocorrection. Is it possible, to set the dictionary to two languages? Everytime a write an english text, random words get capitalized when they are recognized as german. I do sometimes Switch to the english Keyboard layout, however there are most of the Special keys different located. Is it possible to use both, the english and german dictionary in the autocorrection feature?
Regards
Chris
I had a run-in with this very same problem a couple of weeks ago. In my case, I am Portuguese, but I do write quite a lot of English (as you can plainly see from this very post... lol).
I went about trying to find a way to do exactly as you want. From what I could find out, as of right now your keyboard layout is directly linked with your input language; also, you can't have more than one language per keyboard layout. There is a 1:1 ratio there.
Which, in short, means we're stuck with that odd behavior in Windows 8 (either we keep separate keyboards, memorize multiple keyboard layouts, get auto-corrected for the wrong language or disable spelling altogether - which, quite frankly, I don't even know if it's possible). And I'm not too bad, at least we don't need to capitalize every noun in Portuguese (that has to be a pain in the behind to work through with the spell-check...), we just get A LOT of red underlined words.
I have, however, already submitted a bug report/feature request for that issue. I had to go around and install the Feedback Report Tool for Internet Explorer 10 (if memory serves me right), and navigate a few options, but I could do it. If you can, try and submit it too, there are bound to be quite a lot of people who are in the same boat as ourselves...
Hope this helps.
Miguel