Im old school, I like to put the "-" in between the first 3 numbers and last 4 numbers of my contacts.
So I Was entering in some people today, and I suually hit the blue dot and "f" to get the dahs, but it doesn't work. Shift doens't give me a capital, either. And I don't have to hold down the blue key to get the numbers working when I press the appropriate keys, they come up by themselves.
I checked and the Fn and Shift keys were no stuck, and hadn;t been pressed twice. What is going on?
Anyone? This is annoying
I confirmed this bug... when adding a new contact and entering a phone number via the hardware keyboard I couldn't insert the '-' (dash) character, no matter what i did with the fn and shift key i would get the 'a' character. I could insert the '-' character via the standard windows mobile software keyboard and the PCM Keyboard (another software keyboard).
This could be a design flaw of the windows mobile contact editor. Maybe they wanted to disallow all non alphanumeric characters and only implemented that for the hardware keyboard rather than for both the hardware and software keyboard.
Whatever the problem is, in order to get a dash character to show up when editing a contact phone number on the stock Sprint 6.1 rom it looks like you will need to use the software keyboard
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This may be a challenge or it may be a simple "RTFM" sort of reply that solves my problem, but I'd love for the Hermes to have the same power as my Treo 650 keyboard did. There was a program called TreoCaps.
It operated thusly....
When typing letters, using the normal keyboard press, a normal key was inserted (usually lower-case, unless auto-caps was on). If you pressed the key down for like 300ms, it would change into an upper case. If you held it down for 600ms, it would change to the symbol character assigned to that key.
The blackberries have a similar function.
Has anyone written such a hack for the Hermes or WM5 w/ keyboard devices in general. I've gotta believe so, since in my recent experience with wm5, it's (a) a real multi-tasking operating system, and (b) it's loads more extensible than POS is.
Thanks,
-Humbert
Hi
Sorry if this has been asked before - seems pretty basic but I couldn't find anything in the searches..:
The current set of extended symbol characters (alt-space) available from the keyboard is pathetic! There's about 5 characters. My old Hermes had dozens. Am I missing something, or is this just a deficiency in Android at the moment?
Thanks
sim
it's kinda weird...if you press and hold "alt" then press and hold some key, you will get the symbols...for example for ¿, hold alt and then press and hold ? and a window will pop up with the ¿. if you do it with the "a" key, you will get all the options for "a" such as æ and å, etc...
Hmm yes I see, I didn't know that, thanks. A nice touch, but not that intuitive, and it still seems that many characters aren't available. Would be nice if the alt-space pop-up listed every possible char in a scrollable window.
/sim
When i write a text and use the sym button it adds a e with two dots above it before the symbal that i have chosen.
is this a prob or am i doing something wrong to make this happen?
no one else had this?
Not seen that here ...and just tested of course -within an SMS, using the sym key and then selecting the character I want on-screen ...that character is added perfectly
Ive got a problem atm where when i try to use the blue key to get number and symbols it doesnt work so im having to use the on-screen keyboard which is a pain.
Installed the htc touch 2 keyboard and it wont let me uninstall
guess the only thing to do is another hard reset
no problem here - sym key pops up symbol sip
using jacks 2.9 rom with no extra sip's installed
Dear follow DZ owner:
Just bought my DZ today, and disappointed to find a hardware problem.
1. the "printing" of the symbol on the hardware keyboard doesn't match with the soft keyboard, this creates a lot of trouble for the user who get used to the standard HTC layout. e.g. # is on S key and $ is on D key while on soft keyboard @ is on S and # is on D
2. the strange thing is the symbol output from the hardware keyboard IS indeed still based on the soft keyboard layout, which means what you type on the hardware keyboard is NOT what you get from output on the screen.
e.g. printing of the # is on the S key, however output generates by long press S is @ and the worst is output by pressing FN + S gives #.
I didn't see anyone discussing this issue. Am I the only one that is bug by this problem/issue???
In your second picture, it shows that your on-screen keyboard is the English keyboard ("EN"). Press the soft key towards bottom left and you should be able to select different languages, is there one that matches better in that list ?
steviewevie said:
In your second picture, it shows that your on-screen keyboard is the English keyboard ("EN"). Press the soft key towards bottom left and you should be able to select different languages, is there one that matches better in that list ?
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Sorry, what I was trying to point out is that, when a key combine with FN its output is not the same as long press on a key.
Will remapping keys help fix this problem?
I'm also using HK version, but I don't use the built-in IME since I type in PinYin普通话拼音, didn't notice that issue.
If you wanna have a look at the key-mapping, go
/system/usr/keylayout/vision-keypad-hk.kl
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pull it to your computer and open it with text editor, notepad or UltraEdit etc.
The reason its like this is simple.
The hardware keyboard has its own design, made to make our use easier (according to the guys at HTC), however this keyboard still runs on the SAME software used to run the on screen touch keyboard this is why when you do things like long press you still get certain behaviours of the touch keyboard.
You will either need to remap, or just simply get used to the new layout, it will happen over time.
@OP: your key map doesn't match your physical keyboard.
@Lennyuk: No.
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The reason its like this is simple.
The hardware keyboard has its own design, made to make our use easier (according to the guys at HTC), however this keyboard still runs on the SAME software used to run the on screen touch keyboard this is why when you do things like long press you still get certain behaviours of the touch keyboard.
You will either need to remap, or just simply get used to the new layout, it will happen over time.
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That's the whole point, the stupid HTC guy think the new key layout will help the user. The truth is they are re inventing the wheel.
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So Yesterday After a restart my laptpp the 'A' key started continuously typing and was coming 'aaaaaa......' In the password box..
After a long struggle i was able to login and disable the key and use rest of the keyboard.
After searching the internet to disable the entire in built laptop keyboard (so that I can use an external keyboard to type) I was able to by doing an update of the keyboard device in device manager.
But after that the a key stopped working in the external keyboard also.(the keyboard's key is functional I checked it on another pc)
Now I'm stuck with a windows laptop that doesn't read 'A' key completely.
Please help
P.S I updated to windows 11 in hoping to fix the whole issue but that didn't do anything good
Since you have disabled the "a" key in the system, it will not work on any keyboard.
A better way is to map the letter "a" to a little-used special character used without SHIFT, such as ";".
or
Purchase and replace the keyboard.
Get a new keyboard, I have similar problem then.
But, i wasnt able to type any number expect 5 and 6 ( Some F buttons were not working tho!)