Hi, I really like FingerKeyboard 2, but frankly, I can't use it with my thumbs, and I can't imagine any male over 12 years without severe anorexia can (well, maybe, but...). When I put in my PIN I noticed that on the dialer (the default Xperia one) had letters on each of the 12 buttons. This would be great for one handed operation of the phone, when texting. Is there any chance of getting this to pop up when I touch the softkeyboard icon, like FingerKeyboard2? And, since I'm swedish, is it possible to get it to work like swedish phones (to get an å or ä, you push the 2 a number of times, since it's like an a, and if you want ö you push the 6 a couple of times)?
yeah this would be great
I'm guessing this wouldn't be so hard to make a skin out of for FingerKeyboard2, IMHO it doesn't even have to look like the Xperia dialer. Maybe it would be a problem that the FingerKeyboard2 key mapping is seperated and not made to be bunched into 12 buttons, but still. I would like to know the difficulty of making it, and if someone is willing to do it. It really would make the overall experience of our phones better, and eliminate an annoying flaw in the design.
If you agree, please post in this thread, as it is a bigger chance that it will be made if many expresses their need for this too!
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hi, i have an idea that when merged with ur development skills may result in such a good keyboard, the idea is about a fullscreen keyboard just like spb keyboard but with a small addition that to be a transparent keyboard, take a look at the attached image, as u can see every button is one character just to make it easy as possible for pressing, i meant by the SP buttons that they r special buttons just like space, enter or they can be like TouchPal special buttons may be for numbers or special characters or an exit(hide) button and so on.
now i believe that it appears in the image that some of the characters is not clear because it is over another layer but dont forget that am poor with design so may be a good designer can give the characters a better effect to give clear image than the emboss effect i used in the image, may be a negative effect or something, even for the character square-background there is no need for it i just set it to show the character borders.
so developers i hope this can take place one day, and i hope from any graphic designer to take a screen shot from a mobile screen then try to add the characters layer with most possible clearance what ever is the background layer and then post here to see the result, thnx anyway ....
what if you make a mistake when typing and notice it at the end? how are you going to travel through the message as normally you will click where you want to put the cursor however when you click on yours it'll write a letter?
mmmm i didnt notice this, u r right, what about about pressing a special button which shows up/down/left/right transparent buttons with backspace/delete buttons just like touchpal?? so we have a new idea here that to give the keyboard all the control on a text, what do u think ??
I like the idea but another problem is how to make it qwerty-like in portrait mode?
I mean the limiting factor is the horizontal size of buttons (qwerty in portrait) not their height.
Applogies first, this is the extent of my artistic skills lol
if you based it on the hermes keyboard you can have ten keys on each row, so that would give each key a width of 32, and if you make the height of the key 40 that would give you a keyboard of 10 by 5, but u only need 10 by 4
im not sure if its workable but ill add the worst keyboard youve ever seen so you get the ideal
You are truly an artist! Teach me, master!
But that's in landscape (which is not a problem), what about portrait mode?
Really should just give TouchPal a go... I find that better than any hardware or virtual keyboard you can get...
actually am using TouchPal and it is my best keyboard and i believe that if windows mobile devices has a very sensitive touch screen just like the iPhone then i can say that TouchPal will be the best all the time, but with my htc touch i still have a problem with touchpal when i want to enter such words like password/email (without predicate) specially when sliding left/right, any way it was an idea ....
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Applogies first, this is the extent of my artistic skills lol
if you based it on the hermes keyboard you can have ten keys on each row, so that would give each key a width of 32, and if you make the height of the key 40 that would give you a keyboard of 10 by 5, but u only need 10 by 4
im not sure if its workable but ill add the worst keyboard youve ever seen so you get the ideal
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...that just gave me turets!
Hi Guys,
Got myself a magic a few days ago, love it to bits but really struggling with the OSK.. the keys are just too small to type quickly/easily.
Is it just me and my big hands ? lol
Are there any alternatives for OSK out there ? (maybe like the phonepad style that comes in HTC EZInput for WinMo?)
Not sure how the keyboard could be much bigger than it already is. The screen is 3.2 inches across (diagonal) and that's all you have to work with. All that can be done is to make the buttons on the bottom row bigger (wider) by omitting the Shift and the Del button, but that would make the qwerty layout kinda funky.
Turn it on its side (landscape mode) -- the keyboard will be bigger that way than in portrait mode.
You can install the app "big keys" in the market and see how you like that. Or you can install the htc keyboard found in the Dream forums. HTC_Chime.apk is what you are looking for.
Thanks for the suggestions guys, I'll have a play with the HTC keyboard and see what it's like.
Does the Magic have the option of the T9 Dialpad keyboard? Or is it just a plain full QWERTY keyboard that auto-corrects?
I haven't seen a T9 option, but it's easy to turn the auto-correcting off, although it will still offer you suggestions, but won't mess with what you're writing.
...double post...
That reminds me, I must add "org" and "uk" to my dictionary so I don't keep entering my email address as [email protected]e
I do not know what video i was watching, but I saw that there was a dialer keyboard available on the HTC magic. Now, I do not know if it was a rooted phone (which it probably was) or if it was an application that was added to the phone. If I am correct, they were showing haykuro's work and it showed in the text input a dialer keyboard. If this is true, would one have to root their G2 phone for it to work? The thought of possibly bricking the phone, sort of...well...makes me feel uneasy lol.
A friend and I are looking to buy HD2s when they're released in the CDMA version, but a big concern of ours in the quality of the onscreen keyboard.
I have an HTC Touch Pro 2 at the moment, and he has a Samsung Omnia, and one of his main points-of-jealousy is my hardware keyboard.
I'm hoping the screen size will make an onscreen keyboard more bearable, but...
So, could anyone post comments about the keyboard, and/or post screenshots of the onscreen keyboard in both vertical and horizontal configurations.
I'm really hoping the onscreen keyboard is the same as the HTC HD2s...only larger...
Nothing will replace hard keyboard. TP2 is the best so far. Go youtube to review the HD2 virtual keyboard.
If you are fimiliar with TP2 keyboard, you will highly hate the HD2 keyboard. Even Swype or TouchPal Pro are not that perfect yet...
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A friend and I are looking to buy HD2s when they're released in the CDMA version, but a big concern of ours in the quality of the onscreen keyboard.
I have an HTC Touch Pro 2 at the moment, and he has a Samsung Omnia, and one of his main points-of-jealousy is my hardware keyboard.
I'm hoping the screen size will make an onscreen keyboard more bearable, but...
So, could anyone post comments about the keyboard, and/or post screenshots of the onscreen keyboard in both vertical and horizontal configurations.
I'm really hoping the onscreen keyboard is the same as the HTC HD2s...only larger...
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The keyboard is hit or miss, but if you did a poll on here, you'd get people mostly saying it's a hit!
I personally love it, but it did take me a while to get used to it. Also, going through the screen alignment process helps, as it gets the screen aligned to how you use it (as long as you do it in a natural manner, with your thumbs, and not using your finger as a stylus. Who uses their phone like that?? )
If you read the forums, you'll see there's some people that don't like the keyboard, but there's also a lot that originally didn't but have got over it. It needs a little practice, but I can type very fast on it now that I'm used to it.
Anyway, here's a couple of screenshots. Hope this has helped
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I saw someplace in my phone that you could change to 3 Keyboard modes, Regular phone keyboard, and full keybord and a nother one!
Now i cant find that anywhere!
I wanna use the "Regular" phone keyboard type .. Any one can help here ?
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I Didint wanna start a new topic, so i will borrow this one
I saw someplace in my phone that you could change to 3 Keyboard modes, Regular phone keyboard, and full keybord and a nother one!
Now i cant find that anywhere!
I wanna use the "Regular" phone keyboard type .. Any one can help here ?
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Not sure if this helps but just open a SMS, at the bottom you will see the symbol for your input. Tap it once and a small arrow appears to the right, now tap the symbol again but slightly to the right (ie/ tapping the arrow) and you will see QWERTY with an arrow allowing you to choose phone keypad or qwerty.
both arent bad and the predictive input is clever but i personally prefer Touchpal, i find it more responsive and fast (it keeps up with fast keystroke entry).
Thanks for the replay, i found the arrow after more searching in google! it was stupid of me that i didnt tap that! lol
i did tap the hole keyboard icon insted!
Now i can type much easyer
I used touchpro 1 before using HD2, still finding typing with hardware keyboard faster. Especially if you disable auto complete,word correction.
but I still love my HD2.
I have an energy rom. Would you happen to know how to switch back to the way the original keypad looked before the 1.8 client?
I enjoyed the X1's HW keyboard, but I must say, within a few days of using the HD2, I don't miss it.
I'm a big guy, and I have big fingers. So one block for each letter is not enough for me. I s till make mistakes when I am trying to write fast.
My previous phone was an HTC FUZE, and I loved how the T9 was. There was two letters to each block and the blocks were big so my big fingers felt comfortable and I was able to write faster than I am in my pure.
These are my fingers if you want to see how big they really are. http://eclectech.co.uk/b3ta/bigfingeredface.jpg
i been asking the same question too but i cant find that compact qwerty that has two letters per button
Just use TouchPal, I've used it from the beginning.
Zoomboard may be what you're looking for, it can be adjusted to show what letter you are pressing in a magnified bubble and won't enter the letter till you release.
Touchpal is good too but maybe not for those fingers!
Anyone know if it's possible to tweak the qwerty keyboard? I'm coming over from a TP2 and I like the builtin KB that HTC provides, and it should be even nicer on the larger screen, but it's not as handy as it could be. There are extra, blank keys on the 2/2 Numeric pad and I'm wondering if it's possible to add some keys. For instance it would be very handy to have a space key in the numeric pads.
I just upgraded from a TYTN II and i do miss the physical keyboard and i'm not too crazy over the software keyboard mainly because i don't get the tactile feel of pressing the keys.
But have you tried the Swype ? Needs a little getting used to but i'm getting pretty good with Swype and i feel it's a lot faster than typing. Plus it looks pretty cool
Ther are other keyboards. Sorry, I don't recall their name. One was very customizable though. I tired two different ones, but they didn't play nice with predictive text.
I have Resco and I like it well enough, though the version I have doesn't seem to have been built for 800x480 so it doesn't use all of the screen real estate. Therefore the keys are too small.
I like the HTC QWERTY keyboard a lot. It just doesn't seem to be customizable and therefore one has to switch between the screens more than it might otherwise be necessary in order to get the keys you're after. All I really want to do is to be able to enter a space while on the numeric screen. Not move the cursor, but to add an actual space. And to swap a couple of the characters on the 1/2 screen with others on the ABC and 2/2 screens.
Other than that I think it's a great keyboard. The haptic for me provides enough feedback and the keys are plenty big enough. My Leo should be here today or tomorrow and then I can start trying different things. If it turns out Resco's current KB can be made larger then that would probably be just the ticket assuming the HTC KB cannot be customized. I'm not really interested in tryiing Swype, but thanks for the tip.
I would imagine there's an XML keymap somewhere that we could conceivably edit but I'm not sure, i'd like to know the answer as well.
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All I really want to do is to be able to enter a space while on the numeric screen. Not move the cursor, but to add an actual space.
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you dont mean THIS space then?