My touch HD keyboard setting seems to be locked on the default keyboard option.
I enter settings, input, change it, to anything else, click okay, reenter and its back to the blue keyboard. I have touchpal installed which i really want to use.
Thing is i got it to stick to touchpal before but its reverted to this again?
I had SKtools and set touchpal to default, but still this problem.
Any way i can stop this. I hate that stupid blue keyboard.
you pick your keyboard by clicking the triangle beside the keyboard sign when you are inputing text/letter. not from setting
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Is there a way to completely disable the onscreen keyboard that seems to pop up at the most innoportune time when editing text data? Whenever I'm using my exec in 'mini laptop' mode, i have access to a full keyboard, and having the on screen keyboard pop up, using 3/4 of the screen height, rendering whatever I was working on unusable, well, that's... frustrating.
Is there a way to disable that keyboard? Registry tweak maybe? TIA!
Try a null keyboard app. PHM has one. There are others too, a big review of them on Brighthand.
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Thanks! Sounds like it'll do the trick.
Also, you can simply start typing using your hardware keyboard instead of removing the soft keyboard by clicking on the icon. It will disapear, and will not reopen for this app.
If you click on the keyboard icon to remove it from the screen, it will come back next time.
Here try this NullKeyboard. It works fine on my Exec: http://personales.ya.com/beemer/prod03.htm
this program don't work for me. everytime i select it, my soft keyboard comes back.
Hi guys, i just installed a trial for Lingvsoft English>Farsi dictionary and the first thing i noticed was my keyboard had changed to something more stylus friend but not finger friendly.
I didn't take much notice to it thinking it was only for that program but noticed it was on every screen from SMS to Notes.
Even going to Settings>Input and changing Keyboard types doesn't work. It is on a setting called "Keyboard" and everytime i drop the menu and choose Full Qwerty and press Ok, it doesn't save and keeps the same setting over and over.
I have even uninstalled the program and soft resetted but it hasn't fixed it up.
I want to get back the original keyboard, please help me out.
try selecting something completely different, like block recogniser or transcriber or something and the restart the device. If it sticks choose try the compact qwerty and then restart. If that sticks too goto full qwert. If none of this works then it sounds like your qwerty has been replaced and you might need a hard-reset.
I couldn't change mine from the keyboard options under settings, it kept reverting back.
When you are in an sms press the little arrow next to the keyboard icon at the bottom of the screen and change it there, it worked for me.
spooki37 said:
I couldn't change mine from the keyboard options under settings, it kept reverting back.
When you are in an sms press the little arrow next to the keyboard icon at the bottom of the screen and change it there, it worked for me.
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Legend! Thanks that fixed it
Fixed my problem too.
I also had the issue that the keyboard was only inputting numbers - disabled T9 in HD Tweaks - reset then all ok.
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how can I go in "HD Tweaks" ?
i dont know what happened, but it seems that after i installed some apps my keyboard is now equipped with japanese text as an option...and its quite annoying because when i switch back and forth between letters and #s instead of just english letters and #s, theres english letters, jap, and then #s.
anyone know how i can turn this off?
i tried the keyboard setting but there's no "turn off" option.
there's a turn off under "choose key type" in the japanese keyboard settings but that doesn't do squat.
any inputs will be appreciated.
ok this might seem strange but what you need to do first is go to locale and text and change your locale to something random it doesn't matter. when you do that it changes the keyboard to that language and automatically goes back to the standard keyboard (you can check to see yourself) now switch the locale to your original country and it should be back to the standard keyboard. I'm not sure if you use the standard keyboard or android keyboard but if it is the latter and you don't know how to switch, just long press the text bar which is the lowest left key and select input method. For some odd reason you can't simply long press the text bar to switch back from Japanese which is a WEIRD ass glitch
i actualy didnt know about the android keyboard until now
whats the difference?
edit: nvm got it. thanks! i think i like the android keyboard better.
kl25 said:
i dont know what happened, but it seems that after i installed some apps my keyboard is now equipped with japanese text as an option...and its quite annoying because when i switch back and forth between letters and #s instead of just english letters and #s, theres english letters, jap, and then #s.
anyone know how i can turn this off?
i tried the keyboard setting but there's no "turn off" option.
there's a turn off under "choose key type" in the japanese keyboard settings but that doesn't do squat.
any inputs will be appreciated.
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Quickest way to change keyboard is to touch and hold on a text area
till the pop-up appears, then click on Input Method then select either the android or the Standard keyboard. The differences ain't so much... the best way to find out which you prefer is to try them. If you want to revert back just repeat the above stages.
Personally I use the Japanese keyboard.. but that's because I'm using it to write in Japanese.
Good luck.
Akira
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Quickest way to change keyboard is to touch and hold on a text area
till the pop-up appears, then click on Input Method then select either the android or the Standard keyboard. The differences ain't so much... the best way to find out which you prefer is to try them. If you want to revert back just repeat the above stages.
Personally I use the Japanese keyboard.. but that's because I'm using it to write in Japanese.
Good luck.
Akira
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you can't use that method on the Japanese keyboard it doesn't work (well at least on my phone which is weird)
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you can't use that method on the Japanese keyboard it doesn't work (well at least on my phone which is weird)
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works fine on mine... I just check it
(text area is the white box where text would normally appear, if you would type something)
BTW, if you switch the keyboard to Japanese, denoted by the "あ" symbol the caps-lock will now show a hammer & spanner. Clicking on it will also bring up the input menu. Alternatively you can go about the long way around and go directly into settings either by the menu key at the home screen; or via the applications tray. Think that's all the methods...
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works fine on mine... I just check it
(text area is the white box where text would normally appear, if you would type something)
BTW, if you switch the keyboard to Japanese, denoted by the "あ" symbol the caps-lock will now show a hammer & spanner. Clicking on it will also bring up the input menu. Alternatively you can go about the long way around and go directly into settings either by the menu key at the home screen; or via the applications tray. Think that's all the methods...
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what he said. the japanese keyboard is AWESOME.
what sucks is that the japanese keyboard is included with any locale settings right ? but i type in japanese AND chinese so if i have to type a sms in chinese, i have to go to locale and switch to china. SUCKS !
I got in on the Swype beta a week or so ago and love the product (although ShapeWriter has some strong points too).
Over the weekend I had to go back to the default keyboard because Swype doesn't seem to play well with my RDP application.
Now I can't turn Swype back on! I went to Settings -> Language & Keyboard and it shows Swype enabled.
The other strange thing is where the default keyboard used to show the little "Cog" button for options, it now shows a microphone. Don't know how else to get back to Swype. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but that didn't help. I can't get either of my optional keyboards to work now???
you need to long press on an input box, and wait for the popup, then select input method, then swype.
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I got in on the Swype beta a week or so ago and love the product (although ShapeWriter has some strong points too).
Over the weekend I had to go back to the default keyboard because Swype doesn't seem to play well with my RDP application.
Now I can't turn Swype back on! I went to Settings -> Language & Keyboard and it shows Swype enabled.
The other strange thing is where the default keyboard used to show the little "Cog" button for options, it now shows a microphone. Don't know how else to get back to Swype. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but that didn't help. I can't get either of my optional keyboards to work now???
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Find and input box(where you can type stuff into), hold your finger down on it until the menu appears, at the bottom will be "Input Method", select that and you will see the options.
Duh - thank you guys!!!
too much 4th of July party for me ...
I thought Swype beta ended.
edit: nvm i think i figured it out, will install it on my replacement Evo when I get home.
No it's available for everybody now. The beta, that is.
So I have found the keyboard to be somewhat fraustrating. Not because it is virtual, but because of the software behind it.
First of all, it is rather strange that you cannot set more than one keybaord. Essentially, the device can have two keyboards that you might regularly swap between: the hardware keyboard and the one screen keyboard one might use while in tablet mode. The hardware keyboard uses the autocorrect of the keyboard you have set as your software keyboard. You cannot set seperate keyboard engines for the hardware and software keyboard.
As I said, the autocorrect/engine behind the hardware keyboard is dependant on your choice of software keybaord. However, as far as I can tell, only the defualt TouchPal keyboard provides any autocorrect for the hardware keybaord. The stock android keyboard offers no autocorrect with the hardware keyboard.
On a related note, TouchPal is awful. The autocorrect works pretty badly and is basically very annoying to use. I won't bore you with the details, but things like autocorrecting to a new word when you go back to edit a mistake. This makes it almost unusable.
Also the touch pad is very bad. No two funger scrolling means that again, it is pretty much useless.
I think the Yoga Book is a great device in most respects. Its intersting that all of these problems relate to the software and could potentially be fixed by Lenovo or there may even be fixes out there now.
Has anyone found any solutions to these problems? Thanks, Liam
I completely agree with you and am having the same frustration with the software behind the keyboard. So far the best solution I have found is to use SwiftKey or Swiftkey Beta (not sure which is best yet). With a bit of tweaking you can get decent auto complete and auto correct using both the halo and on screen keyboard. Much better than Touchpal at least. A couple of issues I have found using Swiftkey and halo keyboard: 1) auto complete seems to turn off when resuming from sleep mode (tapping the keyboard button on the top row reactivates it) 2) in WhatsApp Tablet app, after pressing Enter to send a message, the next message gets double words - I. E. Auto correct adds to what you type, doesn't replace it.
I can confirm that switching to SwiftKey makes the hardware keyboard usable! I'm actually using the keyboard to type this now. Naturally, I'm making tons of mistakes but it is catching and correcting almost all of them!
Can confirm that SwiftKey easily switches between physical keyboard and on-screen keyboard when the physical keyboard is toggled on and off.
If anyone is still using the default software keyboard, switch now!!!
Thanks for the tip! This makes a big difference! Have either of you found a way to get auto capitalise to work? The setting is enabled but it doesn't do anythig.
My issue with SwiftKey is that there is no good ways to select a suggested word. You always have to click with your finger on the screen which completely ruins ten finger typing for my.
So I ended up with disabled word correction as it's faster to remove some mistyped words and type again, than to click on the screen.
How do you handle suggestions made by SwiftKey?
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My issue with SwiftKey is that there is no good ways to select a suggested word. You always have to click with your finger on the screen which completely ruins ten finger typing for my.
So I ended up with disabled word correction as it's faster to remove some mistyped words and type again, than to click on the screen.
How do you handle suggestions made by SwiftKey?
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I have found that SwiftKey enters the main suggested word when I press space. This is good for most of the time, but annoying when:
-I want to select a suggestion that is not the main suggested word (particularly a new word that it doesn't recognise)
-I want to add punctuation directly after the main suggested word (here, because I input the punctuation rather than pressing space, the suggested word is not entered)
I have certainly found using SwiftKey to be the best experience. It's quite a passive autocorrect that doesn't get in the way too much. I got so sick of TouchPal which really gets in your face with its incorrect predictions.
But still there is a lot of room for improvement. It's such a shame that it's terrible software that lets down this keyboard. In particular I don't understand why:
- Some keyboards (like the Google Keyboard) don't offer any correction or prediction when enabled. Does Android maybe treat the Halo keyboard as an external keyboard (which I suppose you wouldn't want predictive features for)?
- Keyboards that do offer prediction don't seem to respond to changes to their settings (I can't get SwiftKey to auto capitalise the first letter of a sentence for example). @thespinner02 mentioned tweaking with SwiftKey settings- I assume they meant for the onscreen keyboard because these settings don't do anything for the Halo keybaord.
I wonder whether there is a keyboard out there in the Play Store that works better with the Yoga Book. I'll try a few and let you guys know if I find one.
I tried several solutions but couldn't find anything good. Hardware keyboards are not that common on Android platform, I guess.
Even using Swiftkey I sometimes get different results depending on the app being used. Auto capitalise is working OK for me, in Word for example.
There are specific options in Swiftkey for Physical Keyboard: in settings, Typing, Voice & Other Input. In Physical keyboard section I have Autocorrect and Auto capitalize on. Everything else off.
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Even using Swiftkey I sometimes get different results depending on the app being used. Auto capitalise is working OK for me, in Word for example.
There are specific options in Swiftkey for Physical Keyboard: in settings, Typing, Voice & Other Input. In Physical keyboard section I have Autocorrect and Auto capitalize on. Everything else off.
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Thanks! I didn't notice that- smart spacing etc makes a massive difference!
Pretty much my only problem with SwiftKey now is that it sometimes creates its own weird textbook instead of typing directly into the text field. But that's not a massive problem.
Also I sometimes accidentally change input method. Maybe I'm using a keyboard shortcut by mistake?
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Even using Swiftkey I sometimes get different results depending on the app being used. Auto capitalise is working OK for me, in Word for example.
There are specific options in Swiftkey for Physical Keyboard: in settings, Typing, Voice & Other Input. In Physical keyboard section I have Autocorrect and Auto capitalize on. Everything else off.
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In settings for hardware keyword I get no harder key found?
Went into Swift settings in onscreen. How to get settings for Halo?
With Yoga Book in laptop mode. Settings / Language & input / SwiftKey Keyboard / Typing / Voice & Other Input
You also need to make sure 'show input method' is not enabled in the keyboard settings/selector popup.
Does anyone else experience a problem with SwiftKey where in some text fields your text goes into a little popup text box at the bottom of the screen as well as the intended text field? And then to get rid of the popup text box you have to tap 'next'. This occurs in the Facebook messenger app for example.
Any way to disable it?
It seems to do this when the text field is small, but other keyboards just expend the text field as you type. The popup text box it creates doesn't expand anyway, so it doesn't offer extra functionality and is just an annoyance.