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Touch HD Keyboard Users - Come In

Guys,
Those who have installed the Touch HD Keyboard, can I ask you all some questions?
1) Where to install the keyboard? Phone or Storage Card?
2) Do you encounter some pause when keying SMS like the keyboard hang for a few seconds when in the midst of typing your SMS?

Nobody using the HD Blackstone keyboard?

chongbh said:
Guys,
Those who have installed the Touch HD Keyboard, can I ask you all some questions?
1) Where to install the keyboard? Phone or Storage Card?
2) Do you encounter some pause when keying SMS like the keyboard hang for a few seconds when in the midst of typing your SMS?
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1) Phone
2) If you type in rapidly then it is the dreaded "hang after multiple rapid touch inputs" on XPERIA and Touch HD described here.

XavierGr said:
1) Phone
2) If you type in rapidly then it is the dreaded "hang after multiple rapid touch inputs" on XPERIA and Touch HD described here.
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Thanks for the link and are you using this keyboard? I have seen that there is a fix but not sure whether it works?

chongbh said:
Thanks for the link and are you using this keyboard? I have seen that there is a fix but not sure whether it works?
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Yes I am using the keyboard but the problem is not keyboard specific.

XavierGr said:
Yes I am using the keyboard but the problem is not keyboard specific.
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You mean you don't encounter the slight pause like everyone did? You have problem with the keyboard also?

chongbh said:
You mean you don't encounter the slight pause like everyone did? You have problem with the keyboard also?
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I mean that because I am not typing so fast on the on-screen keyboard I rarely encounter that problem, but if I play a game (where I am mashing the screen rapidly) I get it all the time.
Whatever you do if you are touching the screen fast at some point you will trigger the problem.

XavierGr said:
I mean that because I am not typing so fast on the on-screen keyboard I rarely encounter that problem, but if I play a game (where I am mashing the screen rapidly) I get it all the time.
Whatever you do if you are touching the screen fast at some point you will trigger the problem.
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Thanks, initially I thought the problem lies on our X1 and now I know it is HTC keyboard problem.
Not sure whether the fix will resolve the problem on our X1 though it might fix the original keyboard in HTC devices.

chongbh said:
Thanks, initially I thought the problem lies on our X1 and now I know it is HTC keyboard problem.
Not sure whether the fix will resolve the problem on our X1 though it might fix the original keyboard in HTC devices.
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No it is not a keyboard problem. It is a device/software problem independent of virtual keyboards. You can get this specific behaviour on the microsoft virtual keyboard, on games and every imaginable application. All you have to do is rapidly press the touch screen anywhere, if you do it very fast and consistently the device will freeze for a couple of seconds and then resume.
So once again it is not "HTC virtual keyboard" (SIP) specific. Don't get confused.

XavierGr said:
No it is not a keyboard problem. It is a device/software problem independent of virtual keyboards. You can get this specific behaviour on the microsoft virtual keyboard, on games and every imaginable application. All you have to do is rapidly press the touch screen anywhere, if you do it very fast and consistently the device will freeze for a couple of seconds and then resume.
So once again it is not "HTC virtual keyboard" (SIP) specific. Don't get confused.
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Oh I see, thanks for your information. Guess got to live with it if I am going to use the HTC Keyboard.

chongbh said:
Oh I see, thanks for your information. Guess got to live with it if I am going to use the HTC Keyboard.
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If you are touch typing very fast on virtual keyboards you will encounter it on everyone, not only HTC keyboards.

XavierGr said:
If you are touch typing very fast on virtual keyboards you will encounter it on everyone, not only HTC keyboards.
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actually there is a pause caused by the install of this keyboard.
even using the hardware X1 keyboard my first letter entered will display 2nd or 3rd in my word.
so in a text message when i open the phone and start typing "windows" it will enter in "inwdows" i have to learn to wait a second before typing.

shadowmike said:
actually there is a pause caused by the install of this keyboard.
even using the hardware X1 keyboard my first letter entered will display 2nd or 3rd in my word.
so in a text message when i open the phone and start typing "windows" it will enter in "inwdows" i have to learn to wait a second before typing.
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I never use the default keyboard though so not sure whether there is pause when keying any text but I was told that some users also encounter the same pause problem even using the default keyboard.
So hope that problem do not exist in the new WM6.5.

shadowmike said:
actually there is a pause caused by the install of this keyboard.
even using the hardware X1 keyboard my first letter entered will display 2nd or 3rd in my word.
so in a text message when i open the phone and start typing "windows" it will enter in "inwdows" i have to learn to wait a second before typing.
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Yes I've encountered that behaviour on the "hardware" keyboard too, but how is this related to the blackstone HTC "virtual" keyboards?

HTC HD T8285 Erratic touch screen

Hi
My HTC HD T8285 has an Erratic touch screen,I can see letters highlight when typing but sometimes does not display in my sms , web etc.And when tapping on the screen on one icon,something else opens up or closes.Using a stock or flashed rom does not make a difference.The screen does reponse exactly where I touch it,but has a slow reponse or no response or just open up something else.The screen is not damaged.Any suggestions???? Thanks:mad

NYCUE said:
Hi
My HTC HD T8285 has an Erratic touch screen,I can see letters highlight when typing but sometimes does not display in my sms , web etc.And when tapping on the screen on one icon,something else opens up or closes.Using a stock or flashed rom does not make a difference.The screen does reponse exactly where I touch it,but has a slow reponse or no response or just open up something else.The screen is not damaged.Any suggestions???? Thanks:mad
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Have you checked your screen alignment?

Yes I have,I have to keep holding down the stylus over the cross until it moves on its own,if I just tap over the cross it just keeps starting over and over again at the end.

Sounds like a faulty screen, you should only have to tap. how long have you had it?

I think that theres somekinda fix at www.htc.com regarding slow response times --- a fix for touch hd
someone of these http://www.htc.com/europe/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=179&act=sd&cat=all
EDIT: just reread first post and understood that it happens on all roms -- maybe it is something to do with you HD version cuz I have HTC Touch HD T8282 and I dont have any probs like that!!

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Annoying problem whilst typing SMS

Hello,
I currently use the phone keypad to type my messages, and sometimes after some words, when I press space it doesnt actually do a space. any ideas on what this could be, its really annoying when I look back and theres loads of words that are stuck together!
Thanks in advance.

Yes, I have a same problem, is there any solution for this?

Anybody help? Its really annoying

glad its not just me, i tryed turning off T9 etc.. but still does it

Yeah here also with a NLD rom. I need to push the spacebar somethings 2 times if I want a space in my text message.
I hope htc will fix it

Same problem here, I thought it was me not pushing it right

did you calibrate your screen?
before I calibrated my screen, I felt I have to skew my taps a bit (maybe its also an illusion with the glass touch screen's thickness when the actual image is behind 1-2 mm of glass) to touch the right keys. after calibration it seems better.

I find what is problem. When a tiny line is under letters, when i push space and then another letter, cursor go back. I don't know how to turn off this option and what is it for. Does anyone have solution? t9 is off in mu case and i use phone keypad.

kajzer223 said:
I find what is problem. When a tiny line is under letters, when i push space and then another letter, cursor go back. I don't know how to turn off this option and what is it for. Does anyone have solution? t9 is off in mu case and i use phone keypad.
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you are right, the cursor does go back but im not sure how to stop it.
It is driving me insane because it takes me a long time to type a message now

its unusual that more people are not reporting this issue, is it a problem just with our devices, or maybe others are not concerned by this or unaware

Im having the same problem. When I had another ROM installed the keyboard had a bigger spacebar, but I went back to manila 2.1 and now it has the smaller one again...
Isnt there a way to alter the size of the spacebar in manila 2.1?

This is a common issue with XT9.
I suggest trying a different SIP and disabling all other settings other than ABC mode.

Weird problem in SMS app

Whenever I tap on a message to reply, i cant simply tap to insert text, if i do it take away the cursor and highlights the last message in black. Or, I open then message and have to wait a few seconds for the last msg to be highlighted in black, then enter my text.
Any way to fix this?
Thanks.

I'm not sure whats happening with this bug, but I had this happen on 2 HD2s that I've had so far. It happens with both Swype and the regular HTC keyboard. Sometimes, I'll just be tryping, and all of a sudden, the screen will jump, and highlight a previous message (turn black) and then I have to tap the lower part of the current SMS message to get it refocued back again. Very unusual bug and I hope there is a fix for it.

I can start typing, but as you said it jumpes back. Then I must scroll down again.

It's the crappy HTCMessaging app. It has never been properly sorted since the HD2 came to be. Just do what i did and install a ROM that doesn't have that utterly ****e app on and you'll never look back

padlad said:
It's the crappy HTCMessaging app. It has never been properly sorted since the HD2 came to be. Just do what i did and install a ROM that doesn't have that utterly ****e app on and you'll never look back
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Do you know of a ROM for the T-Mobile USA HD2 that doesnt have HTC messaging?
Or is there a way to remove it from my current ROM?

Same thing happens to me today, I start typing, it jumps to the previous message and highlights it in black. Ugh, annoying!

same here
have the same bug and my HTC is becoming very slow..even when there is no application running in the background..have to soft reset atleast once a day..so much for the snapdragon and RAM

Same problem as I have - it's very annoying. Running the 1.66 SEA ROM, with Swype installed - although the problem began before I installed Swype. I find what actually happens is that the phone registers the keypresses, and if you tap on the write message area, those keys you've tapped appear. I believe I read somewhere else on the forum about this problem, but couldn't find the thread. Any suggestions for alternates to HTC Messaging?

[Q] CM7 - issue when onscreen keyboard appears in portrait

(Would have posted in vanilla's thread, but I don't have permission to do so)
I have played with two CM7 ROMs.. the one that's been floating around for a while, and now vanillaLVL's.
In both, you can see the on-screen keyboard just below the list of suggested words.
To recreate
- Open Messaging and create a new SMS message
- Tap in the message box
- You'll see the OSK just below the suggestions. More precisely, you can see the bottom row of buttons.. like the ?123 and the Tab arrow
This isn't a big deal, just a little annoying. Is there a fix out there for this?

YES! Exactly! Somebody help with this problem. Personally, I'm annoyed when the keyboard comes out from the bottom of the screen.
Sorry for my english.

Abstractionist said:
YES! Exactly! Somebody help with this problem. Personally, I'm annoyed when the keyboard comes out from the bottom of the screen.
Sorry for my english.
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I have installed Swiftkey Flow and that bug isn-t there anymore, however, the problem now is that, whenever i want to use the physical keyboard, Swiftkey also appears taking more than half of the screen size :\
Would like to know if there-s a fix for this so Android keyboard doesn't appear when in portrait mode.