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Text completion with the Wizard keyboard

Hi, does anyone know how to select the predictive text that pops up whilst typing from the hardware keyboard on the Wizard?
At the moment I can seemingly only select it by click on the screen with the stylus, which is rather inconvienient when thumb typing.
I have scoured the posts for a mention of this but to no avail, so apologies is this is a regular!
Thanks.

I did it once by accident and forget the key stroke. But I am thinking it was either a press of the tab key or the down arrow to get into the matching word list, then an enter to select the word...
Other things I found.
Pressing the red dot twice will lock the keyboard in this mode, two preses gets it unlocked. Good for entering a string of numbers.
Same pressing twice of the shift key will shift lock the keyboard. Same deal pressing twice unlocks.

You simply press the down arrow to select the word then enter? Does that not work? I seem to remember that being how it was done but I've had PT off for a while now...

That's the one!
Much obliged.

Does anyone know how to disable the predictive test? I find it more anoying than anything else.

FreakinSyco said:
Does anyone know how to disable the predictive test? I find it more anoying than anything else.
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Start -> Settings -> Input -> Word Completion -> Untick "Suggest words..."
Simple.
Just look around all the other apps in Settings, you might learn a thing or ten

Does anyone know how to delete suggestions that come up? I have noticed that too often mispelled suggestions come up with predictive text, which I think "learns" from typos that I too often make.

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Changing_Device_Language
User suggested words dictionary
In addition to the system dictionaries for the suggested words, there is also a user-defined one, compiled by Windows Mobile dynamically. The location of this file is in: "\Windows\dyncompdict.dat". This file can safely be deleted. Editing the contents of this file is more difficul, please see the following for a useful application to generate a new one:
http://www.hollmen.dk/mikppc.htm
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How to: Copy Paste in SMS

Maybe anybody know how to paste text from another application etc note or word, when writing SMS?

Method 1: Press and hold stylus in Message text field and select Paste
Method 2: On your virtual keyboard select 'Ctrl' + 'V'

Thanks. Anything software can show that's in menu? I mean I don't use stylus or touchscreeen.

If you don´t use keyboard or touchscreen, why do you have a pocket pc?

Get AEButtonplus and assign one hardware button to copy and another to paste. I use the email and IE hardware buttons...

Schaeferreiner said:
If you don´t use keyboard or touchscreen, why do you have a pocket pc?
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Lol! I think he meant he doesnt use stylus ON touchscreen !!

ctrl+c
ctrl+v
???
(sorry.. could not resist)

Default HTC Keyboard with individual Keys

The htc keyboard has 2 versions. One which has the individual keys and the one with the multitap keys. Does anyone know how to make it so that the default keyboard is ALWAYS the one with the individual keys as I am not able to select which one I would like to use.

evilution79 said:
The htc keyboard has 2 versions. One which has the individual keys and the one with the multitap keys. Does anyone know how to make it so that the default keyboard is ALWAYS the one with the individual keys as I am not able to select which one I would like to use.
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I know what you're talking about but I am not really sure how to do that. Like when you enter input for a password in IE it pops up but for some reason only password boxes. That is definitely something to look into.

Check this post for a link to a cab file that - i believe - will disable the 20 and 12 key keyboards and activate the 40 key (password) version. the downside is that you have to give up the predictive text feature.

cortezzi said:
Check this post for a link to a cab file that - i believe - will disable the 20 and 12 key keyboards and activate the 40 key (password) version. the downside is that you have to give up the predictive text feature.
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I feel so honored to have my post cited...

when i install this, and select the keyboard nothing comes up, I still see my defualt. I soft reseted many times, even the used the pin.
any help would be great.
When i go the options, It says "the selected input method could not be loaded"
Thanks

Some used IMSelector but didn't work for my Vogue. I used SipChange and it did the trick..... maintaining my selected default keyboard.

Thanks, but what i meant is.
When i select the HTC keyboard, it's blank. nothing shows up.
is that 20 key to 40 key cab an add on? or do I uninstall the original?
thanks

Where does this keyboard come from?

I have the 16 key touch dual.
So on input options, you have the touch keypad, when I select that sometimes this comes out (please see attached)
I like it thought better than the 20 key touch keyboard.

Yeh... Where?
I second this, it works really well but there is no option to bring it up on the dual... it just randomly appears sometimes when you need to input text.

Thirded.
And whats more, why does text input seem to vary on web pages?
I've got some where it defaults to numeric input when it should be alpha numeric (ie. passwords), others where XT9 seems to be off (the subject on mails in facebook).
Its so stupidly all over the place and inconsistent! If I could just get this one to pop up all the time I'd be happy.

Doesn't that keyboard show when there's no text entry field?
And yes, i want it too, why would they disable it for normal usage?

Yeh I have found the keyboard to be all over the place when it comes to deciding if it will give you tx9, abc, 123, etc.... Anyone know a way to set one of the two alphanumerics as a default at least?

ok ive had this appear a few times now but couldnt figure out why, as you have been asking for it i have been playing around and think i know what is causing it. you may not need everything listed below but these are the settings on my device if you play around with them you should be able to narrow it down.
I'm running Toms rom, found here
i have disabled threaded sms by using the second setting here
i have enabled the favourite people button on the htc home screen by deleteing the key here
the only other app i have that may have changed a setting is the HTC home customiser.
After making these changes tick the enable xt9 setting in romsettings app, exit the app, then go back into it and untick the enable t9 setting, after closing romsettings you should have the keyboard shown in the second screen shot
as far as i can see this changes the keyboard in all applications

Thats great! Still albeit of a noob so you lost me somewhere there, is there a way to this on the stock ROM?

short answer is i dont know. try looking for an applcation called rom settings after installing it there is a t9 setting. untick it and closethe application if this makes no dfference you may want to try altering the other settings and then trying again until it works.

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short answer is i dont know. try looking for an applcation called rom settings after installing it there is a t9 setting. untick it and closethe application if this makes no dfference you may want to try altering the other settings and then trying again until it works.
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Ok will try that thanks. On the side, when you untick "T9" does this make "abc" default text entry as well?

I have confirmed that this keyboard layout come out when no text entry is needed.

muzikfreakah said:
On the side, when you untick "T9" does this make "abc" default text entry as well?
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I wish, this has been a problem since the phones release - theres 7 pages on it here

muzikfreakah said:
I have confirmed that this keyboard layout come out when no text entry is needed.
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thats the default action anyway, with the changes detailed the keyboard is available when entering text, if you look at the second image you will see that the cursor is actually in the message box, its the black line at the end of the word hello

muzikfreakah said:
I have confirmed that this keyboard layout come out when no text entry is needed.
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Eh? Maybe I overdosed on the thick pills last night, but that doesn't make any sense? If I click on a password field in IE, sometimes the main phone keypad always seems to default to numeric entry. But clicking in the field itself pops up this lovely keyboard.
It really does make no sense at all. There doesn't appear to be any standard/global keyboard settings.
And this is in v6 of WinMo, you would have thought they would have got the basics right by now, but the darned sent items has the useless option of "order by from" - when all the sent items are sent from the same person.
Its got plenty of potential, but it just seems like lots of separate teams were implementing it, doing their own thing without any centralised discussion/design.

Has anyone managed to get this to work with the standard T-Mobile [UK] ROM ?

any updates on this as well? it would be nice to just get an option for this

I got it to work, rather by chance, but thing is after that, I could switch to back to the touchpad type anymore.
I installed POCKETCM KEYBOARD. After doing that, somehow it locked this keyboard in when I choose touchpad.
Its rather a workaround, but for those who to use it premanently, you can do it

it also shows up at times when you are entering a password

Ouch ! I read to quickly and did'nt see the word "permanently" !
It does the same for me after installing pocketpc keyboard and even after uninstalling it !!!
Did you find a way to get the classic keyboard back ? This one is nice but there are some important keys missing as "." and a key to hide the keyboard !
Thanks
EDIT : The installation of Resco Keyboard got all the original settings back + Resco Keyboard of course.
So if you need to use the famous "hidden HTC keyboard", simply install Resco Keyboard and then Pocketpc keyboard.
You will then have your classic "touch" keyboards replaced by the "hidden keyboard" (+Resco Keyboard installed of course).
But to my mind, Resco keyboard alone is better...

Full qwerty and CTRL + A

I am using full qwerty to input text and it is rather fast.
But sometimes I need to execute the CTRL+A combination (to select all the message texts lines for further editing/deleting/etc).
How to do it?
Thanks a lot!
Saulo866

HTC phones currently dont have multitouch screens.. so this kind of key combinations cannot be done

Don't have multitouch, but in "classic" keyboard (not the fine HTC one, easy to use with finger), there is a CTRL key: press it, it's selected then press A for Select All, C to cut, V to paste, ...
But it can be done only in the classic mode. The nice and big HTC input don't have a CTRL key: it's a shame!

i find using stylus to select some txt quiet convient, and to select all, do menu/edit/select all

TheBeO said:
But it can be done only in the classic mode. The nice and big HTC input don't have a CTRL key: it's a shame!
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well that's the trade off, if you want all those optional random keys, ctrl, alt, this, that. then your main keyboard won't be "nice and big" and finger friendly.

i just press-hold the screen until the pop up menu appears then select er select all

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i just press-hold the screen until the pop up menu appears then select er select all
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Yes it works but not in all softwares, and not in many textbox, user input field.

thanks to all of you!
I am very happy to have found the solution to replace CTRL-A: just tap and hold the screen, as some of you adviced.
One more question: how to implement CTRL C (copy) and CTRL V (paste)?
Thanks
Saulo866

saulo866 said:
I am very happy to have found the solution to replace CTRL-A: just tap and hold the screen, as some of you adviced.
One more question: how to implement CTRL C (copy) and CTRL V (paste)?
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Same as above, once you have something selected, tap'n'hold, chose cut/copy, then tap'n'hold, choose paste.
Easy

Thanks Gadge!
One more (probably silly) question: why in my kaiser I can select some messages in INBOX (to delete them for example) by simply swiping my stylus-pen and here, on Touch HH, I cannot? Is it because of implementation of touch flo?
Thanks again!
Saulo866