Is there a tab function? How do u hide the keyboard? is there a way to move to a specific part of text in a sentence without deleting a bunch of charcters?
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Try this keyboard:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=654179
There's an hide function, great word prediction and you can move the cursor with the volume keys.
You hide the keyboard by holding the menu-button down a second or two! Works everywhere and for bringing it up too!
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Does anyone else have a problem hiding the keyboard...? Your meant to be able to swipe down to hide it, but this doesn't seem to work on the stock HTC keyboard, am I doing something wrong ?
OkuDa
I just press the back arrow to hide the keyboard.
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Yeah that sometimes works but otherwise it takes ya back desktop..! I just wanna hide the keyboard....
OkuDa
I always press the menu button to hide the keyboard and I had no problem till now...
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At anytime you can press and hold the menu button to show or hide the keyboard
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i dont understand why the normal sense option to drop the keyboard down isn't present on the wildfire, it's just been replaced by some sort of language button. no amount of poking around in the settings seems to fix it.
This works for me. No problems! Swipes away everytime!
On iphone you can hold and drag the magnifying glass and its pretty easy
On phones with trackball the same idea...
What do we do for the vibrant? Just tap? I have hard time putting cursor exactly where i want it and its such a waste of time and its irritating
Help / Tips appreciated
Which keyboard are you using?
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I have the same problem put the cursor to where I want it to be is PITA.
I'm curious too. I know you can get the d-pad with the Swype keyboard, but I primarily use the Samsung keyboard.
Tap the "?123" Button to bring up the D-Pad.
If you're using Swype, glide from info => SYM buttons to get D pad.
On Samsung keyboard hold down the "?123" button.
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How about on the Android keyboard?
sadly the only thing i miss from the iphone is the magnifying glass long press thing you get while trying to put the cursor inbetween two letters
funkyfungus said:
How about on the Android keyboard?
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No D-pad option with the Android keyboard..just Swype and Samsung keyboards
ConceptVBS said:
Tap the "?123" Button to bring up the D-Pad.
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Long press ?123 not Tap
Does anyone know if there's a good HC keyboard which has the longpress number keys?
I find it annoying to keep having to switch to number mode just to press a number then go back to word typing again.
Especially useful for WPA keys etc. where you have ABC1ABC... etc.
It's one of the things I disliked about the iPhone's keypad, and loved about the Desire's!
Thanks
Try Thumb Keyboard. It's in beta testing just now so you can get it free from here: http://thumb4beta.blogspot.com
I'm using it now and it's brilliant.
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burden010 said:
Try Thumb Keyboard. It's in beta testing just now so you can get it free from here: http://thumb4beta.blogspot.com
I'm using it now and it's brilliant.
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Same here, awesome!
Thumb Keyboard is definitely the way to go. There is one in the market but the beta works great and has better key placement.
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You can press and hold the number key, slide to the number or symbol you want, then release and it will be back to the alphabet.
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MikeyMike01 said:
You can press and hold the number key, slide to the number or symbol you want, then release and it will be back to the alphabet.
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Great tip!! Makes life a lot easier! Tried the thumb keyboard but it takes longer to type/find the right keys and the xoom felt a bit too heavy after typing for a while.
Good tip Mikey, thanks.
I find Thumb Keyboard much easier to type and no problems at all finding the correct keys.
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MikeyMike01 said:
You can press and hold the number key, slide to the number or symbol you want, then release and it will be back to the alphabet.
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With the multi-touch keyboard, you can also hold the ?123 button with your left hand and select the number with your right. You'll still jump back to the main qwerty keyboard.
How can I get an keyboard with arrow for my Desire Z?
Does that Exist?
A Droid 2 (Milestone 2) as an alternative
zung0207 said:
A Droid 2 (Milestone 2) as an alternative
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What is that?
JayJayW18 said:
What is that?
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It's a completley different phone by Motorola I don't think he read that you do currently already own a Desire Z
Are you talking about an alternate touchscreen keyboard? Of the more popular ones on the Market, Thumb Keyboard is the only one that seems to have arrow keys. The arrow key layout reminds me of the old stock HTC touchscreen keyboard on Windows Mobile devices.
But why not just use the optical trackpad to move the cursor, instead of clogging up screen real estate with arrow keys?
You could map 4 buttons to up/down/left/right. Maybe the 2 program buttons, the extra shift, and the search? Do a search for key mapper, it's been posted here before.
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Z Arrow
ill_dawg said:
You could map 4 buttons to up/down/left/right. Maybe the 2 program buttons, the extra shift, and the search? Do a search for key mapper, it's been posted here before.
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Or maybe help "Z Arrow" app on market ...
'Keyboard from Android 2.3' is free from the Market and has arrow keys that 'collapse' in and out when you need them by holding the spacebar key and dragging up to activate, or down to deactivate. Screen real estate is preserved when you don't need them plus i reckon the gingerbread keyboard is pretty impressive in itself.
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Smart Keyboard Pro has an option (its off by default) to turn on a dpad/arrow. Works good.
if you want it on the physical keyboard you can do what i did and use button remapper to change shortcute keys 1 and 2 to left and right, work so much better for terminal then the track pad.
Is there any way to get the comma key show up on the main layout of the stock keyboard? I really hate long pressing and swiping.
I remember there was a hack available for the Note 2 to enable this.
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Suggestion, install Google Keyboard, waaaaay better, larger touch area, faster, and easier to type
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.inputmethod.latin&hl=en
multi language support too
But won't I loose s pen text input then?
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Long press on the settings icon (the gear wheel) and you'll have the option to set that key as the comma key.
I prefer Hackers Keyboard and Swiftkey over Stock, tbh.