Is there any way to use the old keyboard on the Desire? I dont like the Desires stock keyboard, its difficult to type using it. I was fine with the HTC Magic, but with the Hero and this i still make mistakes often, 6 months later! grrrr
I was also trying to get Swype onto it but it says its installed but its not there...
i put swype on a friend's incredible yesterday, shouldn't be a problem. you probably just haven't selected it, if you installed it. long press on a text input field, and choose input method when the window pops up. just choose swype.
you may also check out the htc_ime keyboards available in the nexus one themes threads
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Hey all! I have a 32A Roger's Magic with MyHero .1.0 rom on it. This rom doesn't come with the crummy old google keyboard, only the HTC one. When I long tap in an input box and pick 'select input method', my choices are Touch Input, iWnn IME, and Touch input chinese.
The problem is I keep running into apps that won't let you input numbers from the HTC keyboard. The two big ones for me are ConnectBot and A Online Radio.
With connect bot, when you are ssh'ed into a server you Cannot type in any numbers. Hitting the key to switch to numbers does nothing. Long holding the number key inputs a letter and the number.
How can I add in the old keyboard to switch to when using these problematic apps?
Update: I got up on the connectbot site and it looks like everyone with the HTC_IME keyborad experiences this. Just need to get the old kb in there to remedy it.
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...
Spike15 said:
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.
How do i change the keyboard in android? What are the files to replace?
Does anybody know how to replace the Desire HD (sense build: 1.24.405.1) keyboard with the original Desire keyboard that doesnt have all the arrows?
does anybody have any custom keyboards that they want to post in this thread for us to try out?
Download Ultra keyboard. Pay from market.
i like the one from the original desire builds, original sense from froyo.
where would i get that file?
I personally use "smart keyboard pro" love its responsiveness and u can choose between skins and keyboard sounds.."better keyboard" is also a good choice...
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If youre using a build with sense and just want the stock android keyboard all you have to do is uninstall the "Touch Input" application. I used an app killer to kill the HTC touch input process and discovered that it killed the HTC keyboard, so after that I just uninstalled it. The stock one is so much better for me, seems more accurate with autocorrect and I can actually hit the keys for once.
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If youre using a build with sense and just want the stock android keyboard all you have to do is uninstall the "Touch Input" application. I used an app killer to kill the HTC touch input process and discovered that it killed the HTC keyboard, so after that I just uninstalled it. The stock one is so much better for me, seems more accurate with autocorrect and I can actually hit the keys for once.
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Just make sure you copy any file you are about to delete before you delete them, just incase.
I'm using the mattc 1.8 Sense build. Here is an easy way to change the keyboard.
How it's done:
Go to messages and create a new message.
Click in the input field and stay there with your finger at least some seconds.
A popup will appear with the possibility to go to the input method or something like that (sorry, I'm using my build in German )
Here you can choose if you want to have the Sense or the original Android keyboard layout.
Edit: Sorry if it isn't what you were asking for, I'm not sure.
I miss my old sywpe keyboard on my stock rom on mt4g . i currently have virtious fusion rom on my phone but it was missing swype. is there anyway i could put swype on my current rom?
Swype is present on virtious fusion just longpress in the input area and choose your input method.
hey i found out i do have swype and touch input but i dont have the other option...
is the other options keyboard good?
It was a free app from Amazon a few days ago.
"FlexT9 'Speak. Trace. Write. Tap.' by Nuance"
It has Dragon Dictation ("speak"), trace functionality ("trace" similar to Swype), writing input ("write") allowing you to draw out letters with your hand, and normal input (tap) like most other keyboards you might have used.
I, for one, think it's great, but still, I keep finding myself going back to Swype.
Really? I tried Swype several times and kept stopping. I found Swype is awesome at trace input but overall it's a horrible keyboard. I tried FlexT9 and I find myself unable to leave it. The trace input is easily as good as Swype, but it's an awesome keyboard too. If you don't want to trace all the time, Flex is perfect because it looks and works almost identical to the HTC Sense keyboard. I doubt I could ever use Swype again after trying it.
Edit: double post, my apologies.
I agree that Swype isn't the best for normal text entry, but I can't remember the last time I used it for that.
Swyped from my Glacier.
I am on Kingdom Stock 3.0 Sense RSL1.1 and I was dragging my finger across the keyboard and wala! It swyped....did HTC make It's own swype style keyboard? Or? I don't have swype anywhere on my phone. So did HTC include swype style input on their sense 3.0 keyboard or am I insane? Its pretty sweet...
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I am on Kingdom Stock 3.0 Sense RSL1.1 and I was dragging my finger across the keyboard and wala! It swyped....did HTC make It's own swype style keyboard? Or? I don't have swype anywhere on my phone. So did HTC include swype style input on their sense 3.0 keyboard or am I insane? Its pretty sweet...
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haha yea they did its called htc trace
Radical man
wish we could get a version without the arrow buttons. makes buttons too small.
Trace does work nice though, just tried it. Deleting swype lol!
yea it does work pretty well. I've always liked the idea of swype but hated the landscape keyboard. SlideIT has a good idea thats a slideable switch that toggles slide and abc.
seems like there has to be a way to get rid of those damn arrows. Is there a flashable zip or an APK we can try to mod?
I'm use RLS2 and I don't see that. Did you have to take Trace out?
I'm on RLS2 for Uber kingdom. I tried out trace but I dont think it works as well as swype. 1) When you trace a word then tap on another word (not the original suggestion), it will not automatically add a space when you start tracing the next word 2) there is no easy way to correct words once you've started tracing a new one (swype allowed you to double tap on any word to look up its suggestions) 3) The arrow keys on the stock keyboard make it a lot harder to type on.
I tried installing swype on uber kingdom (I'm using the swype installer that I have saved from titanium backup and downloading the latest swype) but I keep getting an error message saying that my version of swype is configured for another device. I can type on the the swype keyboard but I can't swype on it How did you guys get it to work?
HTC trace,maybe
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I've tried RLS 2, 3, and 4... I don't see an HTC Trace option anywhere... am I missing it?
(I am in swype beta, so I'll probably stick with that, but I'd like to try Trace regardless)
I've gotten so used to Swype and all its quirks and know how to get it to do just about anything. I think I'll just stick with it.
Anyone else find that when you reboot your phone you have to un-select Swype and re-select it as input method or it won't recognize any words?
if you could supply an apk, you'd be my hero