Hi, have just begun to use my X10 Mini Pro. Very satisfied as such but frustrated in the use of the HW keyboard. Specifically, I am having problems generating "non-English" letters, such as Å, Ä and Ö. On the keyboard there is a key labled "Sym/âü", all this does, however, is bring up smileyes, pretty much. Anyone know how to generate these other letters from the keyboard?
Thanks/M
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Hi,
I read so many reviews but I still have one important question before I buy this device. I currently have a Kaiser and I am very happy with the Keyboard. However, when I tried the Touch Pro, I was less satisfied with the keyboard compared to the Kaiser. I do not have an Xperia to test. My question is, how does the keyboard compare to the keyboard on the Kaiser? I know the keys are spaced out a bit, but what about the feel and tactile feedback? Does it feel comfortable typing on it?
Thanks for any advice.
Very nice keyboard once you get used to it.
My favorite keyboard so far is Eten M700, then Xperia, then Kaiser tied with hermes.
I hate ipaq 910, ipaq hw6945 and those similar.
ps. eten m700 is a bad phone compared to the others listed, but it's keyboard was great.
medellinrob said:
Very nice keyboard once you get used to it.
My favorite keyboard so far is Eten M700, then Xperia, then Kaiser tied with hermes.
I hate ipaq 910, ipaq hw6945 and those similar.
ps. eten m700 is a bad phone compared to the others listed, but it's keyboard was great.
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Thanks for the feedback. Do you think it is better than the Touch Pro?
I have to disagree the comments the Sony has the worst keyboard out of the three phones. I would suggest going into a shop if you can and testing the keyboard first. I found it easier to use the onscreen keyboard from the diamond) than sliding the keyboard out which defeats the object of having a keyboard on the device. It does get easier as you use it more but if you have used a kaiser for so long when you get the x1 you will be disappointed about the keyboard.
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I have to disagree the comments the Sony has the worst keyboard out of the three phones. I would suggest going into a shop if you can and testing the keyboard first. I found it easier to use the onscreen keyboard from the diamond) than sliding the keyboard out which defeats the object of having a keyboard on the device. It does get easier as you use it more but if you have used a kaiser for so long when you get the x1 you will be disappointed about the keyboard.
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I would prefer that SE will comes out a Phone Keypad like the one used in Touch Pro so that you can sms using the normal phone keypad.
I am using the Touch Pro Phone Keypad by default with the Touch Pro Volume Control and it works great!
The main problem with the keypad is that there are no cursor keys, you have to move your hand on to the X Panel or touch the screen. It's a pain at first, but once you get used to it it's fine.
The only other thing is that the back lighting can make the keys difficult to read in some lighting conditions.
It's not as good as the Touch Pro keypad, but the bigger screen made up for it and that's what swung my decision.
I previously owned a HTC Wizard, and I liked the keyboard on it better than the X1's, but I'm still getting used to the feel of the new phone, and I expect this feeling to pass. The keys are smaller than I'm accustomed to, which takes some getting used to. Other than that, I think the keyboard is great.
I used the d-pad on my Wizard at least as much as the directional keys on the keyboard, and often wondered about the redundancy. I think the choice to leave them out was a good one.
The backlight sometimes makes the symbol keys (and numbers) a bit hard to see in dim light (the lighting is very good when it's a bit darker, or bright), but still it's a lot better than in the Wizard.
And this time I have a Scandinavian keyboard layout.
Yay \o/
Having used both the Touch Pro and Xperia, if you're just talking about the feel of the keyboard then my vote goes to the Touch Pro without hesitation. In my opinion the Touch Pro has a better feel, and if autocomplete and autocorrect is important to you, then the Touch Pro is a lot better than the Xperia. Having said that however, I'm typing this message on a Xperia cos I've fallen in love with the screen and optical mouse pad.
I need a keyboard for my diamond. I installed the energyrom, i like it very much, but the qwerty keyboard has the button too small for my fingers! I need a compact qwerty keyboard or a classic phone keyboard (with 9 button for letters)...I saw that other rom has EzInput with a phone keyboard (the one with less button, perfect for my fingers!!)
I searched for a keyboard, but i didn't find anything...please, help me, and I beg your pardon for my English
no one know how can i get a keyboard finger-friendly?
Do you use deafult keyboard, better keyboard, swype keyboard, smart keyboard ?
what ?
thanks
Default. i wish there was a keyboard like fingerkeyboard for WM - fully customisable.
I don't actually like any keyboard for this phone but about the best one is Slide Keyboard and its free. The buttons are much larger than the standard and its easy to work out.
I'm hating default keyboard because i keep hitting settings button, plus predictive words won't work in all forms (like here, i can't get words predictions and i can't understand why)
I'll try slide keyboard
Thanks
EDIT: unfortunately the italian dictionary for slide keyboard is not "available" on the tattoo market !
I wrote to the dev
As a resident of Norway I'd like to have a Norwegian layout on the on-screen keyboard. The standard Android keyboard has it, but the ASUS keyboard doesn't. The Norwegian dictionary in the ASUS keyboard is quite good - but its useless without our local characters æøå (which is missing in the layout). The Android on-screen keyboard seems to be missing the Norwegian dictionary (it only get hits from the contact list!).
Does anyone know how to get anything else that the US layout on the ASUS on-screen keyboard? And does anyone know what happened to the Norwegian dictionary on the Android on-screen keyboard?
No idea on the dictionary, but for the norwegian letters, I imagine its similat to the swedish version. Press the a/o and hold it for a bit, and you will get options, including swedish/norwegian letters.
The same is for true for ASUS Finnish keyboard - no direct umlauts and long pressing a/o is a subpar solution.
I use Swedish Android keyboard when typing on-screen and switch to ASUS Finnish keyboard when using Scandinavian keyboard dock, because the keyboard dock is not functioning properly when stock Android keyboard is selected as the input type (pressing "ä" on keyboard equals ";" in produced text).
Bit inconvenient, glad that it is quite quick to change the input type.
I just activated a Blackberry Priv. However, i now notice that the lovely hardware keyboard is QWERTZ layout instead of QWERTY.
How do you switch the language/layout of the hardware keyboard? I cant find any information on this with google - only information on other blackberry devices. I don't get it, since I have the keyboard set to US English in the settings panel. There doesn't seem to be any other option regarding the layout?
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I just activated a Blackberry Priv. However, i now notice that the lovely hardware keyboard is QWERTZ layout instead of QWERTY.
How do you switch the language/layout of the hardware keyboard? I cant find any information on this with google - only information on other blackberry devices. I don't get it, since I have the keyboard set to US English in the settings panel. There doesn't seem to be any other option regarding the layout?
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My keyboard is QWERTY as it should be.
1) Did you update Blackberry apps from the Play store? If blackberry apps don't show in play store, then just search for "blackberry" in the play store and all needed apps will appear and update button will show.
If you have already done the first step, then go to settings>language & input>blackberry keyboard settings>input languages and here might be an update to the specific language.
I've updated the blackberry software, but still no options seem to effect the hardware keyboard. I can change the layout of the software keyboard, but it only seems to apply to the software keyboard.
DrAzzy said:
I've updated the blackberry software, but still no options seem to effect the hardware keyboard. I can change the layout of the software keyboard, but it only seems to apply to the software keyboard.
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By the way, do you see the on-screen keyboard when physical one is open?
No, I don't see software keyboard on screen when the hardware keyboard is out. Am I supposed to? That seems like it would be undesirable. I see just three suggested words along the bottom of the screen.
any luck with this? i would love to change freom qwerty to qwertz and have actuallz physically changed the keyboard already... but the setting to change it is missing
Same here. Just bought BlackBerry Priv with psysical qwertz and found that there is no tweak keys for that. I would like to change these letters virtualy, to press z and get y and opposite. How to do this. Help!
This will help solving it, install and swap y and z https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=innerlife.keyboard.multilanguagekeymapredefiner
just wanted to comment and say this helped me a ton with my key2 thanks so much @Mr.PeterAmgad!!
fraunhofer777 said:
just wanted to comment and say this helped me a ton with my key2 thanks so much @Mr.PeterAmgad!!
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I would like to use it with keyone.
any side effects?
can you still use the shortcuts?
google play says this is for older android versions, did you find a newer version?
thx...
Mr.PeterAmgad said:
This will help solving it, install and swap y and z https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=innerlife.keyboard.multilanguagekeymapredefiner
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Thanks, this worked! But now the number 7 is mapped to the Z key (alt + z), and alt + y brings out parenthesis. It's not a huge issue, but it seems there is not way remap alt + y so it will output 7 as it is in the original layout.
Also it seems there is no autocorrect available at all when using this keyboard? I was relying on autocorrect to put the right accents in Spanish, I can't seem to be able to enable this again even if I switch the language to Spanish.
In the end I created a custom QWERTZ to QWERTY keyboard for AnySoftKeyboard. It solves the issue of having Y mapped to parenthesis and Z to number 7 I mentioned above.
I made them for both English and Spanish (the Spanish one lets you write "ñ" by pressing "n" three times).
I also made a custom build of AnySoftKeyboard that make predictions work with the Key2 hardware keyboard. But if you just want the remapping, it works the fine with the official AnySoftKeyboard, just predictions don't work unless you use the on-screen keyboard.
Only tested with the BB Key2.
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In the end I created a custom QWERTZ to QWERTY keyboard for . It solves the issue of having Y mapped to parenthesis and Z to number 7 I mentioned above.
I made them for both English and Spanish (the Spanish one lets you write "ñ" by pressing "n" three times).
I also made a custom build of AnySoftKeyboard that make predictions work with the Key2 hardware keyboard. But if you just want the remapping, it works the fine with the official AnySoftKeyboard, just predictions don't work unless you use the on-screen keyboard.
Only tested with the BB Key2.
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Hello raymccoy,
i tryed your workaround, but its not working on my Key2. I installt the Anysoftkeyboad from Your attachments and your languages apks. But my physical Keyboard does not change the layout. Can you tell me the steps to install?
Thanks
Marc
it does not work for me either. it does not remap anything, furthermore it crashes
I have to correct myself! it works, but it's necessary to install the last version of the app (from Playstore) to prevent it from crashing... AND it's necessary to show the virtual keyboard, otherwise physical keyboard remapping will not take place. Thankfully, the virtual keyboard can be made really tinyn so it will not be too invasive on the screen (see screenshot). Tested on BB Key2.