I've spent forever trying to find an enter button on here but it seems only samsung and android keyboards have one by default. Is there a special swype technique or am I just blind?
Edit: it shows up on text input fields but not in the messaging app when I need it most, in its place is a button for smileys, any way to bring back the enter button?
Nope, there is a tab-like button though.
The arrow key in the lower right corner is functioning like an enter/return key on my swype keyboard.
See, just used it.
Oh, there it goes again!
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The arrow key in the lower right corner is functioning like an enter/return key on my swype keyboard.
See, just used it.
Oh, there it goes again!
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Updated op, yeah I see it here but not in the text messaging app try it there
Is it really that hard to hit the send button instead?
Use Handscent
If you use Handcent instead of the built in messaging app for mms/sms, Swype does not show the smiley key where the enter key should be. There are so many more reasons than just that to use Handcent. It's free and on the market to download, give it a shot.
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Is it really that hard to hit the send button instead?
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No it's not but I don't wanna bombard the people I'm texting with multiple texts at the same time.
And to whoever mentioned handcent, I might try it again because it was my favorite texting app on my g1 but the newer updates were really buggy, I'll see how the latest version runs on my vibrant thanks!
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Is it really that hard to hit the send button instead?
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Some people don't have unlimited text messaging plans though.
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lqaddict said:
Some people don't have unlimited text messaging plans though.
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use Google Voice, they provide FREE unlimited text messaging. there are cons of course, you have to use it within the Google Voice app and it isn't the best interface for it but if it gives me free text messaging then its whatever.
zephiK said:
use Google Voice, they provide FREE unlimited text messaging. there are cons of course, you have to use it within the Google Voice app and it isn't the best interface for it but if it gives me free text messaging then its whatever.
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Unfortunately, Google Voice only works in the US.
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If you use Handcent instead of the built in messaging app for mms/sms, Swype does not show the smiley key where the enter key should be. There are so many more reasons than just that to use Handcent. It's free and on the market to download, give it a shot.
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I don't see any advantage Handcent has over the stock Vibrant messaging app besides being able to change bubble and background colors.
Whats so special about it?
I second this one.... We need an enter key in swype for text messaging. Sometimes you have to send address in a text message and you need to enter like this:
mr. x y
1234 xyz ave
abc city, xx state
wonder if you can update swype somehow if there is a newer version with fix?
I had this same problem with swype when I got mine. A friend told me about swiftkey as an alternative keyboard. Have to say that I think it is a much better keyboard than swype and the default Android one.
I know that is not a fix but maybe it will help you do want you need.
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Try the touchpal keyboard. Its surprisingly good, just disable chinese as the default language.
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With all the made skillz here at XDA.
Do you think someone can whip up an app that when you hold the Search button, instead of picking voice search, it can open up the Camera app?
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With all the made skillz here at XDA.
Do you think someone can whip up an app that when you hold the Search button, instead of picking voice search, it can open up the Camera app?
gracias
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I believe long presses are handled by the kernal so it should be possible but I am not sure how.
Currently, long press on the search opens google talk...maybe long press on the menu or something?
Good idea though
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You get the option for powerstrip or chompsms to take over that button.
I would love an app to launch whatever you want, like the camera or the phone app.
Surely this should be super easy to make
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I would like it to be used for voice input in emails/texts. The tiny mic button is hard to hit on the Android keyboard.
I use LaunchPro and setup the app drawer swipe up gesture to open camera, works well for me.
great suggestion.. using that now
Use the android market app called 'Button Shortcut' i made the long-press search open camera instead of google search.
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I use LaunchPro and setup the app drawer swipe up gesture to open camera, works well for me.
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Not seeing how to get to the swipe features. How can I do that?
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I don't know about launcher pro but I do exactly the same in ADW. I took LP off after I discovered this in ADW, I never saw this in LP, did I miss it?
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Press and hold one of the apps in the app drawer until the menu pops up. Select 'Swipe Gesture Action'
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Use the android market app called 'Button Shortcut' i made the long-press search open camera instead of google search.
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I took the advice. Since I already had handcent SMS assigned to the button and voice search had been assigned before that I got a nice little menu out of it. I think its more useful w/o selecting a default
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Use the android market app called 'Button Shortcut' i made the long-press search open camera instead of google search.
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Thanks! That application did the trick 8)
xfosx said:
Thanks! That application did the trick 8)
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button shortcut worked once for me and then did nothing. uninstalled. Anyone got anything better?
On the mytouchslide I can just dial the name of the person I want to speak with on the g2 I cannot anyway to change this?
That is sense feature. I will miss it when I ditch my EVO and goto the G2. I am not sure if other Dialers will do the same thing.....
There are a few apps for this. I personally like "Star Contacts." I believe another one was "Dialer One."
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There are a few apps for this. I personally like "Star Contacts."
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I use Star Contacts as well.
Ah yes, one of many features that I miss from my slide. That and the full weather animation.
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Do any of these programs change the way the dialer looks. I don't want a change in the look just the feature
My suggestion would be to just tap the search button, type the name in there, and click the dial icon.
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My suggestion would be to just tap the search button, type the name in there, and click the dial icon.
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Nice tip!
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Do any of these programs change the way the dialer looks. I don't want a change in the look just the feature
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No. Here's Star Contacts. Once you get the contact on screen, you click the contact. From there you can call, text or email the contact.
It also provides some enhancements of the call log that I prefer to the standard call log. You get the exact time of the call, not "3 days ago" and you also get the duration of the call in hours, minutes and seconds.
why not use the search button? no really on the phone. you tap the button then type the name and it will look for it in your contacts and you click to dial.
You can get weather animation with beautiful widgets.
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You can get weather animation with beautiful widgets.
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It a poor replacement but its something that I actually use. Thank you for mentioning it just in case I didn't know about it.
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I use SpellDial
xile6 said:
why not use the search button? no really on the phone. you tap the button then type the name and it will look for it in your contacts and you click to dial.
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lets say you just called them an hour ago, and want to dial them back again
isntead of hitting a total of 2 buttons to call them again, in order to type in their name, you're going to have to do at least 3, and more depending on how long your contact list is, to an average of about, lets say 5.
that would mean a 150% increase in keystrokes...
If you just called them an hour ago (not sure how often *you* make phone calls) they should be near the top of your recent calls...
i use Dialer One, which is similar to the HTC Dialer and has swiping from page-to-page for recents/favs/contacts.
Also, getting a shortcut to the program where you can get to it quickly might help too. If you haven't checked out replacement launchers/homes in the market, I'd suggest it.
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why not use the search button? no really on the phone. you tap the button then type the name and it will look for it in your contacts and you click to dial.
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Beat you to it
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lets say you just called them an hour ago, and want to dial them back again
isntead of hitting a total of 2 buttons to call them again, in order to type in their name, you're going to have to do at least 3, and more depending on how long your contact list is, to an average of about, lets say 5.
that would mean a 150% increase in keystrokes...
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What nolsen311 said... Your situation is solved by stock software. I don't think the issue is recent calls, but simply searching for peeps. The stock search button works well.
cant you just flash it and install Desire Z rom?
Can't you just... open the keyboard, type the name, tap the profile image, tap the phone icon (first one)? It's not so complicated.
Works perfect for me!
to the OP... i'm hooked on the HTC Sense way of searching/dialing (T9 "spelling" out a contact's name)
i really like Dialer One - its *very* similar to the Sense interface, if that's what you're coming from
also, a couple times i had an idea for an improvement so i emailed the guy and he fixed it right away - pretty cool!
(ps... that star contacts looks pretty slick - i might just give that a try too!)
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Ah yes, one of many features that I miss from my slide. That and the full weather animation.
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For the weather animation and Sense style weather clock widget, check out "Weather and Toggle Widget" by Android Apps in the market. It costs a couple of bucks, but works great. A true Sense style clock and weather widget with full screen animations on stock Android.
If you get it, to get the Sense style to it, download the H7C Clock and H7C Weather themes for it, and the Weather Widget Forecast Addon by Android Apps for the animations.
I installed swiftkey today to play around with it but uninstalled it. However now the input method menu option is still showing in text fields, even though android keyboard is the only choice. Anyone know how to get rid of this? Restarting and reinstalling / uninstalling swiftkey did not help. Thanks.
try clearing data for the keyboard?
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try clearing data for the keyboard?
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Nice idea....no dice though!
Well this is odd...I restored a nandroid from before I installed swiftkey (only had android keyboard as an option) and the input method menu option is still there. Is this how its always been on cyanogenmod or something and I never noticed? I know it used to not show up, but now I don't know when that changed.
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Well this is odd...I restored a nandroid from before I installed swiftkey (only had android keyboard as an option) and the input method menu option is still there. Is this how its always been on cyanogenmod or something and I never noticed? I know it used to not show up, but now I don't know when that changed.
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So you got it working? If not then go into MENU>SETTINGS>LANGUAGEAND KEYBOARDS and puput a check mark in the box for your keyboard and then long press in a text field and it should be there.
I think the problem is that he can't get the option for the keyboard to go away, not that he can't get it to show up. I've never heard of a problem like this. How did you uninstall Swiftkey?
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I think the problem is that he can't get the option for the keyboard to go away, not that he can't get it to show up. I've never heard of a problem like this. How did you uninstall Swiftkey?
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Yeah that's the problem, its not that the option for swiftkey is still there, its that the "input method" menu option is present in all text field context menus, and when you choose it, the only option is "android keyboard". I believe that in the past, if you only had one keyboard, "input method" did not show up at all. So I restored a nandroid to before I installed swiftkey, and "input method" is still showing despite having only one keyboard, which is why I'm confused.
I just uninstalled swiftkey the regular way from the running tab of applications.
So, if you're running cm6.1, do you see "input method" even with only one keyboard installed?
Ahhh, I see. The input method will always show up, regardless of how many keyboards you have. This happens to everyone and to my knowledge it isn't a bug.
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Ahhh, I see. The input method will always show up, regardless of how many keyboards you have. This happens to everyone and to my knowledge it isn't a bug.
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Okay thanks for clearing that up. I believe with the stock Sense ROM it removed that option when only one keyboard was enabled, but I guess I never noticed it didn't behave that way in AOSP/Cyanogen.
I am saving things all the time and it always says saving too clipboard... Where is it?
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When keyboard is open, long press the microphone symbol (bottom row, between SYM and spacebar). A bar with six icons will pop up. 3rd from the left (looks like a battery to me) will open up anything in clipboard. This is the only way I'm aware of but not sure if there's another way.
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Thanks for pointing this out. Also if you long press on one od the items in the clipboard, it opens a contextual menu with additional options for your clips. I like the lock feature. I've always used an app called "Clipper " but I'm gonna play with Samsung's Clipboard app and see if I like it .
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Thank you guys for this. I didn't know that was possible.
Is there a way to get to the clipboard if you're not using the Samsung keyboard? I am using Swype.
Thanks again.
hawkeye680 said:
Thank you guys for this. I didn't know that was possible.
Is there a way to get to the clipboard if you're not using the Samsung keyboard? I am using Swype.
Thanks again.
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Good question. Occasionally I'm in some text editor and I see a panel of clipboard of copied and cut text snippets, but I don't know how to recreate it.
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Thanks for pointing this out. Also if you long press on one od the items in the clipboard, it opens a contextual menu with additional options for your clips. I like the lock feature. I've always used an app called "Clipper "
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that's what I use myself.
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that's what I use myself.
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Yeah, I've been using Clipper for about 3 years now, the best I've found so far. I like the sync feature with the PRO version because it sync's across all my android device. I like that you can create sets, I have an email set that holds all my email addresses. Very handy little app. Haven't had any problems using it with my Note 3.
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Okay here's the deal, on all my other devices, when I would use Google Talk(hangouts) or any other app that required entering text I always had the return/enter key. Now with this note 3, where the enter key would be, it's set as the emoticons button..... Not in all apps ie: tap talk seems to be the only one with the enter key still and in the browsers also. I using the stock keyboard and have even tried using the Google keyboard in the play store. Same issue. How do I get my enter/return key back while in messaging apps...... I fancy myself to be pretty android savy but this is my first sammy phone. Is it hard coded in and I'm SOL? Any help/ideas are appreciated. Thanks
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Anyone? Im rooted and stock
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Anyone? Im rooted and stock
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Interesting, does pressing/holding shift not change it to return? Otherwise try resetting settings. Never had this issue with the stock keyboard so not too sure. What apps does it change to smileys in?
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Interesting, does pressing/holding shift not change it to return? Otherwise try resetting settings. Never had this issue with the stock keyboard so not too sure. What apps does it change to smileys in?
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Stock mesaging, hangouts for sure all the time
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Mine is the same, noticed it for whatsapp first then hangouts (when /i used for default sms) - It's cause the style of the Apps move the send button up towards the text bar.
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Mine is the same, noticed it for whatsapp first then hangouts (when /i used for default sms) - It's cause the style of the Apps move the send button up towards the text bar.
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Yeah idk maybe sammy thinks that people don't need to add a line break in messaging apps. I never used it to send, I actually use it to start another line of text
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