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Long pressing menu button brings up search instead of just keyboard?

Is this just me or anyone else? Back on my N1 it would bring up the keyboard on top of any screen/app I was on.. On my Vibrant it brings up a search screen with the keyboard..
This disables me being able to use Swype's cursor menu for selecting text, copying/pasting. I don't know if anyone else uses it like that?

On the Swype keyboard, swype from the tips key to the sym key, left to right.
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amd_203 said:
On the Swype keyboard, swype from the tips key to the sym key, left to right.
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Reading comprehension fail.
He's problem is that a search field opens with a long press of the menu key, making the swype arrow keys useless when you want to use them outside of a text field.

thegreatcity said:
Reading comprehension fail.
He's problem is that a search field opens with a long press of the menu key, making the swype arrow keys useless when you want to use them outside of a text field.
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More like a misunderstanding, douche.
He's out of luck though, since like he said long press of menu only brings up search, not the keyboard like the N1. I believe they did this because you international Galaxy S didn't have a search button, so to take its place they made it available by a long press of the menu. Though, I don't know why they didn't remove that on our T-Mobile Vibrant since we already have a separate button for it.
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thegreatcity said:
Reading comprehension fail.
He's problem is that a search field opens with a long press of the menu key, making the swype arrow keys useless when you want to use them outside of a text field.
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Oh, and it's his not he's (he is)
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I have this same problem and it's extremely annoying. This phone is full of bugs. Thankfully we have XDA and it's only a matter of time before we get bug fixes.

amd_203 said:
More like a misunderstanding, douche.
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Vocabulary fail.
Last time I checked, misunderstanding what someone wrote = not comprehending what was read.
I was just joking anyways.
Have fun calling me names like a kid, pointing out typos (a typo on xda?! whaaaat?!), just next time actually RTFA.

Thanks for the insightful responses my fellow Vibranteers. Lol.

I agree it's pretty annoying. A friend was trying an older Android app that assumes you have a physical keyboard, and as a result, there is no way to force the soft keyboard to open.
You have to wonder how Samsung concluded the search button wasn't adequate for accessing search...

Menu lp for me is the keyboard, as it should be for everyone. Lp search is a choice of with vlingo or google voice search.

lp menu for me is search also......very very annoying!

For me as well... (I'm on stock TW)

Menu LP brings up the keyboard -- and the quick-search box in the top half of the screen.

Anybody figure out how to chnge this behaviour?

I have Button-Shorcut set to go to dialer with LP. As there is no hardware phone button,.SP search. + KB. I wish this app was able to map menu button that would be great.
Is your phone Loki? Use Odin. You'll be Thor!

I asked Steve Jobs and he told me that you guys are long pressing the button wrong

The "OK" Button...

Okay guys. So I've successfully rooted the phone, removed bloatware, played with different ROMs, but this one stupid "OK" button is puzzling me.
WHAT DOES THE OKAY BUTTON DO????
It doesn't do what I expect it to do.. most of the time it does nothing. If I hold it down while texting it just highlights everything in red.

I've been wondering the same thing since day 1.
The best answer I can offer as of yet is "nothing"

The ok button is like hitting enter or a left mouse click in some cases. If you are scrolling through clickable links in the browser or the marketplace ok will click on the link and open it (you may have noticed enter or return doesn't do that). I imagine it also selects yes if a yes/no dialogue box comes up.
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gpgorbosjr said:
The ok button is like hitting enter or a left mouse click in some cases. If you are scrolling through clickable links in the browser or the marketplace ok will click on the link and open it (you may have noticed enter or return doesn't do that). I imagine it also selects yes if a yes/no dialogue box comes up.
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Not precisely. That would be what we expect of an "OK" button. Thx for replying.
Does anyone know exactly what this f*'in OK button does on the Droid2????????

The same thing as the center of the dpad did on the D1....
If you use the arrow keys to select something on screen, like an icon, link, or menu item. The ok button would do the same as tapping on it... you can even hold it on an item to get the same effect as long press.
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drathx said:
Not precisely. That would be what we expect of an "OK" button. Thx for replying.
Does anyone know exactly what this f*'in OK button does on the Droid2????????
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Um......that is what it does.
I was wrong about it selecting yes in a yes/no box, I thought I had done that once.
But what it does do, is as I sad, and the poster above me said. It clicks on links or linkable type things (such as an app in the market).
The poster above me said the same thing, only in a better way. It is like the center of the dpad (or clicking the trackpad on other android phones). It is sort of like finger pressing what you are on without using the touch screen.

Random Things you may not know about your EPIC 4G...?

So it doesnt seem as though there is a thread like this for the Epic.
I figured this would be a good place to list a bunch of random things you've found while "tinkering" with you Epic 4G.
Example:
While in Camera mode, if you hit the power button it locks the camera. No buttons can be pushed until you "Unlock" the camera by pressing the power button once more. I figured this allows you to keep the camera app open without snapping random shots, so that when you are ready the camera app is readily available.
This same method works in the video player function...I found this out cus I have a 2 year old that loves to watch his cartoons on my phone. Well he always tends to touch the screen and it usually interrupts the vid (streaming)...so now I just lock the video player (push the power button while video is playing) and now he can touch it all he wants and it wont interrupt the vid!
What else do you guys/gals know about this AWESOME phone!!???
-MaD

I just found out if you workout with your epic resting against your skin, you're risking it might get water damaged.

Here's something:
If you press down on the notifications tab at the top of your phone, and slide it to either the left or right, you can toggle the brightness (if it is set to MANUAL, and you can do this under the phone's settings).

shook187 said:
I just found out if you workout with your epic resting against your skin, you're risking it might get water damaged.
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SALTwater damage.
Learn to sweat distilled water. It's much safer for electronics

When on your contact list, swipe left to text or right to call that contact.

dwallersv said:
SALTwater damage.
Learn to sweat distilled water. It's much safer for electronics
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I was being sarcastic when I wrote that. I read that happend to someone here.

Darkshneider said:
When on your contact list, swipe left to text or right to call that contact.
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dear god that's nifty!

Darkshneider said:
When on your contact list, swipe left to text or right to call that contact.
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Same for the message list
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I never knew the phone had a front facing camera until 2 weeks ago. I've had the phone since soon after it came out

tuttjs said:
I never knew the phone had a front facing camera until 2 weeks ago. I've had the phone since soon after it came out
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Seriously? Holy ****e dude, that was one of the key things the Epic had over the other guys.

Well, I knew this but some may not. On the physical keyboard, if you double press the "Shift" or "FN" keys, it does "Caps lock" and "Function Lock"
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i recently learned that if you dial a number and hit the call icon this thing will actually make phone calls!!! f00king amazing, here i just thought it ran apps,played games,video and movies.
Ziing!

BopChie said:
i recently learned that if you dial a number and hit the call icon this thing will actually make phone calls!!! f00king amazing, here i just thought it ran apps,played games,video and movies.
Ziing!
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Confirmed. Wow I Just tried this and it's pretty amazing! +11111111

Here's another one that's semi-useful.
This will only work with the stock SWYPE keyboard. Now there are some complications usually when trying to copy/paste text with androids. If you have a keyboard, you can easily hold "shift" and swype across the text you are trying to copy.
Well with the SWYPE keyboard, if you do not want to open up the physical keyboard, you have the option of pressing the "i" button at the bottom (next to SYM) and if you hold that and swype on over to SYM and back to the "i" button, a menu with several different commands will show up. I'm not too familiar with how to use it, but I know it gives you the option to copy/paste, move up and down and select text fairly easy.

OperationMove said:
Confirmed. Wow I Just tried this and it's pretty amazing! +11111111
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lol... learn something new every day ha?

zanderman112 said:
Well, I knew this but some may not. On the physical keyboard, if you double press the "Shift" or "FN" keys, it does "Caps lock" and "Function Lock"
Sent from my always stock, EB13 Epic, awaiting EC05.
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Every phone has the same double press.
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BopChie said:
i recently learned that if you dial a number and hit the call icon this thing will actually make phone calls!!! f00king amazing, here i just thought it ran apps,played games,video and movies.
Ziing!
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Funny sh|t... a shrink actually told me that she has teen clients who get in trouble, and lose their text priveledges, and are really going crazy, shrink suggests just making a voice call... the kid looks terrified, to call their 'best friend'...I really hope FFCs can help this... thats just sad. Its not even basement dwellers either, these are 'popular kids'.... I think Skynet has already won. Anyways, what phone are you getting next????

johnp1991 said:
Every phone has the same double press.
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I was just gonna let that one slide... figured they were new to having a phone...

Pettro said:
Well with the SWYPE keyboard, if you do not want to open up the physical keyboard, you have the option of pressing the "i" button at the bottom (next to SYM) and if you hold that and swype on over to SYM and back to the "i" button, a menu with several different commands will show up. I'm not too familiar with how to use it, but I know it gives you the option to copy/paste, move up and down and select text fairly easy.
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No need to swype back to the "i" button. Swyping from the "i" button over to the SYM button brings up the same options. Gives you arrow keys which are pretty awesome to use. Also, if you swype from the "i" button over to the "F" key, it brings up a nice keypad for you to input numbers/symbols.
Also, while on the topic of swyping, here are some other cool things:
If you want to capitalize a letter, you swype from that letter off of the swype keyboard entirely and then continue swyping. So if you wanted for some reason to type CaT, you would swype from the "c" key off of the keyboard entirely and then over to the "a" key and then over to the "t" key and then off the keyboard entirely again.
If you want to hit a double letter, like the two o's in Google, you swype from the "g" over to the "o" and swirl around on it for a second and then continue swyping the rest of the word. The swirling around doubles whatever key you are swirling over.

Pettro said:
Here's another one that's semi-useful.
Well with the SWYPE keyboard, if you do not want to open up the physical keyboard, you have the option of pressing the "i" button at the bottom (next to SYM) and if you hold that and swype on over to SYM and back to the "i" button, a menu with several different commands will show up. I'm not too familiar with how to use it, but I know it gives you the option to copy/paste, move up and down and select text fairly easily.
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just swiping from the swype(or i/info depending on your version/rom/theme) key to sym alone will open that layout.
heres another swipe shortcut
start at the swype/info key then swipe diagonaly to the upper right and let go when your past the keyboard layout.... This will open the numerical keypad.
last one it got (that i can think of at the moment)
you can usually simulate a battery pull/force reset if your softlocked by holding cam+vol_up+power... saved me some hassle when i had a hard case on my epic many times when experimenting with roms/kernel/tweaks.
UPDATE:
muyoso has apparently tapped into my brain and beat me to it LOL... and sombish... yeah u can just swipe from the info to the f and get numerical keypad also

[Q] Is there any way to bring up the Softkeyboard with a softkey?

Hi everybody,
Does anyone know a Method to bring up the softkeyboard with a longpress on the back key? Normally it would be done by longpressing the menukey, since the gs2 doesn't have one i'd love to bring up the keyboard, for eexample with a long press on the back key.
Thanks for some answers
DDeluxe

+1
I'd like to hide it. Do a web search and follow a link. Then get annoyed at how small the window is
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ddeluxe said:
Hi everybody,
Does anyone know a Method to bring up the softkeyboard with a longpress on the back key? Normally it would be done by longpressing the menukey, since the gs2 doesn't have one i'd love to bring up the keyboard, for eexample with a long press on the back key.
Thanks for some answers
DDeluxe
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Your phone doesn't have the menu key? How is that possible. Also it should bring up the soft keyboard I think.

RogerPodacter said:
Your phone doesn't have the menu key? How is that possible. Also it should bring up the soft keyboard I think.
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I think he meant long pressing menu brings up search because there is no dedicated search button.
I'd be interested in a solution for this as well.
I'm inclined to think there is a way to make long press back bring up the KB for rooted devices only, and might already exist from SGS1 complaints. Samsung took a page from Apple, by which I mean they made a form over function compromise.
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slice77 said:
I think he meant long pressing menu brings up search because there is no dedicated search button.
I'd be interested in a solution for this as well.
I'm inclined to think there is a way to make long press back bring up the KB for rooted devices only, and might already exist from SGS1 complaints. Samsung took a page from Apple, by which I mean they made a form over function compromise.
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Don't take this the wrong way, but I don't get how they made a form over function compromise like you said.
Unless I am missing something, I am assuming there is a field to type in whenever someone needs the keyboard. so what exactly would be the need for a long press on the back button, if you can just touch the field which brings the keyboard up?
Can someone explain to me if I missed something?

Sorry i ment that the galaxy s 2 doesnt have a dedicated searchbutton. Samsung decided to use a longpress on the menubutton as the searchbutton, so you cannot bring up the keyboard with the longpress menubutton. Sorry for the confusion!
And now an explenation for the question "why would you need it?":
If I want to play a HTML5 or a flash game within the Browser, where a keyboard (or only the arrowkeys) is needed, i can't bring it up without the "longpress menukbutton"...

Alt + Tab works on TF

I only just realised today having had a TF for over 6 months that alt + tab works on it
Hold the 'Alt Gr / Alt' button and tap the 'tab' button to bring up a recently opened apps list just like in Froyo 2.2 when you hold the home button.
Tap the 'Tab' button to scroll through the apps, then release the Alt button once you have selected the app and it will open it for you.
Its faster for me than using the recently opened apps button on the screen and is awesome!
Screenshot attached
EDIT: PS. To cancel out of it, say for example the app you wanted is not in the list anymore, then whilst still holding Alt, press the back button and it will cancel the shortcut screen and return you to your current app.

lol I didnt know that either

Haha nice !!
Only works on the desktop screens for me though... but very useful

Hmm, has anyone else noticed that you seem to get more apps in the Alt-Tab list than you do by using the Recent Apps button (on the status bar)? I would think that you should be see the same apps in both lists, right? This my explain my orher issue where I can't seem to multitask certain apps (don't show in the recent apps list)...
Thanks!

Awesome, this definitely was not the case in the past, so Asus (or Google?) must have included it in one of the firmware upgrades. I remember trying when I first got my hands on it, and then not bothering after that because it didn't work.

Check out this list; alt+tab functionality was 'discovered' months ago:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071739&highlight=alt,+shortcut
Not all the shortcuts are on the main page; alt+tab is mentioned on page four.
Lani Kai said:
Awesome, this definitely was not the case in the past, so Asus (or Google?) must have included it in one of the firmware upgrades. I remember trying when I first got my hands on it, and then not bothering after that because it didn't work.
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Am I the only ahole who played with the dockfor like ten mi utes andthen Googled for the thread here explaining the shortcuts and crap? Oh wait, think I did that before buying the TF101....
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Wish it worked with alt+magnifying lens, because I alt-tab with one hand on a normal laptop..

Danny-B- said:
Haha nice !!
Only works on the desktop screens for me though... but very useful
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For me it works regardless of what app I'm in.

goodintentions said:
For me it works regardless of what app I'm in.
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Same here - works everywhere...

Ctrl, alt, delete works for a soft reboot as well. I made a list of the "common" keys. I will post them up for you guys soon.
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No way?! I always thought it was kind of stupid that there wasn't a "recent apps" key, good find!

i feel like shooting myself in the head..... how could i NOT REALIZE THIS! >_>

reaperzero said:
i feel like shooting myself in the head..... how could i NOT REALIZE THIS! >_>
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dude, don't get too drastic. I'd hate to see someone end their life over something so silly. lol.
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kelldawg87 said:
The white circles on the up/ down and 1/6 keys are for scrolling. For example, to scroll down you would hold down the up key and tap or hold down the down key
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I'm not following.... "Hold down the up key and tap or hold down the down key"...
I can't seem to do anything with the white circle buttons....
Also - someone mentioned a soft-reboot for CTRL-ALT-DEL? I don't even have a DEL key on my keyboard dock! I tried CTRL-ALT-Backspace to no avail... How did you soft-reboot with a key-combination again?
Thanks!

Sharpe351 said:
dude, don't get too drastic. I'd hate to see someone end their life over something so silly. lol.
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=_= brain pasta on the walls

jtrosky said:
I'm not following.... "Hold down the up key and tap or hold down the down key"...
I can't seem to do anything with the white circle buttons....
Also - someone mentioned a soft-reboot for CTRL-ALT-DEL? I don't even have a DEL key on my keyboard dock! I tried CTRL-ALT-Backspace to no avail... How did you soft-reboot with a key-combination again?
Thanks!
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Totally my mistake... I have a USB keyboard also that has those keys... I just looked and don't have them on my dock either. I have used the ctrl C, ctrl V to copy and paste. It does work, you just have to select text first which is a pain.
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Sharpe351 said:
Totally my mistake... I have a USB keyboard also that has those keys... I just looked and don't have them on my dock either. I have used the ctrl C, ctrl V to copy and paste. It does work, you just have to select text first which is a pain.
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Ok, thank you for the clarification!