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I thought I posted this yesterday, but I don't see it...
I REALLY need this to work.
Am I missing something obvious?
Yup I'm confused bout this. I've been using hardware keyboard a lot so I'm dealing with it but I do miss this. I guess for now just use back to close the keyboard. I did notice that ultra keyboard works when holding the menu button.
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I think its a feature for only touchscreen phones, I haven't ever been able to do it on G1 also, but on mytouch and HD2
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It works on my Cliq.
With SwiftKey, you swipe down to hide the keyboard... definitely my favorite keyboard.
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keenerb said:
I thought I posted this yesterday, but I don't see it...
I REALLY need this to work.
Am I missing something obvious?
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This is true...
Anyone else finding the space bar on the gingerbead keyboard difficult and doesn't register sometimes if you press it any lower than halfway down?
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Yes
Go to swypes website. There beta is open, much better keyboard all around
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My wife and I use SwiftKey. It was *well* worth the money.
What keyboard are you guys using with your streak? I like to use it, primarily, in landscape but at the same time i have small hands so it gets difficult to type at times =-/. I tried swift key x for tablets and it's pretty good that it splits the keyboard in landscape mode, but it's not very responsive and i find myself missing letters at times!!
what do you guys use?
I'm just using the Swype keyboard that came with StreakDroid 1.9.1...It's a bit different than the one that was on a previous version...Idr what version. It's nice, but I hit b or . instead of space too often. And I hit the damn microphone key too often.
Hands down thumb keyboard was made for the Streak!
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Thumb Keyboard with Split 5" layout.
+1 for ThumbKeyboard
Thumb Keyboard. I was actually going to switch to a slider phone before I found this, it has made a tremendous difference for me.
K so I'm using thumb keyboard as I type this. I'm liking it a lot better than any normal keyboard but what layout are you guys using for landscape and portrait modes? Landscape works great but I don't really like the default portrait view.
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Split compact for portrait, 5" layout for landscape.
I use thumb keyboard for landscape using the Tablet 7" layout. I use Ultra Keyboard for portrait. I use keyboard manager (requires root) to automatically switch them based on mode.
I use two thumbs to type in landscape and swipe typing in portrait with Ultra.
I use standard for both portrait and landscape.
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I switch between thumb keyboard and go keyboard. Go keyboard let's you have custom backgrounds, pretty cool.
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Hey Aaron.... Welcome to the Streak family Personally, I swear by, (and sometimes swear at, especially in portrait mode), the Thumb keyboard made by Beansoft. In landscape mode where the height of the keyboard covers too much of the screen, update #4 lets you adjust the height of the keyboard
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thanks for the advice guys. i ended up with thumb keyboard for landscape and swift key for portrait, working great so far!!
I use hackers keyboard, has arrows to navigate inside text and can also send special chars for terminal use
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leozolt said:
I use hackers keyboard, has arrows to navigate inside text
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I use, and love, Better Keyboard 8. I would LOVE to have arrows! I thought I had tried them all...
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SwiftKey X is my choice. The predictions save so much typing by this poor typist.
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slaydog said:
I use, and love, Better Keyboard 8. I would LOVE to have arrows! I thought I had tried them all...
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Ultra keyboard has arrow (cursor) keys, they can be configured from the settings.
Edit: I just checked out Hacker's Keyboard and it looks like a very nice free alternative.
+1 for hackers keyboard here.. best keyboard ive ever used... and its free
yeah I'm playing with hacker's keyboard too. It's surprisingly accurate given the number of keys. Bit slow in Dolphin Browser but everywhere else I'm liking it.
I reduced the height in landscape a little too.
I was liking thumb keyboard but it refused to work in Copilot live. If that's been fixed I might try it again....
I use Better Keyboard 8, you can change the key size to suite yourself, seperate controls for landscape and portait.
Part of the reason for me to root was multi touch. Is there a rom on that for play?
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The play has a 4-point multitouch screen and a 2-point touchpad. What do you mean that you rooted your phone for multi touch?
Logseman said:
The play has a 4-point multitouch screen and a 2-point touchpad. What do you mean that you rooted your phone for multi touch?
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lol ..............
AndroHero said:
lol ..............
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yeah... why are you multi touching an already enabled multi-touch phone...
subcu1ture said:
yeah... why are you multi touching an already enabled multi-touch phone...
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I'm not lol
By multi touch I mean like on iPhone. Where you can use 2 fingers at the same time to type. If you use 2 thumbs on your plays keyboard your only clicking 1 and its messy
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Cat_On_Droid said:
By multi touch I mean like on iPhone. Where you can use 2 fingers at the same time to type. If you use 2 thumbs on your plays keyboard your only clicking 1 and its messy
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and why would you wanna do that?
Actually I know what he means (after he explained).
On the iphone it types in the order you PRESS the letters.
On the xplay it types in the order you LIFT your fingers.
So if you press H E but lift the E finger before, it'll appear EH.
Hope that clears it up a little bit, I thought it was just me and I just tried to lift my fingers before pressing again, but checking on an iphone just now I realized it's easier over there. Perhaps it was just the heat of the moment haha.
Don't notice it that much because I use Swype.
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Don't notice it that much because I use Swype.
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same here, works like a charm
Well then it looks like he needs a keyboard that supports multitouch. The xperia play supports multitouch already I personally use Swype keyboard but I don't use the slide part and not the tapping so I don't know if it works for you. Try out some android keyboards and see what you like.
But as said above the Xperia play can take up to 4 finger at a time and a developer is planning on expanding it up to 10.
Try this application it proves that the Xperia play supports 4 fingers.
Multi Touch Tester
This is not ios where you are locked to one single keyboard my friend
There is a thing called android market where you can download apps from
There are tons of keyboards available one or the other will have what you are looking for
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I currently use SwiftKEY X beta ,it was great but its not MultiTouch like ip4 =/ its shame cuz i like tapping fast with auto correction with vibration on-screen.
Oh and i cant seem to find SWYPE @[email protected] ...
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I currently use SwiftKEY X beta ,it was great but its not MultiTouch like ip4 =/ its shame cuz i like tapping fast with auto correction with vibration on-screen.
Oh and i cant seem to find SWYPE @[email protected] ...
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Swype is not on the market. Its here. Sign up and they will send you the download link. Takes a while to get used to but once you do it is way faster than normal typing.
Swype is far superior to a regular keyboard. One of the many reasons I prefer android to ios or blackberry.
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I just tested. Smart Keyboard Pro, that I use, has that feature. And even has iPhone skin
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Blagus said:
I just tested. Smart Keyboard Pro, that I use, has that feature. And even has iPhone skin
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Will try, ty
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I installed Swype. I had it on my x10 mini pro but I liked more to type with the physical keyboard.
Swype writes in the order you press (just like the iphone), and not in the order you lift (stock keyboard for us). It's weird because it's obvious that first key pressed should be written, stock keyboard is crazy lol
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I installed Swype. I had it on my x10 mini pro but I liked more to type with the physical keyboard.
Swype writes in the order you press (just like the iphone), and not in the order you lift (stock keyboard for us). It's weird because it's obvious that first key pressed should be written, stock keyboard is crazy lol
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Mate, you're meant to swype with swype, not type! Lol
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Oh I know but sometimes you need to type out the words if you know they wont be in the dictionary like codes, emails, passwords, etc.
The only thing I don't like is deleting words, it's very slow and if I press backspace a lot it goes slow and if I hit it too many times it will delete more than I wanted.
Please make sure you post why you use it and what you think about it.
I've been using swift key for two months and it is extremely accurate and fast. Two says ago i've switched to Swype and now i'm addicted to typing in this forum.
Swype is really fun to use and also very accurate.although no matter which way you look at it,I don't think tracing with one finger can be faster then typing with two thumbs unless you are not familiar with the keyboard..
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if Play had better touch screen (say 10fingers,or like blackberry) SwiftKeyX would be GODMODE
i use SwiftkeyX
But with the very weak XPlays screen its not upto its full effect.
It's already God mode...or corrects you're words even if you miss the keys, so it's ultra fast when inputting something.
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The HTC_Ime mod is my fave keybord. I could'nt live without it
I use swype beta, it's very nice.
Earthshine0 out-
I have been using Swype for the past few weeks and I got to say that its the best in my opinion, and once you get used to it is when you see the difference in speed + accuracy compared to touch keyboards.
The only thing it lacks for me is the support for arabic keyboard
Though my first choice was swype, but now I prefer Hacker's keyboard because it provides all the possible keys which are normally present on a generic computer keyboard in landscape mode. Prevents hassle to search through alternate keys to find special characters. And obviously it provides suggestions, corrections and many more features.
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Napstar said:
Though my first choice was swype, but now I prefer Hacker's keyboard because it provides all the possible keys which are normally present on a generic computer keyboard in landscape mode. Prevents hassle to search through alternate keys to find special characters. And obviously it provides suggestions, corrections and many more features.
I type way faster in portrait mode over landscape even though landscape has bigger size keys.I got so uses to typing portrait already.
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I agree. Both modes are equally efficient. (and the best part is suggestion for special characters present continuously in idle mode)
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I use slideIT it works great
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Smart Keyboard Pro is the best in my opinion!
Better keyboard 8.. I love the storm theme..
Yep, HTC_IME is a great keyboard.
Does anybody have any problems with sweat getting on screen and the keyboard going mental?
Swype is the best . Its fun to use and is miles faster then normal typing once you are used to it.
I'm a huge fan of Swype, but I am curious to try the others listed here.
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Yep, HTC_IME is a great keyboard.
Does anybody have any problems with sweat getting on screen and the keyboard going mental?
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Definitely be careful about that. I ruined my Droid's digitizer from either sweat or a random raindrop. The far left side of the screen is completely unresponsive to touch, from the soft search key all the way up.
I guess I'm the only one here using Gingerbread Keyboard. Gets the job done, accurate word predictions.
Not only one, me too uses original GB keyboard, but I would use HTC ime, but it FC once its installed, so uninstall ...
Anyone using T9 Trace? I've been trying to install it using files from other phone roms. At the moment it seems to be installed, but after selecting the keyboard in "input method", bringing up the keyboard will force close it
my choice is iphone keyboard
SlideIT is a Swype knock off..
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