Does anyone know if there's a good HC keyboard which has the longpress number keys?
I find it annoying to keep having to switch to number mode just to press a number then go back to word typing again.
Especially useful for WPA keys etc. where you have ABC1ABC... etc.
It's one of the things I disliked about the iPhone's keypad, and loved about the Desire's!
Thanks
Try Thumb Keyboard. It's in beta testing just now so you can get it free from here: http://thumb4beta.blogspot.com
I'm using it now and it's brilliant.
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burden010 said:
Try Thumb Keyboard. It's in beta testing just now so you can get it free from here: http://thumb4beta.blogspot.com
I'm using it now and it's brilliant.
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Same here, awesome!
Thumb Keyboard is definitely the way to go. There is one in the market but the beta works great and has better key placement.
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You can press and hold the number key, slide to the number or symbol you want, then release and it will be back to the alphabet.
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MikeyMike01 said:
You can press and hold the number key, slide to the number or symbol you want, then release and it will be back to the alphabet.
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Great tip!! Makes life a lot easier! Tried the thumb keyboard but it takes longer to type/find the right keys and the xoom felt a bit too heavy after typing for a while.
Good tip Mikey, thanks.
I find Thumb Keyboard much easier to type and no problems at all finding the correct keys.
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MikeyMike01 said:
You can press and hold the number key, slide to the number or symbol you want, then release and it will be back to the alphabet.
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With the multi-touch keyboard, you can also hold the ?123 button with your left hand and select the number with your right. You'll still jump back to the main qwerty keyboard.
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On iphone you can hold and drag the magnifying glass and its pretty easy
On phones with trackball the same idea...
What do we do for the vibrant? Just tap? I have hard time putting cursor exactly where i want it and its such a waste of time and its irritating
Help / Tips appreciated
Which keyboard are you using?
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I have the same problem put the cursor to where I want it to be is PITA.
I'm curious too. I know you can get the d-pad with the Swype keyboard, but I primarily use the Samsung keyboard.
Tap the "?123" Button to bring up the D-Pad.
If you're using Swype, glide from info => SYM buttons to get D pad.
On Samsung keyboard hold down the "?123" button.
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How about on the Android keyboard?
sadly the only thing i miss from the iphone is the magnifying glass long press thing you get while trying to put the cursor inbetween two letters
funkyfungus said:
How about on the Android keyboard?
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No D-pad option with the Android keyboard..just Swype and Samsung keyboards
ConceptVBS said:
Tap the "?123" Button to bring up the D-Pad.
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Long press ?123 not Tap
Hey all, sometimes when I typed a wrong word with swype is there any better way to correct it? I wish there were arrow keys... It would be so much easier.
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swype + opt
http://swypeinc.com/tips-tricks.html
Just slide your finger from the lower left opt key to SYM key and this will enable the arrow keyboard.
So I've had mine for a few weeks now, and I can still count the number of times I've used the physical keyboard on one hand lol. I'm not even sure why. It's fine when I use it, but the onscreen one is just -so- fast and responsive. I can type much much faster with the onscreen one.
On the flip side I like that it's there just in case I need it for some reason (needing to type something really specific, etc).
But yeah, how much do you use it?
anything more than a few words and i whip out the physical board. even if the screen view is locked to portrait.
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anything more than a few words and i whip out the physical board. even if the screen view is locked to portrait.
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same here, mainly because for some reason the fact that my phone has a smiley button is hilarious to me. Also, just a little fun fact, the keyboard backlight will turn on when you click on an area to enter text, but otherwise stays off. Nifty, ehhh?
I use my keyboard A LOT. I never entered text using the on screen keyboard, that is, until my screen light decided to start cutting off whenever I slid it out. Now I have to use the on screen.
Me too... I use it almost every day. Just can't seem to get the hang of the soft keyboard.
I use it every day, almost every single time i type something. it is just faster and more accurate.
Anything more than 5 words and I use the keyboard
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i use my often as well for sms, sometime use voice to sms too, no cutout
Anyone care to tell me how to type a star (*) with the hard keyboard? I don't seem to find it anywhere....
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resol341 said:
Anyone care to tell me how to type a star (*) with the hard keyboard? I don't seem to find it anywhere....
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You have to use the symbol key and then touch the right arrow key on the onscreen keyboard that pops up to get to it - pretty much the same way you would with the onscreen keyboard (&123 key then right arrow)
By the way, in case some don't know this, you can enter the blue (fn) function characters just by holding the physical key just a bit longer. Saves us from having to fiddle with the fn button everytime.
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You have to use the symbol key and then touch the right arrow key on the onscreen keyboard that pops up to get to it - pretty much the same way you would with the onscreen keyboard (&123 key then right arrow)
By the way, in case some don't know this, you can enter the blue (fn) function characters just by holding the physical key just a bit longer. Saves us from having to fiddle with the fn button everytime.
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Thanks a lot!
Best!
I also found something today. Long pressing the sym can switch input method. In my case, I can switch between English and Chinese. I might just be too retarded to find out earlier ~
How can I get an keyboard with arrow for my Desire Z?
Does that Exist?
A Droid 2 (Milestone 2) as an alternative
zung0207 said:
A Droid 2 (Milestone 2) as an alternative
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What is that?
JayJayW18 said:
What is that?
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It's a completley different phone by Motorola I don't think he read that you do currently already own a Desire Z
Are you talking about an alternate touchscreen keyboard? Of the more popular ones on the Market, Thumb Keyboard is the only one that seems to have arrow keys. The arrow key layout reminds me of the old stock HTC touchscreen keyboard on Windows Mobile devices.
But why not just use the optical trackpad to move the cursor, instead of clogging up screen real estate with arrow keys?
You could map 4 buttons to up/down/left/right. Maybe the 2 program buttons, the extra shift, and the search? Do a search for key mapper, it's been posted here before.
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Z Arrow
ill_dawg said:
You could map 4 buttons to up/down/left/right. Maybe the 2 program buttons, the extra shift, and the search? Do a search for key mapper, it's been posted here before.
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Or maybe help "Z Arrow" app on market ...
'Keyboard from Android 2.3' is free from the Market and has arrow keys that 'collapse' in and out when you need them by holding the spacebar key and dragging up to activate, or down to deactivate. Screen real estate is preserved when you don't need them plus i reckon the gingerbread keyboard is pretty impressive in itself.
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Smart Keyboard Pro has an option (its off by default) to turn on a dpad/arrow. Works good.
if you want it on the physical keyboard you can do what i did and use button remapper to change shortcute keys 1 and 2 to left and right, work so much better for terminal then the track pad.
hi all i came across by accidentally.. when in keyboard mode ie typing if you swipe or finger from left to right it changes the keys to the number selection screen. so no more tapping the number page button,
DAMIEN123_666 said:
hi all i came across by accidentally.. when in keyboard mode ie typing if you swipe or finger from left to right it changes the keys to the number selection screen. so no more tapping the number page button,
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that's not how it works.
swype from the swype-key to 5 and it will open the keypad
swype from the swype-key to the option-key and will open a edit-menu
I think he's talking about the other keyboard. Swype had other commands, too, such as:
Select All - Swype from Swype key to letter A
Copy - Swype to C
Paste - Swype to V
Omg thats soo helpful. Thanks for pointing that out!
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maxh said:
I think he's talking about the other keyboard. Swype had other commands, too, such as:
Select All - Swype from Swype key to letter A
Copy - Swype to C
Paste - Swype to V
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Guess what, i didn't thought about that. I tested it on the normal keyboard and indeed it works.
Btw great tip
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He's talking about Samsung Keypad. Thanks for the tip
Nice find,and to add also tap and hold space key than swipe left or right to change keyboard languageI'm sure there are other tricks as well.
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hi all i came across by accidentally.. when in keyboard mode ie typing if you swipe or finger from left to right it changes the keys to the number selection screen. so no more tapping the number page button,
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Seems less reliable in it,s action, and more work than just tapping the number key.
This feature can be turned on or off in the keyboard settings.
Wow... thanks a lot! I also works on my Smart Keyboard Pro