hello everyone, i thought the PRO was the perfect phone just before i start typing with it, i found the first row at the qwerty keypads are too close to the soft action buttons (menu,home,back,search) , so every time im writing something i actidentaly hit some of these soft buttons and lost all myscreen text ive wrote...
just wondering if there is such app to make these action buttons works as long press them or disable them for good to use for example "SWKey v1.0.9 – Button Savior for Android"
it's very annoying when you have been writing a lot of text and you dissmiss it because this damn phone layout, anyone experiencing similar problems/froustrations?????????
Yeah I had.the same problem at first. But if it makes you feel better, you do get used to it and so it gets easier to avoid the soft buttons over time.
That is of course, assuming you are still new to the pro.
I still do it on occasion, but its become very rare.
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Button Savior would be fine with me. I wonder how you disable the stock buttons though. Seems like Google Search is popping up all the time on accident.
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First post after having my DX an entire week, trying to find what I can without being too noob but can't seem to find a solution to this.
I tend to type 99% of the time in landscape and seeing how the keyboard takes up 90% of the screen, I often can't see what fields I'm entering for the text. The keyboard automatically opens when attempting to input and assumed if I pressed outside of a text field, it would close the keyboard but no go.. Is there anyway to close the keyboard, even if it's just to scroll on whatever page I'm on to see what else is there then come back to the keyboard when I'm ready by clicking within the text area?
That probably made no sense but hopefully you get the jist of it. Thanks in advance.
EDIT: The back button seemed to work, disregard.
You can also swype from the top of the keyboard to the bottom and it will minimize.
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Also you can press/hold the menu button to close. You can also do this to raise the keyboard at any time.
Wanted to know if anyone has developed an onscreen back, and menu button, my most used.
I used button savior, but was always in the way it seemed, and too many buttons I didn't need.
Curious if anyone is working on this or has a recommendation.
Thanks everyone
really need this, my buttons are going to shiet
Or a program that would make swype gestures perform home button functions
This would be awesome. My back button is a little creaky now.
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Ya, my buttons feel loose, but they creak when I press them. Feels like I am messing the phone up physically.
Swype gestures would be the best way I think, a program on that starts on boot.
bump, I believe this could be a popular application
Touch buttons are the devils work imo. since 9 out of 10 times you hit them by accident. Does anyone know how to disable the touch buttons, or change the behavior to long press? (Hold for 0.5 sek.)
Since I'm holding the phone with my right hand, the bing search button it most annoying. I also kind of need the back button, so for now I am looking for a way to disable just the search button.
with the new firmware on focus, when you are into app, the touch buttons disables.
I don´t know if disable completly or only short press.
I think this will be implemented in future firmware on omnia 7
yess... quite annoying, especially using camera...
Hi,
I have noticed a weird problem with my Iconia A500's keyboard for some time. It seems that I can't hold any key pressed anymore; when I do it looks like the key gets pushed only once. E.g., if I hold the 'g' key, instead of multiple g's appearing only one gets written down. That would't be that much annoying but it seems I can't activate caps lock anymore (when I hold it so it activates it does exactly the same action as when I click it briefly, that is capitalize only te next letter) , the smileys key (it justs inserts ' ' no matter how long I press it instead of displaying te smiley menu) or backspace (now if I want to delete a sentence I have to press backspace once for every letter -- very annoying!!). Also, sometimes, when I'm typing, a certain key remains highlighted.
I am running stock 3.2 Android on the tab but I think the problem's there since 3.1, maybe even before that, I don't think I have noticed it right away and that's the problem, I don't know what really caused this. Maybe it was an Android update, maybe an app update, a virus or a wrong setting.
Thing is it doesn't seem to be a problem with the screen because it's working just fine anywhere else, like games that require multiple touch. Could corrupt keyboard files be a probable cause? Can they be replaced?
I would be really, really grateful if you could give me any advice on this little annoying problem of my tab.
Thanks,
GriGGer
Are you 100% sure that when you long pressed that it would repeat the character (also am I understanding what you wrote correctly?)?
So far every keyboard that I have tried between both my phone and tablet will either do nothing or it will give you some alternate characters like the long pressing the 'e' will give me a '3'.
Do you remember using a different keyboard at some point?
I think your confusing your A500 with another device???
I just tried every keyboard I have installed on my tablet(stock Android, Thumb keyboard, XT9 keyboard, and Swiftkey) and none of them will type multiple letters with a long press on the key. I don't think I've ever seen a keyboard that would do that. Most of them will give a choice of alternate letters/symbols/etc. when you long press.
It seems I have realised what the problem actually was. I didn't think it had any connection with Accesibilty, as the touch and hold delay setting was set to short, but it seems that if I disable Accesibilty completely the problem goes away. Now the alternate characters work as intended. Problem solved!
Hello everyone. My old black Vivo Air got stollen so I bought a new one, white.
Everything works like a charm except that apparently someone hit too hard the side of the screen by the menu button and it's kind of stuck, always.
I mean, I may be doing nothing and it's like the menu pops up and out infinitely, like I was pushing it a lot of times. It's annoying to use Whatsapp, or Messenger or antyhing cus the Menu keeps popping up randomly. Even sometimes the other buttons stop working. (I sort of fixed the other buttons not working with an assistive touch app)
Now, I would like to remap the menu button to do no action at all. How can I achieve this?
I was checking out the ButtonRemapper APP but there doesn't seem to be a code for no action at all. What can I do?
So I would appreciate your help a lot,
Thanks,