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I have found that if I have hit the little blue square (for function) and then hit a wrong key (say I hit Fn + ? and I get # but I wanted the number 9) so I hit backspace...it deletes instead as if the Fn button was still active, and will keep doing so until you hit any other key which will type normally, and then backspace will work again. Not the end of the world but happens to me often enough to be annoying!
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I have found that if I have hit the little blue square (for function) and then hit a wrong key (say I hit Fn + ? and I get # but I wanted the number 9) so I hit backspace...it deletes instead as if the Fn button was still active, and will keep doing so until you hit any other key which will type normally, and then backspace will work again. Not the end of the world but happens to me often enough to be annoying!
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Hrm, I haven't experienced this bug myself, but are you sure you didn't accidently hit the Fn key twice, putting it in Fn-Lock mode? It works the same way as the Shift key.
hello
i have the same problem it does happen very often
I have the swedish version and I can't reproduce this bug.
Which ROM do you have?
Yes, backspace / delete bug
Yes, I have exactly this problem as well.
I have X1i, UK version.
ROM: 1.02.931.3 (08/29/08)
I presume this is the latest ROM as well, as I've run the Sony tool to try and fix this problem.
As a note, I do have CE Star installed (chinese display). And I've also tried playing with the Glyph settings, no change to this problem.
Anyone have any idea how to solve it?
As an interesting note, in PocketPutty (the SSH client) backspace and space do not work... I'm wondering if this is a related problem. But maybe not.
Hope that helps.
I have a swedish X1 and something like this bug happening.
I can't say if it's exactly the same thing but sometimes the backspace becomes delete instead and I have to push some other keys to get it back to normal.
I called SE about it and some other things today. He said they didn't have any reports of it before but he would forward my report.
I've experienced this as well. Annoying. But what's even more annoying is the bug that throws around the Swedish letters ÅÄÖ when typing text messages...
This is still affecting me, according to the Sony update program I also have the latest firmware.
Anyone have any idea on this or a workaround? It is VERY annoying.
I had this problem on my TyTN II.
The FN key is a bit longer active after pressing a button.
I havn't withnised this problem on the xperia.
Xperia keyboard is fast. But mayb it's cause i'm on custom ROM.
Same problem here guys!
i've got the X1i dutch version
rom 1.03.937.6
software version R2AA006
hope a new update will help! can't wait to get rid of it!
hey guys,
not sure if this has something to do with it...but i just deleted some htc keyboards i had installed and no problems in the first 3texts... let you know if it stays that way! maybe someone else has these keyboards installed??
hope it helps...
Hi all,
again, i dont like starting new threads, but I havent found anything about this keyboard bug im experiencing
I'm on 1.48.405.2 (71294)
So i'm SMS-ing with XT9 on and word completion:
If im typing away and end something with a QUESTION, like
"What are you doing today?"
I normally click the "12#" to change to symbol to select the question mark "?"
BUT i noticed EVERY SINGLE TIME when there is a WORD COMPLETION SUGGESTION hovering over the word and you CLICK "12#", the cursor will POP UP to the line ABOVE! (if i've gone past 1 line of text)
A word completion suggestion popup must be there before clicking "12#" for the cursor to pop up. But this is pretty basic for anyone typing a question.
this is SO annoying when i'm trynig to type fast and add a "?", cause then the cursor keeps popping up and screwing up my message...
Also another bug i noticed is when I receive a SMS, and in HTC Message i click on the message to go to Windows messaging..
Sometimes when i start to type (and it clearly says its oN XT9), no word completion pops up!
It's very intermittent, but the XT9 will be selected but just not work...
Anyone else experiecne this?
And better yet, does ANYONE HAVE A SOLUTION/REGISTRY TWEAK?
That cursor popping up when wanting to type a symbol is super annoying...
I installed the Less sensitivity cab but im not sure if that caused this?
Why don't you just hold down the 'k' key till the question mark pops up?
I'm facing the second problem of yours too. Sometimes the T9 is 'on' but it is not functioning. This is really annoying. I have to close the message go to home screen and come back into the message again to get it working.
I've been getting the Xt9 thing too at random times. Although I never goto the other symbols keyboard to do the '?'.
thanks for the replies guys
least i know im not the only one
yeah..i COULD hold the "k" to get the "?" ...i guess i can do that from now on.
But i find the 2 clicks is faster than holding the K...maybe its just me
Anyways, hopefully HTC is aware of this so they fix this..
The keyboard is used all the time so this is a pretty annoying thing to see
has anyone had the issue of replying to a text and it just comes out as numbers ??? you then have to go into the text option Turn on Turn off an option then press done and then letters will appear ?
My keyboard annoyances are accidentally turning off XT9 modemany times when trying to press the A key. Why did they have to put the XT9/ABC key right under the A key?
Also I get the XT9 turning off bug too from time to time even though it is turned on.
unque1 said:
has anyone had the issue of replying to a text and it just comes out as numbers ??? you then have to go into the text option Turn on Turn off an option then press done and then letters will appear ?
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I get this problem sometimes. Its bloody annoying!
I usually go to menu>quick text then press back and usually that sorts it.
Hope they find a permanent fix to stop it happening though!!
unque1 said:
has anyone had the issue of replying to a text and it just comes out as numbers ??? you then have to go into the text option Turn on Turn off an option then press done and then letters will appear ?
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Yeah i get that one too. It's really REALLY annoying...
I am experiencing both of these issues too, very annoying!
unque1 said:
has anyone had the issue of replying to a text and it just comes out as numbers ??? you then have to go into the text option Turn on Turn off an option then press done and then letters will appear ?
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I have the same problem sometimes. I uses the Phonepad and sometimes it will only type numbers.
I have talked to HTC (danish) and they will try to look at it.
Sometimes the XT9 doesnt show words at all. Ive got those two problems
Its a joke man i can believe theres so much issue with there sms functions
- im a Texter and this isnt good - please keep me updated as whatever they send you im going to forward to HTC uk!
These faults need to be bombarded over to HTC for a imminent fix !
WHAT HAPPENED TO THERE TESTER ????
I have reported this to HTC support, but didn't hear anything back, in fact I didn't get an auto-responder either so I hope they got my email.
i have same problem .....
when a message comes i reply key pad types ok
but when again message come i reply key pad starts typing digits
problem is with phone pad and compact qwery pad ......
i have mailed HTc via support
but have not got a response yet .?
I also experience that sometimes the XT9 doesnt work even though it is marked as "on". Also, Im not able to add new words to T9.
Any news about the problem. Any solutions???
Hi. I have been running a couple of modded ROMs and the htc_ime i install on those ROMs is always laggy and somewhat buggy. Is it the same with standard ROM?
One of the bugs i have noticed is that sometimes, when i press space it just goes nuts and creates a period(dot) and just continues to make spaces for a short period. And this has happened on several ROMs.
It's the HTC_IME, not the ROM. the HTC keyboard is designed to put a period and two spaces when / if you hold the keyboard for too long. I haven't looked at the actual code to see how many milliseconds it is, but that is what is happening. Try to tap the space bar quicker and it should be fine.
Thanks for your reply, but thats not whats happening. I press space fast enough. I am aware of the fact that it puts out a dot if you hold it or tap it twice . It does not explain why it continues to make spaces after it makes the dot. It goes totally bananas
Its a setting.
I have a custom rom but im almost certain that the setting is a standard feature.
Its called "Add a space after dot" or equal and you should find it in the settings for input and text.
Good luck.
dicksisfontes said:
I have a custom rom but im almost certain that the setting is a standard feature.
Its called "Add a space after dot" or equal and you should find it in the settings for input and text.
Good luck.
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I also know this is considered a feature, and I intentionally have it on. HOWEVER, there is often keyboard lag, where you can quickly tap on a key, and the software does not recognize that it was a quick tap and processes it as if you held it down for a longer period. With the space bar, you get the period + spaces. I frequently get the same effect on other keys, yielding numbers, etc instead what I wanted.
The keyboard lag is *awful* and I consider it one of the bigger usability flaws in the mytouch.
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I also know this is considered a feature, and I intentionally have it on. HOWEVER, there is often keyboard lag, where you can quickly tap on a key, and the software does not recognize that it was a quick tap and processes it as if you held it down for a longer period. With the space bar, you get the period + spaces. I frequently get the same effect on other keys, yielding numbers, etc instead what I wanted.
The keyboard lag is *awful* and I consider it one of the bigger usability flaws in the mytouch.
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Yeah i get that exact same thing. It is REALLY annoying the !#¤% out of me
Try using Super D, I get no lag on the key board and its a great 1.6 ROM. Its possible it could be a hardware issue, try going into the dev tools and click pointer location. See whats going on with your touch screen.
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Try using Super D, I get no lag on the key board and its a great 1.6 ROM. Its possible it could be a hardware issue, try going into the dev tools and click pointer location. See whats going on with your touch screen.
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I am using Super D at the moment . Turning the vibration feedback off helped somewhat, but in landscape mode it is still lagging a lot. Tried pointer location, and the screen seems fine to me
FYI, I switched off the predictive text input option on HTC_IME, which got rid of just about all of the lag. It works very well with haptic feedback now. Unfortunately, there's no spell check or anything, so you may have to pay more attention but it is still preferable I think.
The basic problem seems to be that the mytouch simply doesn't have the processing capability to run close to smoothly with all the advertised features, and we have to selectively disable options to try to get a usable product. It's a shame since android itself is quite nice.
I suppose another solution would be to go into the source for one of the keyboard packages and see if it could be made more efficient, but that may be pointless as soon as better hardware comes out.
Hey Just got my Z today and it great so far
Only thing i can't get my head around is how to type < and > on the keyboard ?
(Have the Scandinavian model)
I've only found it on the soft keyboard.
Numbers, page two.
Regards!
/Lars
You'd need to use some keyboard mapping to achieve this on the hardware keyboard, I think. Or perhaps get one of the programmable hardware keys to do these characters ?
There is 5 local characters on the Scandinavian Z and in Danish we only use the 3 of them, so can I somehow remap the two keys I'm not using ?
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There is 5 local characters on the Scandinavian Z and in Danish we only use the 3 of them, so can I somehow remap the two keys I'm not using ?
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Didn't know about the lack of programmable keys. But yes, you should be able to re-map some of the others. There's a thread over in the dev forum about some keyboard remapping stuff for Scandinavian characters.
jvvpc said:
Hey Just got my Z today and it great so far
Only thing i can't get my head around is how to type < and > on the keyboard ?
(Have the Scandinavian model)
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If you have the ALT button, hold that down, while "HOLDING DOWN" another key. Letters typically make symbols. J and K are < and >.
Works for me 100%.
Otherwise try FN while holding down J or K or any other key. Try it with shift as well, while holding down 3 buttons, the letter key last.
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If you have the ALT button, hold that down, while "HOLDING DOWN" another key. Letters typically make symbols. J and K are < and >.
Works for me 100%.
Otherwise try FN while holding down J or K or any other key. Try it with shift as well, while holding down 3 buttons, the letter key last.
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this worked for my on US G2 pressing and holding ALT and pressing and holding J which brought up 3 extra symbols on touchscreen to choose from, with "<" being one of them. thanks for the info, i originally tried just holding ALT only while just tapping J and it didnt do anything, need to hold both down.
Literally 3 threads below yours on the freakin front page of the forum is a multi-page thread over this EXACT thing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=925331
Calm down man. Not everyone has the time to read each and every forum thread or topic. You know, job, family, responsibilities and other things sometimes get in the way of our beloved XDA time. It happens. Take it easybrother, XDA is not life.
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Calm down man. Not everyone has the time to read each and every forum thread or topic. You know, job, family, responsibilities and other things sometimes get in the way of our beloved XDA time. It happens. Take it easybrother, XDA is not life.
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Lol, I realize that, but it's not like he had to search or anything. Simply opening the G2 and Desire Z General subforum (where this thread is posted) and scanning the top 10 threads listed would have shown the original thread (even has the same symbols mentioned in the title). It probably took more effort to find the 'New Thread' button than it would have to find the existing thread. It's like walking down the street and throwing your trash on the ground *right next to* a trash can.
I have the Nordic model too.. It seems to me, that when I got the new OTA update, the < > ^ etc are finally available through FN + SYM on the hardware keyboard.. It wasn't available before this update
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Lol, I realize that, but it's not like he had to search or anything. Simply opening the G2 and Desire Z General subforum (where this thread is posted) and scanning the top 10 threads listed would have shown the original thread (even has the same symbols mentioned in the title). It probably took more effort to find the 'New Thread' button than it would have to find the existing thread. It's like walking down the street and throwing your trash on the ground *right next to* a trash can.
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All good brother.
Already exists at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=925331
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Hi all!
I'm starting a new thread about my problem because the two other ones i found did not give me any answer or clue. They are (at least) 2 months old and there's no news about that.
The old threads can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=885271
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12798131
I have this problem: When I try to write a text message with the physical keyboard, the screen start to "scroll up" in the conversation after a couple of seconds.
After some tests, here's what I can tell about the problem:
-I use HTC Sense messaging app
-Screens jumps a little bit IF i slide out the keyboard AFTER selecting the contact
-It can't be the trackball to me, (lot of people are saying that it is trackball related) because if you try to "scroll up" or down with the trackball while typing a message, it do not scroll the whole page, but only between your message's lines.
-Sometimes, it scrolls the page up AND unselect the message box, so pressing "delete" will offer you to delete messages (instead of deleting the last character you wrote), and some keys open a new message, etc.
-I tried with "Touch Input" and Swype as the software keyboard and it seems to be unrelated to the software keyboard (I get the problem with both of them)
-It seems to happen to me in EVERY conversation (even conversations with less than 50 messages, contrary to what some peoples says)
-It scroll up in two times, the first time I can see the "send" button a little bit and the second one I can't see the message box anymore. It always jump to the SAME point (with 10 messages or with 200..) the second "jump" occurs 1 second after the first one.
-It is REALLY annoying.
Here's infos on my cellphone:
Bell's HTC Desire Z (canada) with official ROM (not rooted) version 1.84.666.2 (On Android 2.2.1)
I'm using it in French with French Canadian Keyboard.
If someone find a solution (other than switch to another messaging app) i'll be really happy!!
UPDATE: I was having two more software keyboard, "Wifi Keyboard" (installed by Remote Web Desktop) and an unworking Gingerbread keyboard app. (The gingerbread keyboard whas installed a long time after the problem starts), I uninstalled both of them and seems to have no more problems. I'll test some applications and thing and will update this thread once I have a "final answer" on it!
I did a lot if test and it seems that with swype selected, it happens EVERYTIME I slide out the keyboard AFTER selecting a contact or a message.
If swype is not selected, it happens sometimes, but a lot less. Is there a solution to this? I'm not using swype so it do not matter to me, but i would like to fix this annoying bug
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I did a lot if test and it seems that with swype selected, it happens EVERYTIME I slide out the keyboard AFTER selecting a contact or a message.
If swype is not selected, it happens sometimes, but a lot less. Is there a solution to this? I'm not using swype so it do not matter to me, but i would like to fix this annoying bug
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Yes I know how you feel.
Sadly, the only workaround I've found to minimise the jumps is by going to the list of messages first in landscape mode (keyboard out) before selecting the thread. It's not 100% foolproof but I found it cuts the phenomenon down significantly with my European Desire Z.
I'm hoping the promised upgrade to gingerbread may finally put this one to bed.
Just a quick update: I've uninstalled Swype Beta completely (rather then keeping it installed as an option) as I was hardly using it. Seems to have made a difference to how often the jumping occurs.
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I get this in the messsaging app Only on Sense though....
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i think its an android general issue i remember having the same problem with my xperia x10 and it happened also on an omnia ii i ported eclair to, so yeah...
This is a known issue. It has to do with ambient light hitting the black touchpad. It causes the screen to inadvertantly jump up. I had this problem before. When ever you see it happening just move the touchpad out of the light or cover it with your hand and it should be fine.
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After my 4th g2 and a month with it, it starts happening to me here in the no airport =/
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So what's the REAL solution here? It happens every time for me and it has nothing to do with light...?