Hi! Is it just me or has swype become almost unuseable since a few ROMs back when it went from popping a box up to horizontal suggestions above the keyboard.
I'm not talking about the aesthetics, it seems as though the dictionary selection, accuracy and changing of half typed and corrected words is just terrible.
Prior to the update I used to breeze through, now I'm lucky to swype in a few words without an epic correction struggle against its will to correct and change.
Swype, once a selling point and a joy to use now just plain sucks for me, and the thought of using it turns me off productive tasks.
Just me? Bad settings? I look forward to peoples input. I can't exactly remember when the change occurred, it was when it went horizontal instead of pop up.
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no problem here, actually I feel Swype 3 to be better than 2, fast, accurate and reliable.
Feel the same, maybe I swipe too fast, had to correct three times inn the first eight words
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I don't intend to hijack, but I couldn't have an android phone without Swiftkey X on it... only complaint is that I have to use the gmail app for my email instead of the Samsung email one because it is very buggy on the Samsung one....
Same here. Old swype was more accurate.
I did two things:
1) Remove swype that comes with the rom, install the beta from swype.com (its newer)
2) Disable autocorrect
I absolutely love the new one. Much better than before and just as accurate.
The new Swype rocks! Especially with the horizontal word choice window. I can't even consider going back to 2.7. No problems with accuracy whatsoever with the new version on my phone.
It's not just me! Latest Cognition 1.50 just released and Swype has been reverted to 2.x, Designgears said the following:
"I think the new versions suck too, it is no even usable anymore, I can type my message 3x faster with the stock samsung keyboard."
/dance!!!
ironslave said:
I don't intend to hijack, but I couldn't have an android phone without Swiftkey X on it... only complaint is that I have to use the gmail app for my email instead of the Samsung email one because it is very buggy on the Samsung one....
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Quit the bull - if you didn't mean to hijack, why are you doing it? Is this an accidental hijack? Jerk.
On topic - never been a huge Swype fan, but been playing with it a bit this weekend - and I concur with those that say the new version is hopeless.
Still a noob with it, but my accuracy was much, much better on the old version.
Not sure I'll stay with Swype anyway - old dog, new tricks....
Make sure you check your Swype accuracy settings. I put mine closer towards the error tolerance end now. Still works fine.
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Quit the bull - if you didn't mean to hijack, why are you doing it? Is this an accidental hijack? Jerk.
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Haha i rofld
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I don't like it that much, have to swipe twice/thrice for a simple word like 'or'. I used T9 Trace on my S8500 before and it never had any problem, even if I swiped on some wrong letters it ultimately gave me the right word.
I am on 2.72 version, at default setting.
Regards.
Yep same here. Spent more time struggling with auto-correction than actually swyping.
I use TouchPal's keyboard now. Surprisingly accurate even when you mash the wrong buttons, high degree of customisability (you can even use the classic numpad keyboard), and they will also be implementing the swyping functionality in the next major release (hopefully more usable than the current version of Swype).
I've found, disabling auto correction helps a million.
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I removed Swype and bought Big Buttons .
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asgard said:
Hi! Is it just me or has swype become almost unuseable since a few ROMs back when it went from popping a box up to horizontal suggestions above the keyboard.
I'm not talking about the aesthetics, it seems as though the dictionary selection, accuracy and changing of half typed and corrected words is just terrible.
Prior to the update I used to breeze through, now I'm lucky to swype in a few words without an epic correction struggle against its will to correct and change.
Swype, once a selling point and a joy to use now just plain sucks for me, and the thought of using it turns me off productive tasks.
Just me? Bad settings? I look forward to peoples input. I can't exactly remember when the change occurred, it was when it went horizontal instead of pop up.
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I absolutely agree with every word you said. Please if someone can tell me a way of downgrading to an older version, i will be ever grateful. Its terrible now!!
from my perspective.. swype 3 is better than swype 2 .. well the horizontal word suggestions eats up a line, but in exchange it's easier to scroll down (or right ) for the words.. it's true that it's not perfect when selecting words.. but overall.. it's still the best keyboard...
a67543210 said:
I've found, disabling auto correction helps a million.
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How do you disable Auto Correction? Can't find it in settings!
Swype 3 beta says you can't install it on a phone that was shipped with swype pre installed. Anyway to get the new 3 beta of swype on official firmware?
Is there any way to downgrade though?
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I'm still pretty knee to swype so I'm wondering what settings work for you with accuracy, consistency, and speed. I have a hard time getting want instead of wasn't.
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Swype settings? I just use Swype the way it was preloaded onto the phone. I caught up super quick. I will never go to another phone without swype.
I've been bumping up the accuracy vs. speed slider and it seems to help as bit.
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Best thing that worked for me? ACTUALLY using their tutorial. Totally helped, and I've been loving Swype ever since. Amazing.
i use stock settings (except i turned off audio feedback cause it was annoying). i went through the tutorial. but the thing that helped me most getting used to swype was using it after a couple beers (not drunk, but just a little buzzed). it helped me try to go faster and see the how accurate you have to be while not trying to over think it. now swype is like second nature. once i got swype on my g1 i pretty much completely quit using the hard keyboard and haven't looked back since.
also, knowing how to use the correction feature is nice. like if it brings up the selection, and the word you want is the first choice, you can just start typing the next word and that one is automatically chosen. and after about a week or two you should have most of the words not in the swype dictionary added in which makes it quicker and easier.
I'm using stock settings also. It has just worked really well right out of the box. My iPhone buddies at work are soooo jealous.
What helped me the most was the tips and tricks short videos on the swype website. I highly recommend watching them. I learned a lot of good tricks there:
http://www.swypeinc.com/tips-tricks.html
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I'm using stock settings also. It has just worked really well right out of the box. My iPhone buddies at work are soooo jealous.
What helped me the most was the tips and tricks short videos on the swype website. I highly recommend watching them. I learned a lot of good tricks there:
http://www.swypeinc.com/tips-tricks.html
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Thanks man, I got it down pretty fast, but I have trouble getting some words every time, WANT, is one of them. I do the hopping thing and it seems to help.
I know the thread is a bit old but I think it's still relevant.. Here are what I consider to be the best swype settings. These are of course my own opinion but they work really well.
http://www.bestsettings.info/2011/11/best-swype-settings/
Geoff
This is an older thread I made on this topic with what I consider the ideal settings:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=843171
I'd strongly encourage using the latest beta (not the stock swype). Night and day difference. The autocorrect feature SUCKS in my opinion.
EDIT, also.. put up what I consider a great guide on my blog:
http://callip.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/swype-the-new-beta-tips-for-using-it/
On every version of swype I've ever used you could teach swype words AND ADD THEM TO YOUR DICTIONARY. I really dislike not being able to do this now. I know they say type a word and swype learns it... This SORTA seems to work, but if I keep typing "god" and "asp" when trying to say "good" and "app", I'm going to freak out.
Anyone have some tips for this?
I desperately miss the long pressing of a word to add it to my dictionary.
PS: I manually typed in pressing (twice)... This is what swype returns for me now that it "has been taught"... 3 attempts
Putting... Pursuing... Pursuing (not pressing)
Help!
O, and I love swype, do not recommend another kb. I've tried many and that is not the intent of this thread. Thank you!
Have you tried watching the video on hopping? It's really an interesting concept, and ever since I started to use it my typing has become a lot quicker. If you visit the swype site you can find it under their tips videos.
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I remember reading a way to delete words from the dictionary but I forgot how. I know occasionally I'll swype a word and it will throw in a some jibber jabber that doesn't even look like a real word, at least not one I would use.i need to see if I can find again how to delete words from swypes dictionary. Also in setting you can change the accuracy vs speed. I haver never messed with it, mine is still at factory settings but you might try it.
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Just watched it, thanks. Here is my attempt at 3 problem words after watching:
app
god
pressing
Certainly better, not perfect.
You can teach swype new words its in the training video that comes with it. Shows you how to add new words.
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If you want to type a word like good. You must do a loop on the o.
Like g -> o -> loop around on o -> d
To add a word, type word in, hit space.
Works perfectly for me.
I'm not ignorant to swype, and like I said regardless how many times I swype good, it turns out God.
s15274n said:
I'm not ignorant to swype, and like I said regardless how many times I swype good, it turns out God.
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umad?
It works fine on the 4 Vibrant's I have played with so either your screen is broke, you are having a very odd software issue, or you don't know what you're doing.
Good. Goya. God. God. Good. God. God. Good.good god god god god god
the user is not the issue okay. I've seen others with similar posts as well.
I will say it is much easier, and more accurate with my case off. It tends to block my finger from reaching the edge of the screen.
I see this as well. In addition, wevery time I try to swype the weird want, I get wasn't. Very annoying.
good god good hippos god good good good good wasn't wasn't want want wasn't
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On my vibrant using swype. Good good good goo goo parallelogram. My trick to double letters is to wiggle up and down on the double letters for problem words. So on good I move my thumb from the bottom of the grey box near the top, then back down. Got it? God. Lol...that's the first "god" I got whole typing this. Good good good good god god good. Yeah don't circle, wiggle. Side to side works as well, just not as effectively I find.
I notice my gf doesn't swype entirely accurately because she isn't 100% accurate with her fingertip placement. So when trying to do the swirl around a double letter as in "good," problems arise.
Good good good good good good good good good good good good good good
Weird weird series weird series weird weird weird weird weird weird weird weird weird
Looks like user error to me...
ender2492 said:
Have you tried watching the video on hopping? It's really an interesting concept, and ever since I started to use it my typing has become a lot quicker.
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Thanks for that. I didn't know that. One video at http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-hop-swype-for-harder-recognize-words-376627/
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I remember reading a way to delete words from the dictionary but I forgot how.
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You type the word you want to delete. Double tap it to select it. Hit the Swype button. You will get a prompt asking whether you want to delete the word.
If you want to just correct the word, double tap it and select from the popup of alternative words.
I'm blasting away on my txts and messages without the annoying skipped inputs.
can't say the same
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I'm with diesleg. I would know since I had to retype the password to all my apps at least 5 times when I flashed the stock 2.2.1 rom.
Same here keyboards lags even after disabling swype
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I'm blasting away on my txts and messages without the annoying skipped inputs.
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How did you update, odin full tar or cwm? Are you 100% stock, if not what rom? Also what's your hardware revision?
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I downloaded the update.zip to my sdcard and did the update. Was stock before that.
For those of you still having the lag what's apps are you having issues with? You still have it while doing txt messages?
No lagg here. Runs smooth and fast.
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mc-fine said:
I downloaded the update.zip to my sdcard and did the update. Was stock before that.
For those of you still having the lag what's apps are you having issues with? You still have it while doing txt messages?
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Ironically, Tapatalk runs craptastic with this build and I've found the keyboard lags the most while using it to post here.
It does seem app specific. I'm at a love hate relationship with this build.. I'm teetering on going back to 2.1 or working through 2.2's issues.
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Ironically, Tapatalk runs craptastic with this build and I've found the keyboard lags the most while using it to post here.
It does seem app specific. I'm at a love hate relationship with this build.. I'm teetering on going back to 2.1 or working through 2.2's issues.
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I'm thinking of doing the same. I'm not have much problems but do get a checker affect when I open up the browser.
Thank you! I just realized it was gone! Finally I can use the keyboard
What exactly is this "checker" effect I keep reading about? I somehow missed what that lingo represents.
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What exactly is this "checker" effect I keep reading about? I somehow missed what that lingo represents.
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This is not the right thread, your answer is the web browser. This occurs during pinch and zoom.
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So for me even with all keyboards off and device keyboard settings off i still get some missing keys.
I believe I may have found the source to the problem though, as this problem seems to still happen even without any software keyboards. It must be in the os or driver, my issues are always with the keys that when long pressed bring up a menu choice of softkeys.
Mostly s,e, and l i notice it the most with. i.e. long press e, youll get; è é ê ë ę ě ē. If i try mupltiple eeeeeeeee presses i get this popup occosanionally as if i am long pressing and you can clearly see it misses some of the presses for e, also try mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm or ppppppppppppppppp i never have the lag issues with these as when long pressed they just repeat with not pause and popup.
I think the lag (loss of letters) is due to the OS interjection monitoring the length of keypress to determine if this prompt should be shown.
What would be great is if a developer could determine what controls this feature and strip it from the rom/kernel/driver whatever it is. I will never use this as it is only for non-english charachters anyway.
Hopefully the right person reads this and looks into it, as i feel this could be the source of our issue.
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Oh wow weirdest thing... keyboard lag was still there for me when I first flashed the phone. But about 20 minutes ago I dropped my phone while in the shower (first time :O) and the keyboard got a little wet. Now my buttons don't feel "sticky" and I can type a million times faster without missing any letters. I'm so happy haha.
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Oh wow weirdest thing... keyboard lag was still there for me when I first flashed the phone. But about 20 minutes ago I dropped my phone while in the shower (first time :O) and the keyboard got a little wet. Now my buttons don't feel "sticky" and I can type a million times faster without missing any letters. I'm so happy haha.
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In oher words, if we want a fix to the keyboard issue, all we have to do is drop our phones in the shower? Wait...what were you doing with your phone in the shower?
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bubby323 said:
In oher words, if we want a fix to the keyboard issue, all we have to do is drop our phones in the shower? Wait...what were you doing with your phone in the shower?
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Pandora, duh. Haha.
Ever since that update about a month ago my phone has been typing double caps before defaulting to the lower case. For example, DOuble. It actually stopped doing this in SMS...but does this when I type in fourms. Any work around or fix? Same problems with your SF?
I have seen issues like this for as long as I have had this phone. Have you found any way to reproduce it?
I suspect it's a combination of random lag and physically learning to type faster. Hopefully future keyboards will handle this a little better.
Swyped w/ XDA App. When in doubt, mumble.
Same issue here. It is annoying.
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Very annoying. I heard from a guy in another forum and he said that the problem eventually stopped
Have you played with the swype speed vs accuracy slider in settings, keyboard, swype settings?
I had the same problem after updating to DL09.
I adjusted the slider over more to accuracy and it seemed to go away.
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I also have this bug. Mine will either do that or it will just skip the first letter all together, like this (Top instead of Stop.)
gots kaos on my ****s. ha ha
What keyboard do you see this bug with? I use Better Keyboard, and have never seen this problem.
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SWype
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I have been seeing that with swype after updating to DL09. I would recommend the solution that quarky42 suggested.
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Changing the speed vs accuracy worked for me.
Yep worked for me too. I passed this along on DroidForums too, hope you don't mind.
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Cool, swype does the job, but I don't use it all of the time. I downloaded the gingerbread keyboard from one of these forums and that works like a charm. Thanks to all who posted
Ive had similar issues on every version (including the one thats with the new froyo leak)
I love swype but the bugs are argh. the slider did fix the double caps but i cant type as fast now. My other problem is when i double tap to correct a word, it adds the corrected word either in the middle of the highlighted word or at the end of the entire message/textbox. (yes the word is fully highlighted) also i get the word suggestion popup even though i have it set to never.
I ended up switching to slideit recently
the last few versions of slideit have improved it a lot although it still doesn't "feel" as slick as swype, I cant find any glaring problems with it either.
on another note - op , my last name is schlitz :]
Ton of feature rich keyboards I know...but I like this.
Like the huge space bar...less errors. http://www.mediafire.com/?wy2wryijxpvk7q7
Once you've had swype you don't ever go back
straxusii said:
Once you've had swype you don't ever go back
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BS. Never liked swype and don't use it. The version on the Epic Touch is buggy and slow.
rockky said:
Ton of feature rich keyboards I know...but I like this.
Like the huge space bar...less errors. http://www.mediafire.com/?wy2wryijxpvk7q7
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Thanks for sharing. But, I can't find voice recognize. Any idea?
linzgeneral said:
BS. Never liked swype and don't use it. The version on the Epic Touch is buggy and slow.
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Seriously I never tried it before the note and I find it far quicker and more accurate to type, really impressed.
And definitely wouldnt use another keyboard now that didnt work by tracing out the word.
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Seriously I never tried it before the note and I find it far quicker and more accurate to type, really impressed.
And definitely wouldnt use another keyboard now that didnt work by tracing out the word.
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Yea. I used swype on my HD2.
I mean I could go back, but Swype is so much quicker and easier.
I like Swype!
I've tried Swype a few times but I can't get the feel of it at all so never use it. Trying the ics keyboard now and finding it's a bit better at auto correcting spaces which is handy.
Swype rules.
S-pen toggle ICS keyboard
love this ICS keyboard layout (having such a small space bar on others just pisses me off), but is there any way to add the Pen input for it on the SGN? kinda defeats the purpose of it on this handset if you can't use it.
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Seriously I never tried it before the note and I find it far quicker and more accurate to type, really impressed.
And definitely wouldnt use another keyboard now that didnt work by tracing out the word.
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Swype is by far the best. It's so easy and simple and forgiving. I barely even hit my intended letters and it almost always knows what I'm typing. The idea of taping out messages or emails seems archaic now. Especially with the s-pen....it's just such an effortless pleasure.
Takes a day, max. That being said, is love to be able to use Swype on the ics keyboard.
JG
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rockky said:
Ton of feature rich keyboards I know...but I like this.
Like the huge space bar...less errors. http://www.mediafire.com/?wy2wryijxpvk7q7
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Thanks
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I tried the keyboad but have no comment as of now. Why? Because it still lags just like the previous other keyboards I've tried, if your a fast texter like myself the phone is slow & cannot catch up which leads to mistakes in EVERY word I write, it's a nightmare...
I hope they fix this issue in the next update.
Currently using ''smart keyboard pro'' which I think is one of the BEST keyboards, also being VERY customizable & comes with several great skins, all of which are great in their own way, even the colours you can change...
I think the note will be FAR superior once it gets the ice cream update and will be even smoother and faster than what it already is.
I found it initially lagged but after turning off most of the features it works OK now aside from occasional lags which I assume is due to some other application slowing it down. Its auto correct can be intermittent but I have it turned down as I don't want it too aggressive