The physical keyboard auto correct settings do not seem to do anything. Is there any way to get them to work with the Asus keyboard? I fear my spelling isn't quite up to appearing on the internet unsupported.
Alternatively is there a keyboard I can install that works well with the physical keyboard? I am trying out ultra keyboard but it seems a little laggy and does not support the UK keyboard layout.
AFAIK there is no way to get correction off the dock's keyboard or a Bluetooth one. Unless perhaps a custom app is used as a layer between the keyboard dock and Android but I know of none. For software keyboards for the tablet end itself, it seems to be a pretty standard feature.
I generally turn it off, although I miss my Froyo phones ability to correct things like 'im ' to 'I\'m ' in the common case. Having a hardware keyboard available for serious typing helps. I also do most serious typing in vim, so I have spell check and access to dedicated tools .
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I'm using thumbkeyboard beta right now and i was wondering if it was possible to disable the "keyboard not selected" warning when i dock in?
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I get the same warning, but I'm not even sure what it means. I ignore it and the keyboard still works fin be..... Would be nice to disable it, but not really a big issue for me.
I think it means that the hardware keyboard might not be properly interpreted if you have another keyboard selected.
I wish you could automatically have it switch to the ASUS keyboard when you clicked it in. And then switch back to whatever you had before.
Anyone know if there is an easy way to switch apps with the hardware keyboard?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1118164
I did search but didn't get a clear picture
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I want a keyboard where i can longpress the qwerty keys to type numbers instead of switching to number mode.
I saw both motorola milestone 2 and nexus S has such a keyboard. it seems it is part of the standard gingerbread keyboard.
Is it possible to enable this in the Arc or do I have to install 3rd party application?
Are there any recommended 3rd party apps for this?
There are so many keyboards availble in the market. Give it a try. Personnely I use Swype and it does more than what you need.
Check it out here.
Swype and SlideIt are good if u like the slide your finger to write. I highly recomend SwiftKey. After some days when it's learned your writing it's awesome and makes typing very fast
Smart Keyboard
I use this Keyboard from Android 2.3 and does the job
a good alternative keyboard is Thumb keyboard...I use it for my Dell Streak and I have used it on the arc also...if you select the 5' tablet option, ull get numbers directly without need to long press on letters or even switching to number mode..
Nimche said:
I use this Keyboard from Android 2.3 and does the job
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thanks this is perfect.
Swype. Best there is.
The stock keyboard sucks. really badly. I personally just recommend the stock 2.3 gingerbread keyboard, has multi touch and i can type super fast with it. Its free on the market as well, just search for gingerbread keyboard.
TRY THESE TWO, THESE ARE BEST out there:
1. FLEXT9
2. PERFECT KEYBORAD (I am using this)
I use swiftkey keyboard, it does the longpress thing, and also has the option to switch to numeric keyboard.
what beats me is why they replaced the stock andriod gingerbread keyboard with the default one which is just not as good.
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I use this Keyboard from Android 2.3 and does the job
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thanks for this bought the donate version
anyone notice the gingerbread keyboard in the market takes up more ram
Umlauts please
any recommendations for a keyboard which has umlauts in the layout (without long-press)
I'm speculating that all arch like mine have 3 keyboard by default, the default input, chinese and japanese keyboard.
to my suprise the chinese one had a few tricks on it. swipe to change querty <=> phone pad layout, long press, swipe down, smiley & symbol lock button, different landscape potrait layout.
down side: english chinese dict only, cannot use user word in phone pad with prediction on, don't think support multiple touch, vulnerable en/chinese button, prediction button use menu, not toggle.
definitely worth trying before investing keyboard app.
better keyboard works great
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I use swiftkey keyboard, it does the longpress thing, and also has the option to switch to numeric keyboard.
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It is a great keyboard but the eats up quite a lot of memory...
I bought Swift even tough it has no umlauts in the layout. Fit's me very well except for that i still would prefer to have separate buttons for the umlauts.
I also tried "Smart Keyboard" which has äöü buttons but the completion is far from what swift does.
I also tried "Ultra Keyboard" looked nice but the one day trial was to short to decide if it is worth the money (especially as i already purchased swift at that time)
Currently I hope the upcoming Swift update will give us configurable layouts.
question re installing keypads
I tried installing the gingerbread keyboard mentioned above, but I cant get it to replace the arc kb. Do you have 2 b rooted?
I use the Thumb Keyboard when I don't have the dock connected but when I connect the dock I have to use the ASUS keyboard because otherwise it won't detect the German QWERTZ keyboard layout on the dock.
Is there any way to automatically switch between those keyboards when the dock connects/disconnects? Currently I am using Tasker for this but it cannot switch between keyboards, only offers the software keyboard dialog and then I have to change it manually.
Thanks in advance.
Forum member Stuntdouble posted a work around for that problem here.. can't find the link to the thread, but I'm sure if you do a search you'll find it
Thanks, but he uses the same method I described already: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13890068#post13890068
That's a security feature of android. App can't request changing input method, because it can be possible to hijack some input like passwords this way. User must select manually the input method. So, for your use case it can be possible to hack firmware to allow this, but it kinda complicated without sources.
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MaluNoPeleke said:
I use the Thumb Keyboard when I don't have the dock connected but when I connect the dock I have to use the ASUS keyboard because otherwise it won't detect the German QWERTZ keyboard layout on the dock. <SNIP>
Thanks in advance.
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Strange because my T.F. does exactly that. I plug it into the dock, it switches to the Asus keyboard. I unplug it, it switches back to thumb keyboard.
It seems to work fine in the US, but if you use another nationalities keyboard layout the symbols end up in the wrong places on the Dock
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Strange because my T.F. does exactly that. I plug it into the dock, it switches to the Asus keyboard. I unplug it, it switches back to thumb keyboard.
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Exactly what mine does too. Only annoying thing is the popup message it displays. I'd rather not see it.
Same issue here
this app can switch keyboards based on tablet orientation: https://market.android.com/details?...roid.utility.kmLauncher&feature=search_result
If that can do it, so another app can switch keyboard is the dock is connected
p.s.
Asked the developer to look into adapting this app for our use
are you two sure?
I prefer the android keyboard and when it is selected and i dock it tels me that i should change, but it doesn't change itself over. and there are elments of the keyboard which do not work properly
not confusing it telling you to switch with doing it for you are you? The warning I see is for me to select a different source..i'm in the us fwiw.
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Exactly what mine does too. Only annoying thing is the popup message it displays. I'd rather not see it.
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Fixed it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1118164
I have Swype 3.0 installed.
When I dock my transformer it notifies me :
ASUS Keyboard is not selected, Change to ASUS keyboard to keep consistency with hardware keyboard.
I say OK.
When I start typing on the hardware keyboard however the keyboard layout has switched to US from UK.
To fix it I have to quickly switch to the Android keyboard and then switch back.
Anyone else come across this ?
Any idea how to fix ?
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ozym said:
I have Swype 3.0 installed.
When I dock my transformer it notifies me :
ASUS Keyboard is not selected, Change to ASUS keyboard to keep consistency with hardware keyboard.
I say OK.
When I start typing on the hardware keyboard however the keyboard layout has switched to US from UK.
To fix it I have to quickly switch to the Android keyboard and then switch back.
Anyone else come across this ?
Any idea how to fix ?
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I havent but I know but I know that if you get to a section that you need to type there is a small keyboard on the bottomo of the screen. If you click on that icon it will give you your different keyboard seetings and layouts. I however do not have any related to UK in my settings. If you go into language and keyboard settings and go into avtive input methods and then select use system language it should fix that.
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It is a bug.
The only way to properly fix it is by rooting and changing some keyboard files around. There is a thread on it if you search.
So I have found the keyboard to be somewhat fraustrating. Not because it is virtual, but because of the software behind it.
First of all, it is rather strange that you cannot set more than one keybaord. Essentially, the device can have two keyboards that you might regularly swap between: the hardware keyboard and the one screen keyboard one might use while in tablet mode. The hardware keyboard uses the autocorrect of the keyboard you have set as your software keyboard. You cannot set seperate keyboard engines for the hardware and software keyboard.
As I said, the autocorrect/engine behind the hardware keyboard is dependant on your choice of software keybaord. However, as far as I can tell, only the defualt TouchPal keyboard provides any autocorrect for the hardware keybaord. The stock android keyboard offers no autocorrect with the hardware keyboard.
On a related note, TouchPal is awful. The autocorrect works pretty badly and is basically very annoying to use. I won't bore you with the details, but things like autocorrecting to a new word when you go back to edit a mistake. This makes it almost unusable.
Also the touch pad is very bad. No two funger scrolling means that again, it is pretty much useless.
I think the Yoga Book is a great device in most respects. Its intersting that all of these problems relate to the software and could potentially be fixed by Lenovo or there may even be fixes out there now.
Has anyone found any solutions to these problems? Thanks, Liam
I completely agree with you and am having the same frustration with the software behind the keyboard. So far the best solution I have found is to use SwiftKey or Swiftkey Beta (not sure which is best yet). With a bit of tweaking you can get decent auto complete and auto correct using both the halo and on screen keyboard. Much better than Touchpal at least. A couple of issues I have found using Swiftkey and halo keyboard: 1) auto complete seems to turn off when resuming from sleep mode (tapping the keyboard button on the top row reactivates it) 2) in WhatsApp Tablet app, after pressing Enter to send a message, the next message gets double words - I. E. Auto correct adds to what you type, doesn't replace it.
I can confirm that switching to SwiftKey makes the hardware keyboard usable! I'm actually using the keyboard to type this now. Naturally, I'm making tons of mistakes but it is catching and correcting almost all of them!
Can confirm that SwiftKey easily switches between physical keyboard and on-screen keyboard when the physical keyboard is toggled on and off.
If anyone is still using the default software keyboard, switch now!!!
Thanks for the tip! This makes a big difference! Have either of you found a way to get auto capitalise to work? The setting is enabled but it doesn't do anythig.
My issue with SwiftKey is that there is no good ways to select a suggested word. You always have to click with your finger on the screen which completely ruins ten finger typing for my.
So I ended up with disabled word correction as it's faster to remove some mistyped words and type again, than to click on the screen.
How do you handle suggestions made by SwiftKey?
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My issue with SwiftKey is that there is no good ways to select a suggested word. You always have to click with your finger on the screen which completely ruins ten finger typing for my.
So I ended up with disabled word correction as it's faster to remove some mistyped words and type again, than to click on the screen.
How do you handle suggestions made by SwiftKey?
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I have found that SwiftKey enters the main suggested word when I press space. This is good for most of the time, but annoying when:
-I want to select a suggestion that is not the main suggested word (particularly a new word that it doesn't recognise)
-I want to add punctuation directly after the main suggested word (here, because I input the punctuation rather than pressing space, the suggested word is not entered)
I have certainly found using SwiftKey to be the best experience. It's quite a passive autocorrect that doesn't get in the way too much. I got so sick of TouchPal which really gets in your face with its incorrect predictions.
But still there is a lot of room for improvement. It's such a shame that it's terrible software that lets down this keyboard. In particular I don't understand why:
- Some keyboards (like the Google Keyboard) don't offer any correction or prediction when enabled. Does Android maybe treat the Halo keyboard as an external keyboard (which I suppose you wouldn't want predictive features for)?
- Keyboards that do offer prediction don't seem to respond to changes to their settings (I can't get SwiftKey to auto capitalise the first letter of a sentence for example). @thespinner02 mentioned tweaking with SwiftKey settings- I assume they meant for the onscreen keyboard because these settings don't do anything for the Halo keybaord.
I wonder whether there is a keyboard out there in the Play Store that works better with the Yoga Book. I'll try a few and let you guys know if I find one.
I tried several solutions but couldn't find anything good. Hardware keyboards are not that common on Android platform, I guess.
Even using Swiftkey I sometimes get different results depending on the app being used. Auto capitalise is working OK for me, in Word for example.
There are specific options in Swiftkey for Physical Keyboard: in settings, Typing, Voice & Other Input. In Physical keyboard section I have Autocorrect and Auto capitalize on. Everything else off.
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Even using Swiftkey I sometimes get different results depending on the app being used. Auto capitalise is working OK for me, in Word for example.
There are specific options in Swiftkey for Physical Keyboard: in settings, Typing, Voice & Other Input. In Physical keyboard section I have Autocorrect and Auto capitalize on. Everything else off.
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Thanks! I didn't notice that- smart spacing etc makes a massive difference!
Pretty much my only problem with SwiftKey now is that it sometimes creates its own weird textbook instead of typing directly into the text field. But that's not a massive problem.
Also I sometimes accidentally change input method. Maybe I'm using a keyboard shortcut by mistake?
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Even using Swiftkey I sometimes get different results depending on the app being used. Auto capitalise is working OK for me, in Word for example.
There are specific options in Swiftkey for Physical Keyboard: in settings, Typing, Voice & Other Input. In Physical keyboard section I have Autocorrect and Auto capitalize on. Everything else off.
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In settings for hardware keyword I get no harder key found?
Went into Swift settings in onscreen. How to get settings for Halo?
With Yoga Book in laptop mode. Settings / Language & input / SwiftKey Keyboard / Typing / Voice & Other Input
You also need to make sure 'show input method' is not enabled in the keyboard settings/selector popup.
Does anyone else experience a problem with SwiftKey where in some text fields your text goes into a little popup text box at the bottom of the screen as well as the intended text field? And then to get rid of the popup text box you have to tap 'next'. This occurs in the Facebook messenger app for example.
Any way to disable it?
It seems to do this when the text field is small, but other keyboards just expend the text field as you type. The popup text box it creates doesn't expand anyway, so it doesn't offer extra functionality and is just an annoyance.