Hi,
i got a little Problem and someone probably help me with a few words:
Sometimes, i get in kind of a "hotkey mode" with the keyboard. Wenn i press "e", he opens emails, when i press "b", he opens the browser. Its impossible to type and the only thing ive found was to reboot my phone.
Can i somehow leave this mode? How do u get in there?
Many Thanks!
Nidhoegger
Sounds like your search key may be stuck down. Try pressing the keyboard search key and see if it is stuck down.
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Press the search key again (on the hardware keyboard) and you should get out of this mode. I had this same problem running CM7, and you can go into the CM settings and disable all those shortcuts so that it can't happen again.
Sent from my Desire Z running CM7.
You can disable all the shortcuts from Settings - > Keyboard and language.
I disabled them because I find them pretty useless. The homescreen is a tap away
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help.
Is there a way to stop the bloody keyboard on the screen poping up. very annoying as there is a giant keyboad just below it
I had this issue, and found it only really happens when your in landscape mode, in portrait, you more than likelly will want to use it when it pops up.
I havent found a way to disable it as such but did find that if you just ignore the fact its appeared and start typing on the keyboard regardless, it dissapears again after the first keystroke
You need some kind of empty SIP.
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If youre in landscape mode and it does pop up just press a key on the keyboard and it should go away and not come back til you go to portrait mode and use it or activate it by touching the icon.
Cya
Stot
This can be a little difficult to explain, but I'm hoping someone else here has a fix, or at least can confirm it happens to others.
I'm using a stock HTC Magic on Rogers (so 1.5 with perfected SPL, still unhacked). I bought it this way.
Not every time, but quite often I will begin typing in an application such as message or browser, and every button press on the keyboard will trigger a "scroll up" as if I had scrolled up on the scroll button.
This is extremely annoying, as it results in each button press pushing the focus from the text box up to whatever is above it, forcing me to manually scroll back down to enter the next letter.
It is application specific. Once it happens in one application it stays broken only in that application until I kill that process.
Any ideas?
Note: This doesn't happen in landscape, but that could simply be that "scroll up" has no function in landscape since the entire screen becomes a text box and there's nothing to switch focus to.
Yeah I'm seeing the same. On custom roms as well. Sorry I don't know of a fix, except perhaps switching to plain android keyboard (but that's hardly an improvement).
Just wondering if there is a quick way to disable the swyping on the swype keyboard.
Love Swype but sometimes a std keyboard would be easier and I find I am changing back to the HTC keyboard for the odd message and then back again.
What swype needs is a quick way to turnoff the swype funtion and go Dumb mode.
Problem is if I type to quickly it starts picking it up as swypes
Thanks
Check settings, menu, all settings, personal, input.
Tought you could change it over there.
Thanks for the response however not really worried about switching between swype and another keyboard. More hoping there is a quick way to keep swype but make it faster as a normal keypad.
Some of my messages (Txt or Email) Swype is a bit of a hinderance. Trying to touch (tap tap) is painfully slow and so is switching between keyboards. (Bottom center. Tap slightly to the right will prompt for type of keyboard).
Eg entering in information and funny names I would like to tap one of the sype buttons and swype function is temporaily disabled. I then type what I need to (tap tap tap) then tap the key again and the swype function is reenbled and I carry on (swype swiggle swishe)
I feel your pain. Unfortunately, there isn't an option in Swype to turn of the "swyping" as you eloquently put it.
Hope they come out with a newer build that could do that and one where you can access the EDITING options with just one button press.
i simply press the small arrow next to the keyboard icon on the bottom of screen , and toggle to the normal, htc regular keyboard
edit: sorry, overlooked the op's main concern, please ignore
leepriestenator said:
I feel your pain. Unfortunately, there isn't an option in Swype to turn of the "swyping" as you eloquently put it.
Hope they come out with a newer build that could do that and one where you can access the EDITING options with just one button press.
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Hey, quick tip
you can quickly access the Editing options by swyping from the 'swype key' to the 'SYM key'
Is there a quick way of changing the keyboard? I find I use QWERTY for some apps, Phone Pad in other apps....
long press (3 secs or so) on the screen where you are typing, then release, you should get a pop up displaying, "input method" or something like it, click it and select they keyboard you want from the list.
that's it
paulus_01 said:
long press (3 secs or so) on the screen where you are typing, then release, you should get a pop up displaying, "input method" or something like it, click it and select they keyboard you want from the list.
that's it
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Thanks for the quick reply.... however that doesn't work for me. When I long-press I get text select/copy/paste options.
paulus_01 said:
long press (3 secs or so) on the screen where you are typing, then release, you should get a pop up displaying, "input method" or something like it, click it and select they keyboard you want from the list.
that's it
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Thats for changing the version of keypad youre using. Think the op still wants the HTC keypad just a quick option from moving between phone keypad and qwerty.
Id also like a quick way of swapping. Used to have it on my other HTCs with a settings key on bottom left but isnt there on this one.
Only 2 options i can think of. 1) install the HTC_IME keypad mod from another phone or 2) quickest way is to turn phone to landscape mode.
Keyboard Manager
I think this is what you are looking for, but you need to be rooted. http://www.droid-life.com/2010/11/1...oose-keyboard-depending-on-phone-orientation/
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Thats for changing the version of keypad youre using. Think the op still wants the HTC keypad just a quick option from moving between phone keypad and qwerty.
Id also like a quick way of swapping. Used to have it on my other HTCs with a settings key on bottom left but isnt there on this one.
Only 2 options i can think of. 1) install the HTC_IME keypad mod from another phone or 2) quickest way is to turn phone to landscape mode.
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Hmm, if so, the question posted is really unclear
so to test my understanding, if I use the keyboard that came with the phone, on the bottom right (in portrait mode) there is this button [12#], if I press this, I get a keyboard for symbols & numbers, this is not what you mean?
Or do you really want a keypad, like your keyboard has or the phone option shows?
OK i HATE that this thing has no way to manually trigger the keyboard. Inevitably I find text entry forms everywhere that will not trigger it, OR WORSE..
IE the search function for this site, click it, the keyboard pops up, and the search options poof! On my DX i can manually bring up the KB, then click search, and it STAYS UP!!!
So anyhow, is there anyway conceivable to add a manual keyboard softkey, or notification button to this thing?
Morkai Almandragon said:
OK i HATE that this thing has no way to manually trigger the keyboard. Inevitably I find text entry forms everywhere that will not trigger it, OR WORSE..
IE the search function for this site, click it, the keyboard pops up, and the search options poof! On my DX i can manually bring up the KB, then click search, and it STAYS UP!!!
So anyhow, is there anyway conceivable to add a manual keyboard softkey, or notification button to this thing?
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there is a way to have the keyboard button on your notifications:
Settings > Language & input > Keyboard Settings > Input Method Selector > Always Show
not sure why you are having the exact problem you are though, i haven't experienced it and ive been using the browser very heavily.
if you open the Xoom Android Development Forum,
then just above the right side you click the search button,
It does not open the search popup only to vanish when your keyboard appears?
This happens to me on multiple devices!!!
and that setting does not actually work
I have this issue on few sites as well, android seems to simply not recognize some text input boxes...even though I can place a cursor, there's non way to force-launch the keyboard, like long-pressing the menu button does on a lot of phones...
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Morkai Almandragon said:
OK i HATE that this thing has no way to manually trigger the keyboard. Inevitably I find text entry forms everywhere that will not trigger it, OR WORSE..
IE the search function for this site, click it, the keyboard pops up, and the search options poof! On my DX i can manually bring up the KB, then click search, and it STAYS UP!!!
So anyhow, is there anyway conceivable to add a manual keyboard softkey, or notification button to this thing?
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just hold down the menu button and you are good to go (assuming u are in an app that has a menu button)...
THATTON said:
just hold down the menu button and you are good to go (assuming u are in an app that has a menu button)...
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Thos seems to do nothing for me
That setting will make the keyboard icon show up when the keyboard is triggered. It let's you switch between multiple keyboards on the fly (or voice input).
so any ideas for how to manualy use the keyboard ?