This is a weird problem and came out of nowhere. My tablet is with stock firmware, not rooted.
Every time an application attempts to open the soft keyboard it force closes. Example - Click on the search box on top of the launcher - an error is displayed that the search app must be force closed. If you chose report - it attempts to open Gmail, which of course force closes as it has to open the keyboard for the text boxes.
The problem remains after uninstalling every keyboard app that I had downloaded, then every custom launcher, so I am now back with the default keyboards and TW Launcher.
I tried deleting cache/data for the launcher, keyboard and anything I could think of - still the same.
Got any ideas to try before I make Factory Reset?
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Whenever I'm typing something and a notification come through, the keyboard goes away causing me to have to reopen the keyboard and start from the beginning? This is especially annoying when searching the market and installing something as well. I'll be tying while something is downloading, the download finishes, the keyboard closes, start typing again, app finishes installing, keyboard closes again and have to start typing from beginning again.
N1 w/ custom baked Cayonogen 5.0.5.3 , HelixLauncher2, BetterKeyboard.
OK so for about the past few days, for some unx/plained reason as I'm typing text into any portion of a browser field. The browser suddenly closes and either just launches me back to the homescreen or more recently starts opening other apps. Prior to this I was having some issues with the software keyboard closing on me when i would type to fast. Now this.
Anyone elsenwith similar???
Hi,
this is not the first time that it happens, in the past to solve I had to reinstall the whole firmware, but honestly is a waste of time reinstall all the apps and restore their data. My problem is that sometimes when I quit from some apps (generally games) the buttons of phone, address book and sms disappears from launcher bar (as you can see in attached photo). Probably the question is stupid but... have you any hint on how to reconfigure the launcher?
TIA
just enter menu... then press soft key... then press edit... and then just drag phone, messages and contacts back to the drawer...
Mmmmhhhhh no way, from menu->edit I can only add and remove homepages.
i got that sometimes roght after restart when the phone is still loading ... either that is it or if it will not apear after like 15 seconds you can clear tw cache/data in settings/aplications/manage aplications/ALL - find tw launcher (sometimes in some languages it is called network) anyways youre looking for such icon there on list
Tank you $omator, this resolve my issue
FYI my application is called 'Home'
depends on translation in Polish it is Sieć and that means Network
anyways gg
why don't like you go launcher ex? =)
thanks again $omator
your trick has worked also for me!
btw in french it's "acceuil"
tibag777 said:
why don't like you go launcher ex? =)
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i like simple tw3 look for example modified a bit to fit my needs,
ofc they can always install alternative launcher BUT HOW IS THAT FIXING THE MISSING ICON PROBLEM?
it is not, and that is not this thread topic (what launcher do i use)
but how to solve particular issue
you should move the apps in your dock to the app menu before using a new launcher
The Keyboard Settings on HDX is hard coded for the Kindle Fire OS keyboard, but alternative keyboards *can* be loaded or sideloaded into a very confusing menu. This is how you get Swiftkey to work.
The steps should work for other keyboards as well. I've gotten it to work with Fleksy and Google Keyboard. YMMV.
1) Download and install Swiftkey to your HDX through Google Play Store (if you have hacked it onto your device), Amazon App Store, Aptoide or 1Mobile, or even sideload it. However you do it, install it.
2) Once you got it installed, run the Swiftkey app, which is also the installer. Keep going as far as you can until it tries to trigger the settings and so on. It probably will bring up Keyboard Settings, and you'll be utterly lost here.
3) Bring down notification, and go into settings (far right button, usually)
4) Go down to Language & Keyboard and tap it
5) Tap on "Keyboard Language" (should be 3rd one down)
6) Keep scrolling down the languages (and you'll see TONS) until you finally find Swiftkey, make sure it has a checkmark (if not, add it now).
Optional: Also enable any other keyboard you may have loaded. Beware that some keyboards appear here actually as a language. For example, Google Keyboard appears as "English (US)" if you have that installed, though Fleksy appears as itself.
7) Once you have checked all the keyboards you want to enable, scroll back to top
8) Tap "Default language", which is first choice, and you should get a pop-up of all the different keyboards/languages you enabled, and among them should be Swiftkey (or Flesky or whatever keyboard you put a check mark on in step 6) Pick your favorite keyboard now.
9) Hit BACK to go back to "Language & Keyboard" screen
10) Tap "Keyboard Settings" (4th choice?) If you had previously selected Swiftkey, this should bring up Swiftkey Settings, or perhaps the installer if you have not completed the steps like Sign into Google Plus to enable CloudSync. Complete any remaining steps in the installer.
Your new soft keyboard is now active! Enjoy!
I've actually done this several times using the swiftkey apk from my phone extracted from a titanium backup. Every time I have tried it though the nav bar on the bottom (portrait mode) or right(landscape) has covered part of the keyboard making it unusable. I may have missed it in one of the other threads but what needs to be done to fix this? Having a working swiftkey would be great as the stock keyboard is really slow on long press combos like numbers and sometimes doesn't even recognize the first one.
Indeed it's a bit annoying... The best I've been able to achieve is to set the keyboard size to the largest one and also select the extended keyboard option so that most keys are on top of the space bar... But still we need a fix on this one and I think the problem is on swiftkey 's side not recognizing the fireos bar...
Swiftkey has an undock setting. I activated that and just moved the whole keyboard up the screen further. Works fine for me.
Rich
dorpmuller said:
Swiftkey has an undock setting. I activated that and just moved the whole keyboard up the screen further. Works fine for me.
Rich
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Where is this option located? I can't seem to find it.
*edit* Nvm, found it, haven't used Swiftkey in ages so forgot where the swiftkey icon was. For those unfamiliar with swiftkey, it's the second one from the bottom left. You can use this video as reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVeoy51IkME
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I've actually done this several times using the swiftkey apk from my phone extracted from a titanium backup. Every time I have tried it though the nav bar on the bottom (portrait mode) or right(landscape) has covered part of the keyboard making it unusable. I may have missed it in one of the other threads but what needs to be done to fix this? Having a working swiftkey would be great as the stock keyboard is really slow on long press combos like numbers and sometimes doesn't even recognize the first one.
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Undock is your only option. It's easy in landscape, but almost impossible in portrait mode. You'll have to guess where's the swiftkey button and from there, undock.
I was about to suggest "arrow keys" but I realized Swiftkey hides the arrow key option on the tablets (WHY!?!?!?!)
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Undock is your only option. It's easy in landscape, but almost impossible in portrait mode. You'll have to guess where's the swiftkey button and from there, undock.
I was about to suggest "arrow keys" but I realized Swiftkey hides the arrow key option on the tablets (WHY!?!?!?!)
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Indeed I also thought of activating the arrow keys just to see it's not an option on tablets...
I don't like the undocking option as sometimes the undocked keyboard appears on top of the text field you're trying to type in, effectively blocking your view of the typed text...
Thanks for this post! I had really missed the language recognition ability of SwiftKey.
I haven't had any of the above problems due to the nav-bar covering the keyboard. Unless I update this post, you can assume I'm one happy guy
I installed Swiftkey from the 1Mobile appstore on a non-rooted device (Thor 7 inch, Kindle OS 4.5.5). There were 6 versions of Swiftkey available to install. The only version that worked for me was "Swiftkey Tablet Free," Version 4.2.1.202.
Every time I press the mic button on the keyboard and try voice typing, the typing works but then the whole system UI stops responding to touch. I can't do anything inside any app or even in the main screen, only the physical buttons and touch within the lock screen works. Afterwards I have to access the shutdown menu from the lock screen (or use the button combination) in order to restart the device and restore touch response.
Is there a known issue with the Google Voice Typing in the device, or is it caused by some Xposed module or something?
The device is I-9300i running stock Androod Kitkat 4.4.4 Rom.
Nawarelsabaa said:
Every time I press the mic button on the keyboard and try voice typing, the typing works but then the whole system UI stops responding to touch. I can't do anything inside any app or even in the main screen, only the physical buttons and touch within the lock screen works. Afterwards I have to access the shutdown menu from the lock screen (or use the button combination) in order to restart the device and restore touch response.
Is there a known issue with the Google Voice Typing in the device, or is it caused by some Xposed module or something?
The device is I-9300i running stock Androod Kitkat 4.4.4 Rom.
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Hi!
I had similar problems with other stock apps of android KitKat, sometimes I solved the problem deleting the app cache, in your case you can try to delete the cache of the app called Google text-to-speech. If it doesn't work try also to delete the cache of the keyboard that you're using (stock Samsung keyboard or any custom keyboard downloaded from the store).
Let me know if works!
CoDed99 said:
Hi!
I had similar problems with other stock apps of android KitKat, sometimes I solved the problem deleting the app cache, in your case you can try to delete the cache of the app called Google text-to-speech. If it doesn't work try also to delete the cache of the keyboard that you're using (stock Samsung keyboard or any custom keyboard downloaded from the store).
Let me know if works!
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Sorry for abandoning the post. The issue resolved itself without any interference, so I can't tell whether clearing the cache helps or not. Thanks for responding anyway.