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Gingerbread keyboard not autocorrecting/predicting

So when i had my stock htc keyboard befote i rooted i loved it. It knew what i meant to type, made the correct suggestions and the most accurate autocorrects. Then i flashed the gb keyboard when i was using warm. It was a big step down in terms of prediction and auto correct but still worked. However now that i am actually on a gb rom, evokings gb v8 (evervolv), everything has just stopped working and its driving me NUTS. it doesnt auto correct, doesnt predict and fimish my words for me, doesnt input a period after two spaces. Let me give you some examples. If i accisentally type looj, why the hell wouldnt it turm that into look? Note the above errors in that sentence that i didnt even mean to type that it shpuld have easily corrwcted. Before when i typed prob, it would turn that into probably as soon as i hit the space bar. Also it would do punctuation ofr me, like turning doeant into doesn't. I have double checked all my keyboard settings. Its taking me like 3 times longer now to type a mesaage because i have to go back and correct all the minor errors. What changed and why doeant the keyboard work how it should? Somebody please help me out
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Try smart keyboard from market... works great can pick themes... HTC / Iphone/ Gingerbread/ etc.. predictions are good as stock

ncfastls1 said:
So when i had my stock htc keyboard befote i rooted i loved it. It knew what i meant to type, made the correct suggestions and the most accurate autocorrects. Then i flashed the gb keyboard when i was using warm. It was a big step down in terms of prediction and auto correct but still worked. However now that i am actually on a gb rom, evokings gb v8 (evervolv), everything has just stopped working and its driving me NUTS. it doesnt auto correct, doesnt predict and fimish my words for me, doesnt input a period after two spaces. Let me give you some examples. If i accisentally type looj, why the hell wouldnt it turm that into look? Note the above errors in that sentence that i didnt even mean to type that it shpuld have easily corrwcted. Before when i typed prob, it would turn that into probably as soon as i hit the space bar. Also it would do punctuation ofr me, like turning doeant into doesn't. I have double checked all my keyboard settings. Its taking me like 3 times longer now to type a mesaage because i have to go back and correct all the minor errors. What changed and why doeant the keyboard work how it should? Somebody please help me out
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so, quick fixes, touch to auto correct, show suggestions and auto-complete are all checked an on in settings?

t3project said:
so, quick fixes, touch to auto correct, show suggestions and auto-complete are all checked an on in settings?
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Yes every one of them
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Did you manage to get around this issue? Have the same problem on my desire. And to make matters worse my typing seems to be getting worse with every passing minute :-( it is becoming practically impossible to type in portrait mode. Is there a keyboard recalibration setting somewhere?
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I've switched to go keyboard. It's doing a decent job but don't know how safe it is to use this keyboard. It can record key strokes and there arent too many reviews either
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Does this only occur in the browser?

Auto-correct in stock email client w/alternative kbd

Has anyone figured out a way to fix the stock email client so that it auto-corrects with anything other than the stock keyboard? I'm tired of stock due to the small space key but Better Keyboard and Smart Keyboard auto-correct don't work with the email client (they do of course in other apps - eg Whatsapp).

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From what I understand about keyboard they are quite independent to the app. The keyboard has 2 parts, the keys + layout and the line where it puts in suggestions and words etc.
They are only bound to apps in a kinda fire and forget way, from my limited knowledge I would think it's actually hard to disallow suggestions from the keyboard within an app, since they are quite separate. Speculation only though.

I like the stock gingerbread rom which works absolutely fine except in email (except hepatic feedback)
Strange. Stock samsung keyboard isn't my friend so would love this to work!
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I'm sure someone could either hack the Samsung keyboard to fix the space key or get the alternative keyboards (eg Multi-Lingual GB KB) to work in Sammy's email?!? I really don't want to go back to Touchdown since I like the stock client!

Hi I only use gmail so not sure if other email app is the same (I ripped it off my phone)
But I use perfect keyboard and that works fine in gmail
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Any ideas about fixing this one? This is the one issue that is annoying me about the phone. I use Smart Keyboard Pro but it won't auto-correct in the email client (despite working everywhere else).

I can confirm it. I use Smart Keyboard and Auto Caps function works only in the subject of the new email but not in the message body. Original Samsung keyboard works fine, so it seems to me, that it is problem of alternative keyboards. I hope developer of Smart Keyboard will fix it soon.

Bump. Still drives me a bit crazy. Has anyone tried to open a ticket with Samsung? It's clearly a bug with their Exchange client, which is different (much better!) than everyone else's ... but suffers this replacement KBD issue. The small space key is what really drives me nuts on the stock keyboard.

mickliq said:
Bump. Still drives me a bit crazy. Has anyone tried to open a ticket with Samsung? It's clearly a bug with their Exchange client, which is different (much better!) than everyone else's ... but suffers this replacement KBD issue. The small space key is what really drives me nuts on the stock keyboard.
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Yes, built-in E-Mail client is VERY VERY good - I am using it for multiple email accounts (Exchange + Gmail) and for this combination is much better than other clients from the Market.
I hope it will be fixed soon. Same as missed call count notification on the Phone icon - when I have some missed calls, there is no notification on icon ;(

Just wanted to bump this thread, as this issue is driving me nuts too. I think our only hope at this time would be for a custom rom to include a fix for the Samsung Email .apk.

Issue is fixed in the latest version of smart keyboard Prediction works as expected, just give it a try. I find smart keyboard from the market to be the best keyboard around anyway, it has many of the same features as the htc imei mod keyboard.
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Just to let you know.
Auto capitalization on the email client is working now with "Perfect keyboard"

Thank Goodness - The Answer!
Thanks everyone I really appreciate this thread it was driving me mad! Now using perfect keyboard instead of the Gingerbread keyboard.
What I have noticed thpugh is that the insertion marker doesn't show in Perfect Keyboard. Any ideas?
Nick

uknick said:
Thanks everyone I really appreciate this thread it was driving me mad! Now using perfect keyboard instead of the Gingerbread keyboard.
What I have noticed thpugh is that the insertion marker doesn't show in Perfect Keyboard. Any ideas?
Nick
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Which insertion marker?

[Q] Has anyone pushed swype on to the Transformer?

Has anyone pushed swype on to the Xformer ? or is there a zip that can be flashed ?

The built in ASUS keyboard has swipe typing available.

Lmao
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Gbcue said:
The built in ASUS keyboard has swipe typing available.
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The swiping on the ASUS keyboard is absolute garbage compared to Swype. It might as well not even be there.

Trying to official beta doesn't work - get an error about unsupported screen size.
I haven't tried forcing the issue.
-bZj

Too late for you now but the Amazon app store gave away flex9 keyboard which has swype functionality... in addition to voice dictation and handwriting.
swype feature is pretty good and works on the transformer.
I don't need a signature.

I have Swype and Dasur Slide it on mine and it is not a match made in heaven in the UK - as I have a conflict between the hardware keyboard and the software keyboard. It is very frustrating - as even though I have the software keyboards set to UK keyboards, this somehow alters the hardware keyboard to a US keyboard whne I re-dock. If anyone knows a way around this, I would be very grateful and the Asus trace keyboard is utter poo. I cannot use it. In fact I am not a big fan of Swype, I think Slide it is by far the best in its class.

I read a post here a few days ago showing how you could stop the dock keyboard being changed by the tab keyboard settings. Do search through the development forum. You need to move files around, etc.
I have Swype on mine but I don;t like it on the tab although it is great on my DesireHD. I use the Thumb keyboard which becomes natural very quickly.
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Here it is: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14600447#post14600447

Have the newest beta on mine as well, works great! What I tend to do is make use of the resizable keyboard, make ik smaller, position it on the right.
This way I can hold the tablet with my left hand, and swype with the right, without moving too much across the screen.
The fail in combination with the hardware keyboard is a shame, there is a solution, but you do need root, which I haven't got around to yet.

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I read a post here a few days ago showing how you could stop the dock keyboard being changed by the tab keyboard settings. Do search through the development forum. You need to move files around, etc.
I have Swype on mine but I don;t like it on the tab although it is great on my DesireHD. I use the Thumb keyboard which becomes natural very quickly.
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Here it is: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14600447#post14600447
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Cheers pal, it's fathers day and I am finally having a day to play with my new toy, so far the launcher has been changed and now it looks like I will be rooted by the end of the day. Didn't think it would last long unrooted.

What's wrong?
Naadi900 said:
The fail in combination with the hardware keyboard is a shame, there is a solution, but you do need root, which I haven't got around to yet.
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I don't understand. I have Swype set as my software keyboard and am using the dock to type this. While I do get the annoying warning about setting the Asus keyboard when I first get things going, I haven't noticed any odd functions, or loss of capability. Am I missing something?

ad1980 said:
I don't understand. I have Swype set as my software keyboard and am using the dock to type this. While I do get the annoying warning about setting the Asus keyboard when I first get things going, I haven't noticed any odd functions, or loss of capability. Am I missing something?
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I don't have any problems either.
I think I did change something with the settings when I previously installed thumb keyboard (the @ was coming up as " with the dock keyboard) but I haven't had to do anything with swype.
Edit....I've not got round to rooting yet so I'm completely stock and using the uk layout.
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The swype for HC with re sizeable keyboard work great for tablet in landscape mode.

I use Swype on both my Android phones and love it. A perfect present for Fathers day was an email saying that Swype had released a new beta which included additional Honeycomb support!
Sign up and try it out here at beta.swype.com
After all, it's free! (at the moment)

[Q] Predictive text is drunk, can I sober it up?

I've been using my S5 for a couple weeks, rooted on 4.4.4 NI2. Mostly I'm using the Samsung keyboard since I actually like the layout. Autocorrect has increasingly developed very strange tics which are extremely frustrating, especially since it doesn't let you backspace and correct the word (if you try that it'it'll just "correct" it over and over again, the only solution being to type another word after and then insert a space between them). For instance, one "word" which has spontaneously appeared in my predictive text is it'll'll. It seems to have particular trouble with words using an apostrophe.
Is there any way to root out this obnoxious behavior? When I refurbished my S3 and wound up on 4.4.2 I ended up disabling autocorrect because of similar issues.

IWellHeThanks said:
I've been using my S5 for a couple weeks, rooted on 4.4.4 NI2. Mostly I'm using the Samsung keyboard since I actually like the layout. Autocorrect has increasingly developed very strange tics which are extremely frustrating, especially since it doesn't let you backspace and correct the word (if you try that it'it'll just "correct" it over and over again, the only solution being to type another word after and then insert a space between them). For instance, one "word" which has spontaneously appeared in my predictive text is it'll'll. It seems to have particular trouble with words using an apostrophe.
Is there any way to root out this obnoxious behavior? When I refurbished my S3 and wound up on 4.4.2 I ended up disabling autocorrect because of similar issues.
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You could try going to settings, application, Samsung keyboard and clearing data (maybe cache too if that doesn't work). I also saw where some people said they went to language and input, Samsung keyboard settings, unselected predictive text. Turned off their phone. Then went back and reselected it and it worked better. I like the google keyboard so I don't have these problems.

Tulsadiver said:
You could try going to settings, application, Samsung keyboard and clearing data (maybe cache too if that doesn't work). I also saw where some people said they went to language and input, Samsung keyboard settings, unselected predictive text. Turned off their phone. Then went back and reselected it and it worked better. I like the google keyboard so I don't have these problems.
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Well I tried the second option and we'll see how it goes. If that doesn't work I'll try the first option. I'm worried it'll unlearn some of the words I taught it, like "them", "form", and "easy". I heard it had a problem with 4 letter words but I didn't expect those to be among them!

Samsung Keyboard is unusable!
I tried clearing the data, the cache, resetting the predictive text. . . none of it worked. Samsung keyboard seems to have a tic when I use the apostrophe which causes it to insert text that repeats what I just typed. This is coupled with an insistence on "learning" every misspelling I make as the correct way to spell a word and then refusing to change it.
I deleted some stuff when I rooted my S5, more than was recommended in the thread. Maybe that's the problem? Because there's no way Samsung Keyboard could have a big this bad.
Maybe it's time to upgrade from the stock ROM to Eclipse, though I suppose it might not be any better because it's a keyboard problem. Trying different keyboards now.

Every android I have own has had this problem

I have own a Droid bionic, droid maxx, Note 3 and now the S7 edge. Every one of them the mmajority of the time type crazy when I type on browsers. Notice the double "m" in mmajority? That is an exampl. (that "e" mmissingis aanother example.) (That entire sentence is an example!)
I am just typing and hitting the word predictions at the top and it will add double letters, it will add double spaces ssometimes and and none other times, whenI use a period, it removes thelast letter of thelast word. (I am leavingthe mmistakesin so youcan see what it is doin).
I use SwiftKey but it also is hhappeningon thestock bbrowse. I havewiped the app data but it hhasn't helped. It happens on all bbrowsers, but it ddoesn't happen in any other app like texting.
Doesaanyone know what is causingthis and how to fix it? Like I sai, tthis has happenedon eeveryaandroidI haveowned. Itmakes me want topunch ssomeonein theface! Why has aandroidhad this pproblemfor the last 5 years!?

You might try with another fully configurable soft keyboard, for example Smart Keyboard Pro.

If it wasn't so serious (to you) it would be funny
It actually reads very funny when you type. Apologies.

The way of typing isn't related to what browser you're using, it's probably SwiftKey. Try some other keyboard or the standard keyboard, see if that solves your problem

Both the stock keyboard and sSwiftKey do it, I really don'tlike theoothers I have tried but I wwill ccheck them. Like I said, it does nothhappenat all in apps or text mmessagin. I think it has something to do with my auto correct built into the phone. I use to turn it off but now I ccan'tfind it. I can oonly find thesspecific kkeyboard setting. I have typed this wwithstock sSamsungkkeyboard so as yyou cansee, I ddon'ttthinkit is swiftkey.

Dirtdawg57 said:
Both the stock keyboard and sSwiftKey do it, I really don'tlike theoothers I have tried but I wwill ccheck them. Like I said, it does nothhappenat all in apps or text mmessagin. I think it has something to do with my auto correct built into the phone. I use to turn it off but now I ccan'tfind it. I can oonly find thesspecific kkeyboard setting. I have typed this wwithstock sSamsungkkeyboard so as yyou cansee, I ddon'ttthinkit is swiftkey.
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isn't the stock keyboard made/produced by SwiftKey? have you tried the latest version of Google Keyboard or Chroma Keyboard?

cortez.i said:
isn't the stock keyboard made/produced by SwiftKey? have you tried the latest version of Google Keyboard or Chroma Keyboard?
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I didn't know tha ! I will try one of thos . Thanks!

weird, i never had that issue

I wonder if you have this saved in your dictionary. Or turn off auto correct and auto spacing would prob solve your problem

I have this problem too and I use Google Keyboard. Its only when it corrects something or I input a suggestion and space. I've somehow learned and managed to deal with it.

So far using the Google keyboard it seems much better. It is just weird that I have had this problem with all 4 phones I have had over the years. And it has always only happened in the browser.

I've used swiftkey for a few years, and have none of those problems. If it has happened on all those phones, and multiple keyboards, I think it may have more to do with the way you're typing than the keyboard or phone you use.