You may have noticed that the keyboard dock misbehaves when you use a 3rd party soft keyboard like SwiftKey or Go Keyboard. You have to be using the Asus Keyboard input method for it to work properly.
If you've rooted your Transformer then this app will automatically switch the input method to Asus when you plug in the dock, and switch it back to your cool soft keyboard when you unplug it. It's called Keyboard Manager and can be found in the play store. The app description doesn't indicate it, but it will actually detect an external keyboard as well as device orientation.
Once you have it installed, jut set the input method that you want to use for undocked portrait and landscape, and set the "External Keyboard" option to ASUS Keyboard. Make sure you also check the box to "Start on boot".
Hope that helps someone, the Asus soft keyboard is pretty crap.
Awesome man I was hunting high and low for something to like this!
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Is there a way to completely disable the onscreen keyboard that seems to pop up at the most innoportune time when editing text data? Whenever I'm using my exec in 'mini laptop' mode, i have access to a full keyboard, and having the on screen keyboard pop up, using 3/4 of the screen height, rendering whatever I was working on unusable, well, that's... frustrating.
Is there a way to disable that keyboard? Registry tweak maybe? TIA!
Try a null keyboard app. PHM has one. There are others too, a big review of them on Brighthand.
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Thanks! Sounds like it'll do the trick.
Also, you can simply start typing using your hardware keyboard instead of removing the soft keyboard by clicking on the icon. It will disapear, and will not reopen for this app.
If you click on the keyboard icon to remove it from the screen, it will come back next time.
Here try this NullKeyboard. It works fine on my Exec: http://personales.ya.com/beemer/prod03.htm
this program don't work for me. everytime i select it, my soft keyboard comes back.
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
usafle said:
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.
ThaiM said:
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
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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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
glimmer00 said:
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.
Today I noticed that when you try to go to forums and type in your user name and password, you can only type in one field. Its pretty annoying... So today I was just pressing buttons trying to back out of the on screen keyboard and sure enough.
On the Logitech K400r, you need to hit the blue Fn button and F7. That will drop the on-screen keyboard away thus allowing you to type in your password after your user name, click on other on-screen fields etc.
Hopefully this will help someone else, as that on-screen keyboard is an eye sore...
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I have same as what you have been encountered the annoyed on-screen keyboard.
Im using Logitech k700 (I think) with trackpad built-in.
I haven't tried use null keyboard
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wparam.nullkeyboard
Problem is that Amazon fire tv doesn't have input selection and it may be will not working with the null keyboard.
yeah I did see it, but I also heard that it can break the other keyboards... The F6 trick works great! I also just installed Tapatalk and that makes my forums come thru perfect. Im using my K400r now, typing through the Amazon FTv on-screen keyboarrd seemlessly...
Has anyone found a way to do this without one of these keyboards? That pop up keyboard makes me want to throw my fire tv through the window. If there is a way to get to the full android settings, I'm sure it could be done.
There is a settings.apk that can be sideloaded,but I don't know if you can install null keyboard without root since the unknown sources issue in tween updated users.
If you are stuck without root on the latest of firmwares,you can install apk files from unknown sources without root since Amazon nicely enabled it,but I still don't know if null keyboard will install.
I'm rooted, but I hadn't heard of the settings apk. I'll have to look that up. I know on another android device there is a built in option to hide the on screen keyboard when an external keyboard is plugged in.
Here is one of the topics.
I hope the file is still available after all this time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2714494
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