Evening Nexus 4 owners,
I am writing to see if anyone else experiences a similar problem with their Swiftkey 3 keyboard app. For those who don't know, Swiftkey has swiping gestures (swipe left on keyboard to delete the most recent word, swipe right to close the keyboard, swipe up for shift/caps lock, swipe down to close the keyboard). For me, these gestures only work half the time. Anyone else? When attempting to do these gestures, it would often type out a letter instead
Besides the strange click sound that occurs when device is on Vibrant/Silent mode (which is fixed by turning off "click sounds" altogether) and the loose volume button (which is fixed by putting on a bumper case), the Nexus 4 is an okay device
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Hi everyone,
Basically I am experiencing several nuisances that I hope some of you might have answers too.
Screen lock: The problem here is especially when reading something the screen will lock as its supposed to and I will have to unlock it with the slide lock in addition to the unlock pattern (I enabled it). What I'm looking for is a way to delay the screen lock. For example, if the screen blacks this should be an indication the screen is about to lock, allowing a 2-5 sec window for me to stop the locking if I'm looking at something.
Keyboard: I have the HTC IME mod, the one that comes with the rooting process. What I experience is when I am typing and if I make a mistake and use the left most arrow key to navigate to the mistake and correct it and then use the right most arrow key to navigate back this key will insert a "o" character for every time its pushed. I can push backspace and backspace will delete all of this characters at once. But if I pus the same key again it puts the "o" back. The only way to correct this is to use the left most arrow key once and then i can use the right most arrow key to navigate back.
Does anyone have any way around these issues?
Just constantly touch the screen or do something so it won't auto-lock.
Alternatively, just set the timeout higher.
I've never heard of the second issue.
I've had the keyboard problem with stock X10i keyboard, I turned off "word suggestion" which I found to be annoying rather than helpful. Problem solved!
As for the screen timeout problem you either extend the time before the screen times out, go to "Settings", "Sound & display" and "Screen timeout". You can set for a number of minutes or never and to make the phone sleep you'll need to press the lock button or there are apps on the market with a widget that that stops the phone sleeping until it is pressed again.
Hope that helps.
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kindred7 said:
Hi everyone,
Basically I am experiencing several nuisances that I hope some of you might have answers too.
Screen lock: The problem here is especially when reading something the screen will lock as its supposed to and I will have to unlock it with the slide lock in addition to the unlock pattern (I enabled it). What I'm looking for is a way to delay the screen lock. For example, if the screen blacks this should be an indication the screen is about to lock, allowing a 2-5 sec window for me to stop the locking if I'm looking at something.
Keyboard: I have the HTC IME mod, the one that comes with the rooting process. What I experience is when I am typing and if I make a mistake and use the left most arrow key to navigate to the mistake and correct it and then use the right most arrow key to navigate back this key will insert a "o" character for every time its pushed. I can push backspace and backspace will delete all of this characters at once. But if I pus the same key again it puts the "o" back. The only way to correct this is to use the left most arrow key once and then i can use the right most arrow key to navigate back.
Does anyone have any way around these issues?
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Keyboard: Press Space and then remove the o with backspace. it works....
After the recent update the trackpad has reverted to its original setting, I must admit I preferred the trackpad mirroring finger use on the screen moving your fingers upwards to push the screen upwards, and swiping down to move the screen down has on the screen. Getting rid of the flakey pinch to zoom, and the option to use mouse pointer instead of gesture pointer is welcome. Keyboard lag greatly reduced.
I am pretty sure the gestures have been reverted back to save any backlash from apple, My Macbook pro pushes the screen up using upward motion on the trackpad, also the physical design of the keyboard dock from above closely mirrors the MBP.
Is there an option to use the trackpad in either direction as I cannot see one in settings?
Paul
I'm not sure if it affects the scrolling direction, but there is an option under Keyboard & Input to change the mouse pointer. I'd play with that.
Yes done that and changed mouse pointer back to arrow instead of circle. There is no option for track pad screen movement.
appologies your right, just have to live with the circle curser in gesture mode
My wife has an unrooted Verizon Note 3. Since the KK upgrade, she's had problems with the keyboard and rotation. For the keyboard, sometimes when she tries to reply to a message, the keyboard won't type. She has to exit out of the app, long-press home to clear all open apps, and open the messaging app back up, sometimes several times. For the rotation, she'll sometimes be holding it completely portrait, but it will rotate landscape. Has anyone had any similar issues since the KK upgrade?
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My wife has an unrooted Verizon Note 3. Since the KK upgrade, she's had problems with the keyboard and rotation. For the keyboard, sometimes when she tries to reply to a message, the keyboard won't type. She has to exit out of the app, long-press home to clear all open apps, and open the messaging app back up, sometimes several times. For the rotation, she'll sometimes be holding it completely portrait, but it will rotate landscape. Has anyone had any similar issues since the KK upgrade?
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I've had issues were the keyboard will stay up when I close an app just after using the keyboard. For example, I'll hit the Home button after typing out a text message in Hangouts to my wife, the home screen launcher will come up but the keyboard will still be up. The only way to get it down is to hit the return key. Happens every now and then but not enough to be annoying enough for me to try to fix it. lol. But I don't remember this happening before 4.4. I use Google Keyboard.
I am just wondering if there is any sort of modification or functionality that allows the physical nav buttons to pop up when the keyboard is open, but the rest of the time navigation is done via gestures?
I find myself making typing mistakes due to the placement of the keyboard without the nav buttons, and turning the keyboard off is sometimes a pain with the gesture.
Funny, the Zenfone 5Z has navigation gestures almost identical to the 6T but the navigation buttons stay on when a keyboard is active. I hated that because I got used to swiping instead of tapping the button, so I would swiping away with no results. I'm very happy the 6T remedied that.
I noticed that the on-screen gestures for going back (swiping in from the left or right) are not working in the keyboard area. For example if i'm typing something in Whatsapp and want to go back then I have to swipe ABOVE the keyboard for it to work. Otherwise it registers as a keyboard input. The keyboard location is ergonomically the perfect spot to swipe so it's very annoying that this doesn't work.
I never had this problem with my previous phone, a Oneplus 7T Pro, and I am using the same keyboard (Swiftkey).
Anyone with the same problem, or better, the solution?
For new Samsung Devices like S23 series
One Hand Operation +
That's the name of the Samsung app you need. Open its Advanced Settings and disable Fit To Keyboard option.
The app's and OS's gesture systems can coexist without a problem.