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Possible hardware keyboard fix for Epic.

If this has been posted before please delete, but I believe I have solved my issue with the physical keyboard missing keys. I turned off all the software keyboards and swype it seems to have done the trick.
Problem is I have to change it everytime I switch batteries. Is there a way to do thi?
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What keys are missing?
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He means the hardware keys "miss" a letter here and there while typing.
So tht it loks smthing lk ths
Yes, I've read that swype (enabled) is most likely the culprit.
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Bingo, it can be annoying at times. When typing long emails and texts, be sure to go back and proofread what you just typed (good practice anyway). Turning off swype did seem to help a bit.
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decalex said:
He means the hardware keys "miss" a letter here and there while typing.
So tht it loks smthing lk ths
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And not all of us want to sound like mysteryemotionz.

would make it a software issue then..not hardware =D good to know

I was able to type several paragraphs with all the soft keyboards except for Swype disabled, and I don't have the missing key issue anymore. I simply disabled the Samsung and Android keyboards. I use Swype way too much to disable it.
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I use keyboard manager to help with this...
Install keyboard manager along with touchpal from market free (completely).
I have Swype enable and have it set as my portrait keyboard
Then when I switch to landscape keyboard manager services changes my kb to touchpal in a fraction of a second without any interaction.
What awesome about touch pal is that it offers some of the best spelling correction word prediction with our hardware keyboards. Takes a while to get used to but by far is the best solution for me as not only does it fix the random keydrops but it also spell checks and suggests words on the fly.
I was using the Windows Mobile Version for a long time before changing to android, but absolutely love Swype for portrait one handed.
In a previous post I made I pointed out that the lag I found to be software and not hardware... if you long press on many letters you will get a popup instead of repeat keys these seem to be the cause of the drops, after using touchpal, if you long press a letter it quickly repeats.

formula84 said:
I use keyboard manager to help with this...
Install keyboard manager along with touchpal from market free (completely).
I have Swype enable and have it set as my portrait keyboard
Then when I switch to landscape keyboard manager services changes my kb to touchpal in a fraction of a second without any interaction.
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Cool tip! Definitely want to try this... but searching in the Market, I couldn't find Keyboard Manager .. and not sure the Touchpal that comes up is what you're referring to. Is it still available?

formula84 said:
I use keyboard manager to help with this...
Install keyboard manager along with touchpal from market free (completely).
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I couldn't find them either. Can you post the developer name or appbrain links?
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Found the XDA thread for Keyboard Manager: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=830177

jasonsf said:
I couldn't find them either. Can you post the developer name or appbrain links?
EDIT:
Found the XDA thread for Keyboard Manager: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=830177
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sorry about that yes the xda link above it is the program that I mean.
also when you search on the market for touchpal it is the 1 with the blue icon and the chinese characters not sure why the chinese characters are there because it is in english don't be afraid.
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Wow.
I unchecked the samsung and android keypad and tested it out. Updated twitter and FB without a hitch, no dropped characters! Very cool, and thanks for the tip. That's been driving me (and my wife) crazy!

DiGi760 said:
And not all of us want to sound like mysteryemotionz.
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remember he left ,. lol

Hm. Still dropping a few. Weird how the first two messages went out perfect, and then it just wandered off into the weeds after that. Meh. =/

sleebus.jones said:
Hm. Still dropping a few. Weird how the first two messages went out perfect, and then it just wandered off into the weeds after that. Meh. =/
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Try my method
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It seems everytime I remove the battery and reinstall it that swype and the other keyboards are re-enabled. Is there anyway to keep them turned off?

socos25 said:
It seems everytime I remove the battery and reinstall it that swype and the other keyboards are re-enabled. Is there anyway to keep them turned off?
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I believe they need to be removed using sdx stock app removal.

Touchpal (chinese origin) privileges:
-full internet access
-record audio
-read contacts
Umm. I think I'll pass. I don't need the chinese keyboard reading my contacts, record audio, and send it back to the chinese developers...
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gdbassett said:
Touchpal (chinese origin) privileges:
-full internet access
-record audio
-read contacts
Umm. I think I'll pass. I don't need the chinese keyboard reading my contacts, record audio, and send it back to the chinese developers...
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Internet access to check for updates, record audio is for voice to text and contacts im not sure about but i think its for autocomplete to add to the dictionary. Check out Swype permissions same read contact data is there...
Trust me I have been using CooTek products for years they are a reputable company... Chinese or not.
PS you could try with another keyboard but I think the key is touchpal, all i can say is if the keyboard your using gets rid of the OS default popup that happens when you long press on a key it should work. I wish there was a dev that could just figure out how to disable this all together as it happens when there are no soft keyboards active,,, I am sure this is the cause to our missed keys try ee or oo in words 7/10 times it will miss if you are fast this is because its trying to determine the length of time the key was pressed to display the box of options.

I can't get keyboard manager to recognize touchpal as an option...any ideas?
NM, have to play with the actual system settings first

Physical Keyboard .com and www. buttons post Mimicry 1.50

Since installing this ROM (which I am loving btw), my physical keyboard's button for c o m/w w w is functioning like an Enter button when you press it. Any way to change or customize this?
Thanks!

I have the same issue.

loomism2 said:
I have the same issue.
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Same its part of the keymapping, it didn't bother me much. The dev for mimcry is really active just post and let him know if he doesnt already.

That's really interesting and something I didn't notice. Mine isn't acting as an Enter but instead as a Space (1.5.0)

Darobick said:
Since installing this ROM (which I am loving btw), my physical keyboard's button for c o m/w w w is functioning like an Enter button when you press it. Any way to change or customize this?
Thanks!
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switched to 1.5.0 but don't have any kb issues

Did you guys install the Enhanced Keymaps (read the OP) in Aroma? If so, that key gets mapped to TAB, rather than www/com. Enhanced Keymaps also maps a bunch of other things to unused keys on the keyboard so read up on it.
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blk_jack said:
Did you guys install the Enhanced Keymaps (read the OP) in Aroma? If so, that key gets mapped to TAB, rather than www/com. Enhanced Keymaps also maps a bunch of other things to unused keys on the keyboard so read up on it.
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yes, i've install the keymaps and i can confirm that my www/com do the TAB

echone said:
yes, i've install the keymaps and i can confirm that my www/com do the TAB
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If you don't want Enhanced Keymaps, re-flash the rom and select the menu item to modify tweaks/mods and de-select it.
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blk_jack said:
If you don't want Enhanced Keymaps, re-flash the rom and select the menu item to modify tweaks/mods and de-select it.
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This fixed my issue thanks! Didn't realize what the Enhanced Keymap feature did in that respect. Thanks again for the awesome rom, can't wait for JB

Let's Get Hacker's Keyboard Working on the Kindle Fire

Currently my favorite keyboard (harcker's keyboard) works, but the right side of the keyboard it cut off by the navbar. Other keyboards like swype have fixed this issue and I imagine it's not that hard to do. If anyone knows of a fix, please share.
But for now, we should all vote for this bug so that Klaus notices it.
http://code.google.com/p/hackerskeyboard/issues/detail?id=342&start=100
Let's get this thing working!

Remove the nav bar. Add LMT. Problem solved.
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You could use button savior. I actually prefer LMT, for more customization.

miztah1999z said:
You could use button savior. I actually prefer LMT, for more customization.
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Tis the method I employ

hmm, I already tried this, but I couldn't get LMT to work (I'm running kinology). It just kept saying "LMT" has stopped.

Is there an apk for lmt?
Edit: found it.
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I have the stock navbar disabled, Hacker's Keyboard, Button Savior, LMT & Homeflip. The only thing I can't do...is find space to type in.

Used xsposed installer an xsposed app settings set all apps that use keyboard to fullscreen
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Visit the Kinology ROM thread in the 7" Android Development forum and pose the question to the ROM creator psych0phobia. He has fixed the keyboard issue by adding a right side padding code. This may be able to be applied to any keyboard. You'll have to ask.
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Katalystik said:
Visit the Kinology ROM thread in the 7" Android Development forum and pose the question to the ROM creator psych0phobia. He has fixed the keyboard issue by adding a right side padding code. This may be able to be applied to any keyboard. You'll have to ask.
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Actually, I think there's already a link to a working version in the thread.

Out of curiousity, what did you do to fix the keyboard issues psych0? Looking at appling it to my swype 3 keyboard on my stock rooted ROM.

Katalystik said:
Out of curiousity, what did you do to fix the keyboard issues psych0? Looking at appling it to my swype 3 keyboard on my stock rooted ROM.
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It's not a generic thing. The AOSP keyboard happens to have side margins in the layout files. Unfortunately, they specify a single value for both sides. I had to hack the .smali a bit to make the value only apply to the right side. (Yes, I probably could have just rebuilt from source with my change, but it was faster for me to just hack it in.)

psych0phobia said:
Actually, I think there's already a link to a working version in the thread.
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psych0phobia said:
It's not a generic thing. The AOSP keyboard happens to have side margins in the layout files. Unfortunately, they specify a single value for both sides. I had to hack the .smali a bit to make the value only apply to the right side. (Yes, I probably could have just rebuilt from source with my change, but it was faster for me to just hack it in.)
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Is there any way you can release the keyboard as is as an apk? sick of having the p cut off on mine but don't want to jump to Kinology yet as I had a close shave with my KFTT last night, thought I'd bricked the bugger, no file explorer would read the /data folder and i got the red triangle on one boot (didnt persist once i'd rebooted though)
Would be much appreciated.

Here the link for modified Hacker's keyboard:
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Just install it:
http://www.mediafire.com/?0smme0qbwcb0vm1
you can dl dictionaries from Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Klaus+Weidner
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[Q] i9505: bug when writing emails in stock e-mail app

Hi,
yesterday, I've received an update which I've installed now:
AP,CP: I9505XXUAME2
CSC: I9505VFGAMDC
Since then, the stock email app is acting very weird. When writing text, as soon as you use any punctuation, exclamation mark, question mark... , the cursor goes crazy and jumps around, making weird corrections to text that has been previously written. Even just copy/pasting an URL into empty email and trying to enter new line will have weird, unusable result.
This bug is easy to repeat:
- open stock e-mail app (not gmail!)
- start writing a new email
- write a sentence in a language of yours (I've tried English, as well as my native language that's supported on the phone)
- as soon as you enter any of the following: . ! ? and press enter (new line), the just written sentence will get split in two and some random editing will be applied as well
Anyone else experienced such behavior? I'm on stock firmware,not rooted, stock keyboard.
Not keen to factory reset just yet, as it involves a looooot of re-setting everything
Thanks!
G.

Very similar bug appears on mine too.
It renders this phone unusable for business purposed, Exchange client is totally broken.
I'm unable to respond to work emails!
What a disappointment, how could it pass QA????!!!
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Yep same here - useless when I need to respond to business emails on the road
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Installing Swype keyboard from the Google play solved this problem! It's some kind of bug in SwiftKey, stock keyboard is based on SwiftKey. There's incompatibility between stock keyboard and stock email client.
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At first I thought it was swiftkey causing the issues so then went back to stock and it did the same. The explanation above saying that stock is based on swiftkey may explain why.
I've since installed AquaMail as a stopgap....swiftkey and stock keyboard work as intended with this.
And, to be honest, even though aqua mail was going to be a temp solution, I'm quite, no, very much liking it and will probably continue to use it as my main client.
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Tomo1971 said:
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At least ios email client is fully compatible with stock and only keyboard )
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rdy2go said:
At least ios email client is fully compatible with stock and only keyboard )
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To wrap it up. There are two solutions:
1. change your keyboard to Swype or anything EXCEPT stock keyboard and SwiftKey
2. change your email client without need to change your keyboard (!!!)
It's an obvious bug that should be fixed in future software releases.

There is a third alternative
3. Disable the auto-correction option on the standard keyboard. The suggestion will stay on, so you can touch the corrected (or predicted) word to change what you typed, but it will not be inserted automatically when you touch only the space bar. Which is not too great a penalty
rdy2go said:
To wrap it up. There are two solutions:
1. change your keyboard to Swype or anything EXCEPT stock keyboard and SwiftKey
2. change your email client without need to change your keyboard (!!!)
It's an obvious bug that should be fixed in future software releases.
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i am having exactly the same problems, really really disappointed am on MDM

SALAH100 said:
i am having exactly the same problems, really really disappointed am on MDM
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Same issue for me....is this what Samsung meant when it said the phone is a Life Companion - it will give you **** problems same as life does?

"Old" Swype keyboard on Nexus 4?

hi all. just got a nexus 4. coming from tmobile G2. the G2 had embedded swype keyboard which i loved. nexus 4 doesn't have that. so i installed swype app from play store. while this swype is nice, it doesn't automatically remember the words that i type that are not in the swype dictionary (like curses and such). i have to click "add to dictionary" after each word that it doesn't recognize.
the question i have: is there a way to get the "old" swype back or perhaps somehow enable automatic memorization of the words on this one? perhaps anyone has other suggestions for similar keyboards?
thank you

konoplya said:
hi all. just got a nexus 4. coming from tmobile G2. the G2 had embedded swype keyboard which i loved. nexus 4 doesn't have that. so i installed swype app from play store. while this swype is nice, it doesn't automatically remember the words that i type that are not in the swype dictionary (like curses and such). i have to click "add to dictionary" after each word that it doesn't recognize.
the question i have: is there a way to get the "old" swype back or perhaps somehow enable automatic memorization of the words on this one? perhaps anyone has other suggestions for similar keyboards?
thank you
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You can make swype automatically remember words.
In swype settings go to My Words -> Change Dictionary Behavior and then choose "Allow swype to automatically add words to my dictionary".

konoplya said:
hi all. just got a nexus 4. coming from tmobile G2. the G2 had embedded swype keyboard which i loved. nexus 4 doesn't have that.
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The default Google Keyboard supports swipe to type. It is very similar to Swype although maybe not quite as full featured. I find the stock keyboard works quite well.

Lord Yurij said:
You can make swype automatically remember words.
In swype settings go to My Words -> Change Dictionary Behavior and then choose "Allow swype to automatically add words to my dictionary".
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i don't see the "change dictionary behavior" under that menu. i've looked everywhere. could it be because i have the trial version?

konoplya said:
i don't see the "change dictionary behavior" under that menu. i've looked everywhere. could it be because i have the trial version?
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Maybe. I've never used the trial version as I bought the app as soon it appeared in play store

Lord Yurij said:
Maybe. I've never used the trial version as I bought the app as soon it appeared in play store
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yup. its available in full version. cost me .99, well worth it. i did try to back up swype with astro file manager though and it said its a "locked" app.. ??.. never heard of that.. it wouldn't let me back it up like i do with all my other apps. any idea as to why and what a locked app is? thanks.

konoplya said:
yup. its available in full version. cost me .99, well worth it. i did try to back up swype with astro file manager though and it said its a "locked" app.. ??.. never heard of that.. it wouldn't let me back it up like i do with all my other apps. any idea as to why and what a locked app is? thanks.
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I don't think I've heard of a "locked" app, although I use titanium backup for my backup needs.
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Lord Yurij said:
I don't think I've heard of a "locked" app, although I use titanium backup for my backup needs.
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i think its locked because my phone is not rooted yet and thats why i can't back this app up. i was going to root my phone today and since i can't back it up i may lose it from the phone. if i have to install it again, will they charge me for it the second time or since i paid for it i will be able to get it free? thanks.

Once you paid for it every device you sign on to the play store allows you to download it free. So any device running any ROM linked to you gmail account
And most ROMs here have googles version of swipe built in, works great
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Stock keyboard is fine no need for a $5 app that does the same thing and takes up space
sent from 9 month old nexus 4

androidfoshizzle said:
Stock keyboard is fine no need for a $5 app that does the same thing and takes up space
sent from 9 month old nexus 4
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Swype and swiftkey have dictionary cloud sync. That's a very nice feature for those who have 2 or more android devices.

i paid 99 cents for it so not too bad of an investment. love the keyboard, but i wish that when i disable automatic correction i would still be able to have it add words automatically. seems like it only does that when the auto correction is enabled.