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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?

Just two quick questions

Wher is the button for auto brightness or how it is called in isntagram, you now guys the very left button on instagram is there a fix to get it back or something pleas help, and how to import google bookmarks to the stock Internet browser (I now some of you don't like the stock browser but I do) so pleas help
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How do you fix home and work locations on google now?

Always liked how it knew automatically where home and work was. But recently I went to night shift at work and google now keeps wanting me to change work to home, home to work. My saved addresses are correct but it keeps asking me every time. How do you fix this?
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Cor-master said:
Always liked how it knew automatically where home and work was. But recently I went to night shift at work and google now keeps wanting me to change work to home, home to work. My saved addresses are correct but it keeps asking me every time. How do you fix this?
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I have the same problem, GoogleNow seems to think my place of work is my home..? Would be nice to fix

Now mine has seemed to have fixed itself oddly
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With the new maps it can be checked and set in the profile area (head and shoulders icon on the rhs of the search bar).

You can also just go to the maps website and set it there
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Open up Google now and scroll all the way down and press menu > my stuff> places and there's settings for home and work locations. The options for home, work, etc only show up there if in Google now cards you add that specific place as your home or whatever the case is
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Maps 7.0.2: View menu, Settings, Edit home or work.

Weird refresh issue

When I'm on the main g2 q&a forum the page constantly refreshes every few seconds. I can't even look at the page unless I hit the stop button in the browser. This happens on both chrome and Firefox. Doesn't seem to happen on any other Web pages or or forums. Any idea why?

Have you done any xpose mods? I think I had the same issue, energy back to stock, haven't seen it since then.
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I had the same issue, being it's XDA's site as it only happens in this site. I am rooted so I installed the AOSP browser from the Play Store and it works great.

I had the same trouble on my Note 2. You can fix it by changing the dropdown in the lower left to XDA 2010, the default is XDA 2013 Beta.

Thanks! The 2010 thing fixed it! I was wondering if there was some issue with my browser or phone! Q

(Q) Why can't I send or receive Emojis :'(

I currently have had the SPH-720 for a month now, bought the blue one during the BB deal over the holidays...anyways. Been flashing ROMS back and forth and currently on Sacs ROM. Now I've spent DAYS Googling and search forums all over for help on this and I keep getting the same answer. My wife recently ditched the android life and got an iPhone and every time she sends me emojis or vice versa none of them show up on my phone. I can see what emojis I send but she just gets the black diamond with the question mark and I get them on my phone when she replies with emojis. Here are ALL the procedures I've been thru to get it to work on my end cause I'm assuming it's my phone. I've download ChompSms, Handcent, GoSms, Textra and all the emoji plug-ins to get them to work and I still get the same error of diamonds. I've even tried installing the DroidSansFallBack.tff font and fallback.xml whatever and changed the permissions and NOTHING. Can anybody tell me what I should do? Tried all the latest AOSP ROMs and nothing as well, I thought it was a error with Sprint with sending MMS over WiFi but that doesn't apply with the 3rd party apps so I've heard.
Not a Noob when it comes to android phones so if it's anything "complicated" any input is appreciated.
Edit: BTW I use Kii keyboard as my default and have tried KK keyboard as well but still getting the same error
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Re flash sacs newest 4.3 rom and choose emojis in aroma installer with a keyword , I like note3 keyboard. ..no need for chomp sms...or try looking in settings in input and control and check iWnn ime
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I've tried that numerous times, wiped constantly and flashed 5.0-5.4 of sacs Rom, one of them my emojis worked but after I updated to like 5.3 I think I lost all my emojis. I can view them on Facebook, twitter, and IG but when use them in a text they don't show up.
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ryanb0225 said:
I've tried that numerous times, wiped constantly and flashed 5.0-5.4 of sacs Rom, one of them my emojis worked but after I updated to like 5.3 I think I lost all my emojis. I can view them on Facebook, twitter, and IG but when use them in a text they don't show up.
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Give 8sms from the play store a shot.. See if it works.. couldn't hurt.
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Tried it...chose it over default for awhile but like all the others...no go on emojis and I don't get it cause I can see them on social media apps perfectly fine but messaging is a no go
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I use the stock Samsung keyboard and have no issues. I hold down the voice to text key them scroll over to emoji.

Ryan does it show like this? Are you on mk2?
Hold on mic symbol then the happy face
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I have the option to pull up emojis on my stock keyboard, and have iwinnime installed but I still get the same problem. Checked it out on my moms s3 last night and she gets emojis fine but I'm like WTF..I'm lost. Here are pics between my wife's iPhone and me using the stock TW messaging app and go SMS. Now I can type emojis using keyboards and any 3rd party messaging app but she all she receives is the error of diamonds in question marks. I'm currently on MJA apparently and I'm ready to wipe the device completely, return to stock and install mk2... Idk if it will help but I'm crossing my fingers.
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You need be on 4.3 part of new update is emojis. .. just install sacs new rom then new firmware from unknownforce thread WITHOUT the new Knox bootloader
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*sigh* i'm at a lost lol, ok let me explain what i currently just did. so i used the STOCK rooted MJA Rom found on here cuz that was my current baseband at the moment this all was happened and i mentioned updating it to mk2 which i just did thru odin. So now I'm on the current mk2 baseband stock and rooted thru odin and philz recovery....I grabbed my office's ipad and loaded hangouts on there cuz that was the quickest way i could access at IOS at the time. I send a message from my s4 with emoji's on the default keyboard...via hold mic and select smileys....what do you know THE EMOJIs go thru on hangouts fine via message. So I had one of my friends with a iPhone send me emojis via sms. And here goes the Bullish** with the diamonds and question marks. I'm at A LOST!!!! I wanna install sacs latest but if I can't get the problem fixed on stock what is a custom ROM gonna do for me.
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I pulled my hair out with this too. Do you use Google Voice with your Sprint number? If so, Google somehow screws up the emojis when they handle the data. I think the other features make Voice worthwhile, so I still use it with my GS4.
My wife has a Note 3 and was using Voice and had the exact symptoms you are. We removed Voice from her Sprint account (don't just delete the app, you need to remove it from your account...see Google), and the emojis immediately began to work fine.
You might not be a Voice user, but I wanted to put this here in case someone finds this down the road.

Lol it's funny that you replied to this @nobody291 . i came across the information this morning about this google voice problem and TA-DA!!! i disabled my sprint number and can now see Emojis again.