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turn off haptic feedback (vibration) when typing

ok..I've search all over the shop for this..and can't find it. I had previously thought it was in the text input settings screen...but it isn't
can anyone help me out?
thanks

twisted-pixel said:
ok..I've search all over the shop for this..and can't find it. I had previously thought it was in the text input settings screen...but it isn't
can anyone help me out?
thanks
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yep, go to the settings tab of Sense and then to the adjustments (the one where you can change the background, tab order etc). At the end you will see Haptic feedback/vibration. Click on that one and untick. Ready

I have sense switched off..so I can't do it that way...I'm running MS 3.5.1
any other ideas?
thank you

been searching and seaching but not found it yet..
I'm more concerned about battery life of using the vibration motor everytime I'm pressing the screen. I hope the only option isn't to hard reset and go back to Sense (I've tried diabling MS and running sense but I can't get it to run)

twisted-pixel said:
ok..I've search all over the shop for this..and can't find it. I had previously thought it was in the text input settings screen...but it isn't
can anyone help me out?
thanks
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Try settings - personal, then input. Then turn to touch input and in options you will find "vibrate when keys are pressed" box. Unclick it that should be it.
And go to settings, then personal, then touch flo and unclick the box.
This is it.

narkolitar said:
Try settings - personal, then input. Then turn to touch input and in options you will find "vibrate when keys are pressed" box. Unclick it that should be it.
And go to settings, then personal, then touch flo and unclick the box.
This is it.
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There is no such option on my HD2 (running SPB mobile shell 3.5):
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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vibrate when keys are pressed
Check in phone advance settings, deselect vibrate when keys are pressed.
or
Turn off the vibration of the keyboard as folow:
1. start using the keyboard
2. click to the small icon next to the keyboard icon
3. Select Touch Input
4. Options...
5. Click to Options... on the Input Method (is not visible on the default keyboeard)
6. de-check "Vibrate when keys are pressed"

Hey - thanx for the explanation... I just turned off mine

sanchenzu thank you so much

Hello,
I did try all the above methods: everything is set to off (in settings tab of the Sense, in Advanced settings for Phone, etc) - still the keyboard is vibrating when used.
When using keyboard and pressing the small arrow to select the type of keyboard, I only have Phone, Compact and Full kbds; there is no Options menu, only Text Input Settings that takes me to the default Manila options tab for text input - but in this there is no vibration option (only Symbol lock, Typing sound, Spell correction, Word completion XT9 and Word completion ABC).
Any other idea?

+1 to above.
I have the same items in the menu.
I think it must be stored somewhere in the registry. I searched the registry for "Vibrate" string and the only place I could find one is:
HKLM\Software\OEM\KeyState but there are several values with "Vibrate" string and I don't know which one should I turned off. I don't want to mess anything...

[Q] Press home button shows choose default screen touch wiz

Surprisingly enough I could not find this issue when using the search function. (maybe it is my search capabilities )
Just started using my S5 last week. Now when I touch the home button I get the message to use touchwiz-start.
When I press always (picture says "altijd") it looks like it does not safe this default.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
It works for an hour or so, and then it is reset so I get this message again when I press the home button.
Searching for this it looks like a lot of people have this issue, but I do not see a working resolution.

aawsum said:
Searching for this it looks like a lot of people have this issue, but I do not see a working resolution.
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Give this a try
Settings > Applications > Application Manager scroll across the screen to All, then scroll down to Touchwiz, you will see Touchwiz Home Easy and Touchwiz Home, check in both apps and if the options are not grayed out tap clear Cache and Clear Defaults, don’t clear Data as that will wipe home screen shortcuts and set up.
Press the back button to get to your Settings > Application screen and tap Default Applications then tap Home and Select Touchwiz Home, once selected press the back button twice to get to the Settings > Application screen then press and hold the Power button and select Restart.
If its cleared all the default data and reset it then your phone should boot into the default Touchwiz home screen, this should work, if it doesn’t then you have an app or something that is causing it so look at what you have updated or installed recently.

ag4751 said:
if it doesn’t then you have an app or something that is causing it so look at what you have updated or installed recently.
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Well actually this triggered me to analyse some recent updates I did, and then I saw one app where somebody reported that it was trying to install itself as a touchwizz app. I deinstalled it et voila, problem solved.
I notified the creator of the app that the recent update he delivered is causing this problem.
So thanks for your input, it triggered me to look a bit deeper into the installed apps and solve this problem.

aawsum said:
So thanks for your input, it triggered me to look a bit deeper into the installed apps and solve this problem.
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At least it got it sorted for you that's the main thing

Removal of "Change Keyboard" button from Nav Bar

Has anyone seen an app or mod that removes the change keyboard button from the nav bar when typing?... or moves it to the left side?
No luck with searching but the terms are generic enough that I had so many results, maybe I missed something.
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

I only have three buttons, and not the extra Keyboard on. Don't remember doing anything to remove it.

dratsablive said:
I only have three buttons, and not the extra Keyboard on. Don't remember doing anything to remove it.
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Three things:
1. It only shows up when your keyboard is out, in case that's not obvious.
2. Do you have a keyboard installed aside from the stock keyboard?
3. What ROM? I'm on stock.

dmarden said:
Three things:
1. It only shows up when your keyboard is out, in case that's not obvious.
2. Do you have a keyboard installed aside from the stock keyboard?
3. What ROM? I'm on stock.
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I never paid attention to that, thanks!

Gravitybox has this option. It's called "Remove IME Switcher" or something like that uncer Navbar options.
I got rid of mine too, since my back button is on the right and I always accidentally hit the keyboard switch button instead.
You'll need xposed framework though.

Go to Settings --> Language and input --> The under "Keyboard and input methods" click on "Current Keyboard" if you look on the right hand side you will see you have more than one language or input method selected just uncheck them until you have just one option. This should solve your problem.
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

mxjcmxjc said:
Go to Settings --> Language and input --> The under "Keyboard and input methods" click on "Current Keyboard" if you look on the right hand said you will see you have more than one language or input method selected just uncheck them until you have just one option. This should solve your problem.
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk
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You cannot turn off the stock keyboard, though I suppose I could freeze it via Titanium or something as a last resort.

You can also disable the keyboard and doesn't require root and solves your issue.

dmarden said:
You cannot turn off the stock keyboard, though I suppose I could freeze it via Titanium or something as a last resort.
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You don't need to turn off or disable the stock keyboard. Please review this screencast of what I'm referring to.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c3mflbty1tp6exk/2016_01_02_11_26_15_trim_00-00_01-21.mp4?dl=0
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

mxjcmxjc said:
You don't need to turn off or disable the stock keyboard. Please review this screencast of what I'm referring to.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c3mflbty1tp6exk/2016_01_02_11_26_15_trim_00-00_01-21.mp4?dl=0
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk
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You only have the Google keyboard. If you install another, that won't work... But yeah, I guess just disabling/freezing is the solution.

Want to delete Google Now and add pane to left of Home Screen.

Hi, I've read the manual but haven't found what I needed.
I'm trying to delete the Google Now screen that's left of the Home screen and then add something else. I can disable Google Now in APPS and get rid of the Google Now pane, but I can't seem to delete it. Without deleting Google Now I can't add my own pane to the left of the Home screen.
Can anyone help?
Thanks

I'm pretty sure that is a feature of the Xperia Launcher that comes with the phone. If you want your home screen to behave differently I'd recommend getting a different launcher from the play store. I personally use Nova Launcher, but there are tons of good ones out there.
UPDATE: Check post after mine for answer.

rmwebb1 said:
Hi, I've read the manual but haven't found what I needed.
I'm trying to delete the Google Now screen that's left of the Home screen and then add something else. I can disable Google Now in APPS and get rid of the Google Now pane, but I can't seem to delete it. Without deleting Google Now I can't add my own pane to the left of the Home screen.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
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go into home settings and the scroll down to advance and swipe google now off
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

Pakman123 said:
go into home settings and the scroll down to advance and swipe google now off
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Thanks!!!!! That worked.

rmwebb1 said:
Hi, I've read the manual but haven't found what I needed.
I'm trying to delete the Google Now screen that's left of the Home screen and then add something else. I can disable Google Now in APPS and get rid of the Google Now pane, but I can't seem to delete it. Without deleting Google Now I can't add my own pane to the left of the Home screen.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
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Then you'll need to downgrade your xperia launcher to one without that feature. Apk mirror under Sony mobile communications they have all Sony's stock apps listed
Sent from my Xperia XA using XDA Labs

You can turn the Google now pane off by long pressing on the home screen, then settings bottom right, then turn the relevant slider off. (You can't do it via the regular settings, only the settings that you get to from long pressing the home screen!)

How to turn off long-press magnification?

Usually, long-press is for selecting text, but on this Xperia it's popping up with a magnifying glass instead. Is there any way to turn this off?

xichael said:
Usually, long-press is for selecting text, but on this Xperia it's popping up with a magnifying glass instead. Is there any way to turn this off?
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I haven't found that to be the case. Usually long-press on Internet page selects text. You might be experiencing a function built in to a specific app...

Xichael talks about this. When you select text in your input there is a zoom.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

crazy-gump said:
Xichael talks about this. When you select text in your input there is a zoom.
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Is that the email app? I don't use it so don't know... Maybe you can do something in prefer...

Yes, mine is like that, but round. An easy place to try it is in Chrome's address bar.
EDIT: Actually, I get the rectangular one too. They seem to take over in any text input field.

levone1 said:
Is that the email app? I don't use it so don't know... Maybe you can do something in prefer...
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It's not linked to an app. If you write a text somewhere and try to select it, the zoom will appear

Magnifier is useful for selecting special place for cursor on small screen. It's a feature on fields that can be edited/written in.
If you want to select a word, use double-tap.

I use Gboard's space bar swiping feature to reposition the cursor. Really hope there's a way to disable this. It makes selecting text inconsistent, and I truly have no need for it.

Settings > Accessibility > Magnification
Disable

I don't have that option. There's something called "magnification gesture", but it's already turned off.

xichael said:
Usually, long-press is for selecting text, but on this Xperia it's popping up with a magnifying glass instead. Is there any way to turn this off?
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Which version of Android are you using on your X Compact? Nougat has the magnification bubble when editing text but this seems to have been removed in Oreo.
crazy-gump said:
Xichael talks about this. When you select text in your input there is a zoom.
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Which phone is that? I only know of iPhones, Xperia's, Asus Zenfone and some early HTC phones having the magnification bubble to edit text. Shame more phones don't have it, it's very useful.