I am really digging the full screen mode with gestures on the RN7. The only problem, and it's a big one, is typing. Without the bottom navigation bar the keyboard is all the way at the bottom. Makes it really awkward to hold the phone and type, which means a lot of retyping when I hit the wrong keys. Does anyone have any suggestions for moving the keyboard up a bit?
You can increase the height of the keyboard in gboard settings
I already set it to the max. Seems like I might have to go back to the old navigation bar.
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Hey.. I have this problem too, after i switched to xiaomi from Samsung. Full screen gestures are made very good on Samsung and the keyboard too. So for me was a very big problem on Xiaomi(the keyboard). And I searched a lot, and I found that the Swift keyboard can be resized. And this solved my problem. Try it
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My HD seems to have the occasional quirk, well two at the moment that are a bit annoying.
Firstly the time on the TF home screen has randomly changed styles twice now. I have no idea why and can't find a way of changing it back (after it changed the first time it changed back again the next day) Any ideas how/why and has anyone else had this?
The other main thing that is now really annoying me is the portrait keyboard has changed from full qwerty to compact qwerty, I have tried changing it back in the "input" setting but it doesn't want to save the setting. Again anyone have an idea why this has changed and any way I can change it back and keep it changed?
Also could anyone tell me what the name of the thin bar at the top of the TF screen is (and where I can find it?) because I would like to delete it if ti's possible.
Thanks
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The other main thing that is now really annoying me is the portrait keyboard has changed from full qwerty to compact qwerty, I have tried changing it back in the "input" setting but it doesn't want to save the setting. Again anyone have an idea why this has changed and any way I can change it back and keep it changed?
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I had the same annoying compact querty problem coming out of nowhere and I found the solution: you can't change it from settings->input, but when you open any app which permits the virtual keyboard(eg: sms/mms) you will notice a little arrow "^" near the virtual keyboard button in the middle. when you press that arrow instead of the virtual keyboard popping up, it will popup a menu where you can select between compact/full querty and there it is, the change remains
for your clock problem, i think you have to slide it back from up to down to show the one you want. And yes the little arrow near sip sign open a finger friendly menu where you can choose compact or not. Hope it helps, in my manual for the HD all about this is tell, but i've read it...
PS: when you have a prob like that post a screenshot, use capsure for example, it work with HD.
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I have been using Gyrator 2. So far so good. But if the keyboard doesn't increase in size when you rotate the screen I don't see a huge advantage other than reading text or email on wider screen.
With the iPhone, yes I said the bad word, when you rotate the screen your keyboard changes making it easier to type on. That's what I'm really looking for. Something that will change the keyboard to a more finger friendly keyboard when rotated to landscape. Anything out there that can do that?
Also, any way to shrink those huge black bars when you rotate the screen at the top and bottom? I was noticing the top title bar (black bar 1) and the bottom soft menu bar (black bar 2) are HUGE in landscape mode and take up way too much real estate. It would be nice if those screen disolved and only appeared if you tapped the header/footer in a screen. I hope that made sense. Anythign apps than can do that? Or am I wishing on star.
Make sure you're using the default HTC keyboard, not the WM original one. The HTC keyboard (called full QWERTY in the input picker) does change and fill the entire screen widthwise when the screen is rotated.
shueflie, I am. And you're right. It does fit the entire screen but for some reason it sure doesn't seem bigger. Maybe it's just me. I guess it has to be getting bigger...but for some reason it still seems like too many keys squeezed in.
Are there any replacement keyboards, say something like a standard letter only keyboard, and then you press something for numbers only, and then something for special characters only? My fingers are too big.
Try the phone keypad in portrait mode (either with or without T9) and see if that suits you better. There are other keyboards available but I haven't tired any of them
Will give it a shot. If you can direct me to a link with more keyboards I'd appreciate it, in the meantime I'll use the almighty search and see what I can dig up.
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Will give it a shot. If you can direct me to a link with more keyboards I'd appreciate it, in the meantime I'll use the almighty search and see what I can dig up.
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Plenty of keyboards out there. Do a quick search in Themes, Applications and Software and you'll find what your looking for!!!
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May also want to check Wiki to ensure keyboard software works ok, Programs/Utilites & Games working on the Touch HD (1 - M) & Programs/Utilites working on the Touch HD (N - Z)
Wow an entire wiki, that's what I'm talkin' about. Thanks!
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Wow an entire wiki, that's what I'm talkin' about. Thanks!
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Not all software is shown on these lists. Best option is to do a search for keyboard in Themes, Applications and Software.
If your unsure about anything, refer to this and it should answer most questions you have!
Typing. Like. This. Is. Driving. Me. Crazy.
For what ever reason, when I try to type fast, i constantly hit the period button. I've tried swype, which is neat and all, but instinctively i type with two thumbs on my phone, so even in swype mode, i run into this issue.
Is there any way to maybe move the period button over to the left of the keyboard?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thumb Keyboard should take care of your problem. It offers several different layouts and you can increase or decrease the key height as well.
The different layouts have a long spacebar or a split spacebar if you type two-thumbed!
The developer is very responsive. He e-mailed me that in upcoming release user will be able to customize the location of the various symbols/punctuation that share the letter/number keys.
Well worth the small purchase fee!!!
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Typing. Like. This. Is. Driving. Me. Crazy.
For what ever reason, when I try to type fast, i constantly hit the period button. I've tried swype, which is neat and all, but instinctively i type with two thumbs on my phone, so even in swype mode, i run into this issue.
Is there any way to maybe move the period button over to the left of the keyboard?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
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No no, not thumb keyboard. Smart keyboard pro. I had the same problem when I switched from iphone to android. Kept hitting the f-ing period button. Smart keyboard lets you remove the period and comma on the sides of the space bar. It makes the space bar HUGE!!! Best two bucks you've ever spent. And you can adjust the height of the keys. All kinds of tweaks. Hands down the best 3rd party keyboard out there.
Here is a gallery of keyboards in protrait. My favorite right now is ultra keyboard, but thumb keyboard is a close second, and slideit is nice for quick texts.
Click on the thumbs for larger images. They are actual screenshots from my phone.
ditto for thumb keyboard. I love it. Gives you TWO spacebars and a numpad in the middle. I was having problems reaching the inside keys on this big 'ol screen but no more.
I think it's all personal pref. Try em out.
The period and arrow keys on the 5-inch thumb keyboard kill me... but it is the best I've found.
I hate having to switch screens to edit or put in numbers and symbols.
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Here is a gallery of keyboards in protrait. My favorite right now is ultra keyboard, but thumb keyboard is a close second, and slideit is nice for quick texts.
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I've found ultra keyboard to be my new favorite keyboard. Thank you.
Goodbye swype hello ultra.
So I have found the keyboard to be somewhat fraustrating. Not because it is virtual, but because of the software behind it.
First of all, it is rather strange that you cannot set more than one keybaord. Essentially, the device can have two keyboards that you might regularly swap between: the hardware keyboard and the one screen keyboard one might use while in tablet mode. The hardware keyboard uses the autocorrect of the keyboard you have set as your software keyboard. You cannot set seperate keyboard engines for the hardware and software keyboard.
As I said, the autocorrect/engine behind the hardware keyboard is dependant on your choice of software keybaord. However, as far as I can tell, only the defualt TouchPal keyboard provides any autocorrect for the hardware keybaord. The stock android keyboard offers no autocorrect with the hardware keyboard.
On a related note, TouchPal is awful. The autocorrect works pretty badly and is basically very annoying to use. I won't bore you with the details, but things like autocorrecting to a new word when you go back to edit a mistake. This makes it almost unusable.
Also the touch pad is very bad. No two funger scrolling means that again, it is pretty much useless.
I think the Yoga Book is a great device in most respects. Its intersting that all of these problems relate to the software and could potentially be fixed by Lenovo or there may even be fixes out there now.
Has anyone found any solutions to these problems? Thanks, Liam
I completely agree with you and am having the same frustration with the software behind the keyboard. So far the best solution I have found is to use SwiftKey or Swiftkey Beta (not sure which is best yet). With a bit of tweaking you can get decent auto complete and auto correct using both the halo and on screen keyboard. Much better than Touchpal at least. A couple of issues I have found using Swiftkey and halo keyboard: 1) auto complete seems to turn off when resuming from sleep mode (tapping the keyboard button on the top row reactivates it) 2) in WhatsApp Tablet app, after pressing Enter to send a message, the next message gets double words - I. E. Auto correct adds to what you type, doesn't replace it.
I can confirm that switching to SwiftKey makes the hardware keyboard usable! I'm actually using the keyboard to type this now. Naturally, I'm making tons of mistakes but it is catching and correcting almost all of them!
Can confirm that SwiftKey easily switches between physical keyboard and on-screen keyboard when the physical keyboard is toggled on and off.
If anyone is still using the default software keyboard, switch now!!!
Thanks for the tip! This makes a big difference! Have either of you found a way to get auto capitalise to work? The setting is enabled but it doesn't do anythig.
My issue with SwiftKey is that there is no good ways to select a suggested word. You always have to click with your finger on the screen which completely ruins ten finger typing for my.
So I ended up with disabled word correction as it's faster to remove some mistyped words and type again, than to click on the screen.
How do you handle suggestions made by SwiftKey?
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My issue with SwiftKey is that there is no good ways to select a suggested word. You always have to click with your finger on the screen which completely ruins ten finger typing for my.
So I ended up with disabled word correction as it's faster to remove some mistyped words and type again, than to click on the screen.
How do you handle suggestions made by SwiftKey?
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I have found that SwiftKey enters the main suggested word when I press space. This is good for most of the time, but annoying when:
-I want to select a suggestion that is not the main suggested word (particularly a new word that it doesn't recognise)
-I want to add punctuation directly after the main suggested word (here, because I input the punctuation rather than pressing space, the suggested word is not entered)
I have certainly found using SwiftKey to be the best experience. It's quite a passive autocorrect that doesn't get in the way too much. I got so sick of TouchPal which really gets in your face with its incorrect predictions.
But still there is a lot of room for improvement. It's such a shame that it's terrible software that lets down this keyboard. In particular I don't understand why:
- Some keyboards (like the Google Keyboard) don't offer any correction or prediction when enabled. Does Android maybe treat the Halo keyboard as an external keyboard (which I suppose you wouldn't want predictive features for)?
- Keyboards that do offer prediction don't seem to respond to changes to their settings (I can't get SwiftKey to auto capitalise the first letter of a sentence for example). @thespinner02 mentioned tweaking with SwiftKey settings- I assume they meant for the onscreen keyboard because these settings don't do anything for the Halo keybaord.
I wonder whether there is a keyboard out there in the Play Store that works better with the Yoga Book. I'll try a few and let you guys know if I find one.
I tried several solutions but couldn't find anything good. Hardware keyboards are not that common on Android platform, I guess.
Even using Swiftkey I sometimes get different results depending on the app being used. Auto capitalise is working OK for me, in Word for example.
There are specific options in Swiftkey for Physical Keyboard: in settings, Typing, Voice & Other Input. In Physical keyboard section I have Autocorrect and Auto capitalize on. Everything else off.
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Even using Swiftkey I sometimes get different results depending on the app being used. Auto capitalise is working OK for me, in Word for example.
There are specific options in Swiftkey for Physical Keyboard: in settings, Typing, Voice & Other Input. In Physical keyboard section I have Autocorrect and Auto capitalize on. Everything else off.
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Thanks! I didn't notice that- smart spacing etc makes a massive difference!
Pretty much my only problem with SwiftKey now is that it sometimes creates its own weird textbook instead of typing directly into the text field. But that's not a massive problem.
Also I sometimes accidentally change input method. Maybe I'm using a keyboard shortcut by mistake?
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Even using Swiftkey I sometimes get different results depending on the app being used. Auto capitalise is working OK for me, in Word for example.
There are specific options in Swiftkey for Physical Keyboard: in settings, Typing, Voice & Other Input. In Physical keyboard section I have Autocorrect and Auto capitalize on. Everything else off.
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In settings for hardware keyword I get no harder key found?
Went into Swift settings in onscreen. How to get settings for Halo?
With Yoga Book in laptop mode. Settings / Language & input / SwiftKey Keyboard / Typing / Voice & Other Input
You also need to make sure 'show input method' is not enabled in the keyboard settings/selector popup.
Does anyone else experience a problem with SwiftKey where in some text fields your text goes into a little popup text box at the bottom of the screen as well as the intended text field? And then to get rid of the popup text box you have to tap 'next'. This occurs in the Facebook messenger app for example.
Any way to disable it?
It seems to do this when the text field is small, but other keyboards just expend the text field as you type. The popup text box it creates doesn't expand anyway, so it doesn't offer extra functionality and is just an annoyance.
Hello,
I got my Pixel 4 today, and whilst setting up all my apps (I transferred from the dark dark side) all of a sudden my keyboard has changed postion..It seems really high now and its really annoying me, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to bring it down to how it was. I'm talking about he big gap between the bottom of the space bar and the hide keyboard arrow..
any ideas? (I have already mucked around with the height setting within gboard, and tried swift key, which still leaves a biggish gap)
https://ibb.co/6r8Tbtb
Cheers
jongyrocka said:
Hello,
I got my Pixel 4 today, and whilst setting up all my apps (I transferred from the dark dark side) all of a sudden my keyboard has changed postion..It seems really high now and its really annoying me, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to bring it down to how it was. I'm talking about he big gap between the bottom of the space bar and the hide keyboard arrow..
any ideas? (I have already mucked around with the height setting within gboard, and tried swift key, which still leaves a biggish gap)
https://ibb.co/6r8Tbtb
Cheers
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Did you try changing themes?
No I hadn’t changed themes, I somehow long pressed something on the keyboard, discovered the floating keyboard, but now have that super gap
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No I hadn’t changed themes, I somehow long pressed something on the keyboard, discovered the floating keyboard, but now have that super gap
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Try clearing GBoard App data, and start the keyboard again
Is there not a little icon to the left/right of the keyboard with 4 arrows points to the corners ??
that is only in floating mode