Hi All I hope someone can help me, my Daughter got a new Galaxy S and after a couple of days getting used to it all was going well and the swype thing is great, all of a sudden her qwerty version of the keyboard has been replaced with one of the others, although qty is actually ticked. The only way to get the qty to re-appear is the disable the swype feature which of course she does not want to lose. I have spent the best part of 4 hours going though various site and most of it in XDA but cannot find any solution... can we help
Cheers and thanks in advance
David
By qwerty do you mean the Samsung Keyboard? Even swype is QWERTY after all.
For the moment just try restarting the phone. It can do wonders sometimes.
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I recently acquired a "broken" tilt and the keyboard and backlight on the keyboard aren't working. Only 2 letters on the keyboard work. The rest of the phone works fine though. So I was wondering if there was anything I could do to try to fix this without having to open it up. I've tried hard-resetting (to no avail) and thats about it. I've also looked through a lot of posts about keyboard issues, but nothing was too helpful.
So, any help is greatly appreciated Sorry if this has been answered 1000x already.
hello i'm using the official latest rom from the HTC site...i have a problem with the hardware keyboard...what happens is that when i'm typing, the characters take too much time to appear on the screen and many(almost always) times characters are missing and i have to retype them...when i bought the phone it had hyperdragon III and the problem was the same but without the part "characters missing"i have tried 5-6 other roms and the problem is still not solved...does anyone know how to fix this?i am 99% sure that there is no hardware problem from the keyboard cause that would mean that some certain letters in the keyboard are broken...but in my case it happens on random letters every time...thanks in advance!
Moved as not ROM Development.
Try the speed increase .cab in this .zip
The hardware keyboards are notorious for going wrong on Kaiser.
thanks for the advice...i installed both cabs and then did a soft reset...the difference is not big and the lag keeps going but the characters missing issue got a lot better...stil not perfect...thanks so much...
That's cool glad it helped, good job you got a Tilt or your keyboard would be messed up as the other .cab is layout for keyboard Like i said the Kaiser is notorious for the keyboard gettin bad, mine i have about 5 keys i have to stomp on with thumb
really starting to feel like i have to get rid of this phone...it has so many good things but sometimes i forget i have a phone and feels like i have a really old crappy pc which freezes all the time...maybe it's the time to buy an HD2
HD2 would be nice "mind you think i'd get a Rhodium for keyboard", i use Raphael as no contract still better than Kaiser especially now have me own custom ROM rockin away
yeah i know...the keyboard is why i bought the kaiser from the first place...i had a samsung f490 and i couldn't stand it...everything was touch...i had to press a combination of touch buttons to answer a call!imagine me driving my car and trying to answer my girlfriend on the phone...so i traded it for a laptop and bought a kaiser...the reason i am going for an HD2 is because it's the fastest...i wish they could make a keyboard version...that would be really nice!
also have the lagging button syndrome! sometimes letters missing, sometimes duplicates and other times it hangs and makes 3messages full of a single character, so frustrating! now my 'g' button is broken and 'n' and 's' also dont work. but at least i have the screen keyboard to use! otherwise i love this phone! better than any other brand!
the problem is that this isn't a hardware problem...it's software for sure...sometimes the phone freezes...i'm pressing the same button like a million times and nothing happens...at that time the touch controller doesn't work either...and after some time like 5-6 seconds the phone is accepting input again like normal but with lag and with characters missing...i recall that the cabs provided solved the problem...maybe it was a coincidence or something...if it was a hardware problem i would buy a new keyboard and voila all fixed but that's not the problem...many times it misses my touch commands and even more times i have to press the power button to put the phone to sleep state and then press it again to wake it up in order to let me use touch commands again...really nice phone but not for me...i will go buy a practical phone with 60-70 euro which never freezes and doesn't even have wifi or bluetooth but at least i can type a freaking message without have to try 5 minutes to write 160 characters...i use messages a lot...like 2000-3000 messages every month and the full keyboard was the reason why i bought this thing...now it will be the reason to sell it...
So, i am running the new cm7 2.3.2 aosp ROM. unfortunately, my screen is broken and the touch plain sucks on my hero. i came from fresh rom (2.4.0 i think?) and in the keyboard options i could select phone keyboard, which was just like a t9 typing kb. problem is, i don't know where to get that specific keyboard with the options to switch from full qwerty, phone keypad, or compact qwerty. i can only type if i have the phone keypad keyboard loaded. this ROM i am using doesn't have anything like the keyboard in fresh ROM. is there a way i can get the keyboard apk or update zip from someone to help me out? i have spent the last hour searching for a way to do this, and i don't know if i am using the wrong keywords or what, but i cannot find any info on this and to top it off when i search the forums for the phrase t9 keyboard, it removes t9 from my search only impairing my searches. i am very proficient, and wouldn't even post something like this unless i absolutely HAD to ask for the help.
if anyone could help me out? it would be appreciated so much.
on a side note: i am looking for a digitizer with god glass for my hero200. i am very broke and can offer maybe an in-mail trade for some desktop or laptop parts, heck, i have a laptop i would be willing to trade for the screen for my phone straight across if i can find someone who is trustworthy to do the deal. i just dont know how i could ship it on my broke budget. its a 1.25 ghz dell inspiron 400 i believe, with wifi. it works, i just need a screen for my phone bad enough and love my phone enough that i would trade it. let me know thru a pm if you can help with the screen, and please feel free to comeent away! thanks to the community in advance for all the help you have provided me with my various android and winmo devices for the last year plus!
Google this "flext9 keyboard apk hvga". I believe it has what you need. I can't upload it for you from my phone but you might have luck with google.
sent from my hero, which no longer sucks ass
awesome, i appreciate the help. i have gone ahead and switched to a backup phone for now until i can find a glass replacement, but all the help i can get on finding a good t9 board is much appreciated. ill connect my phone to wifi and go grab that apk and check it out. Thanks!
Hi people,
Got some weird thing with my external keyboard since a few updates, hope you guys can help me out with this. Using [ROM] CyanogenMod 7.2.0 RC1 (Android 2.3.7) just reinstalled my complete phone and removed everything.
Problem: I can no longer typ 2 letters in a row like e, i, u, etc. without getting stuff like ë, í, ü etc. I have to wait a second all the time before typing the same letter. Did try qwerty and EURO QWERTY from boot menu, but they both have the same problem.
I also tried alot of keyboards from the market but couldn't find a propper one.
I hope someone can help me with this issue.
Thanks,
Tonny
Sounds more like a hardware failure honestly. On my Droid I experience somewhat of the same thing, certain letters will not work after more than one was used. for example I can type a word than start typing can't and it will be cnt. it happens with vowels.
Thanks for your reaction but im not really sure about a hardware failure. I had it working with some kind of keyboard from the market but the phone gets slow by loading that when I want to text, so i dont want that. And its with every letter that is able to get 'üïóé' some kind of sign on top of it. Sorry for bad explanation but cant find the right words. Hope you understand the problem.
This happend a few updates ago from cyanogenmod.
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DeTonny said:
Thanks for your reaction but im not really sure about a hardware failure. I had it working with some kind of keyboard from the market but the phone gets slow by loading that when I want to text, so i dont want that. And its with every letter that is able to get 'üïóé' some kind of sign on top of it. Sorry for bad explanation but cant find the right words. Hope you understand the problem.
This happend a few updates ago from cyanogenmod.
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Well it sounds like a problem with the software for the keyboard, and yeah I hear you keyboards slow down my droid also.
Dear XDA community, I'm writing to please ask some help on a problem I'm facing with my official samsung book keyboard cover. I attach it to the tablet, the tablet disables the soft keyboard to allow me to type with the hardware keyboard...... and it doesn't work.
My tablet is: Tab S8 SM-X700, One UI 4.1.1, Android 12, Update 1st October 2022, Build number SP2A.220305.013.X700XXS2AVJ4.
It does't seem to be an hardware problem as I returned the keyboard under warranty and asked for a raplacement. It lasted just a few hours before randomly showing the same behaviour. My best guess is that there is a buggy firmware option/feature that disables the keyboard when the keyboard is folded and the tablet is using it as a stand. This way even if you accidentally press the keys the input will not be registered. Problem is that If i don't need the keyboard I just detatch it so I have no use for this feature, and when I attach the keyboard I definetly want the damn keyboard to type. Sometimes I'm typing normally and the keyboard randomly disables making the soft keyboard flash a bunch of times and of course not writing anything useful.
This are the things I do to restore the keyboard functionality when it doesn't work (it makes me loose whatever I'm doing since it disrupts my workflow and if a person is talking I just miss taking notes of several minutes of the speech).
Detatching and reattaching the keyboard to the tablet (usually doesn't help. When i detatch the keyboard the soft one is restored, when I reattach the keyboard the soft one is disabled but the hard one still cannot type).
Cicling the keyboard from closed to type position to stand position a couple of times. (It worked well enough for a couple of days that i was willing to consider it an acceptable workaround that consumed just a few seconds every time it was needed. What happens more and more often is that the soft keyboard flashes on and off a few times. If i type something, the first letter or so will get randomly imputted a bunch of times with no subsequent imput registered by the application that I am using). Besides, folding the keyboard always disables it and no keys are registered when pressed.
Factory reset does absolutely nothing as well as cleaning the data of the samsung keyboard.
Tapping on the palmrest area near the trackpad. Often when I do that It looks like it is feeling something as the soft keyboard start flashing on and off. If i write something on the hardware keyboard a letter or two may get typed. Maybe the keyboard has an accelerometer that gets bumped/reset when i do this.
Raising the keyboard on the tablet side. This provides to me a more confortable typing experience and surprisingly enough it seems to make the typing behaviour more stable once i manage to make it register something but it doesn't help in that initial "no writing phase". Again maybe the keyboard accelerometer is "feeling" me bunping on the keyboard while I write.
Installing and setting as default keyboard a third party keyboard like Swift Key. It unfortuately does not change the hardware keyboard behaviour whatsoever.
Is anyone having the same problem? Does anyone know of a possible solution? Does anyone have a different keyboard case that is working reliably and allows a comfortable typing experience? Maybe one with the hinge on the keyboard and not on the tablet, that still allows to charge and not loose the spen, and to detatch the keyboard part from the tablet?
One thing that I havent tried yet is to flash a build from a different region. I think mine has the German version, if nobody from UK, Spain, Italy had this problem I might try one of those firmwares. The keyboard is also German as I could't source any querty one, or even any ISO one for that matter (it has an ANSI like layout with the small enter button and an Apple like combined Del+Backspace combined with additional useless buttons that occupy space like a dedicated dex/screenshot button that I keep accidentally pressing, an Esc key where the default behaviour is not Esc, a Lang Key in place of AltGr that i keep accidentally pressing, an AltGr key in place of an Fn or Ctrl key, A random Fn key in between the Ctrl and Win/Cmd key that is there just be randomly accidentally pressed).... but it doesn't matter as I have a different more important problem with it.
Thank you in advance so much to anyone in this community that might read this post. Sorry for my ranty rescription of the problem but it gets frustrating when you pay laptop like money for an untested gimmiky toy.
I have the ultra that had a similar issue, but not as bad as your describing. There were 2 keyboard updates since I got the tablet and it improved my issue to the point that once in a blue moon I would get the keyboard not working issue, than I would restart the tablet and it would work for a while without issues. There is a specific way to trigger the keyboard to update, check on youtube/search google, can't remember how to trigger it the 1st time as there is a specific way, after that it would automatically update or show there is an update. Hope it helps you with your issue
Thank you very much for your reply. Unfortunately there is no firmware update available for the tab S7/S8 book keyboard. I've now contacted samsung that told me to create an error report. I'll write here the reply to help the community if and how i manage to fix the problem.
Jonearthur thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I did all of the "standard" stuff many times with no results.
Since my last message the tablet got a major Android Update to android 13. And while travelling the keyboard received an update as well. Needless to say that I still have the same problem as before.
Samsung replied to my request in the least useful way possible to tell me that the team is working on a fix. I onestly just think that the Tab S8 connection to the keyboard has an electrically flawed design.
Since for me this is also the first device with a "floppy detatchable keyboard" I'm also wondering wether I should trust at all the concept of a keyboard that attaches to the device in this way.
Hello I wanted to give an update on this topic. Since more than one month passed from my report to Samsung I decided to contact them again.
The support was awful, I received no help watsoever except from "sorry we didn't care about your error report, write it again and maybe we will read it and reply". So I did the report again. Still waiting a reply on that one after more than a week so.... I'm not holding my breath.
During the unhappy chat I told them that I was tired of not having help and that I wanted to be refunded. Guess what.... since the problem concerns the keyboard they can refund the keyboard but cannot refund the tablet. Then this person further specified that the tablet can be sent for repairs but never refunded. Just to make a comparison suppose that you bought a car. Now suppose that for whatever reason the weels keep detatching from the car. Suppose that you are not ok with it and ask for a refund. Suppose that the support of the company tells you "sorry bro you can give us the weels and we will refund the cost for them but the car is fine so you have to keep it". This is the level of absurdity that Samsung reached.
Even taking into consideration the possible keyboard refund I still did not find an alternative cover that includes a keyboard and that has a way to keep the pen charged without loosing it in a backpack. Even the other keyboard from Samsung does not support that. You can keep the pen but don't you dare to charge it.
Today after a bit of hesitation I installed yet another update for the tablet. That made no diffrence for the keyboard behaviour. After that I made yet another desperate factory reset. Surprisingly this time it looks like for whatever reason the keyboard seems to be working.
I'll keep an eye on it just in case it decides to misbehave again. The description of the update does not contain any clue to as to why doing a factory reset before did not fix the keyboard but it does now.