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Swipe vs GB keyboard

Wanted everyone's opinion on this. I never used swipe before, but I seen my brother using it and it looked pretty cool. I know a few people use it, So I wanted some opinion's on what hero users think. Thanks
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I'm in the Swype beta, and I've used it in the past, but it can be a pain in the ass to get working after changing roms, so I generally use the LatinIME board. All things considered though, Swype kicks ass once you get used to it.

I'm using it now & it's nice but yeah you do have to get used to it but after you should be good to go. Once you get used to it you'll notice your texting & typing will become a lot quicker

For those of you who use the touch (non swiping) keyboards I'd recommend trying out SwiftKey.
I used swype almost since the beta was first released and never thought I'd switch. But after using the SwiftKey beta for about a week - back when it was still in Beta - it changed my mind.
The predictive text works really well and there's a lot less movement compared to swype.
But out of the two options the OP listed, I'd definitely go for swype. No question

laie1472 said:
Wanted everyone's opinion on this. I never used swipe before, but I seen my brother using it and it looked pretty cool. I know a few people use it, So I wanted some opinion's on what hero users think. Thanks
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Where can I get a swype apk download ?

Personally I prefer the GB keyboard. I've used both. I can type very quickly with the GB keyboard. Swype and the HTC keyboard are tied for second.

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Where can I get a swype apk download ?
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http://beta.swype.com

In my opinion, I think Swype is really good but. I think the HTC keyboard is really good, but since I found the ginger bread keyboard I think its awesome. On the other hand, there are some tweaks that I want but ill wait till the next generation keyboard
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Thanks for the feed back all. I appreciate it.
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kyouko said:
For those of you who use the touch (non swiping) keyboards I'd recommend trying out SwiftKey.
I used swype almost since the beta was first released and never thought I'd switch. But after using the SwiftKey beta for about a week - back when it was still in Beta - it changed my mind.
The predictive text works really well and there's a lot less movement compared to swype.
But out of the two options the OP listed, I'd definitely go for swype. No question
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Never even head if swiftkey hummm. Have to check it out
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user7618 said:
I'm in the Swype beta, and I've used it in the past, but it can be a pain in the ass to get working after changing roms, so I generally use the LatinIME board. All things considered though, Swype kicks ass once you get used to it.
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So it does not play well with all roms????.
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ULoveAriana said:
I'm using it now & it's nice but yeah you do have to get used to it but after you should be good to go. Once you get used to it you'll notice your texting & typing will become a lot quicker
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Thanks for the feed back
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laie1472 said:
So it does not play well with all roms????.
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It just isn't happy when you switch between them.. You have to reinstall a lot if you are a chronic flasher..
I prefer swype totally, swiftkey is awesome however not free, gingerbread is good.. If swiftkey were free I would go with it, but its not so swype is it..
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pstevep said:
It just isn't happy when you switch between them.. You have to reinstall a lot if you are a chronic flasher..
I prefer swype totally, swiftkey is awesome however not free, gingerbread is good.. If swiftkey were free I would go with it, but its not so swype is it..
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Chronic flasher lol thanks man for the feed back.
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laie1472 said:
Wanted everyone's opinion on this. I never used swipe before, but I seen my brother using it and it looked pretty cool. I know a few people use it, So I wanted some opinion's on what hero users think. Thanks
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I think swype's the best, that's just my two cents

Yeah I think swype is the best too but if you do try it I would back it up with titanium & make sure it's installed on the phone cuz just like someone said earlier with the chronic flashing we do especially with switching roms it will disappear on you & if it's not on the internal memory it will go bye bye when you reboot or unplug your phone via USB ...learned from experience it was a drag -____-

laie1472 said:
So it does not play well with all roms????.
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I don't think its a rom issue, its more the way they have you go about installing it.
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I like swype tried swiftkey (i found somewhere) it's cool killing the gb keyboard. But swype is where it's at but it runs out ( mental note to self use apk manager to hack swype to stop running out of time) of time.

You know, I just reinstalled swype, and had no troubles with it. They seem to have changes the way the installer functions. I even had issues installing this on stock unrooted Sense.
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if you've never used swype your texting on the GB/original rom keyboard will be A LOT faster
BUT
once you get used to swype and gain some experience with it under your belt you'll see that your texting/typing will be A LOT LOT faster than the keyboard
my first week of using swype i saw a noticable difference in speed for the better....but believe me that first few days i was so frustrated with swyping lol

Words With Friends in the Market...

For those that don't frequent the main android apps page... Words With Friends is available in the Market. A little buggy for some. Only problem I see is no notification sound...
Sent from my Cappy running Andromeda 1.1!!

My wife loves that game on the iPhone...hope is compatible so that I can play her again. Thanks for heads up...

Yeah, same here, thanks
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Words with friends is full of bugs wait a bit or give it a download and report your bugs to them. But I've already reported and uninstalled won't work on my phone
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Hydro360 said:
Words with friends is full of bugs wait a bit or give it a download and report your bugs to them. But I've already reported and uninstalled won't work on my phone
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I take that back just changed my modem game is perfect now
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Looks very beta. I get alerts when it isn't my turn, there is no way to turn down game volume, and there's a freaking ad after every turn. I'll wait until there's a paid version and the bugs are worked out.

There was no game volume control in the iphone version, either. I don't know why they don't add that.

There is a volume control look on the side of your phone... no the other side those two little up down key thingys. Press the down one... no the bottom one. Yes that one. There you have achieved volume control. Don't worry its the same setup the iphone had so your not in the stone age.
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At this point I still like Wordfeud a lot better. No wasted space for a stupid title bar when viewing a board, very slow/laggy, ads everywhere, and I've come to like the random board in Wordfeud that makes the game really interesting.

Hydro360 said:
I take that back just changed my modem game is perfect now
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what modem did you switch to?

Banditlol said:
what modem did you switch to?
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TLJL3 but im back to having errors again it worked for a day
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tysj said:
At this point I still like Wordfeud a lot better. No wasted space for a stupid title bar when viewing a board, very slow/laggy, ads everywhere, and I've come to like the random board in Wordfeud that makes the game really interesting.
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+1 wordfeud is superior
for me its unfortunate because the friends and family i want to play against all have iphone and words with friends...so hopefully we see improvement.
anyone else having problems with it seeing your contacts? i had started a sep. thread before seeing this
but the issue i am seeing is that despite having tons of contacts on my phone the only contact it sees is my own gmail account when i select to add someone from contact list? any ideas?

Little to flashy, which makes it smaller screen size. Looks like an update just came out to address a bunch of the issues you guys were talking about.
I prefer wordfeud but like others here, most of my friends/family have iphones/ipads, so this is fantastic so I can play against them.

Yes. You are right about the "key thingys," but an in-app volume control or mute would be more useful. I personally think the shuffle sounds are distracting but don't want to turn down other media that I might be playing to avoid hearing them.
Hydro360 said:
There is a volume control look on the side of your phone... no the other side those two little up down key thingys. Press the down one... no the bottom one. Yes that one. There you have achieved volume control. Don't worry its the same setup the iphone had so your not in the stone age.
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issues with words
in the past couple weeks, i've had the following page pop up as soon as i open up words with friends. i have to close and reopen it 10 times to get the screen to go away and let me actually open up a game. has anyone else seen this before, and does anyone know a work around beside just closing and reopening?

KPoon said:
in the past couple weeks, i've had the following page pop up as soon as i open up words with friends. i have to close and reopen it 10 times to get the screen to go away and let me actually open up a game. has anyone else seen this before, and does anyone know a work around beside just closing and reopening?
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Try installing it and opening wordfeud. 100% fix, you'll never see the screen again as long as you don't reinstall wordfeud.
XD
Herp derp Captivate XDA app.

KPoon said:
in the past couple weeks, i've had the following page pop up as soon as i open up words with friends. i have to close and reopen it 10 times to get the screen to go away and let me actually open up a game. has anyone else seen this before, and does anyone know a work around beside just closing and reopening?
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If you are running a custom ROM it could be the host file is blocking the IP addresses of the ads that Words with Friends uses. I was having this issue and ended up going into the host file to edit out a few of the IPs that are used for WWF ads.
Here is an XDA thread to help with the IPs. You will have to do this each time you flash a ROM, but it works. Or you can save your edited host file and copy it over the new one after you flash.

To solve that URL popup, download SGS Tools, go to Fixes, and Update HOSTS File. Worked for me.

After the last update, Words With Friends has been working fine for me. Even though I am enjoying Words With Friends is it worth downloading Wordfeud?

syoungblood95 said:
To solve that URL popup, download SGS Tools, go to Fixes, and Update HOSTS File. Worked for me.
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tried to use the SGS tool for this, didn't solve the issue. I'll go in and manually edit the host files I suppose...
edit: i went back and cleared the data after the SGS tools, it works fine now...if only all my games didn't disappear. hopefully when my opponents play their moves the game will come back.

Swype beta 3 allows wifi only devices

typing using it now...so good to have this working on my nook (without any hassle)
too bad the honeycomb only features don't work on cm
check out the trailer:
http://www.androidcentral.com/swype-30-beta-honeycomb-optimized-grab-it-now
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its kinda small in landscape

EverythingNook said:
its kinda small in landscape
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with swype thats what you want...the non hc version seems too big on the nook...i wonder if you add a hc tablet prop file will you get this special version?

Its a bit laggy but this might be solved if your nook is overclocked. Overall it does work well

Robotic Clone said:
Its a bit laggy but this might be solved if your nook is overclocked. Overall it does work well
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its pretty smooth oced @ 1.2ghz
very nice in portrait but a bit big for fast swyping in landscape mode
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So far I'm happy with the update. I HATED having the suggestions pop up right over what I was doing. You get used to landscape pretty quick.
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i pass, no french dictionnary

how does one prevent it from persistently guessing wrong words? it keeps force typing 'cds' when i try to type 'xda' developers.

photoassign said:
how does one prevent it from persistently guessing wrong words? it keeps force typing 'cds' when i try to type 'xda' developers.
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Tap in the three xda letters; then, on the far left end of the suggestions, you should see xda itself; tap it. Once done, the bar should change to asking you if you want to add that word to the dictionary - tap that and it gets added.

Thank you.

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Tap in the three xda letters; then, on the far left end of the suggestions, you should see xda itself; tap it. Once done, the bar should change to asking you if you want to add that word to the dictionary - tap that and it gets added.
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That one raised by blood pressure more than a few points before I finally figured it out as well...

Also, if you go into Settings>Language & keyboards>Swype settings>Word suggestion and uncheck Auto-correction, it won't use the word it thinks you want in lieu of the word you typed when you hit the space key (which drove me crazy until I changed that setting).

GirLuvsDroid said:
Also, if you go into Settings>Language & keyboards>Swype settings>Word suggestion and uncheck Auto-correction, it won't use the word it thinks you want in lieu of the word you typed when you hit the space key (which drove me crazy until I changed that setting).
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hey thanks for that...this was driving me crazy too
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I'm not seeing any lag with a non-overclocked NC.
Heck, it works beautifully on my Nook Color (7.0.2) and my HeroC

I was having constant lockups running CM7. I started uninstalling apps that were running services. When I uninstalled Swype, the lockups mostly stopped. I don't know if this was a coincidence. Anyone else experience lockups with Swype on CM7?

No lockups here and +1 for being super happy to have Swype on the NC. I had experimented enough to be able to hook up a usb keyboard and it worked, but it was a bit awkward using it. So I was looking for a small BT keyboard and then Swype sent me THE email. Very pleased and finally feel like my NC is all that it needs to be for my uses.

I feel very stupid, but where in the heck can I down load swype??? I go to the link but don't see a DL.
Thanks for your help

slugbug2010 said:
I feel very stupid, but where in the heck can I down load swype??? I go to the link but don't see a DL.
Thanks for your help
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You need to sign up for Swype Beta. All it takes is an email address.
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Touch Screen sensitivity

Ever since GB OTA update typing on my phone has become more difficult using any keyboard. Especially in landscape mode the bottom of the screen (or left side if portrait along the edge) I find I usually have to click on the spacebar more than once and also noticed it while playing a game. Is it just me?
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Haven't noticed that. I've noticed it has better scrolling, doesn't have that bouncy annoying random scrolling like it did

I am inclined to agree with drt. I very rarely had to correct swype before, but now some of the words I "spell" are just crazy wrong. If I swype "H-A-V-E" is will say I spelled HABIT. I figured it was just swype being dumb, but honestly, it had never been dumb like this.

I have noticed that using smart keyboard pro, I'm getting the same problems. I have to hit the space many times, or..which is even worse, it will substitute a letter for me. I know I have fat fingers, but not that fat. It would be nice to be able to calibrate the touchscreen.

Portrait I don't have any issues.. seems to just be landscape. I use the AOSP Gingerbread Keyboard from the market but same on Swype and a couple others I installed and didn't like. Really annoying.. at least it isn't only me.
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I have the same issues with thumb keyboard so I just changed the size of the space bar row so it'll be easier to hit
SuperCharged GingerVolt B-) R U?

drt054 said:
Ever since GB OTA update typing on my phone has become more difficult using any keyboard. Especially in landscape mode the bottom of the screen (or left side if portrait along the edge) I find I usually have to click on the spacebar more than once and also noticed it while playing a game. Is it just me?
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I've noticed this with the Beta Swype KB with GingerVolt1.x. The problem wasn't there with the stock as I double checked that last time I re-flashed my phone to Stock GB. I was actually hoping to find a way to "Calibrate" the screen. No luck as of yet.
Anyone know how?
-Cybie
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markapowell said:
I am inclined to agree with drt. I very rarely had to correct swype before, but now some of the words I "spell" are just crazy wrong. If I swype "H-A-V-E" is will say I spelled HABIT. I figured it was just swype being dumb, but honestly, it had never been dumb like this.
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Adjust the settings for Speed VS Accuracy to higher accuracy. I found that helped the crazy misspellings quite a bit.
-Cybie

[Q] How is it to type with the accelerometer (tapping on the sides)?

When I was reading a review about LG Optimus 2X on GSMArena what I found REALLY cool is the feature in which you perform a little tap on the side of the phone to make the text cursor go precisely to the left or right.
What it feels like? I kept wondering what happens if you're typing on a bus though!

Used that feature dor the few days on stock... Works surprisingly good, the odd vibration is ignored, you really have to tap on a side to trigger the cursor movement. Waving the device around, sitting in a train on a rough ride etc won't do anything.
Loved that feature but, imho, since GB brought the blue "cursor-enlargement" it isn't really needed anymore.

I used it for Music. Previous and Next-Track on Tap. It was very useful in my Eyes.:good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrUayjM1MtI
Good Video about that Feature.

KoolSavas95 said:
Never heard of that. How to "activate" that function?
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Settings >> Gesture

I used it a couple of times, but I don't really find it useful, maybe for music, but since I'm not on Stock rom I can't use it.

rafaelluik said:
When I was reading a review about LG Optimus 2X on GSMArena what I found REALLY cool is the feature in which you perform a little tap on the side of the phone to make the text cursor go precisely to the left or right.
What it feels like? I kept wondering what happens if you're typing on a bus though!
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Ha awesome, I didn't know this feature until now. I jumped straight to cm7 when I got this phone
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I like it and I miss it on my LTE II.

In homescreen you can move the application in homescreen by holding it and tilt the phone left and right to change the homescreen in stock only
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I did not know about it. Will be nice to have this on cm7 based roms . Will love to skip to next / previous track
Stefan, tonyb, can it be done?
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Netuser said:
Stefan, tonyb, can it be done?
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Theoretically of course. Already came across it during development of my hybrid ROM. LG gestures code definitely can be ported, but I never checked in detail on how to completely port and activate it. Also I fear I don't have time for it currently.

I hope you can find some time as this is great feature
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Used that feature dor the few days on stock... Works surprisingly good, the odd vibration is ignored, you really have to tap on a side to trigger the cursor movement. Waving the device around, sitting in a train on a rough ride etc won't do anything.
Loved that feature but, imho, since GB brought the blue "cursor-enlargement" it isn't really needed anymore.
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I think the feature might be pretty handy.
It isn't that easy to reach the corners of the screen so when you want to put the cursor in the initial position of a line it'd be useful. Also my HTC EVO 3D used to refuse to put the cursor after the dot in a phrase in the end of the line (oddly when I went testing now I could do it flawlessly).
Anyway I'm looking to buy this phone to my sister that's why I got interested.