Hi! On my Milestone 2 I was used to type special characters like "ä ü ö" by pressing <shift> + <alt> + <u> then typing the according character "a u o".
I tried this combination on my Droid 3 but it's gone. Does someone know another way to type those special chars, (except of long pressing the key)?
Thanks in advance.
I would like to know the same thing plus is there a way to change the keyboardlayout ?
Changing z and y would be really nice !
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Nevermind i didnt read your last sentence
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I see. Maybe an alternate virtual keyboard would help, slide the keyboard closed and use that?
Thanks guys, but there really has to be a combination, we just have to figure out which buttons have to be pressed
If you press and hold down a letter a box pops up on screen with all possible alts for that letter. No button combos needed, just press and hold!
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I love the keyboard, but i realized i never use the enter key on it...and I was wondering if there was a way to replace the enter key with lets say a little optical joystick thing? Kind of like how the Incredible had the optical joystick or whatever you want to call it....but have it as an onscreen thing.
jpen said:
I love the keyboard, but i realized i never use the enter key on it...and I was wondering if there was a way to replace the enter key with lets say a little optical joystick thing? Kind of like how the Incredible had the optical joystick or whatever you want to call it....but have it as an onscreen thing.
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Smart Keyboard Pro has an option to change it to smileys. You can customize the smiley menu so actually you can make it anything you want. So you can set it up so just press that button to say "Hello" (idk if theres a character limit on it)
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Smart Keyboard Pro has an option to change it to smileys. You can customize the smiley menu so actually you can make it anything you want. So you can set it up so just press that button to say "Hello" (idk if theres a character limit on it)
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I appreciate the respond but i was hoping that it someone could customize and put a joystick or something in there...just so when i have paragraphs of text it will be a lot easier to navigate through and fix words...the size of the enter button is comparable to the size of the optical joystick thing on the Incredible and the actually joystick thing on the Eris...i know its wishful thinking just thought it would be neat.
I am with you there. It is a bit annoying to change letters by clicking and picking that blue picket to move it to the letter you want. Being precise on a captive touch screen is basically non existent.
I believe the keyboard app mentioned above has the ability to add arrow keys. I will check and update.
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Smart keyboard pro has an option in the general settings to "show arrows". So as stated above it is imo the best choice.
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Yes there is an option to show arrows. I don't use it because I'm pretty used to where to press to get where I want. But i remember a few years ago when I first got into Android, I did need the arrow keys and they did wonders.
I want to launch recent apps when the physical home key is pressed. Any ideas?
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rlaw said:
I want to launch recent apps when the physical home key is pressed. Any ideas?
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I can launch it when hone key is pressed and I'm on PA v0.3 with navigation bar on....you should really be searching PA thread if you're having trouble..
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Yeah, I can change a key press of it to launch recents instead of going to home but that isn't what I'm looking for.
I want to remap long press functionality which is a more involved process.
Thank you.
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rlaw said:
Yeah, I can change a key press of it to launch recents instead of going to home but that isn't what I'm looking for.
I want to remap long press functionality which is a more involved process.
Thank you.
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I'm trying to get this to work as well. I'm trying to map it to the menu button. All threads I can find, tutorials included, are remapping to single press too. I've been checking out the key layouts folder in system/usr but I can't find anything referring to long presses. Have you made any progress?
If I remember correctly for the HW long press the DPI of the handset needs to be set to 'Phone' rather then 'Tablet' if you are using the latest version of PA.
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Hi guys, do you have the same feeling as mine? O4x's soft keys are too close to the bottom of the main screen. As a result, sometimes during text input, home button is unintentionally hit.
Is there any solution to this?
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flanker711 said:
Hi guys, do you have the same feeling as mine? O4x's soft keys are too close to the bottom of the main screen. As a result, sometimes during text input, home button is unintentionally hit.
Is there any solution to this?
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Happens to me all the time. I have no solution this far. Maybe one could make a mod to have the on-screen buttons as Google intended and disable the hardware soft keys, but I don't have any experience in modding.
Not sure about the mechanism of the hotkeys. If they're touch panel like (or even they're just part of the main capacitive touch screen), the best solution IMO is to reduce the effective touch area of each button. Just make them slightly larger than the led icons.
But this is not what CM can do I think. It should be some driver code change from LG...
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i use swiftkey and increase the key height and it is so much easy to key now without hitting home when i use the spacebar. Another alternative is to setup the direction arrows underneath the spacebar but i feel the previous approach is suitable for me not to hit home key 99.9% all the time :cyclops:
Happen quite a lot at first,
After a mth with this phone. Seldom happen anymore.
Will get used to it
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well, u could ask lg to make their new phones bigger, so theres more space for ur fingers :silly:
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i use swiftkey and increase the key height and it is so much easy to key now without hitting home when i use the spacebar. Another alternative is to setup the direction arrows underneath the spacebar but i feel the previous approach is suitable for me not to hit home key 99.9% all the time :cyclops:
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Nice solution, thanks!!!
Any one know of away to take screen shots with out power button. I'm running asylum cm10 v6 and have no power button all apps I have found do not work with the gnote. So I'm looking for ether a app or a way to remap buttons to do it with one button like holding the back button or something like that.
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I'm sure you know it already or maybe the custom ROM won't support it but did you try putting the side of your palm and sweeping it to the left? or maybe holding the button on the s pen and touch the screen with it?
If you already knew that and that the pen would not work on a custom rom, peace!
The palm trick only works on TW roms so , I guess you will have to use power button
I guess there are many apps in playstore to take screenshots
well i could not get any apps to work so i just figured out how to remap the power button to the home button so i lost the home button but have my power button back is a good trade for me anyways
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.geeksoft.screenshot&hl=en I had a similar problem before and this was what worked for me.
Remap worked fine for me no need for an app
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When I'm in SMS app and write massage it just switches to home screen and even sometime does not save what I have written.
Can someone help me with this problem. I'm using new JB, stock keyboard, luncher and SMS app, update that was UL last week and I do not know if it was any different before because I did not use phone on ICS.
Thank you, Denis
denis1304 said:
When I'm in SMS app and write massage it just switches to home screen and even sometime does not save what I have written.
Can someone help me with this problem. I'm using new JB, stock keyboard, luncher and SMS app, update that was UL last week and I do not know if it was any different before because I did not use phone on ICS.
Thank you, Denis
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I got the same thing as you did. Turned out my freaking thumb was just too big that it accidentally pressed the home capacitive button while typing messages. I use SwiftKey and enlarge the keyboard layout and things are going just great though sometimes I still accidentally hit the home button key
Edit: try enabling touch feedback so you'll realize the second you hit the home button by accident
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I got the same thing as you did. Turned out my freaking thumb was just too big that it accidentally pressed the home capacitive button while typing messages. I use SwiftKey and enlarge the keyboard layout and things are going just great though sometimes I still accidentally hit the home button key
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Agree. Heck i have small thumbs and i hit that button all the time when using lg keyboard.
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problem solved.
get used to the stock lg keyboard