I seem to have lost a feature of the stock Samsung Keyboard that is driving me nuts.
When I long-press a key to get the choice of symbols associated with that letter to come up, it used to have the main symbol preselected. I just long press, then release and it would insert the preselected symbol without any further action.
Now if I long press a key, it pulls up the same list of symbols, but no preselection. I have to choose one of the options before it will insert it.
Is there an option to turn that on that I am missing?
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I use the softkeys sometimes on the main/normal/portrait keyboard, but I never use them when slided out - they are so tiny, and I always hit them on mistake.
Is there any way to easily disable them... ?
I use AE Button Plus, but I can't see any option in there to change these keys.
I use AEBPlus and set the Single press action to "None" and the Double press action to "Press Left/Right SoftKey" as appropriate. That way, if you accidentally hit the softkey while typing, you no longer do something stupid/annoying/disasterous like sending an incomplete email.
It means that the soft keys, when the phone is open or closed, will no longer register anything with just a single press but you soon get used to double pressing when you need to use them (or just use the on-screen softkeys).
Edit: Sorry, you said that you didn't see an option to change these keys in AEBPlus. There are options to change the Left and Right SoftKeys but these change the softkeys when the phone is closed as well as when it is open.
Is there any way of rearranging the order in which the symbols appear on the symbols button during the "keypad" entry method?
The "@" symbol is first but I hardly ever use it. Can I rearrange the symbols that show on this button so that the more commonly used ones are first?
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I've recently bought a Moto G, and whilst playing around with the Keyboard in Messaging, finding everything (particularly punctuation, the keyboard on my HTC Desire S had punctuation on the long presses of keys) I changed the "Enter" key to the "Emoticons" key, and now I can't change it back. In other apps, like Twitter and Facebook the "Enter" key takes precedence over the "Emoticons", and I can switch between them with long presses. However in Messaging this key is now firmly set to "Emoticons" no matter how long I press the key down for.
Can I undo this change and if so, how?
Is there a way to set the secondary keys to type the symbol instead of displaying the popup window when long pressing the key? This happens with some of the keys, ie. when long presing the n key for the comma, but a popup displays. I just want the secondary key shown to be typed. I've attached an img of what I mean.
Figured it out finally:
<CscFeature_Sip_AlternativeCharPopupInput>Hide</CscFeature_Sip_AlternativeCharPopupInput>
I believe this has something to do with new Android system.
I have some older apps like nbpro or simple task switcher that don't have three dots. Is there any way on tab s2 to remap an existing key to menu key? For example, long press switching or long press home will activate menu?
I found that I can have more settings key by activating assistant menu under accessibility. Assistant menu is a cyan circle, once tapped, it explodes to show further onscreen keys. To able to assign more settings to a key off the screen or to a gesture would be nice. I am not ready to root my tab s2 yet. Or else using xposed would be handy.
Long press the back button. It brings up settings/menu
Long press back key does work sometimes.
In some app like nbpro, the menu, more options appear when I hold back key after lo press. When I release after the long press the more options disappear. It sometimes does not register very well. I don't know if it is something to do with the app or something to do with the system.