Slideout keyboard broken - Samsung Captivate Glide

When I type a SMS message and hit the E key on the slide out keyboard, the email app opens, so I can't use the letter E. Anyone know what's happened and how to fix it?
... Of COURSE it'd fix itself as soon as I ask for help. Inevitable really. Still worth knowing how to fix it in case it happens again, so I'll leave this up.

I had the same problem as you, it is caused by the Application Shortcuts which I never used and only disturbed me while typing.
(On Gingerbread)
Go to settings, then to Applications and then to "shortcuts" or something like that(I have another system language) and then long touch on every button that has a shortcut linked to it.
That solved it for me, if you are using ICS the steps should be more or less the same.
Greetings Alex22 <3

Alex2221 said:
I had the same problem as you, it is caused by the Application Shortcuts which I never used and only disturbed me while typing.
(On Gingerbread)
Go to settings, then to Applications and then to "shortcuts" or something like that(I have another system language) and then long touch on every button that has a shortcut linked to it.
That solved it for me, if you are using ICS the steps should be more or less the same.
Greetings Alex22 <3
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Quote for truth, this fixed my same problem a couple months back.
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how to change soft key in SMS application

i got wm6 black and once i open SMS up..
the soft key on the left handside is "delete" i wanted to chante to "new"
can someone tell me how to do that please?
thanks.
This is asked for in another thread as well, but not answered I'm afraid. Seems like it's hardcoded in tmail.exe, so there's no way to change it like a normal softkey or in the registry or something.
The delete button is bugging me as well...
I have been searching for this in the registry but i can't find it. I want to change this softkey to new as it used to be in WM5, as it easier to press the softkey then go through the menus while in the car.
If any of the gurus out there can help out on this one..........................
There is a work around with this, if you use the softkey changer and apply one of your soft keys in the today screen to New SMS it will take you directly to a new SMS message. I don't you will find the solution that you are looking for without alot of trial and error. This might help in the mean time.
As Video calling has been disabled in the new WM6 Roms i have used the Video calling button on the Uni as the 'new' key which does get me around but its still so annoying where i am so used to pressing this button when looking at other messages to create new messages and now when i press it it asks if i want to delete the txt.
New SMS Short Cut
I dont know if this helps but I thought I would throw it out there. I was looking for the same thing. Here is a link on how to create a short cut for New Sms.
http://www.modaco.com/new-sms-command-t253992.html -or-
here it is already made just extract and copy and paste in ppc:
x-online said:
i got wm6 black and once i open SMS up..
the soft key on the left handside is "delete" i wanted to chante to "new"
can someone tell me how to do that please?
thanks.
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Yes., it's annoying. But what is really amazing is the utter twat that came up with this change and the equally dumb twats that said "Good idea! Let's do it". Really.
hey mike thanks for posting that little shortcut.
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deviusdragger said:
hey mike thanks for posting that little shortcut.
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Your Welome!
I agree that it's frustrating that they changed the key to delete. I personally delete very few messages, and if I do I delete a whole batch of them in one go, the new button is one which I use MUCH more than delete.
Anyway, I was wondering if you might be able to help me with another issue which I'm having. When I open a message (email or text) it jumps down to the bottom of the page. Has anyone else experienced this, or is it just me?
street_hawk said:
Anyway, I was wondering if you might be able to help me with another issue which I'm having. When I open a message (email or text) it jumps down to the bottom of the page. Has anyone else experienced this, or is it just me?
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This is asked for like 100 times, just use the search function on this beautiful forum, and your answer will be served right at your computer monitor
it's D-pad option in Pimp i enable.
Turn it off and it will fix that issue..
it shoudl be under the IE tab...
bobbyelliott said:
Yes., it's annoying. But what is really amazing is the utter twat that came up with this change and the equally dumb twats that said "Good idea! Let's do it". Really.
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My guess is that this was a customer-driven change requested by some of the huger Windows Mobile customers.
I'm not sure what is your background, but I am a "corporate type" and I receive about 100-200 messages per day in my Activesync inbox. I usually reply to messages rather than writing new ones.
I use the Delete key MUCH more frequently than the New key so this is a welcome change for me. Most messages are FYIs or system notification messages, or long threads (and I can read just the last message in the thread and then toss all earlier messages).
Have you changed the size of your scroll bars? if so change them back to default (13) i think.
street_hawk said:
Anyway, I was wondering if you might be able to help me with another issue which I'm having. When I open a message (email or text) it jumps down to the bottom of the page. Has anyone else experienced this, or is it just me?
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Here's another preformatted shortcut. I found the one attached by Mike in post #6 just opened my Inbox. It was easily modified using the link he provided, but for the lazy ones among us! This one opens a new (blank) SMS, tested on my Exec running Jwrightmcps Crossbow ROM Update 2.02.02 WWE.
Unzip the file, and copy it to wherever you want on your device.
bobbyelliott said:
Yes., it's annoying. But what is really amazing is the utter twat that came up with this change and the equally dumb twats that said "Good idea! Let's do it". Really.
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lol! I agree 100%.
Some times MS does something that just makes you go W T F.
mikeo97 said:
I dont know if this helps but I thought I would throw it out there. I was looking for the same thing. Here is a link on how to create a short cut for New Sms.
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This only start the messaging application and go into the SMS view.
It doesn't start a new SMS ; at least not with my Schap's ROM with SMS/MMS combined.
EDIT: Works with the new .lnk file ; Thanks !
Thank you Mike the link to the Modaco site was the solution I was looking for. I created that sms.lnk shortcut and then assigned it as a softbutton on my today screen, now with one click I have a blank SMS ready for sending. Works like a charm.

Spellchecker hides the original message - help

Hi all.
When i spellcheck my emails, the spellchecker takes-up so much of the screen that i can't see the word that is supposedly spelled incorrectly. What that means is; I can't see what word I'm about to replaced with one of the proposed spellings.
Does anyone know how to make it so that the spellchecker allows me to see both my originally spelling as well as the list of proposed correct spellings?
Sorry if this is unclear. I'm happy to try rephrasing if need be?
Thanks
-jm
Does no one else have this problem? If I'm just missing something obvious, please tell me.
I use my TP2 for business email (as i'm sure most of us do) and I really can't afford to send messages without spellchecking. Given the issue i'm having, running spellcheck is extremely painful.
thx.
-j
Yup, I have this problem too, noticed it last night.. together with the TAB key being missing off the keyboard... and the two locations required to switch in Delivery reports...
As for a solution, I don't know of one except getting rid of the touch flow... which im tempted to do - as once you get past the pretty'ness its "pretty" useless!
Alternate solution :
* To have both "Touch Flo 3D" and "the standard Windows Mobile menus"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\GWE\Menu]
"CUIHandler"=dword:00000000
With the standard menus you see the text while spell checking, and you still keep touch flo (which I do find helps when using the TP2 as a one hand phone).
Harvey
HarveyR, *thank you* for replying with that suggestion. I'm going to try that tonight and report back.
Harvey,
That worked like a dream... thanks so much!!
At the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth; can you tell me if there's any way to resize the font on the "menu" now?
What i means is, when composing a new message, if i click the "menu" button, the font is HUGE which means i have to scroll vertically to see all the options on that menu. Do you know if that font can be set to something smaller? If so, how do i do that?
thanks again Harvey.
-j

Very stupid question

So after having my new Tilt 2 for a couple of days I was cleaning out my inbox and I realized that because there is no d-pad I cannot select an e-mail without opening it, unless I have the keyboard out and use the arrows
This means that if I want to delete an e-mail that is not at the top of the list I need to press once to open, once to open menu and again to delete. Does not seem right.
I think I saw something that allowed the zoom slider to be used as a dpad of sorts but I actually like it the way it is.
I feel really stupid asking this and I did search but could not easily find an asnwer.
click on the small letter, you will see the menu that will allow use to manage the mail without seeing it.
dcdivenut said:
So after having my new Tilt 2 for a couple of days I was cleaning out my inbox and I realized that because there is no d-pad I cannot select an e-mail without opening it, unless I have the keyboard out and use the arrows
This means that if I want to delete an e-mail that is not at the top of the list I need to press once to open, once to open menu and again to delete. Does not seem right.
I think I saw something that allowed the zoom slider to be used as a dpad of sorts but I actually like it the way it is.
I feel really stupid asking this and I did search but could not easily find an asnwer.
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Here's one hard-key solution that re-maps the volume keys on the side of the phone:
VolDpad
...from a post on another XDA board
vigohz said:
click on the small letter, you will see the menu that will allow use to manage the mail without seeing it.
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That's a great tip! I never realized that! You should put that in the wiki!
Thanks
Thanks to both vigohz and MCBrian!
You can also press and hold the message in the list you wish to do something with and you will get the same list of actions as if you tapped on the small letter.
SPL doesn't match
Hi
trying to unlock my HTC 8925 and going into rom mode it shows:
KAIS1*O
SPL-1-56.000
CPLD-8
While running the step one its doesn't let me update rom. Also my rom is 1.57.00.000 but the kaiser rom show1.00.000. Can you please help me what the problem is
Thank You
Yonzon
yonzon1 said:
Hi
trying to unlock my HTC 8925 and going into rom mode it shows:
KAIS1*O
SPL-1-56.000
CPLD-8
While running the step one its doesn't let me update rom. Also my rom is 1.57.00.000 but the kaiser rom show1.00.000. Can you please help me what the problem is
Thank You
Yonzon
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You seem to be lost...you have a Kaiser, not a Rhodium.
You should be posting in one of the Kaiser sub-forums.
bigparahandy said:
You can also press and hold the message in the list you wish to do something with and you will get the same list of actions as if you tapped on the small letter.
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Wow, I did not know either of these two tips, I had been opening the onscreen keypad and using the arrow keys to move down to the message. Thanks to both of you!

Tips & Tricks for the Desire

So I thought I'd start a little thread to see what tips & tricks people are discovering about the Desire now that we are getting our hands on them
If you swipe your finger (L to R or R to L) across the middle button then you can scroll through home screens without touching the screen
If you want more options in browser including UAString (Android, Desktop, Iphone etc,) just type in url window "about:debug" (without quotes!) then press enter; it seems nothing happens but if you go into settings all new options are available
I'll be surprised if it hasn't been mentioned before, but a quick way to reboot:
Power button, vol down and press the track pad at the same time.
Download Advanced Task Killer! Applications just stay open once they are activated. I also use the Power Options widget on the main homescreen which is great for quick adjustments to brightness, WiFi and Bluetooth.
I am a new user here so I am not allowed to post outside links yet, but do a google search for "Why You Shouldn’t Be Using a Task Killer with Android" and read the Geek For Me thing about task killers.
anyone here tried to re-arrange the 7 home screens? .. i could swear i saw it in some vid, you put it in "leap" view, and then you hold on of the screens and move it around!!!! ....
irkan said:
anyone here tried to re-arrange the 7 home screens? .. i could swear i saw it in some vid, you put it in "leap" view, and then you hold on of the screens and move it around!!!! ....
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why does it matter anyway? at the beginning theyre all pretty much empty anyway
Unfriendly said:
I am a new user here so I am not allowed to post outside links yet, but do a google search for "Why You Shouldn’t Be Using a Task Killer with Android" and read the Geek For Me thing about task killers.
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http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/
cez10 said:
why does it matter anyway? at the beginning theyre all pretty much empty anyway
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I know, but i saw it in some vid, .. and i wanna doo ittt XP
i didnt get my desire yet, but am curious
Unfriendly said:
I am a new user here so I am not allowed to post outside links yet, but do a google search for "Why You Shouldn’t Be Using a Task Killer with Android" and read the Geek For Me thing about task killers.
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Thanks for that. It makes a lot of sense now. I'm too used to Windows i guess haha. Removing My Task Killer from my Tattoo
You are most welcome, I hope it makes your Tattoo run better.
Unfriendly said:
You are most welcome, I hope it makes your Tattoo run better.
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To be honest i'm not too bothered now...my Desire will be here on Monday
If you drag the top bit it tells you your notfications! (where the battery life is).
Hey guys, quick question I'm coming from a HTC Tytn and before that a Touch HD, I used to use S2U2 to lock on the Tytn and like the iPhone style text appearing on the lock screen, can the Desire do that?
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Hey guys, quick question I'm coming from a HTC Tytn and before that a Touch HD, I used to use S2U2 to lock on the Tytn and like the iPhone style text appearing on the lock screen, can the Desire do that?
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Download the Lock 2.0 from market!
There are one free, and one paid version available.
Hessi93 said:
Download the Lock 2.0 from market!
There are one free, and one paid version available.
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I only want to see the text message or email not have an iPhone like lock screen, my mistake lost in translation.
Hessi93 said:
Download the Lock 2.0 from market!
There are one free, and one paid version available.
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BTW, lots of people have been complaining about this particular app! because it gets stuck sometimes and you have to restart, and missed notifications also
O and O; said:
I only want to see the text message or email not have an iPhone like lock screen, my mistake lost in translation.
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"SMS popup" gives you the iPhone like popup whenever you receive an SMS.. Works on lockscreen as well as over any program/app. Unfortunately it doesn't do emails
Alternatively you can change the whole SMS app to chomp or handcent.. Those gives you popups as well.
-e
SMS Popup does not seem to work on my device :-/ I think it might have something to do with Sense UI. Can anyone confirm they got it working on their Desire?
Yup. You can re-arrange the home screens but not by pressing in the big menue but by pressing when your actually on the screens and dragging them accross. Works a charm. Just got mine today and tried it!
Karolis said:
SMS Popup does not seem to work on my device :-/ I think it might have something to do with Sense UI. Can anyone confirm they got it working on their Desire?
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Yeah - No issues with SMS Popup.
Been using it for ages now and love it.
evildead4eva said:
Yup. You can re-arrange the home screens but not by pressing in the big menue but by pressing when your actually on the screens and dragging them accross. Works a charm. Just got mine today and tried it!
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Where on the screen(s) are you pressing to do this? The only thing I can manage to do is move individual item (widgets. shortcuts, etc) across different home screens but not the entire screen itself.

[Q] Open ICS Keyboard

In pre-ICS versions of Android, the keyboard could be opened by holding the menu button. Is there any equivalent for this functionality in ICS?
When I need the keyboard it is either there or i just tap on the place I need to enter text and it appears. Can you detail the scenario where its not appearing so I can test it and see if I can get a solution.
jamesmcuk said:
When I need the keyboard it is either there or i just tap on the place I need to enter text and it appears. Can you detail the scenario where its not appearing so I can test it and see if I can get a solution.
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I am researching with HTML5 games/apps. I wanted to see if I could use the keyboard keys in a game. The game seems to by loading and running, but I can't get it started without pressing particular keys. I don't know if the keyboard would even target the game. I realize that is wouldn't be fun to play with an android keyboard. I was more interested in how the game/graphics/code ran on the android browser.
Ahh I see well this is a bit beyond me at the moment as I am just starting out in development side but I have found this http://www.androidguys.com/2009/11/12/how-to-showhide-soft-keyboard-programmatically-dev-tips-tools/
Maybe its of some use but if not your 2nd post should help some of the more experienced members help straight away.

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