Got the J keyboard to work again. Spent some time figuring out what is going on. Much of this many of you probably already know, but some may not. And there are some curious features buried in there.
My original problem was that I couldn't activate the J keyboard or any other keyboard and got bogged down with the dimmed checkbox for the Android keyboard. I used to switch keyboards by going to System Settings and changing the input keyboard by selecting the one I wanted. I found out that this is a list of eligible keyboards and one can change keyboards in various methods depending on the active keyboard. When the Android keyboard is active holding the space bar will pop up the keyboard selection list. The Hacker's keyboard has a double circle next to the number shift in portrait mode. I can't find a way to select another keyboard from the J keyboard. Seems like I remember that I could select other keyboards by holding down in the display part of the J screen. That doesn't work any more. To get out of the J keyboard I had to go to Systems Settings and disable the J keyboard as eligible, then re-eligible it. Looks like there needs to be a way to select keyboards added to the J keyboard. Played with voice recognition. It worked surprisingly well. Voice recognition connects with Google voice recognition service over the internet. Need internet access to use it. It works with all keyboards if it is allowed by the keyboard. Words that are numbers produce digits instead of the words and words like "plus" generate a + sign when used with numbers and the word "plus" when not with numbers. I tried several other words like "times" and "minus" which also work. But I couldn't find a word which generated the return key. Searched the internet and couldn't find a really good list of eligible words for symbols. And don't know what all the rules are for deciding when to put digits or symbols instead of words. On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: > I apologize about the brief message. I sent it from my phone in a rush. > > I upgraded my Verizon DROID phone last night. This was an update from > Verizon and it is now at Android version 4.1.2. After the install I noticed > that a new keyboard was installed - Android keyboard (ASOP). At least I had > never noticed it before. All keyboards I had already installed including the > J keyboard were still selected but all keyboard actions were handled by this > new keyboard. Interestingly, the new keyboard was checked indicating active > but the check box was dimmed. I couldn't unselect it. Nothing I could do > turned that keyboard off. Other keyboards were selected and showed active. > > I went to a Verizon store today and found a fairly knowledgeable man. He > tried to correct it but thought that the other keyboards needed to be > updated. He has a special keyboard installed on his phone. He said that his > keyboard didn't work until he got an automatic update for his keyboard. It > was a paid keyboard so the update came pretty quickly. > > I'm still not sure what is going on. Why didn't they dim the unusable > keyboards instead of dimming the check box? He also told me that Verizon was > getting a lot of flack for removing the long push on the phone pad. But the > Android keyboard supports a long push allowing selecting alternate keys. > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:59 PM, William Tanksley, Jr > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Just upgraded the os and now the J keyboard doesn't work. Verizon says >> > the >> > keyboard app needs to be upgraded for the new version >> >> If your old OS wasn't ICS (4.0) or better, changing keyboards is >> different -- Google got rid of the long-press that used to be how it >> was done. >> >> First try going into the settings and re-enabling the J Keyboard -- >> perhaps it forgot that. Next, put the cursor in a text field -- so >> that the keyboard pops up -- and drag the notification bar down. You >> should see an icon of a keyboard and something like "Change Keyboard". >> Tap it, and then you should be able to switch to the J keyboard. >> >> -Wm >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
