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HHHEEELLLPPP - T9 driving me mad on PPC...


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Guest shadamehr
Posted

I have now found out that to add new words to the Dictionary on a Pocket PC, you turn it to multi-tap, and then type it, and then this then adds it to the t9 user dictionary..

BBBBBUUUUUTTTTT....

(And that's a mighty big but)

Soon as you turn of the phone (just a mere soft reboot)... and the words are lost...

Is my Vario taking the sipp (oops, it seems it's forgot a word there *lol*) or what?

State of the art, fifth generation pocket PC phones, with the new WM5.0, and to use t9 you have to re-type in a list of fifty or so words, every time you switch it off (which for me, is nightly, as I'm still one of that "turn it off when not wanted" brigade).

It's pure shiv if so (oops, another word it seems to have forgot there *lol*).

Surely not folks - and as there are gazillions of you lot with a Pocket Pc now, someone please tell me where I am going wrong.

I simply cannot believe it's the way I am reading it - no way!

Guest shadamehr
Posted

^ BUMP...

12 views, hundreds of users, and no answer?

Come on folks... help me out!

Guest simon.sp
Posted

Did you ever get an answer to this?

If so, what was it? Mine does the same and it is driving me up the wall

Guest shadamehr
Posted

No still not yet - and hundreds of users on here must know the answer...

Even if its still a ridiculous - "You can't"

Come on folks - help out...

Guest Samsonite
Posted
No still not yet - and hundreds of users on here must know the answer...

Even if its still a ridiculous - "You can't"

Come on folks - help out...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

for what its worth... i have also tried everything available bar tweaks and reg hacks (even if they are same thing - i dont know what i'm doing...so i don't!!)

so i will watch this thread grow and grow with people shrugging shoulders till some bright spark comes up with the definitive answer...

personally, i think it cant be done and the whole community is in Ostrich mode when people ask about it....

Guest shadamehr
Posted
for what its worth... i have also tried everything available bar tweaks and reg hacks (even if they are same thing - i dont know what i'm doing...so i don't!!)

so i will watch this thread grow and grow with people shrugging shoulders till some bright spark comes up with the definitive answer...

personally, i think it cant be done and the whole community is in Ostrich mode when people ask about it....

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'm well minded to concur...

"Its deeply embarrassing, and we never ever mention it - so, we're not gonna mention it now"

*lol*

Guest Samsonite
Posted
I'm well minded to concur...

"Its deeply embarrassing, and we never ever mention it - so, we're not gonna mention it now"

*lol*

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

reminds me of Ruprect from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels!!!

the horrible family secret everyone goes quiet on whenever mentioned in polite company!!

perhaps at the next meet, the topic will arise.....people will laugh nervously and change the subject...

Guest fraser
Posted

From my Smartphone days, I remember that the custom dictionary actually worked by looking at existing messages for new words. It would look thru the sent items folder, meaning you'd lose them when you cleared it out. The solution was to have a draft message with all of your custom words in it.

Might be the same problem here.

Guest simon.sp
Posted
From my Smartphone days, I remember that the custom dictionary actually worked by looking at existing messages for new words. It would look thru the sent items folder, meaning you'd lose them when you cleared it out. The solution was to have a draft message with all of your custom words in it.

Might be the same problem here.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well bu**er me!!!!

You appear to have a solution.

  • 8 months later...
Guest dr_nick
Posted
From my Smartphone days, I remember that the custom dictionary actually worked by looking at existing messages for new words. It would look thru the sent items folder, meaning you'd lose them when you cleared it out. The solution was to have a draft message with all of your custom words in it.

Might be the same problem here.

did this actually work?

or is there a location for the custom dictionary which we can change to a permanent file (say on starage card)?

^bump :)

dr_nick

Guest dr_nick
Posted

ok, this just simply does not work.

have tried leaving a message in both "draft" and "sent items" boxes with my custom words in, but it doesn't remember them.

alsom the theory is also flawed - soft resetting my m600 does not delete the messages in any of my folders, but does remove my custom dictionary.

anyone know how to do this properly?

dr_nick

  • 3 weeks later...
Guest touficjohn
Posted

Ive noticed that a few of the words Ive inputted are still there - not all mind you - after reboots, switching off, etc...

Posted
ok, this just simply does not work.

have tried leaving a message in both "draft" and "sent items" boxes with my custom words in, but it doesn't remember them.

alsom the theory is also flawed - soft resetting my m600 does not delete the messages in any of my folders, but does remove my custom dictionary.

anyone know how to do this properly?

dr_nick

When I was using this solution with my E200 I remember I had to open & close the text file each time I started the phone, this would load the T9 custom word list back into the phones memory.

Guest dr_nick
Posted
Have you tried DictMgr (freeware)?

this works well, especially if you export the file every now and then, so have something to import should you have to do a hard reset (manages the soft reset ok)

When I was using this solution with my E200 I remember I had to open & close the text file each time I started the phone, this would load the T9 custom word list back into the phones memory.

didn't work on my m600! :)

Posted

For what its worth I think its related to the specific input method. I use TenGO Thumb on my M600 and it remembers all custom words. It doesnt yet remeber alpha numberic or smilies etc but I am assured its coming in the next version.

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