original 1.6 keyboard

[Guest dedat]

just upgraded to the official O2 2.1 and was wondering would it be possible to swap the new keyboard for dells original 1.6 keyboard? after using it for so long i kinda got used to it and almost miss the numpad on the right (weird i know lol)

im a total newbie when it comes to root and everything, ive never really played around with it so i dont just wanna go round deleting/swapping files. im guessing with it being a keyboard, would you not just be able to swap the old keyboard apk for the new one?

but yeah im a newb, so anyone else got any ideas on how to do it?

thanks

-dedat

Edited September 3, 2010 by dedat

[Guest mellytime]

:P

just upgraded to the official O2 2.1 and was wondering would it be possible to swap the new keyboard for dells original 1.6 keyboard? after using it for so long i kinda got used to it and almost miss the numpad on the right (weird i know lol)

im a total newbie when it comes to root and everything, ive never really played around with it so i dont just wanna go round deleting/swapping files. im guessing with it being a keyboard, would you not just be able to swap the old keyboard apk for the new one?

but yeah im a newb, so anyone else got any ideas on how to do it?

thanks

-dedat

Try SwiftKey Beta..... I like!! Plus it's not a bad alternative to the Dell Stock Keyboard. Oh if you havent heard Swype works on 1.6 as well I'm pretty sure if you use Swype you will forget ALL about the stock keyboard.

Edited September 4, 2010 by mellytime

[Guest radddogg]

:P

Try SwiftKey Beta..... I like!! Plus it's not a bad alternative to the Dell Stock Keyboard. Oh if you havent heard Swype works on 1.6 as well I'm pretty sure if you use Swype you will forget ALL about the stock keyboard.

I'm guessing swype doesnt work on 2.1 as its coming up with a screen size error for me. The 2.1 keyboard is just as gash as the the leaked 2.1 keyboard which was why i returned to 1.6. I get a lot o typos using the new keyboard and every time i hit delete i type L.

[Guest mellytime]

I'm guessing swype doesnt work on 2.1 as its coming up with a screen size error for me. The 2.1 keyboard is just as gash as the the leaked 2.1 keyboard which was why i returned to 1.6. I get a lot o typos using the new keyboard and every time i hit delete i type L.

LOL, I had that issue as well. Whenever I tried to delete something it would type a L or whatever into the text box so, here's what I did to fix mine. I recalibrated the screen then did a factory restore that made the stock keyboard function work flawlessly after that. I think that I may have screwed things up by trying to install the WRONG version of Swype. Remember I'm still on the 1.6 version and yes it's old but it’s not that bad IF you find the right apps to run and yes a good keyboard goes a long way in making the streak relevant who wants to use the internet on this thing if they can’t type on the keyboard-- it’s a pain….

[Guest iStormUK]

LOL, I had that issue as well. Whenever I tried to delete something it would type a L or whatever into the text box so, here's what I did to fix mine. I recalibrated the screen then did a factory restore that made the stock keyboard function work flawlessly after that. I think that I may have screwed things up by trying to install the WRONG version of Swype. Remember I'm still on the 1.6 version and yes it's old but it’s not that bad IF you find the right apps to run and yes a good keyboard goes a long way in making the streak relevant who wants to use the internet on this thing if they can’t type on the keyboard-- it’s a pain….

Any chance of you doing a dump of the keyboard apk file from your 1.6 ROM, so I can experiment with getting it to run on 2.1?

[Guest popetodd]

We tried this last month.

The apk is available on another thread where we were discussing this, I'll see if I can find it again and post a link.

Problem was that the old keyboard apk needs a class that doesn't exist on the 2.1+ build.

With the release of the sources we can try to see what the requirements are and bring them over for the 2.2 source based build but until then it's probably not going to work.

At least from experience just installing the apk does not work.

[EDIT] Here it is:

http://android.modaco.com/content/dell-str...3/1-6-keyboard/

Edited September 30, 2010 by popetodd