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Best Keyboard feature Google offers! - Gboard

I have been using Swiftkey keyboard for many years & very much satisfied with it.
I have installed Gboard 2 days ago for a change & find it as good as Swift key & if any thing, better in certain things.
1. This has a large number of very nice themes to choose from.
2. Prediction is very good after a bit of a training. It quickly learns our writing patterns. After 2 days, I find I hardly need to type a word in full.
3. Selecting the text & editing is easier.
4. Voice typing is 100% accurate particularly in Telugu, our native language. It's time consuming to type in Telugu but the excellent voice typing makes it very easy & convenient.
5. Yet another way of typing is by handwriting. This method also is quite accurate in at least 70% although I did not find the need for it.
6. Can delete typed words or sentences by swiping towards the left on back space key. Comes in handy if you are not satisfied with what you have typed just now.
7. One can get important symbols by tapping on the shift key if the number row is set to be displayed permanently. The number row is replaced by the symbols when the shift key is touched. One can also get these by long pressing on the stop key.

Would you use any app instead Google keyboard? - Google Keyboard

I have been using Swiftkey keyboard for many years & very much satisfied with it.
I have installed Gboard 2 days ago for a change & find it as good as Swift key & if any thing, better in certain things.
  • This has a large number of very nice themes to choose from.
  • Prediction is very good after a bit of a training. It quickly learns our writing patterns. After 2 days, I find I hardly need to type a word in full.
  • Selecting the text & editing is easier.
  • Voice typing is 100% accurate particularly in Telugu, our native language. It's time consuming to type in Telugu but the excellent voice typing makes it very easy & convenient.
  • Yet another way of typing is by handwriting. This method also is quite accurate in at least 70% although I did not find the need for it.
  • Can delete typed words or sentences by swiping towards the left on back space key. Comes in handy if you are not satisfied with what you have typed just now.
  • One can get important symbols by tapping on the shift key if the number row is set to be displayed permanently. The number row is replaced by the symbols when the shift key is touched. One can also get these by long pressing on the stop key.

I don't get it - Google Keyboard

I use the search function to search the meaning of words somewhat like a dictionary.
Among other issues raised above, I find word prediction to be pretty accurate after training for a couple of days.
Swipe function is good too. At least one of the 3 suggestions tallies.
What I find very accurate & useful is voice typing, particularly in our native Indian language Telugu. It's difficult to type in this language but very easy to voice type even long sentences.

S7 Headphone Issue? Only Sound In One Ear.

Hello folks i had the same problem suddenly just b4 yesterday and I tried everything to fix it with no luck so i decided it was a hardware issue . I took a sewing needle and started playing with the clips inside the headphone jack with no luck either for 2 days and today I found an xray image of the s7 edge and got an idea since the right channel doesnt work the problem must be either the right ear clip or the right ear ground ( the second and third clips of the jack ) i took the needle and with only one magic gentle bend outwardly to the second clip from the left side as phone faces you everything came back to work i will attach the image and hope this helps you
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Sorry to dig up an old thread but thanks for this !
Usually my headphones become loose and I clean the port and remove any lint.
This time, my right headphone was working erratically. I tried cleaning up with a toothpick, with cotton and alcool, nothing worked.
Then I tried your method, slightly bent the clips outwards, and my right headphone is now working all the time !

Help What time period is represented on OpenSignal maps?

OpenSignal is primarily a speed test utility that includes the maps with carrier status info. But you're making a big mistake fixating solely on the map, just use the app for its primary function. Tap on that big Speed Test button and the app will use the cellular radio chip in your phone to check and analyze your phone's connectivity with your carrier's closest cell tower/access point. If there's no 3G connectivity in the resulting scan you just performed, you'll see that within seconds, and eventually that's going to be registered in the accumulated data being shown in the crowd-sourced map data.
OpenSignal depends on data it collects from app users. All the stats the app displays are based on that on-going, crowd-sourced info, not the packaged, market-based data that the carriers might provide. (Note that there is a fundamental weakness to this strategy -- in a densely populated area there will be more data from more users but in more sparsely populated area there will be very little to no users. So the map showing carrier data and local cell tower/access points can be quite useful in a larger city setting, but not so much in a more remote region.)

Internal Storage maxing out.

Cache is always safe to delete.

It usually is safe to delete data on an SMS app because messages are stored by another app. But as I say I don't know about RCS Chat, which this app can also do. But if this app is wasting space keeping its own copy of SMS/MMS then presumably if you cleared its data it would just copy them all back, so it would probably be a waste of effort.

So my guess is that the fact that SMS/MMS messages are stored by a separate system app is irrelevant, and to reduce space here you will need to delete some messages. Hence trying to find a backup tool that will let you view messages on another device sounds like what's needed.

I'd be curious about whether a different SMS app would be more efficient with space or do the same thing (as always with the caveat that most don't support RCS Chat, so if you do use that Google's Messages app may be the only alternative). But if another app did the same thing you would run out of space! I can't tell for myself because my own 11,000 SMS plus maybe 20 MMS (I know nobody who uses MMS) only use a few MB.

Android tablet model m729b

HI I'm having a similar problem maybe someone can help me with when I go to turn it on the mini android guy come on then a bit of info in the lower right corner (Android OS 4.0, Kernel 3.0.8, Build # V1.5.1, then after a few seconds the info goes away & the droid stays, until I hold the power button to turn it off, & it appears as if the antennas on the droid are slightly brighter on the ( right side as it's looking at you, but it's actually it's left side if it were standing in front of you) theirs no noise or vibrations as it coming on. Does anyone have any helpful suggestive advice on what to do?? Thanks...

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