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Anyone know how to turn off the vibration when i am typing on the keyboard? I shut off haptic feedback and thats not it
 
Trooper said:
What exactly does Swype do? I Googled it and am looking at their website. Some sort of advanced keyboard?
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It's a new form of input for touchscreen phones. Basically, instead of pressing on letters, you drag your finger across the keyboard to form the word. It's great for one hand input.

YouTube - swype
 
DaveS024 said:
Anyone know how to turn off the vibration when i am typing on the keyboard? I shut off haptic feedback and thats not it
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I'm not 100% sure, but I think there's an option menu you can bring up on the keyboard. From them you can disable it.
 
dylo22 said:
It's a new form of input for touchscreen phones. Basically, instead of pressing on letters, you drag your finger across the keyboard to form the word. It's great for one hand input.

YouTube - swype
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Thanks very much. Believe it or not this is my first smartphone (and touch screen to boot). I have a lot to learn about the device and what it can do.

Thanks!
 
I know I'm not going to find everything in the first 45 minutes, but does one of the keys on the keyboard bring up a number pad, so if I'm typing a serial number or phone number as part of a message, I don't have to hold those top row keys down and wait for the number key to pop up there?


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Anyone know how to turn down, not off, the phone keypad tone? To turn it off you go to menu/settings/sound & display/audible touch tones
 
Stevo_Cali said:
I know I'm not going to find everything in the first 45 minutes, but does one of the keys on the keyboard bring up a number pad, so if I'm typing a serial number or phone number as part of a message, I don't have to hold those top row keys down and wait for the number key to pop up there?
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Yep, on right of space bar - key show 12#.
 
Heres another tip to bypass the lockscreen swipe. Just hit the menu or home (can't remember which one off hand) button and you don't need to swipe your finger to unlock the phone.
 
melojames25 said:
Great post.. I have a question after i download the swype .apk file off of that website what do i do. Do i just open the folder and drag the .apk thing onto my media card and thats it, or is there more to it. Any help would be appreciated thanks guys.
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You will have to install the .apk. Here's step by step instructions:

1. Download the .apk file.
2. Copy .apk file to microSD card (either via mounting the phone or through a memory card reader.
3. On your phone, allow installing unknown sources: Menu -> Settings -> Applications. Check Unknown sources.
5. Open Astro, browse to your microSD card.
6. Select the Swype .apk file and it will go through the install process.
7. Once installed you need to make it your default keyboard:
a. Go to Menu -> Settings -> Language & Keyboard. Check Swype.
b. Open a new text message.
c. Press and hold the text input box. A box will pop up. Select Input Method, then select Swype.


Done :)
 
dylo22 said:
I'm not 100% sure, but I think there's an option menu you can bring up on the keyboard. From them you can disable it.
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Go to Settings---Language and Keyboard---Touch Input----Text Input----Vibrate when typing. Just unclick that and you are all set.
 
Okay...have been messing around with the "favorites" dedicated screen. Initially set it up with a few contacts, and have no idea how to modify my preference of how to contact them when I click on their image (text, phone, etc). The only thing I could figure out is to go into their contact profile and remove the "favorites" check mark from their name. Once I do that, the contact disappears completely from my list of contacts. First of all, has anyone run into this as well, and 2nd, is there a fix or something I am doing wrong? TIA
 
jwm2 said:
Heres a speed tip that i posted for the eris, it'll work on the incredible also.

Basically you turn off animations and it makes the phone feel much quicker.

Menu>Settings>Sound & Display>Animation

Set it to Animations Off. There are 3 settings: Show All Animations, Show Some Animations, and Turn Off Animations, the off options is the best for overall performance.
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Can you mention the types of animations are turned off with "Show some" and which are turned off with "Turn off animations". The only animation that comes to mind is the sense animation when you pinch from the home.
 
The only way I could figure out to remove my synced Facebook friends from my phone (particularly from the phone dialer) was to remove the Facebook account, then add it again. However, after you enter your username and password, be sure to cancel the sync before it completes. Then you can go into the Facebook setting and uncheck sync contacts, and they won't show up in your dialer.

There must be an easier way to do this, but this finally worked for me.
 
So in transferring my homemade ringtones (30 sec clips, less than 350K files), I hook up my Inc to my PC, and 2 USB drives show up. One drive has a folder called mp3. Under that folder I create a folder called Ringtones and put my mp3 files here. When I finish up and unhook the phone, I look through my ringtone choices, and voila, there are my ringtones! Is it really that easy?

Got my Gmail and Verizon email accounts set up, but Yahoo still giving me issues.
 
UT_Longhorn said:
So in transferring my homemade ringtones (30 sec clips, less than 350K files), I hook up my Inc to my PC, and 2 USB drives show up. One drive has a folder called mp3. Under that folder I create a folder called Ringtones and put my mp3 files here. When I finish up and unhook the phone, I look through my ringtone choices, and voila, there are my ringtones! Is it really that easy?

Got my Gmail and Verizon email accounts set up, but Yahoo still giving me issues.
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Yup its really that easy. Android makes it easy.
 
Ok... I know someone here said that holding the home key shows open applications... but I could have sworn I read somewhere else that it shows the recently used applications. Is there documentation that says for sure either way?
 
When you are browsing the top notification bar is gone. If you press menu, the browser menu comes up from the bottom but so does the top notification bar.
 
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