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Help Long Press for Capital Letters has Gone

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LindleyUK

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Apologies if this has already been dealt with - I did use the search function but came up with nothing - so I thought I'd try you good people!
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 on O2 (UK) which has been fabulous. However, my phone recently did a major auto-upgrade (I'm assuming it was the upgrade to Android 4.1.2 as that is showing in the About file) and I've had problems with typing capitals since. I'm using the stock keyboard.
Before the upgrade, to insert a capital letter mid sentence into a text or email (perhaps for a name or location) you simply held down the required letter and the capital appeared - a simple one key approach to capitals. Since the upgrade I now have to press the shift key, press the capital letter and then press shift again to return to the lowercase menu - so three keys just for one letter. If I use the long press now I either get a variety of foreign characters (on letters like n, a and c) or the lowercase letter. As I use my phone for business when out and about I can not avoid the use of capitals as it would appear very unprofessional.
Has anyone else encountered this? (And if so is there a fix?)
Do you think it's a bug which needs reporting (if so to whom do I report it?)

Thanks in advance for your help (and sorry if I've posted in the wrong place!)
Kind regards
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Welcome LindleyUK :)
Perhaps after the update, the default keyboard changed to a different, but similar keyboard?
Maybe try a different keyboard to see if the "long press" option is on it:)
 
Thank you both for your replies.
Ceva321 - mine was running perfectly before the upgrade 48 hours a go.
Mikestoney - I have tried different keyboard options, changing languages etc but to no avail.
I spoke to my sister-in-law earlier who has the original Galaxy Note and she said that hers did the upgrade last month and the same thing has happened. I've since had the chance for a quick search on Google and found others with the same issue on a variety of phones since the upgrade.
So it looks like some programming muppet in their wisdom has decided that we'd all prefer to press three keys for a capital letter than one!

But thank you both for taking the time to reply - I'm hoping that the a patch appears soon to restore the one touch capital function.
 
Hi

Yes I also confirm that the upgrade to 4.1.2 has done that! One thing though, a quick press on the shift key so that just the arrow goes blue results in just the next letter being capitalised so you only need 2 presses, rather tjan three.

Roger
 
LindleyUK said:
Apologies if this has already been dealt with - I did use the search function but came up with nothing - so I thought I'd try you good people!
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 on O2 (UK) which has been fabulous. However, my phone recently did a major auto-upgrade (I'm assuming it was the upgrade to Android 4.1.2 as that is showing in the About file) and I've had problems with typing capitals since. I'm using the stock keyboard.
Before the upgrade, to insert a capital letter mid sentence into a text or email (perhaps for a name or location) you simply held down the required letter and the capital appeared - a simple one key approach to capitals. Since the upgrade I now have to press the shift key, press the capital letter and then press shift again to return to the lowercase menu - so three keys just for one letter. If I use the long press now I either get a variety of foreign characters (on letters like n, a and c) or the lowercase letter. As I use my phone for business when out and about I can not avoid the use of capitals as it would appear very unprofessional.
Has anyone else encountered this? (And if so is there a fix?)
Do you think it's a bug which needs reporting (if so to whom do I report it?)

Thanks in advance for your help (and sorry if I've posted in the wrong place!)
Kind regards
L
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My SGN2 is an International version, GT-N7100, Android 4.1.2, SIM free from a Samsung shop in London and I'm using the default Samsung keyboard.

If I press the shift key once the vertical arrow becomes blue against a black background and I get one upper case character; subsequent characters are lower case.

If I press the shift key twice the key colours are inverted and all subsequent characters are upper case ie it's the equivalent of pressing the Caps Lock key on a PC. I then have to press the shift key once to return it to the usual lower case mode.

Just to be clear, when you say you are using the stock keyboard is that what is shown as default at 'Settings / Language and input'?
 
Hi PiscesCloud, I have the stock keyboard set for English UK on a Qwerty keyboard. After the upgrade it reverted to the US version but I changed it back. I've rebooted the handset and even changed it to 3/4 format and back again to see if it made a difference but sadly not.
Yes I have now discovered that as you and girolez point out it a capital can be achieved in two clicks rather than 3 but even so, you'd have thought they'd have kept the one click long press option, especially for users selecting the one hand operation.

I have heard of Swiftkey R4nd0mJ0k3r but I feel really annoyed that I should have to download yet another app as someone has changed a perfectly functional one!

As I've said, I've encountered other users who have discovered the same issue since the upgrade so I guess it's here to stay.
Anyway, thanks so much for all your replies - I really appreciate your time.
I hope that this thread will prove useful to others too.
Kind regards
L
 
LindleyUK said:
Hi PiscesCloud, I have the stock keyboard set for English UK on a Qwerty keyboard. After the upgrade it reverted to the US version but I changed it back. I've rebooted the handset and even changed it to 3/4 format and back again to see if it made a difference but sadly not.
Yes I have now discovered that as you and girolez point out it a capital can be achieved in two clicks rather than 3 but even so, you'd have thought they'd have kept the one click long press option, especially for users selecting the one hand operation.

I have heard of Swiftkey R4nd0mJ0k3r but I feel really annoyed that I should have to download yet another app as someone has changed a perfectly functional one!

As I've said, I've encountered other users who have discovered the same issue since the upgrade so I guess it's here to stay.
Anyway, thanks so much for all your replies - I really appreciate your time.
I hope that this thread will prove useful to others too.
Kind regards
L
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Agreed - wholeheartedly and to add insult to injury someone actually got paid for doing so!
 
Hi again

As I live in france and have to type in French quite often, the change, which gives quick access to accented letters
 
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