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Love Swype, Hate learned words, heres the fix

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ciper

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I like using swype. The problem is that it will instantly learn any word you type manually. There are times I want to type a word by "hunt and peck" and by doing this on the swype keyboard it will learn every spelling mistake you have made.

On my phone this resulted in over ten misspellings of the word "the" for example.

The fix is simple, delete the following file to remove the custom dictionary and reboot
/data/data/com.swype.android.inputmethod/swypedata/udb/userdata.udb

It will be recreated as you use Swype normally.

Another interesting hack is to replace the file with one that contains words from another language. Here is a German one you can try http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5150166&postcount=177 (get the userdata.zip)
 
Option 2:

Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Swype > Force Stop (then) Clear Data

Reboot phone if necessary.
 
I think ciper's method requires the phone to have been rooted while k0nane's method does not. Thanks...this is nifty
 
Also, is there a way to stop that annoying "hidden words" pop up from being displayed when choosing a standard word over a previously learned one? That thing drives me off the wall! I know the tip already, stop pestering me about it!!!:(
 
While we're talking on the topic of swype light hacking...
Is there anyway to change the dictionary to other language?

I use Indonesian language a lot, but the current beta (v3.6) doesn't support Indonesian language, I was thinking of extracting the Indonesian dictionary from previous version (v2.2) and overwrite it on top of some language I know I wouldn't ever use (spanish/german/french) but frankly I don't know where I should put it to. Trying to find the installed swype folder with astro turns up nothing.

Any help?
 
I believe that's the solution for discarding learned word. what I'd like to do is inserting a new language altogether, perhaps by replacing one language with the one I'm going to use.

it's a little bit off topic I know.
 
tiede said:
Also, is there a way to stop that annoying "hidden words" pop up from being displayed when choosing a standard word over a previously learned one?
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Isnt that disabled by unchecking "Tip Indicator" in the swype options?

araisikewai said:
Is there anyway to change the dictionary to other language?
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Yes. You basically import the entire dictionary as a set of custom words into the file I was suggesting to delete. That is exactly how the german version I linked to was made.

Here are the instructions for making your own Indonesian dictionary. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5127650&postcount=3
BTW pacar saya dari Indonesia :D
 
Thanks for the assistance, but I managed to find the newest Swype in my native tongue already. :)

Hopefully this one doesn't expire anytime soon.
 
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