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Help physical keyboard cutting out

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z0mb13m4n

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So, my wife has the LG Ally, and loves the phone, its pretty much the best Android that has a physical keyboard(she doesn't seem to like Motorola), so she wants to keep it. Problem is, she's on her 4th replacement, and this time the physical keyboard stops working. If she closes it, the touchscreen keyboard works. Also, when the keyboard goes out, the 4 physical keys on front don't work either. Any ideas on whats going on? Is she going to have to get another replacement?
 
I've been having this problem as well lately for the first time ever. Sometimes I'll be in the middle of a word and the keyboard will just get stuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk on one letter over and over and I can't get it to stop or back out or go Home by pressing anything on the physical keyboard. Other times it just stops working. Not cool.
 
I can't help, but I too have had my physical keyboard stop working. However, the four keys on the front of the phone have never stopped working. I reboot the phone and then the keyboard works again.
 
This happens to me all the time. It seems to happen if I accidentally linger too long while pressing certain keys, which brings up the alternate character options screen (o or n or e, etc.) which it's supposed to do, but sometimes instead of backing out of that and going back to typing, I close the alternate character box and my phone freezes. The physical keyboard doesn't work and although the buttons on the front seem like they're working (haptic feedback vibration) nothing happens and I have to reboot the phone. It's a pain and I haven't seen any fixes for it.

I'm also on Ally replacement number four and I absolutely hate this phone by now. I haven't had a single one that didn't have some kind of problem, so I gave up and stopped getting replacements and decided to live with this piece of crap. The Ally was a great phone before the Android 2.1 (Froyo) upgrade, which this phone is too clumsy and slow to handle. The processor sucks and can't keep up with anything. It makes sense since this phone was the cheapest Android phone on the market. Although I really like the Android OS, as soon as I have a discounted upgrade option, I'm switching to the iPhone 5. Or maybe a high-end Android phone.
 
Captainlaurie said:
This happens to me all the time. It seems to happen if I accidentally linger too long while pressing certain keys, which brings up the alternate character options screen (o or n or e, etc.) which it's supposed to do, but sometimes instead of backing out of that and going back to typing, I close the alternate character box and my phone freezes. The physical keyboard doesn't work and although the buttons on the front seem like they're working (haptic feedback vibration) nothing happens and I have to reboot the phone. It's a pain and I haven't seen any fixes for it.

I'm also on Ally replacement number four and I absolutely hate this phone by now. I haven't had a single one that didn't have some kind of problem, so I gave up and stopped getting replacements and decided to live with this piece of crap. The Ally was a great phone before the Android 2.1 (Froyo) upgrade, which this phone is too clumsy and slow to handle. The processor sucks and can't keep up with anything. It makes sense since this phone was the cheapest Android phone on the market. Although I really like the Android OS, as soon as I have a discounted upgrade option, I'm switching to the iPhone 5. Or maybe a high-end Android phone.
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i always had problems with mine and i bought a used droid 1 of of ebay and i got cyanogen mod on it and it runs well.. n64, all emus, it streams netflix well and runs at 1.1 ghz overclocked... it was the best $130 i spent in a while...
 
Captainlaurie said:
This happens to me all the time. It seems to happen if I accidentally linger too long while pressing certain keys, which brings up the alternate character options screen (o or n or e, etc.) which it's supposed to do, but sometimes instead of backing out of that and going back to typing, I close the alternate character box and my phone freezes. The physical keyboard doesn't work and although the buttons on the front seem like they're working (haptic feedback vibration) nothing happens and I have to reboot the phone. It's a pain and I haven't seen any fixes for it.

I'm also on Ally replacement number four and I absolutely hate this phone by now. I haven't had a single one that didn't have some kind of problem, so I gave up and stopped getting replacements and decided to live with this piece of crap. The Ally was a great phone before the Android 2.1 (Froyo) upgrade, which this phone is too clumsy and slow to handle. The processor sucks and can't keep up with anything. It makes sense since this phone was the cheapest Android phone on the market. Although I really like the Android OS, as soon as I have a discounted upgrade option, I'm switching to the iPhone 5. Or maybe a high-end Android phone.
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I have had mine lock under the same circumstances a couple of times... backing out of the special character pop up thing.

I can't understand how some allys can be so unreliable. Mine is ancient and is a work horse. I've brought it back from "bricked". I've dropped it on concrete numerous times. I've gotten it wet, spilled milk on it, etc. It has never given me a single problem other than the keyboard like 4 times which required a reboot.

Have you tried Velocity instead of the stock Froyo? It makes the phone soooo much better. As for switching to an iphone, play with one extensively before you make that decision... like more than just picking one up and playing angry birds for a minute or something. The apps are way nice compared to running on our low end phone, but iOS vs Android is no comparison in my book. iOS feels like android if you never left the app drawer... no homescreens, no widgets, annoying notifications, and it feels very app driven and single tasking (even though both OSs sort of multitask, iOS feels like you're doing one thing, then backing clear out, then another, then backing clear out, then another, and so on). Compared to our phones it is nice, but compared to even a mid level android phone, iOS feels boring, bland, and very impersonal. To me it feels like a huge step backward. I'm always shocked when people make that jump and can only assume it is a result of a bad experience with a cheap android phone.
 
I've had the problem as well, both on Froyo and Velocity 1.2.1. Idk what's causing it, but when it does I lose all keyboard buttons and all the other buttons except camera (I think) and the power button. :/
 
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