Help Replace drives me crazy

[rickaltman]

Let me try to set the scene of my frustration. I am typing out a message with my thumbs. I make a spelling error: I type Grwat instead of Great. I touch the word, it selects, and up pops a list of choices. I touch Great, the word changes, and I continue typing.

Within five seconds, Great reverts back to Grwat. WTF? I do it again. Same result. This behavior is exhibited about 50% of the time that I replace a word and can happen during text-message typing or Gmail typing. Once, the reversion back to the wrong word didn't happen until I pressed Send. Argh.

Can someone explain to me what I am doing wrong or what the phone is doing wrong? Many thanks.


Rick A.
Pleasanton CA

 

[Tim K]

I have never seen this happen. I just tried to make it happen and couldn't. Once I made the correction it stayed.

 

[Ltgk20]

It happened on mine but I think it had something to do with the OS's correction competing with the keyboards. There was some setting I changed so the red underlines went away but so did the correction issues. I read about the fix on this site but I can't remember what it was specifically.

I hope they fix it in an update so the red underline can come back and not create issues; I really like that feature.

 

[Andrew5225]

I have the same exact problem! I want to be specific though because I think there might be some confusion:

When I type "Havinf", the word "Having" pops up in blue writing above my keyboard. I press the space bar and "Havinf" automatically switches to "Having" permanently.
BUT if I type "Havinfh", the spelling error is too great and auto-correct does not happen when I press the space bar. If I continue typing without realising my error, say like this "Havinfh fun yet?", then the red underline draws my attention to the spelling mistake. I click "Havinfh" and underneath it I get some corrections options as well as 'delete' and 'add to dictionary'. I can click the correction "Having" and the replacement is made. I continue typing and suddenly "Having" reverts back to "Havinfh". If I click send while the correction is still there, the message gets sent with the misspelled word and NOT the correction.

Additionally, I cracked my screen and when I sent it away to get fixed my phone was reset. I had the problem both before and after the reset so I do NOT recommend a reset as a fix.

 

[rickaltman]

Andrew's post articulates the problem that I experience precisely: auto-correct on the fly works fine; correction through the pop-up list works poorly.

Does anyone else have insight into this? It mars an otherwise excellent smartphone typing experience.

 

[Tim K]

Ohhh. I've seen that a couple of times. I so rarely use the red underline feature that I hadn't really noticed. It is annoying and has caused me a couple of stupid looking typos on texts...