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Help SwiftKey loses the language pack every reboot

dishe

Well-Known Member
Anyone else with an F3 using Swiftkey keyboard?

Mine consistantly loses the language pack (English, US) after every reboot. I was using a paid person I bought a long time ago, but when I started having this problem I tried switching to the new (free) version on the market.
The same thing seems to happen- on the old version, it would complain to me that I needed to download a pack. The new one doesn't complain, but the dictionary doesn't have any content to suggest. When I go into settings, it tells me the language pack download failed and I should try it again. After doing that, it works fine as long as I never power off the device.

Very annoying! Am I the only one experiencing this?
 
Update: Apparently, Swiftkey doesn't have any answers. Their FAQ and support site say that this happens to some people and they have no idea why or how to fix it, and they apologize for the inconvience. Bullocks. There must be a way, I never had this on any other phone.

Meanwhile, I did notice that if I switch to another keyboard before powering down, when it started up again I can switch to Swiftkey and the language pack has been preserved. But if it ever starts up with Swiftkey as the default, heaven help me. I'm wondering if this has to do with the memory swap script (internal to external) during startup? Maybe the location of the language is confusing the app, especially if the script doesn't run until after the keyboard has been loaded into memory?
 
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