Help Trouble with virtual keyboard since i accidentally uninstalled gboard

[Matthew Meehan]

I accidentally uninstalled gboard and now all that shows up when i go to type or text, is the google voice telling me to tap to type. When I try to change the keyboard it is grayed out and i cannot select or deselect keyboards. Help!!!

 

[Telyx]

I accidentally uninstalled gboard and now all that shows up when i go to type or text, is the google voice telling me to tap to type. When I try to change the keyboard it is grayed out and i cannot select or deselect keyboards. Help!!!

Go to Play Store, tap Categories, tap Tools, then scroll down and tap Show All. Scroll down until you find Gboard.

 

[Steven58]

Here you go; Gboard

 

[Matthew Meehan]

I have reinstalled it but the issue still persists

 

[Steven58]

Go into settings > General Management > Language and input > Default Keyboard. Select Gboard. You should be good, then.

 

[Matthew Meehan]

this is the part im having trouble with. It is grayed out and i cant select anything

 

[Steven58]

Try installing a different keyboard to see if that is still grayed out. If so, you may have to do a factory data reset.

 

[Hadron]

Just to check, two questions:

1) What was the default keyboard on your phone when you first got it?

2) Are you rooted?

If the answers to these are "Gboard" and "Yes" then do not do a factory reset. If you have removed the keyboard from the ROM (which requires root) then a reset won't help. If you have not then it should, though it's a pain.

 

[Matthew Meehan]

Just to check, two questions:

1) What was the default keyboard on your phone when you first got it?

2) Are you rooted?

If the answers to these are "Gboard" and "Yes" then do not do a factory reset. If you have removed the keyboard from the ROM (which requires root) then a reset won't help. If you have not then it should, though it's a pain.

1. Swiftkey 2. No. I could do a data reset but before i go through that i want to make sure there is nothing else i can do. Is there anything else i can do?

 

[Hadron]

Your phone came with SwiftKey pre-installed? What model is it?

Seriously I'd try some of the other suggestions here, like installing another keyboard. Something to make it recognise that something important has changed.

 

[ocnbrze]

maybe even just a simple reboot might help as well.

 

[Matthew Meehan]

maybe even just a simple reboot might help as well.

tried that

 

[Matthew Meehan]

Your phone came with SwiftKey pre-installed? What model is it?

Seriously I'd try some of the other suggestions here, like installing another keyboard. Something to make it recognise that something important has changed.

It's a huawei p8 lite 2017. I have tried that and it didnt work