Swype Not Staying Default (Play Store version)

[mrhomiec]

has anyone else come across an issue when you restart your phone, you have to re-configure "Swype - Swype + Dragon" as the default keyboard?

i'm on a rooted Galaxy S3 (custom TouchWiz ROM).

i also have other keyboards (SwiftKey, TouchWiz Swype, Samsung keyboard, Android keyboard) installed. if i choose either of these other ones as default, restart phone, it stays default.

 

[funkylogik]

Ive had same problem on gs3 (international) with a sammy based rom mate but with Smart Keyboard Pro. Ive had to freeze the samsung keyboard to prevent it but im worried that if i ever have to do a reset, ill have no stock keyboard to log into the phone.. do u know if "frozen" system apps are restored after a data reset?

 

[mrhomiec]

the only time i've ever frozen a "system" app, are TouchWiz based ones.

and what do you mean by reset? like flash a new ROM? but i think i get what you mean- by not having a keyboard available because of the previous setting that froze it.

if you flash (or re-flash) a custom ROM, the keyboard should be available because Titanium Backup hasn't had a chance to boot and freeze anything yet. (i think).

 

[funkylogik]

Yeah not so much flashing another rom but factory resetting in general mate. Thinkin about it though, im never really gona do that without restoring a nandroid or flashin a rom after it and every rom ive used has included a keyboard i think
Ah right so the app (titanium) has to be there when you boot to freeze the apps? :thumbup:

 

[pdl2mtl90]

My wife and I both have stock AT&T S3's. We both purchased the Play Store Swype after using beta since the first week. We are both running into this problem. Picked my phone up after coming in from yard work last night and the Samsung keyboard was default.

 

[funkylogik]

I think its a common jellybean bug mate. Annoying since the stock keyboard doesnt have the disable function

 

[mrhomiec]

it's just really weird that it only happens with the Play Store version of Swype. i used to have the beta version on my phone, and it never reverted back to Samsung keyboard upon restart.

so i guess we have to wait for Google or Samsung to fix it? >_>

 

[gingersnapgirl]

I've been having this issue as well. Unrooted, AT&T version 4.1.1

 

[funkylogik]

yeah that is strange.. i hadnt realised it was just a version of the app that was doing it. In that case its probably worth mailing the dev' (although people probably already have). A fix to the app is far more likely than a fix by google or the phone maker :thumbup:

 

[El Presidente]

Reverts to default keyboard at reboot / restart

Whilst that relates to swiftkey, it gives an explanation as to why it happens.

The issue is that Google Play installs paid apps in a particular location on your phone and that in some versions of Android (particularly 4.1 on Samsung devices) this location is not available at the point in the boot process where keyboards are being switched on. So your phone does not know that you have SwiftKey, and it defaults back to the phone’s keyboard.

 

[funkylogik]

Nice one bro :thumbup: that makes sense
Wonder if the swiftkey devs could come up with a way for people who have the payed version to tap on a link and get the apk from a source outside play store?

 

[chanchan05]

Well that's odd. I'm not having this issue on Samsung Jellybean and paid version of Swype. I'll go check my settings to see if I did something to make it not happen to me.

 

[funkylogik]

On all of your sammys mate? Does the s3 Mini run the same touchwiz version as the s3?

 

[chanchan05]

On all of your sammys mate? Does the s3 Mini run the same touchwiz version as the s3?

Yes the S3mini has the same version. Except maybe the lockscreen. It only has 3 shortcuts and no water ripple effect, but everything else is the same. It even was released on JB.

And yes, swype works well on all my Samsung devices (Tab on 4.0.4, GS on 2.3.5 and S3 mini on 4.1.2)

Well, it seems I did nothing but just put it as default and did not get removed.

 

[funkylogik]

Usualy when i read about a phone (s3 in particular) "forgetting" things i put it down to the person not factory resetting after getting JB but ive reset multiple times since 4.1 and im running a stock based custom rom and the only bug still there is the keyboard defaulting to stock