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Root Yep, gingerbread.

Here's the new keyboard they were talking about in that thread. Download link in on page 7 or 8.

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Wow that was quick. I look forward to 2.3, but haven't seen any must have features.

To me, the biggest is text selection. If you can want to cut or copy some text being displayed, it's almost impossible to do so accurately without a trackball or pointing device, and even those are awkward. It looks like Gingerbread makes that much better and easier to do.
 
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To me, the biggest is text selection. If you can want to cut or copy some text being displayed, it's almost impossible to do so accurately without a trackball or pointing device, and even those are awkward. It looks like Gingerbread makes that much better and easier to do.

Ohh really nice, I saw you were able to do on Ipad. That would be a great tool.

Anyone know of any VW phones coming out with this in the near future.

That keyboard looks great, the spaces between the keys are nice!
 
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this link as the downloadable zip file for the keyboard. i flashed it yesterday, but have not used it a whole lot yet.

xda-developers - View Single Post - [GINGERBREAD] KaosGingerbread V3

Does this exist anywhere else? I don't have an account on XDA, and when I click on that link, it asks me to login. I guess I can sign up for an account, but didn't want to unless I could get the zip elsewhere. I just wanted to try it out since it looked interesting. I currently have a rooted Eris running xtrROM 4.6.

Thanks,
Harry
 
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I just gave it (KaosGingerbread V3) a spin.

Placing calls works (digit dialing), inbound audio (during call) works, but no outbound audio (microphone) or speakerphone, so - no go as a basic phone right now.

Other apps which would normally produce audio (e.g. Music) are mute.

3G Data network is working.

The native browser crashes due to lack of google extensions, but Opera Mini 5 will work. (You need to install it as an .apk, because there is no Market).

Camera app comes up (doesn't crash immediately), but there's no image.

No WiFi for me.

Some apps work partially - ES File Manager sort of works (e.g. browse and install .apk's from the UI), Better Terminal, ATM (arronla), Opera Mini 5, AK Notepad. I even tried Vlingo - it didn't crash, but it fails to capture microphone input.


Note that I'm not complaining - just letting people know what to expect out of V3.

I overflashed the googleshits on a lark, to see what would happen, with very little expectation that good results would come out of it, and it just stays in a bootloop. (I suppose that there are profound dependencies on "framework.jar" by the Google apps, so I really wasn't expecting it to work - and it doesn't)

ATM reported 104 Mb (RAM) free - that's an encouraging sign.

I'm glad we still have active devs on the Eris - it's unlikely that the Eris will have the long legs that the G1 does, but it's pretty cool that folks are working on a Gingerbread release for the Eris.


eu1
 
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Does this exist anywhere else? I don't have an account on XDA, and when I click on that link, it asks me to login. I guess I can sign up for an account, but didn't want to unless I could get the zip elsewhere. I just wanted to try it out since it looked interesting. I currently have a rooted Eris running xtrROM 4.6.

Thanks,
Harry

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21159/GingerBreadKeyboard.zip

edit: I'd sign up for xda. theres a ton of useful stuff over there.
 
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I'm glad we still have active devs on the Eris - it's unlikely that the Eris will have the long legs that the G1 does, but it's pretty cool that folks are working on a Gingerbread release for the Eris.

I tried it yesterday as well, and noticed the same things. It's also pretty slow to do the things that it does do. Very cool and extremely impressive nonetheless, considering that Kaos built this not from source but from pulling pieces from the SDK.

On a separate note, I tried the Gingerbread keyboard on CELB. Yuck. It's much slower to respond than the Froyo keyboard; I had to reflash to get the Froyo kb back.
 
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