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Root Anyone know of some dope keyboards?

For some reason I can't get the google one to update on my spirit?

That must mean you are running a custom ROM ... does it say it wasn't signed correctly. If it does than you probably already have it, it says update still but I'm not sure why.
 

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Ya the google one sucks. Cant long hold to putt question mark and stuff like that. Gonna try the jb one and the swift key. I need a basic. Easy one. Dont need onebthst has swipe or anything. But i do

Smart Keyboard Pro has many skins and you can customize everything you can think of. I dont use swype either and this let's you turn it off and you can hold keys for alt characters
 
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Install another keyboard temporarily, delete the keyboard from system/app folder. Then go back to the the play store. Install Google keyboard and BAM!

I had this problem, using the Katana ROM. So I attempted this fix by installing Swype trial, switching to it, uninstalling the Android/Google keyboard, then going back to the Play store to install it again.

It doesn't work. It always says the package file is corrupt.
 
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Man this is nuts. I just used Titanium Backup to backup then uninstall the Android/Google keyboard, then I looked around for an apk to download, found it, tried to install it, and it fails. It gives no other info other than "not installed." What is up with this? Are we just SOL for updating Google stuff for running a custom ROM or what? I tried to update Gmail app to the recent update and I'm having the same problem as updating the Google Keyboard, even tried it the same way (backup, uninstall, install from apk).
 
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Man this is nuts. I just used Titanium Backup to backup then uninstall the Android/Google keyboard, then I looked around for an apk to download, found it, tried to install it, and it fails. It gives no other info other than "not installed." What is up with this? Are we just SOL for updating Google stuff for running a custom ROM or what? I tried to update Gmail app to the recent update and I'm having the same problem as updating the Google Keyboard, even tried it the same way (backup, uninstall, install from apk).

It is a hiccup in the Google servers. The one that is with our custom ROMs is the very latest 4.2.2 keyboard. You can't get any newer version. Google thinks our phones have an older keyboard but because we have a custom ROM we actually have the latest Google Keyboard that came out. GT put it in his ROMs. You will get nowhere with trying to update this keyboard. And you can't really stop the play store from saying that there is an update for it, its wrong, just ignore it. It ticked me off for awhile too. Lol
 
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