The most annoying thing about swype

JebusX · Aug 9, 2010

quickaudi said:
I would prefer swype in portrait and multi in landscape

This^

Joan006 · Aug 9, 2010

i swyped to my friend the other day, "You and your daughter sure do look purdy"...what she saw was...You and your daughter sure look PUFFY! Geeeeze.

Paycer · Aug 9, 2010

"Purdy," isn't a word. I'm not surprised that it attempted to correct it.

ixobelle · Aug 9, 2010

droidSPARX said:
swype to [space bar] [period] no space bar [period] Son-of-a.

I wish there's an option to take off the tutorial key and get a bigger space bar key

AMEN. and trow away the stupid 'microphone' key that sits right next to L that STOPS. LOADS. ASKS ME TO SPEAK. CANCEL. GO BACK TO SWYPING.

Piiman · Aug 10, 2010

mwpeck said:
Works fine in Landscape here, you have to cross over the shift key, but thats not major deal, it still activates, for me at least.

That being said, nice find, never knew that was there, and it seems really useful, been a few times I needed to change a single letter in a word and its always been easier to simply delete the word and type the whole thing out instead of trying to line the cursor up using that magnification that tends to hide directly underneath your finger.

So it does! hmmm could have sworn I tried it more than once and couldn't get it. Yeah it deffently makes some things easier.

Piiman · Aug 10, 2010

JebusX said:
This^

Is there that much of a difference if you were to just use swype in landscape like it was a normal keyboard?

bjmjpl · Aug 10, 2010

uhhh the microphone key works awesomely - i can literally speak a lof of my emails while adding only puncuation...its wayyy better than the voice commands which i fing dont work....at alll

tommytheduck · Aug 10, 2010

Funny... I cannot find Swype (or Slide, or Slyde) in the Market... (Moto Droid) I want it... what do I do?

kennethpm · Aug 10, 2010

I love swype and use it every day.

ONE MAJOR PROBLEM, with an Android App, SplashID, which I've used for years.
when you type in your password using Swype, SplashID will NOT recognize it even if you've typed it letter by letter correctly. So, in order to use this program, I have to switch back to 'standard' android touch screen, so I can put my password in......

Piiman · Aug 10, 2010

tommytheduck said:
Funny... I cannot find Swype (or Slide, or Slyde) in the Market... (Moto Droid) I want it... what do I do?

What phone do you have? If you have a DX long press on an input field select input method select swype

cryptosporidia · Aug 10, 2010

Tommytheduck....You already have Swype. Do a long hold on the message line and a box will pop up. You can then select input method...choose Swype.

kapstone · Aug 12, 2010

quick question about swype - if you are in a text or email app, is there a way so to get it to bring up contacts as you type. For example, if I want to text aaron, with the multitouch, i could type aa and it would bring up contacts whose name started with aa, then i could just select aarron. With swype i cant figure out how to do this.

Thanks

Billswood · Aug 16, 2010

lol when i first got the phone, my girlfriend was sad for unknown reasons (i just dont remember lol), and i tried typing "I'm sorry baby" but it came out as "I'm slutty baby." She laughed so hard even SHE forgot why she was sad. Thanks Swype! lol

tahoenj · Feb 11, 2011

Vis1on said:
I disagree with the post about Swype getting smarter on some words. I think the reverse is true in several instances. It has actually recessed on a few.

YESS! jesus I wish it would stop changing the dictionary everytime i add letters to words. now when i want to say "pretty" the menu always comes up for "preeetty,, prettttty, and prettyyyy" or when i want to say "shut up" i have to sift through the "shuttt, shutt, and shuuut" and the "up, uppp, and uuuup" before i can answer!

IS THERE ANY WAY TO GET IT TO STOP ADDING WORDS TO THE SWYPE DICTIONARY????!

Nailz509 · Feb 11, 2011

I absolutely love Swype and haven't changed to any other method of typing for more than a few minutes since getting my X. Having said that, they really need to consider allowing users to delete words from their dictionary that they never are going to use (as some other members have already mentioned). The most common one for me, other than the notorious YEAH, would be AND being switched to ABS constantly. It drives me absolutely crazy.

rudybow · Feb 12, 2011

Thong said:
I love swype, but hate that it has a hard time with the smaller words. Big words are no problem.

Plus I cant seem to get it to behave right for words with double letters back to back. (wall, call, need/needs, too, etc..)

Maybe I'm missing something and need to RTFM too lol.

I just use a swirl motion over the letter I need two of and have no problem. I love swype.

rudybow · Feb 12, 2011

samg916 said:
Sigh..again you do not understand. Look at the word yeah and trash on your keyboard, no algorithm is going to correct two words with virtually identical paths. I can type yeah over and over it continuously asks, Utah, Yeah, or Trash. The paths to type them are too close. This is NOT an RTFM, this is an un correctable problem. Again you are being rude and you are completely incorrect. I give up on you.maybe once you actually own the device you will understand. As far as me not being nice, you told me to RTFM, and gave me incorrect information. think about who got "snarky".

I'm not sure why but I had no problem typing Yeah, trash or Utah.

apavolka · Feb 12, 2011

rudybow said:
I'm not sure why but I had no problem typing Yeah, trash or Utah.

It just depends on how you swype it. I sometimes have a problem but that usually ends up being dependant on where I start the path.

Friends and depends is the most irritating.

binary_jester · Feb 12, 2011

Swype sucks...when you can't spell.

mruno · Feb 12, 2011

it has actually helped me spell words i had to guess at

Deathshead · Feb 12, 2011

Swype is great for me, but i do get annoyed by hitting the period key by accident alot.. and the swype version on the droid x is OLD they need to allow us to update.

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