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Help keyboard input problems... need some info

Kestner

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Sep 13, 2011
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My sisters droid 2 force closes and screen freezes when she types on the physical keyboard and both on screen keyboards. It freezes then phone reboots. It does this on any app that needs typing.

Any input to fix this or lead to the problem would be appreciated
 
Mines been doing the same thing. It'll freeze up when i'm typing, then ask to force close. After the force close, the predictive text for the last word I was typing will stay at the bottom of the screen and be completely unusable. I've reset my phone multiple times [went from zombiestomped rom, sbf'd, multiple wipes] and thought i had finally fixed it when I most recently SBF flashed and did the OTA update for GB. But sure enough, it's back again!

anyone have any additional thoughts as to why this happens? I feel like the hardware must be faulty or my phone is just handicapped like that. It's been shockingly hard to find threads on this as google as well. Srlsy, it's making me hate my D2, which has been nothing but bomb aside from this horrific keyboard failing.

Note, I'm trying out swype instead of multi touch hoping it's the multitouch being buggy as sin or something. Of course, I don't get to predict what i wanna say or have my spelling checked when using the phys keyboard but it I'll take that over an unusable brick any day.
 
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My wife has been having this same problem since the Gingerbread update. The problem went away when we switched to Swype input mode. Now the physical keyboard works without a hitch again. Catch is that the touch screen keyboard is now stuck using Swype, but she really doesn't use the touch screen keyboard so its a solution for us. Hope it helps you too.
 
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This has been a widespread Droid2 issue after the OTA. You can fix it by Settings > Language & Keyboard > Multi-touch keyboard > Uncheck 'Show Suggestions,' 'Highlight Words,' and 'Next word prediction.'

Irv, thanks for this post. Both my wife's and my D2's were having these problems. I changed these settings on mine and ran it through some tests with no recurance of the issues. I'll fix her's when I get home tonight.
 
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