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HTC Keyboard (Hi-Res) ported to N1! No Root required!!!!!

Word of caution - I installed this, and personally didn't like it. But after uninstalling, things got wonky with my Nexus. Minor, but still some issues. ATK - the fonts got all small. BatteryLife - the coloured separation bars got all messed up.

I did a hard reset to fix. Luckily, I have online backup setup with my Gmail account. I personally won't be installing anything HTC anymore.
 
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Word of caution - I installed this, and personally didn't like it. But after uninstalling, things got wonky with my Nexus. Minor, but still some issues. ATK - the fonts got all small. BatteryLife - the coloured separation bars got all messed up.

I did a hard reset to fix. Luckily, I have online backup setup with my Gmail account. I personally won't be installing anything HTC anymore.


Thanks for the heads up.
 
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Sort of ironic because you're holding a HTC manufactured phone in your hand :p

Are you sure it was the keyboard? I don't care for it either but perhaps I'll just switch input methods back to android kb instead of unistalling until this can be confirmed by other users.

Oh I'm sure it was the keyboard, as things started as soon as I had it on there and after it was removed. Nothing else was done, nothing else was installed in the meantime. From install to uninstall, was only like 20mins. I didn't like the HTC kb right off the bad.

Ironic, yes, but in a way, no surprising, as the OS is PURE Android, and the phone, while HTC built, was built to Google's exact specs, and was designed and tested with Google's pure version (ie. no sense, no HTC anything) of Android 2.1.

I've learned my lesson. I won't even bother with Sense - at least not on my Nexus. If I bought a Desire or some other HTC developed and sold handset that was developed with Sense from the onset, that's a different story.
 
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Oh I'm sure it was the keyboard, as things started as soon as I had it on there and after it was removed. Nothing else was done, nothing else was installed in the meantime. From install to uninstall, was only like 20mins. I didn't like the HTC kb right off the bad.

Ironic, yes, but in a way, no surprising, as the OS is PURE Android, and the phone, while HTC built, was built to Google's exact specs, and was designed and tested with Google's pure version (ie. no sense, no HTC anything) of Android 2.1.

I've learned my lesson. I won't even bother with Sense - at least not on my Nexus. If I bought a Desire or some other HTC developed and sold handset that was developed with Sense from the onset, that's a different story.

As much as I would love to jump on the Sense, I don't want to have to load a new rom every time there's an update. HTC is notoriously slow with their updates. It was a minor annoyance on iPhone with jailbreaking but there will be an even longer wait time here, so no thank you. I have faith that over the next year or so, Google will be adopting certain elements from the sense UI experience to make stock phone a bit more user friendly...
 
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The main reason I like the HTC keyboard is because it has a comma button on the main screen. It's my own fault for needing to use proper punctuation in text messages; having the comma button there is very handy. I also like having the extra symbols there and easily accessible, but I wish it was like TouchPal where you could quickly hit a letter and swipe-up to get the symbol instead of having to hold the button down like you do now.

I don't know if they use the same word prediction engine or not but they seem to work equally well.
 
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So you don't have to type the URL.


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A quick way to test if this keyboard works better for you is to write out a few sentences and time yourself. I did and this is what I came up with. (I am notoriously slow at typing so don't make fun)

Test sentence (using suggestions) I did an average of 2 tries.

"This is a test of the new HTC keyboard versus the old Nexus One keyboard. Here goes nothing!"

On original nexus keyboard landscape: 40 seconds average / no errors
On original nexus keyboard keyboard normal: 44 seconds average / 3 errors

On HTC keyboard landscape: 34 seconds average / no errors
On HTC keyboard normal: 38 seconds average / 1 error

For me the new keyboard was faster significantly so I have switched.
 
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The more I use this the less I like it. One big flaw in my opinion is the fact that when you're in the Browser and you select the URL bar, the keyboard doesn't display the spacebar icon because it assumes that you want to enter a URL, thus spacebar is replaced with a slash. This should be a user option. It's like they forgot that you can not only enter a URL but search in this input field as well!

I also don't like how it tried to give you auto-complete options with your browser history. For e-mail and sms this kb is great, but it falls apart in the browser.

you can quickly hit the search icon and it switches to a spacebar.
 
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