Hey everyone, hoping you can answer a few questions, I am not on verizon now, but I am loving the incredible, and will likely make the jump. I use a nokia now, so Android is all new to me. I went in to verizon last night to play with one and had it in my hands for about an hour playing with it (SO customizable!). 2 things were driving me crazy!

1. I like the number/phone keypad for typing vs the qwerty for one handed texting, I found in settings how to turn that one on, and like the layout, but every time I went to enter text, it was on abc, not xt9 (xt9 is predictive), abc has 3 letters to a key. its easy to hit the abc/xt9 switch button, but annoying. ANYWAY TO FIX THAT?

2. I thought there should be a way to switch keyboards while using a keyboard. Example: I am typing a text one handed using the number pad, and I can't find how to switch to qwerty with out closing the text and going fairly deep into settings. Is there a way to do it faster? Can I make a shortcut to one of the 7 home screens?

Thanks so much for all your help with helping a newbie out!

 

Video would be great! I dont have a inc yet, and was reading that people with swype will long press in the text box to pull up some sort of menu that will let them switch it on and off.... can you try this with your dinc to see if it works?

Thanks!
Jason

P.S. I am also wondering if there is a short cut that can be on a homescreen to switch from qwerty to number pad.

 

i didnt know the number pad xt9 only showed up in certain screens. the problem is that when it does pop up (I was attempting to type a text message) i didn't look up and started typing away, only to look up and see jumble. So I had to backspace, then hit the xt9 number. thats fine, but then a minute later when I came back to type in a different app (I forget where, maybe calendar?) it did the same thing, it didn't stay on the xt9, so I guess were stuck just opening message and learning to hit the abc/xt9 button BEFORE we type, EVERY time. annoying.

anyone got a fix?