Swype Beta

[BiGMERF]

unless they closed the beta... uh oooooo

 

[Scouter]

I first got the "not an Android phone" and then it went to the "oops we don't know where you want to go". Very frustrating. I hope I can get the beta otherwise I will have to reinstall the other version.

 

[karib]

I first got the "not an Android phone" and then it went to the "oops we don't know where you want to go". Very frustrating. I hope I can get the beta otherwise I will have to reinstall the other version.

Well, at least its not just me! Yeah, no biggie cuz I have it already, just would've been nice to have the "official" version.

 

[trav473]

not closed, I just got it, downloaded, and installed no problems on 2.1

 

[the208]

Well, at least its not just me! Yeah, no biggie cuz I have it already, just would've been nice to have the "official" version.

Did you try accessing on your phone or PC? You need to follow the link in the e-mail with your phone.

 

[Scouter]

It finally worked for me.

 

[VonKannick]

No problems at all downloading and installing, once I found the Email. I use hotmail, and it ended up in junk mail, which was not being checked by my phone, so I had to forward it to my Gmail account so I could get it from the phone.

Haven't had time to check it out yet.

Thanks Smacky!

 

[smacky]

How do you add new words to the dictionary?

 

[W4LLY]

Don't see much difference in the build I was using. Cool to have the official beta version.

 

[AdmSuvvuk]

I first got the "not an Android phone" and then it went to the "oops we don't know where you want to go". Very frustrating. I hope I can get the beta otherwise I will have to reinstall the other version.

Solved it! For me, in my browser settings I had unchecked the box that forces pages to open in mobile mode. If you recheck that box then the website recognizes the phone.

 

[irod87]

Thanks for the info, I wanted to try this but didn't want to mess with the other version out there.

 

[thecoard]

It says it isn't configured for my device and it's going to work with limited functionality. Namely, no swyping at all. Any help?

 

[AdmSuvvuk]

It says it isn't configured for my device and it's going to work with limited functionality. Namely, no swyping at all. Any help?

Did you try it despite the warning? I got a warning saying something similar. I don't remember if it was those same words, but it was similar. It works just fine (once I finally got to download it that is) for me. On the swype site it mentions that some of the extended features aren't available because it requires integration with the OEM, but that shouldn't affect swyping.

 

[thecoard]

I did. The blue highlight box around the keyboard lights up when I try swyping.

 

[K0CAW]

How do you add new words to the dictionary?

From the Swype FAQ:

You can teach Swype any new word by simply tapping it in letter by letter. For instance, you can add the last name

 

[rangerfan94]

I did. The blue highlight box around the keyboard lights up when I try swyping.

This happened to me the first time I d/l the program. I just uninstalled it and re-installed it and it worked the second time. Hope this helps.

 

[AdmSuvvuk]

This happened to me the first time I d/l the program. I just uninstalled it and re-installed it and it worked the second time. Hope this helps.

Yeah I was just about to type that if it were me I would try to uninstall and redownload it from the site, then install it again. Sometimes things get corrupted.

 

[karib]

Did you try accessing on your phone or PC? You need to follow the link in the e-mail with your phone.

Yes,i used my phone to access it. I finally ended up re-registering with a different email and then it worked! Go figure!

 

[thecoard]

Ach. I still had the old version from last night that had the known issue. I got it. Drunk texting was so hard without it last night.

 

[Podivin]

I tried a couple of different installs with and without reboots inbetween (removing Swype from my phone each time) and still had the 'device is not recognized' problem. Then I deleted the installer itself and downloaded it again. I notice the installer from today is a different file size than the one from yesterday, so they changed something. This time Swype installed with no problem.
So if anyone is still having that problem I'd suggest deleting everything and starting again from scratch, it worked for me.

 

[smacky]

Anyone know how to add words to the dictionary? I'm still not finding my swears and slurs despite using them in almost every text.

 

[BoulderAndroidFan]

Anyone know how to add words to the dictionary? I'm still not finding my swears and slurs despite using them in almost every text.

If you tap in the word the old way by typing on each letter then selecting that word, it should add it to the dictionary and be Swype-able from that point on.

 

[kratos]

I just installed this and like it. It's going to take some time to get used to it, but the functionality exists. Thanks for the link. I would never have heard about this any other way!

Kratos

 

[smacky]

If you tap in the word the old way by typing on each letter then selecting that word, it should add it to the dictionary and be Swype-able from that point on.

Ah, ok. I'll try that.

 

[skeezicks]

I tried a couple of different installs with and without reboots inbetween (removing Swype from my phone each time) and still had the 'device is not recognized' problem. Then I deleted the installer itself and downloaded it again. I notice the installer from today is a different file size than the one from yesterday, so they changed something. This time Swype installed with no problem.
So if anyone is still having that problem I'd suggest deleting everything and starting again from scratch, it worked for me.

For those of you having problems with the Swype beta, I recommend you head on over to their forum: Customer Feedback & Ideas for Swype Inc . From what I can see right now (March 6, 2010) there's an issue that occurs when you reboot your phone, resulting in an error message which reads "Swype is configured for another device..." or something to that effect. Fixing that is easy, though; just go to Android Setup, disable Swype, and then reenable Swype.

The Swype team is aware of this issue, from what I can see.