Got this phone installed the language pack for google keyboard but it sends empty texts. A number of recepients confirmed getting blank smses.
Cricket can't help.
Alcatel CS told me phone doesn't support other languages besides english and spanish. Yes, that's their official answer (the cs rep asked their supervisor). No texting in other languages allowed.
I tried different keyboard/sms apps with language packs, nothing works.
Did hard reset, didn't help either.
Any ideas? Already requested return but really like the phone...
Super late but I know the answer for this one lol. Follow the steps below and you should be fine. Super compact forces SMS to use 7bit characters. The problem is that many foreign languages use 16 bit characters so your sent messages can't use any of the characters you typed.
1. Open Messaging
2. Go to Settings
3. Tap on the Advanced Section
4. If your Alphabet management is set to "Super compact", change it to Auto format
Nuieve said:
Got this phone installed the language pack for google keyboard but it sends empty texts. A number of recepients confirmed getting blank smses.
Cricket can't help.
Alcatel CS told me phone doesn't support other languages besides english and spanish. Yes, that's their official answer (the cs rep asked their supervisor). No texting in other languages allowed.
I tried different keyboard/sms apps with language packs, nothing works.
Did hard reset, didn't help either.
Any ideas? Already requested return but really like the phone...
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Hello here,
I have lost Autocomplete of Contacts when writing a name in the To: Field of an Sms message.
I have Fun Contact installed, which gives the contacts an iPhone type look, since then it's been playing up. I have since uninstalled this, but it still doesn't provide suggestions of names in my contacts list, when I begin to type a name in the To field.
It's very annoying and one of my favourite features of using Sms on Windows Mobile.
Any Suggestions would be really appreciated.
Regards.
Y.
Does other predictive input work fine with your default keyboard? One more thing, when you try entering a contact name, the predictive function searches only for the contacts with numbers entered in the "mobile number" field. Check if your contact has the number there.
Regards,
Carty..
I lost that feature when I installed touch keyboard + keypad from dutty's collection
but after uninstalling them its fine now
Hey Carty,
Thanks, that's something I hadn't checked. My other predictive imput isn't working either. I have an idea why it might be. I downloaded KaiserTweak and, changed quiet a few things with it.
I set the Autocomplete to suggest me 6 words and this option is not available from the Drop down menu in the settings menu Of WordComplete.
It is not working anymore even though I have set them both to 3 words and after entering 3 letters. I have since Soft reset the device? Help would be really appreciated.
Thanks
Found the Answer
As I was saying I had made some changes with the KaiserTeaks app.
One of the changes I had made was to Enable XT9 under the Text Message options.
I realised this just now as I was going through the options and have set it to disable XT9, which is the default and this has fixed the problem
Hope this helps someone out there.
thanks y0u5uf,
will try it out seems like your suggestion is the easiest way out since i installed app like kaiser tweak, touch keyboard+keypad
is there any way that i can erase the words that i have wrote in my predictive text, are they stored somewhere where i can just go into and delete them, i want to start all over??
nvm i got it lol sorry
SMS Input
I have a similar issue. When I enter a character in the "to" field I dont get a list of choices to pick from. BUT, if I hit backspace and erased a character the names and/or numbers pop up.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can fix this?
So apparently voice actions doesn't work for a large portion of the installed user base (as can be seen here: http://tinyurl.com/2vcnk9l)
voice search correctly hears the commands but doesn't do anything except turn them into internet searches.
Rather frustrating (and another dumb fvckup by Google?).
Installing/reinstalling doesn't make a difference.
Language selection doesn't make a difference.
So far there seems to be no solution ... so this $600 paper weight can't even do voice calling.
There's a difference between 'Voice Search' and 'Voice Calling'
...and it does FREE voice calling thanks to Google Voice.
Odd, mine works,i wonder if the people it doesn't work for have contacts checked in the search options
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Odd, mine works,i wonder if the people it doesn't work for have contacts checked in the search options
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LOL that would be hilarious.
Believe it or not, I've had this problem in a very odd way. My nexus one works perfectly with all voice commands, but my dad's would not recognize anything I said. I even tried alternating between the two phones - mine would get it perfectly, and my dad's would not get anything. I think it got fixed with the voice search update.
Initially when I tried it, I thought it sucked since it didn't seem to recognise my actions... would always search instead of call... Then I went to the Voice recogniser settings and changed the language to English (Generic) and from then on, it's been working like a charm!!!
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Initially when I tried it, I thought it sucked since it didn't seem to recognise my actions... would always search instead of call... Then I went to the Voice recogniser settings and changed the language to English (Generic) and from then on, it's been working like a charm!!!
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BINGO! Cheers, changed to English (Generic) and works perfectly now!!!
Thanks
Had to do the same when it first came out as well.
Google's blog says that voice actions are only available to US English speakers, but it seems what they really meant was 'available to anyone but the English'
Yeah, it's rather strange... I tried English US, English UK and English India... and I'm pretty sure I can pull off all three accents well enough... but strangely, none worked. AFAIK, English Generic seems to be the key to getting this to work ATM...
Tried: English Generic, English US, English UK - no difference, doesn't work.
Contacts is enabled in search.
And it definitely recognizes the command correctly since it shows it as an internet search item. It just doesn't search contacts first.
Uninstalled and re-installed multiple times as well.
Using "Send email to XXX" opens emails but puts "To XXX" into the email message body (instead of correctly pulling the XXX contact from contacts and putting that contact into the To field).
I have this exact same issue and it is really getting to me. I have tried to set English US but it doesnt help.
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Tried: English Generic, English US, English UK - no difference, doesn't work.
Contacts is enabled in search.
And it definitely recognizes the command correctly since it shows it as an internet search item. It just doesn't search contacts first.
Uninstalled and re-installed multiple times as well.
Using "Send email to XXX" opens emails but puts "To XXX" into the email message body (instead of correctly pulling the XXX contact from contacts and putting that contact into the To field).
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nexusdue said:
Tried: English Generic, English US, English UK - no difference, doesn't work.
Contacts is enabled in search.
And it definitely recognizes the command correctly since it shows it as an internet search item. It just doesn't search contacts first.
Uninstalled and re-installed multiple times as well.
Using "Send email to XXX" opens emails but puts "To XXX" into the email message body (instead of correctly pulling the XXX contact from contacts and putting that contact into the To field).
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and you have made contacts searchable?
The latest update has to be installed manually and it does not show up on the Downloads tab. Are you sure you have it updated? Search the market for Voice Actions to double check.
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and you have made contacts searchable?
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Yup, i also manually installed voice actions and I'm 100% sure i have the newest version.
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Contacts is enabled in search.
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The latest update has to be installed manually and it does not show up on the Downloads tab. Are you sure you have it updated? Search the market for Voice Actions to double check.
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Yup. 100% certain.
Version shows as 2.0.1 under applications.
So I guess that is it?
No solution - just a [email protected] bug on google's end.
Here's a thought. Are you actually in the US, or are you just setting the phone to a US setting while using it in some other country?
Google's voice services use servers to do the translation and those servers may provide different services to different regions. It may not work if you aren't actually in the US (or using the US servers somehow) even if you have the phone set to US English...?
I tested your theory flarbear and it doesn't seem to be correct.
First I connected to a US VPN and I changed the language of my phone to English US.
-Voice search worked fine. Tested: "Send text to...", "Go to..." website and "listen to..." music
Then I disconnected from the VPN, still with English US as the language.
-Same results as above
Then I changed the language of my phone to Norwegian.
-Same results as above
I've tried the voice actions before, but I tried with and without the VPN connected as I might've been connected the last time. Didn't seem to make any difference now though.
Yup. "Call" and "Send Email to" just don't work.
Hello,
I'll start with the tech specs.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S i9000
Android 2.2 (Froyo)
Russian language support for the Android OS
I have tried several keyboards with cyrillic / Russian. All of the text appears perfectly in my screen.
However when I want to send a text message in Russian, the system will tell me that the text might be corrupted on the recipient device.
It then offers me a dialog box to change input to automatic formatting, where I can choose 'send' (and it will change the formatting, basically sending only a bunch of '?') or 'cancel' and it won't send.
I have gone through all sorts of settings, but I can't find anything to send a message without the phone complaining.
Does anyone have an idea how I can fix this?
(By the way, I had the same problem with Android 2.1 (Eclair))
Did you change the settings in the SMS stock app? You should chose "Automatic" there in the first place. Otherwise you'll send a bunch of "?" just you said.
Try another SMS app. t. ex. chompSMS or Handcent SMS.
What keyboard are you using? Try Smart Keyboard, you can find it at 4pda.
I'm using by myself russian Swype for now, but I've been testing both Smart Keyboard and SlideIT. Both have been working just fine. And my mesages came through without any trouble.
Good luck
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Hi,
When i was on Fr19 i thought it was a bug, that when i make a new sms, and whatn to enter phone number that is not in the book, i have to use that stupid qwerty keyboard :S Now that i moved to new GB Rom, i still have this issue, either stock app or other marjet app as Go SmS pro.
I know i can choose in layout but i want it to be by default as Dialpad when entering a phone number
Anyone have a tip or hack to do this ?
thanks
You can use the default LG keyboard, or touchpal or any 12-key phonepad.
thanks for reply but did you understood my question ?
When i go into New SMS and want to type a number i get a normal qwerty keyboard, it is annoying to type numbers on it. What i want is a normal Phone numeric dialpad, which is more logic to automatically have when typing a phone number.
I am using the default LG keyboard.
I can do it by changing the Layout input of keyboard, but that problem is than it stay like this and for text i have to again change the layout to get qwerty keyboard,
You can understand it is quite annoying :S
Is this a normal behiviour ? or it ie me who is having an issue ?
Netuser said:
thanks for reply but did you understood my question ?
When i go into New SMS and want to type a number i get a normal qwerty keyboard, it is annoying to type numbers on it. What i want is a normal Phone numeric dialpad, which is more logic to automatically have when typing a phone number.
I am using the default LG keyboard.
I can do it by changing the Layout input of keyboard, but that problem is than it stay like this and for text i have to again change the layout to get qwerty keyboard,
You can understand it is quite annoying :S
Is this a normal behiviour ? or it ie me who is having an issue ?
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It's quite normal. The reason is simple: The input field can be used *either* for inputting a phone number *or* for quickly searching your contacts. Searching your contacts requires letters, therefore the default keyboard is alpha-numeric. Unless you use another messaging app which allows you to input phone-numbers *only*, it will remain this way.
I can understand that we need to search so the keyboard is Standard Qwerty that show up when yoy first click
But what is not logic is when i press 123 it should understand that i dont want to search by name but type the number so it should show the Dialpad, that is how it works in iphone
So in Andriod it is normal and standard to have always qwerty keyboard :s I am surprised no one else has complained, may you guys only send SMS to your contact list lolzzz
Netuser said:
I can understand that we need to search so the keyboard is Standard Qwerty that show up when yoy first click
But what is not logic is when i press 123 it should understand that i dont want to search by name but type the number so it should show the Dialpad, that is how it works in iphone
So in Andriod it is normal and standard to have always qwerty keyboard :s I am surprised no one else has complained, may you guys only send SMS to your contact list lolzzz
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Well, if Apple has that functionality, you can bet they've patented it as well, barring anyone else from using it.
Myself I cannot come up with any reason for SMSing anyone not in my contact list, but I'm sure you can.
Anyway, for now, that's the way it is on Android. (But I'm sure you can find another messaging app which will do what you want, until the patent-trolls notice.)
Hey mate,
Don't remember if on stock it's this way, but i'm on miui and I can enter Phone app(Dialer), dial a number with the number pad and then select "Send Message" so the sms app directly puts that phone on the message receiver...
Hope that works to u!!!
That can do a trick. I never used the dialer to send sms but thanks for the tip
No it is not dependent of what sms app you use all give same result as it is core feature of android.
Only way i found is to use another keyboard swiftkey which 123 is in Matrix format so more like a dialer but smaller
But i really hope someone can make a mod hack to show dialpad it will be handy and more logic
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Netuser said:
may you guys only send SMS to your contact list lolzzz
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Or perhaps the ?123 key doesn't send us into a blind panic?
Lol
I buy a lot from site like kijiji. So i send a lot of sms to numbers which are not in contact list
Anyway having Dialpad when pressing 123 is more logic. Either in phone feild we want to type a name or a number
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Hiii
I am getting this some what unique problem while receiving SMS that in sender number all zeros are replaced with "D". While receiving in notification it shows "D" in place of "0" & after reading in inbox it appear as "d". Due to this i am not able to know who sent me the msg untill I check by replacing all "D" with "0".
I tried differes SMS apps but the result is same. I am not able to figure out the reason.
Please help.
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singh.r said:
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Foreign language? Maybe you need a language installed on your phone to render the characters for your texting.
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Foreign language? Maybe you need a language installed on your phone to render the characters for your texting.
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I am not able to figure it out. It has been working fine & still working fine. Since last 10 days only I am facing this weird problem.
Even the messages I send, there also the contacts & message threads appears fine. All old sms threads appears fine.
But all new messages coming from the same contacts behaving like this. Except receiving no where i have any such issue (Calling/SMS sending).
And also this happens only with "0" not any other digit.
I tried to uninstall MoreLocale & reinstall, change language etc. Please suggest if I shall try something different.
Modify Country & IDD in assisted dialing
Till now I am not able to resolve this.
Also I have found that I cant send SMS to friends whose contact I have stored with country code ie +91 92121****1.
But I am able to call them.
I checked assisted dialing and found that My country is showing India but IDD is showing 00. And the option is freezed & there is no option to change/modify it.
Is there any other way to change it by modifying some system file.
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Till now I am not able to resolve this.
Also I have found that I cant send SMS to friends whose contact I have stored with country code ie +91 92121****1.
But I am able to call them.
I checked assisted dialing and found that My country is showing India but IDD is showing 00. And the option is freezed & there is no option to change/modify it.
Is there any other way to change it by modifying some system file.
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You'll have to open build.prop and edit it. My suggestion would be to get Root Browser or something along those lines and change it that way.
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You'll have to open build.prop and edit it. My suggestion would be to get Root Browser or something along those lines and change it that way.
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Thanx, can you give some hint that what exactly shall I look for cause I have gone through it many times but could not find.any thing.
I have already changed "ro.product.locale.region".
Also could you tell where to change the prefix dialing codes for call forwarding/cancellation etc.
Thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1661806