This tag refers to the automatic word correction/suggestion most keyboard apps come with.
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How the f*&% to stop voice-to-text from censoring profanity?
The voice-to-text feature is very useful, but every once in a while when sending an SMS or email message to a friend, I want to really let loose.
However, Google, in their defense of my virginal ...
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What the s*!+ do I do to make the 4.2 swipe keyboard stop censoring me?
The new swype-style keyboard on my 4.2.1 updated Galaxy Nexus is great. However, when I attempt to express myself more colorfully, the swiping action does not yield the word I would like to write. ...
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How do I turn off auto-complete when texting?
Does anyone know how to turn off the auto-complete feature when texting?
Sometimes I just want to text and not have my device try and tell me what I'm thinking. Other times this is OK, but I just ...
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How can I teach my phone not to capitalise “It's” every time?
I'm using the standard full QWERTY on-screen keyboard on my HTC Desire S, and when typing in to any app it seems that I cannot type it's without manually inserting the ', which is relatively slow and ...
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How can I reset auto-complete dictionary for my Sony Ericsson Xperia mini pro?
The stock soft keyboard on Sony Ericsson Xperia mini pro has a feature called 'Learn words' (Settings > Language & keyboard > International Keyboard > Text input settings > Learn ...
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Set two languages simultaneously for the stock keyboard?
I want to have both english and german prediction and auto correction at the same time for the stock keyboard (Jelly Bean here).
My use case:
Multi-tasking between english and german domains on my ...
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How do I disable the annoying auto-correction of punctuation on device keyboard?
Here are two examples: (I'm using the '|' as the cursor)
Example #1:
I want to put the next word in quotes |
type '"' followed by a word and closing quote:
I want to put the next word in quotes" ...
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Create a custom keyboard dictionary
Is it possible to use custom dictionary with the default Android keyboard? I guess the words are stored in some file, so I would like to edit it.
The goal is to create Macedonian auto-completion ...
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Auto-Enhance Multiple Photos In Gallery?
Is there a way to auto-enhance multiple selected photos without picking one by one which supposedly takes more time since it returns me to start of photos list and I have to navigate and find last ...
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Why are my auto-complete suggestions so bad?
When I'm typing into a text entry field, the auto-complete suggestions I get are much worse than they used to be (they have never worked well on this phone, but have worked great on previous Android ...
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Active auto correction like in iOS
I'm pretty new from Android, just dumped my iOS device.
I find it pretty annoying with this feature missing that is auto correction and auto-complete.
In iOS whenever you misspell a word or type a ...
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How to clear the keyboard autocomplete suggestions
I need to completely clear the autocomplete words my Sony Ericsson Xperia arc has learned. I used it for entering some random letter combinations (CAPTCHA entries) and now they are part of the ...
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Is there any way to stop Android from changing “I want $5.00” into “I want$ 5.00”?
I don't even know why it does this, tbh, since pretty much everyone writes $xx.xx and not anything else, such as xx.xxUS$ or anything like that.
Note: Turning off Auto-Punctuate does not fix this ...
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Better Autocorrection on Galaxy Note similar to Blackberry?
I got my first android device ever and it is the galaxy note. Previously I was on a blackberry.
At the moment, I dislike the auto correction on the Galaxy Note. If I want to type "and" but ...
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Is it possible to improve word suggestions?
I used to use the "swiftkey" app for writing, and was very pleased with the suggestions they generated. I have now changed to 8pen "keyboard" instead I'm very pleased but miss the good autocompletes, ...
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Autocorrect is not working for Huawei Ascend G600 (U8950N)
I just bought a new Huawei (running Ice Cream Sandwich). When I use the keyboard (both the Android and Huawei IME), the photo does not recognise any common words in English, and so it underlines them ...
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Word Suggestions not working after ICS on AT&T Galaxy S 2
I recently updated to ICS on my AT&T Galaxy S 2 but since then the word suggestions has been working intermittently even though it is turned on while using Swype keyboard. Is anyone else facing ...
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How do I *really* disable autocorrection?
I am experiencing this on a Droid2 Global running Froyo, but it was happening on a Droid Pro as well. It did not happen on my Droid running Cyanogen or stock Froyo.
When I'm typing in the gTalk app ...
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Turn on auto-correct when using a Bluetooth keyboard
I have been using my Nexus 7 for schoolwork and I love it. One problem, however, is that when I connect to my Bluetooth keyboard I no longer get auto-correct suggestions. I then decided to install ...
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Why isn't the Swype keyboard showing corrections?
Normally, while using the Swype keyboard, corrections appear at the top of the screen and it allows me to pick the right word. For some reason it isn't appearing at the moment.
Is there a way to ...
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Delete certain mis-spelled words from Android dictionary (These words were not listed in the “Personal dictionary”)
I have a Sony Ericsson Xperia mini (running Android 4.04). I'm trying to remove a few embarrassing words which show up during typing. I tried through Settings → Language and input → Personal ...
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find or write audio or vibration notification of text auto-correct/auto-complete [closed]
I think that auto-correct/auto-complete will be more useful if the user gets a non-modal indication that something changed.
If no app does this, what intent or event would I listen for?
(I thought I ...
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Can I turn off autocomplete/autocorrect for Google Maps?
When I want to type in a location to get directions, Google Maps brings up a list of suggestions under the textbox. That's fine, but then when there's only one suggestion left, Google Maps overrides ...
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Disabling SwiftKey autocompletion on Asus Transformer Pad
is there any way to disable completely the autocompletion (guess it's called SwiftKey) ?
Especially with the Gmail/Email apps the 'intelligent' autocompletion ends up slowing me down!
Many thanks ...
