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How do I enter a new line in a cell in Google Sheets?
Easiest way: add an extra letter at the end of the line. Select that letter. Hit enter. The letter will be replaced with a new line.
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Genymotion how to hide back/home/menu button that shown after ALT button pressed
you can find it on android setting
keyboard & input > Virtual keyboard > Android keyboard setting Advanced > Emoji for physical keyboard
disable it!
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Writing hebrew vowels with my phone keyboard
I was able to successfully type Hebrew with vowels on a Samsung using the steps I found on another forum:
Since a few weeks ago it became possible to type vowels in the Gboard
app—Google's own ...
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How to access and modify previous commands (bash history) in Termux
See the Termux help page for how to input arrow keys using the VolumeUp button, VolumeDown for Ctrl and some additional shortcuts!
Volume Up+W → Up arrow key
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What storage data does keyboard apps on Android accumulate?
Keep in mind that GBoard provides a lot of language specific functionalities like automatic word correction or offline speech recognition.
It seems like GBoard downloads these language specific data ...
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Gboard: Set Custom Unicode Characters on Longpress or Add Custom Keyboard Keys or Layout
For the time being, I found an alternative solution. It's not the solution that I wanted, but it does the job reasonably well. I'm posting it here so it may benefit someone else as well.
Gboard ...
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What storage data does keyboard apps on Android accumulate?
Remember that current keyboards are a bit different from keyboards from 10-15 years ago. Back then, their main purpose was just typing and writing. With time, emojis and gifs images became features ...
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Why do text input methods generally omit an undo function?
This question can get better answers from developers than the end user community.
Android framework does have a class named UndoManager "for managing and interacting with the global undo state ...
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How to change default keyboard on Android N?
It appears that some keyboards offer something under their keyboards (e.g. a special key) to switch keyboards. However others, such as the Google Keyboard do not.
However, what I have discovered is ...
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Google keyboard, no option to keep my word?
I am sure you are talking about two different things that are:
• Autocorrect (it will automatically replaces your word when hitting space.)
• Predictive Text/Suggestions (it just shows you different ...
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How can I use my PC's keyboard in the Android emulator?
I had this issue despite having the correct configuration, and realized that the actual problem was that the focus was on the emulator control buttons windows, as reported in this issue.
To check if ...
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How to enter "carriage return" in Android Google Keep in checkbox view?
This is not possible at the moment.
Only thing I can think of is to use a clipboard app and copy-paste a soft linebreak into Google keep.
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Enable gesture (swipe) input (on Fairphone 2) without Google Keyboard
The problem
The default AOSP keyboard does not ship with swipe. It will not appear in the settings.
The easy (but awkward) reason is that Google considered this feature to be too "secret" or so to ...
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Enable gesture (swipe) input (on Fairphone 2) without Google Keyboard
The OTA survival script/configuration fragment hack stopped working on the OnePlus 3T after the last OEM firmware update from OnePlus. (Even though the final OEM firmware update for the OnePlus 3T ...
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How to input ⑮⑭⑬ (unicode symbols with a number in a circle) when typing?
The fastest way on Android is to use Calcy IV with the renaming feature enabled, change the settings to the circled numbers and you're good to go.
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How to bypass 20 item limitation in clipboard?
There are plenty of apps that can store far more than 20. Search forClipboard on Play Store . One such app which doesn't require extra / suspicious permissions is Clipper which I found to be very ...
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Phone is locked with an impossible to enter password
In case there is a problem with the on-screen keyboard most devices support to use an USB keyboard connected via USB On-The-Go (OTG) adapter to the phone - if the phone supports USB OTG at all.
The ...
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Physical keyboard shortcuts that use the "search" key?
The Search key here in Android refers to the OS key(Windows/Command/Super keys), so you would use the OS key + other combinations to activate the shortcut.
On some ROMs, such as One UI, this search ...
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How do I switch between keyboards if accessibility button is displayed in bottom-right corner?
I have the same question. So far I have found two answers but neither are as elegant as having the dedicated keyboard switch button. I'm using a Samsung S10e on Android 12.
you can install the ...
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How to remap keyboard shortcut?
Keyboard customization in Android could be done via modifying Key layout files (*.kl) or Key character map files (*.kcm).
KL files specify which Android key is produced by each physical key.
KCM files ...
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How to add a physical keyboard layout
You should install extra keyboard layouts:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=varzan.extraKeyboardLayouts
.
It is free and helps me to type on Mongolian language and included many other ...
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How do I enter a new line in a cell in Google Sheets?
Mark the cell in which you want to have new lines.
At the top menu click the "A" next to the redo button.
in the lower screen section a modal pops up. There hit the tab "CELL".
Than activate "Wrap ...
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Android keyboard and remapping the CTRL key
Since Android 4.1 you can do it without root by installing an app that provides additional keyboard layouts (Key Character Map files).
The example of such app could be found here (I'm the developer).
...
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How do I enter a new line in a cell in Google Sheets?
The highlight a throw-away character and hit enter trick, as well as the type everything into a text editor, then copy/paste it into the Google Sheets cell, both only work on Android devices. I have a ...
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How to create a newline on keyboard
I finally found a solution. So I was facing the problem in WhatsApp and my new line button was replaced by the enter key, so I went to the setting and I turned off the option " send messages ...
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Samsung Soft Keyboard Keeps Popping Up when Bluetooth Keyboard in Use on Galaxy Note 10.1 with Android 4.1.2
You would be better off accessing the Physical Keyboard settings. Settings>General Management>Language and input>Physical Keyboard.
In this settings menu, you can set "Show on-screen keyboard" to ...
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How to display the on screen keyboard when Bluetooth keyboard is connected
I am with an Android 9 tablet, and find the option as: Settings / System (languages, time ...) / Language & input / Physical keyboard ==> There is an option that reads "Show virtual ...
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How can I use one Android device as mouse and keyboard input for another Android device via bluetooth?
Serverless Bluetooth Keyboard & Mouse for PC/Phone should be what you're looking for. I hope this helps. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.appground.blek
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Android as rubber ducky
Using an Android device as a rubber ducky is possible, but setting it up can be difficult. Your device most likely doesn't work with the payload because it is not rooted and/or doesn't support HID ...
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How to type fractions like ⅝ in keyboard?
For Gboard: Just enable longpress for symbols in Gboard settings. Than find textbox and in lower left corner of keyboard switch to symbols, than longpress on some numbers will give you fraction or ...
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