Does your 'Phonepad' input method work?

[CJSnet]

Hi, when entering text on the touchscreen, if you click the small keyboard icon at the bottom you get a choice of input methods like Transcriber, Keyboard, Phonepad... For me, when I click Phonepad it just brings up the regular QWERTY keyboard, not the nice chunky Phonepad skin that 2003 used to use for T9 input. Anyone got this same problem or is it just me? :(

[BrettS]

I've never had a 2003 device, so I'm not sure if it's the same as 2003 or not, but I definitely get a phone pad type thing when I click on phonepad with my Jasjar.

HTH,
Brett

[CJSnet]

Is it the same Phonepad you get with the 'Keyboard' option from that menu, or is it a sort of 3D modelled effect numeric keypad only with the T9 alphabet on the number keys?

If the latter, anyone any idea why mine isn't? :(

[BrettS]

It's definitely different than the Keyboard option and it sounds like what you're describing... a sort of 3D phone dial pad thing with a couple of extra buttons thrown in (arrows mostly).

I have no idea why yours isn't working... as much of a pain as it is, maybe try a hard reset? I had a problem getting my LED to notify me of new mail messages... it seemed to work for everyone but me. Finally I gave in and did the hard reset and it's been working fine since.

Brett

[CJSnet]

Just as I got it all how I like it! :(

Is there a good, free, backup program out there for WM2005?

[CJSnet]

Ok this is weird, it wasn't working, then I messed with some of the Phonepad Options (changed language, unticked boxes, etc.) to try to trip it into life, and it worked! :)

Then stopped working :(

Back to just Keyboard now. Any other ideas guys? Maybe a registry entry that tells the device what applet to call upon to show the input method?

[daveb1976]

Mine is very dodgy too. It works at times and then at other times changing to is simply causes the standard keyboard to appear. I *think* it's a memory issue as I've found that closing all applications through the task manager, then changing the input method to Block Recognizer and then back to phone pad sometimes works.

I've tried more than one hard reset without any luck...

Dave

[daveb1976]

Mine is very dodgy too. It works at times and then at other times changing to is simply causes the standard keyboard to appear. I *think* it's a memory issue as I've found that closing all applications through the task manager, then changing the input method to Block Recognizer and then back to phone pad sometimes works.

I've tried more than one hard reset without any luck...

Dave

[CJSnet]

Glad its not just me. Damn that memory issue!

[Hugohase]

Same Problem,

no memory Problem.
Try to make PhonePad als default SIP. It works fine on my MDA Compact (Marican) GERMAN T-Mobile

But when i switch back to Keyboard it will hang.

[CJSnet]

Somewhere on this site's FTP ftp://xda@ftp.xda-developers.com/ there is a phonepad application you can download. I did and it re-installed the program which then worked. You could try that. Good luck!

[ninja12innotts]

I had the same problem and used the a quick fix for it disappearing found somewhere on the forum,

something along the lines of do a reset
go into contacts
choose phonepad input method
and it will display correctly until next time it goes wrong.

However upgrading to the latest rom it has never disappeared for me yet.

[GaZ]

03 has no such keypad. Not on my XDA2 anyway. There is a 3rd party app called Quickey though which does the job reasonably.

[Lordsmiff]

I think the problems with the phone pad entry has been fixed in the last 2 software updates from O2 - are you still on the old versions?

I had the same problems when I first got my Exec but not had any issues with it for a while now.

Smiffy.

[knight900]

Has anyone found the fix to the phone pad issue? Been around in the FTP site but do not find the phone pad application. Any kind souls to help?

[cybiker123]

there is no fix for the keypad issue i looked and looked and looked the only way i got it to reappear was by upgrading to a new rom it still wouldn't appear with any other rom previous to aku 2 either but now i am running on summiter's aku 2.2 rom for my wizard and it works great and the phone pad is there

[chrisonline]

Is there an solution out there?
I have the same problem with my htc p3600.. the phonepad does not appear...

[chrisonline]

I have a solution and it works for me...

1)Switch off any devices like WiFi, Bluetooth, and for the moment disable any start-up applications (from starting) - To minimize system memory usage
I have done it with SPB Pocket Plus. It can disable any start-up application becuase it starts in "safe-mode"...

2)Remove CF and SD storage cards - There have been some bugs reported for storage cards where they may drain system resources if too many applications are loaded on the cards.

3)Select the default keyboard as the default input method - To temporarily prevent other input methods from being the default method

4)Soft reset the device

5)Open an application like Notes/Word

6)Select Phone Pade as the input method by clicking on the screen's bottom right icon's arrow and selecting Phone Pad from the list of available input options.

7)You should be able to use Phone Pad in all other applications as well as switching on WiFi and the start-up applications.

For me works fine, after soft reset !!!

Please try this solution.... and give us feedback!!

Greetings chrisonline