Caps Lock won't go away

[cottinghamm]

During typing I often get to a point where the 7500 thinks that I have pressed a combination of keys to get the Caps Lock on, only it won't stop. I can't find a combination of keys to turn Caps Lock off & can only reset the device.

Does this affect anyone else ?

Any help ?

[Confucious]

The 'red dot' (bottom left on keyboard) and shift key turn caps ON or off.

[miterb]

Now, when it comes to the 7501, the red dot is 'blue'. Also, to set caps lock on and off, you have to hold down the Shift Key and touch the Blue Dot key!

Thanks for your tip on the combination, though, as it caused me to reverse what to me would be the normal procedure, ie hold the Blue Dot key down and touch the Caps Lock key which never would work for me.

Brad Miter

He who is still learning at age 74 shows true humility..

[roelof999]

I found out the caps lock actived on the onschreen keyboard reverses the actions of the HW keyboard functionality!

Roelof

[cottinghamm]

The 'red dot' (bottom left on keyboard) and shift key turn caps ON or off.

True (on mine a blue dot) but it only turns it off for one character and then goes back to Caps Lock, that's why I am saying it is stuck on, I have tried all key combinations to make it go away.

It may just be my machine.

[miterb]

True (on mine a blue dot) but it only turns it off for one character and then goes back to Caps Lock, that's why I am saying it is stuck on, I have tried all key combinations to make it go away.

It may just be my machine.

HOLD DOWN the shift key and then touch the Blue Dot key. Locks caps on and off alternately when you do it.

Once I managed to lock the numeric/special character keys on but can't find the combination again

[miterb]

I found out the caps lock actived on the onschreen keyboard reverses the actions of the HW keyboard functionality!

Roelof

I just checked the User Manual and it is all messed up with respect to Upper Case/Lower Case. I do not find that having the soft keyboard set to caps does anything on my device.
Brad

[patrickl]

This happens to me a lot too. It happens when I press shift and then quickly another key (also only when the Athena is reacting slow already because of whatever it's doing in the background or so). For some reason it sees the other key as that pressed the shift key again. After that it doesn't swith off easily.

I find that it switches back off when I double press the Shift key and then a regular key. That one is still in caps, but then the caps is off.

[cottinghamm]

This happens to me a lot too. It happens when I press shift and then quickly another key (also only when the Athena is reacting slow already because of whatever it's doing in the background or so). For some reason it sees the other key as that pressed the shift key again. After that it doesn't swith off easily.

I find that it switches back off when I double press the Shift key and then a regular key. That one is still in caps, but then the caps is off.

This sounds like the same behavious I am getting (I am not dismissing the other posts here, but I am not new to XDAs and I know how to turn CL off under normal circumstances) - the 7500 simply keeps itself in CL even when you turn off on the keyboard. I also think it is when I am typing quickly (if that is really possible on this kb).

I'll try this solution next time it happens, but I am sure that this is a bug.

[cottinghamm]

This happens to me a lot too. It happens when I press shift and then quickly another key (also only when the Athena is reacting slow already because of whatever it's doing in the background or so). For some reason it sees the other key as that pressed the shift key again. After that it doesn't swith off easily.

I find that it switches back off when I double press the Shift key and then a regular key. That one is still in caps, but then the caps is off.

Doesn't work for me. Strangely I had Transcriber mode on (I write a lot) and trying to change back to keyboard doesn't work. There is something wrong with the input somewhere, a re-flash is required over the weekend I think.

[patrickl]

I get CAPS-lock when I pres shift and then quickly just about any other key (double shift or a letter). Seems like it has to be timed just right and then it happens. The same combination will switch it back off again. Although again, it seems to need to be timed just right. I only get it once in a while.

Have you tried "dot" and then "shift" to switch the caps lock off again?