[Q] Keyboard/texting help

Sep 12, 2012
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First off I don't have an at&t s4, I have a USCC one, SCH-R970.
The problem is when I am texting or inputting text in a different application it no longer remembers phrases I've already used.
For example when people would ask me what I like doing in my free time...
I would type "music, movies, swimming, pool, darts, bowling, hiking, disc golf, badminton, long walks, running, video games, etc."

After typing that a few times to different people or in different applications in messages to people my phone would automatically predict the next word I was going to type, for example...
I used to be able to type "music" and then it would predict the next thing to be a , then movies then another , then swimming then another ,
and so on...

Lately when I try to type out the phrase "music, movies, swimming, pool, darts, bowling, hiking, disc golf, badminton, long walks, running, video games, etc."
I first type music, then the three things it predicts are comma, the word is or a period.
So since I want to say movies after the word music I will choose the comma.
The issue is that after choosing that it used to know I wanted to use the word movies next, but now it guesses "I" "and" or "but"

It is very annoying to have to keep retyping the same phrases over and over.
How do I fix this?

Like if I say to a lot of people "I woke up earlier than normal today" my phone used to know that I used that phrase a lot and would predict one word after another correctly, but it no longer does that... so I am having to type out everything word per word.

Can someone help me with this?
When I go to my device then language and input google voice typing is turned on to automatic, default is samsung keyboard, voice recognizer is google, etc.
In the samsung keyboard settings predictive text is on.

All I simply want is to be able to use a phrase over and over and for my phone to be able to know what word I'm going to use next like it used to be able to.
So I was able to type the word music then it would predict the next thing to be a comma then all I'd have to do is click the comma then click the word movies then click the comma again then click the word swimming then another comma and so on. That way I had a list of things I liked doing in my free time simply by clicking my finger in the same area a few times because I had typed the same thing out manually a lot.

My phone doesn't do that lately and it annoys me. Certainly there is a setting somewhere?
 
Sep 12, 2012
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Never mind I fixed it.

Solution:
I went to settings>my device>language and input>samsung keyboard settings>handwriting>then changed the recognition type from stroke to complete.

I think that's the solution anyways. Not 100% sure as I reset the settings for the samsung keyboard and started from scratch then went into the predictive text setting and had it learn from contacts and also had it learn from messaging.

But now I can say stuff like "I like music" then it will predict the next then to be a "," then the next word to be "swimming" and so on.
This is what I wanted it to do and I'm not sure why it stopped doing it, but it's working again!