Samsung texting headaches

Myksyk

Just bought the new Tocco UltraTouch. Nice phone. Sexy display. Decent enough features. I had expected a certain amount of time would be required to get used to the different system on the phone as I've always had Nokia phones.

The biggest disappointment has been the texting on the phone. There are some frustrating things such as navigating the text. There is no navigation buttons so you have to touch the screen to get into a word you want to change .... this can take three, four or five touches to get right. Ridiculous and smash-the-phone frustrating. Another aspect is the fact that samsung put their space bar on the keyboard at the bottom right unlike nokia who place it centre bottom ... i'll get used to that after a bit and those mistakes will disappear. The phone does have the useful feature of understanding that when you type "youve" you mean "you've" and it displays it as such ... nice touch.

HOWEVER... I always text in predictive mode and when I want to type "I'm" or "I'd" (pretty bloody basic and frequently used) the fewest number of touches I have been able to use is 10 (counting the space after the word). TEN!! It can be up to 13. I'm hopiing that I'm just stupid and someone can tell me how to type "I'm" while in predictive mode with three or four key strokes.

JAYSUS!!!!!

allen175

i got the phone today too, great little sexy phone! amazing camera and video! if you want to change the text in T9 just 0 and it will change it, thats when you are using the keypad, haven't really had much of a chamce to actually play with all the features, but so far the screen is sensitive enough, sometimes it might take 2 or 3 taps on it for it to recognise that you touched it when you want to confirm a pin.

But overall a amazing phone!

L'prof

Myksyk wrote: »

HOWEVER... I text always in predictive mode and when I want to type "I'm" or "I'd" (pretty bloody basic and frequently used) the fewest number of touches I have been able to use is 10 (counting the space after the word). TEN!! It can be up to 13. I'm hopiing that I'm just stupid and someone can tell me how to type "I'm" while in predictive mode with three or four key strokes.

JAYSUS!!!!!

I'm = 416
I'd = 413

Maybe, you need to enter them into the dictionary though!

Myksyk

allen175 wrote: »

if you want to change the text in T9 just 0 and it will change it,

It does change it but not to 'I'm' or 'I'd'.

If I'm in T9 and I type 413 or 416 I get i.n ... pressing 0 changes this, in sequence, to: i.nz i.no i.org i.na i.net i.ne i.mq w/o .in i.nl etc etc etc etc etc

The silly thing is you can't enter 'I'm' as new word or 'I'd' because it won't let you access the apostrophe (') character in the add word page ... stupid.

Myksyk

Just to drive me mad altogether I now see that when creating an MMS messages the phone does produce 'I'm' or 'I'd' when you simply type 416 or 413. What is that about? I like the phone otherwise but simple things like this annoy me.

Myksyk

Update ... rang Samsung who after testing the phone said I was right and they were mystified!! They said it shouldn't be the case that it works in MMS and not SMS and would forward it for ... well for whatever they do. I won't hold my breath but in the meantime Tocco Ultra owners will have to hit 10-13 screen buttons to type 'I'm or 'I'd' or just type Im and Id. Bizarre.

Abelloid

I get a different, and pointless, sequence pressing '413' & '0'

I.e, I.Fr, I.Fi, I.do, I.doc, I.dot, I.dk, I.de,.id and then the first usable one '.ie'

WTF?

allen175

ok, sorry i didn't get what you were saying before, i get what you are talking about now and wow its annoying!!

Also you cannot access anything on the phone when you have it connected to the computer! such as sending a text.

Soot-fan

Myksyk wrote: »

It does change it but not to 'I'm' or 'I'd'.

If I'm in T9 and I type 413 or 416 I get i.n ... pressing 0 changes this, in sequence, to: i.nz i.no i.org i.na i.net i.ne i.mq w/o .in i.nl etc etc etc etc etc

The silly thing is you can't enter 'I'm' as new word or 'I'd' because it won't let you access the apostrophe (') character in the add word page ... stupid.

Keep typing the word you want about 10 times in a row without any mistakes, the next time you type the word it should be the first one to come up. This works on nokia phones, not sure about samsung.

BostonB

Its like they don't test texting. How could they miss this kinda stuff?

Abelloid

BostonB wrote: »

Its like they don't test texting. How could they miss this kinda stuff?

TXT SPK? Who uses apostrophes these days? :rolleyes:

I do.

Abelloid

Messaging > 12.Settings > 1.SMS > 1. Sending options > Character Support

Set to 'Automatic' or 'Unicode' and it will switch to 'I've' on a single press of the 0 key.

allen175

Aha, very nice Justin Automatic does the trick!! thanks.

belcarra

I've just been scouring the net looking for a solution to this apostrophe query and nothing useful came up. Then I decide to add boards.ie to the search et voila! The solution easily at hand. Fair play to ye guys, that 'automatic' option is gonna save me a few months of torture!!