I just purchased a Zaggkeys Flex keyboard for a friend that has a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. I followed the instructions and paired the keyboard to the device, but it will not type when I press any of the keys. I paired the Flex keyboard to my Samsung Infuse 4g and it worked without any problems. However what I noticed is that when I connect the Flex keyboard to my Infuse it automatically switches from the Android on-screen keyboard to the Samsung on-screen keyboard as the input method and then it works. However when I looked at the input methods on the Galaxy Tab the only option available is the Android on-screen keyboard. The tablet is rooted and is running Cyanogenmod 10.1. I am not the one that rooted the tablet and I am wondering if the person that did deleted the Samsung keyboard or if this happens with Cyanogenmod 10.1 or if this is even the problem. I also tried using apps like blueinput and bluekeyboard, but when trying those I received the message that HID is not supported by the device which I don't believe is correct because I have seen many posts stating how easily this keyboard normally pairs with the Galaxy Tab.
Please let me know if you think it is something with the way the tablet was rooted or if it has to do with Cyanogenmod 10.1 or any other problems that may be causing this issue and any solutions you may have. Or at the very least is there anyway I can get the Samsung on-screen keyboard back onto the tablet to see if that is the problem?? This is very frustrating especially since this keyboard was supposed to be a graduation gift. Please help
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I'm trying to pair my bluetooth keyboard, which worked perfectly under Gingerbread, but will not pair under ICS. Basically, the keyboard will not go into pairing mode until I give it a pin, and ICS won't give me the pin until the keyboard is pairing. Is there any way to tell ICS what pin to expect before trying to pair? This is the sequence I am doing:
1. Put keyboard in discoverable mode.
2. Select the keyboard in the bluetooth menu.
3. Type in a pin on the keyboard and hit enter.
4. A dialog comes up on the tablet telling me what pin to use to pair. (I have to type in the pin in the keyboard for this to come up)
5. Pairing fails after about 1/4 of a second.
Anyone I have the same thing. Get a pop up for a quarter of a second that has a pin but I can't enter it or even read it and then fail.
Please been looking for a solution for a while.
HP Touchpad CM9 4.03
I've downgraded to cyanogenmod 7, and am purchasing a case with a built in keyboard that hopefully does not share the issue. I think these are the only two options.
Bluetooth keyboard in ics
Hi all, I hope I'm in the right area, I have android ics, when I go to pair a Bluetooth keyboard, I put the keyboard into pairing mode and then search on the phone. The phone finds the keyboard and sais please enter the pin code on the keyboard, and press enter, wichita I do and the message on the phone disappears and the keyboard seems to be pairs, but when you look at the keyboard the pairing light is still flashing. The keyboard works great on my partners...dare I say it iPad, but I can not get it to work in ics. I've tried blueinput, blue keyboard jp ,but neither of these program's seem to help. The can see the keyboard but don't seem to connect to them. Any help would be appreciated. To me it seems as tho the keyboard is not receiving an acceptance message from the phone to say connected.
Kryptoniteics said:
Hi all, I hope I'm in the right area, I have android ics, when I go to pair a Bluetooth keyboard, I put the keyboard into pairing mode and then search on the phone. The phone finds the keyboard and sais please enter the pin code on the keyboard, and press enter, wichita I do and the message on the phone disappears and the keyboard seems to be pairs, but when you look at the keyboard the pairing light is still flashing. The keyboard works great on my partners...dare I say it iPad, but I can not get it to work in ics. I've tried blueinput, blue keyboard jp ,but neither of these program's seem to help. The can see the keyboard but don't seem to connect to them. Any help would be appreciated. To me it seems as tho the keyboard is not receiving an acceptance message from the phone to say connected.
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I would venture to say this is a device specific issue. I'd recommend going to the forum for your particular device and replying to a six month old post there that is vaguely related to your issue.
I have looked through the forums, and havnt found anything that helps. I have tried different programs and possible fixes. To no avail. I have a generic phone with ics so rooting may not b an option. One thing i have noticed is ics automatically generates a bluetooth access key. Is there a way to change this to manually choose or enter a pass key. I think this may be part of my problem. Or possibly fix the issue i have. Any thoughts.
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Sorry if the title on this question isn't clear enough, hard to give a short clear title.
Since I've installs ICS on my Samsung Galaxy S II, I've been repeatedly annoyed by it that every single time I connect my Bluetooth keyboard, the OS automatically switches my virtual keyboard to the Samsung virtual keyboard.
The problem is the Samsung keyboard screws up everything I type on my Logitech bluetooth keyboard. I want to use either 'null keyboard' or 'hacker's keyboard' which are two virtual keyboards I installed that work great with my hardware bluetooth keyboard, but every time the keyboard sleeps and reconnects, the phone swiches back to the Samsung one.
I can't even disable it because the option to disable is locked out.
I have root access to the phone.
Thanks to anyone in advance.
mine problem as well:
Tab 10.1 + ZAGG keyboard case
default samsung kb is just stupid
prefer "hacker's" or "smart keyboard"
but tab does not support language switch unless it's "samsung keypad"
The Samsung keyboard I cannot help you get rid of unless you switch to CyanogenMod 9 which is what I run on my Galaxy Tab 8.9.
However if you can confirm if the language switching key on the Samsung keyboard has scancode 191 or 368 (or something else) then I'll try to make sure that the next version of External Keyboard Helper Pro will switch language using that key.
Either use the debugging option in External Keyboard Helper or this app to read the scancode of that key: https://github.com/chrisboyle/keytest/downloads
Thanks, any clue how to just get the OS to stop the auto-switch to the Samsung keyboard? Disabling it is just an option. If we can just stop the auto-switch upon detecting a bluetooth keyboard that'd be great.
Dav_Edward said:
Thanks, any clue how to just get the OS to stop the auto-switch to the Samsung keyboard? Disabling it is just an option. If we can just stop the auto-switch upon detecting a bluetooth keyboard that'd be great.
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The only way to stop this notification is to remove or disable all keyboards except the one you want. I get the same issue on my S2 and it looks like Samsung have locked their keyboard into the OS pretty tightly. I'm thinking Cyanogenmod or ParanoidAndroid or similar is our only option. Still looking but not much info anywhere.
Installing Keyboard Manager hasn't helped, even though it has an option to persist its own notification this app has no effect on stopping the default notification in ICS.
I must say the samsung keyboard is very annoying. Why they won't let us disable it baffles me, and why they forcefully make it take over every time a bluetooth keyboard is connected confuses me even more. The samsung keyboard has absolutely terrible support for bluetooth keyboards. Null Keyboard, Hacker's Keyboard, and Swiftkey 3 all properly support bluetooth keyboards connected and work great, but the Samsung one terribly messes up typical characters on a US layout keyboard, things like ' " ! ~ ? / \ [ ] $ # etc. all appear as accented or utterly wrong characters.
Possible solution to suppress Samsung keyboard
I understand this is an old thread, but I came across it when I was looking for a solution to suppress the Samsung keyboard for similar reasons as listed above. Maybe what seems to work for me can help others with similar issues. I have a Galaxy S III with stock JB 4.1.1 (rooted), so not sure if this solution works for other Samsung phones and ROMs.
I managed to prevent the Samsung keyboard from automatically being selected when connecting with a bluetooth keyboard (Logitech) by simply freezing the Samsung keyboard app with Titanium Backup (requires root). After rebooting the phone, the message that for using a bluetooth keyboard I have to select the Samsung keyboard does not appear anymore and the keyboard is not listed anymore under "Language and input" in Settings.
To further automate the selection of the right keyboard app (External Keyboard Helper Pro in my case) when the bluetooth keyboard connects, I am using a tasker (Llama) and Secure Settings to automatically select the right keyboard when the bluetooth keyboard connects/disconnects. This works well so far.
Best solution anyone could come up with so far. Thanks laanrobe.
laanrobe said:
I understand this is an old thread, but I came across it when I was looking for a solution to suppress the Samsung keyboard for similar reasons as listed above. Maybe what seems to work for me can help others with similar issues. I have a Galaxy S III with stock JB 4.1.1 (rooted), so not sure if this solution works for other Samsung phones and ROMs.
I managed to prevent the Samsung keyboard from automatically being selected when connecting with a bluetooth keyboard (Logitech) by simply freezing the Samsung keyboard app with Titanium Backup (requires root). After rebooting the phone, the message that for using a bluetooth keyboard I have to select the Samsung keyboard does not appear anymore and the keyboard is not listed anymore under "Language and input" in Settings.
To further automate the selection of the right keyboard app (External Keyboard Helper Pro in my case) when the bluetooth keyboard connects, I am using a tasker (Llama) and Secure Settings to automatically select the right keyboard when the bluetooth keyboard connects/disconnects. This works well so far.
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Hi, can you help me with same issue Please? I have same phone and same app (External Keyboard Helper Pro). I don't know how to set it up...
Thanks for your time.
I rooted my Galaxy tab 10.1 and then installed Ubuntu. No problems worked great. A couple of days ago I updated Ubuntu to 12.4. Now I'm unable to use the touch screen. That is when I touch the screen to activate an app, move a page or touch home button nothing works. Nothing works in terms of touching the screen with my fingers. However I can use my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 external Keyboard Dock along with my Bluetooth mouse.
I've tried everything form removing Ubuntu installing new ROM to UN-rooting it. I went to Sammobile Firmware for a stock rom to give a fresh start. In installed GT-P7510 ... P7510UEKMP. Still no luck. Does anyone know what I can do and what is causing the problem?
Thanks
Alan
Hardware issue?
I don't think the problem is caused by software
Hi there,
I cannot get my Universal Bluetooth Mobile Keyoard to work with my Sony Xperia Tablet Z. Sometimes it will ask for a code, and before I can enter it an error message pops up saying "cannot communicate with device". Other times I am able to enter the code with no errors, however, key presses are not registered at all on the tablet.
The most confusing part about this problem is that my Microsoft Wedge Mobile Keyboard works perfectly well with my tablet. And what's more, when the Wedge keyboard is connected, the bluetooth module in quick settings displays the Wedge kayboard name. While, when the Universal keyboard is connected, the bluetooth module in the quick settings doesn't seem to pick it up. I have also tried using both keyboards with my Nexus 5 running Android 5.0, and both keyboard work fine. Even more confusion!
It's important to note that while trying to connect either device, I've unpaired the other from the tablet. Basically, only one keyboard is paired with my tablet at any given instance. Therefore, this is not the issue.
I've heard that there was a bug in 4.3 Jellybean which caused some connectivity issues with bluetooth devices. My tablet is running a Cyanogenmod 4.4.4 Kit-Kat ROM, so that issue shouldn't be present here (at least, I think...)
Has anyone encountered this problem before, or have a solution?
Cheers!
ttarpey said:
Hi there,
I cannot get my Universal Bluetooth Mobile Keyoard to work with my Sony Xperia Tablet Z. Sometimes it will ask for a code, and before I can enter it an error message pops up saying "cannot communicate with device". Other times I am able to enter the code with no errors, however, key presses are not registered at all on the tablet.
The most confusing part about this problem is that my Microsoft Wedge Mobile Keyboard works perfectly well with my tablet. And what's more, when the Wedge keyboard is connected, the bluetooth module in quick settings displays the Wedge kayboard name. While, when the Universal keyboard is connected, the bluetooth module in the quick settings doesn't seem to pick it up. I have also tried using both keyboards with my Nexus 5 running Android 5.0, and both keyboard work fine. Even more confusion!
It's important to note that while trying to connect either device, I've unpaired the other from the tablet. Basically, only one keyboard is paired with my tablet at any given instance. Therefore, this is not the issue.
I've heard that there was a bug in 4.3 Jellybean which caused some connectivity issues with bluetooth devices. My tablet is running a Cyanogenmod 4.4.4 Kit-Kat ROM, so that issue shouldn't be present here (at least, I think...)
Has anyone encountered this problem before, or have a solution?
Cheers!
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I think it is an issue of CM. Try stock ROM or CM12.
Rootk1t said:
I think it is an issue of CM. Try stock ROM or CM12.
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Turns out CM was the issue. Running stock 4.4.4 and it works perfectly now! Thank you so much!
I tried getting the Samsung Note keyboard to run on this and was unable. Currently using gboard and got voice typing to work most of the time. But I am really interested in getting the Note 8 keyboard on this device with the Google voice dictation button in the bottom-left. I saw some post about getting a small version of it but if anyone has any ideas please let me know. I'm on the Chinese version by the way.
Not sure this helps much, but, my Mate Se works with my logitech wireless keyboard and mouse. I bought them for my laptop (use them all the time with it).
But most android devices can see them also. The 'unifying receiver' has to be done under windows (couldn't update it even under linux), but once programmed, works on the Se. I did need to change the Se usb connection type to 'midi', but then all works fine.
That's the thing with a tablet or phone. There may be rare occasions a keyboard and mouse might be needed (voice typing works great basically). It's difficult to justify spending a bunch for a keyboard for that device alone.