Have you tried turning off and on your phone to see if that clears things up. Can you arrow to the different fields when you first open a new contact without entering anything to start with? I do not recall what phone you said you had. What phone is it? What version of Talks are you using? Did you try using your Left and Right arrows in place of using the Up/Down arrows? Sounds like your screen may have gotten turned 90 degrees. In that case, the Up/Down will not work. This is easy to do with a slider phone. Again closing and opening the phone should fix this. Nothing else, turning off and on the phone will also fix it.
Changing the cursor type isn't going to change how Talks works when entering items into the contacts. Other settings comes down to how you want your phone to work. There isn't an correct and incorrect way. Just the way you want to use the phone and have things spoken when typing things. IE Spelling, Echo Characters, Words, both and or None. Comes down to what you want. Initially it sounds like the dictionary is working correctly based on your initial message. Remember when using T9(dictionary), you only need to press each number once. So if you wanted to enter Mike, you would press on a numeric keypad phone 6 4 5 3 and it may say Mike. If it says something different like Mile, then you would press the Star to cycle through all the enters of words that can be made up with those 4 key presses. Signed: Stephen Giggar Skype: dr-phone. Hardware eventually fails, software eventually works. No amount of bandwidth can fix poor design. -----Original Message----- From: Talks [mailto:talks-boun...@talksusers.com] On Behalf Of Eleanor Martha Burke Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 2:57 AM To: Talks Mailing List Subject: Re: [Talks] Problem entering new contact are you in the UK alternatively are you on Skype this way we could work on it together so that I could hear what is going on. > On 10 Aug 2015, at 02:25, Don Moore <donmo...@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote: > > Hi Eleanor, > > I tried all your suggestions and still no luck! What is really strange is > that the dictionary seems to be part of the problem; I don't recall this > happening in the past. > > I would appreciate any help with this. > > Thanks, > > Don > > -----Original Message----- > From: Talks [mailto:talks-boun...@talksusers.com] On Behalf Of Eleanor > Martha Burke > Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2015 8:09 PM > To: Talks Mailing List <talks@talksusers.com> > Subject: Re: [Talks] Problem entering new contact > > Hi Don, I don't have my Talks phone to hand but I can think of a few things > you need to check. Now when I am writing on my Talks phone, I like to set > key echo and it can be set as follows, key echo none, key echo words and key > echo characters and words. This is done by pressing the talks key followed > by the number one on your key pad and cycling through those options. Now > another thing is the spelling alphabet and I think you need to change that. > Again without the phone, I recommend you press Talks followed by the > number > 3 on your keypad and go through the various settings by pressing again Talks > and the number 3. Finally it also depends on how your cursor is set, ensure > it is not set to origional as this is not the setting when inputting text. > Checking cursor settings press Talks followed by the number 2 and again go > through those settings Talks and number 2, I think I recall that there are > about 3 different settings. Not sure if you have predictive text set but I > don't recommend it for a beginner. Try out the above suggestions first and > if they don't work then press the hash or pound key twice quickly in > succession and see if that helps. > > Eleanor > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Don Moore" <donmo...@nbnet.nb.ca> > To: "'Talks Mailing List'" <talks@talksusers.com> > Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2015 9:56 PM > Subject: [Talks] Problem entering new contact > > >> Hi List, >> >> I have entered several new contacts many times, but now I am having a >> problem: >> >> I opened my contacts list. Then, I pressed SoftKey 1 and cursored >> down to new contact and pressed Select. Then Talks said, "First name >> text, dictionary upper case." Then, I typed the first letter of Mike >> and it said, "Caps M." Then, I typed the letter I and it said, "Caps >> Mike." Then, I typed the letter k and it said, "Caps Mike" again. >> Then, I typed the letter e and it said, "Caps Mike" again. After all >> of that, I couldn't cursor down to the field for the last name. >> >> I must have pressed something by mistake that has changed my settings >> to get all of this happening. >> >> Can anyone help??? >> >> Don >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talks mailing list >> Talks@talksusers.com >> http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks >> >> Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: >> eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ and Talknav Inc. >> http://www.talknav.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > Talks mailing list > Talks@talksusers.com > http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks > > Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: > eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ and Talknav Inc. > http://www.talknav.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > Talks mailing list > Talks@talksusers.com > http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks > > Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: > eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ and Talknav Inc. > http://www.talknav.net/ _______________________________________________ Talks mailing list Talks@talksusers.com http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ and Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/ _______________________________________________ Talks mailing list Talks@talksusers.com http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ and Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/
