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> On 11 Aug 2015, at 00:23, Don Moore <donmo...@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote: > > Hi Stephen, > > How do I turn off predictive text??? > > Don > > -----Original Message----- > From: Talks [mailto:talks-boun...@talksusers.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Giggar > Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 4:53 PM > To: 'Talks Mailing List' <talks@talksusers.com> > Subject: Re: [Talks] Problem entering new contact > > You probably should update to the 5.50 version of Talks for your phone. It is > a free update for you. > > You need to turn off predictive text on your phone otherwise you will need to > press space bar after typing a word to select the word before you can arrow > down. This is why the arrow keys work after you initially type a word and > pressing right arrow then you can probably press down arrow. > > > 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 10:46 AM > To: Talks Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Talks] Problem entering new contact > > Have you taken out y our battery and put it back in again? Other thing is if > you go to a text message and start writing it, does all that work fine? > > Eleanor > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Don Moore" <donmo...@nbnet.nb.ca> > To: "'Talks Mailing List'" <talks@talksusers.com> > Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 4:34 PM > Subject: Re: [Talks] Problem entering new contact > > >> Hi Eleanor and Stephen, >> >> Thanks, my version of Talks is 5.21.3 >> >> I live in Canada. >> >> Don >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Talks [mailto:talks-boun...@talksusers.com] On Behalf Of Eleanor >> Martha Burke >> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 12:24 PM >> To: Talks Mailing List <talks@talksusers.com> >> Subject: Re: [Talks] Problem entering new contact >> >> To get your version of Talks, press the Talks key followed by a long >> press of soft key 1. Once in the Talks programme, then press soft key >> or option key as it is also called. Then arrow up, yes I said up, >> until you hear About and then select. You will then get the version >> of Talks you are currently running. >> >> Eleanor >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Don Moore" <donmo...@nbnet.nb.ca> >> To: "'Talks Mailing List'" <talks@talksusers.com> >> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 3:42 PM >> Subject: Re: [Talks] Problem entering new contact >> >> >>> Hi Stephen, >>> >>> To answer your questions: >>> >>> Have you tried turning off and on your phone to see if that clears >>> things up? >>> Answer: Yes, that was the first thing I tried. >>> >>> Can you arrow to the different fields when you first open a new >>> contact without entering anything to start with? >>> Answer: Yes, I can. >>> >>> I do not recall what phone you said you had. What phone is it? >>> Answer: Nokia E71 >>> >>> What version of Talks are you using? >>> Answer: I don't know how to determine this. >>> >>> Did you try using your Left and Right arrows in place of using the >>> Up/Down arrows? >>> Answer: Yes, I just tried it now and this is what happens: it moves >>> the cursor horizontally and then I am able to use the down arrow to >>> move to the next field. >>> >>> Don >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Talks [mailto:talks-boun...@talksusers.com] On Behalf Of >>> Stephen Giggar >>> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 5:35 AM >>> To: 'Talks Mailing List' <talks@talksusers.com> >>> Subject: Re: [Talks] Problem entering new contact >>> >>> 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/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
