Hi all...I am absolutely new to the world of Symbian OS. I bought a Nokia E61 phone 3 days ago, and until now I cannot figure out how to enable using dictionary (to auto suggest words) when typing text messages. It was pretty simple in my previous Nokia phone, but for some reason I cannot figure it out in E61. Can some kind soul please help me with this?
Thanks a lot in advance.
How to enable dictionary use in text messaging in E61
maxkumar wrote:Hi all...I am absolutely new to the world of Symbian OS. I bought a Nokia E61 phone 3 days ago, and until now I cannot figure out how to enable using dictionary (to auto suggest words) when typing text messages. It was pretty simple in my previous Nokia phone, but for some reason I cannot figure it out in E61. Can some kind soul please help me with this?
You can't. There's no dictionary in the E61 so you have to spell all the words entirely with the keyboard. I thought that some third party software would allow us to have an autocompletion feature but since nothing like that has been released or even announced yet, i guess that it's either too difficult or impossible to implement under S60 3rd edition (still hoping though)
elp wrote:You can't. There's no dictionary in the E61 so you have to spell all the words entirely with the keyboard. I thought that some third party software would allow us to have an autocompletion feature but since nothing like that has been released or even announced yet, i guess that it's either too difficult or impossible to implement under S60 3rd edition (still hoping though)
Anyone know whether this is still true? I recently switched to E61i, and I never gave a thought about text-autocompletion/dictionary as that is something I just expect to be in place on a phone, even with qwerty keyboard. Does a solution exist now?
When the E70 is opened in full keyboard mode the predictive text input is disabled, as the E61 is in "full keyboard" all the time that's probably why there's no predictive text - another stupid design decision by Nokia.
BTW there is a program out there which does auto text completion (from a dictionary) but I can't remember its name nor the company 😊 However from what I had read it had a major problem in that when writing an email it frequently and spontaneously closes the compose mail screen losing whatever had been written.
I can remember them removing the T9 as far back as the communicator days
The figure full keyboard no need
but i know Many people and I used the T9 as a spell checker also
I am new to the E61i, I just purchased it four days ago.
I have just installed a program called Quick Write, it works like T9.
I still have it under evaluation, but so far it looks good.
I don't compose email a lot from the phone, but I do text and IM a lot and it hasn't caused a crash yet.
One point of confusion though, the Help file does not seem tailored to the E61i which doesn't have a standard cellphone keypad.
Therefore to toggle between text input modes, you must use the Blue Extended Function Key, or whatever it's called the bottom-most left key. This brings you in and out of alphabet mode and number/character mode.
Cycling the shift key will take you in and out of Predictive Text Lower Case/Predictive Text Uppercase single letter/Predictive Text All Caps and the equivalent modes in non-predictive text.
To bring up the program options, you press the Character Key.
Hope this helps folks wanting to evaluate the program. It confused me a lot at first.