Help my phone has gone nuts!!

raid517 wrote:Hi, please help, I thin i may ave pressed a button, or that maybe something got inadvertently pressed when it was in my pocket (which s more likely as I certainly don't remember doing it deliberately) - but in any case my phone has begun second guessing everything I try to type and it keeps making nonsensical suggestions, or trying to spell words out for me as I type them.

Naturally if this worked at all, it might not be such a bad thing - but it's success rate is terrible - and my inability to find a way to turn it off is deeply frustrating.

Can anyone please suggest a way that I can permanently disable this functionality?

It's not even that it is trying to guess what it is I am trying to write - it is physically changing words so that I don't even have the choice to keep my original selection. It is like some weird automatic spell checker (that is really quite useless) and it is present both when writing a text message and when surfing the web.

Any advice on how to disable this 'feature' would be extremely welcome.

PS

If it's any help to anyone, Ihave a little icon on the top left of my screen during web browsing now - which is a bit odd to describe - and next to this I have the letters "abc' so it is obviously some kind of automatic spell checking thing that's going on.

I just wish I could switch it off.

Thanks man, you saved my skin, that thing was driving me nuts. 😊

raid517 wrote:Thanks man, you saved my skin, that thing was driving me nuts. 😊

lol i know what u meen, its terible, i cant see how ppl can use it to type with

First of all Raid517... welcome to the 21st century... :tongue:

Predictive text seems like an evil thing until you get used to it. Most of the time it looks like it's going to spell the wrong word but if you carry on and complete the word then most of the time it will come out right. If at the end of a word it's still wrong then press the star key and it will give another suggestion or at worse ask you to spell it. It should then add this word to its custom dictionary. You must also remember that you only have to hit the keys once unlike normal text where you nudge through to the letter you want.

A quick way to switch between predictive and non-predictive it to use the hash key. If the letters in the top right hand corner have "speed" lines eminating from them then you are in predictive mode.

Trust me... it's so much easier once you have got used to "he" coming out as "if" and "cool" coming out as "book"... Just use the star key... :icon14:

jeez, if you're having difficulty recognising predictive text, what about the rest of the N95's functionality!!?

watch out when your phone starts talking to you... hehe

Well I haven't ever owned a mobile phone before. I am kind of unconventional that way I guess. For 39 years I resisted the temptation. But I am a gadget nut - and the sheer range of functionality of the n95 was just too much to pass up.

So it's all new to me really.

I lot of people didn't like it when it first came out, but the trick is to not look at the screen until you've typed all the letters, just look at what you're pressing, then look at the screen and choose the word in the way betyouaint said above. If you look at the screen while typing a word it's very easy to got lost.

Try it...

raid517 wrote:Well I haven't ever owned a mobile phone before. I am kind of unconventional that way I guess. For 39 years I resisted the temptation. But I am a gadget nut - and the sheer range of functionality of the n95 was just too much to pass up.

So it's all new to me really.

Hehe, talk about in at the deep end. Good luck. 😉

Wowsers, even my Mum has mastered predictive text and shes in her 60s and its her first phone.

I'm just bustin' your chops though, give it some practice and you will find its much faster. When predictive first came about I had arguments with a mate at school about it until we decided to have a 'text off'. We both had to compose the same message and send it to another mate and the first received won. The message was a mix of normal words, made up ones (that predictive wouldn't know) and numbers. My predictive written message arrived on the target phone before my mate had even finished typing!

Yeah, well I'm glad you're just busting my chops. 😉

I'll look into it, that's all I can say.

However the n00b title is possibly a little undeserved - as I have pretty much hacked every gadget I have ever owned, going from PS1, PS2, XBox, Xbox 360, iPod (which I had running Linux at one point) Sony PSP, and I have hacked/owned pretty much the entire line of Archos MP3/multimedia players and I even firmware modded/debranded the N95 (which all in all is basically just a small selection of the devices I have owned). I have also been a regular Linux user since 1995 - well before most other people had even heard of Linux - so as I say, while I appreciate that the ribbing is all in good jest, I am pretty confident that I should be able to deal with most stuff. I am as you might tell from my brief history, a seriously addicted gadget nut.

Now mobile phones, that's a bit different. Essentially I'm a guy who only likes to be contacted/found when I decide I want to be contacted/found - and more than that I didn't and haven't ever liked the ubiquitous/anti-social nature of mobile phones (insomuch that everyone seems to have one). But anyway, as I said, the thing that won me over with the N95 is that above all else it is a gadget. It has lots of cool features that can keep a gadget guy like me happy for quite a long time - even if I rarely use it as an actual phone.

I still feel slightly ashamed and self conscious when i use it in public as a phone and try to hide it a little, because well I really do hate to feel like a sheep (again since everyone else does seem to have one). But if Nokia can keep up this level of gadgetry in their future products, well I guess I'm probably pretty much hooked.

You care way too much what people think! It's just a phone. Sure, everyone has one, but everyone wears jeans and drives cars, I bet you still do those things!

I don't care about what other people think. I care about what I think. Otherwise I would have bought a mobile phone a long time ago.

And no, I don't wear jeans, or drive a car either.

Not for the same reasons as above, but there you are.

Clearly, one shouldn't make assumptions.

raid517 wrote:I don't care about what other people think. I care about what I think. Otherwise I would have bought a mobile phone a long time ago.

And no, I don't wear jeans, or drive a car either.

Not for the same reasons as above, but there you are.

Clearly, one shouldn't make assumptions.

Well you are clearly bothered what I think :laugh:

Well since I have no clear idea about what you think about anything very much, that might be a little difficult.

But anyway, whatever. 😉