Comments on: Own a DROID RAZR But Want to Use Swype Beta Instead of the Pre-loaded Version? Try These Instructions

By: katie

katie — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:44:00 +0000

on my bionic i cant get this to work. i have renamed all the files and also froze swype, i get the swype instaler then attepmt to download swype and it says “licensing swype please wait” and it never gets past that. any tips guys?

By: LonTrew

LonTrew — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:53:00 +0000

Looks like Amazon already starts shipping this Motorola DROID RAZR 4G for Verizon Wireless: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0061OQJTK/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=261211-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0061OQJTK

By: Wahmuk

Wahmuk — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:37:00 +0000

It worked without a problem on my Droid 3. I renamed the original Swype.apk in Terminal, but the rest of the procedure I did the same as above and it went very smoothly.

By: Granted

Granted — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:12:00 +0000

Titanium Backup I believe is what he was refeRencing.

By: Granted

Granted — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:09:00 +0000

This has been a frustrating problem ever since I’ve owned my Droid X. It’s completely idiotic that wouldn’t ever update Swype for the X. But that isn’t that bad, because no matter what slide keyboard I use I always revert back to using Shapewriter. If anyone wants the last version of Shapewriter just leave your email and I’ll do my best to get you a copy. I’m quite busy working but hopefully I’ve have some much needed downtime soon, so I’ll get to it eventually. It’s just a damn shame that Shapewriter never got the chance to be further developed after being bought out. Especially considering that it’s, in my opinion lame, successor Flex T9 just fails in all aspects, and they never update it, and they never ever respond to emails.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:48:00 +0000

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By: Web design London

Web design London — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:10:00 +0000

I did this on my wife’s DroidX and all I had to do was rename the Swype.apk in system/app to Swype.old.

By: Devan Clements

Devan Clements — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:55:00 +0000

this works on the Droid bionic. I did run into a force close issue but re-install fixed that.

By: Will Gilman

Will Gilman — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:37:00 +0000

Worked perfect on my BIONIC!!

By: Christian

Christian — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:09:00 +0000

whats tb?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:25:00 +0000

Ouch that’s a lot… I used bloat freezer from the market and froze it then downloaded the new one…. be very careful editing system files there is no return if you mess up you RAZR!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:01:00 +0000

Worked like a charm on my D3 too!

By: Avery Dejuan Herron

Avery Dejuan Herron — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:33:00 +0000

This has been out since swipe started being preloaded on phones I’ve been doing this every since motorola changed the swipe theme and I hated it.

By: Gasai Yuno

Gasai Yuno — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:32:00 +0000

It’s not related to hardware in any way though. It’s all the same for the DROID2 GLOBAL; and I’m surprised that libSwypeCore is present on non-slider phones as my research on the topic kind of shows that this library is there to support the ALT LOCK key on the hardware keyboard.

I wonder what does this library actually do?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:26:00 +0000

I uninstalled the old version of Swype with TB and installed the beta…way easier!