Comments on: Swype Beta Receives Update, Tell Me Again Why It Isn’t In Google Play Yet?

By: Keg Man

Keg Man — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:47:00 +0000

find a Flext9.apk and install it. its from the makers who now own skype. they stopped updating it a long time ago, and it is strangely leaps and bounds better than skype. Its discontinued so using it without paying isn’t exactly stealing anymore…

By: Daniel Flores

Daniel Flores — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:44:00 +0000

That doesn’t work. I just tried to disable the stop keyboard and it continues to revert from Swype.

By: Nasdel

Nasdel — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 06:05:00 +0000

Just disable the stock android keyboard from settings, apps, all. Then do a restart and you should be good to go with Swype and lightflow

By: danofiveo

danofiveo — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:58:00 +0000

The new beta didn’t show up on my Xoom until this morning. I installed it not to long ago and I like the fact that they finally added a spilt-keyboard layout. I think I’ll use this instead of Thumb Keyboard as my default.

I must admit though, that handwriting mode is aweful. How to get it to recognize a “T” is beyond me.

Anyway, I’m planning on using the split-keyboard mode most of the time.

By: Sloan Marion

Sloan Marion — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:34:00 +0000

As we can all see from your well worded comment.

By: D.C.

D.C. — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:04:00 +0000

Well, the work-around works but it’s unacceptable to me to permanently disable LightFlow and other Accessibility-enabled apps. Guess it is time to switch to SwiftKey 3

By: some guy

some guy — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:42:00 +0000

There’s a workaround right now: http://forum.swype.com/showthread.php?9982-Official-Galaxy-Nexus-Jelly-Bean-Swype-Issue-Thread&p=35750#post35750

Disable any apps in Accessibility settings (such as Light Flow). Some have also had luck with disabling the default Android keyboard instead.

By: wh1te_mag1c

wh1te_mag1c — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:03:00 +0000

Exactly this. With Swype, we ‘magically get our word to appear’ (just make quick swipe!) and then correct it if we need to. With keyboards like SK3, you need to be guiding it all along. I would say Swype achieves the perfect balance between predicting what you’re typing and letting you feel like you’re typing it. With the other keyboards, I actually feel distracted and annoyed that several words are popping up as choices while I’m trying to finish up the current word. It really does add additional brain processing for the user. Why should I be seeing all these other words if I don’t need to? I should only see them if I need to correct something after I typed/swiped it.

By: arthur dent

arthur dent — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:07:00 +0000

With Swype I can trace out the whole message without paying attention to what’s on the screen. Then I can read through it and quickly double tap any words it got wrong and correct them.

With word prediction, I type a bit, then I have to check if it’s suggesting the correct word. If not, type a bit more, see if it’s there, and repeat this cycle for every. single. word.

By: yamomoney

yamomoney — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:40:00 +0000

Same issue as the john and Howard. I’ve tried everything I can think of to fix…had to restore my TB backup to revert back. it appears to be a galaxy nexus problem mainly, hopefully they fix soon.

By: D.C.

D.C. — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:36:00 +0000

Hoo-boy, what a frustrating process. I love using Swype but hate, hate, hate how dreadful the 27-step install/re-install/update process is.

According to this http://bit.ly/rqPNFy it can take up to 72 hours before an update shows automatically. My phone would not update using the posted “refresh” method. It auto-updated on reboot. My tablet will not do either.

By: Justin Scarano

Justin Scarano — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:08:00 +0000

https://www.dropbox.com/s/usdyo9cgfkqt0c8/swype1.1.1.7628.apk
there is the old Working application until they fix their current version of the application

By: Howard Kellogg

Howard Kellogg — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:48:00 +0000

I installed the new beta, but when i select it as an input it automatically switches back to using the stock keyboard. i like the look of the beta, but i can’t use it!
anyone else have this problem?

By: John

John — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:33:00 +0000

This just downloaded to my Galaxy Nexus and now it won’t let me use Swype, or select Swype as the default keyboard – either in the main settings or in the notification selection. I uninstalled and tried again, still nothing. Re-downloaed SlideIt to make sure it was not a phone issue, and I can select this fine. I’d be careful with this if you want it to still work.

By: acras

acras — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:31:00 +0000

super , I’ve been using swype since I got my droid X , then joined the beta so I could get updates . The update in June (?)started getting laggy , and always started the next message with the last word of the previous message . Got the update today , and now I can’t choose Swype as the default input. I check the box , it shows the change under default for a second , then automatically changes back to the android keyboard .
The other great news is that I can’t access my account with them , put in my email and password and their site doesn’t recognize it .
Looking like I’m going to have to stop relying on them , and sideload the version I have on my DX to my nexus . Unfortunate that its getting so bad , I love using swype , best input method I’ve had.