12.19.07
N800 Updated to OS2008 - Where’s the stylus input?
Update - I just reflashed the N800 and opted NOT to restore and the stylus keyboard popped right up. I”m not sure why this is the case, but it’s there. I’ll be restoring things incrementally to see if I can rebuild slowly. Without there being a published list of don’ts with regard to updating the firmware, it’s hard to see how others will not also make this same mistake. One of the benefits of OS2008, is a less destructive update process with better restore function — though clearly not from pre-release / beta versions.
When I was testing the N810 and OS2008, I never looked for or even wanted the stylus keyboard but as soon as I updated my N800 with the beta release it was something I immediately missed. This was amplified by the fact that the thumbboard was not always popping up on all text entry points and at times I’ve even found myself in a few dead ends … no way to enter text and no way to do anything without entering something … hard to use Google without actually entering a search!
I expected this to go away with the release version, though after updating my N800 yesterday I still have no way to enable stylus entry and I am still finding it hard to get the thumbboard to pop up all the time. I’ve reset the N800 once today to try and fix this, but this is not what I was hoping to see with the OS2008 release. As you can see in the following screen shot, I am running the latest firmware but there’s simply no option for stylus input to activate.
I know there’s also supposed to be predictive text selections when using the thumbboard, which I’ve also yet to see on the N800 … I’ll have to try a fresh flash without a restore to see if there’s something buggy from a prior version along the way, but I have to say I’m quite frustrated. I tend to message quite a bit on the tablet and need text entry to be both reliable and flexible.
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