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#1 PogoTheMonkey

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 06:35 PM

I did some weird stuff and idk how i did it. ive attached a couple pic of my keyboard. Ok, its a long story but i want to be as detailed as possible with the process that got me here. As im sure a lot of you know google released the 4.2 keyboard as a standalone app (pic 1), i was trying to install it as a system app so i had installed like normal just down loaded from the play store, and i tried moving moving to system/app for data/app, set permissions rw-r-r, force close is all i got, so from the apk in system/app i installed it like i was sideloading it. it worked fine, and i used it for a few days before i realized that i lost the stock keyboard, i have no idea how it, but displays under "Language & input" as "Android keyboard (AOSP)" , snd all i had was the "Google keyboard" i installed, so i ran a backup from safestrap that i made before install the google keyboard in system. so the AOSP keyboard came back. i guess i did this back up after installed the 4.2 from the play store but before moving to system. so i cleared the data from the app and uninstalled and rebooted. now 4.2 is gone and AOSP is still there. i had used app backup to save a copy of the 4.2 keyboard so i copied it system/media changed the name to "GoogleKeyboard.apk" changed the permissions again and moved to system, didnt run an install and rebooted. so now i had both keyboards under "Language & input" but there both greyed out like there both set as the default, with no way to select one or the other. so i tryed out the keyboard and its just the stock aosp one. so i did a full factory data reset, see if i could clear up the weirdness. so the rest goes fine i pull up the keyboard and ive got the 4.2, but when i go to type something the floating word prediction is all different (pic 2). so i go to setting and check language and input, "Google keyboard" is gone and "Android keyboard (AOSP)" has turned into just "Android keyboard" and when i check the keyboard setting its a hybrid of the settings of both sets of settings with a few options missing. so then i check system/apps, "GoogleKeyboard.apk" is gone. and thats about it. never seen anything like it. it runs fine and is actually really cool, but i wanna know how i did this add what files were effected what .apk's the stock keyboard should be. ect.

 

 

 

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#2 psychopath67

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Posted 30 August 2013 - 10:16 AM

If this is extremely agrivating to you i would install a 3rd party keyboard such as Swiftkey (:



#3 B.E.McAllister

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Posted 30 August 2013 - 09:07 PM

Google keyboard had a market update which looks like the second picture

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