Typing autocorrect sux - any tips?

[Jp5Cj2FGK3]

I don't know about anyone else but the autocorrect when typing emails and texts sux. It guesses way wrong...I mean it's putting in weird non-english words. An example:

I meant:
Woops, forgot to let y'all know that I have phone duty today and won't be in until 1pm.

HTC wrote:
Woerth forgot to let y'all inique thermique I bave phon?tique rodage and won be in until 1 pm.

I'm not dyslexic or anything, I was typing this while sitting down, using both hands, not driving and I know how to spell. I typed it into the phone as you see in the "I meant: " line.

Any ideas? Is there some setting I need to check?

 

[mchockeyvette27]

Seems like you have it set to a different language.

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[SpookDroid]

Which languages have you enabled? I don't know about the M8's keyboard specifically, but usually with auto-correct/prediction you either get a choice for it to 'learn' from other apps like GMail or SMS, or just wait for it to 'learn' your writing, starting off with a basic dictionary. From what you show as an example, it seems as if you switched languages mid-sentence (perhaps an assigned key? maybe swiping across the space bar accidentally?).

But IMHO, just do away with that keyboard and get SwiftKey. Much better.

 

[karmamule]

I had a review mentioning how bad the keyboard was, but so far I've been pleasantly surprised at how well my M8 is doing with autocorrect. I think the suggestion about having it set to another language is very likely right. I've had that happen before and been mystified until I figured it out.

 

[Jp5Cj2FGK3]

Thanks guys. At your suggestions I looked around the settings some more and found the culprit. I was just going to Settings -> Language and Keyboard and saw that it was set to English (United States). But then I took a look at Settings -> Language and Keyboard -> HTC Sense Input settings -> Keyboard Selections -> and then if you scroll down there is a section for "Select Keyboards for text input". In that list for whatever reason the following languages were selected: English(US), Espanol, and Francais. I unchecked everything except English and now it's working !!

 

[mchockeyvette27]

Thanks guys. At your suggestions I looked around the settings some more and found the culprit. I was just going to Settings -> Language and Keyboard and saw that it was set to English (United States). But then I took a look at Settings -> Language and Keyboard -> HTC Sense Input settings -> Keyboard Selections -> and then if you scroll down there is a section for "Select Keyboards for text input". In that list for whatever reason the following languages were selected: English(US), Espanol, and Francais. I unchecked everything except English and now it's working !!

Great! Good to hear

 

[popartist]

Thanks guys. At your suggestions I looked around the settings some more and found the culprit. I was just going to Settings -> Language and Keyboard and saw that it was set to English (United States). But then I took a look at Settings -> Language and Keyboard -> HTC Sense Input settings -> Keyboard Selections -> and then if you scroll down there is a section for "Select Keyboards for text input". In that list for whatever reason the following languages were selected: English(US), Espanol, and Francais. I unchecked everything except English and now it's working !!

Not sure that this is the culprit since I have also been experiencing crappy autocorrect and my phone did not have Espanol or Francais checked, just English (US).

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[Runnin_it]

Swiftkey is the bees knees in this regard.

 

[MrRicks84]

Swiftkey is the bees knees in this regard.

This. I can't use any other keyboard lol. I'm too used to using SwiftKey

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[mysterygirl]

Hope your problem is solved. If not, you may want to try a different keyboard. I'm using the Google keyboard.

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[jd914]

SwiftKey FTW

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[mchockeyvette27]

Hope your problem is solved. If not, you may want to try a different keyboard. I'm using the Google keyboard.

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Definitely Google keyboard. The simplest keyboard out there with great text prediction and autocorrect.

 

[torifile]

SwiftKey. Get it and use it for a while. It's brilliant.

 

[TechyJew]

I love swiftkey, and now swiftkey beta is my new love, since that has all the emoji from kit Kat. Pay once and use it on all of my device's is a great feature too.

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