Handwriting Pad no longer coming up

[cramis1]

Hey,
All of a sudden the handwriting pad no longer comes up when the s-pen is detached. I have the option checked in settings menu that 'Display handwriting pad when pen is detached'. As well the phone detects and notifies that the pen has been detached, it just does not bring up the handwriting pad and there is no symbol to do so on the left of the spacebar. I tried restarting the phone.
Does anyone have an idea about how to fix this, it was working last night and I deleted all apps I downloaded since then.

 

[alikoyyy]

The button encircled might be displaying a mic or a settings icon. Long press and you'll see more options. Choose the one with the letter T and the pen. Hope that solves your problem.

Oh and sorry attached image is recycled. Hehe.

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[cramis1]

Hi, thanks for the reply! But that symbol is not there, its as if the pen is not detached even though it is

 

[alikoyyy]

Ok I'm stumped. Have you tried resetting the keyboard?

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[cramis1]

hi, no i havent, ive tried resetting the settings back to default. How do you reset the keyboard?

 

[Pedro Vinicius Machado Borges]

I'm exactly with the same problem. .. I reset the settings of the keyboard and nothing. ..

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I'm exactly with the same problem. .. I reset the settings of the keyboard and nothing. ..

 

[Jrockttu]

Do you use a custom launcher like Nova or Apex? Using Nova makes it so that the Suggested apps don't show up in my notification bar when the pen is detached, so I don't know if it would do the same to your handwriting pad in the keyboard.

 

[Pedro Vinicius Machado Borges]

I don't use any launcher. .. it just suddenly stopped. .. =/

 

[imdebbas]

Im having the exact same problem. The option is just missing. I have the voice option, clipboard, and setting cog, but no handwriting toggle.

 

[BakedGoodsX]

I am having the exact same issue. The phone detects the pen fine (suggested apps appear, etc.) but the handwriting pad does not come up, nor is it an option when click+holding the Mic button. It worked for the first 24 hours just fine.

I've rebooted the device, reset Samsung keyboard settings, and am not using a different launcher. Anyone willing to factory reset their phone to see if that fixes this?

 

[mfherreradi]

Same trouble here... It's a shame such poor tested software from Samsung...

 

[hopefulfarm]

Are you certain the Samsung keyboard is marked as your default keyboard? I have no issues. I'm on sprint's n2.


Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note2

 

[BakedGoodsX]

Yes, my default keyboard was the Samsung keyboard (I had no others installed).

I eventually tried a custom rom, did a factory reset, the handwriting pad is back. Not sure whether it was the factory reset that did it, or installing a new rom (which most def. would have), either way it's working again and hasn't quit!

Must be a strange bug.

 

[anon(5495490)]

I had the same problem... Any of you which still having the Hadnwritting working, updated anything on your cellphone?

 

[MarkJaey]

Look for an icon, in the lower left corner of the keyboard, with several dots in the right corner. Those dots indicate additional "PRESS/HOLD" functionality for that key. Press and hold the key for a few seconds and you'll see the other options for input, including the keyboard option if something other than the QWERTY keyboard is displayed.

 

[Diego Guillen]

Have you tried changing the language option under keyboard settings? I had to change S-voice language to English UK to get Handwriting Pad working

Please see:
[Q] - Can't write with S-Pen - xda-developers

this work for me

 

[PAAdam]

The most common reason is that you changed the Input Language (probably from English UK to English US). Change back to English UK. Hopefully Samsung will fix it soon.

 

[dalanik]

Damn, I have the same problem, but yes, switching to the Eng (UK) solves the problem! How weird...

 

[Alawishis]

Damn, I have the same problem, but yes, switching to the Eng (UK) solves the problem! How weird...

Same for me changing the language to UK fixed it. I noticed that when I downloaded the US language it then worked under that language also. Now the problem I have is when I launch the pen input it crashes right away, but that's another problem.

 

[Killzee1]

When this happens to me i normally just go to the button, where sometimes shows the mic draw, and usually show the smiling face, and change( pressing and holding for a few seconds) to the simbol of a T with an S pen. I feel like that wasn't a good explanation, but I hope it helped.