Question about autocorrect while texting: Why isn't "Im" automatically fixed to "I'm"
I'm the proud owner of a Galaxy S3 thanks to the recent 99 cent promos on Black Friday. It came shipped with Android 4.1.1. It's a huge upgrade from my ancient phone, a Palm Centro circa 2007. However I experienced my first disappointment with it today while I was texting for the first time.
On my Palm, when I typed out a text message, ex: Im followed by a space, the Im would get automatically get fixed to I'm while I typed. It did that for commonly punctuated words, other examples: Lets > Let's, Id > I'd, Youll > You'll, Youd > You'd. It was seamless and made texting faster, I took it for granted until now...
On my S3, if you type out Im ready for example, it prints Im ready rather than I what I intended: I'm ready. I checked my word list (it's under Settings > Language and Input > Samsung keyboard Gears Icon > My word list), but it's empty so I know Im isn't in there. I know I can choose I'm from the suggestion bar after I type Im but that seems like a downgrade from the seamless autocorrect my Palm implemented for those words. Is there any way I can get texting on Android to behave like how I describe? And for those of you who read this and think I'm lazy, I agree with you! I guess years of texting like that on my Palm spoiled me, I can't go back. Thanks for any tips!
I'm the proud owner of a Galaxy S3 thanks to the recent 99 cent promos on Black Friday. It came shipped with Android 4.1.1. It's a huge upgrade from my ancient phone, a Palm Centro circa 2007. However I experienced my first disappointment with it today while I was texting for the first time.
On my Palm, when I typed out a text message, ex: Im followed by a space, the Im would get automatically get fixed to I'm while I typed. It did that for commonly punctuated words, other examples: Lets > Let's, Id > I'd, Youll > You'll, Youd > You'd. It was seamless and made texting faster, I took it for granted until now...
On my S3, if you type out Im ready for example, it prints Im ready rather than I what I intended: I'm ready. I checked my word list (it's under Settings > Language and Input > Samsung keyboard Gears Icon > My word list), but it's empty so I know Im isn't in there. I know I can choose I'm from the suggestion bar after I type Im but that seems like a downgrade from the seamless autocorrect my Palm implemented for those words. Is there any way I can get texting on Android to behave like how I describe? And for those of you who read this and think I'm lazy, I agree with you! I guess years of texting like that on my Palm spoiled me, I can't go back. Thanks for any tips!
Last edited: