simple newbie question, how to hide the keyboard when view text message threads

[Randy Paries]

Has the subject says,
I just send a text message and now i want to review the thread. Have the screen is the keyboard and message box.
I can not figure out how to tell the keyboard to goaway. I have to be missing something really simple

thanks
randy

 

[HPferoxCraft]

Hit the back button to the right of the home button?

 

[LavallavaL]

Hit the back button to the right of the home button?

Doesn,t always work like this. On my old Froyo handset, I had to touch the screen outside a typing box to hide the keyboard. My more recent handset with JellyBean, the "back" softkey changes to a "keyboard hide" key.

 

[srkmagnus]

Has the subject says,
I just send a text message and now i want to review the thread. Have the screen is the keyboard and message box.
I can not figure out how to tell the keyboard to goaway. I have to be missing something really simple

thanks
randy

Press and hold the menu button to make the keyboard go away. Pressing outside the text field should work as well.

 

[HPferoxCraft]

That's interesting, is it just for the stock messaging app or is it stock keyboard related? Mine goes away by doing all three methods but I'm not on anything stock.

 

[LavallavaL]

Don't know, but in my case, one device is an old Motorola Atrix 4G, running Froyo and the other is a fairly recent Xperia ZL running Jelly Bean 4.2.2. Could be the OS version also.