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genodis Posts: 49

Hello, as I and (suprisingly few) others, but at least some folks out there have complained about the way the T9 system works on the P990, with the phone suggesting words that often seems completely out of context, I have found a method of making life MUCH easier.

Ok, so here is the deal; my mainconcern with the new system was that if you typed in a word that consisted of two letters, as for example 'if', and then afterwards pressed the spacekey, the phone might put in a much longer word than the 'if' you wanted to enter. Like for example 'george' or any other word that you'd have to press 4 - 3 as the two first letters that had been placed in the wordlist. I don't have any more concrete examples, as I don't write in english on my P990.

This might go on, and more words that began with 4 - 3 would be placed over the simple 'if' word that you so often might want to enter. So it ends with you having to scroll down across many longer words to get to the short one you're looking for.

The solution I have found is, simply to, when the longer words gets suggested at the top, to reenter the short word, and add it to the dictionary, even though it already is there.
The short word, like 'if' would then be placed at the top of the list, and you could also do this with other words like 'he'. So they would be at the top of the suggestionslist when you have pressed the 3 - 4 keys.

I hope I am making myself understood here, I for one has just recently when I found this out, been able to type as fast as I used to on my previous P900. So I hope this can be of help to others who has been suffering under these silly word suggestions that have arisen with the P990.
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Posted: 2006-12-15 15:37:25
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himlims_nl Posts: > 500

that's a real issue to me, but you solved it thanks!!

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Posted: 2006-12-15 16:24:00
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Popolou Posts: 175

Nice workaround, thanks.

The fact taht this slipped through their testing infuriates me. Its so clearly a disputable issue that any focus group or product testing would have ironed out during the development cycle.

Mind you, its not the only thing that slipped through with this phone.

Regards

Popolou
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Posted: 2006-12-15 23:56:47
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arubinst Posts: 57

The way T9 works on the P990i is actually very interesting. It is true that it irritates me when the things you describe happen, but at the same time, the way it predicts words based on phrases I have written in the past is sometimes brilliant.

I see a lot of potential on that thing if they ever debug it and get it right.
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Posted: 2006-12-16 00:16:11
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Caspa Posts: > 500

I solved it another way.

Turned T9 off, took the flip off and just use the Qwerty!

Sorted!

[ This Message was edited by: caspa on 2006-12-16 11:41 ]
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Posted: 2006-12-16 12:37:00
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wazarmoto Posts: 18

lol. thats one way of doin it.
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Posted: 2006-12-19 17:53:22
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Mizzle Posts: > 500

Actually P990 doesnt use T9, but Ezitext

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Posted: 2006-12-19 19:41:27
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bondizi Posts: 221

Quote:
On 2006-12-16 00:16:11, arubinst wrote:
the way it predicts words based on phrases I have written in the past is sometimes brilliant.

yes absolutely.. i was about to point that out.

A great thing (if you type in English mostly).
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Posted: 2006-12-20 04:10:05
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