Once upon a time, in the days of push-button mobile phones, there lived a brownie. It would be more correct to say telephone, because he lived in them. And he imagined himself to be the chief adviser on literacy. As soon as a person thinks about sending an SMS to someone, he just touches a button with his finger, and the telephone number is right there - he advises, prompts or corrects “typos” himself. Sometimes completely ridiculous and funny phrases came from his “pen,” but people liked it. And the phone's name was T9.
Years have passed, and mobile phones with buttons have given way to smartphones. The on-screen keyboard allows you to do without an advisor, but how we've come to miss its funny tips, right? Well, let's call the telephone guy back. So, how to enable T9 on Android smartphones of different brands.
A setting that works on most smartphones and tablets
The favorite habitat of the telephone in modern devices (yes, it is still alive and well), of course, is the keyboard. It doesn’t matter what brand, model and generation your “mobile friend” is, you should only look for T9 control buttons in the keyboard settings. And they, in turn, are located in the “ Language and input ” section.
Here it is, a universal procedure:
- Open the phone settings utility.
- Scroll the screen to the “ System ”, “ Device ” or “ Personal Information ” section - managing language options is usually located in one of them. In some cases, you will have to open another subsection, which may be called “ Advanced ”, “ Advanced ”, “ Control and input ”, “ System ” or something else, but similar in meaning.
- Go to “ Language and Input ” – “ Keyboard and input methods ” and touch your current keyboard with your finger. On pure Android, Keyboard AOSP is installed by default, so we will analyze further actions using its example.
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- Text Correction from the list of Android keyboard settings .
- Here you are. There is no T9 mode directly here, but there is an analogue of it - functions for suggesting words and names, auto-correcting typos, correction options, user dictionaries and blocking obscene words. Choose whatever you want.
- Autocorrection of the standard Android keyboard works in three modes - moderate, active and very active. It is in the last two that the most ridiculous errors arise, like the one in the title of the article.
By the way, the basic Android keyboard is not very functional in terms of text correction. Almost all third-party analogues have much more settings here. The following shows the automatic text adjustment options as an example. And not all, but only those that fit on one screen.
VIRTUAL KEYBOARD program
The Virtual Keyboard program allows you to enter characters using the mouse. Yes, it’s not very convenient, but it’s definitely better than writing: “ska4at russkaya klaviatura...”
This program can be useful if you need to type text in a language whose alphabet characters are not on the keyboard buttons or support for the corresponding layout is not installed in the operating system.
Another possible area of application for a virtual keyboard is the secure entry of confidential data (passwords, bank account numbers, credit cards). If you do not rule out that you are being monitored by some program that records your keystrokes on the keyboard, then a virtual keyboard is the solution to this problem!
At the moment (as of September 14, 2013) version 4.0.1 is available for download.
Version 4.0.1
This version has 75 language layouts and supports 53 languages :
Russian , Azerbaijani, Albanian, English, Arabic, Armenian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Dutch, Greek, Georgian, Danish, Hebrew, Icelandic, Spanish, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Chinese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, German, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Thai, Tamil, Tatar, Turkish, Uzbek, Ukrainian, Urdu, Farsi, Finnish, French, Croatian, Czech, Swedish, Estonian, Japanese, has an English interface.
(exe. file 434.0 KByte)
Virtual Keyboard 4 is shareware. It works without registration, but only the basic functions of the program are fully available. To register, follow this link to the developer's website.
IMPORTANT! Virtual Keyboard version 2 requires the .NET Framework version 2.0 or later to be installed on your computer. You can download the current version of the .NET Framework from the Microsoft website: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/
J Virtual Keyboard
Another version of the program - “J Virtual Keyboard” - is an analogue of the “Virtual Keyboard” program. The difference between them is that “J Virtual Keyboard” is written in the Java programming language, so it works regardless of hardware, settings and operating system language, and is also platform independent. Those. it can run on both Windows and Linux, as well as any other operating systems.
The only condition: to run the program, you must have the Java Virtual Machine (JRE) installed on your computer, which is usually not included in the operating system. Therefore it must be installed separately. The Java Virtual Machine can be downloaded from: https://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
The program is free (Freeware) (zip archive 54.3 KByte)
Developer's website: www.andrej-koch.de
How to enable T9 on phones of the most popular brands
Since you already know where the main settings for language functions are, let's consider only the individual differences on devices from different manufacturers.
- Samsung : Language and input – Samsung keyboard – T9 mode.
- Xiaomi, Lenovo : Advanced settings (Advanced) – Language and Input – Keyboard – Auto-correction or Text correction.
- Meizu : Language – TouchPal – Smart input – Prediction, etc.
- LG, Acer : Language and input – XT9 Text Input – Settings – Auto-correction.
- HTC : Language and keyboard – Touch input – Entering text – Predicting or completing words.
- Sony Xperia : Xperia Keyboard – Text input options – Word suggestions – Automatically correct typos.
On different smartphone models of the same brand, the names of menu items may differ from those mentioned in the list. But not so much that you get confused.
On-Screen Keyboard ONLINE
For convenience, you can open the keyboard in a separate window » And to type from the keyboard, try our Online transliterator »
In order to have a virtual keyboard always at hand, move this link to your bookmarks bar: Keyboard
For example, in the Firefox browser it looks like this:
(The bookmarks bar must be turned on).
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