Hero sucks at mutlitasking??
 

Love my hero, but one thing that is driving me absolutely F***ING crazy is they onscreen keyboard. If ANYTHING is happing in the backing it is slow as molasses and almost painful to type one because it takes forever for it to recognize what i pressed, and sometimes it even thinks that i'm holding the screen button down and will put in the "?" or whatever is the secondary icon for that key. I can tell when i'm getting a text when i'm typing because all the above will start to happen for about 5-10 seconds and then finally it will tell me i have a text and the keyboard will start acting normal again. Am I the only one with this issue? Havent seen anyone else talk about it.

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Exact same problem. I have one with HTC on back. Also I am using Handcent which I am pretty sure causes this. When I wasn't using it I didn't have this problem.

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I sent the an email to handcent regarding the keyboard lag issue. Hopefully, they take a look into solving this issue.

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I third that/HTC on the back and a slight lag at times.. I also noticed its a major difference when im on a rom and off on. The Sprint original is slow and laggy. On a Rom this thing flies

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Have you guys tried taking the haptic feedback off and just enabling the sound feedbAck in handcent? This has helped speed things up abit for me. Le me know how it goes.

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My phone is a with google phone. And i do use handcent and that does seem to be where it happens the worst. When i do it with google chat it still happens but its no where near as bad as when i am using handcent. i'm really hoping that this is just a side effect from HTC haxoring 1.5 to work on CDMA phones. I hope that the 2.0 or 2.1 update really speeds this phone up alot

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Yea, I was going to ask that. If you are using haptic feedback then turn it off and watch a huge speed increase. I have also seen slowness but haven't made the correlation with handcent. Hrm. *chin scratchy*

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I'm not using haptic feedback and it still happens, but I can see where that would cause it to slow a little.

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I'll try living without Handcent for a bit, atleast until that next update.

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my friend says it's better with different keyboard. I think he's using better keyboard and when I tried to confirm this by dl ling from marketplace, they want to charge me $3 for it. Anyone already have this and can confirm it?

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While an app is installing is the only time. I have thus issue. Google on back, fresh Rom

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I'll test it out and report back.

Ok I'm typing in portrait on stock SIP. Now landscape. Both are kind of laggy. This is after a restart. Going to setup better keyboard & reboot.

Ok, installed better keyboard & rebooted. Typing in portrait. Now in landscape. I like the options that better keyboar offers, but the lag is MUCH worse. It is 2 full words behind me, at least. The text prediction is good but typo correction is poor. Took me 5m to type this. Stock sip all the way!

Back on my comp now. That was on better keyboard 4.0.1. I really wanted to like it. I was already trying to think of how I could work out a deal with the author for fresh users. ha. But it is absolutely terrible on our hero. It literally took me over 5 minutes to type those few sentences. Try it out if you want to see how good the stock SIP is. Haha.

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HTC did very well on the kybd, unrivaled on android IMHO.

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Has anyone tried touch pal for hero ?

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Has anyone tried the Shape writer trial, it's the swipe to text app that just came out.

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I have been using touchpal for a while. I switched because you can move between QWERTY and predictive keyboards "on the fly", without having to go into the settings. Just swipe from left to right to switch. You can also assign a "defualt" kb for a particular orientation.

I still have a good amount of lag when typing.