Official Keyboard Lag Thread

TheAccuser · #1 (**permalink**) 02-23-2009, 02:16 PM

There are quite a few posts scattered through these forums talking about keyboard lag. I never had any keyboard lag with the stock rom on my Touch Pro, but with ALL of the custom roms, the keyboard lag is just terrible. I am constantly having to correct lag errors...no way I can easily keep my typing flowing. I do quite a bit of emailing, not just texting on my TP so this is becoming a major sticking point for me. I really love all of the tweaks on the custom roms, but the keyboard lag is one thing that I can't get past.

Has anyone identified what is actually causing this to happen? Does it have anything to do with a specific ROM starting point (ie - Fuze vs Verizon vs Sprint stock rom)?

I think I'm going to flash back to the stock rom and start customizing myself. What is everyone else doing? Are you just dealing with the lag?

JeffKay · #2 (**permalink**) 02-23-2009, 02:24 PM

I had terrible lag with the stock rom.. that is why I went to a custom rom myself.

I feel it's better by far with a custom rom.

But I still get some lag.

TaylorSPJ · #3 (**permalink**) 02-23-2009, 02:34 PM

I made a cab to fix the lag for all custom roms.....
there is a txt file inside the zip if you rather do it manually.

**scrosler** · #4 (**permalink**) 02-23-2009, 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Good Cat

I made a cab to fix the lag for all custom roms.....
there is a txt file inside the rar if you rather do it manually.

Really, let me take a look at this....

**kyle4269** · #5 (**permalink**) 02-23-2009, 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Good Cat

I made a cab to fix the lag for all custom roms.....
there is a txt file inside the zip if you rather do it manually.

What does this cab do to fix the lag?

**scrosler** · #6 (**permalink**) 02-23-2009, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by kyle4269

What does this cab do to fix the lag?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Keybd
"InitialDelay"=dword: dec 0 (default value = 375)
"RepeatRate"=dword: dec 8 (default value - 8 )

TheAccuser · #7 (**permalink**) 02-23-2009, 02:57 PM

I can confirm that this does not resolve the keyboard lag issues.

FormerPalmOS · #8 (**permalink**) 03-02-2009, 12:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scrosler

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Keybd
"InitialDelay"=dword: dec 0 (default value = 375)
"RepeatRate"=dword: dec 8 (default value - 8 )

Thx Scott for extracting the contents of the cab - saved me the trouble. These two entries control the initial delay and the repeat rate for when you hold down a key. Shouldn't affect lag at all. Note - I said shouldn't, not won't so don't flame me - just an educated opinion.

Try cooking a rom with all of the DLLs for HTC ezinput turned into modules. I did that from the beginning so can't say that I ever experienced lag, but I can say that I don't have lag with this done, even with xt9 both installed and enabled. BTW, provided you don't use too many uncommon words, you can get quite fast with predictive input plus a keyboard...

OldQuser · #9 (**permalink**) 02-28-2009, 02:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Good Cat

I made a cab to fix the lag for all custom roms.....
there is a txt file inside the zip if you rather do it manually.

This worked perfect for me, thank you very much.

I am on kk 1.7 (which roxers the boxers by the way)

**scrosler** · #10 (**permalink**) 02-23-2009, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheAccuser

There are quite a few posts scattered through these forums talking about keyboard lag. I never had any keyboard lag with the stock rom on my Touch Pro, but with ALL of the custom roms, the keyboard lag is just terrible. I am constantly having to correct lag errors...no way I can easily keep my typing flowing. I do quite a bit of emailing, not just texting on my TP so this is becoming a major sticking point for me. I really love all of the tweaks on the custom roms, but the keyboard lag is one thing that I can't get past.

Has anyone identified what is actually causing this to happen? Does it have anything to do with a specific ROM starting point (ie - Fuze vs Verizon vs Sprint stock rom)?

I think I'm going to flash back to the stock rom and start customizing myself. What is everyone else doing? Are you just dealing with the lag?

Its called WinMo. My theory is that it just doesnt operate in landscape mode well. I have seen this on all landscape enabled phones.