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tommyer · 11-05-2021, 10:36 AM

I had this problem on Note Air and Note3 and it is present with both Android keyboard and GBoard.

When I am typing as fast as I can, it occurs regularly, almost in every annotation, that after hitting space bar the first stroke/touch for the following word is not being registered/represented. That means after space bar the next word very often misses the first letter. Example: "This is very good" appears as "This is ery ood".

I have tested this many times, not hitting the key sufficiently is not the cause. It only happens after hitting the space bar.

Turning off completely Text correction in Settings of Gboard has not solved the problem. Could the long-press switches in Preferences (the two options at the bottom) have something to do with it (turned off Symbols and left Key long-press delay in default)?

Previously used Note1 and the Android keyboard and I did not have this problem there. It is true that it was laggy and slow but I noticed that if I wrote a complete rather long sentence without any typing error, the whole sentence would appear correctly with a short lag. It saved the strokes but needed some time to process and represent. That was perfectly fine for me.

Has anyone experienced the same issue of missing the first letters as I have? Do you have any suggestions to solve this problem?

11-05-2021, 10:36 AM	#1
tommyer Connoisseur Posts: 70 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2017 Device: onyx boox i62ml; boox note	Keyboard problem: Missing the first stroke of a word too often I had this problem on Note Air and Note3 and it is present with both Android keyboard and GBoard. When I am typing as fast as I can, it occurs regularly, almost in every annotation, that after hitting space bar the first stroke/touch for the following word is not being registered/represented. That means after space bar the next word very often misses the first letter. Example: "This is very good" appears as "This is ery ood". I have tested this many times, not hitting the key sufficiently is not the cause. It only happens after hitting the space bar. Turning off completely Text correction in Settings of Gboard has not solved the problem. Could the long-press switches in Preferences (the two options at the bottom) have something to do with it (turned off Symbols and left Key long-press delay in default)? Previously used Note1 and the Android keyboard and I did not have this problem there. It is true that it was laggy and slow but I noticed that if I wrote a complete rather long sentence without any typing error, the whole sentence would appear correctly with a short lag. It saved the strokes but needed some time to process and represent. That was perfectly fine for me. Has anyone experienced the same issue of missing the first letters as I have? Do you have any suggestions to solve this problem?