Android 2.3 User Manual

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Android User’s Guide
Language & keyboard settings
Use the Language & Keyboard settings to select the language for the text on your 
phone and for configuring the onscreen keyboard, including words that you’ve added 
to its dictionary.
Language & Keyboard screen
Select language 
Opens the Language screen, where you can select the language 
to use for the text on your phone.
User dictionary 
Opens a list of the words you’ve added to the dictionary, as 
described in “Using the onscreen keyboard” on page 31. Touch a word to edit or delete 
it. Press Menu
 and touch 
Add
 to add a word.
Android keyboard 
Android keyboard checkbox 
For phones with physical keyboards, uncheck to 
disable the onscreen keyboard. See “Android Keyboard settings screen” on page 372. 
Device keyboard 
setting is available only if your phone has a physical keyboard.
Android Keyboard settings screen
The Android Keyboard settings apply to the onscreen keyboard that is included with 
your phone. The correction and capitalization features affect only the English version 
of the keyboard.
Vibrate on keypress 
Check to have the phone vibrate briefly each time you touch 
a key on the onscreen keyboard.
Sound on keypress 
Check to play a brief sound each time you touch a key on the 
onscreen keyboard.
Popup on keypress 
Uncheck to prevent a larger image of each key from 
displaying above the key (out from under your finger) when you touch it.
Touch to correct words 
Uncheck to turn off the feature that underlines a word 
in a text field if you touch the word and the keyboard has suggestions for other words 
you may have intended.