Keyboard Freezing on Multiple Apps

[schaft]

Not sure what caused this. Been running everything fine for months. I did do the most recent update (to version 4.5.602.MB810.Verizon.en.US), but it worked fine for a few days.

I'm finding my keyboard freezing, in all applications (Handcent, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail), when I try to use any form of punctuation mark (period, comma, question mark, etc). It happens sporadically and seems to have no common denominator. If it happens while replying in Handcent (quick text mode or full app mode), I can still hit send - but then it ends up sending duplicates of the text message. Facebook it will post the comment only once it seems.

As it's across multiple apps, this seems more like a system issue. I've gone through and cleared my cache and data for the multi-touch keyboard. I've also downloaded a third party app to clear out all my cache as I, too, had the problem with the disappearing keyboard. But none of this seems to fix it.

Any suggestions? Is there a way to rollback to the previous Android version, even though it worked fine for a few days?

[vereyezuhn · Accepted solution]

Try disabling vibrate/sound on keypress if you have it enabled.

I've also heard that clearing the Learned Words from your keyboard app will help with this as well.

The easiest way that would work would be to get a keyboard app from the market. There are plenty of free ones that are great. I personally use Smart Keyboard Pro and love it. It's got a free trial version to see if you like it.

Going back to a previous version is a violation of this forum and cannot be discussed here, although there are other Android forums that allow it.

[schaft]

I had the vibrate/sound disabled, but I went and checked the settings and they were checked. I'll give it another day or so and see if that fixes it before downloading a new keyboard app.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[schaft]

Since unchecking the vibrate option for pressing keys, I have not encountered any further issues. Just weird it was checked and just started acting up when it wasn't vibrating when pressing keys. Oh well.

Thanks for the help!