Samsung Galaxy S5 Guide

How to use Galaxy S5 Samsung keyboard?

Update 1:  added one section: How to get 3×4 keyboard on Galaxy S5?

Update 2: this guide also applies to Samsung keyboard on Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Note 3.

When using Galaxy S5, you will need keyboard to enter text sooner or later. By default, Galaxy S5 bundles the Samsung keyboard.

Although you can install many third-party keyboards with some special features, Samsung keyboard probably is the most stable one on Galaxy S5.

This guide is for Galaxy S5 owners who are new to Samsung keyboard and are learning to use Samsung keyboard on Galaxy S5.  We use screenshots from Galaxy S5 in this guide, but this guide also applies to Galaxy S4, Galaxy Note 3, and many other Samsung Galaxy devices.

How to Change Samsung keyboard  language on Galaxy S5?

Samsung keyboard can handle multiple languages simultaneously.  You can add the languages you want to use to Samsung keyboard in Galaxy S5.

By default,  the default language of Samsung keyboard in Galaxy S5 probably is English (either US or UK depending on your location).  If you want to use a new language in Samsung keyboard, simply go to Settings–Language and input. Tap  the gear  button next to Samsung keyboard, then tap “+ Select input languages”,  as shown below.

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You will find the languages for Samsung keyboard are classified as two categories: downloaded languages and available languages. You can use all these languages for your Samsung keyboard in Galaxy S5.

Downloaded languages are pre-installed for your region by default. They  usually match the available system languages for your region. Please read this guide on how to change system language for your Galaxy S5.

The available languages covers languages used in more than 150 regions where Galaxy S5 is officially being sold.  To add these languages to your Samsung keyboard, you need download the language files. Each language must be downloaded individually. If your mobile data is very limited, please try to download the files through WiFi.

How to switch Samsung keyboard languages on Galaxy S5?

Once the  languages are added, you can switch to them when you typing. You simply swipe the space button as shown below. For example, when composing an email, I can easily switch to Chinese or Spanish, insert some characters, then switch back to English as shown below.

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How to use floating keyboard on Galaxy S5?

Sometimes, when you are typing info on a website, you may find the Samsung keyboard blocks the area of your interest. So, you may want to move the Samsung keyboard to somewhere else.

This can be done easily because Samsung keyboard provides floating keyboard on Galaxy S5. You can put Samsung keyboard wherever you want.

To activate floating keyboard, tap and hold the second button in the bottom row of Samsung keyboard until a window (options window) pops out, tap the last button (samsung_keyboard_floating_keyboard_icon) as shown below .

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After tapping the button, your Samsung keyboard is floating! You can use the handle to move it to anywhere on the screen as shown below!

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To return to normal Samsung keyboard, you can use one of the two methods:

  • tap the second button in the second row. This will return to normal Samsung keyboard (fixed in the bottom of the screen).
  • tap and hold the second button in the last row, then tap samsung_keyboard_floating_keyboard_icon.

Please note, floating keyboard works with all input methods/modes (keyboard, handwriting, voice…) in Galaxy S5

How to use emojis (emoticons) with Samsung keyboard on Galaxy S5?

Emojis (emoticons) are not new for Samsung keyboard.  Google decided to fully support emojis in KitKat. This makes emojis work natively on more and other Android devices.

Samsung keyboard includes many emojis, which are  far more than the vanilla Android provides.

To insert emojis in your messages, simply tap and hold the second button in the last row of your Samsung keyboard. Then tap galaxy_s5_samsung_keyboard_emojis-iconbutton as shown below.

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The emojis are classified in different categories. The followings are two of them.

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How to use handwriting mode in Samsung keyboard?

You can input by writing (with your finger or a stylus). Although it is possible to write with a pencil if you adjust the touch sensitivity, I would recommend you not to do it.

To enter handwriting mode in Samsung keyboard, you simply touch and hold the second key in the last row, an option window should pop out.  Tap galaxy_s5_samsung_keyboard_handwriting_icon as shown below.

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Once in handwriting mode, you can write in the area provided. Galaxy S5 will recognize your writing and convert them to letters/words or numbers.

The recognized characters/words are provided in the top of writing area. Samsung keyboard also gives you a few other possible words/characters. Overall, the  handwriting recognition in Galaxy S5 is acceptable in accuracy and speed.

In handwriting mode, you can switch between characters and numbers.

To exit Samsung keyboard handwriting mode, tap and hold the second button in the last row and select other input methods in the options window.

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How to use voice input mode in Samsung keyboard?

Voice input (voice typing) is also fully supported in Samsung keyboard. Google voice typing will be actually used.

To enter voice input mode of Samsung keyboard, tap and hold the second button in the last row, tap the microphone icon (galaxy_s5_samsung_keyboard_voice_input_icon ) in the options window.

Once in voice input mode, you can speak instead of typing or writing. Google voice recognition engine will work hard to convert what you speak to text. You can also switch to other supported languages as shown below.

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Please note, by default, US English (or UK English) is pre-installed. To use other languages, you need either connect to internet (there will be  some data usage) OR download the offline language files.

To download offline languages files, please follow these steps:

  1. go to Settings- Language and input.
  2. tap the setting button (gear icon) for Google voice typing.
  3. Tap Offline speech recognition.
  4. Tap All.
  5. Tap the language you want to use.
  6. Confirm download.

How to use document mode in Samsung keyboard?

Samsung keyboard also offers document mode/camera input mode (OCR input).  In other words, you can scan text in a paper (using S5’s camera), and insert the text into your own message, email, document.  Samsung names this as document mode. But I still prefer the term of camera input mode.

The camera input mode (document mode) actually works in three stages:

  1. take a picture of the text;
  2. recognize the characters in the picture using Samsung’s OCR engine in S5;
  3. insert the recognized text into current cursor location.

To enter camera input mode (document mode) in Samsung keyboard, tap and hold the second button in the last row, then tap the camera button in the options window as shown below.

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In camera input mode (document mode), you need take a photo for the page, then tap the camera button. After camera button is tapped, Galaxy S5 will recognize the text in the page. This may take a while if the text is long.

The text reorganization function sometimes works well. But sometimes, it misses a lot of words. Anyway, it should be faster than typing.

Camera input mode (document mode) in Samsung keyboard also supports multiple languages. In  camera input mode (document mode), tap the menu button (3 vertical dots), you have the option to set the language for the text in the paper, as shown below.

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How to use clipboard with Samsung keyboard on Galaxy S5?

Samsung keyboard also has a built-in clipboard manager. Whenever you copy some texts or images, Samsung keyboard silently keeps a copy of these contents in the clipboard manager. The behavior is different from your Windows PC in three ways:

  1. There are multiple items in clipboard manager in your Galaxy S5.
  2. Unless you explicitly clear them, they are always available, even after a phone reboot.
  3. You can lock or unlock some items in the clipboard manager.

So, the clipboard manager is a very convenient tool for you to re-paste some items.

Of course, it can be a source of embarrassment if you don’t know how to clear some “unclean” items.

To access clipboard manager,  tap and hold the second button in the last row of your Samsung keyboard. Then tap galaxy_s5_samsung_keyboard_clipboard_manager_icon to enter clipboard manager mode.

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Once in clipboard mode, you can choose an item to paste current cursor location.

You can also  manage all items in the clipboard.  You can :

  1. Lock an item in the clipboard
  2. Delete an item from clipboard.
  3. Clear all items in the clipboard (except those locked)
  4. Unlock an item in the clipboard

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How to get 3×4 keyboard on Galaxy S5?

By default, Samsung keyboard is Qwerty keyboard in Galaxy S5 because of the large screen of today’s smartphones.

But some S5 owners, especially, those who typed a lot of sms messages on  feature phones, may still prefer a 3×4 keyboard. They feel the 3×4 keyboard is simply faster than the Qwerty keyboard.

The good news is that you can still get 3×4  keyboard with Samsung keyboard without installing any apps.

To change the Qwerty keyboard to 3×4 keyboard, please follow these steps:

  1. go to Settings–Language & input
  2. tap the gear icon next to Samsung keyboard
  3. tap the language that you want to type with 3×4 keyboard
  4. select 3×4 keyboard
  5. tap anywhere to return

Once the 3×4 keyboard is enabled, it will be illustrated under the language.

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Please note, 3×4 keyboard setting is for individual language. if you have more than one language enabled, you need set each language as 3×4 keyboard if you want to use 3×4 keyboard for all languages.

Of course, you can set 3×4 keyboard for some languages, and Qwerty keyboard for other languages. This is allowed in Galaxy S5.

Here is how 3×4 keyboard looks in Galaxy S5. Nothing special, just like 3×4 keyboard in other phones.

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Do you have any questions on using Samsung keyboard in Galaxy S5?

Please let us know your questions or problems on Samsung keyboard in the comment box below.

PS. This Samsung keyboard guide also applies to most Samsung Galaxy devices, for example, Galaxy Note 4, Samsung Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3.

More how-to guides , tips and tricks for using Samsung Galaxy S5 are available at Samsung Galaxy S5 how-to guides page.

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Comments

  1. Fry Sierra says

    Hi I want change the language to my phone. Where can I do download? Or Samsung apps? Because I want spanish. Thanks you very much

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  2. lulu says

    Why doesnt my keyboard have 5.rows I want the numbers on top how do I fix this with out down load all the other s5s have it

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  3. Kayla says

    My keyboard used to look like the one pictured above, but yesterday I accidentally was unable to unlock my phone with my finger print, and it somehow changed my keyboard to a different one. This one only has 3 rows. I like the old keyboard better but I cannot figure out how to change it back. I’ve look under Settings – language, but I don’t see an input option.

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  4. kv says

    The back button on my s5 suddenly stops working sometimes and when this happens my keyboard stops functioning too. I.e. if I try to enter a website or enter text in the google search bar etc the keyboard does not pop up. I have no idea how the two issues are related but they are and this has been happening frequently. Is this a bug? How can I fix it? Thanks.

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  11. Jose says

    Hi, fist of all thanks for this information.

    I cannot change the input language by swiping the space button. After adding the new languages doesn’t appear the arrows in the space button.

    Thanks in advance.

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  15. Don Hirsch says

    I want to enter voice input mode, but when I tap and hold the second button in the last row, the microphone icon does not appear in the options window.

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  18. Don Hirsch says

    Yes. The microphone was there until I switched to use an emoticon. Now the microphone is gone and it is not a choice. The work around I am using is to pull down the top of the screen, click on “Choose input method” and then choose “Google voice typing”. There has to be an easier way to do this.

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  19. Jayden35118 says

    So I want my keyboard to learn from what i say in my messages but everytime i click on it it says “samsung keyboard has stopped” then it says something about update?

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  22. Lanier says

    On the Samsung default keyboard when I hold the gear button to bring up the other typing modes, the document mode with the camera doesnt appear. Is this because I have a Verizon phone and is there any way I can get it cause I think it’s really cool.

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  23. PD says

    I turned off predictive text so it does not always autocorrect my words but then it also turned off swipe. I want to swipe, without autocorrection. please help. thanks.

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  24. liam says

    Is there a way to change the keyboard settings so when I have chose my symbol like £ for example, that pressing the space bar will automatically take me back onto text?

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  26. Jerry says

    I had the emoji face instead of the microphone(tap to speak) on my keyboard and now it is back to the microphone. How do I make it back to the emoji button?

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  27. wee pang says

    Hi my galaxy s5 does not install with the Samsung keyboard as default keyboard in the language n input. How to install or download Samsung keyboard?

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  30. Annabel says

    Thank you for your response. I didn’t make myself clear in with my initial question. What I meant is there anyway you can switch between predictive and non predictive by pressing a key on the keyboard. With my Samsung s2 you could just hold down a key for 3 seconds and it changed the mode. You didn’t have to go into settings then predictive then turn the mode off address continuing with the same message
    Answers on a post card please.

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  31. David Gress says

    The SAMSUNG GALAXY S5 shown in this tutorial have ONLY LETTERS ON THEIR KEYBOARD. There is no small extra function that only creates a lot of errors while typing. I WANT THAT KEYBOARD ! HOW DO I GET IT ?

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  32. Matt says

    How can I get a ? to show on the first page of the keyboard? Seems that I always kick off a conversation with a question and would like to have the question mark available to me without having to switch between pages.

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  33. David Gress says

    Simon,

    This is part of our continuing conversation : The SAMSUNG GALAXY S5 shown in this tutorial have ONLY LETTERS ON THEIR KEYBOARD. There is no small extra function that only creates a lot of errors while typing. I WANT THAT KEYBOARD ! HOW DO I GET IT ?

    I did download Swiftkey as you recommended. The Themes for choice of the keyboard selections have a second feature on the home keys. The customize Layout does not appear to have that option. What setting do I look for to get rid of the annoying two function keys ?

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  35. David Gress says

    Simon,

    I had thought you wanted the extra characters. SwiftKey has it for long time. Samsung keyboard is not consistent.

    I don’t think Samsung keyboard in s5 provides the extra characters. Are you using Samsung keyboard?

    David: Yes, and the Samsung keyboard has extra characters. SwiftKey has the characters as well with no option.

    I did learn that I can determine the delay of the characters making it an intentional choice, This will work since I have struck out on the Keyboard I want.

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  36. Melissa says

    Why do the Samsung cartoony looking emoticons not show up in my whatsapp messages? If I choose a cartoony looking emoticon it shows up as the same design as was on my iPhone??? I want all the nicer looking emoticons on my new Samsung to all work in Whatsapp but how? They work just fine in FB and when sms’ing so why not in Whatsapp??

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  37. Katie says

    We installed the software update flagged by Samsung last night (22nd July 2014) onto our S5 – since installing we cannot select a 3 x 4 keyboard using the above method you show.

    When trying to complete steps 3 and 4, after pressing the cog, the dashboard only says ‘English UK’ and ‘English US’ as language – it doesn’t say ‘qwerty keyboard’ underneath as shown in the screenshots. When you click on the language as you suggest to try to change from qwerty to 3 x 4, nothing happens. We have tried updating the languages as the phone suggests, but this makes no difference.

    Can you please advise how we can fix this, or what application we can download as an alternative to provide this functionality?

    Thanks

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  38. vanessa says

    How do i get the cursor to come back on. When im texting the lil blue cursor that would appear to see where i am writing disappeared while i was typing and dont know how to get it back. Now i cant see where im about to type if i need to go back and change something

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  40. Joy H says

    On my S2 when swyping texts I used to be able to go from comma to space and it would do both. Now comma swiped to space comes up with a “c”. Why?

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  41. Nev says

    Hello! Something got strange on my keyboard. When tapping long a letter key to access additional special related letters, for example tapping “u” for accessing “üùúû..”, the new set stays on the screen and is not a sliding to select and disappearing as it is used to be. It is very annoying, as l need to tap somewhere else for it to disappear and l can continue typing with the keyboard. It’s driving me crazy as l have gone through all my settings and cannot figure out what has changed for it perform that way. Have been searching the net too but to no avail. I would appreciate your feedback!!
    Thanks in advance!

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  42. Nev says

    I have noticed as well that the floating keyboard and camera input mode have disappeared from the options available by tapping the 2nd key on the first row….(options set stays on screen, blocks the keyboard and goes away only when tapping somewhere else too, as mentioned with the letter options)!!

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  43. Bianca says

    Why doesn’t the emoji feature show on the keyboard when in social media like Facebook or Instagram? I’m only able to use emojis in text messages and we should be able to use them everyone without having to download another App.

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  44. Marissa says

    Why is it I can’t seem to copy text to the clipboard all the time? On the web it works about 90% of the time yet I can’t copy on Facebook or some specific websites. Is there a work around that I’m not familiar with besides pressing the screen and holding until the light blue box appears to copy?

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  45. Chuck Stuckey says

    Samsung Galaxy S5 -Verizon How do you access both symbol keyboards. The manual says there are two symbol keyboards and I need to use \ which is not on the auto symbol keyboard.

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  46. April says

    How do I change the color of my keyboard to make the larger or instead of the white keys I would like to have black and and white? So I can see them better?

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  47. Raven says

    Is there any reason I cannot use emojis on the Facebook app? The emoji icon only displays when I’m messaging, and I am using the Samsung keyboard.

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  48. Moe says

    Does anyone know how to DELETE ALL the words I “added” to the default Samsung keyboard’s dictionary? Some nonsense i typed (like asdkjf or names in foreign languages) pop up as suggestions, and I’d like to delete them all at once, not one by one. Or in fact, deleting (“resetting”) the memory of the default keyboard would do! Please help!

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  49. April says

    Thank you for ur answer. I’ had a feeling that I could not change the size. But I was hoping I could change the keyboard color currently the color of the s5 keyboard is gray and white which are nice colors but the white on the keys washes out the light black letters but i love this keyboard in every other way and don’t want to change. So if anyone figures out how to change the color of the keys on the s5 ? Or if there is a new update to this keyboard let me know. ? Thank you.

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  50. Dan Fournier says

    Hello,

    When I first got my phone my keyboard had the special characters as “pop-ups” on the standard keyboard. As in if i held A I would get @ and if I held S I would get $. For some reason this has gone away. How do i get this functionality back?

    My girlfriend just got the S5 and her phone has this keyboard setup.

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  51. nonono says

    Hello, anybody can help me? Galaxy s5 on handwriting mode always auto write every stroke i’m trying to create. Especially when writing in chinese, auto detect handwriting in s5 is very annoying not like apple feature in handwriting. apple’s benefit is it just wait for confirmation character on every stroke that i create. Can anybody tell me how to set this s5 just like apple feature?

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  53. Daniel says

    I purchased a Galaxy S4 last week.
    I have not been able to input my passwords for Hotmail, my bank accounts etc. Every time I input my passwords the message “incorrect password” appears. The customer service department has not been able to solve my problem. By chance I changed my keyboard to “querty” and the passwords were accepted. If i go back to the 3×4 keyboard the problem arises again.
    Is this a problem that is not solvable unless I go to the “querty” everytime I wish to enter a protected site?
    Daniel

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  54. Jay Chung says

    Hi, I have same problem as below.
    I copies from above comment..

    I cannot change the input language by swiping the space button. After adding the new languages doesn’t appear the arrows in the space button.

    Thanks in advance

    I also copies the solution as below

    I figured it out. LastPass was enabled and blocked my second language keyboard. I’m guessing password keeper apps might be the issue for anyone else having one.

    I do not understand the solution, I do not have any Ap as LastPass, I did all I can, but still have same problem.
    Please help me..

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  55. Helene Simkin Jara says

    I never had this problem with the Galaxy 3…but when I’m texting on the Galaxy 5 and I hit the spacebar, I often hit the comma as well. It’s very annoying. I’ve had to go back and take out numerous commas every time. Is there something that can be done about this?

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  56. TimoY says

    Since a couple of weeks now , I Can’t change “Swipe space key ” to other language input on keyboard. I am using a T-Mobile Galaxy S5
    I have been using the US English, German and Greek keyboard languages. But not any more.
    Can some one let me know why? Thx.

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  57. Sam says

    Hey Simon,

    The icon for document mode/camera input mode is missing in my cell. I have tried all settings and spent quite some time, but am unable to find either that option or that icon anywhere.

    OCR works well as business card option in my contacts works very accurately. I would love to have the camera input mode!!!

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  58. Meryl Lee says

    When texting i don’t know how to access the … above the period. It doesn’t give me … even when i choose “Sym”. HELP!

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  59. Meryl Lee says

    Okay, I understand. It does seem almost impossible to type … on this keyboard because when you type a . it automatically inserts a space after the dot. Is there something I’m missing?

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  61. Paula says

    My keyboard doesn’t save personal words. When I go into settings, predictive text is on, and the personalized text is on. I press “learn from messages”, it gives me the message: “unfortunately your Samsung device has stopped.” This is so frustrating! I can’t add words to a personal dictionary, and it doesn’t learn them. This keyboard seems useless!

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  63. David Gress says

    The s5 droid is an excellent choice, that said, devices and life do not always conform to how we wish they would. Have you viewed the in depth tutorials on Youtube for the s5 ? I have, and have found they contain a wealth of information. I have been a student on Youtube for hours absorbing as much knowledge as I can. Never get frustrated with a machine, it cannot begin to compare to our brain.

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  64. Jake says

    Im using the Samsung keyboard and my predictive text and autocorrect settings are turned on but my keyboard no longer shows the bar with the suggested words. Also, it will no longer actually autocorrect even though it says its turned on. I have tried to reset the keyboard and messaging settings but nothing has worked. How can i get the suggestion bar to come back?

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  65. Jay says

    I’m stuck in document mode when I take a picture. I tried to take a pic. of my cat and its looking for text.How do I get out of this mode please?

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  66. Jeff says

    I notice that your screenprints of the floating menu are different. Under the emojis section there are 14 icons. Under the OCR section there are only 12. How can this be? Also on my floating menu there are only 6 icons. I there any way I could get the full menu of icons?

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  70. David Gress says

    The Samsung keyboard does not have it, however SwiftKey offers a free keyboard in your Google apps. Simon directed me there for a difficult problem and I hit the mother load. I have had no conflicts with my Samsung s5 Galaxy. There is a second layer of characters that has your copywrite symbol. Thank you Simon 🙂

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  72. bunny123456789 says

    Can I change input method from samsung keyboard to smart keyboard quickly? Like press and hold space button can change from samsung keyboard to smart keyboard?

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  73. Karl says

    Hello,
    I’ve switched my phone into Korean mode. I want to turn off the Samsung Keyboard and use Swiftkey, like I do when my phone is in English. Under the settings it won’t let me turn off the Samsung Keyboard. Am I doing something wrong? Or is this just not possible?
    Thanks

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  74. Celina says

    Hello, I have a problem. I just set 4 input languages but there is no way to switch between them. There are no arrows in the space bar. Could you please tell me how to solve this? Thank you!

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  75. David Gress says

    Simon, how do I light up the backup button and task manager button that are hidden on either side of the home button ?

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  77. David Gress says

    Simon, you were right about the lights being out. The power saving setting in the drag down access in the notifications, masks the two hidden features at the bottom right and left corners. Thank you. david

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  80. Jennifer Schlosser Jones says

    I have an S5 and it has always saved my words and when I would hold a letter for a symbol, only the symbol would pop up. As of yesterday all my words disappeared and when I hold a key the symbol and weird letters pop up. How can I get it to save my words again and have only the symbol pop up? Thanks

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  81. David Gress says

    Are you using the Samsung keyboard ? Have you rebooted your phone lately ? It is a good practice to turn off and then on your s5, or any cell phone. This practice will often clear up issues within your phone.

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  82. Jennifer Schlosser Jones says

    It actually started after I rebooted it! I was trying to text and the keyboard freaked out and was typing on its own so I had to take the battery out for 15 seconds and when I turned it back on all my words disappeared and now when I want to type a symbol by holding down a letter, the symbol and weird letters show up and I have to select the symbol.

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  84. David says

    OK, we have multiple options here. 1) you can go into Settings (the cog in your apps), then ‘Language and Input’ and tap. Tap the cog to the right of the Samsung keyboard. Examine the options and make sure the Predictive text is On, make sure the other features you desire are checked. Set the ‘Press and hold delay’ to .3 seconds or a tad longer. Hit the Back Up button at the bottom right corner and return to Home Page. Create a test Text message and watch how the Keyboard acts. 2) If the problem persists go back into ‘Language and Input’ and tap on the cog and drop to the bottom of options to the Reset option. Hit OK here and back out again to Home Page. Try another test Text. If the problem persists… 3) Go the the APP Store and search for the free SwiftKey keyboard. You have a selection. Download this App and return to ‘Language and Input’, check this keyboard to enable it and leave the Samsung unchecked. Make the appropriate settings you desire by tapping on the cog to the right of SwiftKey. Back out and try your test Text again. Please inform me of the results of this test.

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  85. Xolani says

    How do I change my keyboard to type in mathematical symbols in a space given for security verification? Foy example 3+32=?

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  86. David says

    On the bottom left corner of your keyboard is a tab that will bring up an alternative screen to the text keypad. You even have a second hidden screen if you press the same tab again. Press that tab a 3rd time and your are back to your text keyboard. You will find many options during your search. Have fun with your s5.

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  89. Rose says

    When I type the word and…it comes out as andnd…or andndnd and it’s not saved to dictionary or anything. It’s really annoying. How do I fix this.

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  90. Nick Spano says

    hopefully I have a easy question to answer, recently when I use Swype my keyboard letters got all rearranged and I dont know how that happened?

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  91. mel kindleysides says

    I saw someone using S5 with colored background and lighted keyboard while she was making comment on a facebook post. how do I do that to my S5?

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  93. Heather Hayward says

    My S5 randomly capitalizes the first letter of each word. It’s not all the time but enough that it is annoying. Language is set to English US and I’m not using hard stops, settings are to insert automatic space between words. Anything I’m missing or any fixes?

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  94. becky says

    Any way to quickly add an exclamation point or question mark? With Swype you can easily add (swyping down from X or M). I don’t want to have to choose the Sym key each time!

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  96. David says

    I have found that the S5 Galaxy is very accommodating to imported keyboard apps. Have you gone into Settings, then Language and Input and selected the keyboard you intend to use ? Uncheck the Default Samsung keyboard and select the keyboard you wish to use.

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  97. Ana says

    Hi! I just change from Samsung s4 ti an s5. In my old phone after a putting a dot or starting a new the next letter will start automatically with a capital letter and I cant find the option in the s5.
    I also used to have two different languages in ny keyboard. I’ve downloaded the one in spanish but doesnt work, how can i fix these things? thanks.

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  98. David says

    Simon, Picasa holds some photos I would like to keep before I inactivate the app. What do you have in your bag of magic ? The Internet has not been to helpful unless I am missing a posting.

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  99. David says

    I found the solution to my Picasa problem. 1) Go to Settings cog and depress, 2) Go to Accounts and depress, 3) Select the Google Icon and depress, 4) Click on your email address, 5) Wow, so many settings, go Picasa at the bottom and uncheck it. 6) I would have never found it on my own. Piece work online. Continuing to learn the S5

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  100. Jason says

    I copy things to the clipboard, but when I tap the “clipboard” icon (second from the left on the bottom row) nothing happens so I can’t past the info into the field. What am I missing?

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  102. rajiv says

    Im not getting an option to go to camera input mode bro. that option with the camera icon is not coming. i have installed english(uk) and english (usa).. can u help pls?

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  103. E F says

    Hello,
    I just helped my mom activate her new S5, and the keyboard is really odd. It doesn’t bring up the extra options if I hold down any of the keys, and it takes an odd tap-pause-tap-tap cadence to type anything (for each character), which makes typing anything take forever. Is this normal, as a result of some default setting or something? We haven’t explored the settings much, as it’s late and she needs to go to bed. I’m planning on poking around, but wanted to see if you had any ideas?

    Thanks in advance.

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  104. Ore Oderanti says

    Hello, where can i find the emoticon meanings for each one and for the different categories for samsung galaxy s5?

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  105. Brian G. says

    Hi Simon, How do I delete specific sounds on the S5 ? I’ve read that some notification sounds have been packaged since the earlier phones, like the S4 and S3. Do I need to unlock the phone to remove them ?

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    • David Gress says

      Hey Brian, why do you wish to delete a sound ? There are so many to choose or ignore. Most of the alterations to the s5 are under the COG/ Settings icon. Once you go into Settings tap on the Sound icon. Tap the Ringtones heading to make a choice for your phone. Tap the Notifications heading and make your selections. Continue to scroll down to visit other opportunities to set the announcement of activities. There are two separate headings that store sounds, Notifications and Ringtones. Stop by YouTube for the tutorials on the s5. I hope this was helpful. david

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  108. phil says

    I have upgraded to the S5 & on my old S4 when typing a text the keyboard remembered common phrases & words & made repeat texts very easy. The s5 does not do this. can anyone help?

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  109. David Gress says

    Simon, I prefer to use the 3 ring widget to give me time, temperature, battery life. The widget cannot find my location to obtain temperature. I loaded the widget on a different screen and changed cities but still no luck. My location setting is on. What am I overlooking ?

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  111. Becky says

    I have a question. Can anyone tell me how to get to a numerical keyboard on the S5? I had the s3 & there was an easy shortcut but I can’t figure it out in the 5. And I’m not certain if I’m using the correct terminology… I’m looking for the keypad that looks like a phone pad.
    Thanks!

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  114. Jeremy Prior says

    My new S5 seems to have a group of 12 symbols one of which is the & symbol on the long press shortcut key when using QWERTY However in my 3:4 texting window it only has 10 and there is no & symbol and I can’t find out how to add or remove shortcuts from that long press window. I can create a shortcut to any single key on the keypad but that only works in QWERTY keyboard and not in the 3:4 texting window. Is there a way to Edit the symbols used? The S3 used to have a way to add your own to a view along the top but maybe that’s only using Swiftkey imported app.

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  115. Jeremy Prior says

    Already tried that with Perfect Keyboard Pro and it had no T9 3×4 keypad – and others are always short of another useful facility that I don’t want to do without. I think the Samsung S5 is a brilliant phone but there’s still room for a lot of improvement on niggles and annoyances which companies like them know they need take no notice of at all, while punters will part with their money. Thank you for trying.

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  116. june blagdon says

    how do i change the $ sign to £…i have the qwerty keyboard in uk lanquage…if i change to the other keyboard 3×4 the £ symbol is there

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  118. Caesar says

    Hi,

    Since the latest update I don’t have the “My Hot Keys” function anymore.
    How can I get it back or is there a third party app which does the job?
    Text shortcuts is not an option since it restricts to 50 signs only.
    Thank you kindly.

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