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Re: Ubuntu phone onscreen keyboard bug

 

Is everybody effected here using a bq phone?

On Sunday, March 26, 2017, Christoph Schulz <ch.schulz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 26.03.2017, 20:27 +0200 schrieb Matthias Apitz:
>> El día domingo, marzo 26, 2017 a las 07:35:11p. m. +0200, advocatux
>> escribió:
>>
>> > El 26/03/17 a las 10:55, Olivier Tilloy escribió:
>> > > [---snip--]
>> > > I’m also affected. It’s not just the numpad, it’s also the
>> > > alphabetical keyboard in all applications. I’ve gotten really
>> > > good at
>> > > hitting the right keys without seeing them… Is that a known bug?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > > The same behavior when I'm trying to unlock the terminal.
>> > > >
>> > > > Cheers
>> >
>> > Hi Olivier,
>> >
>> > After playing blind man's buff with my phone for a while too, I set
>> > the
>> > lock security to slide, test it, and then back to put a 4 digits
>> > code again.
>> >
>> > So far so good, it's working fine now, but I don't know the root
>> > cause
>> > of this annoying bug.
>> >
>>
>> Does this mean that this switch repaired as well the OSK in other
>> apps,
>> or is is still not working or was never broken for you.
>>
>> Could you please all spend the time to describe:
>>
>> - what is not working
>
> For me, the keyboard keys are flickering (all of them together;
> sometimes there, sometimes not, within seconds; keys reappear when I
> start press anywhere again)
>
>> - what is still working
>
> For me, the keyboard at least still appears.
>
>> - what is again working after some change
>
> The proposed change to disable and re-enable unlock-pin didn't help,
> the issue is still there.
>
>> - all other visible side effects (like the flickering in some other
>>   mail).
>
> 1) In Terminal App, the "Show Keyboard" Button is visible when the keys
> are not. (The Keyboard itself is visible as a white box.)
> But it doesn't (re-)trigger the keyboard, instead the backspace button
> is triggerd as both buttons share the same location (at least they are
> near to each other^^)
>
> 2) When trying to re-enable unlock security PIN, the keys are initially
>   visible but when the keys disappear then, the (empty, white) keyboard
> box is smaller. (I've attached a screenshot.)
>
> (btw, as described above, flickering is me :D)
>>
>> And, is someone in Canonical or in BQ.com still with us and looking
>> in
>> this?
>>
>> Again, this does not sound as a software bug introduced with OTA-15
>> (which is already out for weeks now, Feb 8). There must be something
>> else what triggers this...
>>
>>       matthias
>>
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