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Questions tagged [external-keyboard]

A device to input characters, attached to the Android device externally via USB or Bluetooth.

Use this tag for externally attached keyboards. If your question is about the keyboard app, or the hardware keyboard built-in to your device, use the tag instead.

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How to insert Unicode characters by their hex codes using USB keyboard on ICS?

Is typing hex codes to insert Unicode characters possible when using USB external keyboard on vanilla ICS or Jelly Bean? Any root modifications available to achieve this? Or, if not possible system-wide, are there any text editing apps that will…
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Can we remap the keys when using an external keyboard?

I'm using my physical keyboard on my tablet with Android. The Brazilian keyboard works fine for me, there are only two problems: The right-shift is "/" instead of shift. The "ˆ" is different and is not accepted by LaTeX. (In LaTeX, we use aˆb for…
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Bauhn tablet Bluetooth keyboard not working

My Bauhn tablet runs ICS. It will pair with my Bluetooth keyboard but doesn't actually type anything. I've tested by connecting to my Samsung Galaxy S 3 phone, and the keyboard works fine. But it won't work on the Bauhn. Am I missing something?
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Typing on my Android Device directly from Windows 10

Is there a way where I can type something on Windows 10 and it goes directly to my ZTE Axon 7?
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Bluetooth keyboard glitches when pressing space

I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2, running Marshmallow. For some reason, when I use my bluetooth keyboard, I get an intermittent error when pressing space (or any punctuation). As near as I can tell, when it does happen, it is when I press space…
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Android 4.1 with Bluetooth keyboard

Do I need to install an application to use a Bluetooth keyboard with an Android 4.1.2 phone? I am using a Droid Bionic and with an Anker K1280C keyboard ( an Apple keyboard clone). I can pair the phone with the keyboard, but the Bluetooth keyboard…
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Unable to connect keyboard to my EKEN tablet

I have a 7 inches Android EKEN tablet running ICS. It has Cortex A9 1.5 Ghz CPU. I also have a leather case with USB keyboard which when connected to my tablet doesn't seem to work - nothing happens. How can I make the keyboard to work?
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Custom physical keyboard mappings without root

I have a physical bluetooth keyboard. I want, as I do on my computer, to remap the caps lock key to the escape key. I see in settings there are shortcut keys but no way to remap keys. Is this possible with an Android phone? I'm using Android 13
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How to filter out repeated keystrokes like "uu" or two consecutive blank spaces and automatically turn them into one single character like "u" and " "

Cheap Bluetooth keyboards have some serious drawbacks that could be easily avoided by software. I bought one for 7 Eur and nearly half the times I hit "u" I get "uu" or "uuu", which is clearly because of faulty hardware since it doesn't happen to…
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Why does alt+u on a physical keyboard produce braille symbols?

If I press alt+u on my bluetooth keyboard Logitech k480 with a text field active, a ⠉ (braille pattern dots-14) is produced. I don't want that. In fact I want programs like JuiceSSH treat it like any other key combination - I want to send alt+u…
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how do I add hebrew to a bluetooth keyboard?

I have an external bluetooth keyboard for my android and I want to add Hebrew. I searched online for help but cannot find any. No manual came with the keyboard.
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Switch between soft keyboards easily while using bluetooth keyboard

In Android 6, there is a close relationship between software and hardware keyboards. The features and behaviors available from a hardware keyboard depend on which software keyboard is in effect. For that reason, it is sometimes desirable to switch…
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How do I temporarily prevent buttons to wake up screen?

Typically if any key on the [bluetooth] keyboard is pressed, except of volume-up, volume-down and such, Android turns on it's screen. How do I make other keys behave like volume control keys (i.e. not wake up the device)? I want to bind other…
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'|' types '\' instead

I recently got a Logitech K380 (Turkish Q layout). When I type '|' (Alt Gr + <) it types '\' instead. I've already checked for: Mismatched layouts: but all other keys (including '\', which is bound to AltGr + *) type properly. Defective Keyboard:…
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