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Screwy text field thing going on

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 9:19 pm
by McAvoy
OnOmy my cellphonecellphonething on onlyonly this sitesi te, it looks like thisthis.

Re: Screwy text field thing going on

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 10:47 pm
by Captain Seafort
Better off here I think

Re: Screwy text field thing going on

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 5:43 pm
by IanKennedy
If you are saying that you are getting repeating words I can't explain it. The traditional advice prevails:

- Clear your internet cache
- Clear your cookies
- Clear your browsing history
- Connect to the site using a typed URL, rather than a bookmark
- Reset your phone
- Turn it off and back on
- Sacrifice a chicken
- Bury the phone in a peat bog for 30 days

Re: Screwy text field thing going on

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 8:09 pm
by McAvoy
It seems to be only this site that does it and it is random.

And yes it is repeating the same words I type and sometimes it jumps back into the previous one.

I am going to test the other ideas. But this isn't the first time is has done this.

Re: Screwy text field thing going on

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 11:25 am
by Mikey
IanKennedy wrote:- Bury the phone in a peat bog for 30 days
I'm no technical expert, but there aren't any peat bogs in New Jersey. Will the marshes in the Pine Barrens suffice?

Re: Screwy text field thing going on

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:10 pm
by IanKennedy
Mikey wrote:
IanKennedy wrote:- Bury the phone in a peat bog for 30 days
I'm no technical expert, but there aren't any peat bogs in New Jersey. Will the marshes in the Pine Barrens suffice?
Possibly but I would think you would need to use a turkey in stead of a chicken.

Re: Screwy text field thing going on

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:12 pm
by IanKennedy
McAvoy wrote:It seems to be only this site that does it and it is random.

And yes it is repeating the same words I type and sometimes it jumps back into the previous one.

I am going to test the other ideas. But this isn't the first time is has done this.
Dunno, the software we use is phpBB version 3. Pretty common forum software.

Re: Screwy text field thing going on

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 7:45 am
by McAvoy
Maybe it's the keyboard app I use. I use SwiftKey keyboard which is not standard for Galaxy S5 phones.

Re: Screwy text field thing going on

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2015 11:53 pm
by McAvoy
It seems to be full editor and not thetquick ice commentcfield. t field

Re: Screwy text field thing going on

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 4:26 am
by McAvoy
I have done a couple of experiments. It is indeed random. I did try the three versions of replying to a text. Quoting works fine. Using the full editor text field works. The quick reply field works fine.

So it appears to be random.

Re: Screwy text field thing going on

Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 7:27 am
by McAvoy
Any way you can look into it?

Quick quote seems to affect it. If I go from that to full text, then I have the issues. Or edit.

I have it nowhere else but here

Re: Screwy text field thing going on

Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:52 pm
by IanKennedy
It's not the site. It would appear to be your phone. The stuff the site does it perfectly simply HTML forms and a bit of JavaScript. We're on the latest version so there are no upgrades pending. I don't know what I could do to help.

Re: Screwy text field thing going on

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 4:23 am
by McAvoy
OK. I just tried to email someone through my phone for the first time in years and it did the same thing I have been describing.

It might be the keyboard app I use which replaces the default one on the Galaxy S5.

But like I said it seems to have an issue with this site's text field and now the field of the standard Android app for emails.

Re: Screwy text field thing going on

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 1:43 pm
by IanKennedy
McAvoy wrote:OK. I just tried to email someone through my phone for the first time in years and it did the same thing I have been describing.

It might be the keyboard app I use which replaces the default one on the Galaxy S5.

But like I said it seems to have an issue with this site's text field and now the field of the standard Android app for emails.
Clearly if it's happening with they built in mail client then the Keyboard app you are using is faulty. Sounds like you need to replace it with something that works correctly.

Re: Screwy text field thing going on

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 2:04 pm
by McAvoy
Tell me about it.

My keyboard is SwiftKey if anyone is curious