Fonts? - Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all,
How do you change the font on this device? Through the usual font app on the play store ?

That's a good question. There are a ton of font apps out there. I'm coming from a Note 3, so I don't know which is best.

I've used i-Font but there are some instances where it is unsure of what to do.. For instance the ":" on the lockscreen is just a big question mark "?"

The phone needs to be rooted first, then finding a compatible font can sometimes be tedious. I've ran into the same issue as the above post with the ":" in the time.... Sometimes it's a "?" some times it's a couple square blocks. With the instructions below, it gives you the option to "back up" before you change the fonts, which I would highly recommend.
I used this thread to get different fonts on my 6P: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2176490
I downloaded and flashed the XDAPowerFont zip, then downloaded Font Installer *Root* from the playstore (as per the instructions in the thread). Worked like a charm.
I used ChinaCat font and had no compatibility issues - as you can see in my screenshots, some things didn't change but most did.

tele_jas said:
The phone needs to be rooted first, then finding a compatible font can sometimes be tedious. I've ran into the same issue as the above post with the ":" in the time.... Sometimes it's a "?" some times it's a couple square blocks. With the instructions below, it gives you the option to "back up" before you change the fonts, which I would highly recommend.
I used this thread to get different fonts on my 6P: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2176490
I downloaded and flashed the XDAPowerFont zip, then downloaded Font Installer *Root* from the playstore (as per the instructions in the thread). Worked like a charm.
I used ChinaCat font and had no compatibility issues - as you can see in my screenshots, some things didn't change but most did.
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Not even gonna blur your number? You're asking for trouble lol. Figured I'd say something in case you overlooked it.
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zervic said:
Not even gonna blur your number? You're asking for trouble lol. Figured I'd say something in case you overlooked it.
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Crap..... Thanks, I do that all the time without thinking. Thanks!

ifont works great.

Fontster also works great.

Thanks for the replies and info

tcat007 said:
Fontster also works great.
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Isn't this a root only app?

subhani said:
Isn't this a root only app?
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Yes

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Multi Touch keyboard from droid x?

I was wondering if anyone could port the multi touch keyboard from the droid X to the eris. if you try the one for the incredible and the droid, it installs but wont open up after changing input method. If you can tell me how to port it, i could also do it myself
seriously nobody even cares to aknowledge this post? i know you all want the keyboard!
This should go in the Themes And Apps section where I posted something like this
iloveandroid said:
This should go in the Themes And Apps section where I posted something like this
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Oh sorry, im a noobie at XDA. thanks for the tip, i will be sure to check all available sections before replying
iloveandroid said:
This should go in the Themes And Apps section where I posted something like this
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Actually porting is development..
Well has anyone been able to do it? I tried the apk from my friends incredible and got the same result it installs but will not open.
lilbballer27 said:
Well has anyone been able to do it? I tried the apk from my friends incredible and got the same result it installs but will not open.
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Well, i unzipped the apk, and tried looking for an obvious way of changing the resolution of the keyboard (Which im assuming is the problem), but none of the files contain any info of the sort. So im guessing that the "porter" would have to go into every file, and basically recompile the whole thing for the lower res. But im no dev, so i could be wrong!
bdt1995 said:
Well, i unzipped the apk, and tried looking for an obvious way of changing the resolution of the keyboard (Which im assuming is the problem), but none of the files contain any info of the sort. So im guessing that the "porter" would have to go into every file, and basically recompile the whole thing for the lower res. But im no dev, so i could be wrong!
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Ya me neither so I guess we will just have to wait and see. Idk what the big hype is over this keyboard but my friend has it and says its amazing and I must have it so I want it now lol
lilbballer27 said:
Ya me neither so I guess we will just have to wait and see. Idk what the big hype is over this keyboard but my friend has it and says its amazing and I must have it so I want it now lol
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Seeing as it's multitouch, maybe it lets you hit more than one key at once without screwing up...
http://androidforums.com/htc-droid-eris/109592-droid-x-keyboard-eris.html#post1018179
it works great, i have been using it since yesterday.
It's very accurate too, i haven't had problems like hitting the wrong letters.
Edit: after further investigation, it seems it is not multitouch, however, I'm not sure of the benefits of this already sleek keyboard would gain through multitouch.
Not sure what you mean multitouch works fine for me. You can hit shift and still type letters in capital without issue. Using this and keeping swype around too as it works great.
cptkrush said:
http://androidforums.com/htc-droid-eris/109592-droid-x-keyboard-eris.html#post1018179
it works great, i have been using it since yesterday.
It's very accurate too, i haven't had problems like hitting the wrong letters.
Edit: after further investigation, it seems it is not multitouch, however, I'm not sure of the benefits of this already sleek keyboard would gain through multitouch.
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I don't think this works for any Cyanogen based ROMs. I am running the one by framework and neither flashing in recovery or installing the .apk via file manager seems to work.
alexhendershott said:
I don't think this works for any Cyanogen based ROMs. I am running the one by framework and neither flashing in recovery or installing the .apk via file manager seems to work.
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Working on ELB2.7. Still choose Swype tho.
alexhendershott said:
I don't think this works for any Cyanogen based ROMs. I am running the one by framework and neither flashing in recovery or installing the .apk via file manager seems to work.
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It's compatible with a stock nonroot eris, which leads me to believe it works on nearly anything because all the required apks are built in, but it should just work by installing it and enabling it in the languages and keyboards setting. If not then
cptkrush said:
It's compatible with a stock nonroot eris, which leads me to believe it works on nearly anything because all the required apks are built in, but it should just work by installing it and enabling it in the languages and keyboards setting. If not then
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i have a non root eris and this keyboard works fine. It is better designed and has a larger space bar. so i'm not hitting the period key by mistake anymore.
How is the speech-to-text function on this keyboard? Is it accurate?
g00gl3 said:
How is the speech-to-text function on this keyboard? Is it accurate?
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I just tested it, seems pretty accurate
speech to text is good.
this keyboard has no perceivable lag at all. it keeps up with my typing and I am making less mistakes as a result.
Jp50 said:
speech to text is good.
this keyboard has no perceivable lag at all. it keeps up with my typing and I am making less mistakes as a result.
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cptkrush said:
I just tested it, seems pretty accurate
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Thanks for the quick response guys!
This keyboard is awesome. Managed to get me off of Swype. Has little to no lag. Reminds me of the iPod/iPhone keyboard, which is a good thing.

[Q] Edit Mini Apps tray on 6810?

I apologize if this has been discussed, I really did search and only found one place where this was asked, but there was no answer. According to the Samsung 7.7 features page it says this "Mini Apps : Upgraded so you can choose and edit your own Mini Apps tray. You can easily access favorite features such as Calendar, Email, or PenMemo as a pop up over full screen applications. " So obviously my question is this. How is this done? Or is it even possible on my model? Thank you and again sorry of this has already been addressed.
If you look at the bottom bar on your Tab you will see an icon that looks like an upside down 'v'. Click on it and it will bring up your mini-apps tray. You can launch those mini apps over the app you are in.
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If you look at the bottom bar on your Tab you will see an icon that looks like an upside down 'v'. Click on it and it will bring up your mini-apps tray. You can launch those mini apps over the app you are in.
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I think you misunderstood my question. I know about the up/ down arrow and the mini apps. But it says that is is Upgraded so you can choose and edit your own Mini Apps tray. So Im trying to figure out how to change them if its possible on the wifi only 6810. Thanks
This has been discussed and answered before. See: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21494062&postcount=501
morkli said:
This has been discussed and answered before. See: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21494062&postcount=501
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I was able to get it to work by applying one of the systemui.apk files from here. I am able to edit the mini apps now on my 6810. Thanks
Gam3r 4 Life said:
I was able to get it to work by applying one of the systemui.apk files from here. I am able to edit the mini apps now on my 6810. Thanks
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Very clever.
Gam3r 4 Life said:
I was able to get it to work by applying one of the systemui.apk files from here. I am able to edit the mini apps now on my 6810. Thanks
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Wow... I cant find it, can you point it out please? They all talk about changing the colors of the icons of the actual bar or.... etc... etc.
Thanks
Dusko75 said:
Wow... I cant find it, can you point it out please? They all talk about changing the colors of the icons of the actual bar or.... etc... etc.
Thanks
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Im not totally sure which one I used, but it might have been the one in post 19. But that one will change the icons as well. Im not sure where you might get one that is stock. The same author of that thread "Ssaass" makes an app called "Wizzbar" that might help you. I may be able to make one for you. Upload your systemui.apk and Ill see what I can do.
Gam3r 4 Life said:
Im not totally sure which one I used, but it might have been the one in post 19. But that one will change the icons as well. Im not sure where you might get one that is stock. The same author of that thread "Ssaass" makes an app called "Wizzbar" that might help you. I may be able to make one for you. Upload your systemui.apk and Ill see what I can do.
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That would be great, I'm sending you my stock SustemUI.apk, now... how I'm going to change the apps from the mini-app thing? press and hold? ..??
I checked out that Wizzbar but didn't like it...
Thanks
Dusko75 said:
That would be great, I'm sending you my stock SustemUI.apk, now... how I'm going to change the apps from the mini-app thing? press and hold? ..??
I checked out that Wizzbar but didn't like it...
Thanks
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Ok, didnt think I forgot about you did you? I think this is what your looking for. The edit function shows up when you press the mini apps button. Lower right corner, cant miss it. This is all stock icons with edit function built in. Hope this is what you wanted. I tested this on my rooted stock 6810. Let me know if it works.
PS: For anyone that might want to know how I did it. All I did was use the "layout" folder in the Res folder from the apk that has the edit function. Then rezipped, changed name and permissions, and put back into system/ app.
Awesome... Thanks for your time. I'll try it when i get home tonight. I'm thanking you now anyway...
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Yes, it works, thanks... But what I didn't expect is that you can't add any app you want, it's just limited to some samsung "mini" apps which really su**s!
I wonder if there's a way around that...
Thanks again I really appreciate it anyway.
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Yes, it works, thanks... But what I didn't expect is that you can't add any app you want, it's just limited to some samsung "mini" apps which really su**s!
I wonder if there's a way around that...
Thanks again I really appreciate it anyway.
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Yea. Thats why I dont even use it. I use "honeybar" and hide the bar in games, movies, etc.

Stock emoji issue?

I recently noticed that when using the stock emojis that there are now a few blank spaces where it appears emojis used to be. I haven't changed any settings, though I was briefly using Go SMS but stopped(and uninstalled it) due to the MMS and other bugs. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this, or is this normal and I just never noticed this before...?
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I recently noticed that when using the stock emojis that there are now a few blank spaces where it appears emojis used to be. I haven't changed any settings, though I was briefly using Go SMS but stopped(and uninstalled it) due to the MMS and other bugs. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this, or is this normal and I just never noticed this before...?
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I've always had this issue even after re-flashing the keyboard and completely flashing my phone back to stock.
I think it's some weird issue that everyone experiences, and I'm not really sure how google overlooked it.
(couldn't find anything in google reports)
Hmm that's disappointing, hopefully there's a patch with the next update. Or at lease GO SMS gets their act together and updates their app to fully work with the nexus 4. Thanks for the response!
I just wanted to go ahead and bump this thread. We have had the update for 4.2.2 and still this problem exists for me.
I had maybe one or two blank squares with stock android on my nexus 4 so it wasn't a huge issue but Ive recently flashed a new rom and upon enabling the android emoji support, even more of the tiles came up blank than before. There are about 10 blank tiles scattered throughout.
I have gone into the add on dictionaries in the android keyboard and deleted and re installed emoji for English but it did not affect anything.
Anyone else having this problem or know of a way to fix the issue without having to use another app?
bump
surely others have to be having this issue
Chuck4197 said:
bump
surely others have to be having this issue
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i always had the few blank spots on several different roms.
always thought it was an issue with the emoji keyboard itself.
never found an updated version of it though.
i actually dont even use it anymore.
i only use emoji in texts and the emoji options in CM and PA work well
I dont think it would be an issue with the keyboard itself because when i installed it on stock i only had a couple blank tiles and when i installed it on my paranoid android rom there were about 10 randomly blank squares. I dont know if its messing up during installation or what?
and i would be willing to bet that other people have different tiles left blank than i do.
Its just annoying because i can see most peoples emojis but when they happen to use one of the ones that are blank on my phone, they also show up blank in whatever message i am reading (text/twitter) so i see some of them but not all of them
Chuck4197 said:
I dont think it would be an issue with the keyboard itself because when i installed it on stock i only had a couple blank tiles and when i installed it on my paranoid android rom there were about 10 randomly blank squares. I dont know if its messing up during installation or what?
and i would be willing to bet that other people have different tiles left blank than i do.
Its just annoying because i can see most peoples emojis but when they happen to use one of the ones that are blank on my phone, they also show up blank in whatever message i am reading (text/twitter) so i see some of them but not all of them
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Hmmm. So maybe we should be asking Moles.
Or at least figure out which ones we are missing.
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gho8t said:
Hmmm. So maybe we should be asking Moles.
Or at least figure out which ones we are missing.
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well i was missing some on stock too just not as many. I dont know if some errors occur during installation or what happens.
im missing 2 in nature, 4 in living things, 1 in faces, 1 in foods, 5 in symbols.
what do you guys have blank?
Chuck4197 said:
well i was missing some on stock too just not as many. I dont know if some errors occur during installation or what happens.
im missing 2 in nature, 4 in living things, 1 in faces, 1 in foods, 5 in symbols.
what do you guys have blank?
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I reinstalled Banks version of the emoji which is located
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2012857
And I was only missing about four or five
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gho8t said:
I reinstalled Banks version of the emoji which is located
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2012857
And I was only missing about four or five
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did you uninstall the previous one first or what were the steps you took to re install?

Best way to get Emojis?

What's the best way to get Emoji's working? Being able to see them would be nice... but just sending them would be fine. Anyone have a way of doing this? I know about Handcent/GO SMS emoji extensions but I like the stock TW messaging app, so I don't wanna do that.
EDIT: Also, I'm talking about being able to send them everywhere (Messaging, Twitter, Instagram, etc.). Seeing them everywhere would also be a plus as mentioned above
Well if you don't want to use a different messaging app, then you have to replace the system font with one that has emoji support I believe.
Edit: Or you can flash the zip here for the default android emoji http://www.androidcoliseum.com/2013/06/how-to-get-422-emoji-keyboard-on-your.html
Stealyourface said:
Well if you don't want to use a different messaging app, then you have to replace the system font with one that has emoji support I believe.
Edit: Or you can flash the zip here for the default android emoji http://www.androidcoliseum.com/2013/06/how-to-get-422-emoji-keyboard-on-your.html
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Thanks! I also found a workaround: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1792745
That let's me see them, and your link will let me send them, SWEET! Now if only they were in color lol -___-
Joe0113 said:
Thanks! I also found a workaround: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1792745
That let's me see them, and your link will let me send them, SWEET! Now if only they were in color lol -___-
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Well from 4.1 and up you should be able to see it by default because they baked it into jellybean. That's where the keyboard comes from. Color though, good luck with that one
Stealyourface said:
Well from 4.1 and up you should be able to see it by default because they baked it into jellybean. That's where the keyboard comes from. Color though, good luck with that one
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My friend was sending me em... and I saw all of them except for a few. Did that little trick in the post I mentioned above, and went back into my messaging app and was able to see every single one! And yeah I know I wish we could do that somehow!
Joe0113 said:
My friend was sending me em... and I saw all of them except for a few. Did that little trick in the post I mentioned above, and went back into my messaging app and was able to see every single one! And yeah I know I wish we could do that somehow!
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i clicked on the s3 link you referred to. the xml file is no longer downloadable but i was able to grab the 9.83mb font file. So all you did was replace the original droidsansfallback with the modified 9.83mb file one and rebooted your phone?
I tried doing that and still cannot see received iphone sms emojis. (i can see emojis on all other apps besides the sms apps, including Handcent + emoji plugin)
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i clicked on the s3 link you referred to. the xml file is no longer downloadable but i was able to grab the 9.83mb font file. So all you did was replace the original droidsansfallback with the modified 9.83mb file one and rebooted your phone?
I tried doing that and still cannot see received iphone sms emojis. (i can see emojis on all other apps besides the sms apps, including Handcent + emoji plugin)
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Here.
Try using the stock TW messaging app.

Does the keyboard work in chrome?

Do the BlackBerry keyboard predictions work everywhere? They don't work in chrome for me especially when trying to type in the address bar and on Google.
Is there something that I have to enable?
Nope it doesn't work in chrome, there was a modified keyboard here on xda but the poster removed it.
SAYF777 said:
Nope it doesn't work in chrome, there was a modified keyboard here on xda but the poster removed it.
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I think I still have that modified apk file saved somewhere. I have not used it, but I did use the other apk that modified "language" button.
Charkatak said:
I think I still have that modified apk file saved somewhere. I have not used it, but I did use the other apk that modified "language" button.
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Do you mind sharing it?
SAYF777 said:
Do you mind sharing it?
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Just an FYI - I didn't install it because I didn't need it.
Here it is the patched version that theoretically should enable predictions in the search bar and such: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByoPaCCmy-TOMmZ0RGE4QmI2X2s/view?usp=sharing
Thanks man, appreciate it.
Charkatak said:
Just an FYI - I didn't install it because I didn't need it.
Here it is the patched version that theoretically should enable predictions in the search bar and such: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByoPaCCmy-TOMmZ0RGE4QmI2X2s/view?usp=sharing
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the link doesn't work anymore. can you please share it again. thank you.
Wol Nguyen said:
the link doesn't work anymore. can you please share it again. thank you.
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I don't think it exists anymore. I have deleted a lot of stuff, but I found blackberry manager app which you can install and get blackberry apps, including keyboard. Give it a try
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByoPaCCmy-TOemkyeXVTLWU2aEE/view?usp=sharing
Charkatak said:
I don't think it exists anymore. I have deleted a lot of stuff, but I found blackberry manager app which you can install and get blackberry apps, including keyboard. Give it a try
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByoPaCCmy-TOemkyeXVTLWU2aEE/view?usp=sharing
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Thanks. I already installed and using it on my note 9. It has some new features like quick phrase, addition number board... but I really want it to have a number row which appear permanent on top. and predict words can use all time or at least in search bar, chrome... that why I'm trying to find a modified apk with hope that someone did my favors.
I actually don't want to switch to another keyboard cuz I addicted of swiping to get predict words..
Thank for replying.:fingers-crossed:

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