Hey guys,

In the pursuit of getting rid of all the google/samsung crap on my phone possible, I decided to finally change my keyboard. I went through a few which just didn’t work at all for me and landed on Heliboard and Sayboard for voice.

Now, I am trying to get used to it, but there are some really terrible glitches that almost make me want to go back to the samsung keyboard…maybe someone else has had these issues and can assist?

1. I cannot paste images with heliboard. It just pastes a cryptic long line of code if i try. that means i have to download every image I share. not feasible

2. holding backspace is painfully slow to delete a sentence letter by letter. the samsung keyboard had a great feature if you hold backspace for more than a second it deletes full words. super nice EDIT: I found out i can hold backspace and swipe left for this feature, cool.

3. sayboard: for some reason, it will record my message and send it, but it will keep the same message in the message field. so every time i use it, i have to hold backspace down to delete (letter by letter) the entire previous message I sent. EDIT: I found this only does this in signal. when i send the message, it sends it, but does not clear the new message field.

4. lastly, and maybe this is just me, but i SUCK at typing now with heliboard. I have to go way slower or i completely misspell words or end up with weird symbols and numbers. I could go way faster on the samsung keyboard. I’m not sure why this is, it tends to miss the spacebar input a lot too. The feel is just off.

I’d really like to solve these issues because heliboard does have some other awesome features I like, and i’d like to share it with others trying to get away from samsung, but in it’s current state I can’t recommend it for a normal user that just wants it to work.

for reference, this is a POS S23 (hate this phone, can’t wait to get another one).