Ok good, I feel glad someone else has experienced this. I tried reseting VoiceOver, turning off and on bluetooth, forgetting and re-pairing the device, all that. Only a reset would fix it. Nasty! I wonder what it all means.
- Austin On Apr 19, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > Austin, > > Funny you mention this because I had tried one of the Verbatim keyboards and > there was a key I believe the first in the top row that would cause a similar > problem on an iPHone 4S. THe problem was for me intermittent . I ended up > returning the keyboard not for that reason, but because I could not get used > to the number keys which were about half the size of all the letter keys and > not in the same location. I think Verbatim has a nice product, but there are > some things they could do to improve it. > So, back to your question. Yes I have encountered this, but not consistently. > I suspect it is a key that is mapped in some odd way that is freaking out > either VO or the OS. > > On Apr 19, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Austin Seraphin wrote: > >> I have a very strange problem. I purchased the New Trent iPad case with >> keyboard. I set it up as expected, paired the keyboard etc. Every small >> keyboard has a different layout. Next to the slash key it has a key which >> VoiceOver's keyboard help identifies as "Control Character". Don't confuse >> this with the control key. >> >> When I hit it, everything goes nuts. By that I mean that when I go into any >> textfield, it will act like I hold down the Delete key repeatedly - erasing >> anything in the field and continuing to back up, causing the little sound >> which occurs when at the beginning of the field. It will just keep going and >> going and going for thousands of times. And to make it weirder, I turned off >> the keyboard and disabled bluetooth and the problem persisted. I had to >> reset the iPad to stop it. >> >> Has anyone else experienced this? What does this "control character" really >> do? I'll have to have a sighted person look at the label to see. BTW this >> happens with iOS 5.1 on an iPad 2. I guess I'll go back to the Apple >> keyboard! >> >> - AUstin >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
