Hi listers, Lately, the iphone of a friend who does not read English started acting strangely while inputting braille. We did what we could, as described below. Please think with us.. Here’s what happens.
Suddenly, and with no apparent reason so far discovered, when he wants to type braille on the phone, the orientation seems to have changed 180 degrees. That is, in landscape, he used to have the volume buttons facing the floor, resting the phone on his pinkies and keeping it gripped with his thumbs, that is now upside down. I.e.: The volume buttons now have to point to the ceiling and the home button has to point to the right. Second problem now is, that when he types characters that consist only of the 4 upper braille dots, so 1 2 4 and 5, all is well. But any character where either dots 3 and or 6 are involved, the inputted characters do not come out as typed. For instance, an m, as in Mike, becomes an f. An n, as in november, becomes a g. I thought that he needed to recalibrate his dots and so he did, but no change. This dot 3 6 problem gets even more strange, because the letter k, as in kind, becomes a semi colon. In his braille table, dots 2 and 3. That prooves that dot 3 is seen indeed. After a reboot, the problem changes, and then, different characters come out. For instance, then, he can no longer type the a, as in action. That becomes a comma, dot 2. Here’s what he tried to resolve this issue: A sighted person came and looked, with an interesting outcome. It appears that, even though we as braille users now need to hold the phone with the volume buttons facing toward the ceiling, for a sighted person, the dots are still in their original, correct orientation. I.e.: according to his son, dots 1 2 3 are still near the home button, and 4 5 and 6 are toward the speaker end. Still, hitting dot 1 makes the phone think it is dot 4. Recalibration does not help, so we tried the following, with no change in input behaviour. 1. He unlocked the generic iphone screen orientation lock, using the control center screen. 2. He unlocked his voiceover braille orientation lock, using a 3 finger swipe up, while in landscape screen away braille mode. 3. He turned voiceover off and on. 4. He turned the phone off and back on. 5. We held the home button and the on off button for 12 seconds, the iphone rebooted, but no help. What did help, was that he restored his icloud backup a few days old. However, the problem came back today. He did not play any games, nor did anything provocative to the phone, such as installing or removing apps, or changing any setting, hoping to catch the problem if it returned. But it seems he just used the phone to answer and write his email, sms and i messages. So, finally we are turning to you listers. Any other suggestions on what might be going on here are very welcome. We seem to be out of options. Please drop me a line if you have the slightest idea what to try next. Kind regards, Paul. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
