You covered all my suggestions already, except one. As much as I hate to suggest it, have you done a settings reset? That should clear out whatever mysterious gremlin is causing the problem, hopefully. Less drastically, but even less likely to help: have you tried a different braille code, just to see if that has the same issues? > On Nov 17, 2015, at 13:21, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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