Learn how to enter text on your Samsung Galaxy S4 Active. This section describes how to select the desired text input method when entering characters into your phone. This section also describes the predictive text entry system that reduces the amount of key strokes associated with entering text.

Your phone comes equipped with an orientation detector that can tell if the phone is being held in an upright (Portrait) or sideways (Landscape) orientation. This is useful when entering text.

Text Input Methods

There are three text input methods available:

• Google Voice typing: allows you to enter text by speaking.

• Samsung keyboard (default): Samsungs on-screen QWERTY keypad that can be used in both portrait and landscape orientation.

• Swype: a new way to enter text on touch screens. Instead of tapping each key, use your finger to trace over each letter of a word.

Entering Text Using the Samsung Keyboard

• From a screen where you can enter text, rotate your phone counterclockwise to a Landscape orientation. The on-screen QWERTY keypad will display.

Changing the Text Input Mode – Keypad

There are two main keypad layout keys that will change the on-screen keys within the QWERTY keypad.

• The available Text Input modes are: Sym and Abc.
• Symbol/Numeric Mode: activates the number, symbol, and emoticon keys.
• ABC Mode: activates the default alphabet keys. Can also be set to Abc or abc by using the shift key.

Note: When in Abc mode, the Sym button will appear. When in Sym mode, the Abc/ABC/abc button will appear.

Using ABC Mode

• If desired, rotate your phone counterclockwise to a Landscape orientation.

• When you tap the Enter message field, the following screen displays:

• Tap the desired alphabetic characters.

• The screen initially opens in ABC mode. After typing the first letter, the shift key will change to and following letters will be lowercase.

• Tap Shift key to input another upper-case letter or tap Shift key twice to switch to ABC mode. The shift key will change Shift key to in ABC mode. All following letters will be up percase until you tap the shift key again.

Using Symbol/Numeric Mode

Use Symbol /Numeric Mode to add numbers, symbols, or emoticons.

• Rotate your phone counterclockwise to a Landscape orientation.

• Tap SYM at the bottom of the screen. The following screen displays:

• Tap the desired number, symbol, or emoticon characters.

• Tap the 1/2 button to access additional symbols.

• Tap ABC to return to Abc mode.