HTC phone, keyboard issue

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Today, while surfing a forum, my new (about a month old) HTC seems to have developed a fault. When held in the Landscape position, the keyboard doesn't appear when I tap in a text box - the 'keys' are there, but not visible - I can tap them and letters come up in the text box, but I can't see what I'm tapping, just the background of the website or whatever.  It works ok in Portrait position. It's the same for internet and for text message. As far as I know, it was working fine yesterday - I can't remember if I tried to type in landscape. It certainly worked earlier in the week.

I've also never got Google Sky to quite work. When I load it, it comes up with a view - say to the west - but then wherever I move the phone around, the view doesn't really change - it changes a bit if I tilt the phone, but not if I swivel round, say to the east.

Have I got a duff bit in the phone?  Any ideas before I take it back to the Vodafone shop on Monday?

(Yes, I've tried turning it off and back on again).

[fuaran]

I've also never got Google Sky to quite work. When I load it, it comes up with a view - say to the west - but then wherever I move the phone around, the view doesn't really change - it changes a bit if I tilt the phone, but not if I swivel round, say to the east.

What phone is it? It might not have a compass built in, quite a few cheapish Android phones don't. So the sky view can't rotate from that. You could try a compass app and see if that works.

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Ah ok, that explains that, no compass.

But the keyboard thing?

[tonycollinet]

For the keyboard, it might be worth resetting phone back to default settings - make sure any paid for apps/media is backed up first. (Although they are probably already backed up in cloud land)

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Update: it was a software glitch, cured by downloading an update.  Working now!