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Last year I blogged<\/a> about the Samsung Instinct<\/em>, a CDMA touch screen feature phone that superficially resembles the iPhone, and the problems that users where having running Opera Mini and other third party Java applications on it.<\/p>\n The issue was that the JVM on the Instinct was missing the Java ME LCDUI package which is the way that Java applications create user interface components like textboxes. This meant that was no way to enter text<\/strong> into any text fields in generic java apps like Opera Mini, Google Maps and Mail, or IM apps like eBuddy, \u00a0 making these applications essentially useless<\/strong>.<\/p>\n A resourceful user eventually created a partial workaround in the form of a\u00a0 JavaScript based online keyboard at proceemo.com\/bookmarks<\/em> which made it possible to open any URs in Opera Mini and to do Google searches. In November 2008, U.S. operator Sprint issued a firmware upgrade that fixed the text input problem for Instinct users on its network making the Proceemo keyboard unnecessary for them.<\/p>\n The Canadian operators Bell, Telus<\/strong> and SaskTel<\/strong>, who also sell the Instinct have never made the LCDUI upgrade available to their users so Canadians still need to use Proceemo.\u00a0 Late last week the Proceemo.com site went down and is still down leaving Canadian Sprint users once again unable to enter text in Opera Min<\/strong>i.<\/p>\n User “xaznxplaya<\/em>” on the Opera Mini Forum has found a replacement for Proceemo at http:\/\/zx81.zx81.free.fr\/public\/psp\/keyboard\/qwerty\/<\/a>. It was designed for the Play Station Portable but looks like it will work as well or better than the Proceemo one with the Instinct.\u00a0 It even has a backspace key and a numeric keypad which the original doesn’t. The keyboard was created by “zx-81” and the HTML\/JavaScript source code is available from his blog<\/a> for any one is interested in modifying or extending it.<\/p>\n So how do you get to the keyboard page on the Instinct in Opera Mini if you can’t enter URLs?\u00a0 Here’s the trick.<\/p>\n The “Proceemo doesn’t work…” thread will eventually drop off the front page of the forum, xaznxplaya <\/em>has asked the forum moderators to “sticky” the thread to keep it on the front page although that hasn’t happened yet. I’m not in Canada and I don’t have an Instinct so I can’t actually test this workaround. If you are a Canadian Samsung Instinct user please leave a comment and let us know if it works for you.<\/p>\n Instinct users should also check out Instinct-Samsung.com<\/a>, which seems to be the best online\u00a0 forum and help site for Instinct users.\u00a0 There’s even a dedicated Canadian board on Instinct-Samsung.com which is loaded with tips and discussions about using the Instinct on Canadian operators.<\/p>\n I really don’t understand why the\u00a0 operators and Samsung\u00a0 aren’t making the update available to their users.\u00a0 The JVM on these phones as shipped is clearly broken.\u00a0 A fix exists for this broken product, you would think that they\u00a0 would be eager to deploy it to protect their reputation for quality and to keep their users happy.\u00a0 If you are a Canadian Instinct user,\u00a0 please sign the petitions that have been started requesting that the patch be deployed.\u00a0 There are separate petitions for Bell<\/a> and Telus<\/a>. I couldn’t find a SaskTel petition, someone want to create one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last year I blogged about the Samsung Instinct, a CDMA touch screen feature phone that superficially resembles the iPhone, and the problems that users where having running Opera Mini and other third party Java applications on it. The issue was that the JVM on the Instinct was missing the Java ME LCDUI package which is the way that Java applications create user interface components like textboxes. This meant that was no way to enter text into any text fields in … Continue reading \n
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