Re: VOTE BUG: no on-screen keyboard after iGo use
 

So, do I understand that you've gone into the Control Panel, gone to Status Bar tab in Panels, and unchecked "Bluetooth" so the Bluetooth icon doesn't appear in the status bar? If so, this may have been your undoing.

I have an iGo/ThinkOutside Stowaway 4-row keyboard, and I never had any trouble with my on-screen keyboard reactivating immediately after closing the Stowaway. That is, until I just disabled the Bluetooth icon in the status bar as above to test this out. With the status bar's Bluetooth icon disabled, your bug appears. Re-enabling the Bluetooth icon in the status bar kills the bug again.

Re: VOTE BUG: no on-screen keyboard after iGo use
 

THANK YOU!!!!

You are right, re-enabling the Bluetooth icon in the status bar removed the bug---i got my on-screen keyboard back *almost* immediately upon closing the iGo. I just waited until the icon turned from blue to gray/white and then the on-screen keyboard appeared when called.

This really is a strange bug. I'm not sure if it's made all the stranger in light of the fact that when the tablet has gone berserk in the past (as I described earlier), the bluetooth icon appears as the left-most icon in the status bar, but now that the icon is permanently enabled (as per your suggestion), it appears as the right-most icon. Perhaps this is an inconsequential observation, however.

Thanks again!

Re: VOTE BUG: no on-screen keyboard after iGo use
 

I finally got around to voting for this. Bugzilla is kinda hostile to the general public, isn't it?

BTW, who do we have to convince to bump this up from "Low" priority?

I have had this bug lately, and I haven't disabled the bluetooth icon...

Re: VOTE BUG: no on-screen keyboard after iGo use
 

Id say, reflash you device with the same or the newest whichever you prefer Id say its from some other app conflicting with the sys.... just a guess but I had the same keyboard and when it was on the on screen disappeared and when it was off the on screen came back no problems, when the bt icon was displayed or not...

my igo slim was stolen and now I have a dinovo mini, but I never even had a hiccup with the igo.

Re: VOTE BUG: no on-screen keyboard after iGo use
 

I'm using the 4-row igo keyboard and in the middle of typing, if i press the "shift" key it activates this horrible auto-complete mode.

the worst part is that when i'm done with the bt kb, if i try to get on screen to appear, all that's left is this wierd grey box at the bottom (maybe for handwriting?) but it won't recognize any taps from the stylus and won't allow me an option to switch to on-screen kb (finger or stylus)

this is driving me nuts - maybe i can just disable handwriting? (i don't use it anyways)

Re: VOTE BUG: no on-screen keyboard after iGo use
 

That's not normal. Do you have it configured as "Generic 105-key PC"?

That's also not normal, and the grey box does not sound like the handwriting recognition area.

Re: VOTE BUG: no on-screen keyboard after iGo use
 

The statusbar is reset to a known safe (i.e. factory default) state on a desktop crash. That includes the BT icon, and puts it on the left. Your config, however, has it on the right. A couple points:
To change where it is, go Control Panel -> Panels, and select it, then use the /\ and \/ buttons to move it up and down the list.
And, to recover from a desktop crash, Control Panel -> Panels, OK. The config of the task navigator and status bar will be restored. (Home applets also die, but there's no quick way to recover them...)

I think it's actually shift+space, or some such...

It thinks you have the keyboard slid out.
Disabling handwriting won't help... That's meant for selecting auto-completion entries with the slide-out keyboard.

What's that you say? your N800 has no slide-out keyboard? Whaddyaknow, I can't find mine either! But I must have one, or it wouldn't be out...:rolleyes:
So just run to tell your N800 that it's slider is closed now, and everything works again.

Re: VOTE BUG: no on-screen keyboard after iGo use
 

Benson's solution

does the trick.

But seeing as I'm only the 8th person to report what is, for N800 users, a serious bug with a very non-obvious solution, it would be great if more users would go to the bug-reporting-site and report it. It just takes a minute to get an account and vote for the bug.

(I don't know how else to move it from Low Priority. They give "low priority" to a bug that essentially disables the unit for N800 users?)

Re: VOTE BUG: no on-screen keyboard after iGo use
 

Hey, I filed my bug report and then just now I got an email that they upped the bug Priority from Low to Medium!

Re: VOTE BUG: no on-screen keyboard after iGo use
 

You're welcome. ;)