Attn Symbian T9 Users: don't save "lmk" into your dictionary!

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Man, I made the dumb mistake of saving 'lmk' into my dictionary......

Now everytime I want to type 'lol' guess what comes up first?

Does anyone know a way to access the custom words dictionary? I have tons of other words in there like that......
 
What a great contribution! Thanks for your insight!

I've actually been wondering this myself too. I'm on an E70 right now, but my next phone may require going back to T9 and it wouild be really nice to be able to manually edit the dictionary. Maybe there's some sort of application that lets you do this?
 
This is possibly the most asked question on the S60 forums. Unfortunately, there is NOT a way to EDIT the dictionary. There is a specific file you can navigate to and simply reset the dictionary, though I don't recall.

A hard reset will also do the trick. I had this happen recently, I accidentally saved yot (why, I don't know) and so everytime I typed "you" I got "yot". Sucked.
 
True, you'd think there'd be some way to edit this, but is there ANY device on the market that allows you to edit the custom dictionary? So it's not just limited to Nokias
 
This is one of the things that Blackberry has nailed over Symbian. On both of my BB's I owned, you could simply go into a custom words list (this is for BB's that have the SureType predictive text, just to be clear), and delete or edit the words that were in there. I'd go in there about once a month and spend a few minutes cleaning up all the crap that had accidently been saved.

@errol: I don't remember being able to do this on any of my SE's, unless you are talking about UIQ? Of course the last SE I owned was a K750, so who knows.

-olly
 
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You could do it on everything from at least the w810i onwards.

I figured out a work around. The order that the words cycle thru is based on the chronological order you saved them so just resave the primary word you want in your dictionary.

Another joke is that the T9 dictionary on symbian lets you save digits and punctuation into a word. Even lets you save zero but as soon as you type it out it spaces to the next word -_-

prefer pound as the space key
 
Didn't know that about SE, interesting. Oh, and as for the "space key" issue, I actually prefer the zero on it... I'm not a huge fan of how T9 is implemented on SE phones, I vastly prefer Nokia's implementation of it (besides the whole word list thing of course).

-olly
 
ive noticed with s60 v3 (i have a nokia n80 and used to have a 6682) that the t9 goes to the word you use most often
i.e. a hebrew word for a guy/boy is bochur which i use often when i am texting my friends for some reason my t9 dictionary has the really weird words 'ambits' (which i have since found out actually is a word meaning range), 'ambivs', and 'ambitr' (words which i have yet to find out the meaning) and with the 6682 i would always have to hit the star a couple of times to get to 'bochur' but on my n80 it always goes straight to 'bochur' which i LOVE
so jp maybe you just gotta start using lol more frequently and itll replace it in the hierarchy?
 
you can make SE "act" like nokia just turn off the drop down list...... unless your issue is having to use the dpad/joystick to swtich words...

jp.. instead of LOL use my evil laugh instead ... muhahahahahaahah and animations.... oh wait no animations for nokia either...
 
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There's absolutely no advantage to having space on zero vs pound key, its just habit and perception. It's only a disadvantage because you can never even save E70, w810i, 2007 etc into your dictionary.



also, symbian doesn't save the most common word lol, that's musk. It priorities based on the chronological order you entered a word in your dictionary. (as stated earlier). I've been having to change the word kool to look, dvds to ever and many others from the day they entered my T9 dictionary.

at least i just discovered a work around. Thank god



Thank you come again!
 
ya seems like a few nokia guys have an issue with that...

i can use both with relative ease... just prefer Se for it's auto complete, next word prediction and you can also teach it your preferences.....(preferred words first and custimized dictionary, animations etc...)
 
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