Clear the User Dictionary on HTC Android Phones

This has been vexing me for a while. The touch input system on the Android is very powerful and easy to use, however it does seem to automatically remember every spelling mistake I make.

Searching seems to indicate that there is no direct way to remove all, or batches of incorrect words from your user dictionary.

However, there is a useful work-around which users of the HTC sense UI can make use of.

Under the All tab of Manage Applications settings area, is an application called Touch Input.

Clearing the data for this app will remove all input settings, including the User Dictionary.

Then you just need to redo your input settings. Is touch input slightly faster afterwards?

SL4A Scripting Languages for Android

In my hunt for programming capabilities on the Android, and some playing around with BeanShell I found something that worked very well.

I downloaded SL4A which is a scripting host for Android. It takes a bit of setting up, as you then need to install the BeanShell interpreter. However, from there I was able to automate a question I was wondering about.

The idea is simple, using a specific search term, can I get a feel for how much battery life people get from their handsets?

So after a bit of hacking at the script, I was able to simply searche for the handset name, and "battery lasts x days" where x was iterated.

The result:

HTC Wildfire battery days (1): 58
HTC Wildfire battery days (2): 199
HTC Wildfire battery days (3): 83
HTC Wildfire battery days (4): 8
HTC Desire battery days (1): 71
HTC Desire battery days (2): 943
HTC Desire battery days (3): 422
HTC Desire battery days (4): 7
Nexus One battery days (1): 4
Nexus One battery days (2): 240
Nexus One battery days (3): 444
Nexus One battery days (4): 0
Nexus S battery days (1): 37
Nexus S battery days (2): 237
Nexus S battery days (3): 72
Nexus S battery days (4): 3

My HTC Wildfire gets about 2 days, so that query technique feels like it has turned up some useful data.

And for those interested in the BeanShell script.

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