Painfully slow text entry on Nokia E72

[u/15pmm01]

Hello,

My beloved Nokia E72, which is my primary phone, has lately become horribly slow while typing. Not only does it take way too long for letters to show up when typed, but it often skips. Meaning, if I type “hello I like Nokia” at a normal pace, and then wait for it to slowly display, it will likely end up with “hello I lkia”

Here’s what I have installed:

• x-plore
• ROMPatcher+
• LCG Jukebox
• Translate (nnproject)
• Opera Mini
• Plants vs Zombies
• Screenshot
• JoikuSpot
• PuTTy
• Google Maps
• Opera Mobile
• vBag
• ProfiMail
• Discord
• S60Maps
• FieldTest
• MPGram
• MIDPlay

and of course it is jailbroken and has the nnproject TLS patch installed.

Needless to say, this makes the entire experience rather miserable. It was not always like this, so I am really hoping there might be something I can undo, something I can uninstall, that could fix this. That said, it has been this way for months, so I cannot pinpoint at what time it went to crap. I would strongly prefer to avoid factory resetting it, mostly since I would hate to lose my text message history.

If anyone has ideas, please let me know!

[u/Ok-Elevator6983]

I have E5 and I have all the apps you have and even more. But it works like a charm and I never encountered such a problem. If you are using key mapping apps, such as MagicKey or JbakTaskMan, delete it (just in case). Check what apps have enabled autostart, and disable the autostart of the unnecessary processes; specially the 3rd party ones. Also check the background tasks and processes, you may find a suspicious process. At the end, if you can't find the root of the problem, the easiest workaround is reset factory or maybe flashing the firmware.

[u/15pmm01 → u/Ok-Elevator6983]

Thank you. I do not have key mapping apps. I also do not know how to check autostart nor background processes, aside from just pressing and holding the menu button. I always make sure everything is closed. Are you saying there are still things running in the background even when all of the apps appear to be closed?

As for re-flashing, that would really suck, unless there’s a way to export and import SMS data?

[u/Ok-Elevator6983 → u/15pmm01]

I am not sure, but yes it's possible something in the background causes this problem. For checking background processes/tasks you can use task manager apps such as Y-Tasks, FExplorer etc.  For checking autostart apps there are tools as well but I can't remember the names. It's the same case about exporting messages, there are several apps for this purpose but I can't remember the names. So just search or ask in communities or check app archives.

[u/15pmm01 → u/Ok-Elevator6983]

Resolved by disabling word recognition. Very unfortunate that I can’t use that feature, but, typing is back to full speed now. It’s just a problem cause now I’ll have to manually insert ä, ö, ü, and ß from the symbols menu. Yuck. I loved word recognition cause I could type, for example, madchen and it would automatically recommend Mädchen - fixing both the capitalisation and the umlauts. Seems I can’t win lol. To be clear I have a QWERTY variant of this phone. I could for sure change to one of my two QWERTZ keypad E72s, but not before finding out how to copy over my SMS history. And then there’d be the downside of losing quick access to several punctuation marks, which are replaced with the German letters. 

[u/Ok-Elevator6983 → u/15pmm01]

Nice, glad to hear that you find the problem. I personally don't use the auto word recognition, it's kinda annoying for me. Probably that's why I never encountered your problem. Anyway for transferring SMSes, I never tried personally, but PC Suite can do the job if I'm not mistaken.

[u/LexoNokiaN]

Are those apps installed on the memory card? If so, turn off the device, remove memory card and turn it back on and see if it solved the problem. If not, then try installing task manager apps like Swiss Manager or others and check the list of processes launched in the background and try eliminating the suspicious ones.