Seidio Car Dock Help Please

[holmes]

Installed the Seidio Car Dock/ Mount today & I love it!
Only issue I'm having is when its in the dock if I try to input anything into a "text" area, it wont bring up the touch screen keyboard. If I slide the screen up to expose the physical keyboard, THEN the touch screen keyboard shows up! If I slide it back down the touch screen goes away!?!? When I slide it open I then have TWO keyboards! The physical & virtual ones. I should add I am running Bugless Beast 1.1 & have removed the stock "Car Home" app (I do want to reinstall that app & am looking for help to do THAT also).
Thanks for reading all this, any help or suggestions would be appreciated :-)

[Droidster163]

I have this same problem as well, but I don't really mind it cuz I just take it off the dock when I have to text.(plus it would be kind of hard typing while on the dock) I figured it was a safety measure so people aren't texting while driving but I could be wrong.

[Murz]

I have the Seidio Car Dock and have never had this problem. I can have it in the dock and bring up the digital keyboard without opening the physical keyboard.

[AquaDan88]

@ holmes:
I noticed the same problem today. I've got the Seidio car dock too, and I'm running BB 0.9 and HelixLauncher. Wondering if its a custom rom issue. Funny thing is that I have the multimedia dock by Seidio also, and the keyboard pops up no problem there.

What are you running?

I wouldn't mind so much, but I use the keyboard to type in addresses into the search, or send a quick text with the voice to text function, which you can't access without the virtual keyboard.

[The_Law]

I am not using a custom rom, but I am using the Helix Launcher. I have the manual 2.1 Update installed.

I also have the Motorola car mount. I just removed the innocase and tested with that - the Virtual Keyboard pops up when in that mount but not the Seidio.

Additionally, I installed Dock Simulator and simulated running Car mode, the Virtual Keyboard worked there in Landscape.

Finally, I switched over to the default Home (not Helix Launcher) and re tested with the same results - using the Seidio Car Dock causes Virtual Keyboard to not work but using the Motorola Car Dock, the Virtual Keyboard does work.

Note: I also have the Multimedia dock - which works just fine.

On a side note, my Seidio Car Dock stopped charging my Droid. Apparantly this is a known issue so I have RMA'd a replacement which should arrive Monday or so. I'll see if there is any difference there.

[AquaDan88]

@ The_Law, Let me know how that works. If it fixes your problem, I'll RMA too.

[solar]

Arrggg. Another issue. I have the dock too, but haven't really used it since the first one doesnt charge the phone and the replacement is on its way. I'll have to test this out.

[AquaDan88]

I have no problem charging. I have found that a lot of people complain that the AC-USB charger that they give you is crappy. I luckily have a RadioShack Mini-USB charger from my old Moto Q9m, so I use that.

I am kinda pissed that they didn't just use the regular Micro-USB like the phone has. I feel like I bought a charger for nothing!

[The_Law]

Ok, finally got the replacement car mount. I can confirm that the Virtual Keyboard does not work when in the Car Dock.

now...why would that be?

Edit: If I just rest the phone in the cradle, the Virtual Keyboard works. Only when clicking down onto the usb charger is the keyboard disabled. I can verify that the OEM cradle and charger do not exhibit this behaviour.

[solar]

Well, I fully expected mine to not work. But when I tested it today, the soft keyboard did work. I don't think it ever hasn't worked, but I couldn't remember, so I checked it today. Weird huh?