Backspace key erases whole text typed!!

The key when pressed, is supposed to delete a single character, rather it gets locked(as if it is a real key in a keyboard) and erases the entire content.
I am not able to stop it from erasing !!
Does this sound familiar ? :O
Is this a BUG or a FEATURE ?

It's a bug. Occurs when delete is pressed after a combination of capital letters and periods (e.g. U.S.A). If you're quick enough, tapping any letter key stops it.
You can submit feedback to Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html.

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Jim
Message was edited by: HeyJP

Yes - I get this on my new iPhone 3G. Its happened a few times, so I thought I needed to be slower with the backspace keypresses, but even allowing over a seconds pause it still goes nuts an erases all the message (usually as I'm screaming at it!). It happened yesterday under 2.01 so if its a bug its not fixed.
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I cann't typing letter P and backspace key

is anyone having same problem?
i can type any letter except letter P and backspace key.
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please tell me the solution if sombody knows...please

Hi,
Does the issue occur when using all applications?
Do you see the same issue when you rotate the iPhone?
This article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2802#faq5 provides tips for issues with the display not responding to touch.
You can try restoring the iPhone and setting it up as a new phone. This would rule out issues with the iPhone software and backup.
If you restore as new, you may want to archive the backups as mentioned in this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
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Backspace key constantly sticks and wipes out most if not all I have types. Has done it twice in last couple of minutes while typing these posts or threads. Also, why is typing so slow or behind on 3G, but not so on the 2G.

I'm having the same issue even after updating to 2.0.2 yesterday. It wiped out a good deal of text. Until they come out with a fix, I have discovered that pressing "Done" when this is happening stops it. It's not a permanent fix, and you have to be fast before it erases a good portion of the text, but it's better than losing everything.

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the backspace key had stopped working in my HP pavillion laptop since while. I was fine with it since I was using the delete key. However, I am encountering a new problem now. My laptop does auto backspace. Example: when I am typing on word it tends to autobackspace everything and i tend to loose all the datas. Even when i am using internet , it auto backs to a previous page. This happens a lot frequently and i am tired of it. Does someone know how to fix this?

Im not quite sure what the problem is your describing.
But if its only happening when the MMC then that would suggest that there is something wrong on the MMC.
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Formatting your MMC will erase all data on it though.
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Im trying to find a way to disable the keyboard backspace
button from going back a page in the site but allowing it to
function as a character delete when needed for typing in an input
text field of a form.
Strangely this problem only occurs for about a minute after
the page is opened....after that it then works correctly. You can
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The TextField class has a tab order property. You may want to
look into this. As for disabling the backspace key, you can grab
key presses from user input. I'm not 100% on this but you could use
Flash to test the key being pressed. If backspace is pressed, find
out the current object with focus (unsure of this part), if it's an
input box in flash, have flash handle it or if a text box doesn't
have focus, send it out to javascript to have it handle it.

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When want to change a letter or some text I always have to position the cursor after the entire word and use the backspace key to delete the whole word, even if I just want to delete, for example, the first letter. Is there a key that deletes forwards ?
This applies to my iPad, MacBook Air and iPhone.

I'd like to sort of hiighjack this thread. I moved from an iPad Mini to an iPad Air bcause I wanted to add a keyboard case that would replace some of the frustration I've experienced trying to type on the Mini's display. So with the AIR I purchased a Belkin Ultimate keyboard and I'm very peased with it. My "principal" computer is a desktop PC and I was quite startled to find there are no cursors, other than by finger, in the iPad world; however, I'm getting used to that. Re the posting here, that seems to be good advice re the delete function. My question: looking prettyy closely at my Belkn keyboard, where is the "delete" key?

I need some assistance on stopping my backspace key from "sticking" on my iPad 2?

I have reset, restored, and rebooted. Nothing is working. My backspace key goes rogue even if I only hit it once. I've had this pad for 3 days and I'm a bit frustrated. I've noticed that the backspace key goes haywire in almost all third party apps but it also happens when I type email, calendar , events, and notes. The only way I can stop this from happening is to hit the spacebar multiple times or any other key on board. I am not new to Apple products as I have had several iPhones, iPod touches, and I had a Mac Book Pro for work. I have searched the communities and saw that this was an issue with earlier iPhones but I have not read anything to iPad 2. Any helpful assistance you can provide is appreciated.

I assume that you know if you hold down on the delete/back space key that it picks up speed and will rapidly delete sections of text as opposed to one letter at a time.
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http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/contact/

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I'm trying to figure out how to disable the backspace key on
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Hmmm... I've not seen where you can't type after deleting all
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characters. Do you maybe have the input set to multiline and
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Backspace key doesn't work during install

I'm installing Oracle 10.2.0 under Solaris 10 05/08 I'm using PuTTY 0.6.0 and Cygwin as my X server. In the Oracle install windows, my backspace and delete keys do not work. They work fine everywhere else.

hi jnojr
what about making executing the following command in your shell before starting the runInstaller:
stty erase <backspace key>
stty delete <delete key>
please read that document: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/cool_unix/stty.html
Read that also:
http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-5.html
check your settings
#stty -a
What is the result of that command?
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% xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace"
Delete key to generate a Delete:
% xmodmap -e "keycode 107 = Delete"
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regards,
hub
Edited by: Hub on Sep 2, 2008 3:43 PM

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Create another user account on the computer and see if it behaves the same way. If it does then it's probably a hardware issue, if it doesn't then it's software and most likely a setting that has changed.

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I've seen this too. Maddening. Not consistent, but it happens often enough.
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this is sort of a javascript question, but its on my jsp pages so i'll ask. ;)
I would like to be able to disable the backspace key so that
a user cannot hit it to travel back a page. However, i want to leave
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i have this bit of code (see bottom) that will capture the backspace, but it turns it off even for the text elements in a form.
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<script language="JavaScript"></script>

There are two ways to approach this, and neither are very elegant, though they both should work in i.e. (other browsers will presumably have an analogous method for accomplishing them). Firstly, you could use a client script to populate the onblur and onfocus properties of all your forms on the client page. Something like
for(var i = 0; i < document.forms.lenth; i++) {
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}This means that you could leave your forms the way they are. Note that the forms collection of the document is an i.e. only thing. Alternatively, and this is the preferred method, you could simply ask the even which object fired it and evaluate whether or not to cancel the event using an if statement. Again, in i.e. only, every event has the srcElement property which is the object that fired the even. In the case of a keydown event, the object that fires the event is whatever is selected when you press the key. Specifically, if the backspace key is pressed in a text field or textbox etc. it will tell you if you ask. Something like
document.onkeydown = keyCatcher
function keyCatcher() {
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}You'll notice that the previous method is by far the fastest as it only has 3 compisons, as opposed to the many required for sorting through all of the form and input elements. Also you need no global variables.
Lastly you could check to see if an input tag is the activeElement when the backspace key is pressed and if one is, block it. Something like
document.onkeydown = keyCatcher
function keyCatcher() {
    if(event.keyCode==8 ) {
        for(var i = 0; i < document.tags("input").lenth; i++) {
            if(document.tags("input").item(i) == document.activeElement) {
                event.cancelBubble = true;
                event.returnValue = false;
}Again, both the tags collection and the activeElement property are I.E. only things. For other browsers I assume you would need some kind of detection script and some options (or just don't block they're backspace keys). Also, I haven't tested any of this code, but you get the idea.

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This should never happen when the cursor is in an editing control, but it has always done that if the focus was on the page itself.
Here's how to change it:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste '''about:config''' in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the search box that appears above the list, type or paste '''backs''' and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the '''browser.backspace_action''' preference and enter the desired value:
* 0 => back (default)
* 1 => page up
* 2 => ignore (actually, anything other than 0 or 1 does nothing)
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Does anyone know a way to prevent the backspace key from acting like a shortcut for "Go back"?
I never, ever use backspace for that function. The only times I go to the previous webpage by pressing the backspace key are unintentional and often cause loss of information on dynamic webpages.
I believe that making the backspace key act as both a text editing tool and a history navigation shortcut, based solely on whether the cursor is inside a text field or not, is a serious design flaw. I may be mistaken but I believe this behaviour was copied from Internet Explorer. Why on earth did Apple copy a design flaw from the most flawed browser in the world?
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Hi Derek,
This feature is sufficiently annoying to make we want to change browsers until Apple fixes it.
Safari menu > Report Bugs to Apple...
Everyone here on the forum is just a fellow user like yourself. I'm not aware of a way to override it, but maybe someone else will chime in.

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