Dictionary problems - very odd

Question

Problem is on a 6303i
There is an elderly lady in her 70's who lives in the same building as me.
The woman is wheelchair bound. Long story short, while she was on her way to the shop, some piece of trash stole her phone from her.
I had a couple of spare phones. One of which was a 6303i Classic.
She loves it, as it is simple, has a decent size display, and most importantly, the keys are spaced apart from each other.
She loves doing crossword puzzles, so I tried installed a dictionary for her.
For some reason when the application opens, it appears to load correctly, but there is no cursor visible on the screen. Obviously one needs the cursor in order to place it in the "search box" of the application, and then start entering the word one is looking for.
So for example, say one is searching for the meaning of a word - say the word is "hat".  
One presses the "h" key (bearing in mind there is no cursor visible & thus you are unable to type the word in the serch box) the words beginning with the letter "h" start appearing.
Then you enter the letter "a", and so words beginning with the letters "h" & "a" start to appear.
However, without the use of the search box, one has no idea (or record) as to what letters one has already entered.
I have tried 3 different dictionary applications on this phone, all have the same problem.
I load the identical applications onto an ancient and battered 6300 I had lying in a drawer, and all the dictionary applications work as they should. One can move the cursor into the search box, and as one enters the letters of a word in the search box they appear in the search box as they should do.
The 6303i Classic I gave to her was unused & brand new. It is stock standard with no 3rd party applications at all and functions flawlessly in every area. The problem is related to dictionary applications only.
What puzzles me, is that the same dictionary apps all work perfectly on the old battered 6300.
The firmware version on her phone is:
V 09.83
21-09-10
RM-638
On the old trashed 6300, the version is:
V 07.21
05-11-08
RM-217
I have attached a screenshot of a similar application which displays the application, with text entered into the search box (the way it is supposed to work).
Any assistance would be appreciated in helping solve this issue for this lady.
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Answer 1

See that you have posted elsewhere concerning this issue. Not a solution but installing this application upon my 3720 Classic which is similar Series 40 6th Edition (Initial release) to 6303i and it works perfectly as per screenshot below. I did notice that JAVA application is 1.2MB in size and as some devices have issues if in excess of 1MB might have expected older 6300 to have had such issues but that not the case.
Happy to have helped forum in a small way with a Support Ratio = 37.0