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Does your HTC Chacha have the Fn + @ bug?

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief July 23, 2011 · 1 min read

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The HTC Chacha is out and exclusive with Smart for the next month or so and we just found out one little bug with the keyboard — go see if you Fn + @ works normally.

It could be a software bug or something so we tried it with a couple of HTC Chacha we could get our hands on.

The “y” key has the “@” as alternate function, so when you press Fn + Y to key in the “@” sign, the “Â£” comes up instead. Could have been minor stuff but the “@” sign is frequently used considering this is the un-official FB phone.

Update: We found that Fn + P turns out to be the “@” key but that leaves out the tilde (~) again.

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38 Comments

pepper · 14 years ago

Thank You very much to (Is) I was having the problem from one hour ago. I decided to check out goole for the trouble shooting. Thank God it worked by following your steps….
Would you please check with below settings to clear the shortcuts: homepage > menu > settings > applications > quick launch >

you may try to press and hold the â€œgâ€short cut to clear

press and hold the â€œsâ€short cut to clear messages shortcut

and then it works. hope it helps
YES IT INDEED HELPED,,, THANKS EVER SO MUCH….

daniel · 14 years ago

my htc chacha has @ marked at P and “pound” symbol at y so it’s not a bug….

daniel · 14 years ago

my htc chacha has @ as at P and “pound” symbol at y so it’s not a bug….

ls · 15 years ago

I called up customer service and they told me to do this:

Would you please check with below settings to clear the shortcuts: homepage > menu > settings > applications > quick launch >

you may try to press and hold the “g”short cut to clear

press and hold the “s”short cut to clear messages shortcut

and then it works. hope it helps.

praveen · 15 years ago

My chacha has an issue..
sometimes if I press key ‘S’ to (search a contact with letter s’) sudeently it shows my sms inbox. and pressing “G” redirects to Gmail Inbox… this issue get solves if I restart my phone.Any solution for this

Fruu · 15 years ago

Yeah same with my phone, but that bit goes on and off for me! I comprimise for s with a z but with g and b (b directs me to internet) I can’t so I don’t know what to do :/

Rashid Younus · 14 years ago

I`ve been having the same problem for a while now, but i found a genius way to fix it! Go to settings>applications, then enter the option called `Quick Launch`, where shortcuts are shown. There, you just touch the screen on the shortcut you want to remove, hold it for a few seconds, and that`s how you clear that shortcut. :)

Joseph · 15 years ago

My HTC Chacha works fine too. no problems here.

Lia Espina Lopez · 15 years ago

Got my HTC Chacha last week, no problem with the @, too :) Maybe only the prototypes had that problem.

Jonaflormicfren · 15 years ago

Still don’t know about this, but i would like to find it out.

aedos · 15 years ago

Got my htc chacha yesterday from smart. Cool phone. No problem with the @ key btw.

Jhay · 15 years ago

Will try it out once I get to review the ChaCha later this week. :D

Aedos · 15 years ago

So is it a good phone? Coz im waiting for mine from smart.

Name: Roy · 15 years ago

It has something to do with the language and keyboard settings, maybe it was set to use EU as default keyboard.

lawrence · 15 years ago

this key-mapping problem is a minor bug which HTC could easily resolve with a software patch. Chacha users should inform HTC customer service so the proper patch comes out soon. If you can’t wait, you could search for a key-mapping third-party application on the market which hopefully solves the problem.

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 15 years ago

@gonkyouka – around 5

Dr,Medtech · 15 years ago

OT lang po sir abe.. ok lang ba mga android apps sa chacha.. i’ve heard that “some” apps don’t have a horizontal lock so instead tagilid siya sa fone.. is this true? kaC naman if ganito, weird naman tingnan.. salamat!