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Hello, this morning I bought my dad (who is not computer minded at all) a simple cell phone too replace the old one. This new cellphone is a Alcatel 2051D. This is not a smartphone. For sending text messages there is this problem. Predictive text mode must be turned off, Otherwise its too confusing for him. THe only way I found to change the text mode is by pressing * a few times. But that would be too confusing for my parents. I don’t find a place in the setting to turn off preditive text. Can anyone help me? Kind regards

Try turning off the “Prediction” . long press the key with this symbol “a✓” , usually it is near the “space” key

Do it in message screen. Click “*” button few times and look at text in upper right corner. Change this text to “abc” - thats all. You have disable T9 mode.

I had the same challenge, being totally flummoxed by total lack of documentation. However, if you watch the text in the upper right corner of the text window, you will see an indication of which “shift” the phone is in along with the count of characters entered/remaining. There is around ten of them. If supplied with a magnifier, your parents might be able to follow them. What the difference is should be easy to describe, perhaps except for the two predictive case shifts.

First go to setting and under that go to system (languages then language and Input tap Virtual Keyboard. Tap on the name of the keyboard - in this case Google Keyboard and you will see all the available settings. To turn off predictive text, tap Text correction and then at the bottom of the next screen, turn off “Next-word suggestions”. this is for android. Update (06/30/2018) First go to setting and under that go to system (languages then language and Input tap Virtual Keyboard. Tap on the name of the keyboard - in this case Google Keyboard and you will see all the available settings. To turn off predictive text, tap Text correction and then at the bottom of the next screen, turn off “Next-word suggestions”. this is for android.

Not sure what model I just did this on but I disabled predictive text on an Alcatel phone by going into phone settings, language and instead of selecting English select Auto. This stopped predictive text, go figure?

Press # and select Abc

Press # and the selections will pop up. I selected Abc and all good now.