Xperia Pro not sensing when slide out keyboard is used

[#1]

Hi,

I'm hoping someone may be able to help me out with this problem I've encountered with my Xperia Pro MK16i.

The home screen has always automatically rotated into landscape mode when the keyboard is slid out, now it doesn't any more.

I also noticed another strange behaviour probably related to this - when using slide out keyboard, it still brings up the on screen keyboard when I click on a text box for input. This has not happened before, and is very annoying.

I also no longer see the "A" icon in notification bar up top either when using the slide out keyboard (not in browser, messaging, gmail or in any app), it's as if the phone has no idea that the keyboard is slid out.

The keyboard works just fine though, I experience no problems with the keyboard itself. It's still just wonderful to use as when I first bought the phone.

It's just driving me crazy to have double keyboards every time I use text input. I can of course "tap down" the soft keyboard every time, but I should not have to do this.

I installed the available software update, hoping it may solve the issue. It did not however.

Neither did restarting the phone (and taking out the battery, sim card and sd card), or doing a factory reset.

Is there anything else I can do myself to fix this issue? I've looked through all settings now and I can't find anything that could fix this, since it worked fine out of the box, and resetting the phone made no difference. I'm just hoping it isn't a hardware problem since I really would rather not send it away for repair.

Phone has Android version 2.3.4 and build number: 4.0.2.A.0.58.

I'm grateful for any kind of advice or help in this matter.

Best regards,

Secubia

[Cornelson]

"Hi, I had the same problem, but I finally could fix my handset.

To resolve the problem, I put a magnet in the sensor, right on the left side of de "Q" key of the keyboard. When I did this, the problem went away temporarily.

Then I opened the handset to pass the magnet near the sensor in the internal circuitry. When I close the handset the problem dissapeared completely.

I have to said that I didnt use a powerfull magnet, maybe due this I had to open the handset. Maybe using a powerfull magnet the problem can be resolve avoiding opened the handset."

You sir, are a genius and deserve 9000 medals of honor and the nobel prise! Seriously, you're the best! Thank you so much! Your magnet method worked like a charm and you can't even begin to imagine how relieved I'm feeling right now!

[Cornelson]

"Hi, I had the same problem, but I finally could fix my handset.

To resolve the problem, I put a magnet in the sensor, right on the left side of de "Q" key of the keyboard. When I did this, the problem went away temporarily.

Then I opened the handset to pass the magnet near the sensor in the internal circuitry. When I close the handset the problem dissapeared completely.

I have to said that I didnt use a powerfull magnet, maybe due this I had to open the handset. Maybe using a powerfull magnet the problem can be resolve avoiding opened the handset."

You sir, are a genius and deserve 9000 medals of honor and the nobel prise! Seriously, you're the best! Thank you so much! Your magnet method worked like a charm and you can't even begin to imagine how relieved I'm feeling right now!