copy and paste WiFi WPA key in Lucid
BillMac___
Newbie

How can I copy and paste a 63 character WiFi WPA key in the LG Lucid phone?  The key is totally random and the chances of typing it correctly are slim at best.  The WPA  standard allows up to 63 character for a key.  I would like to put a file on the SD card via usb and then somehow paste the key into the correct WiFi setup field.  Seems to be a pretty basic capability ...

Thanks.

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Re: copy and paste WiFi WPA key in Lucid
Dave-in-Decatur
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There are several other office-document apps in the Google Play Store (curiously enough, I can't find Polaris Office there). Some are free, some are paid. I'm not sure about free versions doing copy and paste, but they might. I use QuickOffice; Documents to Go is another good app that I've used on non-Android devices, and there's also Office Suite Pro and Olive Office.

But there are faster ways to get the WPA key onto your phone. You could e-mail it to yourself, or send yourself a text message, from your computer. Either of these can be used to leave the login info available on the phone permanently, or can be deleted if you don't need it anymore. To e-mail yourself a text message, address the e-mail to your cell number @vtext.com (e.g., 1111111111@vtext.com). Once the message is received, both the e-mail program and the text messaging program should support the tap-and-hold copy and paste function described earlier.

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Tidbits
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put a basic notepad file into the root of the SD card.  open it up, and you should be able to copy and paste the contents from there.

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BillMac___
Newbie

Thanks for the quick response.  I put a .txt file onto the SD card.  I don't know what app or function that I would use to open this file and copy/paste the key.  I tried Polaris Office and can open the file but edit is grayed out.  Any other editor that I can use?

Thanks.

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Tidbits
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Did you tap and hold on the text and wait for the highlight tabs to show?

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Re: copy and paste WiFi WPA key in Lucid
BillMac___
Newbie

Good Morning.  While the file is open in Polaris Office tapping the text changes the zoom.  Is there another app that I should be using to open this file?  By the way, I'm learning the in's and out's of the Lucid; have only had it for 5 days.

Thanks.

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Re: copy and paste WiFi WPA key in Lucid
Dave-in-Decatur
Specialist - Level 2

I'm not familiar with Polaris Office, but perhaps it doesn't read .txt files. If it reads .doc files (MS Word documents), you could just put the key into that kind of file and put it on the SD card for Polaris to open.

The trick with copying and pasting on Android phones is, as Tidbits said, to tap and hold the text. That might bring up a menu offering the option to select a word or select all, and then if you choose Select Word a rather goofy and awkward-looking pair of pointers that you drag to move the beginning and end of the selection. Or it might bring up the pair of pointers directly, and tapping on them will give you an option to select word or all. In any case, once you've got the text selected with the pointers, it will then offer options to copy or cut the text. Frankly, with my clumsy fingers it's taken me several months to develop any skill at this at all.

Of course, in this case choosing Select All would be simplest, if all there is in the file is the WPA key.

You may only have to do this once. On my Samsung Stratosphere, once I had logged onto my home WiFi one time the procedure has been automatic ever since, and the connection occurs seamlessly and quickly.

Good luck!

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BillMac___
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Hello Dave-in-Decatur,

I'm thinking that my problem is that the only file editor app that I have on the phone is Polaris Office which came with the phone and it doesn't implement copy and paste.  It reads the .txt file fine that I put on the SD card but doesn't respond to touch and hold except to zoom in.

I'll have to find an app that does copy and paste.  Any suggestions??

Thanks.

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Re: copy and paste WiFi WPA key in Lucid
Dave-in-Decatur
Specialist - Level 2

There are several other office-document apps in the Google Play Store (curiously enough, I can't find Polaris Office there). Some are free, some are paid. I'm not sure about free versions doing copy and paste, but they might. I use QuickOffice; Documents to Go is another good app that I've used on non-Android devices, and there's also Office Suite Pro and Olive Office.

But there are faster ways to get the WPA key onto your phone. You could e-mail it to yourself, or send yourself a text message, from your computer. Either of these can be used to leave the login info available on the phone permanently, or can be deleted if you don't need it anymore. To e-mail yourself a text message, address the e-mail to your cell number @vtext.com (e.g., 1111111111@vtext.com). Once the message is received, both the e-mail program and the text messaging program should support the tap-and-hold copy and paste function described earlier.

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Re: copy and paste WiFi WPA key in Lucid
BillMac___
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Good thinking.  Sending myself a text message with the information works.  I was able to copy and paste the strings into the WiFi setup.  I never considered this route, only moving a file, which would probably work if I had an editor that supported copy and paste.  The Polaris Office app came installed on the phone.

Thanks for the solution.

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Re: copy and paste WiFi WPA key in Lucid
Dave-in-Decatur
Specialist - Level 2

Great, glad it worked!

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