Turn on predictive text on a sumsung galaxy S3

SOURCE: Typing text messages in Sumsung D900i

usally holding down the starr when in sms key will work .


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it is the same key as to change case. If you press it repeatedly, it'll cycle through various options in the top right of the screen:
initial caps with predictive,
all caps predictive,
lower case predictive,
numbers,
initial caps without predictive,
all caps without predictive,
lower case without predictive.

When T9 is not displayed, predictive text is off.

Just to spice things up, Samsung's idiotic software designers made it so that depending on the situation you're inputting text, the order that things cycle through is different, so you can't just press it a certain number of times to turn it off, you have to pay attention to the icon in the top right.

SOURCE: Predictable text

press and hold * key or # for couple of seconds while writing ur txt do again to put back on.

JIMXX

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When you are in a field that accepts text input, press the right soft key until "AB" or "ab" displays above the soft key.

SOURCE: turn off predictive texting

try this:
While starting a text message, hit the menu key and see if it brings you to a text entry menu ... Select alpha, numeric, word, ... you usually can switch around while writing the message via the menu.