Android Edittext display only part of inputted character

I'm having a strange problem with the android edittext inputfield.

I use the edittext field to let the user of an app answer questions that are generated by the app. Now this works fine...but every now and again.. completely random (i.e. i could not find the pattern) the edittext field stops displaying the input after the first part of the first input character.

To test I type in an incorrect answer to the question many times in a row. The problem occurs anywhere between the first and the 500th or so repetition of the wrong answer.

It's only a display issue because all the inputted characters can be retrieved from the edittext field (with gettext() ).

I did not find this behaviour on my simulations only on my test phone (samsung galaxy s)

I could not find anything in the log...

The editfield is on a TabHost-tab. When i switch to another tab and return everything is fine again, the same applies to rotating the device to landscape and back. Did anybody ever encounter this strange behaviour : edittext stops showing text after only part (looks like 1 or 2开发者_开发问答 leftmost pixels of the character) of the first inputted character..and can point me to a direction ?

I think this is to do with the phone. I was testing one of my apps on a few phones, one of which was a Samsung Europa, and everyone once in a while, the text in the EditText went funny, and on very rare occasions, the EditText boxes didn't render properly. Like you said, changing to landscape and back fixes the problem but I think it's not a problem you can fix, just a problem with Samsung's product.