ok here is the suggestion bcz i used to lost mine too

if u've lost it right away without making any changes to the keyboard settings, here is the way

make sure u didnt slide the hard keyboard out

then turn the device off for about 5 minutes .... do not touch anything ....after that, turn ur n900 on .... now! try it

i've lost it several of times and this way always works

however, after fixing by this way, i never get this problem again

Hi all,
just reset the phone to factory settings.
However you will lose any customization that you already have, you will not lose any programs or contacts...

it worked for me....

Good luck!!!!

ive lost predictive text in SMS i have rebooted the N900 And factory default’s that did not help.. can anyone help plz..... Thanks

Im just curious to know why you guys use virtual keyboard!? I just cant think why is anyone using it instead of n900's great physical, always there, keyboard...

HI all..
I am facing the same problem with my n900,my v-keyboard dissapeared suddenly as if it was never exist..i will try to close it for 5 mins. and if it didnt work out,i will reset factory settings...then i will tell you what happened..

i have the same problem. the v keyboard suddenly disappeared after a few days i uninstalled the google-pinyin & mcis app. another strange thing also happens, i cannot lock my Fn & Shift keys.
anyone can help me as well?

Hi Miri

I restored factory settings and the virtual keyboard appered again without losing any contacts..so i wanted to thank you so much for this solution..

HI for all..

I am facing another problem.
I was downloading adobe flash player for my nokia n900,but i don't know which version that i must choose..

Hope to here soon.

Thank you...

To me too sometime disappears. Last time after I installed firefox (I don't know if there is a connection).
After a reboot it comes again.

I had the problem of losing virtual keyboard, auto-cap, word completion, fn/shift lock, symbols and all that after trying mscim and google-piyin. Removing said applications did not restore the above functions, nor did restoring factory default settings, nor pulling out the battery.

What did finally restore the functions was using dpkg to purge the mscim and scim configuration files. The configuration files remain even after you remove applications using the application manager. To see if you still have them, open a terminal and type

If the start of each returned entry has the letters rc, it means that configuration files still exist (if there are the letters ii, it means the applications are still installed, you should remove them first using the app manager, apt-get or dpkg)

If you have these configuration files,
replacing x with scim or mscim or whatever (I purged libscim8c2a as well just to be thorough, even though just purgin mscim and scim solved the problem).

Reboot, and hopefully your virtual keyboard etc are restored.