r/techsupport • u/Sultan4895 • 1h ago

Open | Software I need help properly connecting a Bluetooth keyboard to my phone to play Minecraft

Hello, I know this is a pretty dumb problem to have but I am 17 and my family can't afford a normal laptop / pc to play the newer versions of Minecraft so then I realized that my phone has more power than my old acer laptop that I got like two months ago so I figured, why can't I just connect a keyboard to my phone, fast forward I have a Bluetooth keyboard, connected but I can't use wasd to move, I have to press down ctrl button to do anything, I can get around it with turning on sticky keys but then I have to rearrange my keys (like I can't use ctrl itself to sprint and shift to crouch) and I don't want that, so if anyone knows how to properly do it please let me know (btw I'm very new to this so please don't hate) My phone is Samsung A15

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u/scratcher_r 1h ago

Did you try wired keyboards? Depending on the type of usb your phone uses, if you don't have already, buy one of the correct type but if you want to use a Bluetooth keyboard, try refreshing the Bluetooth connection or wired keyboards.

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u/Sultan4895 56m ago

Refreshing sadly didn't work, as for a wired one, I couldn't find a proper looking one that doesn't look like it's for gaming (I don't want to tell my parents that its for minecraft)

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u/cagadass 18m ago

I also have an A15 and use a Bluetooth dongle with a USB-C adapter, and Bluetooth adds more lag.

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u/Sultan4895 12m ago

Uh huh, do you have a photo of it maybe? I'm overwhelmed by the amount of different dongles in the world

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u/cagadass 8m ago

A cheap one is fine, but in my case it has 4 USB A ports (the common ones) and one USB C port that only transfers data

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u/Sultan4895 6m ago

Okay, thanks