Texting without using predictive text

It sounds like you have followed the correct procedure, but make sure it is 'auto-correct'.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Doro+5680+turn+off+predictive+text

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To turn OFF predictive text mode, press and hold the # key.

To turn ON predictive text mode, press and hold the # key. The icon at top-left (next to abc, Abc, or ABC) moves right.

Alternatively
Enable or disable predictive text
From the home screen press the Menu button. Move the cursor to Message and press the OK button.

Go to the options as you type a message, by pressing the Middle top button. Hope it helped

I may be wrong but your talking about predicted text right? Where you type a letter and it comes up with a word instead of the actual individual letter? - you need to change your settings in text, you can simply hold # or * on your keypad (you should see a little icon somewhere saying T9, this means predicted text) after holding one of these buttons for about a second or two, it should disappear, allowing you to type without predicted text on.

Hope this helps,

Jake

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"To activate/deactivate predictive text input, press # twice quickly.
This activates predictive text input for all editors in the
device."*

*Source:
Nokia E51 User Guide.

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In settings/general/language - make sure that the only language ticked is English - then you can use the *A/a button

when on predictive text if you want to change a word just click the "0" button (one with the Cross sign) this will cycle though the different words for you

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First, hit the 'Message' button in the upper-left -hand corner. Select 'New Message'. Select 'New Short Msg'. An empty screen for inserting text will now be displayed. At this point press the top middle button (the one with the line on it like this -). Now the 'Message Menu' should be displayed. Scroll down to 'Entry Setup' & select it. Press the 'Change' button in the upper-right-hand corner when 'Primary Setup' is highlighted. Scroll down to 'TAP English' and select it. Now you are done. ('I TAP English is the setting for predivtive'. 'TAP English is the setting for manual').

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.