title: How to show the soft keyboard on device with hard keyboard when hkbd is closed?
body: <p>I have the corollary question to my first (solved) question, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5520085/android-show-softkeyboard-with-showsoftinput-is-not-working">SO Android show softkeybard ...</a></p>
  
  <p>With the sliding keyboard closed, I want my activity to show the keyboard when it gets started.</p>
  
  <p>The same manifest should apply with "<code>stateVisible</code>" set in the manifest for my activity.  Do I need any explicit code with the <code>InputMethodManger</code>?  Again, I have experimented with the obvious methods and flags, but it does not open the keyboard on the phones with sliding keyboards.</p>
  
  <p>The manifest is copied here for convenience:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        package="com.mycompany.android.studyIme"
        android:versionCode="1"
        android:versionName="1.0"&gt;
      &lt;uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" /&gt;
  
      &lt;application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name"&gt;
          &lt;activity android:name=".StudyImeActivity"
                    android:label="@string/app_name" 
                    android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible|stateVisible"&gt;
              &lt;intent-filter&gt;
                  &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /&gt;
                  &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /&gt;
              &lt;/intent-filter&gt;
          &lt;/activity&gt;
  
      &lt;/application&gt;
  &lt;/manifest&gt;
  </code></pre>