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Does anyone know why the settings you set for your texting, i.e.. t9 word, all caps, etc does not work when you text from the internal screen? Since the first letter of a sentence is capitalized on the outside screen, why doesn't it do that on the inside? Also, my word correction isn't working. At least I don't think it is. What should it be doing? I am worried this is a bad phone. I just got it today.