Swype keyboard turns into a black area Every day or two,  my swype keyboard turns into a black area. There are no keys or anything. Just a black area, and I have to change input mode to samsung keyboard and then back to Swype to get it working again. This is really annoying . any one else had the same issue ?

I am using a Samsung Galaxy Note (Android version: 2.3.6, N7000XXLA4) that came with Swype pre-loaded.
This may be a symptom of the Swype application data becoming corrupted following a hardware upgrade.

To resolve this, go into Settings > Manage Applications > All > Swype and clear the application data. Then force the Swype service to restart.