Android : Show numeric keyboard first when input type is "text"

I would like to display Numberic keyboard to the user first even though my AutoCompleteTextView's input type is text.

I read this How do I default to numeric keyboard on EditText without forcing numeric input? question and tried to fix it. But it is only showing numeric keyboard. It won't allow me to input Text.

I would like to show first "numberic" input but also allow to enter "text" to AutoCompleteTextView. Any solution?

Edit

I am using Galaxy Tab 2 with 4.0.4 OS Version