Can I trigger Android soft keyboard to open via javascript ( without phonegap )?

I have some custom web components in my mobile web app, whereas I need to manually fire 'focus' events on a field, to simulate the 'NEXT' functionality in the Android soft keyboard feature. ( using Galaxy S3 native browser ).

However, when I manually fire a focus event on a 'select' field, the native soft keyboard does not show. I have to subsequently click on the field to get it to show. (In IOS, of course, it works just fine).

So I'm wondering, if a 'focus' event doesn't trigger the soft keyboard to open, what JS event will ???

I am not using phonegap so I'm hoping there's a way without it.

Thanks for any help!!!

Here's a link from StackOverflow:

Showing Android's soft keyboard when a field is .focus()'d using javascript

Just focussing without an event doesnt seem to work. - you DO need a click event triggering this.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#field').click(function(e){
        $(this).focus();
    });
    $('#button').click(function(e) {
        $('#field').trigger('click');
    });
});