Hi,
I run Tomtom nav 5.1 on my exec and and run it in landscape mode... I have to either change the orientation manually every time i run tt5.1 or have incoming calls and reminders show up on the screen sideways... Does anyone have any software that'll allow you to always have the orientation in landscape when you have the exec in closed pda mode?
Cheers!
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This must be a bug?
I swap to landscape mode using display settings.
All is well until I open and close the keyboard. It swaps BACK to portrait mode and even sets display-settings back to portrait!!
So there's no way for me to setup the device to stay landscape all the time and use the keyboard :/
Someone tell me there's a hack to fix this weird behaviour?
On the universal when the screen is flipped, the orientation is changed automatically. I want to be able to disable the functionality. Because I am using a car cradle which works on Landscape mode and everytime I would have to change the orientation manually or by running a shortcut.
Can anyone help?
Update: The service called ScreenRotate_Service.dll has nothing to do with the screen rotating. I cannot understand which APIs are called when the screen is flipped.
Anyone?
Try to search in a register, one time i have seen it...
Hi!
Is it possible to always keep HTC wizard in landscape mode?
I can change it manually by tapping on screen or by HW button. But it reverts to portrait every time I close the keyboard. Since I use the keyboard 98% of time it takes forever every time the screen rotates.
Does anyone of you guru's know of any reg hack or something else that can keep landscape all the time?
Regards,
\\ aste
VJ come through with a fix (again)
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=928836&page=1&pp=15
See the post from me (a042349) near the bottom of page one. It's a bit of a hack, but it'll work until the next soft reset.
Go to "settings" "system" tab and select screen. There is an option ot select Portrait, Right handed Landscape or left handed landscape.
Re: VJ come through with a fix (again)
a042349: tnx!
This is the soloution you described:
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Start the camera application which puts the phone in landscape mode. Then use a 3rd party utility like "Close-All" or maybe even the native task manager (can't remember exactly) to "kill" the camera app. As long as you kill the camera app without using it's "x" or exiting normally, the device will stay in landscape mode. It stays this way if you open/close the keyboard. It will return to normal mode if you re-open the camera and close it normally, or soft reset the device.
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I tried this on my wizard. But couldn't get it working. I've tried closing the camera app with VJOKButt, VBAR and the native task manager. It stays in landscape mode until I close the keyboard next time. IE exactly the same behavoiur as when manually changing to landscape mode in settings.
May be this is due to all these programs close the camera app to nicely? Or can it be this isn't working on the latest AKU2 ROM?
Anyone got an idéa?
// aste
aste said:
a042349: tnx!
I tried this on my wizard. But couldn't get it working. I've tried closing the camera app with VJOKButt, VBAR and the native task manager. It stays in landscape mode until I close the keyboard next time. IE exactly the same behavoiur as when manually changing to landscape mode in settings.
May be this is due to all these programs close the camera app to nicely? Or can it be this isn't working on the latest AKU2 ROM?
Anyone got an idéa?
// aste
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Not working for me too. Maybe something with wm6? God, someone has to hack the wizard about this problem!
Thank you guys for tryin'
registry keys
I know this thread is somewhat inactive but I just got an 8125 and really wanted to figure this out. I did some poking around in the registry and some experimentation and found the registry keys that seem to do what we want.
HKLM\System\GDI\Rotation\CamAppActive - 0 is off, 1 is on. When this is 1 it keeps the screen from rotating. This seems to be why the camera workaround worked.
Set CamAppActive to 1, then go to settings/system/screen and switch the landscape lefthanded mode. Now the phone is in landscape and theres no laggy switching between portrait and landscape every time you open the keyboard ! To cancel it out just open and close the camera or soft-reset.
This could also be used to keep the screen in portrait whenever the keyboard is open....but i have no idea why anyone would want to do that.
If i knew more about messing around with the registry and programming for WM I'd try to work out some sort script to set this on startup..maybe when i get bored...
I have an imate Jasjar running WM5. When ever I twist the screen, the screen automatically changes to landscape when using the keyboard and to portrait when not using keyboard. This is a great feature, but what if I want it to be permanently in landscape mode, even when the keyboard is not in use. I have a heavy skin on the device which takes ages to change orientation, often crashing my device. Besides, I find landscape easier to work with and have to click on the screen rotation button every time.
Is there a way to stop the auto screen orientation? Maybe some kind of registry edit. The wiki said that devices like Universal have the auto orientation hard wired, independent of the registry. Do the XDA developer gurus have a solution?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=303904 gives what you need. It works for Windows mobile 5 too
How do I get gyrator to perform a single rotate to landscape on launching TomTom and then lock it into landscape mode. Basically I only want TomTom to appear in landscape.
Currently when viewing in lanscape it works great until you hit a bump in the road and then it starts rotating the screen at random.
Darn annoying.
I've been trying to play with the Events but can't seem to get it to work.
Thanks.
Have you tried the Sensitivity option?
Menu > Options > Sensors > Movement Sensitivity
Haven't tried this myself (default setting of "2" is fine for me), but maybe you can set it to "10" or something like that and see if that helps.
Thanks managed to sort it out. Seems that Gyrator functions backwards to what the text would lead you to expect... thus if I enabled that it should rotate it doesn't....