Is there any way I can prevent my device from automatically switching from landscape to portrait and back when I open/close it?
I know of a way, but it's not a perfect solution. Let the thread simmer for a while, and if no one offers a solution, I'll try to put mine into a neat(er) app for use.
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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?
Is it possible to keep the 6800 in landscape mode at ALL times unless I manually press a mapped key or click a rotate icon? There are alot of times where I'm sending tons of text messages and I'm constantly opening and closing the phone and the delay for the screen to rotate around gets REALLY annoying. I'd really like it if I could just keep it in landscape mode and switch it back manually when I'm done
Thanks in advance for any advice!
start, settings, personal, sceen allows you to rotate orientation.
You're right, it does. But that setting is overridden whenever you slide the keyboard in/out. So if I were to go set my 6800 to landscape manually, then open the keyboard and close it again, it will automatically go back to portrait mode regardless of what I've set as my personal setting.
I'm looking for a way to stop my 6800 from automatically changing the screen orientation when the keyboard is slid in or out
try this it should work for you.
Thanks for that. It will suffice for the time being until I find some way to make the change fully manual. Seems I've found some people on PPC Geeks who are looking for a solution to this as well.
Hopefully someday someone will figure it out
supposedly someone is going to post something that may help!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319834
Anyone else notice that the phone will automatically go into landscape mode even if the phone is being held upright? For instance, when I open the market, it will always change to landscape. Is this a 2.2 feature or is something buggy?
80+ views and no replies... I'm guessing this is something unique to me? Alright then, is there any way to recalibrate the phone's orientation?
It's not just you, but you are a bit wrong on exactly what's happening. If I open an app, initially it will open in portrait mode. Then if I rotate the phone it will go to landscape. Now, hit home, and you go back to Sense and its in portrait. Hold the phone in portrait and open another app, it will be in landscape. It's like the phone stays in landscape in the background whenever you go to the Sense screen which is always in portrait, and then ignores or forgets to switch any running apps back to portrait in the background, and any new apps will open in landscape as well. Annoying... I like the way 2.1 switched ALL apps back to portrait whenever you went back to the home screen. Can anyone patch this?
s197 said:
Anyone else notice that the phone will automatically go into landscape mode even if the phone is being held upright? For instance, when I open the market, it will always change to landscape. Is this a 2.2 feature or is something buggy?
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Yes, this is happening to me too... I find myself tilting my phone to fix it when I shouldn't have to. Know of a fix?
Is there a way to force an application into portrait mode or spoof/disable the accelerometer to maintain portrait orientation across applications? Ideally in the long-term it'd be nice if there were an elegant solution for handling portrait vs. landscape devices and screen rotation - or maybe more apps just need to take this into account - but a workaround for apps that don't would be nice.
My primary use case for this issue is when lying sideways, holding the tablet sideways to read on the Kindle application. The tablet thinks it should be in landscape mode, but I want it in portrait mode lying sideways with me so I can read it. The Kindle application can lock itself, but it always does so into landscape mode on tablets. This is inconvenient since it is easier to read on narrower displays (it's trickier for your eyes to wrap around to the beginning of the next line the longer those lines are).
Using the CyanogenMod beta I came up with a workaround - be sure you have the 180 degree/upside down rotation position disabled so that the display won't flip upside down - now when you turn it upside down it will stay in whichever portrait rotation it was previously in. Unfortunately, I was not able to figure out a similar workaround in Beast ROM since the display always rotates, even to the 180 degree/upside down position.
Now I might like to switch back to CyanogenMod in the long term (I use it on my Nexus One and like all the options and developer goodies it gives and it's kinda neat/convenient to be running similar software on both devices), but I think I currently like the Beast ROM better since it feels more solid and less buggy (it's particularly embarrassing trying to explain to friends why the camera orientation is messed up in CM >_>).
Anybody have any other solutions/workarounds for this issue? particularly something that might work with Beast rom?
~Troop
I would also really like to know if this is possible, for basically the exact same reasons you would.
In the past I would have thought that this would be a really high priority issue, but my experience has been bookreading does not appear to be a very highly used application of pdas/tablets - I remember when the HTC G1 first came out, there was a surprising lag before usable bookreader apps were released...
Just incase anybody is interested, I brought up this question on stackexchange as well:
http://android.stackexchange.com/qu...fault-screen-orientation-in-android-specified
There are apps that should lock you in to portrait or landscape. Just install one on your device and you should be good to go. Here is an example:
https://market.android.com/details?id=kennethcheng.com.autorotate&feature=search_result
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There are apps that should lock you in to portrait or landscape. Just install one on your device and you should be good to go. Here is an example:
https://market.android.com/details?id=kennethcheng.com.autorotate&feature=search_result
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thanks, but unfortunately the problem is more complicated than that. Once you turn off auto-rotate, your device goes back to its default orientation mode.
For a tablet, that is landscape
Here is the situation. I often use my phone in a lanscape cradle on my motorcycle. It is really annoying that my apps are in landscape but when you need to get in setting or main page, you have everything on the side. You will very kind to help in suggesting an easy setting or new launcher/ui of whatever will work troublefree.
Use this app. It can lock any orientation. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.fameit.rotate