I usually use the phone in vertical mode, but once in a while when I take the phone off sleep, it starts off in horizontal mode. Mind you it was not in horizontal mode to begin with.
I tried duplicating the problem by leaving the phone slightly slided open and turning it on, but I can't recreate the issue.
This has something to do with the case being magnetic. I read about it somewhere.
barrr said:
This has something to do with the case being magnetic. I read about it somewhere.
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Quite right barr. The internal switch that operates the landscape mode is a magnetically operated one. Normally as you slide open the keyboard it passes over the switch. BUT when in the holster cases, the powerful magnets on the cases can pass close enough to the switch to change to landscape. Not a big problem really, it will turn itself back around in a second or two.
You can test this by passing the case magnet slowly around the edge of the device and see in turn to landscape mode!
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Hi, I was wondering if anyone suffers from screen corruption when recieving an incoming call. My screen sometimes (maybe 6 times out of 10) will go into landscape mode and result in some corruption. It will revert to normal when I actually answer the call. Sometimes, I am unable to answer the call and the caller will be sent to voicemail even though I click the green send button.
Has anyone come accross anything like this?
Thanks.
Well, there is a chance that I am psychic... Are you storing your device in the supplied holster? It has been noted that the sensor which indicates the keyboard is fully out appears to be either magnetic or sensitive to magnetic fields. So it is entirely possible that it is getting temporarily switched to landscape as you drag it out of the holster.
Neat experiment to prove this sensitivity. Take your K-Jam, turn on the power. Now, with the keyboard stowed, take your holster flap place the fuzzy side against the back of your device and slowly move it up around the right-hand edge of your device. At some point along the way your device will flip to landscape.
Robert Harrold
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Ahh, its done magnetically? I was worried a microswitch would eventually wear out ;p
you are so true, it happens to me all the time, it even answers calls automaticaly, I thought I was pressing some buttons while taking it out of the holster but I tried your little experiment , it was positive all the time,
Now, how to solve this without throwing the holster away?
I notices that it happens more when the screen is facing inside, when I insert it screen outside it rarely happens!
you are so true, it happens to me all the time, it even answers calls automaticaly, I thought I was pressing some buttons while taking it out of the holster but I tried your little experiment , it was positive all the time,
Now, how to solve this without throwing the holster away?
I notices that it happens more when the screen is facing inside, when I insert it screen outside it rarely happens!
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Well, there is a chance that I am psychic... Are you storing your device in the supplied holster? It has been noted that the sensor which indicates the keyboard is fully out appears to be either magnetic or sensitive to magnetic fields. So it is entirely possible that it is getting temporarily switched to landscape as you drag it out of the holster.
Neat experiment to prove this sensitivity. Take your K-Jam, turn on the power. Now, with the keyboard stowed, take your holster flap place the fuzzy side against the back of your device and slowly move it up around the right-hand edge of your device. At some point along the way your device will flip to landscape.
Robert Harrold
Houston, TX
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Robert, I will pay to have you read my fortune any day!! Exactly as you said. Really gutted about having to ditch the holster, but I would rather be able to answer my calls effectively.
Thanks again, pal. Much appreciated.
simx said:
you are so true, it happens to me all the time, it even answers calls automaticaly, I thought I was pressing some buttons while taking it out of the holster but I tried your little experiment , it was positive all the time,
Now, how to solve this without throwing the holster away?
I notices that it happens more when the screen is facing inside, when I insert it screen outside it rarely happens!
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U JUST SOLVED MY PROBLEM
I JUST THOUGHT THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY HANDS !!
or what i have is the top button on the right handside to flip between land and port, so when it does that you just press the button and it flips back right away!
hi , i have a new htc tytn and i found that when ever i click the power button to waken out of the stand by mode the screen is in the landscape mode( even though the slide pad is closed) for 1-2 sec and then realigns to the portrait mode.
Is this a know issue ???
It does that if you first take it out of the case that comes with it. It senses the magnet in the case cover and puts it in landscape then realizes it's not anymore and then switches to portrait. Annoying yeah. I got a new case for it which is better and doesn't do that anymore.
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It does that if you first take it out of the case that comes with it. It senses the magnet in the case cover and puts it in landscape then realizes it's not anymore and then switches to portrait. Annoying yeah. I got a new case for it which is better and doesn't do that anymore.
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thank you Thaim for the answer...
you are so very right,,,,
I recently replaced the screen in my 6800 - (I'm out of insurance replacements, and I don't like the Touch Pro Verizon offered me very much.)
The dissasembly and re-assembly went swimmingly - except for the fact that my phone now reverts to Landscape every time it wakes up, as if the switch that detects the sliding motion is broken or disconnected.
Does anyone have any details of where this switch is and how it works? I have heard mention of it being a magnetic reed switch, but I also see a little tab of metal in the slide mechanism that looks like a contact closure point for this.
Any ideas or information?
I know this isn't probably the best answer, but have you looked into software that will rotate the screen? You could then assign that software to a button and rotate that way.
Yeah, I have "Screen Rotate" mapped to the messaging button, but it still reverts to landscape every time the phone goes to sleep, even if I set the screen mode to "portrait" in the settings.
I took it apart all the way again last night, I still can't find any sign of the mechanism it uses to detect open/close.
There are some metal ground clips on the lcd side that I think it uses to sense its location. If you slide the phone out you will see a gold colored clip in one of the slide groves.
happened to set my epic down on my wifes camera case, which has a magnetic closure flap...the phone was asleep when i set it down, but when it got close to the magnet, the screen turned on and skipped the "drag to unlock" screen...ive tried it numerous times since, and get the same result...
anyone else experience this?
Must be like blackberries. When you pulled them out of their case the screen would turn on and when you put them back in the screen would turn off.
Sent from my Epic using XDA app.
I remember reading about the magnetic sensor in a list of specs but this is the first time I've heard of it actually being triggered. It would be nice to see some cases that take advantage of this feature.
I just pulled a hard drive magnet off of my cubicle wall and tried it. Doesn't work for me.
scriz said:
I just pulled a hard drive magnet off of my cubicle wall and tried it. Doesn't work for me.
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Sign of a true techie...we have hard drive magnets hanging around for absolutely no reason.
I just did the same thing with the same results.
othan1 said:
Sign of a true techie...we have hard drive magnets hanging around for absolutely no reason.
I just did the same thing with the same results.
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lol, yeah I work in IT on a military base and we have alot, i mean ALOT of hard drive magnets. theres probably 20-30 on each cubicle cabinet door. lmao.
sweet spot seems to be about where the LED flash is....
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sweet spot seems to be about where the LED flash is....
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Yup, that works for me..but doesn't go to the lockscreen, immediately goes to the the home screen.
I would assume it is for either the home media dock, or an upcoming car dock, so it automatically goes into the proper program when in place.
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I would assume it is for either the home media dock, or an upcoming car dock, so it automatically goes into the proper program when in place.
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Hope they plan on putting out a maintenance release for that..I just installed Car Home, locked the screen and put the magnet next to it and it came on in landscape mode, but just on the home screen.
Would be nice if we could use something like tasker and create a couple of actions depending on the proximity of a mgnet...
Haha all I "use" the magnet sensor for is with the Tricorder app, magnetic flux option. =P Might help to find the best spot... (I guess I'm not cool enough to have hard drive magnets at work.)
It's for the slide-out keyboard. Hold your phone in portrait and keep the magnet to the left of the LED flash. The screen will re-orient itself to landscape. Move the magnet and it will go back.
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It's for the slide-out keyboard. Hold your phone in portrait and keep the magnet to the left of the LED flash. The screen will re-orient itself to landscape. Move the magnet and it will go back.
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Uhh..what?! Its not for the keyboard, I do know that. But I don't know what its for.
It's for the keyboard. Put your phone in landscape mode with the on screen keyboard open. Put the magnet on the phone and the on screen keyboard will disappear.
arashed31 said:
It's for the keyboard. Put your phone in landscape mode with the on screen keyboard open. Put the magnet on the phone and the on screen keyboard will disappear.
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Yep....that makes sense....just tried it, and understand what you're saying....
Thanks for the info....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy_Qny0mjuc
The screen is rotating sometimes with the phone flat on table or sometimes holding it in my hand in portrait mode
It doesn't happen all the time but sometimes it does
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy_Qny0mjuc
The screen is rotating sometimes with the phone flat on table or sometimes holding it in my hand in portrait mode
It doesn't happen all the time but sometimes it does
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It's pretty normal for a phone to switch to landscape mode while on a table, tables are virtually never perfectly flat. So that's that. But if the device gets stuck in landscape mode while you're holding it out I portrait mode, and you need to switch auto-rotation off and on in order to fix it, that's a bug that a few people have noticed worth this device (including new). The only fix so far is to toggle the auto-rotation.
You need to calibrate it.
anglerstock said:
You need to calibrate it.
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how would you do that?
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how would you do that?
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I am not sure yet. On other devices I knew how to, on this one I have only seen it on the maps. You have to tilt it doing the 8 shape until it says calibrated.
Rma
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The screen is rotating sometimes with the phone flat on table or sometimes holding it in my hand in portrait mode
It doesn't happen all the time but sometimes it does
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This happen because your phone was on landscape mode before you lay it flat on the table. And because launcher doesn't rotate to landscape, you thought that your phone is in portrait mode until you got into the settings.