Does anyone know if the camera on the Sprint Touch can be monitored in the background via a running application? If so, could the portrait and correct landscape mode be auto-switched accordingly? That would be a sweet iPhone-like feature.
good idea, just wondering what your usage intentions are. Motion sensor, webcam, etc.. I'm sure there has to be a simple modification (maybe reg) to allow the camera app to run in background, although that would swindle the ppc's resources.
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I actually started using Android for the first time with ICS Elite ROM coming from a blackberry and didn't realise that some launchers do landscape mode.
As a result I've been using my i9000 locked in portrait mode to type and everything. The new ICS keyboard makes this feasible.
The thing is, I don't fancy doing a .zip unpack again even though Nandroid backup and Titanium backup is fairly easy. Is there a launcher to install that can do it or would I then find more apps that don't work so great in landscape? I don't like turning the screen all the time and also because if you lay on your side the auto turning is annoying, yet that's the only slick way to use both screen modes.
If I can find a launcher that can do it, it might be better to use landscape all the time.
Is there anyone else out there who uses exclusively portrait mode like I currently do?
"go launcher" has the option to either lock it in one position or turn with the sensor. some widgets get a bit distorted in landscape though
Anyone who's had an Android tablet knows that a lot of poorly coded apps get flummoxed by the default 90 degree rotated, landscape orientation of the device.
Thus my question, is the sensor in the Nexus 7 rotated as well? Or is the default orientation set to portrait, the same as a phone?
Google "sensors-overview sensors-coords android" to find the relevant developer page. The specific orientation details are near the bottom: Sensor Coordinate System
"One Screen Turn Deserves Another" is an excellent article that explains the problem quite well.
If anyone who has a preview device could check to see what orientation the N7 uses, that'd be great. I'm hoping for portrait.
zinfinion said:
Anyone who's had an Android tablet knows that a lot of poorly coded apps get flummoxed by the default 90 degree rotated, landscape orientation of the device.
Thus my question, is the sensor in the Nexus 7 rotated as well? Or is the default orientation set to portrait, the same as a phone?
Google "sensors-overview sensors-coords android" to find the relevant developer page. The specific orientation details are near the bottom: Sensor Coordinate System
"One Screen Turn Deserves Another" is an excellent article that explains the problem quite well.
If anyone who has a preview device could check to see what orientation the N7 uses, that'd be great. I'm hoping for portrait.
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I'd assume it would be rotated since they're very intent on educating users on using a 7" tablet in portrait like a book.
Yea I'm gonna say that it's probably not in landscape since the whole UI is portrait based. Seems a bit counter productive to have to rotate the device every time you launch an app.
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Yea I'm gonna say that it's probably not in landscape since the whole UI is portrait based. Seems a bit counter productive to have to rotate the device every time you launch an app.
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I'm fairly confident the sensors will be in portrait orientation by default, but confirmation would be nice.
The reason I ask is because my current Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 has the 90 degree offset sensor issue. 99% of the time it's fine. It boots up in portrait, apps launch in portrait (unless landscape only apps, which launch in landscape with no issues). Certain apps that are poorly coded and expect all devices to be portrait by default tend to do all sorts of odd things though. I've only run across a couple in the Play store, and one of those has been fixed.
The real problem lies with custom roms, as all of the ones I have tried default to the landscape sensor orientation (boot orientation when laid flat is landscape), rather than compensate for it (the stock Samsung rom is portrait by default when laid flat). This has led to all sorts of aggravating (and unintentionally hilarious) issues with the custom roms.
So hopefully Google thought this through and the N7 sensor orientation is portrait by default and basically acts like a large phone minus the phone bits.
Here's the thing, I never use my phone in landscape so I prefer to have it locked from rotating . What happens is that sometimes I need to take a quick picture either through the camera app or whatsapp and I always forget to have to take off rotation. So I was wondering if there's a way to set it up somehow so the camera isn't affected by the rotation lock. Maybe a modded camera apk or something?
I just disabled rotation completely. Then I use tasker to enable it for only certain apps where I prefer to have rotation enabled.
afbengochea said:
Here's the thing, I never use my phone in landscape so I prefer to have it locked from rotating . What happens is that sometimes I need to take a quick picture either through the camera app or whatsapp and I always forget to have to take off rotation. So I was wondering if there's a way to set it up somehow so the camera isn't affected by the rotation lock. Maybe a modded camera apk or something?
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1+ for Tasker here too. You can set it to detect when a specific app is launched and it'll change settings according to your desires.
Whenever I open the stock camera app, screen brightness is automatically set to maximum. I get that it's a feature some people like to take better photos but there should be an option to disable it. Other camera apps have this option but lack EIS or portrait mode. Would really like to use the stock app but this one issue is very annoying. Any help?
To enable EIS , click the given link
https://www.xda-developers.com/enable-eis-asus-zenfone-max-pro-m1-without-root/
If you feel that the camera is really important then you can explore XDA for enabling google camera on phone .
The automatic is a default configuration in the phone and you cant do anything for that . Its actually useful because sometimes the display is visible during bright sunlight . Or else install the Nokia camera port on the phone. It will also give the extra PiP feature :laugh:
I find it ridiculous that such a feature does not exist on the default Camera App on OnPlus 6T. What bothers me the most is that there I can't change the format to 16:9 and the resolution to something that eats less MBs. Only have 4:3 and 18:9 available and there's no way to change the resolution either.
Any android phone maker out there let's you change the photo resolution and format. It kind of defeats the purpose of having and Android phone (which supposedly offers you greater flexibility than an Apple device).
Then there are tens of Android apps available that also allow you to do that. The only thing is that even if you set the 3rd party app to be your default Camera app it won't work fromt he Home Screen. By that I mean if I would be to double press the home button, I would like my 3rd party camera app to open and not the OnePlus camera app, which does not have the options that I want.
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I find it ridiculous that such a feature does not exist on the default Camera App on OnPlus 6T. What bothers me the most is that there I can't change the format to 16:9 and the resolution to something that eats less MBs. Only have 4:3 and 18:9 available and there's no way to change the resolution either.
Any android phone maker out there let's you change the photo resolution and format. It kind of defeats the purpose of having and Android phone (which supposedly offers you greater flexibility than an Apple device).
Then there are tens of Android apps available that also allow you to do that. The only thing is that even if you set the 3rd party app to be your default Camera app it won't work fromt he Home Screen. By that I mean if I would be to double press the home button, I would like my 3rd party camera app to open and not the OnePlus camera app, which does not have the options that I want.
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Ya that is pretty stupid. Lots of people are using gcam tho and I guess this is why
Resolution is the very first thing I change
Thanks for your post ... I actually grabbed the latest Google Camera apk and installed it as my default app.
I actually gave up on using the Google Camera App because it was crashing, freezing or not even taking the pictures most of the time.
I ended up using the regular OnePlus camera app, capturing photos in the wide 18x9 format and enhancing / croping them in Google Photos to 16x9.
When you said you were double tapping the home button to bring up the camera, did you mean the power button? You can choose the default camera to use for the system, and it'll use that camera app when you hit the power button twice.
Nope ... it will not bring the Default camera app when the screen lock is on, it will bring the OnePlus camera app.
Another known defect on all OnePlus devices.