I just got the HTC touch (love it so far) but after I installed the Sprint TV app (or about the same time, not sure if that was the direct cause) the auto rotate feature stopped working.
I can manually rotate to landscape mode but it doesn't automatic flip when I tilt the phone to the side. I've restarted, removed sprint tv, soft reset, but still isn't working.
If autorotate ever worked on your Vogue, it would be the first Vogue I've ever heard of that has that feature.
Whatever he's on, I want it.
The Vogue never had an auto-rotate.
dkackman said:
I just got the HTC touch (love it so far) but after I installed the Sprint TV app (or about the same time, not sure if that was the direct cause) the auto rotate feature stopped working.
I can manually rotate to landscape mode but it doesn't automatic flip when I tilt the phone to the side. I've restarted, removed sprint tv, soft reset, but still isn't working.
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it is the first time that the HTC vouge autorotate....
yhea the vogue auto rotating....that will be the day...lol
i hate to sound like i dont know what the hell im talking about, but the demo touch at the sprint store near me does this... so i was disappointed when i got mine and it didnt.... i guess ill head back over there and see if i can get an answer out of those guys.
If you have spb mobile shell 2 on your phone it will auto rotate your screen
from portrait to landscape mode. I have it (spb) on my phone (XV6900) and I just tried
it. It works.
maybe when you use a certain program like sprint tv, but it definately won't auto rotate like an iphone.
If you have mobile shell
2 it will rotate whatever
is on the screen - today
screen , email , etc. from
portrait to landscape.
jbh00jh said:
If you have mobile shell
2 it will rotate whatever
is on the screen - today
screen , email , etc. from
portrait to landscape.
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which operation you are performing to rotate the screen ?
1) only rotate physically the device
2) press the rotate function( application ) on the device
or what else ?
thanks
cheers
andrebe said:
which operation you are performing to rotate the screen ?
1) only rotate physically the device
2) press the rotate function( application ) on the device
or what else ?
thanks
cheers
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Go to the tools section and push the rotate screen button.
By the way , when you
turn on the camera ,
the screen " autorotates"
to the landscape mode.
well when u open the camera it does not really Rotate the screen that's just how the camera opens the screens in behind it are still in portrait. If the screen is in portrait "mode" when you open the camera then something is wrong. And if you press a button to have it rotate that is not really auto rotate. so if by auto rotate you mean the view changes to landscape when you rotate the phone sideways that is something the vogue does not do. It does not have the hardware to detect orientation changes.
rofl the touch doesn't have a g sensor so autorotate is impossible.
Guys, no need to waste any more time on this. I think the reason for the question and confusion is a clear case of "spin".
It is true that when the Sprint TV application launches, it changes the screen orientation to landscape. When you close it, it switches back to portrait. You could say that it "automatically" does that. There is similar behavior for the camera and fullscreen video playback (if you have configured your device for it).
It is also true that the iPhone has a built-in piece of hardware that the Touch does not. This little gizmo (essentially an accelerometer) allows the phone to know when you have turned it on its side, and it will switch to landscape. This is an automatic process, and it is different from what the Touch does.
The Touch will never automatically rotate the screen unless someone here (hint, hint) writes an app that allows it to do so. One idea would be to use the camera to track the orientation of the device, and hence detect if the phone has been moved. This has obvious issues as the camera does eat up additional juice when it's on, and I'm not sure what the processing requirements are. We can make a thread on this in the hacking forum.
jbh00jh said:
If you have mobile shell
2 it will rotate whatever
is on the screen - today
screen , email , etc. from
portrait to landscape.
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I don't know what you are smoking but I want some cause I have Mobil Shell 2 and it does not auto rotate. I have had my Touch 7 months and I have never had it auto rotate, I have to do it manually. As far as I understand it we do not have the necessary hardware for autorotation.
my camera "rotated"
hey.. maybe someone can explain this to me
one time when i turne don my camera. it was in portrait mode...
but it only did it once.. i realy dont like having it in landscape mode.
is there a way to get it to work in portrait mode all the time???
hey
jbh00jh said:
If you have mobile shell
2 it will rotate whatever
is on the screen - today
screen , email , etc. from
portrait to landscape.
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Where can I go to download the mobile shell 2 then so mine will also rotate?
there has to be a tilt switch in the vogue, and there is not one in the sprint touch. so it will NOT AUTO rotate.
So I use swype in portrait mode, but it's abysmal in landscape mode, so I want to know if there's a way to make it automatically switch to the multi touch keyboard in landscape mode. I have root, but I'm not sure if it's necessary or even possible. Anyone have any input?
edit: fixed some capitalization/punctuation
this would be awesome.
You'd probably need a program or to write a script to detect which orientation the phone is in, and then change the keyboard that should be used based on the orientation.
This + using the optical "joystick" to wake the phone would be the two best functional things in my opinion.
TheWhiteBandito said:
This + using the optical "joystick" to wake the phone would be the two best functional things in my opinion.
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To wake the phone up with the joystick is in your settings, saw a post on this 2 days ago.
eldrego said:
To wake the phone up with the joystick is in your settings, saw a post on this 2 days ago.
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I believe that's only if you have a certain rom flashed, but I'm not positive
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?
Today I found a really cool bug im touchwiz on my bell Samsung Galaxy S i9000m. I have both touch wiz and launcher pro on my phone and at the moment I use touch wiz a little more for some reason.
In touch wiz i long-pressed the home screen and and chose shortcut. Then I saw the choice for activities with the launcher pro icon. I couldn't remember what it did so I clicked it. But it seemed to not be working properly because nothing was appearing and screen rotation was lagging on the black screen with status bar I was getting. So I spammed the back button and then when that did not work I clicked the home button and chose TwLauncher. I think I was on my side while doing this.but once touch wiz appeared it was in landscape mode (which it shouldn't be able to do on this device, correct?). I scrolled through the home screens a bit and everything seemed in order.even the applications menu was in landscape. Eventually I switched the device orientation and it kind of bugged out at this point then I switched to launcher pro and back and them it was completely normal again.
After I went to launcher pro to confirm what the activity button was. I tried it again and once again twlauncher was in landscape mode. And this time it didn't even glitch out when I went back to portrait. I was just unable to go back to landscape.
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I just replicated it again to provide screenshots, this time it did infact crash again. And based on the crash message it seems once the activity shortcut thing from launcher pro crashes then the landscape crashes and it just goes automatically back into portrait or something.
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The last two times I've tried this nothing crashed, and I was able to go into landscape mode until I turned my device off.
I had this happen just a couple of days ago and couldnt work out what caused it.
Now I know. I've got an Australian Galaxy S from 3(VHA).
I wonder if its there for when it's in a desktop dock.
Will be interesting to see what they do with the Froyo update. There has been a lot of people compliaining about no landscape home screen, so I wonder if they will actually listen.
Well I'm in oz town,on froyo and home landscape mode still has bug. No rotation for me. I wish some developere would make a fix for this. I Would make love them to death
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I came about this big in a different manner...
Lock your phone with some pattern...
While entering the pattern for unlocking just keep the phone in landscape mode and trace the pattern...
when it unlocks the home screen is in landscape mode and works like a charm...
Recently bought a iconia tab A500 for the GF, and she is loving this whole tablet thing, but how do we get the screen to rotate ?
It rotated left 90° when she was playing with latitude on google maps. And now I cannot seem to get it to rotate back. aranoid:
There is a small switch next to the volume button, but no matter how many times I flick it while rotating the tablet in my hands the home screen will not rotate back.
Yet if i happen to re-launch google maps i am able to rotate the tablet and the scren will rotate correctly, exit maps and it stops working
It does appear on the screen "lock on" & "lock off"
I`ve read the booklet that came with it, but it proved to be useless.
The rotation lock should be pushed to the left (closest to the volume rocker) to be unlocked. Try a reboot or power off and then on to see if that helps.
Greetings.
I just tried your suggestion, and still no luck.
Cheers
Kris.
Suggest u go Market place to look for auto rotate on software. It work for me
d75ck said:
Suggest u go Market place to look for auto rotate on software. It work for me
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Is there a certain App that you would recommened? what app are you using? there are so many different one on there.
i am using a app call autorotate switch. This app is free