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Rotate on home and call screen

Hello,
I often use the phone in landscape mode in my car. I would like to get the home screen and call screen (displayed when making or receiving a call) to rotate to landscape display. I've noticed that the call screen sometimes rotates to landscape but then very quickly back to portrait. I've managed to get the home screen to rotate to landscape using the rotate hotkey hint and tip. Is there a way of making this behaviour happen by default when the phone is rotated?
Thanks,
James

How did you manage to rotate the home screen ? I know there is a tip using rotate.exe .. but I could not find it.
I would like to rotate everything manually.
Anyway my phone application rotates correctly with no problem. Actually I hate it

Dr.Sid said:
How did you manage to rotate the home screen ? I know there is a tip using rotate.exe .. but I could not find it.
I would like to rotate everything manually.
Anyway my phone application rotates correctly with no problem. Actually I hate it
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I didn't think that you could rotate the current version of Sense (except of course photos & videos and the music tab).
Dr.Sid, if you want manual rotation, give PLToggle a go, in my signature

Froyo Supports Launcher and App Launcher landscape mode!

My launcher and app launcher have gone too landscape mode twice! Maybe the official froyo build might support it.
First Time (Launcher)
This happened like 2 weeks ago. I was on an app holding my phone in landscape. When I clicked home, my phone went crazy and switched the launcher from portrait to landscape like 3 times, until it stopped at landscape. But after click on an app and coming back it went back to normal.
Second Time (App Launcher)
This happened today! I was in english class and my friend asked to see my phone. After she played with it for 5 minutes, she was giving me the phone and at the same exact time she clicked the back button to exit the facebook app and I accidently clicked the volume down button. The phone vibrated and the app launcher was on landscape.
You don't understand how many times I tried repeating that process, but it didn't work.
The funny thing is when my phone went into landscape the first time, the widgets were FULLY supported!
So maybe the official froyo build might actually have the landscape option.

That would be awesome! It's one of those things that bothers me when I exit an application in landscape mode.

I somehow managed to get the lock screen to display in landscape! Accidentally pressed the power button twice when using the browser and rotating

jamesyb0i said:
I somehow managed to get the lock screen to display in landscape! Accidentally pressed the power button twice when using the browser and rotating
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This actually happened to me to! I just don't remember what I did lol.

I think thi also happend to me on 2.1. i think there is a landscape mode but disabled for phones without keyboard. think of a phone with a keyboard they have to go to landscape when you pull the keyboard out, or els it will look stupid

This has happened with the dock for me when going to the home screen after being docked in the car dock.
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when in car dock, launcher, app drawer, and contact support landscape mode. It's an official feature.

arkavat said:
when in car dock, launcher, app drawer, and contact support landscape mode. It's an official feature.
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Can you guys take a screenshot of that?

difficult to do that. It has to be in car dock and in car dock, you can't attach the USB cable. I am sometimes amazed that Google still doesn't have screenshot feature other than the debug mode one.

If you put your phone on the car dock (turns everything to portrait mode) and click "exit car mode" you will go to the home screen in portrait mode. If you lock the screen while on the car dock and after you exit the car mode, you will have a portrait lock screen.
I don't think that they will make it switch by default. IF anything they need to make it an option, I don't want portrait mode on my home screen.

Just use LauncherPro or any other home replacement which supports it.
I haven't had a use for it ever. Pretty pointless if your phone is not docked in landscape mode.

commodoor said:
I think thi also happend to me on 2.1. i think there is a landscape mode but disabled for phones without keyboard. think of a phone with a keyboard they have to go to landscape when you pull the keyboard out, or els it will look stupid
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It looks stupid in phone without keyboards too when you're using an app in landscape and phone rings and everything is sideways all of a sudden. Or when you have to rotate the phone when switching between apps because the launcher won't rotate.
I don't know what they are thinking with this issue.

No HTC Sense landscape with keyboard closed

This really bugs me, why the hell does HTC Sense work fine in landscape with the keyboard open, but the second you close it it goes to portait, and you can't change it back?
What's the actual reason for this, is it just a bug?

I wouldn't count it as a bug, it's just how Sense was designed - the thinking is that if your keyboard is closed, you'd want to hold your phone in portrait mode (except for specific apps). I believe there are a few tweaks that you can do to keep accelerometer-based rotation on *everywhere* (as opposed to the current slide-status-based rotation).

It's not a bug but I agree that it'd be nice to be able to have Sense in landscape mode with keyboard closed.
I'm not into development stuff at all but would it be difficult to develop a small app that would either cheat by sending the information "keyboard is open" when the phone is turned in landscape position or by adding a 2nd condition for displaying the landscape mode (if accelerometer turned 90deg then display landscape mode)?
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missparker76 said:
It's not a bug but I agree that it'd be nice to be able to have Sense in landscape mode with keyboard closed.
I'm not into development stuff at all but would it be difficult to develop a small app that would either cheat by sending the information "keyboard is open" when the phone is turned in landscape position or by adding a 2nd condition for displaying the landscape mode (if accelerometer turned 90deg then display landscape mode)?
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I think it can be made, but remember: if the device "thinks" the keyboard is opened, the softkeyboard is disabled. Then it should be configured to work only in the Sense laucher.

hugo_prado said:
I think it can be made, but remember: if the device "thinks" the keyboard is opened, the softkeyboard is disabled. Then it should be configured to work only in the Sense laucher.
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Yep you're right. I hadn't thought about that
In landscape mode if I refer to my personal use I'm more inclined to use the physical keyboard than the soft keyboard so I would anyway open the physical keyboard if I need to type something. But I don't know if other people have the same habit.

Mee too, If in landscape I always use the physical keyboard. The soft one uses a half of screen

Auto Rotate

Before on eclair I would have portrait and if I tilt to the left I would have landscape. Now on the froyo leak if I tilt to the right I get landscape that way to. I don't like this. Is there some kind of setting somewhere? I want the auto rotate for only those two ways. Not both landscape.
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Using root explorer go into build.prop and change 270 autorotation (or something like that) from true to false

063_XOBX said:
Using root explorer go into build.prop and change 270 autorotation (or something like that) from true to false
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I think that's on eclair only. I haven't seen any way to change this in FroYo, wish there was.

Or an app to lock it into landscape?
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Bump? :3
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Still want help with this..
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Yeah, cause used to, i could lay down on my right side, hold my phone 270° horizontal and it would still be in portrait, perfect for reading while laying down. Now, i just turn off auto rotate because i cant do that anymore.
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Actaully made a tasker profile to toggle auto rotation from the notification bar. Works well.
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Look for AutoRotation Control by rpor in the Market.

Kitteh298 said:
Before on eclair I would have portrait and if I tilt to the left I would have landscape. Now on the froyo leak if I tilt to the right I get landscape that way to. I don't like this. Is there some kind of setting somewhere? I want the auto rotate for only those two ways. Not both landscape.
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really? the main thing I hated about this phone was I couldnt rotate it the other way - I would have it plugged in and the cord would be a problem so I would have to sit in a strange way to use it
now I dont have that problem

THANK YOU vampyrex13.
I use my phone namely at night and its terribly awkward to tryand use the capacitive buttons with my right hand when it tilts the other wa.y
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That's really neat how that app works.
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Landscape or Portrait?

How do you prefer to hold it?

Landscape.
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for some reason it just feels right holding it in landscape..

Landscape here as well.
I will say that, in Portrait view, I've noticed a tendency for the home screens to stutter just ever-so-slightly when sliding from one to another. Almost imperceptible, but definitely not as smooth as in landscape. Anyone else notice this?

landscape + tablet keyboard = win
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Portrait would be ok if they moved the keyboard about an inch up. Trying to hold it at the bottom and type is way too top heavy.

Browsing or reading books I prefer portrait; most other uses I tend to go landscape -

I usually go portrait mode for general web browsing and landscape for typing and certain apps.