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...
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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.
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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.
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?
I recently began using WidgetLocker. However, When I slide the keyboard out when the display is off, WidgetLocker force closes.
I'm running Bonsai Leafless 1.0.2, Gingerbread 2.3 theme, LauncherPro and WidgetLocker when the force close occurs. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Is there a fix?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Can anyone confirm this issue or is it something with my settings?
well i am running midnight ext4 v2.4 with LP and WL and I have no issues when I open the keyboard with the display off, the screen come on and WL is in Landscape.
happens to me 2 i stopped using it.
I think I *may* have found the issue. I'm not sure if it's the ROM, the theme, or some of my settings...
WithOUT WL running...
When I slide open my keyboard, it brings me to my home screen and bypasses the lock screen.
With the keyboard "closed", when I press the power button it brings me to my lock screen. If I slide out the keyboard while at the lock-screen, it bypasses the lock and brings me to my home screen.
I didn't find a setting for this in the phone settings or within Spare Parts. I guess I'll have to wipe and reflash the ROM and take it one step at a time to track down the problem.
I have been having the same problem with WL. I use GoSms to display incoming text messages on my lockscreen and i've noticed if my phone moves into landscape mode while displaying the text, WL force closes. I have tried the settings within WL to force portraid screen orientation but it didnt solve the problem
Yeah getting FC's on my R2D2 as well. Every time i slide the keyboard or set the phone in the dock. Hoping a fix comes soon.
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
The Nothing Phone (1) auto rotate is not buggy but rather messy. the transition isn't smooth. Some apps and sometimes OS crashes. I couldn't go back as the arrow keys, didn't show after quick rotation activity. The notification panel went blank once.
Can Nothing devs take a note and fix this ?
I've been reporting it to them daily for a couple weeks since the phone was released. They don't seem to care, or, like most Android users, just don't notice because they disabled it (because it doesn't work well)
I am goona reach out to Carl on Twitter then xD
I've only really noticed it with YouTube Vanced as I don't use that many apps in landscape like I'll turn it landscape it won't do it then I go back to portrait and the app will rotate and then rotate back haha super annoying but doesn't happen all that often
It happens on often. Needs fixing!
I also agree, the quick rotate is seriously buggy. It's a hit or miss. Not reliable at all.