i just bought my new focus yesterday.. but what kindof annoys me is that when i go into landscape mode the whole screen isn't filled and the sides are cut off so there is less room to text. does anyone know how to expand it?
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Hey all,
Does anyone know of any means to turn off the keyboard backlight, force it off no matter what the situation? As well, does anyone know of any hack or program one could use to force toggle the keyboard on and off?
Aside from this, does anyone have any pictures of the keyboard open? I specifically want to see how the leds are arranged in there. I want to remove the blue leds and replace them with a few white or red ones.. or, put a resistor in, so that the blue leds are EXTREMELY DIM compared to their brightness now.
It's annoying to me that the keyboard leds are so bright, that they actually outshine my main screen (which has the brightness turned down).
Any ideas, anyone?
Hi Brad,
Most of the pics available had no shot of the keyboard PCB removed... I am also looking for it. I wanted to shim the right side of the keyboard since that part is lower than the left side.
Is your keyboard keys also going a little sunk from left to right ? you need to feel/look for it hard, since it is just a matter of half millimeter.
No.. no issues with my keyboard, other than I can't even stand to look at it. I literally just can't look at it. I have to close my eyes when I type. I think I have some extreme blue-light sensitivity or something.
My Hermes is fairly new, though... but again, the keys all seem fine. I can't *see* the keys, but they feel fine.
I just refuse to stare at extremely bright and annoying painful to look at things. I mean, didn't these guys notice that the Hermes seemed to be all blurry, when the backlight was on? And really bright??
I have just changed some parts of my SPV Wizard with an O² one, and my screen don't change automatically to portrait/landscape anymore when sliding the keypad.
How can I solve this issue? Anybody knows about the sliding mechanism?
Sina
as far as I know it's a reg.+hardware setup....but you can assign a button to rotate the screen for the time being
Thank you for your advice about assigning a button for screen rotation. That helps me for now.
What do you mean exactly by "a reg.+hardware setup"? Where can I find more details about this issue?
Magnet missing?
Did you have an extra part at the end? Most flip phones use a magnet to tell the phone when the phone is opened or closed.(I wanted speakerphone while the flip was closed on my Motorola MPX-220, this and any-button-answer was a sweet deal when only one hand is available -example..driving-)
Hello everyone.
I just got my X10 over the weekend and have started to play around with it. One thing I have noticed is that the screen will only rotate to landscape on one side (with the home buttons on the right in landscape mode). I've checked various videos on the net and they all seem to rotate in this direction, but don't show it going the other way. I checked my wife's Iphone and it rotates both ways. Can anyone let me know if this is an issue with the X10 in general, or just my phone. TIA.
Confirmed. the device only rotates on the left side. But i never thought about it before
-Bin4ry
Is there any reason why this would be a problem? must say I've not come across any occasion where I've thought that would be required.
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It only rotates to the left, yeah. But I think it's great since I'm seriously annoyed with screen rotation at times. This way I can lie in my bed and write texts in portrait-mode with my phone on the side so to speak. And I don't want to turn it off completely since I use it when I look at pictures and browse the web. I just wish there was a way to disable screen rotation for different applications.
I believe this is the same for all droid phones. My buds Moto-DROID does the same thing and I do recal only being able to tilt the N1 in the same direction. On the DROID it makes sense to me, the physical keyboard only goes one way. However, my bud is left handed and he instinctively wanted to turn my x10 to the right so the hardware buttons are on the left and he coudltn. He immediately did not like the phone.
Thanks all,
this isn't really a problem for me, I just thought it was strange since I didn't really see a reason for it. This is my first Android phone, so I'm still getting used to the benefits and quirks of the system, and just thought it was odd. Well lets hope that we get an update to 2.1/2.2 or are able to root the heck out of this thing soon.
Cheers
The N1 use to do this too but in 2.2 it gained the ability to be rotated into landscape either way.
I reckon 1 way landscape rotation is the best thing ever... esp. with the reading lying down thing... I used to have to hold my Diamond on a weird 45 degree angle in those situations...
I bet you can think of a million reasons why it's great it only rotates one way, but I bet you'd struggle finding a decent reason why you'd need it to rotate both:
I have a problem and can only rotate my phone clockwise, this means I have to rotate it 270 degrees instead of 90, just to get it into landscape
I prefer to press the camera button with my thumb holding underneath the phone. Now I have to do it with my index finger like a normal person
I'm lefthanded - everything works backwards for me.
Anyone else finding the Focus screen orientation not reorienting from Portrait to Landscape in various places (IE, e-mail etc)?
Yes, but if you notice in the instruction manual it says not all screens have landscape.
Some of the reviews of the LG qwerty phone indicate this too, making typing on a sqwerty a sideways proposition.
I would expect more landscape rolled out in updates, but then again I am a douche.
Seems more responsive today, maybe the SD card affected more than memory.
The Focus is sluggish when changing orientation. I compared a Focus and a Surround side by side, and the Surround flips to landscape and back faster every time.
Since I went ahead and bought the Focus anyway, I really hope Samsung tweaks this in time for the next update.
Rotating slow on Focus too
Has anyone tried to hard reset to see if it gets better?
lazyn00b said:
The Focus is sluggish when changing orientation. I compared a Focus and a Surround side by side, and the Surround flips to landscape and back faster every time.
Since I went ahead and bought the Focus anyway, I really hope Samsung tweaks this in time for the next update.
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Where it is sluggish? I don't feel any slugginess in mine
Mine does it occasionally too. I wouldn't say it's sluggish.. It's quite fast when it *does* rotate. Just sometimes when the screen rotates to say..landscape.. then I want to switch back to portrait..the screen wont rotate.. and i have to shake the phone a bit for it to work again. Doesnt happen always but it happens enough that you notice it.
After purchasing a Nexus 7 and fairly satisfied with it, I decided to purchase a Nexus 10 from Walmart since I want a bigger monitor estate and this 7 inches tablet start to get annoying when I read books on it. When I first used it, it was an awesome experience but then it goes downhill as soon as I upgraded it to 4.2.2.
One of the main reason why I want to get rid of my nexus 7 is because the screen keeps flickering if I am in a dark room and guess what kind of problem I have with the nexus 10? It is the auto brightness!!! If I understand this device correctly, the sensor is on the right hand side beside the camera (portrait mode, volume button on the right) and I am right handed. So now whenever I type something, I think I accidentally cover the sensor and the auto brightness kicks in and once I am done typing or lift up my hand, then the auto brightness kicks in again. It really annoys the hell out of me and please don't tell me the solution is to turn off the auto brightness. I mean the auto brightness option is there for a reason.
Does anyone have the same problem?
sus4ntoh said:
After purchasing a Nexus 7 and fairly satisfied with it, I decided to purchase a Nexus 10 from Walmart since I want a bigger monitor estate and this 7 inches tablet start to get annoying when I read books on it. When I first used it, it was an awesome experience but then it goes downhill as soon as I upgraded it to 4.2.2.
One of the main reason why I want to get rid of my nexus 7 is because the screen keeps flickering if I am in a dark room and guess what kind of problem I have with the nexus 10? It is the auto brightness!!! If I understand this device correctly, the sensor is on the right hand side beside the camera (portrait mode, volume button on the right) and I am right handed. So now whenever I type something, I think I accidentally cover the sensor and the auto brightness kicks in and once I am done typing or lift up my hand, then the auto brightness kicks in again. It really annoys the hell out of me and please don't tell me the solution is to turn off the auto brightness. I mean the auto brightness option is there for a reason.
Does anyone have the same problem?
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That is just the way you are typing, I guess.. If you don't want to Change the way you type (sensor would be more than half way up the screen, keyboard is only 1/3)..why not try another keyboard in landscape mode? I am using swiftkey 3 for tablet, split keyboard across both halves of the screen and like it much better than full keyboard in portrait mode.
Change they way you use it or turn off the sensor would be the only options. Rotate it to other positions and try not to activate it is the only other option.(you can use it with sensors/switches anywhere.. If you are just holding it with your left, then rotate switches into your left... Fix the problem with your right activating the sensor.)
Thank you for the respond. I would have thought it is due to design issue. I mean why they put the sensor on the right. There must be someone else is having this issue but then I don't see any posts about it so it must be the user.
Today is the 2nd day only so maybe I can change the way how I type or browse (I also notice the auto brightness issue when I browse online). I don't have this issue with other brand tablet though.
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