I am new to Android and have my auto-rotate screen checked. However, I am in my main home screen (which has the weatherbug widget, pandora widget and that google search box), and when I hold it horizontally, it will not go into landscape. All my home screens (7 of them) do not rotate when I hold my phone horizontally.
However, if I open any app or anything, then it will rotate to landscape when I hold the phone horizontally.
Thank you for your assistance.
The homescreens do not rotate into landscape mode, only the apps do
georgiejr said:
I am new to Android and have my auto-rotate screen checked. However, I am in my main home screen (which has the weatherbug widget, pandora widget and that google search box), and when I hold it horizontally, it will not go into landscape. All my home screens (7 of them) do not rotate when I hold my phone horizontally.
However, if I open any app or anything, then it will rotate to landscape when I hold the phone horizontally.
Thank you for your assistance.
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MotoBlur launcher doesn't change orientation. You will have to get LauncherPro or ADW launcher to have that happen.
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Can homescreen autorotation only be done in a full custom rom?
Or would an upgrade (e.g. cyan's making bacon) be able to enable this function?
Cyanogens Makin' bacon doesn't support landscape right now. The only I see to enable it would be to download a homescreen replacement such as Home++ that's what I'm using right now and it works fine.
What happens to your icon/widget layout when you switch to landscape view?
Does Android 2.1 not support auto-rotate by default?
It supports auto-rotate for everything but the home screens, which kinda sucks cause when I get Handcent pop ups if I wanna use the landscape keyboard I have to go into the handcent app. Can only do portrait for pop up quick reply if it comes up while youre on home or lock screen.
I tried open home, it wouldn't let me put widgets on the screens so I got rid of it.
but to my question:
Does native landscape mode for the home screen require a COMPLETELY new rom?
Or just a addition to the stock?
I've been experiencing slow home page icon when I'm in landscape mode (keyboard).
When I close the keyboard, it takes about 6 seconds before the icons show up. Before the icons you see the background only.
Don't know if it may be a program I installed or an app using the memory?
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same here, any luck?
Still having the same issue. I check appls running in background but couldn't see anything out of norm. I can't believe no one else is having this issue.
Help!
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i just use adw and make it system persistent meaning it will not rotate, for some reason the home screen was the absolute worst application to rotate and so i decided it shouldn't need to. try it out and see which bugs you more, slow rotation or no rotation
mine rotates to home screen completely fine and fast. The issue is when I am in landscape mode (with the keyboard) and I close the keyboard to go back to portrait, it rotates but the icons/widgets does not show until 5-10 seconds later. it shows the background only.
how can i lock down the home screen from rotating. I dont mind the pics and text messaging with the flipping but i dont want the home to rotate. I have tried the shake to flip thing but it is some weird...any way just to lock down the one screen?
are you using the stock sense launcher or a launcher from the market?
i have adw and i think i found a setting in it...i thought i had looked everywhere
Yeah, theres a setting in ADW. its in like UI settings / screen preferences /home orientation i think.
Hi,
If i enable auto-rotation from the home screen, the home screen also rotates automatically creating a lot of lag. Is ut possible that the home is never rotated (always in portrait) whereas applications can rotate the screen?
Please let me know. It would be of great help.
regards,
Nandi
ok, so more info would have been helpul, you know. however, of course it is possible, this is android isn't it . You must have installed a different launcher since your home screen rotates. Look in the launcher settings, there should be a setting somewhere that will turn it off.
tl;dr launcher settings!
This is Froyo rooted on my G3. And the option is in the notification bar drawer. So it isnt becasue of the launcher.
did you even look!?!
Its the home screen! How can it not be launcher related!!
you are really frustrating, but I still explain it to you:
The same way that some other apps dont rotate, some launchers dont rotate, namely stock launcher. If you are using stock launcher the home screen wont rotate regardless of that option being checked or not!! Third party launchers provide the ability to rotate your homescreen! Most, if not all, will allow you to turn it off!!
Sooo go! Check your launcher settings!!
I'm using zeam and its under general. However, you are obviously not using zeam if you are complaining that it is slow.
Soooo go!! Check your launcher settings already!!
P.S. Depending on your launcher turning off rotation for the homescreen might include turning off rotation for the app drawer. I dont know if there are launchers that separate the two.
shuvabrata said:
Hi,
If i enable auto-rotation from the home screen, the home screen also rotates automatically creating a lot of lag. Is ut possible that the home is never rotated (always in portrait) whereas applications can rotate the screen?
Please let me know. It would be of great help.
regards,
Nandi
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Make sure you have lagfix v2 installed on your phone. For more info, see general help in this forum!
I have 2 questions that despite a lot of searching has not yielded anything, and I just want to find out if I need to stop looking:
1. I like to open the camera app when double-tapping the home button. I can't find any setting in CM9 that would allow me the same thing - am I missing this?
2. Is there a setting somewhere that would change the screen rotation delay? I type texts horizontal screen and the wait for the screen to respond and rotate after I turned the phone sideways, is annoying. It would be much nicer if the screen rotated immediately when I rotate the phone, synchronously. I notice in the CM9 camera app, this rotation is much snappier, so it seems possible.
I can suggest this on your first question. I use Apex Launcher, and it's configurable right in behavior settings.
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Thanks, I also found that item after I installed Apex last night. In other android OS's, this is a setting which is independent of the launcher.