I dont know what to do but take tab back to store and return it...I rooted tab. I have Clockwork Recovery on Tab. Just original recovery ROM "since i cant seem to find any sprint roms" Anyhow auto rotate will not work...I thought because i installed auto rotate widget. I read in a forum that the tablet has two autorotate switches. Any how i also hard reset through Clockwork, soft reset through samsung settings, and unrooted/rerooted....Some programs like "vplayer" change orientation by default but not by g-sensor...Any help would be appreciative..I also read that some Rom's g-sensor may be turned off. Maybe that's what happen in recovery....Any ideas???????
Use the flasher in the dev forum to return to stock.only way I find of fixing that problem.
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i tried searching for a thread that could help me out but i didnt. my phone is stuck on landscape mode i have the auto rotate feature on but it doesnt go back to normal. thought it was launcher pro but i clear defaults n cache n now on tw but still nothing...can any1 give me some advice on how to fix this?
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i tried searching for a thread that could help me out but i didnt. my phone is stuck on landscape mode i have the auto rotate feature on but it doesnt go back to normal. thought it was launcher pro but i clear defaults n cache n now on tw but still nothing...can any1 give me some advice on how to fix this?
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One thing to try is shut it off reboot. Turn it back on and reboot if needed
ok lemme try that a couple of times
Same problem
Have the same problem. Reboot doesn't help. Hard reset helps but after half a day it's back to Landscape mode only.
What can be causing this? It is so annoying...reset everyday and reinstall all aps.
Hello all,
My Iconia A500's auto screen rotation just suddenly went dead on me. Flipping the lock toggle near the volume buttons on and off doesn't do anything.
I've tried resetting the device via the reset button, factory reset it via the settings menu as well as the recovery menu (oh yeah, it's rooted, currently using thor's CW recovery v.1.5). I've also tried installing another ROM, deleting the cache partition and dalvik cache, fix permission, all to no avail.
I don't think its faulty gyro since I can still play NFS just fine. Its just refusing to auto rotate the screen.
Any of you guys ever experience this? Or maybe have any ideas I can try out ?
Thanks in advance!
hello, are you using thor ROM?
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hello, are you using thor ROM?
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I did, just to see if it can fix the issue (the auto rotation went dead while i used a rooted stock rom). why?
Oh, I'm aware that Thor's newest ROM doesnt support the hardware autorotation toggle. I've tried the software toggle without any effect.
The Official OTA 4.0.3 ICS update broke auto rotation. The rest of the thing is running smooth as butter, but no auto rotation and the switch isn't doing anything.
Anyone know of a fix to this? I had this prob with the leak but after rooting and reinstall leak from scratch it cured itself. This one isn't doing that.
Is there an app to set the orientation of the screen manually that i can use in the interim??
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400+ Views later, i think quite a few people have this issue and are trying to find a solution to this.
So far, thank you networkdawg for your app suggestion for manually rotating the screen, however that is a paid for app with a few too many options for my need. I'm currently using Mantano Reader Free to rotate my screen.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.fameit.rotate
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Before i accidentally upgraded to the ICS leak, i had my old HC bootloader and was running Lightspeed flawlessly.
Does anyone know of a way to downgrade the bootloader back to HC so i can run a custom bootloader?
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a custom bootloader for ICS?
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Ok so in the end i used jazzyjames' tutorial and blasted HC + HC Bootloader back onto my tab (accelerometer now working once more), rooted, ran Acer Recovery Installer and loaded Light Speed ICS once more.
Everything is working swimmingly. No issues and i got ICS running like a champ.
When the hardworking devs in the dev section have streamlined the ICS bootloader unlocker and installing of a custom recovery a little further, i may try the ICS bootloader once more. But for now, to just have a functional tab, im sticking with the old stuff a little longer.
Thanks Civato, Blackthund3r and jazzyjames for their excellent tools and tutorials. I could not have done it without their help.
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Update May 08 2012
Did something new, reverted back to stock 3.2.1 (the Gen 2 that was used in Jazzy's revert tutorial), did an OTA upgrade to ICS Official. On first run everything worked.
The minute i rebooted, the accelerometer stopped working.
Followed Civato's tutorial down to the letter, got the custom ICS bootloader working with recovery. Ran like a charm.
Installed a custom ROM (Lightspeed), accelerometer was still not working.
MY TAKEAWAY ---- The accelerometer issues is not a problem with ICS itself, but related to the new chipset firmware and bootloader included with the ICS update. I could be wrong here.
Anyone have any other insights into this?
Back to HC bootloader once more (accelerometer working again) no dice with ICS bootloader :S
I'm not aware of any apps that will switch orientations, only lock it.
Have you tried switching the lock to off then rebooting to see if that resets it?
I have noticed the orientation check isn't as sensitive as it used to be so sometimes I have to wait a few extra seconds or orient the tablet a little more [than usual] to get it to switch over. But it does work.
I have the rotation problem also. As a workaround, I installed this and it works great, although manually.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.fameit.rotate
veer01_42 I'd be interested in your review of that app if you use it and/or pay for it.
I have the same issue. I have a couple apps that are orientation locked and I can use them to rotate but it's very annoying. Hope this gets fixed soon
anyone try a factory reset to see if that fixed it
A factory reset fixed it for me
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Been factory resetting this thing all night, no beans at all.
With the 4.0.3 leak, after one reset it worked for me, but i never got it to repeat again. So don't go factory resetting your tab in a hurry if you know whats good for you, especially if your rotation is working.
Good app, lots of options, but for what i want, this app is too much and it puts an icon next to the clock for quick access, but you cant preset the orientations there. There are only three, locked, auto and whatever you have it in now.
To get to the other options, tap the notification and it brings up a menu with all the other orientations (over 10 of them) its too much for me. But its an extremely powerful app.
Not worth the money as a workaround to a stupid accelerometer.
Encountered the same issue. I was in Portrait mode, playing Draw Something, and suddenly it just rebooted and went into Landscape mode. After a factory reset, it is not fixed. Not sure where to go, but this is highly disappointing for a tablet I paid close to $500 for...
Try wipe cache, it works for me. All said methods in the forum doesn't work for my tablet though.
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Try wipe cache, it works for me. All said methods in the forum doesn't work for my tablet though.
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What cache?
Do you mean Pwr Button + Volume Up while toggling screen lock switch?
Or is it something else?
On some a500 that were rooted and accepted the ics ota, a few things got broken during the upgrade. Flash a stock rooted ice rom, but before you do go into recovery and and select backup an restore,click on toggle backup of internal storage. Then you should see enabled on the screen. Then do full reset in mounts and storage plus your normal wipe. This will fully format everything on your tab but sd . When you reflash the new ics rom everything should work fine.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take....... ..Wayne Gretzky.......
Flash a stock rooted ice rom
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You mean the 4.0.3 Leak, install that and then use the one click root tool available in the forum?
but before you do go into recovery and and select backup an restore,click on toggle backup of internal storage.
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Are you talking about Installing the V3 ICS recovery or the original honeycomb?
Then you should see enabled on the screen. Then do full reset in mounts and storage plus your normal wipe. This will fully format everything on your tab but sd . When you reflash the new ics rom everything should work fine.
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This is in the ICS V3 custom bootloader/recovery right?
variations on problem for different versions
More pieces to the puzzle.
I just downloaded and installed Acer_AV041_A500_1.041.00_WW_CUS1 (very close to stock OTA, but rooted) from XDA and applied it over the stock OTA I had received from Acer directly, Acer_AV041_A500_RV05RC01_PA_CUS1.
Under Acer_AV041_A500_1.041.00_WW_CUS1 screen rotation (and the error 26's) would not clear. I could not get the rotation to work at all, even with multiple reboots, and hard (pinhole) resets.
I restored to Acer_AV041_A500_RV05RC01_PA_CUS1 and rotation is back to it's unstable self, but at least a pinhole reset will clear it.
As a noob, I could not post this in the thread where it applied. I hope someone sees it and passes it along.
Problem: the tab does not automatically rotate the screen image when you rotate the orientation of the device. The lock switch is "unlocked". The problem arose after the ICS update was applied.
I found this link in another device forum that seems to be dealing with the same issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1592170#
Basically, he replaced the accelerometor sensor driver files I think.
Hopefully one of the developers here will see this and can hookup with the other author to see what is really going on finally.
Until then, we need to keep a safety pin handy to hard reset the A500 when it goes insane.
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As a noob, I could not post this in the thread where it applied. I hope someone sees it and passes it along.
Problem: the tab does not automatically rotate the screen image when you rotate the orientation of the device. The lock switch is "unlocked". The problem arose after the ICS update was applied.
I found this link in another device forum that seems to be dealing with the same issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1592170#
Basically, he replaced the accelerometor sensor driver files I think.
Hopefully one of the developers here will see this and can hookup with the other author to see what is really going on finally.
Until then, we need to keep a safety pin handy to hard reset the A500 when it goes insane.
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Clean boot your tab. This will force the OS to install itself again.
Note: Clean boot will erase all the data/information which is saved on your tablet. Recommend you to back up the data before performing a clean boot.
1. Shutdown the tablet
2. Press and hold volume up key (the key next to rotation lock) until you finish step 4.
3. Press power button for 3 seconds until you feel device vibrates then release power button.
4. Once you feel device vibrates, very quick to switch on/off "rotation key" many times (this activity has to be done very fast, otherwise it will not succeed). To ensure you succeed, switch on/off rotation key when Acer logo appears on screen.
5. Wait for a while (you will see Erase Userdata and Erase Cache on top-left corner on screen), device will reboot and start from OOBE screen.
See if that fixes it.
Didn't work for me had to factory reset tab to get accelometer working again. This is the second time.
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Erasing as suggested did not help. Only thing found to help so far has been the pinhole hard reset. And, even that did not work once I flashed to "Acer_AV041_A500_1.041.00_WW_CUS1" version. I reverted back to what Acer had pushed to me, and it is working as well as before, meaning, it works as long as you have a pin ready to stick in it.
I have something to add to this thread. The auto-rotation issue started for me after switching to the V3 ICS bootloader.
I kind of found a workaround for it. (If you can call it that)
If I start or reboot my tablet in portrait mode. Auto-rotate works
If I start or reboot my tablet in landscape mode. Auto-rotate does not work.
This happens each and every time. It happens on Civato's new FlexReaper ROM & with Smaury's Lightspeed ROM.
Moscow? Thoughts?
Apparently how I finally solved this problem is by flashing the custom ICS bootloader V4 (read: V4 ONLY). Had tried V3, V6 and it doesn't work.
Had tried both custom ROM and stock ROM the problem will still persists with the said bootloader. But once on V4, it just works like a charm.
I have the same issue with the ratation.
Did anyone try http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1592170# ??
Let me know please
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Apparently how I finally solved this problem is by flashing the custom ICS bootloader V4 (read: V4 ONLY). Had tried V3, V6 and it doesn't work.
Had tried both custom ROM and stock ROM the problem will still persists with the said bootloader. But once on V4, it just works like a charm.
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How do I flash custom ICS bootloader V4? Where is it available? And can it be flashed on top of a stock Acer ICS ROM?
FWIW, although I LOVE having Android tablets, issues like this drive me away from Android phones as I can't deal with this sort of bugginess on my daily use phone.
Ahhh, my other half has just phoned me about this, seems it started doing it after she dropped the tablet, I put the ICS update on it the other week, be nice if its a simple fix instead of a me having to take it to bits and repairs it fix..
Although I could give her my Xoom and then use that as an excuse to get myself something new
auto rotat pro
dude plz helppp......................I have to keep auto rotate off.:crying:
It will rotate Landscape, but won't return to portrait.
It wil flip Landscape on one side and Landscapeon the other side, but won't do portrait, till auto rotate is turned off.
Anybody have any suggestions on how to fix this?
I guess I could whack it and start over, but that blows! That would at least tell me something I guess.
It's really irritating. And I dont wat to do......helpppppppppppp:crying::crying::crying:
As it says - screen auto rotate just stopped working.
4.21
No root
Tried a return to factory settings, but no luck.
Any suggestions ?
Thx in advance.
Bric10 said:
As it says - screen auto rotate just stopped working.
4.21
No root
Tried a return to factory settings, but no luck.
Any suggestions ?
Thx in advance.
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autorotate on the home screen doesnt work in 4.2+ if thats what you are referring to, not on stock at least. some custom roms reenabled it.
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autorotate on the home screen doesnt work in 4.2+ if thats what you are referring to, not on stock at least. some custom roms reenabled it.
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Been on 4.21 for a couple of days and it worked just fine on my homescreen until two hours ago.
Edit : autorotation does not work on home screen above 4.2. I remembered wrong. But that is not my problem ...
But that aside - autorotate doesn`t work at all..