Hi,
is there a way to open the case of the Vega, take out the screen and reattach it the other way round (180° turned)?
The reason for asking is that the Vega screen has a "much better" viewing angle when holding it the way that the webcam is at the bottom. Especially noticable when watching some movie.
Don't know what made them build it this way.
Guess it won't be that easy because the lcd screen has to be seperated from the glass front first and there might be the need for a longer display cable!?
Maybe you can rotate it but I don´t believe if the software will let you rotate it 180°. Sometimes in many apps you can not do this rotation only 90°.
probably possible but you have to edit accelerometer settings
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Ok everybody, grab your phone and TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN. notice how easy it is to use the joystick/thumb navigation button. in fact, this works nicely for any bar-style phone or device. the screen remains visible next to your palm and thumb. this is such an obvious idea once you think of it. I once wanted to patent this. but somebody already had a similar idea. please, if you use this idea, try to give me credit. call it the Bessler upside down phone or something. anyway, can someone make a program that will flip my screen upside down? wm5 only has two landscapes and a portrait. Thanks
wow...
here there's a program that flips the screen upside down when you click on it multiple times. only problem is the buttons don't switch direction.
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Cupertino/2039/
And here's one that rotates 180 degrees in one go:
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=15332
There's three readily identifyable problems with holding the device up side down, though.
1. I'm not sure how ergonomic it really is. I've attached pictures of me holding the device up side down, and upright. You'll notice that in the first up side down picture, my thumb is relaxed, but as a result obscures the screen. To make it not obscure the screen, I actually have to bend my thumb which, other than eventually inducing pain, leaves you with less control as you're navigating with the top of the side of your thumb. Maybe I'm holding it entirely wrong though
2. The buttons issue. 'nuff said. This probably a programmatical error, though - must me some manner of telling the operating system that you rotated the screen, and that the buttons should follow suit.
3. ClearType. ClearType assumes the ordering of your LCD is RGB. If you rotate the screen, the ordering is BGR - but ClearType still assumes RGB. The result is that your screen becomes very difficult to read when using ClearType. The solution here is to disable ClearType, but who would want to do that? %) Images of what this looks like are attached as well. Note that I actually had to cheat the images, because if you rotate the 'up side down' wrong order screenshot back to normal, the ordering becomes RGB again and it looks fine. You can try it for yourself to make sure my screenshot isn't bogus, though
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??
From some searching, it seems that the Hermes uses a magnetic sensor to sense the keyboard being slided out, rotating the screen to the right by 90 degrees.
If there is room inside the Hermes, is it possible to put a super tiny mercury switch or accelerometer or something, positioned/configured to trigger the sensor when the Hermes is held rotated to the left by 90 degrees?
I guess you better buy a device with a built in sensor.
I cant imagine putting a tiny mercury (or similar) "sensor" inside my hermes with the risk of leaking inside.
Asign a non used button to make the trick.!
i still say someone makes the camera auto rotation thing.
i swear i was playing with an LG Dare and the rotating in messaging and pictures wasnt so smooth and didnt always work.
so i think the LG Dare uses the camera.
EDIT: nevermind.
it in fact DOES have an acceleromter
Seeing as the HD has no flash, Apple have a neat trick on the webcam Apple LCD home screens when you take a photo of yourself the LCD goes full bright and goes all white for a split second whilst it takes the photo. This acts as a flash substitute.
Could a similar utilisation be found or made for the HD, perhaps a script which can turn up the brightness on screen, white out your screen and then activate shutter release then return settings to normal. This would obviously only help you if your using self camera - rather than the 5megapixel camera.
Might be a useful too though, if there is a way to activate the camera outside of the normal HTC tool for doing so.
This trick could also be applied to other self facing camera types.
S pen is not accurate i mean it dosent start from the point of touch is everovody facing this problem or is it device specific
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i experience this. It's annoying when trying to be serious with drawing. Accuracy just isn't there. Forget going over places you've already drawn on.
I updated to 2.3.6 and now is perfect
Just did some quick test, and found why some may notice this inaccuracy and others dont. Cliffs: accuracy is factored by the angle you hold the pen, combined with the angle the phone things you're going to be writing or drawing on it.
Often times when writing, things look okay. Place the phone flat on a table, and attack a drawing at various angles and things go wacky.
I believe the setting where it asks you if you're right and left-handed, is just a setting for a pre-programmed x,y offset. If you're in portrait mode, and you hold the pen at an angle they think is proper (somewhere between 0 and 40 degrees on X and 0 to -45 for Y for right-handers) then things come out fairly right. This setting really messes things up when you want to draw from different angles without adjusting the offset. You can only change this offset (which it does automatically) when orienting the phone between landscape and portrait. But what happens if you want to draw at a different angle but not change the way the phone is oriented? Things go wacky.
If the phone is flat on a desk, no matter how you rotate the phone on its Z axis, the offset stays unchanged obviously unbeknownst to the phone. It is still under the assumption that your next stroke will be from the orientation it was last in before you placed it flat. This is when things appear inaccurate. You rotate the phone to landscape, but the phone (and pen offset) is still in portrait mode. Your next stroke is way off.
So to get accurate strokes, hold the pen the way they think you should be holding it, and also make sure you're doing so on a screen that is properly oriented.
Due to the way the tech of this digitizer works, it seems we're stuck with this "feature". If we can apply this offset in real-time and not just at 0 and +/-90 degrees, but to apply it in real time throughout the whole range using the gyro then we can make it slightly better when the phone is in-hand and writing at different rotation angles. This solution won't work obviously, when the phone is flat like on a table though.
Until then, solution is to mindfully draw/write at the "correct" angle RELATIVE to the screen orientation.
dobygot said:
Cliffs: accuracy is factored by the angle you hold the pen, combined with the angle the phone things you're going to be writing or drawing on it.
Often times when writing, things look okay. Place the phone flat on a table, and attack a drawing at various angles and things go wacky.
But what happens if you want to draw at a different angle but not change the way the phone is oriented? Things go wacky.
Until then, solution is to mindfully draw/write at the "correct" angle RELATIVE to the screen orientation.
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These are very good observations - good work.
So in short,
1) Make sure 'handedness' is set correctly in settings (left/right handed)
2) 'write' at a ~30-45 degree angle or so.
3) You can't rotate the phone when it's on a desk. You can, however, pick up the phone, rotate it to an arbitrary angle, and then set the phone down at that angle. (easier for you to just try).
- Frank
But obviously there is bit of lag too when you touch the pen on the screen. It is difficult to draw pricesly on the note this certainly put me off.
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