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How to disable landscape dialer mode in car?

Hello,
I have this problem from beggining of using HD2.
I definitely prefer to drive with HD2 in portrait mode. But if I plug car charger dialer goes in landscape mode. I use PLToggle to bring it back to portrait but it is not comfortable. For example if I have 10 calls during driving I need to rotate dialer manually 10 times... frustrating...
I searched all possible keys in registry but I can't find anything.
Is there a possibility to disable this landscape mode if car charger is plugged in??
I used few ROMs and of course in each of them dialer is always landscape...
I don't want use gsensor for auto rotate cause it is not comfortable in car...

What car charger do you have?

Original HTC. From HTC Kiaser but with switch to microUSB.

I have the same problem when using the HTC car holder. I want to remain in portrait mode, but the dialer always goes to landscape. I have tried to disable with BSB Tweaks, but no joy.
all suggestions welcome.
Nivo

Will there be a specific car dock?

So, the Droid has a dock/holster for the car that automatically puts the phone into a "car mode". Does this phone even have that ability? I know using the Genius button you can activate a driving mode, but I think thats just for notifications...

The MT3GS doesn't have a Car Home app in it, which probably means that there aren't plans for a car dock.
However, I was in the store yesterday, and there was an advertisement for a really cool stereo looking dock for the MT3G, so I'm hopeful one will come out for the Slide. I'd be all over that.

detox702 said:
The MT3GS doesn't have a Car Home app in it, which probably means that there aren't plans for a car dock.
However, I was in the store yesterday, and there was an advertisement for a really cool stereo looking dock for the MT3G, so I'm hopeful one will come out for the Slide. I'd be all over that.
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Interesting, that may make my decision on whether to use my phone as my music player or not. Having it's own 3.5mm jack was one of the selling points for me.

buy a universal car dock that swivels.
install the good ol' google car dock (as attached)
and open.
as for putting your phone in a dock and it magically opens an app. not going to happen we dont have the contacts on the bottom, top, sides, or the back of the phone for those functions.

Employees phones have a Nav app, and the mytouch3g cardock works for pretty much any phone, thats the one im using and it works great.

I created a Car "mode" on my phone with the Genius button as a shortcut so I don't have to hold the real button down. Also I have links to CoPilot, Google Maps, Double Twist, and other things on one screen.

shadowmike said:
install the good ol' google car dock (as attached)
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How does one install this on a phone?

Couple ways:
1: Copy the .apk to your SD card, and use a file manager like Astro or Linda
2: Using ADB
Code:
adb install [path to apk on pc]

fermunky said:
So, the Droid has a dock/holster for the car that automatically puts the phone into a "car mode". Does this phone even have that ability? I know using the Genius button you can activate a driving mode, but I think thats just for notifications...
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the "Tasker" app for android can be set to launch apps, do things based on states, such as say, plugged in . Mine is set to turn and leave screen on when plugged in, as well as disable the swipe security screen when in range of my home network, switch on alarm clock app between 11 at night and 7:30 in the morning.

im still looking for a car dock that works well :/

[Req] Car mode that doesn't suck

I have used the stock car mode that comes with android and car home v3 and they both suck. All they do is provide big buttons to launch apps that go to their normal size selves.
Key features car mode should have:
1. Everything gets played through the speaker (except for when something is hooked to headphone jack, or bluetooth)
2. Some hitting the home button goes to the car mode home, not home page. The way it is now you have to keep back until you realize you are drifting into oncoming traffic.
3. Disable the lockscreen when in car mode/Option to have the screen not timeout. Every time the screen turns off, I'm stuck unlocking the phone again.
Everyone else list what you think should be put in and maybe a nice dev will help out.

riotburn said:
3. Disable the lockscreen when in car mode/Option to have the screen not timeout. Every time the screen turns off, I'm stuck unlocking the phone again.
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assuming you also have the phone plugged in while in your car, you can do this in the applications->development settings

dLo GSR said:
assuming you also have the phone plugged in while in your car, you can do this in the applications->development settings
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Yea but I prefer to have it no lockscreen with it timing out, I dont usually have it charging. I have it just plugged in to the 3.5mm headphone jack.

#3: I think Tasker should help you out there. Possibly with #1, too.

I use car dock home v3. It's ok. I have 3 audio widgets and I can put player control widgets on the home screen, i like that. I do notice tho that when I go into google navigation it sometimes can't find GPS even if I leave gps on all the time plus having car dock set to turn it on. In those cases I turn it on and off and then it's fine.
There also seem to be some problems with vlingo and google voice. For some apps it uses one then switches to the other. Also the vlingo in car safe reader doesnt always work, to be fair its still in beta and when it does work its awesome. Finally I dont know if I did something but I no longer hear calls through the car speakers. Maybe I have to turn auto speaker phone off?
My biggest annoyance is Acast, my podcast player, doesnt like Car dock. It will pause podcasts when i go to dock home screen. It sometimes restarts podcasts from beginning when unpausing. I use Acast alot, so that's my biggest gripe. Tho since the last update of Acast the whole thing has been slow.

downloaded the trial for tasker, going to see how that works. Though it is a solution, this is something the car dock apps should be doing on their own.

Wow tasker is amazing. Solved all the things I was looking for. Its such a powerful app.

Display always on when loading Battery

Hi!
Is it possible to configure the Transformer to automatically turn the Display on when the Battery is loaded and switch it off if not?
Maybe an app can do that?
For Background:
I'm planing to install the tab in my car and switching the power adapter with the ignition. Would be cool if the screen turns on when I start the car and turns off when it's shut down.

found something:
market.android.com/details?id=com.gmail.developer.runks.enji&feature=related_apps

Tasker can do this, and much more..
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm&feature=search_result

[Q] [Request] Strip down car mode

Hey
I was wondering if anyone could strip down car mode so that it only has the feature of voice wakeup. Right now it opens up that driving mode app and restricts you from turning your volume to silent.
I know this is probably a pretty difficult task, but if anyone has spare time and can do it. That would be really nice.
Thanks