When I open landscape-only programs, the screen rotates such that I need to turn the note counter-clockwise 90 degrees. That seems odd, since the volume and off buttons are on the left side of the phone. I am right-handed, and my natural inclination is to hold the phone with my left hand and use my right with the touchscreen. It would be better for me if I could rotate the phone clockwise so that I didn't have to worry about pushing buttons with my left hand. I didn't see anything for this in the settings menus, and a quick web search didn't turn up anything. Is there a way to change the preferred landscape direction? Thanks!
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Hi all,
Ive set a button to rotate the screen, I set it first in either the registry or via Screen in settings to be left handed and all is fine, press the button, portrait, press the button, land scape. But for some reason at random times it will suddenly revert back to right handed mode and I have to set it again in settings.
How can I lock it? I have tried setting it in the registry, I have tried changing it so there is no left or right option just portrait or landscape but it still for no reason will switch to right handed mode and I cant figure it out.
thanks
Seconds after posting this I found out what is changing the rotation back to right handed.
If I start the camera while the main screen is in portrait it then changes the registry to be back to right handed mode. If I start the camera while the main screen is in landscape it keeps my setting when I close the camera.
Any idea how I can lock this or chang the camera to be left handed?
Hello,
Is there a way (program or tool) to rotate the device screen with gestures?
I think any application that would do this would have a hard time telling between normal stylus use and a guesture.
But, its even easier to assign screen rotation to a button.
Jcostanza4
it is possible. you could install FTouch and assign the rotate.exe (somewhere in the /windows folder i think) to something like left -> right.
wktask has a gesture feature that can be mapped to screen rotate by moving left/down from the top right corner.
how complex a gesture??
You can certainly move one of your basic swipes in Touch Flo - but I have always thought that the way it is set up in HTCAlbum was quite cute. The idea that you draw a "c" on the screen and it rotates the album in that direction (or a backwards c rotating it the other way).
There was some work on more complex gesture regognition a few months back which might be able to be used to identify "rotate if I draw a C" type behaviour:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=374375
The idea that you draw a "c" on the screen and it rotates the album in that direction (or a backwards c rotating it the other way).
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Yes, I think this will be the best way to rotate the screen. Gestures like left-right, right-left will be useless, because there is many other programs, with them. For example SPB Mobile shell, S2V, etc.
It might be just one gesture symbol that rotates the screen with 90 degrees more every time when it is drawed. Then will be possibility to use more complex symbols like 8 or Z.
try mortbuttons....i think for your purposes you will need to now the path of the rotate app, make a lnk file and ensure that the shortcut works and using VJbrisk you will be have an upward swipe gesture and be able to rotate the screen..to rotate back again im not too sure about..
Hope this helps
Wisbar Advanced Desktop will allow you to do that. The final was just released yesterday. You can map that as a script to an up, down, left, and right finger swipe.
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Hi forum
Where can i manually switch between portrait and landscape mode? In WinMobile 2002 there was an icon on the bottom bar that did rotate the screen by 90 degrees. But i don't see it anymore. I don't want to pull out the qwerty keyboard everytime i want to switch to landscape mode. Tanks in advance.
Setting - System - Screen
You are able to assign the screen rotation to a hardware key. So it is only one click to rotate the screen
danielham
But this works only for the left and right softkey..if i need thoose i cant rotate, right?
nurps said:
But this works only for the left and right softkey..if i need thoose i cant rotate, right?
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Use AEBPlus - as far as im aware it is freeware. When I used it I found that it had a very low memory footprint and didnt slow windows down at all (in comparison with say Voice Command). AEBPlus enables you to assign anything to any button, including different states of button press (ie short press, long press, double press). For example I used the camera button half push (which normally controls auto focus) for rotating the screen. If you dont wanna loose your softkeys you could could have single press as softkey, double press as rotate screen have fun!
the problem is that Aeb turns the screen full 360 degrees in 4 steps (starting in the wrong direction)..while the native experia rotate only does the 2 settings you get when you slide it open..which i like more
how assign rotation (Setting-system-screen) to a leftkey
Did you ever get an answer to this? I too would like to know how to assign the landscape/portrait switch to a soft key.
Thanks,
Ian
completelyhis said:
Did you ever get an answer to this? I too would like to know how to assign the landscape/portrait switch to a soft key.
Thanks,
Ian
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Softkeys are the two silver looking buttons below the screen.
Too change, go to Start > Settings > Buttons > Select either "Left key" or "Right key" and assign "<Rotate Screen>" via the dropdown menu below.
nurps said:
the problem is that Aeb turns the screen full 360 degrees in 4 steps (starting in the wrong direction)..while the native experia rotate only does the 2 settings you get when you slide it open..which i like more
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If you go to Options -> Screen Orientation and select only 0 and 270 degrees, it will work like you want.
superweijie said:
Softkeys are the two silver looking buttons below the screen.
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I'm pretty sure softkeys are the functions shown on the bottom of the screen. The two silver buttons are called left and right button usually I guess.
Often those keys will press the corresponding softkey, but they can be programmed to do other things with software like AEB+.
My bad, I meant left/right key. I do know the difference, I just had not had my coffee yet. thanks for the info!
Hi,
All my applications have a Landscape orientation with hard buttons of my HD2 on the Right.
Is it possible to change this orientation to have Landscape orientation with hard buttons on the right, for all applications?
Or, is it possible to change the orientation for only one application, say TomTom?
by advance, thanks for yours answers.
I think it makes a lot of sense to have hard buttons on the left (I guess you made a mistake in your question). There are at least two reasons:
1. When typing, left thumb covers light sensor, so screen is dimmed.
2. Arrow keys on landscape keyboard are on the right side. Now you have to reach across both them and hard keys, with your right hand. If rotation was 90 degrees, keyboard would be more centered, so all keys would be easier to reach.
I tried searching the registry, but without success. So, I'm looking for the same thing. How to change UI orientation so that phone can be used in right/clockwise landscape orientation?
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I think it makes a lot of sense to have hard buttons on the left (I guess you made a mistake in your question). There are at least two reasons:
1. When typing, left thumb covers light sensor, so screen is dimmed.
2. Arrow keys on landscape keyboard are on the right side. Now you have to reach across both them and hard keys, with your right hand. If rotation was 90 degrees, keyboard would be more centered, so all keys would be easier to reach.
I tried searching the registry, but without success. So, I'm looking for the same thing. How to change UI orientation so that phone can be used in right/clockwise landscape orientation?
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I agree with this post. I would like to know how to change the screen oritntation clockwise so the sensor is on the upper right corner when you are using it.
Ok, maybe it sounds a bit strange, but I'm wondering if there is a way to reverse the direction of the screen rotation?
I always seem to accidentally press the power button when in landscape or my palm presses against the special keys, it's getting annoying. I think it would be easier the other way, and as I use my right thumb more, my left won't contact the screen as much...
I can't be the only one....
Thx!
Cyanogen has a 360 degrees rotation built in the phone options - so anything that can rotate 90, can rotate to the left right and upside-down.