Anyone come up with a hack to change the default orientation to orientation upsislde down. I prefer having the power button on top. I can easily turn the kindle 180 but some apps/games don't rotate (where's my water). Also I am left handed and don't mind my case opening from the left
You can use the lock/unlock feature (leftmost control on the toolbar that you bring down to change volume, brightness, etc). This locks the screen in whatever orientation you want.
The problem is that that many games (and other apps demanding high video performance) bypass the standard video API and write directly to video memory. Those will never be able to be rotated, unfortunately, through any system utility or external app.
I see. I'm positive there can be a hack to make the default orientation flipped. From an app this cant be done. But once you get into modifying system files. I assume it can be done once the value is located
Agreed. This is something that Amazon should do, though, we shouldn't have to hack our tablets for this really basic functionality. The lock screen not rotating was really bad.
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i've searched for ways to open up other rotation angles as well as autorotation for any and all apps under the sun. most people suggest bsbtweaks and it really does do the job, but only rotates to the allowed 270degrees angle (thats -90degrees). effectively, it just adds the window class to the list of window classes that the built in HTC g-sensor mechanism will give respect to.
so i looked some more and found "changescreen" to fit the bill. after setting up exceptions, it works quite well to allow all other applications (except for the exceptions which include sense) to rotate to 90degrees, 180degrees (this looks way cool some times!), and the usual 270degrees.
HOWEVER, the point of this new thread is to discuss something that seems to be quite an attractive option if it can be made to work 100%. i've noticed that the onscreen landscape keyboard is MUCH more usable in the 90degrees rotation. this is because those damned cursor keys take up 0.5 inch of space that is balanced out by the hardware keys on the other side, thus placing the rest of the keyboard SQUARELY in the middle of your thumbs! contrast this with the experience on the default 270degrees rotation where the cursor keys and hardware keys end up on the same side, forcing the user to stretch out the right hand thumb to reach the middle of the keyboard.
the amazing thing is that keyboard really works 99% properly in the 90degrees orientation. the 1% catch? the little preview squares that appear while tapping a key seem to be using a buggy rotation matrix when the screen is in this angle! effectively, this makes the preview squares upside down and on the wrong side of the center line of the keyboard!
so for me, TWO things would make life much sweeter on the HD2:
1. keyboard preview squares should appear right side up and on the correct area near the tapped key in 90degree rotation.
2. i would also like to DISABLE the 270degree rotation altogether and force the HTC g-sensor mechanism to think that the 90degree rotation is DEFAULT. i know i can achieve this partially using "changescreen" but sense will still rotate ONLY in the 270degree direction in the album and music tab. with this tweak, one can rely on the built in mechanism and also be able to enjoy the keyboard in the more comfortable 90degree rotation.
any 1337 h4x0r222 with some 1337 suggestions/tweaks?
some updates...
first, there is another anomaly i didn't notice before pertaining to the thumb friendly scroller that pops up when touching a scroll bar. this popup scroller is also being drawn upside down and on the wrong side of the screen in 90degree rotation.
other updates include:
1. tried toggling HKLM\System\GDI\Rotation\LandscapeMode from 0 to 4, followed by soft reset, no joy!
2. tried toggling HKLM\System\GDI\Rotation\LandscapeFixed from 1 to 0, followed by soft reset...the right handed and left handed options in Screen under Settings->System become available but the g-sensor autorotate doesn't seem to respect the choice set here, so no joy!
When applications that are GPU accelerated are switched to full screen, the screen orientation always switches back to default (with the Asus on the Transformer logo on top). This is regardless of the orientation you have set.
For example:
A)
1.) You have rotated your screen upside down
2.) you run Angry Birds
3.) the screen switches back to standard default orientation
B)
1.) You have rotated your screen upside down
2.) launch youtube
3.) play a video
4.) switch to full screen
5.) the screen automatically switches back to standard default orientation
I have upgraded to 3.1 recently and don't seem to remember this being an issue before with 3.0.1 before.
Is anyone else also having this issue?
ok, is anyone with 3.1 NOT having this issue?
I get the same thing happening, and I think I would go as far as to say that it's actually intentional behavior on the part of Asus and Google to make the orientation revert like that. It makes more sense for fullscreen video to default to that orientation so as to ensure that it's consistent with the proper docking position, which is with the docking port on the bottom. Most people who watch fullscreen video for any extended period of time are probably going to dock the device.
Why do you turn the tablet upside down in the first place? I understand that having the ability to rotate 270 degrees is sometimes helpful for games and multi-user applications, I just don't see how using the tablet in its default orientation would pose a problem.
I'm typing on phone so briefly, the reason I need the transformer to be upside is due to the design of the variable angle stand of the official asus transformer skin case.
The case stands by folding in a scalene triangular fashion.
20 degrees above horizontal requires upside down.
75 degrees above horizontal requires right side up.
So most of the time when you use it in your lap, you want only 20 degrees
Applications are allowed to overide the orientation. This is true for most media players. It'll force the screen into the default landscape mode. App controlled so not honeycomb issue
Sent from my Transformer TF101
Sounds like a bit of a design oversight on the part of Asus.
Now as far as fixing it, you only have a few options. While you do have the ability to disable auto rotation on the screen, that's going to cause the tablet to simply default to the 0 degrees landscape orientation. What you need on top of that is a way to manually set your orientation, and so far I've never seen an app or ROM that does that. That's not to say it's impossible, just that I've never seen it done. The other option is to buy the keyboard dock, but that's a little excessive unless you really think you need it.
This is due to the fact that the dev of the app has forced it to lock in that orientation (landscape right side up, there's an app called androsensor that will give you more info). There was another thread concerning the same topic in themes and apps section. Your best bet is to email the app developer when you run into this.
One example is airport mania, if you were holding the device upside down and launched the game, it would force it to run right side up. I sent them am email with a description of what is happening and that the official sleeve (although I don't have one but felt it was with mentioning) is designed so the device is upside down with camera at bottom and charge port at top. Got a reply within the day and an update in the market within 3.
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Uncontrollable Orientation Behaviour
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There is an option to lock the orientation in the settings. So once it is upsied down you can lock the orientation and it shouldn't change.
I am not with my TF right now to test this though.
no, that doesn't work.
I don't recall this being a problem prior to the 3.1 update. Having to purposely ask each developer to change the orientation when none was necessary before is simply unacceptable.
Having bought something as simple as a case with it's multi-angle feature, one expects it to work out of the box.
As far as I knew, apps like Moboplayer always stayed in the default landscape orientation during video playback
I don't use Moboplayer much, but as far as I can recall, the Youtube app worked upside down in full screen before.
Can someone with 3.0 confirm?
Is there a way to change the landscape orientation of the kindle (using CM7) for full screen apps? More specifically, I have several games that are played in a landscape orientation, but they do not rotate if you turn the device upside down. The design of my case has a sort of stand, but the way its stands up is the opposite direction than most apps seem to default to. Is there a way to change the default landscape orientation?
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Is there a way to change the landscape orientation of the kindle (using CM7) for full screen apps? More specifically, I have several games that are played in a landscape orientation, but they do not rotate if you turn the device upside down. The design of my case has a sort of stand, but the way its stands up is the opposite direction than most apps seem to default to. Is there a way to change the default landscape orientation?
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I've tried doing the same thing and can not find a way to do it. I did try disabling the 90 degree rotation but the games still play in the default landscape mode.
solved my own problem! check out this app here get your device in the orientation you want, and then lock it. it will keep that orientation when you go into apps. however, its not pretty and the simple ui isn't perfect. I'm thinking this would work better...but it costs money...so we'll see. this works for now though
Okay, so i only just made this account. I don't have any experience when it comes to programming. But i just had to get this out.
Is it okay if i rant for a second? Why did they change the split screen mode? It uaed to be really practical but now it's juat a buggy mess! Apps constantly flip out, some apps dont even work because it doesn't acknowledge that the phone is in split screen!
How dose this change benifit anybody? You could already access your home acreen by pressing on the home button! Now i can't use my phone while it's in my pocket without it opening a bunch of apps!! Like who the hell though this was a good idea?? It doesn't add anything other then rendering split screen practically useless!!
Sorry but i just had to get it off my chest
Just a quick question, are you referring to the split screen knuckle gesture? Because it can be easily turned off in setting under accessibility, and there isn't really any significant change in multitasking from nougat to oreo at least visually.
There is a setting that allows you to turn on a touch disable mode that disables the touchscreen when in your pocket.
As for apps not recognizing that the phone is in split screen mode well if it didn't work with nougat in split screen it wont work now. That is true for most games or apps that doesn't scale correctly in split screen.
I love running apps natively on my Atoto S8 head unit, but music apps like Amazon Music and Spotify are designed to work in portrait mode only apparently.
The UI is wonky in landscape, forced to fill a screen in ways it was not designed to, and leaving some UI elements inaccessible. Has anyone found any workarounds?
I found that Amazon was the worst, with the tiny little play/pause button almost impossible to hit while driving with any kind of accuracy. I discovered "car mode" which helps tremendously within that app, however you get a very limited set of options (no way to pull up all your playlists to find) unless you go back to "not car mode". I see there's the ability to speak your commands with Alexa, so that could be cool, but trying that gives me a screen to click to enable Alexa, WITH THE "NEXT" BUTTON OFF THE BOTTOM OF THE DISPLAY WHERE I CAN'T CLICK IT. So I'm stuck without that, too.
This is so silly, I don't understand why more of these apps aren't designed with a landscape option in mind. But meanwhile, I'm wondering if there's some way around this I'm missing. Is there an option to make portrait apps letterboxed in the middle of the screen? Not ideal, but at least I can do things like enable Alexa and then go back to stretching to widescreen. Or is there a hacked/modified version of these apps for car units? Perhaps a widget or something that can plugin and give you control?
I've seen some car launchers seem to give you basic AVRCP controls and even album art, I'm wondering if this can be taken a step further and possibly have a companion UI app for different oriented screens? Or do we just live with this and rely on using Android Auto for all that?
I like native apps better than AA.