Nexus 7 suddenly won't auto rotate - Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I woke up this morning to watch something on Hulu+ and I found my N7 is stuck in portrait mode. Im using Apex as my launcher and it won't go into landscape mode either. I've double and triple checked my autorotate settings and they aren't locked.
Ive seen people use the Compass and GPS Status apps to try to recalibrate, but Im having no luck. With either app, when I compare it to my phone, North is never the same.
I've tried completely wiping and reinstalling my ROM (AOKP+M-Kernel a24), but no luck. Am I SOL or is there anything I can do before I try to contact Google?

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Sensors gone

I'm not rreally a fan of auto rotation since my old phones made this so painful.
Enabled it on my Vibrant, and found it interesting enough to keep it on.
Try hard not to let it rotate when I just held it sloppy, so I didn't snap that it hasn't been rotating in a while...
Which sucks when a media player goes landscape and nothing auto rotates back.
While I have adw, lp and lh installed, they all three are set to rotate.
Wondering what else might be gone I went to sensors test in *#*#1472365#*#* and all sensors showed "false".
Not sure I saw anything else un past there I installed some compass app, nothing moves, since it also does gps compass I saw it lock in 3-4 secs even showed me my address, but the while time the compass showed only "Loading...."
Wondering if there is a file if gone kaputt, affects those sensors, that could be removed to force some sort of default, kind of like deleting a file to reset battery meter, at least gps works fine. ....
Any ideas before I call customer service for yet another replacement?
Thanks,
Daniel
Sent from my Vibrant.

New Nexus 7 - Auto Rotate not working?

I just received my Nexus 7 3g in the mail from play. Turned it on and installed the 4.2.1 update. I didn't really mess with it till after the update but the auto rotate/orientation switch does not seem to work. The settings menu shows it's on. Also did a factory reset, rebooted, and nothing. Same thing. Anyone seen this?
EDIT: Actually no idea all of a sudden it seems to be working now for no apparent reason =\
Stock lockscreen doesn't auto rotate, I think.

Phone freezes overnight

When I have my phone plugged in over night and then hit the unlock screen button, the screen doesn't turn on.
I have to hard reset to get the phone on then everything is fine.
What is causing this and how do i stop it?
Running totally stock rom 4.3
Which apps do u have installed on your Nexus? I saw the freezing issue with touch control. If U had no apps it could have just been a bad flash
Have you got any overclocking apps?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 4
I have been dealing with this for a while. It has made me late to work since I use my phone as my alarm and the alarm does not go off when this occurs. I've tried everything. Toggled daydream mode to ensure it was off, done a factory reset and installed no apps, done a full factory image flash to make sure there was no issue with the system files, tried a different charger, tried not charging, etc... it still occurs about once a week. I plan to call Google to ask if this is a warranty issue.
kthejoker20 said:
When I have my phone plugged in over night and then hit the unlock screen button, the screen doesn't turn on.
I have to hard reset to get the phone on then everything is fine.
What is causing this and how do i stop it?
Running totally stock rom 4.3
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Download and install Safe Charge from Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sash.sodeliminator. Open Safe Charge after installing the app and click the Enable Safe Charge check box. The developer has an explanation at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2226698 of how his app prevents the Nexus from entering deep sleep while the phone is plugged in. I installed his app after experiencing two sleep of death episodes in my first week with the Nexus and have not had one since.
I tracked it down that it only happens when wifi is enabled. When it's not enabled the phone doesn't freeze.
Try disabling location access? Wifi might have connection with that. No harm trying right?
Wifi on at night isn't good for human deep sleep anyway so I off it.

odd rotation help please

So my phone screen quit rotating. But its not a hardware issue. I know this because screen rotation works durring setup right after i flash a new rom. As soon as the setup is done, no more rotation...
YES screen rotation is enabled in settings. Ive tried 3 TW based 5.0 roms. None of them has working rotation. It is driving me NUTS. Rwilcos mostly stock is the only one that temporarily lets it rotate durring setup. ANY ideas?
Assuming you have 100% factory reset / wiped everything and then flashed stock
Try this as a workaround
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ui.robot.rotate&hl=en_GB
*Detection* said:
Assuming you have 100% factory reset / wiped everything and then flashed stock
Try this as a workaround
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ui.robot.rotate&hl=en_GB
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Forgot to mention.... I already tried this. This exact one actually. No go. It will manually change orientation but nothing auto works.
boytoreckonwith said:
Forgot to mention.... I already tried this. This exact one actually. No go. It will manually change orientation but nothing auto works.
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Dial *#0*#
Press "Sensor" in the middle and see if the rotation / accelerometer sensor is working at all
When you say it works during setup, are you saying it rotates when you rotate the phone, basically working normally, or that it rotates on it's own without you moving the phone?
Also boot into download mode, and double check which model S5 it says at the top
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Dial *#0*#
Press "Sensor" in the middle and see if the rotation / accelerometer sensor is working at all
When you say it works during setup, are you saying it rotates when you rotate the phone, basically working normally, or that it rotates on it's own without you moving the phone?
Also boot into download mode, and double check which model S5 it says at the top
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It immediatly said something HWmodule has stopped working. Ill check download mode.

GPS lock issues with Android Auto?

Anyone else having an issue where when using Android Auto, the Waze app won't get a correct location until I switch to the Google maps app first and then go back and everything is fine. I've tried reinstalling all apps involved and still same outcome. Not deal break but still annoying
Yes, I do the exact same thing to "fix" the problem. I originally had the problem, it went away for a period of time, now it's back again. It seems Waze wants to use GPS but is in the background/goes to sleep - due to Android auto where the phone screen is off.
As a side note, my Waze also looks like it's got green hues everywhere now both in day and night modes. It makes the map background seem less crisp around roads and road names.
Same here for waze
This only happens to me when I connect the device when its asleep.
Dark Nightmare said:
This only happens to me when I connect the device when its asleep.
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Hmm I've only ever connected it while its asleep. I'll try and see if connecting with it awake fixes it.
I've also tried having Waze and android auto being ignored by the battery optimization and still no luck.
I have also this problem... Still... It's very annoying as Google maps is working so I guess it has something to do with waze itself and not Android auto. I hope they fix this problem. I use waze for speedtraps etc...

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