Is there a way to force default homescreen and launcher to be landscape view?
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chelsea_fc said:
Is there a way to force default homescreen and launcher to be landscape view?
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I could be wrong, but I don't believe so. Your best bet would be download a launcher. I use Nova, and there is a feature in Nova that allows you to view the homescreen in landscape when you rotate your phone.
Yep, but it causes some pretty severe lag for some reason...
Look for rotation stuff on play store
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Just got my Nexus 7 today and it's awesome, except for the home screen not rotating? Do you think Google will release an update to fix it or will we have to rely on a third party app?
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Third party app is the best way to go.
Download Rotation Locker its free if you want Landscape
Use Nova Launcher. Not only is it awesome, but it does home screen rotation.
_MetalHead_ said:
Use Nova Launcher. Not only is it awesome, but it does home screen rotation.
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Yes, it is great.
Auto-rotate wasn't enabled to begin with so I had to go to Nova Settings--Look and feel--Screen Orientation and select it (just pointing it out to save people a few seconds )
Also, the My Library widget is still usable (I'm not familiar with ICS/JB launchers, so maybe other launchers support it as well?).
NeoMagus said:
Download Rotation Locker its free if you want Landscape
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I want to be able to have the launcher switch orientation based on how holding it. Any apps for that?
jaysus145 said:
I want to be able to have the launcher switch orientation based on how holding it. Any apps for that?
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need a different launcher...nova or apex are good substitutes
Its kinda crazy that the homescreen does not rotate. Oh well, at least plenty of options to fix that with.
NeoMagus said:
Download Rotation Locker its free if you want Landscape
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Didn't work for me on the N7.
Rotation locker works great. allows any setup you want based on how you holding it.
I'm a fan of Nova Launcher and that is what I'm using to rotate the home screen.
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demandarin said:
Rotation locker works great. allows any setup you want based on how you holding it.
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But you have to change the settings when you change how you are holding it, right?
jaysus145 said:
But you have to change the settings when you change how you are holding it, right?
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No you don't have to. Just select the Forced Auto option and it rotates everything just fine. The only down side is it doesn't rotate lock screen.
jalshah05 said:
No you don't have to. Just select the Forced Auto option and it rotates everything just fine. The only down side is it doesn't rotate lock screen.
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Hmmph, that did not seem to work for me when I tested it last night.
I used the widget to select "auto" - is there another way to do it?
ETA: ahhhh... a long press did the trick, not a short press. Thanks!
OK. I have been fiddling with nova for a while but I can't find any option for home screen orientation. I went ahead and updated to prime...still no dice. Others have mentioned it working...what am I missing?
ADW works though..but I prefer Nova.
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mike infinity said:
OK. I have been fiddling with nova for a while but I can't find any option for home screen orientation. I went ahead and updated to prime...still no dice. Others have mentioned it working...what am I missing?
ADW works though..but I prefer Nova.
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you don't need prime but that is fine. pull down your notifications window. Is the little icon set to allow the screen orientation to change or is it locked?
There is a setting in nova launcher under look and feel, screen orientation.
Under "look and feel" there is an option for screen orientation. you can choose from default, auto-rotate, force portrait, and force landscape.
If you're interested in having the Nexus 7 homescreen actually rotate, you can download Ultimate Rotation Control.
Once installed, you can choose the option "Forced Auto" and the home screen will rotate.
I don't know if this had been posted, but if you own the Xperia Z charging dock you can enable landscape home screen rotation
turn off the phone and then dock the phone (in off mode).
After the charging icon appears, just power up the phone while its in the dock. Once the phone is powered up, just remove it from the dock and you should be able to rotate the home screen.
But, what's the point?
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different strokes for different folks you know...
I like to use the phone in landscape on my desk without the dock and if you're in an app that is in landscape, e.g. a movie, you don't have to flip the screen back to portrait when you have to goto the home screen.
Really smart trick
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Or just use Rotation Control from the play store ...
Hi,
can you please help me finding the tool which will force ALL applications work in landscape mode? Ie when my phone is in dock and i am using phone app - it is getting back to portrait mode when placing the call.
Thanks in advance!
MCC
Is there a way to fool the phone into thinking it's docked I much prefer landscape
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I can already do this permanently with an app in the drop down notification menu, I can select landscape and it'll force landscape for everything but I get a native result. Works for everything except for portrait apps, and vice versa. This works on the lockscreen too.
iDroid8 said:
I can already do this permanently with an app in the drop down notification menu, I can select landscape and it'll force landscape for everything but I get a native result. Works for everything except for portrait apps, and vice versa. This works on the lockscreen too.
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And which app is that?
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I tried both apps from play store smart rotation control was best but didn't look right
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What i found is rotation locker - works as expected. The only issue is with screen locker (pattern).
BR,
MCC
I've changed the dpi in build prop to 320 and auto rotate is automatically activated, I set font too large and I quite like this dpi,. Now if there was a way to make widgets bigger. Screen shots attached.
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crazymister said:
And which app is that?
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I'm talking about Screen Orientation Control on the Google Play Store.
This is what it looks like, hopefully it works.
Not sure what happened to the screen resolution is it some random imgur compression thing?
Thanks for the link for the app. Now I can control the orientation whenever I just want it to change.
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Hey people,
I think you guys might be interested in the app called "Rotation Anywhere".
This is exactly the app all of you above are looking for.
And the best part "it's free". !!! :good:
https ://play.google. com/store/apps/details?id=gpc.myweb.hinet.net.RotationAnywhere
magicalmaurya said:
Hey people,
I think you guys might be interested in the app called "Rotation Anywhere".
This is exactly the app all of you above are looking for.
And the best part "it's free". !!! :good:
https ://play.google. com/store/apps/details?id=gpc.myweb.hinet.net.RotationAnywhere
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gpc.myweb.hinet.net.RotationAnywhere
I like to have my phone in landscape in the car, is there anyway to get it to rotate the touchwiz homescreen into landscape at all? I'm using a Tasker task to enable car mode and a few other things, but the homescreen is annoying.
Any advice appreciated
I've got interest in this too. I often want to use the landscape mode in homescreen.
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Yes, there are apps that can do this.
The name of the apps?
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Some rotation locker apps. Don't remember their names exactly. Edit: One was called "Set Orientation".
But I don't want it rotate manually and i don't want to touch the lockscreen. I'll try your named app.
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Don't know if it's any good. It was just the one that came to my mind spontaneously.
Good morning,
I had since the beginning with my new phone this problem : Pictures won't rotate in my gallery view!
I have read forums and saw that it was a software issue related to those who are using NOVA launcher.
this solution for the S6 edge is working!
The fix I applied was super simple.
Previously, gallery did not rotate when launched from a folder on the nova home screen.
When I moved the shortcut out of a folder, to occupy just one spot on my home screen, it started to rotate.
Also, launching gallery from the app drawer always was able to rotate as well .
Put a shortcut again to Nova launcher and It works!
It's always nice to known!
Do you mean the rotation from portrait to landscape of a photo you are viewing?
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burrzoo said:
Do you mean the rotation from portrait to landscape of a photo you are viewing?
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Yes, That's what I mean.
If I started the Gallery from the icon on the my nova launcher, the pictures didn't rotate when I putted the phone in landscape.
When using the icon on the app drawer, it did!
cracou111 said:
Yes, That's what I mean.
If I started the Gallery from the icon on the my nova launcher, the pictures didn't rotate when I putted the phone in landscape.
When using the icon on the app drawer, it did!
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I never had that issue. I wouldn't think it would make much difference but I'm on an AT&T S7E with Android 6.0.1 and Nova Launcher Prime 4.2.2.
I tried all 3 ways. Gallery shortcut on my home page, Gallery shortcut on my home page but within a folder, and Gallery app in the App Drawer. I closed Gallery completely in between each test and every time I selected a photo it would rotate from Portrait to landscape without issue. I wonder if some other app is causing the conflict even though you said this happened before on the S6's.
Well, at least it works and thanks for the "fix" information because someone else will surely need it!
I launch Gallery from a folder in Nova Prime, and my images rotate just fine.
Having the same issue on Note 7.
The culprit is nova launcher with "Screen orientation" set to anything but "Auto-rotate". As soon as I set to "Auto-rotate" the gallery started rotate as well.