[Q] Can you enable a Landscape mode for the Home-Screen? - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot

Howdy yall. Just got my shiny new S4 the other day (bought it from a friend for $400, and sold my Evo 4G LTE for $200. So basically got this phone for $200 with no contract extension, yay!), and am very pleased with it.
I just have one question. Is there a way to enable landscape rotation on the home-screen? I have this awesome cd-slot phone-mount, and in order to see my radio controls, I have to keep the phone rotated in landscape. On my old Evo LTE, there were ways to enable rosie (HTC's overlay, similar to TW) to operate in landscape mode, which I absolutely loved. Is there any method to get this working on the S4?
Thanks!

Not with the TW launcher but Nova launcher and others support it.
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There is an app in the play store called ultimate rotation control or something like that that may help.

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I was wondering if, on the Galaxy S4 there was a way of changing the color themes of the apps. For example, the e-mail app, or messaging app are all dark/black themed whereas in the stock jelly bean apps (like on Nexus), are white/gray colored which I found to look much better.
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After thinking about it more, is Samsung even using the stock jelly bean apps on the GS4? And if not is it possible to install them on the i337 yet?
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xchr1583x said:
So this might be an idiotic question, however figured i'd ask anyways.
I was wondering if, on the Galaxy S4 there was a way of changing the color themes of the apps. For example, the e-mail app, or messaging app are all dark/black themed whereas in the stock jelly bean apps (like on Nexus), are white/gray colored which I found to look much better.
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Canadain Samsung galaxy s4 battery!

I'm wondering how people got to 4hr+screen on time. I have LTE on constant and only have 3:30 hrs. Is that normal?
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im in the US and always get 4hrs screen time before i need to recharge.. half screen brightness, all the gimmicks disabled (air view, eye scroll etc.) Constantly on LTE as well.
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Came from razr maxx and in same boat... Would like to have samsung rom for Remote features and one for battery saving
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hint to devs that might be reading this...
Hopefully there is an awesome person WAY smarter than me working on that as we speak. I hated that phone but having safe strap was freekin awesome. I'm a flash-a-holic and being able to run 4 ROMS at the same time for comparisons was great... phone was garbage but that part was great...
Safe strap will work at long as you have not updated to 4.3 OTA on VZW not sure which carrier you have
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