odd rotation help please - Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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

*Detection* said:
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.

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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.

Nexus 7 suddenly won't auto rotate

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?

[Q] Knock On works but Knock Off does not

I have a rooted D801 with the latest stock ROM and G2 Xposed. Until recently knock on and knock off worked great. But I must have done something wrong because I can't knock off anymore, ever. It went from working every time to never working. All I recall doing was installing the latest Xdabbeb camera and drivers and messing around in the hidden menus.
I've searched and searched but found only the other way around, where knock off works but knock on doesn't. What could have caused Knock Off to quit working? Any help is much appreciated.
jlk_250 said:
I have a rooted D801 with the latest stock ROM and G2 Xposed. Until recently knock on and knock off worked great. But I must have done something wrong because I can't knock off anymore, ever. It went from working every time to never working. All I recall doing was installing the latest Xdabbeb camera and drivers and messing around in the hidden menus.
I've searched and searched but found only the other way around, where knock off works but knock on doesn't. What could have caused Knock Off to quit working? Any help is much appreciated.
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Open dialer and type:
3845#*801# (T-Mobile)
When the hidden menu opens up, goto settings > update touch firmware.
Touch wont be working for about 5/10 seconds, after it's working again, close the menu and try if your problem is solved.
fnotsje said:
Open dialer and type:
3845#*801# (T-Mobile)
When the hidden menu opens up, goto settings > update touch firmware.
Touch wont be working for about 5/10 seconds, after it's working again, close the menu and try if your problem is solved.
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Here is what I have tried so far. I have recalibrated the motion sensor in settings. I have updated the touch sensor. I have performed a partial test in the hidden menu that recalibrated the prox sensor. And I installed a monitoring app so I can see that the prox sensor works perfectly.
This all happened around the time that I installed the v5.0 Xdabbeb camera, which now includes flashing a binary with settings. Knock On has always been a little iffy and it got worse. That's when I recalibrated the prox sensor, which is now perfect and Knock On is now solid. Figured Knock Off would be simple to fix so I paid little attention to when exactly it quit working. Might have nothing to do with the camera.
The other thing I have realized is that Knock On quits working after it sleeps a long time. I have to wake it with the power button and then it works perfectly again.
BTW,I did do a Nandroid backup before flashing. Next step is to create a new one, then go back and see if I works again.
Restoring the backup returned the Knock Off functionality. I will be more careful when replicating the camera install, if that even had anything to do with it.
Interesting, same here. No knock off after installing latest camera mod. No time to play though so looking forward to hearing what you find.
fnotsje said:
Open dialer and type:
3845#*801# (T-Mobile)
When the hidden menu opens up, goto settings > update touch firmware.
Touch wont be working for about 5/10 seconds, after it's working again, close the menu and try if your problem is solved.
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That worked for me
Did Knock Off quit working for you too when you installed v5.0 Xdabbeb camera mod? I hadn't posted in that thread because I figured everyone would be complaining if it was happening.

[Solved] Screen rotation doesn't work out of the blue

Hey guys,
Things I have checked and done:
The option for screen rotation is enabled
The sensor works, I checked using the hardware module test
It works in the camera app. When I take a picture and turn the phone horizontally the app buttons turn too.
I just discovered that when I click a YouTube video from the play store, it automatically goes to horizontal mode and it doesn't go back. Until I lock the device, when I unlock it it's back to vertical.
It doesn't work in the YouTube app though.
I deleted cache, then I did a factory reset.
That's about it. I'm to my wit's end here, please help. Thanks!
Edit:
So I've worked out a solution from another thread here.
This method didn't work for me. Now, what I did that succeeded:
1. After I pasted and set permissions to the file I turner the device off
2. Take out battery for few seconds
3. Boot in recovery
4. Wipe dalvik and cache
5. Reboot
6. Success!
oogrin said:
Hey guys,
Things I have checked and done:
The option for screen rotation is enabled
The sensor works, I checked using the hardware module test
It works in the camera app. When I take a picture and turn the phone horizontally the app buttons turn too.
I just discovered that when I click a YouTube video from the play store, it automatically goes to horizontal mode and it doesn't go back. Until I lock the device, when I unlock it it's back to vertical.
It doesn't work in the YouTube app though.
I deleted cache, then I did a factory reset.
That's about it. I'm to my wit's end here, please help. Thanks!
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Did you see this thread - maybe it's related to the same thing?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/question-mm-users-uninstalling-facebook-t3363211
oogrin said:
Hey guys,
Things I have checked and done:
The option for screen rotation is enabled
The sensor works, I checked using the hardware module test
It works in the camera app. When I take a picture and turn the phone horizontally the app buttons turn too.
I just discovered that when I click a YouTube video from the play store, it automatically goes to horizontal mode and it doesn't go back. Until I lock the device, when I unlock it it's back to vertical.
It doesn't work in the YouTube app though.
I deleted cache, then I did a factory reset.
That's about it. I'm to my wit's end here, please help. Thanks!
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its because you have removed s finder and quick connect by removing sfindo.xml you need to flash stock firmware again, even factory reset won't solve it. press thanks if I helped cheers
BAYmustafa96 said:
its because you have removed s finder and quick connect by removing sfindo.xml you need to flash stock firmware again, even factory reset won't solve it. press thanks if I helped cheers
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Nope, I haven't removed anything. It just stopped working. I do habe removed a lot of bloatware, but I did that a long time ago, so I don't think that's the problem.

my touchscreen seems to be acting strange

When I try to use it five minutes in the touch seems to be messing up, its selecting by itself, going to my navigation bar and then does a swipe down gesture on my status bar also seems to be tapping keys on my keyboard by itself
I recently upgraded to android 5.1
Has anyone had this issue, its annoying as its my daily driver
May be any accessibility feature is turned on ... check ur phone's setting and turn it off if they are turned or factory reset ur phone
Vexonix Guy said:
May be any accessibility feature is turned on ... check ur phone's setting and turn it off if they are turned or factory reset ur phone
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I tried that and even installed a custom rom and it seems to act up badly when installed a custom rom,i put it down as having a poor screem replacement
mattwhite7102 said:
I tried that and even installed a custom rom and it seems to act up badly when installed a custom rom,i put it down as having a poor screem replacement
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Its happening with every custom rom ?
Vexonix Guy said:
Its happening with every custom rom ?
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Yeah it is
Same thing happening with my phone

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