Anyone else have this issue.
Does not work for me when using YouTube and wanting to switch from portrait to landscape.
Very frustrating
Just me then?
I'm sure you checked the auto-rotate is enabled.
On my side, I also have to manually press the full screen icon on YouTube app from time to time like 80% of the time, the rotation is automatic
Yes have it enabled. Have tried switching on and off as well as switching phone on and off.
I've noticed also now that if I'm looking at photos they do not rotate either
I'm having the same issue. I have reset the setting multiple times, restarted phone, and tested the gyroscope ability. It just doesn't auto rotate anymore & it's definitely annoying.
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I'm sure everyone has noticed that with 2.2, the orientation control blows. In previous versions, the orientation sensor was active anytime the display was on and it was quick. But now it is only active when an app using it is active. If you're on the home screen, the orientation sensor is not active. So, if you have the phone in landscape and back out to home, the orientation remains in landscape regardless of how you hold the phone after closing the app. If you hold the phone upright and open an app, it will open the app in landscape mode even though you're holding it vertical. It takes up to several seconds for the orientation sensor to come back on, recognize you're vertical, and rotate itself. This is annoying at best and can cause some serious lagging if the app is trying to do other things at the same time.
So what we need is a way to make the orientation sensor be active all the time again. No such option. So we'll trick it! Solution? TASKER!
Create a new profile in tasker, I called mine "Orientation Un-F&ck". Set the context for State > Orientation > Standing Up. It doesn't really matter what orientation you pick, we're just making it check the orientation. For tasks, it doesn't actually have to do anything so I made the task be Tasker > Stop. So it literally just does nothing.
So now tasker is always monitoring the display orientation. The phone doesn't give a crap why or what it does. It just knows something cares about orientation so the orientation sensor is active and doing its thing.
Result, when you back out of an app in landscape, and open an app in while vertical, it immediately switches to vertical. No delay.
I do not know what effect this will have on the battery. Probably nothing since no matter what you do, the orientation sensor is off when the display is off. Most people don't sit there staring at their home screen for hours so I anticipate no adverse effects on battery draw.
MCL1981 said:
I'm sure everyone has noticed that with 2.2, the orientation control blows. In previous versions, the orientation sensor was active anytime the display was on and it was quick. But now it is only active when an app using it is active. If you're on the home screen, the orientation sensor is not active. So, if you have the phone in landscape and back out to home, the orientation remains in landscape regardless of how you hold the phone after closing the app. If you hold the phone upright and open an app, it will open the app in landscape mode even though you're holding it vertical. It takes up to several seconds for the orientation sensor to come back on, recognize you're vertical, and rotate itself. This is annoying at best and can cause some serious lagging if the app is trying to do other things at the same time.
So what we need is a way to make the orientation sensor be active all the time again. No such option. So we'll trick it! Solution? TASKER!
Create a new profile in tasker, I called mine "Orientation Un-F&ck". Set the context for State > Orientation > Standing Up. It doesn't really matter what orientation you pick, we're just making it check the orientation. For tasks, it doesn't actually have to do anything so I made the task be Tasker > Stop. So it literally just does nothing.
So now tasker is always monitoring the display orientation. The phone doesn't give a crap why or what it does. It just knows something cares about orientation so the orientation sensor is active and doing its thing.
Result, when you back out of an app in landscape, and open an app in while vertical, it immediately switches to vertical. No delay.
I do not know what effect this will have on the battery. Probably nothing since no matter what you do, the orientation sensor is off when the display is off. Most people don't sit there staring at their home screen for hours so I anticipate no adverse effects on battery draw.
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I look at the home screen for about 10 hours a day everyday.
thanks
00_MACKIE_00 said:
I look at the home screen for about 10 hours a day everyday.
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Well there is nothing Tasker can do for you other than generate a timed pop-up that says "Get a life"
Tried the auto brightness option but it doesn't make a difference with various ambients.... I've seen it worked when first bought it and while setting up for the 1st time... but that's about it
nothing installed at all, beside from the Google maps update, Flash 10.3... that's it.
not a big deal... I rarely uses that feature anyway, manually adjust the brightness most of the time.... odd that it isn't functioning like it should.
Thanks.
having the same issue
same situation here .
I had this happen too...
Just turn on autobrightness and then reboot (turn off en on again), solved it for me...
In do, however, prefer to set the brightness manually
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UnicornKaz said:
Tried the auto brightness option but it doesn't make a difference with various ambients.... I've seen it worked when first bought it and while setting up for the 1st time... but that's about it
nothing installed at all, beside from the Google maps update, Flash 10.3... that's it.
not a big deal... I rarely uses that feature anyway, manually adjust the brightness most of the time.... odd that it isn't functioning like it should.
Thanks.
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update...
I have a "flashlight" app on my Nexus One ...
If I shine the light at the sensor - ( located directly at the bezel border inline with the screen orientation lock button ) - the auto-brightness will again work
seems like it needed a "kick-start" ... but as you use your tablet ... at a later time... the bug will again appear... and you need the "kick-start" allover again...etc
hopefully the more people report this... the issue will be address by Acer
I know my tablet's auto-brightness works, it just seems the change is incredibly gradual so maybe that's why it appears to not be working.
If i you enable disable it, it would seem that it doesn't enable but after a few seconds the brightness definitely changes.
is there anyone else beside me think that the sensor should have been a visible hole similar to the camera instead of under the dark/black bezel ??
other tablets I've seen you can visually see the sensor window/circle... The Iconia's sensor is really hidden under the bezel... you really have to look hard or at a certain angle in a bright lit area in order to vaguely see it... maybe a design flaw ?
Hi Guys,
Im new here so pardon my thread of any inconsistencies.
I bought galaxy note II about a month ago, it was working good until today.
Problem - For some reason the lock screen and menu have started rotating which i havent made any change or anything. If i turn off the screen rotation I can't access landscape mode to use texting or gps or anything or even apps, as they stay in potrait mode. And If i turn it on, the whole screen goes landscape mode.
I don't know if its an update from samsung or a system glitch.
I have tried re-calibrating the gyro but no help, Also put my phone in odin mode and clear cache as well but no awail.
XDA are well known to hunt these problems down, Can anyone please tell me how to get rid of this?
Thanks
Ben
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iBlender said:
Hi Guys,
Im new here so pardon my thread of any inconsistencies.
I bought galaxy note II about a month ago, it was working good until today.
Problem - For some reason the lock screen and menu have started rotating which i havent made any change or anything. If i turn off the screen rotation I can't access landscape mode to use texting or gps or anything or even apps, as they stay in potrait mode. And If i turn it on, the whole screen goes landscape mode.
I don't know if its an update from samsung or a system glitch.
I have tried re-calibrating the gyro but no help, Also put my phone in odin mode and clear cache as well but no awail.
XDA are well known to hunt these problems down, Can anyone please tell me how to get rid of this?
Thanks
Ben
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Hey mate! Try Ultimate Rotation Control app. I hope it helps.
yes have the same prob
I think that we must have a gesture for rotate MANUALY screen.
Automatic rotation is horrible in use.
I always look for an gesture application to do that :/
I have similar problem. When I turn off automatic BACKLIGHT it will not turn screen, so I am turning auto backlight on, rotate device and then auto backlight off and it stays in landscape. It doesn't happen very often but is annoying. Try auto backlight on/off.
update to 4.3 OFFICIAL ROM and that problem it's fixed...
I would take a video of this issue, but I don't have a good enough camera. It's really, really hard to capture unless you have good video recording tech, which I don't have. :crying:
My issue is that, when I set the brightness to its lowest level on my Zenfone 3, the screen starts flickering. This is especially noticeable with white backgrounds. You can tell that the screen is flickering (perhaps refreshing?) rapidly and it makes the phone painful to look at.
Someone actually created a thread about this issue here on XDA a few months ago, with a video showing this issue, but unfortunately, the video doesn't capture the flickering properly. Here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone-3/help/ze520kl-low-screen-light-level-20-t3603502
How to reproduce:
-Turn auto-brightness off
-Slide brightness bar all the way to the left (AKA to the lowest level)
-Open a white background/grayish background or blank page in Chrome
-Screen starts flickering
It happens across the phone, and intermittently. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. In Chrome, in games, whatever. I once thought it could be related to charging the phone, but the screen has flickered on low brightness even when my phone wasn't plugged in, and at 70-80% battery. I might try resetting the phone to see if it's a software defect; I really hope it is.
Turning off hardware overlays in Developer Options does not resolve this issue.
I'm currently on ASUS stock Nougat, unrooted. I can't root right now. I don't have any screen overlays apart from CF.Lumen, which isn't set to come on during the day, when the flickering happens, and I don't use any screen color modes apart from the default settings. I also always have auto-brightness turned off.
Just wondering if anyone else is having this issue. I might try recording it one day.
Thanks.
Update 1: Removed my 64GB SD Card from the phone to see if that made a difference. It didn't. So the flickering isn't related to power management, AFAIK.
Next step is to wipe the phone completely, including its cache partition from stock recovery, and set the phone up as new again. It might be a hardware issue, but my fingers are crossed.
I've had this issue since I got the phone, ZE552KL. Turning off auto brightness fixes it for me, so I have a feeling it has more to do with ASUS' auto brightness algorithms than anything else.
sensi277 said:
I've had this issue since I got the phone, ZE552KL. Turning off auto brightness fixes it for me, so I have a feeling it has more to do with ASUS' auto brightness algorithms than anything else.
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I always have auto-brightness turned off. I think it might have to do with the ambient light sensor. I've tested it using SMMI and it works just fine. But I wish there was a way to disable it, since I don't need it. I'm kind of disappointed in this phone.
I'm going to try a full reset, and perhaps a custom ROM to see if it's a hardware or software issue.
Hi,
auto rotation and auto brightness does not work anymore. It happened on 27th of may (I know that, because on that date I took the last successful landscape picture - I checked).
Once there were checkbox "auto" besides scrollbar for manual setting of brightness. Now it is gone. So I can not turn on auto brightness.
If I select auto rotation, the rotation does not change automatically in any of apps.
I already tried soft reset and hard reset, tapping on back of phone, clearing cashes... Does anyone know how to fix the problem? Should I just send it to the service?