Can someone please help me tweak the setting which makes the screen rotate from landscape to portrait when the screen gets slid back over the keyboard.
I have a hardware button mapped to rotate the screen. I often use the unit in landscape and when doing so I occasionally want access to the keyboard. So I slide the screen up, type whatever I want to type, then slide it back. It's very annoying that doing so forces the screen back to portrait.
The behaviour I want is this:
[When in portrait] sliding open causes rotation to landscape.
[When in landscape] sliding open changes nothing.
[When in landscape] sliding closed changes nothing (currently it causes rotation to portrait).
1 & 2 are the default behaviours. Is it possible to keep them and add 3?
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it's very annoying, i know. it doesn't only happen with the keyboard application, but also with the camera application. someone has suggested that the software for the Wizard was written by highly trained monkeys. i believe (s)he's right.
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As wm6.5 via titanium offers a great UI even for landscape, and as the qwerty/z keys are really small in portrait mode i'm looking for an application that would switch screen orientation to landscape on sliding the keyboard in and to portrait when sliding out (in fact it actually changes to portrait, when i'm sliding the keyboard out, thats why i need something that changes sr to landscape when i slide back in)...
Anyone knows some app?
Maybe you could mix up the screen rotate tool from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=347705
... with the advanced tab of the SLIDE ACTION app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=359212
works perfectly!
Hey, guys! I've just been wondering if any of you other guys have been getting the same odd behavior as me with the latest stock ATT FUZE ROM.
It deals with the phone display switching between portrait and landscape orientation when you flip out the keyboard. For some reason, the Windows taskbar appears every time I flick out the keyboard to type something while using full screen apps such as YouTube. It irritates me because all the other ROMs I've tried don't exhibit this issue. I can make it disappear by tapping the Start menu and exiting it, but having to do that every time I flick the keyboard out and flicking it back in is quite annoying. I was wondering if any of you know how I could disable this behavior.
It appears that any orientation switching without flicking out the keyboard (ex. Opera rotating using the accelerometer) doesn't make the taskbar pop out, but switching between portrait and landscape with the keyboard always triggers the taskbar to pop out in full screen apps. Again, it's easy enough to just tap the Start menu and exit out again to make the taskbar disappear, but I would LOVE to just have it not appear altogether, like all the other builds of WM that I've been using.
Anyone out there that can duplicate the issue I'm having? Furthermorem anyone know how I can remove the behavior?
When using my Archos 70, I find out that the screen orientation is somehow strange.
1st - I like to use it in portrait. However, I cannot make the screen 'lock' to portrait orientation. The 'lock' feature only supports landscape orientation
2nd - Even in portrait mode, when using some apps, the orientation is inverted (such as z4root). Seems Archos makes the default portrait position to be like 'power button at the bottom and the USB at the top). However..... I think most of you will agree that we all like the power button AT THE TOP.
So, is there a way to fix the orientation (default) to portrait, with power button at the top?
Thanks for your help.
1. Yes lock is Landscape, that has to do with the stand.
2. This has to do with the way android works. Normaly view is stopped and started again with the new orientation by the os. But the developer can tell Android that it handöes this switch itself and then the app is responsible for thee switching.
So there is no way atm to change this.
Whenever I use an application (on my A101) that only works in portrait mode, the power button is always at the top.
So far I have tried with Twonky and z4root.
edit: oh, and I believe some of the launchers available will let you lock screen in portrait mode ... try Launcher Pro or ADW
Portrate texting doesnt switch to full screen but landscape does. I remember seeing something for a setting on this but cant find it to change it. It might have been on another phone, im not really sure.
Any clues to change landscape to not use the entire screen, half for keyboard and half for input box, like portrait does?
That's usually a setting specific to each keyboard. Check your keyboards app settings for something like editor, fullscreen, or for landscape only settings. Which keyboard are you using?
Edit: not all keyboards have a setting to turn off full screen in landscape.
Ah yes, i found it in the keyboard settings
Is there an app out there to allow you to manually rotate the screen? Seems like you're left with either auto rotation which may not always be right if you're moving around a bit or at a weird angle or with turning it off and then being stuck with landscape.
I haven't see one with a manual rotate widget or button. However, ADW Launcher EX has a setting that lets you choose from auto, portrait, landscape or keyboard mode.
So you could lock portrait, or landscape for your home screens. However, most applications will not respect this setting if they have their own sensor hook. So for example in my reader program, I still have to lock the setting to portrait.
Not sure if there is a way to override application specific rotation - which may be what you are after.
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