So, i am trying to disable the auto rotate feature of my titan. i have searched all over and nothing has worked yet for me.
the reason for this is becasue i use the onscreen Touch keyboard alot and my fingers are huge, so having it sideways to display a larger keybaord would help me alot.
i think someone said this somewhere before that it was built into the hardware. the only way to fix this is to have a script or something run after the screen rotates, to re-rotate it back
yup.. no go on this one.. forget u ever even thought about it.
kinda like "ohh it would be nice to have Pocket Outlook auto show internet images."
SPB pocket plus has a rotate screen shortcut, i have it mapped to a hardware button, im sure theres a free app to do this out there somewhere (i use pocket plus anyway so it works for me)
the only downside is if you slide it open and close it the screen goes back to portrait, but then you just hit the button again, lol
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Hello all: I really like the subdisplay feature of the HTC 7501, but it seems to be pretty fickle !!! I mean, it activates when I put the keyboard cover over (but only sometimes), and even when it activates, it will go away with the slightest motion of the keyboard.
Is this happening to all of you? I have searched in this forum, and there appear to be a few registry tweaks that modify the settings of the subdisplay, but do not solve the problem.
All I am trying to get the subdisplay to appear (and stay) as long as the keyboard cover is on. That way, I can see an incoming call's phone number and be able to answer it without removing the cover.
This shouldn't be too hard, should it?
Thanks in advance for your help.
ditto
happens to me too. bloody irritating (until i ditched the hardware keyboard)
Someone posted a Youtube video about this stuff. It was mentioned in a previous post in xda-developers but here is the link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3KH6LS4j7Y
I have the same problem, I have asked in other threads for a way to toggle this manually, can a developer help us out PLEASE?
Also I found the commands in the registry that turn it on or off, but it relies on the magnetic switch, and there isn't a registry setting to toggle the setting to another feature such as a button....
The sub display turns on depending on the location of the keyboard. It's kind of a trial and error thing to find the exact location for the keyboard. For my unit, I have to nudge the keyboard a tiny bit to the right hand side (with the sub on the bottom & facing me) for the sub display to activate. I wish they would have designed it so that the presence of a keyboard is enough to activate the sub display...
I tried to find how activate the subdisplay via software, without success.
Then I decided to remove the bottom bar (I used vijay utility) and I installed resco today plugin in the bottom part of the screen. Turning on the display I see the status with keyboard closed.
Sometime I see the subdisplay menu so I move the kyboard to see the resco status
is there any way to jsut turn off the sub display?
Just turn off the unit, or place the keyboard like you usually would and you will see contacts/calendar
Mine rarely works, cant belive they missed this in QA.
It is really anoying, wonder if the X7501 suffers from this as well.
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...Moreover I found the subdisplay really usefull. It shows even the picture of the contact, using ATHENA with BT headset is great!
Many features, bur also no way to have it working with PIEFRAMA case (the one with transparent window to see the subdisplay). Infacts, because of the cover, the magnets are weaker and the alignment is even more critcal!
I think we will pay to have a button activated subdisplay
Just to have an idea of the functions it has (call status, battery, network, data connection, sound):
1) close the keyboard, activate it, and slide the volume slider
2) receive a call from a contact with picture
3) receive an sms or mms or e-mail (3 different way of displaying)
4) Is working in any VGA resolution
The best solution could be to use a button to activate/disactivate it when the keyboard is closed
GuardianZX9 said:
Just turn off the unit, or place the keyboard like you usually would and you will see contacts/calendar
Mine rarely works, cant belive they missed this in QA.
It is really anoying, wonder if the X7501 suffers from this as well.
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Indeed, mine is a 7501, so this appears to be an ATHENA device issue, and not limited to the 7500.
Too bad, such a great idea and so poorly implemented!
its a magnetic switch in the top of the unit the magnet on the keyboard must latch the swith for it to activate..
I have NO issues with mines always works...
if you run the right side of the KB along the right side on the unit you will see the subdisplay activates
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x7501 here, and same problem. This is one of the top 5 problems with the Athena. At this point I just pretend this 'feature' doesnt exist; I rely on my Jabra to tell me who is calling.
Hi,
I need to change the orientation of the PIN keyboard from landscape to portrait. When i drive i cannot unlock the phone with one hand. My hand is big enough for the streak since since I'm 6.2" with really big hands but the way the keypad is set in the lock screen is impossible for me to do it with one hand. The numbers are way to small and sideways. I need a lock screen like the iphone. This is the only problem i have with this phone.
I have tried lockbot and some other apps but as soon as you press the home button it takes you to the home page so not much security there.
I have heard somewhere that there is a setting in some system file that has the orientation lockscreen=1 or something like that. Maybe if this is set to 0 it will change to portrait but i have no idea how to find this. If someone could look into this it would be cool.
Any ideas? Please help me with this one.
Hit the menu button, Settings, Location and Security, set up lock screen, and then click on pattern. Much easier than a pin numberand you can use one hand. Although note that you will make the pattern in portrait mode, the unlock screen is in landscape so it gets rotated.
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I am also looking how to change the orientation when in portrait mode.
I would actually like to flip it. I am using a business card holder as a "dock" for my phone at work, but to plug it in, I have the cable on top. When unlocked it looks fine in landscape, but if I leave it locked, it is upside down. I'll probably just end up trying to cut a hole out of the bottom of the card holder instead, but I don't know if that will look very good, or even be useful, since the cord will make the phone sit almost a half inch higher.
This is really bugging me. I can't believe Dell let this latest 318 version go out the door with a lock screen like this. If they fixed this it would be perfect release.
Has anyone found a way to change the lock screen orientation or replace the entire screen itself to another version, something to make it easier to unlock the device?
Perfect release? Are you kidding? There is nothing even remotely CLOSE about ANY of the dell releases being perfect. Have you not read the numerous threads about all the bugs from various users...
It's barely even decent.
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Hello guys, I got this new unit and I already tried to calibrate/ check auto rotate option in settings.
Should my home screen rotate while i move my phone horizontally and/or vertically.
My icons are always in vertical mode.
If i go to gallery and choose picture i taken with the cell it rotates fine.
But if I go into internet browser ( the default one ) it takes like 4-5 tries shakes and moves my phone so it finally works <== this also seems odd shouldn't this works like faster or on first try ????
//Edit: needless to say , factory stock on everything nothing installed apart from opera mini and skype.
Everything else is default out of the box.
But my main question is shouldn't home screen follow my phone movement?
no, custom roms do though, like cm7
So no home screen/icons on it will follow if I place my phone in landscape mode hmm. Also what about the locked screen ( default one ) with the clock on it. Should that move? or same like home screen its only vertical.
Also I find my sensor in apps ( any app for that matter) to be really slow or unresponsive :S You need to move your phone in all directions like good 40-50secs or even more for it to switch into landscape mode :S
If anyone cares I re-calibrated the sensor but this time NOT on flat surface but in my hand the best I can and matched my movements so I works the best like im holding it in every day use.
Fixed my slow-ness or non-responsiveness about landscape / vertical switching.
=)
Android OS newbie (coming from a WM 6.5).....
Hopefully this will be a simple, straight out answer / solution. I have done research online through many forums and all the answers I find are associated to phones with a physical slide-out keyboard and related to the status of the keyboard being opened or closed.
On the Motorola Droid Razr, by default, are any of the (5) home screens supposed to auto-rotate when flipped horizontally or should it rotate only after you have entered into an app?
I'd swear it would rotate when I first got the Razr (before I started messing with the apps) but I honestly can't say for sure......and I really don't want to hard reset the phone just to find out.
Thanks for any input,
Brian
It should auto rotate on any screen.
Mine never rotated until I put go launcher ex on it.
Szadzik said:
It should auto rotate on any screen.
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If that's the case would rooting the phone have any affect with the home screen(s) not auto-rotating? Rooting the phone was one of the first things I did to it.
I basically made a pact with myself, coming from my HTC Touch Pro 2, that with this new Razr I wasn't going to bog it down with too many apps; just the ones I needed to operate efficiently. If in fact the home screens are supposed to auto-rotate then I really don't want to add an app to make the phone do something it should be doing by default.
Anything I should be looking at? What happens if I decide to hard reset the phone, start from scratch, and it makes no difference?
Thanks
So last night I decided to take the phone back to factory settings and the home screen(s) do not auto rotate. Based on the two earlier replies I was given two different answers. Am I missing something?
As an example - If I were to get one of the Motorola Razr docking stations, which holds the phone in landscape format, is that to say the phone would always display the home screen in portrait format, in relation to the phone, and would only switch to landscape only if I were to open an app? For instance, that would mean the home screen which displays the contacts favorites thumbnails, the pics would always be sitting sideways. That just doesn't seem normal.
Still curious.....
Mine has never rotated while on the home screen, however the app drawer always does when auto rotate is enabled. Every app that rotates works perfectly as well. This has always been my experience on every android I've had (eris, incredible, fascinate, droid x2) when using the stock launcher.
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I feel like I'm going crazy trying to find evidence that anyone else knows what I'm talking about.
When I first got my Pixel 6 in November, if I had auto-rotate turned off, and turned my screen, a little circular button would show in a corner and I could tap it to make the screen rotate. It was really handy, because I never turn auto-rotate on, so in the rare occasions when I did want to rotate my screen, I could make it rotate quickly.
I've noticed it's gone though. Is there a setting tied to this that maybe I turned off on accident? Was it removed entirely? Could it be gone because I'm rooted? Please let me know. Thanks!
Edit: Nevermind. This is apparently tied to the navigation bar, which I hid because I use third-party nav. Very sad :- (
my buddy got the same problem, dont know whats going on. works for me though