I have had the Dell Streak with a 5” 480x800 screen for 2 years and love the form factor. Today I moved to the ATT Samsun Note. Thanks to these forums it is rooted.
On my Dell streak the entire phone was always in landscape mode. The lock screen was landscape, when you went to settings in apps they were always landscape. Is there a way to force the Samsung Note to do this?
I installed an app called Rotation App and it helps a lot but after a couple of hours it resorts back to portrait. With that app the lock screen is always portrait.
Does anyone have any idea on changing this? Again it is rooted and I will edit files like build.prop to make the change. I just do not know what to look for.
You can force it with an alternate launcher like GoLauncher, ADW or Launcher Pro. If you were like me with your streak, you were probably running an alternate launcher anyways so it shouldn't be any different (unless you were still on 1.6 or you actually liked StageUI).
TouchWiz won't do it unfortunately.
I do run alternative launcher called Zeam that works in landscape or portrait. Every time I unlock the phone it has rotate the screen to show the Zeam Launcher. Using ‘Rotation App’ it forces the default launcher to go into landscape mode. For some reason the settings only last a couple of hours then the phone goes back and both launchers are portrait.
It seems like on the Dell Streak it of forced in landscape all the time.
I installed Widget Locker that can force the lock screen to landscape. It seems to be working nice now. It has a ICS theme for the landscape unlocker. It looks good.
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Is there a way to keep my dell streak in portrait all of the time without rotating to landscape?
Go into Settings and untick AutoRotate
lufc said:
Go into Settings and untick AutoRotate
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when I do that, it stays in landscape
jrick1019 said:
Is there a way to keep my dell streak in portrait all of the time without rotating to landscape?
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Use ADW or Go launcher....
Lord60 said:
when I do that, it stays in landscape
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Sorry misread the post thaught it was landscape he wanted
Portrait for whole system
Hi,
I've been seeing the forum threads for portrait mode on the Dell Streak but all have just options for the launcher reorientation.
I have currently locked the system to landscape only since its extremely bothersome when the system is on auto rotate and it rotates by 180 degrees. However even with this, there are apps like Astrid tasks, etc which have some of their screens in portrait - which is a bit irritating...
With the landscape mode its not possible to try an operate the device with one hand. In the portrait mode it is a bit more easier to reach with the thumb across the screen to the opposite side corners and by sliding the hand down the entire screen can be accessed with a single hand when you have to.
Is there some mode where the full system can be made completely in portrait? Of course its understandable that select apps like Klondike, etc will run only on their default landscape mode but is there nothing that can be done for the rest of the system? Something that can probably just be included as a command in the install.txt file for Streakdroid packages perhaps?
I run Streakdroid 1.9.0 and love the new Stage UI. Not particularly impressed with ADW or LauncherPro.
Thanks in advance.
I hate landscape, is there a way to keep the streak 2.2 froyo in portrait all the time, i have adw for the homescreen but when i go to dailer or anyother menu it flips to landscape unless i have auto-rotate screen checked to which the screen goes all over the place at times. is there a theme or hack to HELP???
That's interesting. I hate portrait.
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I too hate landscape. I have ADW locked in portrait, but it'd be really nice if I could get the phone to be in portrait mode for all of the apps instead of having to wave my phone around to get it in portrait. And the lockscreen is always landscape no matter what!
I've tried various orientation locking apps from the market, but they all lock it in landscape. Anyone know a solution? I'm using streakdroid 1.6.1 (soon to be 1.8.1).
I think Dell Streak is best at landscape. I have it locked on ADW on Landscape.
Don't know if this works for just the homescreen or not, since if I had my way I'd never go into portrait, but someone posted this a few weeks a few weeks ago on modaco:
http://android.modaco.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=311000&view=findpost&p=1573128
Go into settings, find system persistant in orientation
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if you load 341 froyo 2.2.2 there is an option to disable rotation completely.
Krad said:
if you load 341 froyo 2.2.2 there is an option to disable rotation completely.
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Do you if I can put streakdroid on 341?
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if you load 341 froyo 2.2.2 there is an option to disable rotation completely.
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Wouldn't this just force the Streak into landscape-mode or does it stay in portrait-mode when disabled?
I feel like this is something that is an issue in some third party launchers, but this is constantly happening in the leaked TouchWiz Honeycomb build for the Tab 10.1. I think this was happening to me before on the stock OS as well. I am not using ADW or LPP, just home launcher, and even if I am not rotating the display, the widgets and icons are always reloading/redrawing when I come back to it from an app. WHY??
I see no options or settings relating to this and I have done nothing to cause it.
Anyone else having this issue?? It happens to me like 7 out of 10 times when reverting to the homescreens.
I'm seeing the same thing on an Epic running ACS (Froyo). It tends to happen when I rotate the home screen. I've had the phone about 3 weeks - I only noticed it happening within the past week or so. It may have had something to do with an app I installed, but I have no idea what. Any ideas anybody?
Happening on the pre touchwiz stock rom. I use ADW and Stock Launcher. I also can't seem to make the default home setting start set. I repeatedly get prompted to choose a home screen when. K press HOME.
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I think my issue may just be a performance problem with Touchwiz when there are a lot of icons in the home screens. If I clear the data for TwLauncher, it rotates pretty quickly. As I add my icons back, it gradually gets slower. Once I have them all back (I have about 70 icons), it takes 15-20 seconds to redraw. LauncherPro doesn't seem to have that problem, so I'll just use that for a launcher instead.
Is it possible to turn to portrait mode in the home screen in a viewpad 7, stock rom?
TIA
rodrix said:
Is it possible to turn to portrait mode in the home screen in a viewpad 7, stock rom?
TIA
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i have not found any way, i have downloaded launcher pro, (free version available) and that allows portrait home screen, also the ability to hide the notification bar, and afew other tweeks, the apps draw can also be viwd in portrait, but strangly the dial pad stays in landscape.
if you want me to i can upload a few pics for you, please note i also have beautiful widgets (sense like) clock on my home screen.
When I used default launcher one time I somehow got it to portrait but when I tried again it didn't worked...
I had some app force close when it happened...
@ghosty_uk thanks for the suggestion I already instaled LauncherPro but there's something about it I don't like. Anyway it's not a big deal.
thanks.
Using CM7 3.0 on my HPTP, running Zeam Launcher, is there any way to make the home screens work in Landscape? never bothered me on the Nook, but I use the touchpad case in landscape all the time...
Thanks