Portrait rotation on an Android Stick (IconBIT Toucan Stick HD) - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hello everyone,
I'm having a little problem with an android stick that I'm trying to use.
the stick I'm using is the IconBIT Toucan Stick HD and there's a specific thing I want it to do, I want the screen to get positioned to portrait mode, and stay in that mode.
the reason why I want to do this because the stick is an HDMI stick, so you plug it into a HDMI port, which often is a television or a monitor, so it boots in landscape mode.
but I'm planning on using this stick for a project I'm doing, where I'll be using a monitor standing straight up, so if the stick boots in landscape mode, the screen needs to be in portrait mode to be able to use the stick for this.
I've tried installing 2 apps so far, Ultimate Rotation Control and Set Orientation, but both didn't seem to do what I wanted them to do.
the android version that's on the stick is 4.0.4 which is the latest update for this device.
does anyone perhaps know a trick I can use for this, or an app that'll do this for me, or is it perhaps not possible for this device to be used in portrait mode?

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