On my 70IT the landscape is the default screen orientation when autorotation is off. Is there any apps or tweaks that can change the orientation to portrait without autorotation?
I use LauncherPro as my homescreen (faster & more flexible) and it has an orientation lock setting. I can't tell you about the stock home screen since I'm waiting for Archos to send me my replacement A70...
Only launcher that will remain locked in Portrait mode for me has been Go Launcher. Launcher Pro, ADW.Launcher, and Zeam seem to lock landscape wise, even if you say portrait.
For this matter I use AutoRotate OnOff widget. You can find it in Market. Hope it works for you.
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how can i stop apps to go in landscape mode?
I have ADW launcher EX with persistence and it stays in portrait mode.
but when i lauch any app then it goes landscape or portrait depending on how u turn the streak.
I don't have my Streak yet - but on all of my other Android phones there is an orientation setting under the Sound & display settings. On my phone it's under Menu->Settings->Sound & Display->Orientation. Some apps may also have orientation settings in them.
Certain apps will go to whatever orientation they were programmed for no matter what orientation you are using.
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in the Streak the orientation setting with automatich off, bring the screen landscape ONLY.
Is there any way to prevent my screen from auto rotating UNLESS I have the keyboard up, my phone seems to like to rotate frequently when I only need it to rotate for the landscape keyboard.
I am unaware of a way to get it to just rotate with the landscape keyboard but you can download something like Widgetsoid that will allow you to put a "Auto-Rotate" toggle on your homescreen so when you want to use the landscape keyboard you can just toggle the rotating to "On" and then when you're done you can toggle it "Off".
Warpig69 said:
Is there any way to prevent my screen from auto rotating UNLESS I have the keyboard up, my phone seems to like to rotate frequently when I only need it to rotate for the landscape keyboard.
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I know there is a setting which allows you to lock the screen, but I just want to lock the home screen and app drawer to Portrait view rather than Landscape; is this possible? (I have root)
Cheers
jonno92 said:
I know there is a setting which allows you to lock the screen, but I just want to lock the home screen and app drawer to Portrait view rather than Landscape; is this possible? (I have root)
Cheers
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Which launcher are you using? There should be an option in the UI settings of the launcher settings itself.
For example, I'm using ADW launcherEX and it's under ADWsettings -> UI Settings -> Screen Preferences -> Home orientation -> Portrait...
piece of cake... Should be simillar in GOLauncher or LauncherPro too, dig around
Thanks so much, it was under a weird setting in GoLauncher, I eventually found it.
Cheers!
So this thread in the general section got me interested in seeing what hacks were possible for rotation. Editing the SecPhone.apk enabled rotation for the in-call screen. A simple addition to build.prop permanently enables rotation in the lock screen.
Enabling the launcher to rotate is not too hard to enable but after enabling launcher rotation, the app drawer gets goofed up in a couple ways:
1) If the landscape integers/dimens files aren't adjusted, the default fifth row is cut off, showing only the top few pixels of each icon
2) If the landscape integers/dimens files are adjusted (in my case, to simply have 4 rows and the default 5 columns in landscape mode - the default 5x5 is still in portrait), except that when you rotate the device while in the app drawer, the settings of the first orientation are applied to the new orientation. (When the app draw is entered from either rotation, the proper grid settings are applied.
This is potentially problematic when switching from portrait to landscape. The question is how to have the launcher properly switch to the proper grid settings. I'm sure there is a setting I'm missing, but I don't know what it is.
Anyone have any idea on what I might be doing wrong?
Hi,
is there a way to disable the autorotate just on the home screen? coming from Note 1 then Note 2; those 2 devices allowed the home screen's autorotate to be disabled but enabled on everything else.
thanks in advance!
I use apex launcher, much more custom settings for every aspect of the launcher and entire user interface.
bhaskell said:
I use apex launcher, much more custom settings for every aspect of the launcher and entire user interface.
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I think I tried other launchers including this one. they always scroll your home screen's wallpaper and I didn't care for that but that might have changed. but anyway, i guess the better question is, is this possible using touchWiz ? thanks.
To disable Home screen rotation only with Apex Launcher
Set your global System rotation settings to Auto
Then in Apex Launcher settings, go to Behavior Settings and set it to Default
Now your Home screen will remain in portrait mode when rotated to landscape, but apps such as Chrome will rotate to Landscape.