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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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
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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Hi All,
Picked up a new SGT 10.1 today on the Staples deal. Well, actually two, the first suffered badly from the dust under screen issue and I returned it, cleaned out two stores in the process.
Trouble is, after the first time I engaged the orientation lock (literally the first time I locked the orientation), it no longer auto rotates when on the home screen. Worked fine for a couple hours prior to that. When I go to the camera app, it rotates (although lags sometimes, but can't tell the cause).
I've tried hard resetting multiple times with two different methods, made no difference. Searched around, found only one other person describing the problem and no solution.
Has anyone heard of this? Is there any app I can use to further test the sensor?
Thanks all!!
P.S. Sorry for the double post in Q&A, I posted there by accident.
Go to the home screen. Once in at home screen, press and hold anywhere to bring up the screen to add Widgets, etc... Click on the App Short Cut tab and then tap the home scree without actually adding anything. All you are doing is going to the App Short Cut tab. Now when you rotate your SGT the rotation will be much faster.
Try your rotation first before doing this so that you can see the difference in speed.
Enjoy...
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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.
=)
Hey guys I figured out something kinda cool today and idk if anyone else has ever tried it but I thought I would post it here just for fun. So if you unlock your phone and go into a landscape friendly app (I just use messaging) and turn your phone to the landscape position. Then turn auto rotation off from your status bar (if your rom supports it of course). Now lock your phone and your lock screen should also be in landscape mode!
Idk what this does to ethe twlauncher but I know it puts my nova launcher into landscape mode even though I have it set to stay portrait. I've noticed this happening other times when I have been using my phone in landscape and then locked it and went to unlock it again right after and my lock screen appears to be in landscape for a short second. Idk if there's any other apps that now go landscape that dont usually or what it does to the twlauncher so let me know if you guys find anything else cool with this.
Yeah, I noticed that. Pretty neat I guess.
Yes, it was like that on my old Captivate running Gingerbread as well. Kinda makes sense that if it's locked in landscape mode, it would stay in landscape mode, including the lock screen.
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On CM7, if I lock rotation in landscape, it goes back to portrait.
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On CM7, if I lock rotation in landscape, it goes back to portrait.
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Same here on ICScrewed 2.1.
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thanks for sharing. this trick is great if you are web browsing on your phone but you have the tendency to move your hands around a lot... causing your phone to inadvertently rotate between landscape and portrait view.
i agree, the trick works on certain roms.
on a similar note:if you set auto-rotate on but your phoen doesn't rotate...check your launcher settings. for quite some time...i've always wanted my home screen to rotate, but i realize i had my screen orientation settings set to 'potrait' of my launcher settings.