Portrate texting doesnt switch to full screen but landscape does. I remember seeing something for a setting on this but cant find it to change it. It might have been on another phone, im not really sure.
Any clues to change landscape to not use the entire screen, half for keyboard and half for input box, like portrait does?
That's usually a setting specific to each keyboard. Check your keyboards app settings for something like editor, fullscreen, or for landscape only settings. Which keyboard are you using?
Edit: not all keyboards have a setting to turn off full screen in landscape.
Ah yes, i found it in the keyboard settings
I was wondering if there was a way to "lock down" rotation so that the landscape orientation would always be such that that the LCD buttons were always to the right in landscape and to the bottom when the phone was rotated to portrait.
Any ideas or Apps that I've missed?
To lock to landscape just turn off orientation in settings ....to lock to portrait. Use adw launcher and select system persistent
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Not the question he asked
The O/P wants to keep landscape/portrait ability but limit it to one direction only. For example the port is always the screen bottom in landscape and always the left side in portrait.
Exactly... I want to be able to lock the streak/ui down to only one portait and one landscape... basically establish to fixed "tops" and then use the accelerometer to swotch between those two. Is that possible in 2.2.
Btw, what's "o/p"?
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Does anyone know if the default resolution can be modified? I really like this phone but the icons on the screen and the text under them are small. I was wondering if a custom rom can give the user the option to to adjust resolution. I downloaded spare parts from the market and was able to make changes to the font size in most apps but the settings dont apply to the regular home screen... Thanks
Once full root is achieved you can use a screen density app to change it, doesn't play well with sense roms though
You want the resolution bumped down by the way.. going up will make it smaller
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Try spare parts plus in the market. It works decent for increasing font. But it will revert if you rotate the phone and then you have to go back into the app and select the font size again. I just turn off auto rotation in display settings when I'm using it in portrait. Then if I want to use it in landscape I open up spareparts plus then select normal font the rotate my phone then hold home reopen the app and select the large font. But it will also revert once I rotate back into portrait. Also I keep a short cut to display settings on my home screen to make the transition quicker. Overall its a decent app and its free with no ads. Hope this helps.
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I didn't like how the stock launcher only gave you only a few applications to choose from on the top screen when you were in 'T' mode. I played around with Nova Launcher and changing the options to auto rotate seems to work pretty well.
Let me know how you did it. And if you came up with a better solution.
1. Too screen
2. Bottom screen
3. Top screen (app drawer)
@kaluna00
Same here.
I always select auto rotate for any phone w/Nova Launcher.
Another tool I use is Ultimate Rotation Control (Pro) from the Google Play Store. It has a basic default selection & you can customize on a per-app basis.
Been a good while since the app was last updated, but, it's still 100% functional.
This phone would be a perfect candidate for having Nova Launcher as the default home UI, as Razer has with their two phones. Naturally, it'd need a bit of tweaking for the 2nd display,but,anything other than the stock Launcher would be an improvement.
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@kaluna00
Same here.
I always select auto rotate for any phone w/Nova Launcher.
Another tool I use is Ultimate Rotation Control (Pro) from the Google Play Store. It has a basic default selection & you can customize on a per-app basis.
Been a good while since the app was last updated, but, it's still 100% functional.
This phone would be a perfect candidate for having Nova Launcher as the default home UI, as Razer has with their two phones. Naturally, it'd need a bit of tweaking for the 2nd display,but,anything other than the stock Launcher would be an improvement.
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What does Ultimate Rotation Control (Pro) do that Nova doesn't?
kaluna00 said:
What does Ultimate Rotation Control (Pro) do that Nova doesn't?
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It allows for orientation on a per-app basis.
Basically, you select a default orientation, whatever that may be (say, automatic). Then, if you want certain apps to remain in something else, say, portrait mode, you can select that app to ignore the default orientation & remain locked in portrait mode.
So, the app isn't really necessary for Nova Launcher, but, a nice tool to have for the rest of your apps.
After a factory data reset. I was playing more with the stock launcher. Hi believe it is a little bit snappier. I'm not a fan of the carousel on the top screen. However, you can swipe up and get into the app drawer on the top screen. You also still can double tap to turn the screen off. Without going into an administrator lock where fingerprints do not work (you need to use the pattern or your code)
Microsoft Launcher is good and feels native if you aren't a fan of carousel mode. The icons will just rotate in landscape. Worth checking out.
Ruthless launcher works great and allows you to change the bottom screen launcher as well ;3
xSe7eNx said:
Ruthless launcher works great and allows you to change the bottom screen launcher as well ;3
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Testing out ruthless launcher. Mostly like it. I'll play with it for a few days and let you know how it sticks.
I liked ruthless launcher, but it would not allow me to double tap off the screen unless I gave it elevated rights. I did so, but after you double tap the screen off it locks the phone and you can't activate the fingerprint sensor without hitting the power button. I also noticed that if you double tap to lock the phone and then swing it open the second screen is still unlocked and you have access to the phone. That was the deal killer for me. Back to the stock launcher.
To get out of Carousel mode when you winging the phone open. Just swipe up and you will get to your app drawer
This is my screen setup using
KLWP and the Wing launcher
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Ruthless launcher works great and allows you to change the bottom screen launcher as well ;3
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I'm not seeing how you change the bottom screen launcher. How did you accomplish that? I would love to be able to change it.
any custom roms for this phone?
jeb192004 said:
I'm not seeing how you change the bottom screen launcher. How did you accomplish that? I would love to be able to change it.
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Allow ruthless to be set as a second screen app. On the second screen select ruthless launcher. Then, swipe up and hold to bring up recent apps. Then pin the ruthless launcher. You should be set after that
Anyone know if it's possible to always open the app (assuming the user has an app open) in side-by-side mode when unfolding?
Presumably this would need to be done with Tasker...
for that I use "Split Screen Launcher" in the play store BY paprikanotfound
*note sometimes it might be glitchy if one app was already open. but its a good enough way.
Actually you can do this natively by launching the apps in split-screen, then taking the splitter and saving to the home screen.
What I want though is for the app that your currently using in fold mode - when you unfold it automatically is on the left side of the screen and the home-screen shows on the right ready for you to launch a second app...
in that case you might be able to do it by using a new profile
choose State > Display Orientation > Landscape
then create a task for it search for split screen toggle and voila
*note this require my xml file
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Actually you can do this natively by launching the apps in split-screen, then taking the splitter and saving to the home screen.
What I want though is for the app that your currently using in fold mode - when you unfold it automatically is on the left side of the screen and the home-screen shows on the right ready for you to launch a second app...
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unfortunately using custom launcher breaks the default split screen shortcuts at least on my device.