I have an HTC Touch Pro with Gyrator 2 installed, blocked on the phone app, and often the act of pulling my phone out when it rings causes the keyboard to open slightly, which puts the phone into landscape mode. Is there a way to prevent this from happening and use Gyrator to put the screen in landscape mode instead of opening the keyboard?
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i was wondering if there was a way to set a particular program to launch in landscape mode as opposed to the standard portrait. i think this would be handy for database files/programs that you just need to bring up and check information.
the particular program in question is KeePass. i sometimes just need to launch it and check a password for something, but in portrait mode, i cant quite fully see 3 columns and usually need to scroll sideways, but landscape would be perfect. unfortunately, i cant really just open the keyboard because the phone is usually in a holster...and i tried assigning the rotate screen function to a hardware button, but it turns it the wrong way. in either case, i was hoping to just cut out the extra step and have it launch sideways by default. any ideas?
Background:
I regularly use my TP2 (Vodafone 6.5 stock ROM-for now- running TF3D) as a SatNav unit running TomTom 7.
I use Gyrator2 to auto-rotate TomTom & other apps incl Manilla
While doing this, I like to keep the device in landscape mode (it then looks like a stand-alone TomTom unit but with added bling haha!)
When actually driving I also use a BT Headset (although I dont think this is part of the issue)
Problem:
When I receive an incoming phonecall or press the phone button with TomTom running in landscape mode, a strange thing happens.
First, TomTom reverts to portrait, even thought the device is in landscape. Then the phone is displayed, also in portrait. When I hang up the call, the display reverts to TomTom, which is still in portrait.
This means I have to manually rotate the device to portrait & back to get TomTom to re-display correctly in landscape, OR leave the phone permanently in portrait mode so the phone doesnt muck up the display (which kind of negates the point of having a g-sensor!)
Observation:
1) I tried changing from Gyrator2 to ChangeScreen in case it was Gyrator that was the issue: ChangeScreen has a nifty 'vibrate' to tell you it is rotating the screen. Assuming the device is in normal portrait mode, I can press the SEND key & the phone comes up as normal: pressing 'X' at the top right returns to the TomTom screen again as normal.
However, when I press the phone send key when in landscape mode, ChangeScreen causes the phone to vibrate madly for a good second or 2 instead of the small buzz it usually does for a screen rotation, as if it is busy fighting whatever setting is trying to force the device into portrait: briefly part of the phone screen is displayed before it vanishes again returning me to the TomTom screen.
At the moment I will have no option to return to Gyrator2, but that also exhibits this strange "forcing into portrait" effect when I press SEND key or an incoming call is received. (but at least it DOES display the phone screen, albeit such that I have to turn my head sideways!)
2) if I extend the keyboard, thus forcing the device to work in landscape, I can smoothly open the phone, straight into landscape, no glitches, all working perfectly; and when the phone app is closed manually or automatically TomTom smoothly returns, again in landscape, as it should.
Questions:
Is there a way of "kidding" the TP2 I have the keyboard slid out when I dont, in order to force the phone to display correctly, OR does anyone know if a simple registry edit will prevent phone from trying desperately to force the device into portrait mode before displaying?
On my old Kaiser I had screen rotation mapped to a spare hardware key. OUr TP2's only come with ONE hardware key, which I have set to MSVC. is it possible to create a 'screen rotation' shortcut similar to what was found on my old Kaiser?
If it's of any help, I have noticed this odd effect with both the Vodafone 6.5 & generic HTC Euro 6.5 ROMS (device is HardSPL'd)
I used keyboard config to map a doubleclick to screen rotate. That way I have more control.
Okay... I'm sick of it now. Sure, it was a cool little thing, my first phone with a G-sensor so it knows when I turn it and rotates the screen. But now I'm just sick of it. It rotates if I tilt it a little too far when browsing the web. If I'm reclining and I grab my phone it thinks I'm holding it sideways and rotates when I'm looking at my emails. It rotates the lock screen when I pull it from my hip holster and then I have to wait for it to rotate back.
It's just becoming annoying. Can I just turn the rotating via the G-Sensor off? I still want it to rotate when I open the keyboard, but that should be the only time it does it.
Using Total Commander go to the following directory in the registry:
HKCU\software\HTC\HTCSENSOR\GSensor\ModuleName
Now simply delete the programs you do not want to auto-rotate. Opening the keyboard will still enable landscape as usual.
Hey guys:
I have ChangeScreen installed on my HTC Tilt2. Ive set the default on load to landscape as well as set up exceptions to manilla and most of my programs to landscape (as an assurance that the screen will load each app/prog chosen to landscape).
I have set the registry keys listed in this string to 50 sugested in this xda reference thread: xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8548616#post8548616
My problem is this: I have to hold my phone upright , then lay it flat, then pick it up again in order for the rotation to take effect.
Next prob is: after the screen does go into landscape, then i go to , say messaging, all is good until i exit messaging and navigate back to the today screen. It loads back "portrait". I have to do the same steip over : pick phone up; lay it flat; then pick up again for it to go back to landscape, otherwise, it just sits and sits and sits in portrait.
Is there any other tool better than changescreen that truely 'defaults' the screen rotation to landscape where i dont have to manually keep moving the phone all the time just to get to landscape?
Before the 2.3 update my apps would open in landscape mode (if they supported it) when the display was autorotated to landscape. This is with the phone flat on the table which is how I use it 99% of the time. Since the update all apps open in portrait mode.
To see what I mean: Make sure Autorotate is on (Setting>Display>Autorotate screen) and open your email or texting app, tilt your Evo so it flips to landscape mode then set Evo flat on a table. You should still be in landscape mode. Tap back arrow to close the mail or text app. With the phone still laying there reopen the same email or texting app. On my device it reopens in portrait. Before 2.3 it opened in landscape.
Question is: Is this a generic gingerbread change or an HTC/Sprint labotomized gingerbread bug?