My HTC Desire suddenly decided to stop allowing me to rotate the screen to landscape from portrait earlier. Really annoying as it means I now have to use the portrait keyboard rather than the landscape one and have to view all webpages/videos in portrait too..
However apps that rely on the accelerometer such as Teeter work perfectly.
So is this a hardware or software problem?
Thanks for your help
This may be a very simple problem to solve cos I've experienced the same thing. Dont forget that the desire only rotates Anti-clockwise, so the buttons are on the right.
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Have you checked that the orientation setting is checked in Menu->Settings->Sound & Display?
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Dave
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Im not sure where the settings for gyrator controled events are stored, but if there is such a location could you help share your settings so we can all get a better grip of this great app?
I've tried adding some Events myself, but ive not been very successful.
Could someone help me get Gyrator to do some of the following:
* When TOMTOM is being used, I would like the screen to rotate landscape or portrait respective to the appropiate angle the HD is faced. However, I would like the rotation to stay fixed once the stylus is inserted. The rotation direction should only be able to change when the stylus is removed. (This should help me lock the screen to a landscape direction if needed or portrait if needed, and not have to worry about bumps in the road flipping my screen all over the place when driving.)
* When Windows Media Player is being used, I would like Gyrator not to rotate the screen whatsoever, because the WMP app seems to have G-Sen rotation already built in, and with Gyrator running, the phone gets very confused, and tries to show my video in lanscape on the portrait facing screen, thus chopping off half of the video)
* if anyone can suggest any other usefull Events that they've found useful, please let me know too (and if possible, let me know how to do it)?
Thanks.
BTW, ive looked at the Gyrator website, and their instructions are not the easiest to follow. (oh, and I find Gyrator 2 to be a much better app than the alternatives, hence why I am sticking with it - hoping I will learn how to use it much better)
Cheers.
WizzKidd
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3008510#post3008510
That should have answers to all your needs (including WM Player and TT)
if you still have questions after reading the thread, let me know
Thanks, that helped wonders!
Hi all
Im looking for program which will allow my htc hd to rotate picture on screen properly. When i rotate my phone my walpeper picture rotate too but i can see only a half of the pic on the half screen, what i can do , help please.
Thank you
Hi,
I am facing the same problem.
I got the phone yesterday and just trying to set it up properly.
I use gyrator 2 and have the same problem that you mentioned.
Also, currently trying to figure out way for the screen lock thing.
I downloaded pocketlock. It is good but will need something better.
To rotate manila (today screen with touchflo) you need a custom rom with "rhodium manila"
shah1237-- try LockMeLite (LmL) found here on forums (screen lock app)
and for a proper screen rotate app try here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=468488&highlight=rotate+screen
i have noticed that the screen can be rotated to left and right landscape on the Zee with cyanogen 7 but when you use games or video, they only seem to rotate to the left only. is there any way they can be forced to rotate to the right instead?
Videos can rotate either way but it would seem games are written to only rotate a certain way when active..as far as autoposition in landscape. Could be wrong but makes sense to me
dont send me pm's crying about how i hurt your feelings in a thread
cheers spas. does the rotation of video include flash based from websites though is what i wonder. will have to take a look
I mean, I understand why the background auto-rotate when we tilt the phone. When accelerometer detect the phone tilt, the screen tilt and the background tilt w/ it. And that's kinda make sense. But, the problem is when you have a tight crop person as a background, and set the background to be non-scrolling. Then I think it's obvious that the background want to be set static in a certain way. Currently I have not found a way to lock the background wallpaper. I mean as I rotate the screen I want everything else to rotate and get landscape/portrait UI as necessary, but the background remain the same whether portrait or landscape. Well, I have yet to found a way. The only thing I came across is to disable accelerometer, but that's not very a solution. Anyone know how to do this?
Thank you,
The only thing I can think of is to find an app on the market that will manage your wallpapers for you. I know they have apps that will set a seperate wallpaper for each homescreen, so maybe there's one that allows seperate wallpapers for both portrait and landscape.
As far as finding a checkbox in Android to do this, there isn't one.
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It's very inconvenient to use my phone when lying on bed. I sometimes switch between landscape view and portrait view but I can't turn on the g-sensor auto rotation because what is "down" in my view is actually horizontal. Are there any "intelligent" rotation toggles that can calibrate the "ideal" gravity direction and automatically rotate the screen to fit the user's view?
PS: Technically, I think the compass is also needed to perform this function.
Same here. I switched off auto rotation and can now easily use it when laying in bed.
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Use the rotate app from market. It's great, can force rotation if app normally doesn't too.
Prinz069 said:
Same here. I switched off auto rotation and can now easily use it when laying in bed.
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So you rotate manually when lying in bed? I think it's technically possible to make a software that rotates automatically after the user point out the ideal "down" direction.
lbell said:
So you rotate manually when lying in bed? I think it's technically possible to make a software that rotates automatically after the user point out the ideal "down" direction.
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A solution to offset the rotation +-90degrees would be nice
pmeinert said:
A solution to offset the rotation +-90degrees would be nice
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I've just made an app to solve it. See
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2366934