Am i the only one who thinks it is weird, that the "Playstation Phone" doesnt put the phone into landscape while on the homescreen?
Sent from my non-rooted, stock eclair Epic.
When people think "phone" they think of a rectangle taller than it is wide, so keeping the phone element of the playstation phone in portrait makes perfect sense to me at least.
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Is it possible to rotate the screen clockwise to "landscape" mode?. It only works in anticlockwise tilt/rotation.
Am i missing a setting or is it anti left handed people design?
I think it was originally built this way because that's the way the G1's physical keyboard was oriented. For phones that don't have a keyboard... how does left-handed vs right-handed even matter?
Regardless, I don't know why it hasn't been updated, but I'm guessing it's just because it's not a huge bother to anybody or a very high-priority thing.
Posted this in the surround forum, hope to get some help here as well. The keyboard on this thing is rather small. Any way to make it larger? Thanks.
I thought that same thing on the LG GW910, just type faster w/o regard for errors, watch what happens.
Rotating to landscape doesn't make much difference.
What device do you have?
The one on the HD7 seems to be almost big enough.
I have an HTC Surround. I could care less about the portrait keyboard, but the landscape keyboard is where I have an issue.
it would have been cool if your device had a speaker on one side and a keyboard on the other side of the slider
Yeah that would be great! Anyway, I don't understand why the keyboard doesn't auto-resize or something, because I have blank space on both sides of it. I dunno, maybe
Microsoft will address it in an update or something.
That would be nice, we aren't asking them to rearrange it, just stretch it out in landscape.
I'm still asking for a Dvorak layout though, less confusion for the typo software. Very few words look alike in that keyboard.
I have the Samsung Flip cover on my Note II.
Most apps can be used in landscape mode in both orientations but some use just the "default" landscape orientation. Unfortunately, this is the one with the flip cover in user's direction. When the phone is on the table it is slanted downward away from the user and also prevents me from setting the note standing as an "A".
Is it possible to tell the phone to use the "reverse landscape" orientation as the main one?
Also, can I get the stock launcher to display in landscape mode? I've seen there are some utilities for this but none seem to work perfectly. I've read that the next Android version should make this possible..?
(btw, I must say I really dislike the side buttons that are sticking out too much compared to my good ol' Dell Streak - makes it easy to press them unintentionally)
(not rooted)
I was wondering if there is a launcher that preserves the size and aspect ratio of icons and widgets when you go from portrait to landscape.
I used to love how my Nokia N900 could do this. Basically you would arrange where your apps/widgets were on the screen separately in
portrait and next in landscape. Then instead of your typical rotating transition from portrait to landscape, where often the widgets become
distorted, the screen image would flip about an axis so it appeared as if the apps/widgets for landscape and portrait were on opposite sides of a plane that made
up the screen. Not sure who originally came up with this idea but developers for maemo os Incorporated
this for N900 after Nokia dropped support for the device...
For example the new angry birds locks to horizontal on one side only and it won't flip to the other side.it was not an issue until I got a case. The case has a kick stand on the opposite side that the game defaults to. The same thing happens with many others as well.
Ideas?
Some games only support one landscape orientation and not the other, other support both landscape orientations and will switch.
sprintrjm said:
For example the new angry birds locks to horizontal on one side only and it won't flip to the other side.it was not an issue until I got a case. The case has a kick stand on the opposite side that the game defaults to. The same thing happens with many others as well.
Ideas?
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With your case, is it possible to flip the tablet 180°?
You can lock the tablet in the orientation you want by turning auto rotate off before launching the game. You can also do this in game if you switch to your home screen.