Apologies if this question has been answered elsewhere, I have searched but didn't find a suitable answer.
Is there a way or mod for making the HTC Sense home rotate to landscape as you rotate the device?
Obviously it is capable of it, since it goes to landscape when the keyboard is opened, however I would like it to do this with the keyboard closed as well for use in the car etc.
Using virtuos unity based on sensation release? Then no landscape mode is not currently supported on the launcher.
However i havnt tried myself but the virtuous based on doubleshot roms claims to support landscape so you mit wanna give it a go (you will lose lockscreen shortcuts however)
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Hi I was wondering if any of the roms you guys know about have a landscape dialer or is there a way to add one into any rom?
I use my phone for satnav a lot and at the moment when i get a call it changes the orientation to portrait which is annoying.
hello @all!
Any solution for this problem?
wensing said:
If the phone is in landscape mode, and an incoming call, the phone switches back to portrait.
The dailer does support landscape, though: if you are in portrait and switch to landscape, the dailer is OK.
Does anyone know a way to make the dailer come up OK in landscape?
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grEEtZ,
gongoscho
Same problem for ages here. I tried to get advice several times here, but it seems, that noone is using xperia in this usecase. Only working solution is a ROM having Rhodium dialer (and it seems, that it must be correct version of the dialer or correct combination with winmo version) - I was using EnergyROM which was working excellent this way, until October builds. I tried to find another rom, but everyone out there has the problem (except original X1 dialer of course). Now I'm using 826x non-htc rom, which has also rhodium dialer and landscape is working fine.
hope this helps
Well i've got the cure. Not sure about puting it into a rom thought.
I have the verizon thunderbolt.
So this is the only phone i've tested it on.
You can get the car home ultra licence app.
The link below is for the free one. Not sure if it has the option but the paid one does.
Hint:try 4shared.com
The one with the litte red car as the icon shortcut.
Inside this app's options it has a check box to turn on car home
which came with the phone. It acts like you put it into a car dock from verizon.
And guess what the dialer is now landscape. So when you use this app
when your driving you can put a shortcuts on the app to call or open the phone.
It is in LANDSCAPE. It took me since the phone came out till today to find this
to work. Hope this helps anybody with a thunderbolt. and i bet other androids too.
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
How can we get landscape mode on home screen in sense?
Use LauncherPro
sense doesn't do landscape. unless someone makes a mod for it or something it wont happen with sense. you'll have to use a different homes creen like mentioned above.
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sense doesn't do landscape. unless someone makes a mod for it or something it wont happen with sense. you'll have to use a different homes creen like mentioned above.
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The My Touch 3g Slide Sense does.... Back when I had a Hero, Zen ported over the MT3G ROM and it was instantly my daily. Sense's Rosie rotates like it should...
With the EVO having a kickstand and all, I figured this landscape Sense was a lock.
Anyway, I use ADW Launcher instead of sense now.
Moved as not software or theme.
switch in there somewhere.
there has to be a switch in there to do landscape. when i was playing with the evo one day i threw it on the bed don't know what i pressed but when i looked at it, it was in landscape. The bottom bar was stretched out to the edge of the screen. The apps you have on screen same spacing between them except at the sides which had more spacing. Been trying to duplicate what i did with no luck so far.
Is there some kind of cvar/mod/hack/.. to change the default orientation from portait to landscape?
In AOSP only ofc.
no ideas about that? :/
You could try putting your phone into landscape then turning orientation off.
That is the only easy way I know of to keep it that way, if you use a widget then you can easily turn it back on when you want to change back.
it goes back to porttrait immediately when disabling auto-rotate. (via a homescreen widget)
any further ideas?
shouldnt there be a way to do so since the motorola droid has everything in landscape when hw-keyboard is open?
can some dev please give his opinion on this please?
just wanted to add that after trying landscape mode for a while, I think it would be annoying as the default or only layout option since it requires two hands pretty much for even the most simple use.
portrait allows thumb (if you're talented) or index finger (if you're flexible) single handed tapping usage.
i prefer landscape mode in all situations. i always hold my hero sideways but dont want to wait like 2 sec for it to turn around.
so again, is there a way for doing this?
m0jo said:
i prefer landscape mode in all situations. i always hold my hero sideways but dont want to wait like 2 sec for it to turn around.
so again, is there a way for doing this?
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since the silence here is suggesting that no developers are going to (or are able to) help you out, I suggest you try playing with the slide rom that has sense rotation enabled.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=666640
it's not perfect, cant' record video, some issues that eventually always make me want to switch back (notably if you use exchange the contact list doesn't join contacts from exchagne email, gmail email, and active directory email... but it should and does in non-slide roms).
But it has the fastest launcher screen rotation of any hero rom I've used, faster than vanilla + launcherpro and far more stable in how it senses screen rotation. it's a sense rom that is actually designed to work as well landscape as portrait.
it doesn't rotate instantly, but it's noticeably faster turning (for me using only it's built in array of sense widgets) if you want to use horizontal layout. And it stays in place better - you know how annoying it is when launcherpro has rotation enabled and you move your phone a bit and suddenly it's redrawing sideways for the next 6 seconds... well I haven't found that to be much of an issue in that slide rom.
There are still a couple of parts that dumbly don't rotate, or at least not in the default settings I tried (contacts for example and settings are I think still portrait - stupid mistakes on HTC's part).
If you nandroid first or bart first if you use an ext partition then you have no worries in flashing the above rom to at least give it a try.
This is one area where the new iphone seems to win out I'm afraid - it's launcher screen rotation is really nice, animated, quick, stable and very useful.
Dammit LoL
good luck, post your findings please!
thank you for your effort but that rom you suggested does not meet my requirements and i cant say that i like the modified rosie that is used here. :/
m0jo said:
thank you for your effort but that rom you suggested does not meet my requirements and i cant say that i like the modified rosie that is used here. :/
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that's fair
At least I tried
If an actual rom developer had a solution for you it would be more interesting!
have you considered talking to one of the 3rd party launcher developers? such as the guy who makes launcherpro, the adw guy(s), and so on?
Maybe that is where your solution lies?
That combined with maybe talking to one of the cyanogenmod developers themselves (who aren't hero-specific, you'd have to google their home website)?
Cyanogenmod might be able to add an option for 90 degree rotation only (with no zero degree switching). or at least show you how to change it yourself.
Good luck!
Hi,
i have a question for developers:
i love sense rom(s) but i'd like to have a Sense rom with Froyo Lockscreen, not only for unlock screen, also for answer a phone call or switch off alarm clock; is it possible?
I don't want a "fake" lockscreen like Lockbot or other apps
Can you make a zip file to install all needed apps to revert back to a Non Sense unlock screen, answer a call etc..? Which apk we need to change?
I don't like Vanilla roms because i hate Gallery 3D and camera apk and i use them (Sense's Gallery an Camera) continuosly with my 2 months son
Thanks in advance,
Andrea
code72 said:
Hi,
i have a question for developers:
i love sense rom(s) but i'd like to have a Sense rom with Froyo Lockscreen, not only for unlock screen, also for answer a phone call or switch off alarm clock; is it possible?
I don't want a "fake" lockscreen like Lockbot or other apps
Can you make a zip file to install all needed apps to revert back to a Non Sense unlock screen, answer a call etc..? Which apk we need to change?
I don't like Vanilla roms because i hate Gallery 3D and camera apk and i use them (Sense's Gallery an Camera) continuosly with my 2 months son
Thanks in advance,
Andrea
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Have a look at the online kitchen of modaco, you can choose to use the standard lockscreen. He does note that it will affect the use of the default alarm.
Here is the link to the topic over at modaco. (I don't know if this rom is also available on xda)
android.modaco.com/content/htc-desire-desire-modaco-com/316565/24-aug-r8-modaco-custom-rom-for-htc-desire-with-online-kitchen-2-2-froyo/
(I don't have enough posts yet to post a link)
Grtz
I flashed PinkyDesire Rom with option to use Default Froyo lockscreen and i love this, but when a call is coming the answer screen is Sense and not Froyo; i think with modaco it's the same
Had the same problem. It's horrible how it switches to the alt lock screen when a call comes in. I ditched it and went to Defrost for a trial run and it's much better. I have nothing good to say about sense.
I searched the whole forum and have not found a similar thread, so I start to doubt if just I have this question...
My question is:
Android has built-in windows opening and closing zoom animation. When I got my Desire I found it doesn't have the zoom animation. OK, let's say the HTC Sense UI does not go this way. Today I wiped all the data and flashed an OpenDesire ROM. This time the zoom animation is there when I tap to launch an app, but the closing zoom animation is still missing when I press HOME or BACK to go back to home screen... There should be a zoom out animation, am I correct? What I see is that it just flash back to home screen directly, no animation...
Anyone has some idea on this issue? Thx.
Use Spare Parts to set the Window animations, transition animations and even the speed of those animations.
I installed Spare Parts from the market. It seems that I can only set the animation speed, but no switch to turn on/off the zooming animation...
As you know i have the same query ... the reason that opendesire has the zoom effect is because it uses LauncherPro - you can also download it for the other roms... that makes the apps zoom when open / closed... but unfortunatly it doesn't support the htc widgets which is y i do not use it
Kris
I don't think OpenDesire uses LauncherPro, Adam says OpenDesire is compiled purely from Android source code, and all 3rd party apps used in the ROM are exciplitly listed. The effect is built-in with Android, you can confirm it by trying the emulator in SDK.
havent actually looked @ open desire ... but the screenshot looked like it was using it... guess the user could have installed it after tho
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havent actually looked @ open desire ... but the screenshot looked like it was using it... guess the user could have installed it after tho
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Ok perhaps you are correct, I think opebdesire just used a subset of LauncherPro to build the stock launcher. Anyway I installed LauncherPro and found it even faster than the stock one, of course the animations are there as I expected...
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Anyone found a way to get these animations on sense?
Why in the world would HTC disable these animations, and not even give us the option to enable it? It's really annoying!
I remember (but not clearly) HTC Hero has this animation built in with Sense, any idea?