Hi all,
Normally I never use my tablet in landscape mode (seeing how websites mostly are longer than they are wide) but recently I bought a bluetooth keyboard (if anyone is wondering a logitech k810, which is amazing).
One thing which I can't seem to figure out is the use of the landscape mode at the homescreen and app drawer (all other applications don't make a problem out of it).
The what's what:
- Nexus 7, 2013 edition
- stock, rooted
- Nova launcher prime
Anyone an idea whether this is just not possible or whether I am forgetting a check box somewhere?
Thanks!
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settings
make sure your settings >> accessibilty >> auto rotate screen is checked..
purofusoni said:
make sure your settings >> accessibilty >> auto rotate screen is checked..
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yup, it was selected but still the homescreen and app drawer is not turning into landscape mode
supermooshman said:
yup, it was selected but still the homescreen and app drawer is not turning into landscape mode
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seems your nova settings. Try to go into nova settings, then look and feel, and then set screen orientation to auto.
Has to be Nova. My stock 4.4 rotate works fine like always.
Caelrie said:
Has to be Nova. My stock 4.4 rotate works fine like always.
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it was Nova
Once I changed the "default" to autorotate it is rotating like a champ!
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Hi ,
I'm sure I've seen this in several videos of pre-release Android ICS ! The home screen and the app drawer rotate in landscape mode.
Apparently it isn't the case in Android 4.0.1 on the GN... Why, why did they remove the feature ?! Am I missing something ?
[Sorry for the likely poor english, not from here]
EDIT: Seems I can't remove my own posts here for some reason. Slightly rewritten to at least make sense.
There has never been official support for that as far as I know. Some custom launchers implemented it.
What I said above was before I saw you mention pre-release ICS. In that case it indeed seems strange. Perhaps it was buggy?
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I thought it would as well as am most disappointed , as it actually does work perfectly well when you plug in the mhl cable and turn it into landscape mode. Just dont understand why not without the cable , Perhaps a request to be put in for the next software update ?
Exactly, if you connect it to your TV with a MHL cable you can rotate the screen no problem.
cja1972 said:
I thought it would as well as am most disappointed , as it actually does work perfectly well when you plug in the mhl cable and turn it into landscape mode. Just dont understand why not without the cable , Perhaps a request to be put in for the next software update ?
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Can you take a picture of the TV screen? I want to see what the launcher looks like in landscape.
I took some pictures, and there is a picture of the lockscreen as well ;-)
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9025/dsc01335u.jpg
http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/1873/dsc01337p.jpg
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/1130/dsc01334u.jpg
Hope our friendly hackers here will fix this for us. xD
It looks quite polished, I don't see why Google removed it at the last minute?
Check your settings, the rotate option might be disabled.
Chris95X8 said:
Check your settings, the rotate option might be disabled.
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There is no such option. I mean there is but it does not affect the main screen.
gambiting said:
I took some pictures, and there is a picture of the lockscreen as well ;-)
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9025/dsc01335u.jpg
http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/1873/dsc01337p.jpg
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/1130/dsc01334u.jpg
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Sorry to hijack what battery widget are you using?
Martinp86 said:
Sorry to hijack what battery widget are you using?
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BatteryLife by CurveFish
gambiting said:
There is no such option. I mean there is but it does not affect the main screen.
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There is an option. It's in 'system settings' -> 'Launcher preferences' -> 'General' -> 'Auto-rotate screen'.
Your home screen should now rotate between landscape and portrait. Nice and intuitive setting location, right?
billstidham said:
There is an option. It's in 'system settings' -> 'Launcher preferences' -> 'General' -> 'Auto-rotate screen'.
Your home screen should now rotate between landscape and portrait. Nice and intuitive setting location, right?
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It doesn't work on the home screen. Never did on any official builds. The option is there,but it only affects applications, not the home screen.
billstidham said:
There is an option. It's in 'system settings' -> 'Launcher preferences' -> 'General' -> 'Auto-rotate screen'.
Your home screen should now rotate between landscape and portrait. Nice and intuitive setting location, right?
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Why bump a thread from November ?? And there is no such thing as launcher preferences. You are running a rom that has it.
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gambiting said:
It doesn't work on the home screen. Never did on any official builds. The option is there,but it only affects applications, not the home screen.
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I didn't really think to mention the rom I'm running. I'm running ICS Passion 10.6. In this rom there are two setting for it, one in 'Display' -> 'Auto-rotate screen' which seems to control rotation in apps, and one in 'Launcher preferences' -> 'General' -> 'Auto-rotate screen' which enables home screen rotation.
As mentioned by joshnichols189, I'm running a rom that has the option NOT an official release. Again, my apologies for the Confusion.
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Why bump a thread from November ?? And there is no such thing as launcher preferences. You are running a rom that has it.
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I wasn't trying to bump the thread. I was looking for the answer myself and found this forum post. I found the answer myself afterwards and thought I would be witty and post a response. Of course my response was unfortunately flawed, but still well-intentioned. The thread's only a few months old, I really don't see the problem here.
FWIW, at least on my G-Nex, this app allows the stock launcher to either auto-rotate or be locked in landscape: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.devasque.rotationlocker
XDA thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1412752
Greets!
In a nutshell: looking for a way to hold my screen up-side-down and have it show correctly. Basically I wan to put it in my dash holder up-side down so that the usb charging port is facing the bottom. That way, I dont have to try an get my charging and audio cables to reach all of the way to the top!
I have found an app that lets me change to landscape, but not completely all the way around. My iPad does this with ease by default. Any clue on how to change the orientation so that I can hold my phone up-side-down but still have the screen showing correctly?
Also, running Slim 4.2.2 Build5 if that makes a difference.
Thanks!
One of the settings (display maybe?) has what screen orientations are enabled. 180 is off by default.
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frostedunit said:
One of the settings (display maybe?) has what screen orientations are enabled. 180 is off by default.
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Stock CM and many ROMs based off it has this option BUT they will not enforce this on all apps AND it will not work on lockscreen (i.e. even if you lock it 180 in settings, you'll have to unlock in 0 degrees).
I've investigated the same problem quite much and found "Ultimate Rotation Controls" to be the only solution that can force all apps including the lockscreen to rotate in any direction you want (while other similar apps also can force apps to rotate but fail on lockscreen).
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AndyYan said:
Stock CM and many ROMs based off it has this option BUT they will not enforce this on all apps AND it will not work on lockscreen (i.e. even if you lock it 180 in settings, you'll have to unlock in 0 degrees).
I've investigated the same problem quite much and found "Ultimate Rotation Controls" to be the only solution that can force all apps including the lockscreen to rotate in any direction you want (while other similar apps also can force apps to rotate but fail on lockscreen).
Sent from HTC Incredible S @ CM10.1
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PERFECT! Thats exactly what I am looking for: Thanks!
magnamagna said:
Greets!
In a nutshell: looking for a way to hold my screen up-side-down and have it show correctly. Basically I wan to put it in my dash holder up-side down so that the usb charging port is facing the bottom. That way, I dont have to try an get my charging and audio cables to reach all of the way to the top!
I have found an app that lets me change to landscape, but not completely all the way around. My iPad does this with ease by default. Any clue on how to change the orientation so that I can hold my phone up-side-down but still have the screen showing correctly?
Also, running Slim 4.2.2 Build5 if that makes a difference.
Thanks!
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frostedunit said:
One of the settings (display maybe?) has what screen orientations are enabled. 180 is off by default.
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System settings > Interface > Display > Rotation
Hey, I wanted to check if anyone else had luck locking rotation in landscape? Seems I cannot do it. Every time I do disable rotation it changes to portrait and sticks with that - any ideas?
Yes, same here. I just used the widget, rotation lock from google play and it works. Don't use the LG one. Just put the widget on your homescreen and you can lock the rotation in portrait or landscape.
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MightyT01 said:
Yes, same here. I just used the widget, rotation lock from google play and it works. Don't use the LG one. Just put the widget on your homescreen and you can lock the rotation in portrait or landscape.
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What specific widget do you use? None of the ones I've tried works, they just return it to portrait mode and lock it in that orientation.
You can enable rotation in the lock screen by going to settings -> Display -> Rotation -> And checking enable auto-rotation and rotate the lock screen.
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What specific widget do you use? None of the ones I've tried works, they just return it to portrait mode and lock it in that orientation.
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Rotation Locker by Madmack on Google Play. Works great.
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You can enable rotation in the lock screen by going to settings -> Display -> Rotation -> And checking enable auto-rotation and rotate the lock screen.
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This only locks it in portrait mode for whatever reason, even if you hit the toggle while in landscape, it will just return to portrait and then lock.
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Rotation Locker by Madmack on Google Play. Works great.
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Thanks, this works, although not flawlessly as it kinda freaks out and switches back and forth between the orientations before locking.
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This only locks it in portrait mode for whatever reason, even if you hit the toggle while in landscape, it will just return to portrait and then lock.
Thanks, this works, although not flawlessly as it kinda freaks out and switches back and forth between the orientations before locking.
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When disabled it will lock it into portrait because that is the default orientation of the tablet. That is a feature that is to be expected. But when enabled you can freely rotate the lock screen any way that you have the main screen set to be able to rotate to.
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When disabled it will lock it into portrait because that is the default orientation of the tablet. That is a feature that is to be expected. But when enabled you can freely rotate the lock screen any way that you have the main screen set to be able to rotate to.
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I understand that, but this leads to a problem when I am laying on my side in bed and watching something in landscape, mainly with the YouTube app, as it thinks I'm using the tablet in portrait mode.
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To be honest I have just bought my G Pad so it s not on it yet.
But I have used the same program on phones and tablets before without problems.
It locked my homescreen in portrait whenever i wanted it too.
am I losing my mind, or is there no way to have this phone auto rotate/go into landscape mode?
either with touchwiz or Nova, I cant seem to get it to rotate into landscape..
thanks!
EDIT: NM, found it in the pull downs..thanks @sweets55!
wase4711 said:
am I losing my mind, or is there no way to have this phone auto rotate/go into landscape mode?
either with touchwiz or Nova, I cant seem to get it to rotate into landscape..
thanks!
EDIT: NM, found it in the pull downs..thanks @sweets55![/QUOT
losing your mind maybe? lol I know auto rotate won't work on TW when you are home. I have NOVA launcher and it works just fine.
nova settings, look & feel and screen orientation annnnd BAM!
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yeah, I know that.. I actually had nova on there, but I did not have the "screen rotation" quick setting enabled, so nova wasn't doing squat.. fortunately, I got help from @sweets55 and that was all I needed!
landscape issues
I'm also having this problem but I shouldn't have to replace TW with Nova in order to view my photos in Landscape mode this is the first phone I've ever owned with this issue also in order to watch a movie I've downloaded on my phone in landscape mode I have to turn off screen rotation then hit the screen rotate option in the video app that is only available to you if you turn off the main screen rotation setting this is utter insanity
If I try and view the Internet in landscape mode it locks there and the only way to get it to go back is to close it completely
this has got to be a software problem because I had the techs at the Sprint store check the sensors and they are working correctly
Samsung needs to get an update out like yesterday
Is there any way to tweak the phone so that the home screen can be displayed in landscape like a tablet? This would be useful for when using at my desk, especially with the USB cable connected.
Edit: I have found play store apps to do this, but they don't work well with Zen launcher's dock and app tray.
OK, have got this sorted by myself - just needed to use Nova launcher together with an app that forces landscape.
Apologies for talking to myself, but this is what I ended up with, just in case anyone else fancies doing similar. The app is called "Set Orientation".
kanagawaben said:
OK, have got this sorted by myself - just needed to use Nova launcher together with an app that forces landscape.
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May i ask what app did you use to force landscape? Ty
"Set Orientation" - it's small, simple and free.
I am a very stupid Android noob. The Nova launcher allows you to force landscape (screen orientation is under "look & feel" in the Nova settings menu. No need for an app.