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Change the Screen Orientation...

Hey im just trying to change my screen to always be in landscape i trying to do it but its not worrking i understand every thing till it say "Change the Value of "Angle" to the FF:" please some one give me more detailed instructions
Set the Screen Orientation thru Registry and works only after soft reset
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\GDI\ROTATION]
Change the Value of "Angle" to the FF:
dword:00000000 or dword:00000360 -> Portrait Mode
dword:00000090 -> Landscape(Right-Handed)
dword:00000180 -> Portrait Up-side Down
dword:00000270 -> Landscape (Left-Handed)
Hide/Unhide Screen Orientation Option in Screen Module[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\GDI\ROTATION]
"HideOrientationUI" -> set 0 to unhide, 1 to hide
Set Fix Landscape(Right-Handed) Mode and No Landscape(Left-handed) in Screen Settings
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\GDI\ROTATION]
"Landscapefixed"-> set 0 if disable, 1 to enable

What device are you doing this on?
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sprint mogul wm6

I thought you could change it in settings/screen

i want to change it for good so if i open and close it it will still be in landscape

There are a few ways:
1. Use an app that will rotate the device to landscape, and install a power on notification to launch that on every power on. That way the device will auto rotate itself properly.
2. Remove the magnetic sensor. Semi permanent and dangerous.
3. There is I think a registry hack to force this, but I could never find it again. Search the board using google [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=322565] and try to find it. Let me know if you find it!
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PS I wrote VJUzumaki to disable the autorotation properly. However, it's not released (yet).

the registry hack is in my first post i need help with the instructions

there's a less permanent, but far simpler, easier and less intrusive method that I use. Under start, settings, buttons, pick a button that you don't use often, and assign it to rotate screen. I rarely use the camera, and when I do it's easy to get there through the menus, but I use rotate maybe half the time I use the phone

LethalCorpse said:
there's a less permanent, but far simpler, easier and less intrusive method that I use. Under start, settings, buttons, pick a button that you don't use often, and assign it to rotate screen. I rarely use the camera, and when I do it's easy to get there through the menus, but I use rotate maybe half the time I use the phone
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THANKS BUT I had a landscaper app and it automatically switched it back to landscape after its open and closed i ratther just do this regisry hack so it wont switch to portrait for before switching bak to landscape

authenticsketch said:
THANKS BUT I had a landscaper app and it automatically switched it back to landscape after its open and closed i ratther just do this regisry hack so it wont switch to portrait for before switching bak to landscape
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Lanscaper App.... you mean, you can freeze your device in Landscape mode and not have it witch to portrait when you open and close the keyboard??
If so could you please post this app?

leepriestenator said:
Lanscaper App.... you mean, you can freeze your device in Landscape mode and not have it witch to portrait when you open and close the keyboard??
If so could you please post this app?
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i want it also, pls post it!

Full!screen - Full Screen Apps Without Losing Navigation And Notifications (Root)

Full!Screen on Play Store.
I installed this and have been using it for a while, it's very nice and doesn't cause any screen glitching.

airmaxx23 said:
Full!Screen on Play Store.
I installed this and have been using it for a while, it's very nice and doesn't cause any screen glitching.
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Yes I also find it a very useful app. Use if for Netflix and Crackle and for some games.

I usually enable full!screen when browsing the web. Btw is there any way to close recent apps when full!screen enabled?
It won't hurt your thumb just by clicking Thanks Button

The X Rick said:
Btw is there any way to close recent apps when full!screen enabled?
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Just curious: why?
I use this also in combination with Rotation Control. I like to hold my tablet horizontally and when I open Crackle it goes vertically. So now it goes horizontally with Rotation Control and fullscreen with full!screen+

kaosnews said:
Just curious: why?
I use this also in combination with Rotation Control. I like to hold my tablet horizontally and when I open Crackle it goes vertically. So now it goes horizontally with Rotation Control and fullscreen with full!screen+
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I got some games & apps that is only able to be closed properly by swipping them from recent app list. Btw is there any app that is able to hide navigation bar only??
It won't hurt your thumb just by clicking Thanks Button

I am using LMT v1.91.apk and FullScreenToggleV2.
Nexus 7 JB 4.2.2 all perfect.
First install LTM. For the moment, leave everything at default enabled only the service (Autostart TouchService) and start (Start/Stop TouchService). Then if you want you can customize it (also serves for the gesture). Check the operation of LTM, make a tiny thumb slide from right to left in the middle of the right side of the tablet, it will open a pie (cake) with buttons that we are going to remove.
Watch the video to get an idea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stDR9_fANBY
If everything works, install FullScreenToggleV2 and activate it (Disable nav bar, full screen). It seems that nothing happened but now reboot your tablet and you should have the full screen ready to use :fingers-crossed:

The X Rick said:
I usually enable full!screen when browsing the web. Btw is there any way to close recent apps when full!screen enabled?
It won't hurt your thumb just by clicking Thanks Button
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I emailed the dev about this to see if there was a way for him to allow closing of recents through the app and this is his reply:
The well known "swipe-to-kill" option currently is not possible. The information
used for the recent-apps-list is handled by Android itself and it is not
possible for user apps to remove items from that list. However I am trying to
find a workaround.
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quizface said:
I am using LMT v1.91.apk and FullScreenToggleV2.
Nexus 7 JB 4.2.2 all perfect.
First install LTM. For the moment, leave everything at default enabled only the service (Autostart TouchService) and start (Start/Stop TouchService). Then if you want you can customize it (also serves for the gesture). Check the operation of LTM, make a tiny thumb slide from right to left in the middle of the right side of the tablet, it will open a pie (cake) with buttons that we are going to remove.
Watch the video to get an idea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stDR9_fANBY
If everything works, install FullScreenToggleV2 and activate it (Disable nav bar, full screen). It seems that nothing happened but now reboot your tablet and you should have the full screen ready to use :fingers-crossed:
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It works!!!! Now only the navigation bar has gone & I replaced it by LMT. The recent app list also works fine.
Your Thanks button was hit hard!!!
It won't hurt your thumb just by clicking Thanks Button

landscape mode/auto rotate

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

Android Oreo PIP mode not working?

I just updated to official 8.0 and I noticed that I can't get PIP to work by pressing the home key. Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

I'm not having any luck with it either.

What are you guys testing on? Youtube? Do you guys have youtube red?

No luck here either....tried it on YouTube and Chrome.

It only works on YouTube Red or Google Music paid subscription. I have both and running pip with no issue.
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Works for me too. Read somewhere uninstall and reinstall might fix it too.

I can't seem to get it to work on my pixel either, updated to the official 8.0 today, can't see what I'm doing wrong, does it have to be enabled?

Demolition49 said:
I can't seem to get it to work on my pixel either, updated to the official 8.0 today, can't see what I'm doing wrong, does it have to be enabled?
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I wondering the same thing! I did a clean install of oreo so you can rule out any kind of bug from not doing a clean install and I have youtube red...

Pip is app related. So for now only as ppl mentioned above YouTube red(which is not available worldwide and also needs a paid subscription) and a few paid apps have the ability to work with it. Soon we will see more developers attaching pip mode in their apps, all we have to do is wait I guess

It works for me in Youtube (Red), Chrome Beta and whatsapp

It works just fine in chrome.
1. Launch Chrome app
2. Find a video to watch and tap on it so that it is playing in full-screen
3. Simply select the home button and the video player should shrink down in size
4. With the smaller player, you can move it around your display, play and pause the video, or tap on the headphones icon to have the video play in the background
5. At any time, you can select the smaller player and tap on the center icon to reopen the Chrome application
6. When you’re done watching, simply move the player to the bottom of the display and it will close

I don't think you need YouTube red to use PIP. I didn't have any issue in developer preview. If you look at my attachment, you can see that chrome and YouTube were given permission.

jimmmysil said:
Pip is app related. So for now only as ppl mentioned above YouTube red(which is not available worldwide and also needs a paid subscription) and a few paid apps have the ability to work with it. Soon we will see more developers attaching pip mode in their apps, all we have to do is wait I guess
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Go to settings>apps and notifications> special app access >picture in picture ... You will see all the apps turned on, none seem to work for me, so I don't get it

Demolition49 said:
Go to settings>apps and notifications> special app access >picture in picture ... You will see all the apps turned on, none seem to work for me, so I don't get it
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Yeah that seems ok. Your Android version is ready for pip but the apps yet are not ready to perform this way

I did a video call in Duo with DP4 and PiP worked without issue. I haven't had it work though with Youtube however I don't have Youtube Red.

Both PIP and Splitscreen work fine for me (I do not have YouTube Red).
I had been on the 8.0 beta for a while and remember reading a guide that showed us how to add the 4th (far left circled in red) button that acts as the PIP button. If I can find the write up again, ill link it.
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This is how I got it, so might be a little different, but it works.
https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/enable-android-os-picture-picture-mode-right-now-0176848/

The navigation bar section in System UI Tuner was removed back in DP3. This method seems to still work https://www.xda-developers.com/desp...av-bar-lockscreen-in-android-o-dp3-heres-how/ to add a PiP button.

We should be able to use a built-in system feature without the need of a 3rd party application.

Took this from Android o introduction guide

pyroclasticmayhem said:
The navigation bar section in System UI Tuner was removed back in DP3. This method seems to still work https://www.xda-developers.com/desp...av-bar-lockscreen-in-android-o-dp3-heres-how/ to add a PiP button.
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I'm rooted and installed custom navigation bar per the link. If I go to add an extra right or left button, pip does not show up as an option. I'm on the official oreo release. How does this work? Thanks
Update - by following instructions here: https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/enable-android-os-picture-picture-mode-right-now-0176848/ was able to create an extra button for pip. Custom navigation bar pretty much provides the same functionality as the now missing sytem ui tuner. My issue now is that if I go to full screen the navigation bar is hidden, if I double tap to get them back then I'm out of full screen. This happens in Chrome using the desktop version of youtube. I still get a pip but it is of the whole chrome youtube page, not the youtube video.
Nevemind - still learning oreo. If in portrait mode with full screen, I can swipe right to left and get the nav buttons back, then I can use the extra button I created to do pip. Just discovered that the feature that hides the button is called "immersive" mode which I suppose is great if you want to watch videos or anything else full screen without the nav buttons showing.

Landscape on home screen

Is there somewhere else I need to check to rotate the home screen? Apps and phone manager rotate fine.

You need a 3rd party app to make that happen, normally you swipe down to bring the notification screen, then tap and hold the gear until it spins and then it goes off the right side of the screen, at this point it would normally go to setting and then see the system ui tuner in the menu, but Huawei has removed this and you have to download "Activity Launcher", but I dont think this works anymore as it stopped working on my HN8 after it updated to 8.0. But those are the two ways to make it work.

AngelDeath said:
You need a 3rd party app to make that happen, normally you swipe down to bring the notification screen, then tap and hold the gear until it spins and then it goes off the right side of the screen, at this point it would normally go to setting and then see the system ui tuner in the menu, but Huawei has removed this and you have to download "Activity Launcher", but I dont think this works anymore as it stopped working on my HN8 after it updated to 8.0. But those are the two ways to make it work.
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Thanks AngleDeath, I had it with stock L on my M10P, hopefully they will bring it to this to the big screen. I stay in landscape 90% of the time. Hate flipping back and forth.

Cccmachins said:
Thanks AngleDeath, I had it with stock L on my M10P, hopefully they will bring it to this to the big screen. I stay in landscape 90% of the time. Hate flipping back and forth.
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@cccmachin Try the attached file, unzip and install, it can change the orientation of the screen. Been using it for years, plain and simple, nothing fancy.

install Screen Orientation from app store and you can manual/auto change to any direction that you want on any app

maquan said:
install Screen Orientation from app store and you can manual/auto change to any direction that you want on any app
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No app make HW stock launcher rotate to landscap right way man
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AngelDeath said:
@cccmachin Try the attached file, unzip and install, it can change the orientation of the screen. Been using it for years, plain and simple, nothing fancy.
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Doesn't work.
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def-g said:
Doesn't work.
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Confirmed it doesnt, but the update version in the play store does:\
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pransuinc.screenorientation&hl=en
But it does not lay out correctly.