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Landscape as default orientation?

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!

homescreen Desktop rotation to landscape?

Is the desktop homescreen supposed to rotate to landscape mode or no? i thought it did?

Not sure if it's supposed to, but my default home screen does not rotate.

craighwk said:
Not sure if it's supposed to, but my default home screen does not rotate.
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Well at least it's not just me. I must have been mistaken then.

Nope, it has never rotated. Thats a CM feature, I believe.

Phones with slide-out keyboards generally will rotate the homescreen too when you pop it out, but I've never seen a stock rom on a touch-only device that rotates the homescreen.

good to know, thanks all.

It does rotate when you connect it to a TV via MHL.
I think custom ROMs have modified it to allow rotation any time.

[Q] Landscape mode in home screen

After searching the forums, I see that landscape mode while in the home screen is not something that exists on the Galaxy Nexus. However the other day I put my Verizon Galaxy Nexus in the Verizon car dock (sideways to use navigation) and the screen jumped to landscape mode! I started music then navigator, drove off, arrived at my destination, removed my phone, and it has not happened since.
Has anyone had this happen? Is it a glitch or a hidden feature?
I tried to place the phone against my old Droid 1 dock and the magnets in it had no effect on the G-Nex.
Stock rooted.
Thanks!

The car dock will put the launcher in landscape but you need an alternative launcher to achieve this effect without the dock.

It's the same if you use the MHL -> HDMI cable, your screen then goes to Landscape mode.

Have u tried Orientation Control from the Market?

Don't have a Galaxy Nexus but if you want to set how the homescreen behaves (always portrait/ always automatic orientation change), I would recommend using Nova Launcher. It is basically the standard ICS launcher with extended settings (i.e. for screen rotation).

danger-rat said:
Have u tried Orientation Control from the Market?
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What does that do exactly?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

U can use it to force landscape.
I use it on my GTV...

You can also use Rotation Locker: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.devasque.rotationlocker&hl=en
Even though the Dev doesn't necessarily intend it to work this way (see thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1412752 ), if I set it to Portrait, Auto-Rotate, or Landscape, just about every app (including the stock launcher) on my G-Nex locks to Portrait, Auto-Rotate, or Landscape, respectively.

Landscape Rotation Lock Not Working?

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.

Wannabe_Hipster said:
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.
Sent from my LG-V500 using Tapatalk 4

colwellkr said:
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.
MightyT01 said:
Rotation Locker by Madmack on Google Play. Works great.
Sent from my LG-V500 using Tapatalk 4
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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.

Wannabe_Hipster said:
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.

colwellkr said:
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.

+1
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.

Force Lockscreen in Landscape

Hi Guys,
I've been trying to figure out how to force the rotation of lockscreen into landscape.
I have tried all rotation control apps, paid and not. However, I can't find what I was looking for.
Ultimate Rotation Control provides near what I was looking for. It can force the lockscreen rotation to any orientation I wanted,
however, once I set the rotation of lockscreen to force landscape always, everytime I unlock my tablet, the home screen which is
locked to Portait was displayed as Landscape for about 2 seconds.
I was thinking that if, it is not only an app. If, it was edited thru the internal system applications, it will provide the smoothness
that I was looking for.
I already tried to edit the framework-res, I still can't find the XML where the lockscreen can be forced to landscape.
Several nights browsing Google hoping that some articles are already there to teach how to edit the lockscreen but I can't see any.
Due to my work overseas, I was not able to focus on this. But now I'm somehow pissed and I wanted my tablet to be the
way I want it, to look the way how I wanted.
Can someone show me the right path to where I should start? I don't mind if it would mean that I should study Android as I am a
software engineer, but just a beginner in java.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Kemaro

I'm using Rotation Control to force landscape. So far so good. Haven't noticed any problems and all apps like Instagram are forced to landscape without any issues.
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kemaro said:
Hi Guys,
I've been trying to figure out how to force the rotation of lockscreen into landscape.
I have tried all rotation control apps, paid and not. However, I can't find what I was looking for.
Ultimate Rotation Control provides near what I was looking for. It can force the lockscreen rotation to any orientation I wanted,
however, once I set the rotation of lockscreen to force landscape always, everytime I unlock my tablet, the home screen which is
locked to Portait was displayed as Landscape for about 2 seconds.
I was thinking that if, it is not only an app. If, it was edited thru the internal system applications, it will provide the smoothness
that I was looking for.
I already tried to edit the framework-res, I still can't find the XML where the lockscreen can be forced to landscape.
Several nights browsing Google hoping that some articles are already there to teach how to edit the lockscreen but I can't see any.
Due to my work overseas, I was not able to focus on this. But now I'm somehow pissed and I wanted my tablet to be the
way I want it, to look the way how I wanted.
Can someone show me the right path to where I should start? I don't mind if it would mean that I should study Android as I am a
software engineer, but just a beginner in java.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Kemaro
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Why is your lockscreen displaying in portrait anyway it's a landscape device and should display as landscape natively? :what:

ashyx said:
Why is your lockscreen displaying in portrait anyway it's a landscape device and should display as landscape natively? :what:
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The lockscreen of Tab S is always on auto rotate. It is not natively in landscape.
I wanted it to force landscape always but only the lockscreen. As for the home screen, it should be auto rotate.

kemaro said:
The lockscreen of Tab S is always on auto rotate. It is not natively in landscape.
I wanted it to force landscape always but only the lockscreen. As for the home screen, it should be auto rotate.
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kemaro said:
The lockscreen of Tab S is always on auto rotate. It is not natively in landscape.
I wanted it to force landscape always but only the lockscreen. As for the home screen, it should be auto rotate.
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I'm sorry but that's not what happens on my SM-T805 using Phoenixrom.
The Lockscreen and Homscreen stays natively in landscape and doesn't rotate at all.
I can use a rotation app to auto rotate the home screen, but the lockscreen stays landscape no matter what.
I don't remember it being any different on total stock.

ashyx said:
I'm sorry but that's not what happens on my SM-T805 using Phoenixrom.
The Lockscreen and Homscreen stays natively in landscape and doesn't rotate at all.
I can use a rotation app to auto rotate the home screen, but the lockscreen stays landscape no matter what.
I don't remember it being any different on total stock.
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make sense, i understand now. mine is 8.4 and the lockscreen was designed to be in auto rotation..
too bad for me..
hope somebody can help me force its rotation.

kemaro said:
make sense, i understand now. mine is 8.4 and the lockscreen was designed to be in auto rotation..
too bad for me..
hope somebody can help me force its rotation.
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You have the 8.4 version? That is a portrait device. I just assumed it was the 10.1 because you said landscape.