It's very inconvenient to use my phone when lying on bed. I sometimes switch between landscape view and portrait view but I can't turn on the g-sensor auto rotation because what is "down" in my view is actually horizontal. Are there any "intelligent" rotation toggles that can calibrate the "ideal" gravity direction and automatically rotate the screen to fit the user's view?
PS: Technically, I think the compass is also needed to perform this function.
Same here. I switched off auto rotation and can now easily use it when laying in bed.
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Use the rotate app from market. It's great, can force rotation if app normally doesn't too.
Prinz069 said:
Same here. I switched off auto rotation and can now easily use it when laying in bed.
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So you rotate manually when lying in bed? I think it's technically possible to make a software that rotates automatically after the user point out the ideal "down" direction.
lbell said:
So you rotate manually when lying in bed? I think it's technically possible to make a software that rotates automatically after the user point out the ideal "down" direction.
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A solution to offset the rotation +-90degrees would be nice
pmeinert said:
A solution to offset the rotation +-90degrees would be nice
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I've just made an app to solve it. See
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2366934
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My HTC Desire suddenly decided to stop allowing me to rotate the screen to landscape from portrait earlier. Really annoying as it means I now have to use the portrait keyboard rather than the landscape one and have to view all webpages/videos in portrait too..
However apps that rely on the accelerometer such as Teeter work perfectly.
So is this a hardware or software problem?
Thanks for your help
This may be a very simple problem to solve cos I've experienced the same thing. Dont forget that the desire only rotates Anti-clockwise, so the buttons are on the right.
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Have you checked that the orientation setting is checked in Menu->Settings->Sound & Display?
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I have been trying to find a way to disable the 270 deg rotation in fresh.. is that considered rosie rotation?
numus said:
I have been trying to find a way to disable the 270 deg rotation in fresh.. is that considered rosie rotation?
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lol. no. rosie rotation is to enable a landscape mode for rosie. the 270 rotation is believe is worked into the regular rotation toggle in android. to my understanding it is a 270 rotation or no rotation option only.
yes, you can just turn off rotation in the settings, but you cant go back to 180, idk why you would want to anyway.
davebu said:
yes, you can just turn off rotation in the settings, but you cant go back to 180, idk why you would want to anyway.
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Because some of us prefer 170 rotation, like when i'm laying on the bed and i want it portrait i just roll on my right side. I actually switched roms because of this.
Same. I HATE 270 rotation, main reason im avoiding fresh.
This really should be an option for the next
davebu said:
yes, you can just turn off rotation in the settings, but you cant go back to 180, idk why you would want to anyway.
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Main problem is MMS.. Sometimes i recieve images that have been taken rotated clockwise.. So when i rotate the phone clockwise to right-side-up the image, it just rotates the image to bottom.. So i have to turn the phone upside down to actually see what the image is... Techincally it is the same thing if the camera was rotated counter-clockwise, but i can deal with it in 1 direction.. it is annoying when i have to deal with it in 2 directions...
I agree, the 270 degree rotation is less than optimal for my use. The annoying part for me is when I'm carring the phone in my hand in portrait mode, perpendicular to the ground, and as I set it down it auto rotates because I did not place it down perfectly straight, and thinks I'm trying to rotate.
Would love the option to set it standard.
is there any way to get this option in another rom, I want the 270 rotation. And would there be any way for a 360 degree rotation, which seems like it would be ridiculous, but sometimes is quite useful.
When i open the camera, the screen turns sideways, but the image from the aplication stand upright. why is that?
tomicop said:
When i open the camera, the screen turns sideways, but the image from the aplication stand upright. why is that?
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If when in camera mode you rotate the screen and the icons twist?, it means they are just positioned that way, giving the impression that the app has actually changed from landscape to portrait or vice versa but its always taking pictures right side up.
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If when in camera mode you rotate the screen and the icons twist?, it means they are just positioned that way, giving the impression that the app has actually changed from landscape to portrait or vice versa but its always taking pictures right side up.
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and how could i get back to landscape or vice versa?
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If when in camera mode you rotate the screen and the icons twist?, it means they are just positioned that way, giving the impression that the app has actually changed from landscape to portrait or vice versa but its always taking pictures right side up.
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Look. I just took this print screen. In app, the image was right side up, after i took the print screen the image look like this. When i was in app, the image was right side up and the notifications bar was on the side
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justlovejoy said:
If when in camera mode you rotate the screen and the icons twist?, it means they are just positioned that way, giving the impression that the app has actually changed from landscape to portrait or vice versa but its always taking pictures right side up.
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I think there is a problem
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tomicop said:
Look. I just took this print screen. In app, the image was right side up, after i took the print screen the image look like this. When i was in app, the image was right side up and the notifications bar was on the side
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Correct but i think it may have to do with your screencap app. or just basic method to keep aspect ratio at its max regardless of device angle?
looking at the screen captured, although the notification bar is landscape, the writing is portrait(right side up according to ). if by some chance the camera app was made for landscape mode and having portrait as a rotation feature it still takes pictures right side up, even if taken from the 270 degree rotation of the screen. so my question is where is the camera problems? what besides your screencap of your camera app ready to take a picture showing a rotated notification bar. how about this? when you enter camera is phone rotated? and also what of this screencap app? who makes it?
When I take a picture with the main camera, the picture always turns 90 degrees clockwise when I view it and I have to turn it 90 degrees counterclockwise to fix.
How can I prevent this problem?
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I figured out why.
The rotation sensor isn't triggered sometimes.
Solution: make sure you look at "circled" back button on the bottom-right. If it points up or down, the cam takes picture with wrong orientation. Make your phone at upright position with the orientation you want until the "circle" back button points to left.
Are you completely stock?
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decaturbob said:
Are you completely stock?
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100% raw stock and rooted.
mingkee said:
100% raw stock and rooted.
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I am also rooted and using stock and the stock camera app with the same issue, but have yet to find a solution. I am open to anyone's
suggestions.
Check out this demo video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5seNbOB-aSs
Get the app here (100% free):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.edgecontrols.android
For me one of the most useful apps since the huawei watch has no sensors.
Its a little bit tricky at first, but with a little bit of practice, this will work fine. Dont forget to set the correct possition fields in the smartphone app.
Works like a charm.
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Check out this demo video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5seNbOB-aSs
Get the app here (100% free):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.edgecontrols.android
For me one of the most useful apps since the huawei watch has no sensors.
Its a little bit tricky at first, but with a little bit of practice, this will work fine. Dont forget to set the correct possition fields in the smartphone app.
Works like a charm.
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Thanks, what an awesome little app! Since you've played with it more, what are the smaller boxes at the top and bottom of the position screen are for? Ideally I'd like the slider to work across the top of the watchface, but I haven't been able to figure that out yet.
Also, in your video, you say you can customize it to show the percentage or not. The percentage shows for me, but I don't see any options to customize it at all.
No go here, installed and I can turn the brightness down but not up again. To make things worse, a cold reboot is needed to get viewable brightness (aw 1.5 stock)
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It's cool but I feel it's just faster to press the button 3 times to temporary increase the brightness. Hopefully there's a light sensor on the HW2..
lude219 said:
It's cool but I feel it's just faster to press the button 3 times to temporary increase the brightness. Hopefully there's a light sensor on the HW2..
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The triple tap doesn't work for me. Is there something special you have to do to enable it?
JimSmith94 said:
The triple tap doesn't work for me. Is there something special you have to do to enable it?
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Not that i know of. Mine's completely stock, btw (v1.5).
EDIT: just so we're clear, you're not tapping on the screen, are you? I was referring to the metal button on the side. Press that quickly 3x and it'll increase the brightness.
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Not that i know of. Mine's completely stock, btw (v1.5).
EDIT: just so we're clear, you're not tapping on the screen, are you? I was referring to the metal button on the side. Press that quickly 3x and it'll increase the brightness.
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Thanks, it does work after all. There just wasn't much difference with my watchface to notice the difference.
this was a good app recommendation ...
great app, and it goes darker then brightness 1 so already removed the other app I used for bedroom use