Not quite sure where to post this, so I'll try here. Mods, please move to the correct forum if it is in the wrong one.
Back when the OG Droid came out, the screen could rotate all 4 ways (up, landscape left, landscape right, upside down). Never had a need for it, but it was cool. I noticed that as Android evolved, being able to hold your device upside down disappeared. Again, never had a need for it, so IO didn't care.
Now, I need it. In my car, I put the phone in the cupholder of my armrest/center console. Because the charging and headphone jack is on the bottom, I have to operate everything upside down. Is this an Android or manufacturer *feature* that was removed? Can it be put back? Can a mod be made to make it work?
I don't want a dock for my phone, I've had them before, and don't like them. I also like to have full control of my phone, not just what the manufacturer wants me to control.
Thanks.
There seem to be a few apps in the Play store that may help, here is one that looks promising:
Edit: can't post links. Do a search for Screen Rotation Control
Klotar said:
There seem to be a few apps in the Play store that may help, here is one that looks promising:
Edit: can't post links. Do a search for Screen Rotation Control
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I never thought to look for an app. Thanks, I'll check it out right now.
EDIT: Turns out it's a no-go. It has the option for reverse portrait, but it doesn't work.
If you have rooted your phone look for Roms that support this.
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crashN2u said:
I never thought to look for an app. Thanks, I'll check it out right now.
EDIT: Turns out it's a no-go. It has the option for reverse portrait, but it doesn't work.
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Ultimate Rotation Control by FAMEIT *does* support reverse portrait or at least the licensed version does. But I did root, not sure if that matters.
Good luck!
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EDIT: Turns out it's a no-go. It has the option for reverse portrait, but it doesn't work.
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Dang. There were a few options but that one looked promising by the description.
Try a search in the app store for "Reverse Portrait" and give the free ones a shot...? Some seem to have a "force" option for when it doesn't happen automatically (or lock in reverse portrait). If they can be invoked with one click, it wouldn't seem too much of an inconvenience.
Edit: Rotation Control Lite was the one I was looking at, might try that myself.
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Any devs out there wanna give this a go?
I would love to be able to rotate my phone in any direction and have the screen flip like on my omnia... I know sense doesn't flip to landscape, thats not a prob, what I really want is to be able to flip the phone upside down and still use it as the correct rotation.
Reason I want to be able to do this is so I can use my phone in the cup holder of my car again, and to do this it must be upside down because of the charger placement... (same as on my Omnia)
Seems a pretty simple request, would be nice if it could auto run and run in the background without using up to much resources to.
If anyone is able to do this, would be awesome.
Thanks
Seconded ... but
I too would like to be able to rotate at least the other way; when showing off the Incredible, people rotate to landscape the other way and nothing happens, so they figure it doesn't rotate. I have to say "no turn it the other way" but it would be great to just not have to think about it.
BUT ... regarding the OP ... I simply took a dremel to the dash mount I bought (the beanbag, since California law doesn't allow sticking to the window in the middle). Carved out enough for a charger, and am done with it
I'd also like to see this. Anyone know the reasoning behind only allowing landscape mode by rotating to the left, and not the right? Even my old BB storm could handle rotation in both directions.
Agreed. This would be useful.
mattwood2000 said:
I'd also like to see this. Anyone know the reasoning behind only allowing landscape mode by rotating to the left, and not the right? Even my old BB storm could handle rotation in both directions.
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I would think it's because the majority of the world is right-handed and by rotating to the left, the optical track button is on the right side. I could complain because I'm left-handed, but hey at least my phone still has a signal when I hold it in my left hand, unlike other phones out there
This is an option in the cyanogen rom available in the rom manager. If you can look past the few bugs in the rom you can enjoy the 360 degree rotation you are looking for.
br125 said:
This is an option in the cyanogen rom available in the rom manager. If you can look past the few bugs in the rom you can enjoy the 360 degree rotation you are looking for.
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I've been running this cyanogen ROM since it came out and this is the 2nd thing you have pointed out to me in the settings that i didn't know about. I need to look through all the settings much more thoroughly.
br125 said:
This is an option in the cyanogen rom available in the rom manager. If you can look past the few bugs in the rom you can enjoy the 360 degree rotation you are looking for.
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My phone aint even rooted yet, for some reason I've tried everything and won't allow me to get into adb recovery... anyways, if it's in another rom, it must be possible, if someone could make this an app!! it would be awesome.
Then we wouldn't have limits as to which rom we would have to use.
...just a thought...
JustinD2473 said:
I've been running this cyanogen ROM since it came out and this is the 2nd thing you have pointed out to me in the settings that i didn't know about. I need to look through all the settings much more thoroughly.
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Yeah you should hes got a lot of good stuff.
So will this be possible as an App?
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Thanks Mikey for re-opening this thread , you can delete the Why thread now if you like...
So anyone know if any of this is possible?
OK just got my nexus 7 from ebuyer....
Where is bloody landscape mode ??? For viewing emails / surfing please tell me I'm not stuck in this thin portrait mode.. tiny keyboard its not good!!!
Hoping there is a setting somewhere I've missed... please help
Steve
Ahhh found it.. if you swipe down the notification bar its an icon on there.. web email now work but the launcher won't rotate.
Panic sort of over lol
CdRsKuLL said:
Ahhh found it.. if you swipe down the notification bar its an icon on there.. web email now work but the launcher won't rotate.
Panic sort of over lol
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Launcher is locked afaik, just get another one.
Get Apex Launcher
man you are another level (hopeless)......=P
im really pleased that the homescreen layout is kept portrait and all the apps rotate, just makes things easier for me
Check the Dev Forum. They've enabled the landscape mode for the launcher by tricking it into thinking it was a 10 inch tablet or by changing the dpi to 170.
I don't know how to change the dpi otherwise I'd tell you but I don't really care about the launcher staying in portrait mode for a 7 inch tablet.
Edit: After an exausting 30 second search there are dpi changing apps on the Play Market. You need *root* though.
locked into portrait
Seihaku said:
Launcher is locked afaik, just get another one.
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WTF!?! Had I known this, I wouldn't have bought it. Now I've ripped apart all packaging, and need to start replacing system software on a new device. I'm amazed none of the testers mentioned this.
Its not a big deal, and if you don't wanna get a new launcher/root then get the Ultimate Rotation App. Its like ~$2 in the Play Store, which is less then the gas money to go return it. It works flawlessly with the stock launcher.
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WTF!?! Had I known this, I wouldn't have bought it. Now I've ripped apart all packaging, and need to start replacing system software on a new device. I'm amazed none of the testers mentioned this.
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God you are a noob. You wouldn't have bought a device because the stock launcher doesn't rotate. lmfao.
its an easy fix.. just install RotatedHome by doodleapps from the market. Its stock launcher with autorotation enabled.. Works perfect
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Yes, there's a few options for rotating the launcher, check the dev section. Rooting takes 5min (and you can restore it back if you need to return) of your time. And then all you need to do is edit a system file to allow rotation and your done. That said, very strange google didn't include rotation in the stock device - can't for the life of me see how it's a negative, the landscape launcher works perfectly.
I've noticed that some games in the play store mention the the rotation apps interfere with their games - so maybe that's not the best option. This is the method i used, works better than changing the DPI IMO, unless you're set on getting the tablet sytle layout.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1800042
veeman said:
God you are a noob. You wouldn't have bought a device because the stock launcher doesn't rotate. lmfao.
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Yeah, seriously. This isn't like iOS/WP where you're stuck with one launcher, OP. You don't even need to root or do any magic, just get another (usually free) launcher from the bloody market.
That said, have to disagree with whoever's configuring stock nowadays.
Ultimate Rotation Control.
What about Ultimate Rotation Control?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm5sLmZhbWVpdC5yb3RhdGUiXQ.
The link above is for the trial version. The paid one costs 2.99.
The original Navigation (The blue arrow) app was awesome. It had live traffic updates and would re-route automatically and never dropped signal!
Now Google forced this new app on us, Navigation is no more but has now merged into Google Maps (it's a good thing but it's in beta)
Why the hell would I want to use a beta app?
BUGS ENCOUNTERED:
- If you manually press the power button to turn off the screen (whilst using the navigation), the route guidance will reset back to 'Select Destination' when you turn the screen back on!
That's so annoying and dangerous for me especially when you're on the motorway doing 70mph!!!
- Once you enter your destination and select 'Start' on the bottom right, there's a 50% chance the app will force the shutdown of the app.
This has happened often to me 50/50. Worst thing about it is, you can't just re-open the app or disable/enable GPS to fix this bug, you have to reboot your bloody phone!
- Map Orientation view messes up
Even though the original Navigation app had this bug, it was not as common as it is now. Also, there's a bigger delay in automated view change (when you turn direction, etc) This causes problems which forces you to zoom out of the route guide just to see ahead because the app is so stupidly slow to change direction at your pace.
- Stupid places of interest that you don't give a @~!* about!
Why can't I choose what I want to see on my map! I don't care about the best bars and shops in town when I'm on a mission!
Orientation bug is the worst and most annoying for me. Its never the constant behind the back POV... which is ANNOYING!
However, when I press the power button (while in navigation) so I can turn off the screen, and subsequently turn back on the screen, Maps FCs. Always. Once again, ANNOYING.
I felt like Google took 2 steps forward and 3 steps back with this one (while trying to hard to compete with Apple Maps).
Powering off the screen whilst navigating doesn't FC for me, but when I turn the screen back on, I have to click on maps to get navigation back, annoying
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So I guess all you guys have provided feedback to Google?!........
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So I guess all you guys have provided feedback to Google?!........
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I did, I told them to give me back the old version and go beta test it on people who actually want to beta test it..
Remove new version and search for the old apk and don't update it .
jje
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I did, I told them to give me back the old version and go beta test it on people who actually want to beta test it..
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That's very helpful feedback. They can take that right there and use it to improve the app. Not that stuff in the first post. That's useless information. Nope. The most useful information you can give them is a good whinge and a demand the old stuff back. Pfft, feedback, what's that?
Guys, it's this simple
Settings/application manager/maps/uninstall updates.......navigation comes back as separate app
So simple
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I did, I told them to give me back the old version and go beta test it on people who actually want to beta test it..
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Guys, it's this simple
Settings/application manager/maps/uninstall updates.......navigation comes back as separate app
So simple
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But Slappy, do you really think someone who gave this as feedback on how to improve the app has the intelligence to know that?
Also the app will have passed Google's in house testing, they however don't have every single Android device, and every single stock and custom rom in existence therefore there could be device specific problems, have you asked people using other devices if they see the same problems?
After a large scale update most apps have teething problems, but they will fix them very soon.
slaphead20 said:
Guys, it's this simple
Settings/application manager/maps/uninstall updates.......navigation comes back as separate app
So simple
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That's how I did it. Then used Titanium backup to detach maps from the market. No more updates
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So if anybody else like me is coming from the G2 and 3 you might be missing smart screen.. That little feature that detects your face while looking at the screen to keep the screen awake instead of fading out. I personally felt it a real convenience. I would like to get it back, I pulled the app from my G3 titled wise screen. I installed it like a normal app with success. I used activity launcher to try and launch it, but it fc's. So I'm guessing we'll need root to get it functional. When we do get root is there anyone else interested in joining me on this quest? I would really like to get this one up and running. I can't for the life of me understand why they left it off. I feel like I'm back on ics or jb with out it..
Try kinScreen from the playstore
It works great
whiskeybro said:
Try kinScreen from the playstore
It works great
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Well on that note... Thanks lol
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So if anybody else like me is coming from the G2 and 3 you might be missing smart screen.. That little feature that detects your face while looking at the screen to keep the screen awake instead of fading out. I personally felt it a real convenience. I would like to get it back, I pulled the app from my G3 titled wise screen. I installed it like a normal app with success. I used activity launcher to try and launch it, but it fc's. So I'm guessing we'll need root to get it functional. When we do get root is there anyone else interested in joining me on this quest? I would really like to get this one up and running. I can't for the life of me understand why they left it off. I feel like I'm back on ics or jb with out it..
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I have to agree with you. I am so surprised they took it out. I spent 30 min on the phone trying to find it. I tried the app the other post recommended, not as good, it will never turn the phone off in the car when the phone is mounted and the car is moving.
I, too, was looking for the smartscreen settings. Was surprised that LG decided to remove it. Will try the above mentioned kinscreen later
Anyone know if Samsung removed it from the S6? They started the feature and it was one of the more useful features they added to Touchwiz. I was glad when LG copied it. Most of the other stuff was junk, but that was actually useful.
That sucks. I wonder if they removed smart screen to keep the screen from running down the battery.
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You can try Smart Screen from the play store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vjt.app.magicscreen
And iseeyou
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iseeyoulite
What's really weird is that the Smart Screen app is installed on the phone. Go to app manager, and check out the "All" list and there's Smart Screen. There's just no way to activate it.
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What's really weird is that the Smart Screen app is installed on the phone. Go to app manager, and check out the "All" list and there's Smart Screen. There's just no way to activate it.
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I don't have the app at all on mine.. 811.
I don't show it listed on my sprint version.
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Here it is on the Verizon variant. Wow... this is the first time the Verizon version actually has something the others don't!
It's on the phone but doesn't seem to work. I don't see any place to enable it and creating an activity to open the app causes it to crash.
Never really worked for me on G2/3.
I miss this and have found an app on the play store that mimics it. It worked well for me on the G3.
Verizon has this. I disabled it though. It worked great on my G2 for the time I tested it. For me, I am typically using my phone while in the middle of doing something else. So it is a waste.
ED2O9 said:
What's really weird is that the Smart Screen app is installed on the phone. Go to app manager, and check out the "All" list and there's Smart Screen. There's just no way to activate it.
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Not on mine H810. I am wondering if maybe they built something into the package? As since I have had mine, and if I'm using it or just looking at it the screen doesn't shut off.
ED2O9 said:
Here it is on the Verizon variant. Wow... this is the first time the Verizon version actually has something the others don't!
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It's on the phone but doesn't seem to work. I don't see any place to enable it and creating an activity to open the app causes it to crash.
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player911 said:
Verizon has this. I disabled it though. It worked great on my G2 for the time I tested it. For me, I am typically using my phone while in the middle of doing something else. So it is a waste.
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On Verizon, you can see the service - it is not an app - BUT there are no Settings I can find or know of that actually allow you to activate it or interact with it in anyway. So it is "there" but seems to do nothing and cannot be setup.
EDIT: I used the hidden Verizon menu and found this "smart screen" but when you click on it, it forecloses and crashes. So, it is as if that first part of the services is there BUT the actual functionality is not as using the hidden Verizon menu I cannot activate it and access settings or turn it on to work - and I would think from that hidden menu, we should.
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On Verizon, you can see the service - it is not an app - BUT there are no Settings I can find or know of that actually allow you to activate it or interact with it in anyway. So it is "there" but seems to do nothing and cannot be setup.
EDIT: I used the hidden Verizon menu and found this "smart screen" but when you click on it, it forecloses and crashes. So, it is as if that first part of the services is there BUT the actual functionality is not as using the hidden Verizon menu I cannot activate it and access settings or turn it on to work - and I would think from that hidden menu, we should.
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So is there no smart screen setting under display settings on verizon?
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So is there no smart screen setting under display settings on verizon?
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There is not
Just thought I would warn everyone to not go poking around and enable 'Force RTL layout direction' it crashes System IU in 5.1. I'm still looking for a way to correct it, but it looks like factory reset is going to be the only answer.
You have to factory reset, this happened to me and the only way to fix it is to factory reset
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Murd0c said:
You have to factory reset, this happened to me and the only way to fix it is to factory reset
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This needs to be stickied.
I also bricked my phone on Wednesday when I selected this option, but I was only partially sure that it was to blame. I spent 2.5 hours on the phone with Motorola this morning, and went from a guy who barely spoke English up to a guy who was very-clearly in the USA, and they confirmed the issue and opened a bug ticket. Don't expect a fix anytime soon.
DO NOT ENABLE THIS FEATURE!
spikejnz said:
This needs to be stickied.
I also bricked my phone on Wednesday when I selected this option, but I was only partially sure that it was to blame. I spent 2.5 hours on the phone with Motorola this morning, and went from a guy who barely spoke English up to a guy who was very-clearly in the USA, and they confirmed the issue and opened a bug ticket. Don't expect a fix anytime soon.
DO NOT ENABLE THIS FEATURE!
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I've spent most of the day getting my phone going again, so annoying setting up accounts again. I was going to go see the new terminator movie this morning but thanks to my turbo I was too angry at droids to go see it....
Technogen said:
Just thought I would warn everyone to not go poking around and enable 'Force RTL layout direction' it crashes System IU in 5.1. I'm still looking for a way to correct it, but it looks like factory reset is going to be the only answer.
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What is this option supposed to do?
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RichSPK said:
What is this option supposed to do?
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RTL is Right to Left.
Basically the option flips all things on android... so in the settings, as it reads from left to right, "wifi - on" the setting is reversed "on - wifi" sort of a setting meant for lefties.. or just those that like toggles on the left side instead of right.
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RTL is Right to Left.
Basically the option flips all things on android... so in the settings, as it reads from left to right, "wifi - on" the setting is reversed "on - wifi" sort of a setting meant for lefties.. or just those that like toggles on the left side instead of right.
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I can't tell if you're trolling or being serious.
RTL is meant to make the whole phone more convenient for lefties. Your homescreen goes from being the leftmost screen to the rightmost.
Wait, no, it's actually meant to completely **** up all our devices. Yeah, that's it.
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I can't tell if you're trolling or being serious.
RTL is meant to make the whole phone more convenient for lefties. Your homescreen goes from being the leftmost screen to the rightmost.
Wait, no, it's actually meant to completely **** up all our devices. Yeah, that's it.
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I apologize, I apparently offended you. However everything you just said, to me, is exactly what I know RTL to mean, it flips things from Right to Left, thus RTL... is there an aspect I missed?
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I can't tell if you're trolling or being serious.
RTL is meant to make the whole phone more convenient for lefties. Your homescreen goes from being the leftmost screen to the rightmost.
Wait, no, it's actually meant to completely **** up all our devices. Yeah, that's it.
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That's not the only thing it does.
Go try it.
adrynalyne said:
That's not the only thing it does.
Go try it.
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tehee
Developer options are not stable features... thats why they are hidden
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I apologize, I apparently offended you. However everything you just said, to me, is exactly what I know RTL to mean, it flips things from Right to Left, thus RTL... is there an aspect I missed?
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I'm not offended, I just LITERALLY couldn't tell if you were trolling. "Wifi off" becomes "off wifi"? That sounds like a joke.
This happened to me too, but is there any way to get all of my files off of the phone before I do a factory reset or am I just screwed?
Neil51298 said:
This happened to me too, but is there any way to get all of my files off of the phone before I do a factory reset or am I just screwed?
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Sync all your sd to google drive.
You don't need root. More here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60978914&postcount=3
Ignore parts about Ti BU. Use Autosync (paid app) or gdrivesync free.
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Sync all your sd to google drive.
You don't need root. More here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60978914&postcount=3
Ignore parts about Ti BU. Use Autosync (paid app) or gdrivesync free.
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All of those methods look like I actually need access to my phone, right now it won't let me in at all. Is there anything else I can use while in fastboot or recovery mode to get my files?
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All of those methods look like I actually need access to my phone, right now it won't let me in at all. Is there anything else I can use while in fastboot or recovery mode to get my files?
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No, I do not think so.
Never used this feature nor am i on 5.1 but just tossin my 2 cents. What about using a OTG cable and connect a mouse to it? Not sure to what extent the phone is usable but when my aunt dropped my phome (not even a month old ooooooo i was furious. This is why i dont let people touch my phone. Luckly phone was too new and no refurbs out so they sent me a new one lol) but the digitizer and screen were cracked broken and bleeding. I was going to to fastboot since phone was stuck in camera mode for usb for helium back and no syncing programs setup yet but i tossed on my otg cable and plugged in a mouse and changed usb features, backed up apps to google drive the change usb mode and copied all my files off.
Hope that works for ya
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drtweak said:
Never used this feature nor am i on 5.1 but just tossin my 2 cents. What about using a OTG cable and connect a mouse to it?
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I wish that would have fixed it, the system is responsive but 'System UI' crashes and there is 0 way to get out of it or access the system after that point. When you power on the phone you don't even make it to the lock screen it just dies.
ntxct said:
RTL is Right to Left.
Basically the option flips all things on android... so in the settings, as it reads from left to right, "wifi - on" the setting is reversed "on - wifi" sort of a setting meant for lefties.. or just those that like toggles on the left side instead of right.
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spikejnz said:
I can't tell if you're trolling or being serious.
RTL is meant to make the whole phone more convenient for lefties. Your homescreen goes from being the leftmost screen to the rightmost.
Wait, no, it's actually meant to completely **** up all our devices. Yeah, that's it.
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My comment isn't relevant to this post but I just wanted to clear up the misconception about RTL. It isn't for lefties (I'm a lefty, it makes no difference to us), it's for languages that go from right to left, like Arabic. English, French, Spanish etc. go from left to right.
LazyCouchPotato said:
My comment isn't relevant to this post but I just wanted to clear up the misconception about RTL. It isn't for lefties (I'm a lefty, it makes no difference to us), it's for languages that go from right to left, like Arabic. English, French, Spanish etc. go from left to right.
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I really don't have a dog in this fight but heres where I got my info from, "While most of us are used to left-to-right text, menus, and whatnot, there are certainly users who’d prefer their smartphone or tablet to have right-to-left layouts. Of course, if your device’s system language is one that uses a right-to-left script (like Arabic, or Hebrew), the change from LTR to RTL is done automatically. However, Android allows you to force RTL layouts even when using a left-to-right language. "
Source - PhoneArena
So I'm not saying no or disagreeing, just saying that from that article, apparently RTL languages, once set in the settings automatically switch. I'll start source linking all my info from now on.