Does anyone know if there's a utility or registry hack to disable the magnetic landscape sensor in the Hermes? I really don't want it to flip to landscape mode every time I put it in the case, because then there's that added delay to switch back to portrait when I pull it out to use it. If it makes a difference, I'm using the official HTC WM6 ROM.
Thanks,
-A
Magnetic landscape sensor? WTH?
As far as I know the only way screen rotates is when you pull the keyboard open or when you force it software-wise. There is no magnetic sensor or anything like that.
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Magnetic landscape sensor? WTH?
As far as I know the only way screen rotates is when you pull the keyboard open or when you force it software-wise. There is no magnetic sensor or anything like that.
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The magnetic sensor is the bit inside that recognises when the keyboard is open.
I used to have the problem where the screen would flip every time I put it in the case. Eventually mentioned it to my wife and she asked me if I tried putting the phone in the other way round. Tried it with the screen facing the buckle rather than the flap - and it's never been a problem since! She's a genius is my wife!
Not quite the answer you're after, but a workable work-around.
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Oh and I'm not aware of a registry entry that will disable the rotation, or an application that will toggle it on/off - only ones that toggle portrait or landscape. Theoretically then, you could disable the sensor and use a software app. to rotate the screen.
Mike
So let me see if I'm on the same page here. The sensor used to detect whether the keyboard is open or not is a magnetic sensor. The stock carrying case shipped by HTC uses two (relatively) large magnets to hold the flap closed, which just happens to trip the keyboard sensor, causing the device to think the keyboard is open.
That seems like a bit of an oversight on HTC's part. I thought it was a "feature" like most RIM's where a magnet in the holster will turn off the screen when you put it away. I'll admit it did always seem odd to me that the behaviour would be landscape and not turn off the damn screen
I guess the best solution until I find a better case is to do as Stu's wife suggested.
Thanks guys
-A
FINALLY... WHAT YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR
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shlomki said:
I've come to notice that no one REALLY knew how to fully disable screen rotation on WM devices.
Some offered 3rd party apps to get the job done, some only knew how to disable automatic rotation, but when the device went into standby and woke up again - the screen rotated back. So that didnt really work.
So if you're as desperate as i was about screen rotation,
this is what you need to do:
1. Get dotfred's free taskmanager HERE, and run it.
2. Go to "Devices" tab, and look for "MIS1:" device (oem_misc.dll)
3. Long-Tap on it, and tap on "Stop"
4. Long-Tap on it again, and now choose "Set Manual"
5. Go to "Notifications" tab, and look for "Notifications\NamedEvents\VCPowerWakeupEvent"
6. Tap on it to make it selected
7. Disable it
(In dotfred's taskmanager, there should be a button for disabling it, but for some reason some devices couldn't see the button icons, although the buttons are still clickable. Under the notifications list there is an empty light-blue line - the buttons are there, eventough you can't see them.
The disable buttons is somewhere i the middle of that light-blue line, just tap the center until a message box popps up and asks if you'd like to disable this notification - Tap on yes.)All those steps are a one time deal - they stick even after an SR.
This has been tested on htc universal and works great.
The screen will keep its orientation even if you flip your screen, take out your built in keyboard, or turn the device off and back on.
The only time your screen will revert back to the original orientation is when you soft reset your device.
Hope this helps
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It would be nice if it had an orientation sensor...I'd love to have it go Landscape whenever I held it sideways, I don't always want to open the keyboard when I'm reading....
you'd need a built in gyroscope for that..
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I know one can reprogram it, but when it isn't reprogrammed what does it do?
My backlight on the keyboard has been on before but it never seems to come on now - even whe I press the backlight button and cover the light sensor. How does it work? Any way I can have the keyboard backlight on whenever the device is open?
What is the backlight button for?
PS - I wonder what percentage of posts on this forum are done on a universal... This was.
I think the only raison-d-ètre for that button is to start discussion threads like yours. It's a bit like bureaucracy. It starts very small but then grows into a self sustaining monster.
The question is not "What is the button for?" , it is rather "Will you be able to accept that it has no purpose" ?
.. but does it have no purpose? we have a question, a response, and now a response to that response. I argue that this ingenius button is not a part of the device, but a social agent and we have created an ad-hoc community built around the presence of this otherwise purposeless plastic.
Alright a more straightforward question:
What effect does pressing the button (when not using the reassignment hack) have?
Guys, in my case when Im using XDA Exec for typing or working long and then I stopped for 60sec ......... backlight goes auto-off , by simply pressing the button backlight ON or tapping on the screen!
For keyboard light, if i put thumb on it and press any key on keyboard then backlight goes ON.
So isnt it normal and expected behavoir? if you noticed more or less could be an exception
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Alright a more straightforward question:
What effect does pressing the button (when not using the reassignment hack) have?
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Alright, let me rephrase my question - WHY can yo not accept that it has no purpose? Don't think too much about it, I want a spontaneous answer.
Because on a device as expensive as this I assume that everything has a purpose, considering that space is a factor.
Isn't it meant to force enable the keyboard backlight when the ambient light is too dark? Ie, light sensor detects it's dark; however, backlight times out after X seconds; pressing useless backlight key detects ambient light and renables keyboard backlight without stuffing a character in the keyboard message queue.
We all know what it's really meant for - VJCandela!
Guys, it's getting a bit tense in here. Let's all go out for a latte, eh?
V
With such an intense discussion I think caffiene would be an excellent idea
Mines a Mochalatte with 2 sugars, Ta V
Back on topic....dunno
If we're headed to Starbucks, could someone grab me a quad-shot venti white mocha with cream, and sprinkle some cinnamon over it please?
Damn I need a coffee!
all points raised here are right. VJCandela is the best use for it, in day to day life it served no real purpose before reassignment unless you ignored your Uni until it turned the backlight on the screen off.
Typical. Looks like Starbucks paid for the buttons to be installed as some kind of post-phone-sale invenstment.
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unless you ignored your Uni until it turned the backlight on the screen off.
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Ignored? How dare you!!!........cancel PReDiToR's coffee order!!!
PReDiToR: no coffee. Check.
QuaCKeReD: 1 "girly" Mochalatte.
The rest of you, keep supping those groin-frying electromagentic waves.
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PS - think you've got it bad? My Mio A701 doesn't have a power key :shock: Anyone got a spare StarBucks key I can use for the time being?
I have tried searching for this but not been able to find anything, so sorry if it is already covered elsewhere.
Does anyone know how to disable the auto rotation of the screen that happens when you go from laptop to tablet mode?
Thanks in advance
Sam
It has been asked before, and I know how to do it, but I have to get a little time to write the app. It's quite an easy app to write, just time is unavailable to me I need a time turner.
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I would have thought with your 1337 5k1llz you would have at the very least had your own TARDIS lol
Nice to see Pratchett references popping up all over the place =)
I thought I saw something here about an app that was already created, except that it made the Universal totally ignore any lid motion, so closing the lid would not put it to sleep. I can't remember what thread I saw it in... I thought it was Vijay who did it, too. Hmm.
do you really have to go through all the trouble to write a program for it or is there a simple reg hack to take care of this?
There's a little of both. It's a driver hack, but combined with some registry.
I wrote the other program also, can't remember what it was called now, for maintaining control and enabling the Universal's external keys, but it had a limited release of 1 guy trying it.
Then I got distracted for 6 months, having a baby
V
Any update on this? I would like the auto rotate to still rotate but into landscape mode the other way up, as opposed to portrait mode, if you see what I mean
Disable auto-rotate
Hi Vijay555,
Any luck finding the program?
Would really appreciate it mate.
just in install vijaylumix 2. click on enable extra brightness than switch power off. After that autobrightness will be disabled and screen orientation will not go automatically works just fine hehe
tuyulaneh said:
just in install vijaylumix 2. click on enable extra brightness than switch power off. After that autobrightness will be disabled and screen orientation will not go automatically works just fine hehe
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Thanks a lot !!! Works a treat.
works but camera bug!
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Thanks a lot !!! Works a treat.
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The camera does not work once vijaylumix 2 is started :-(
So back to the drawing board.
Actually isn't there a program that sets selected programs to start in either landscape or potrait view?
Try re-launching VJLumos I/II/III to disable.
vijaylumix? Dude, what kinda weird sounding pseudo-romantic idiom is that?
VJUzumaki has been re-written. The nega/positive side effect of VJLumos is unexpected but useful. But VJUzumaki will disable rotation and provide a whole shebang loud of new features.. coming soon.
V
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Try re-launching VJLumos I/II/III to disable.
vijaylumix? Dude, what kinda weird sounding pseudo-romantic idiom is that?
VJUzumaki has been re-written. The nega/positive side effect of VJLumos is unexpected but useful. But VJUzumaki will disable rotation and provide a whole shebang loud of new features.. coming soon.
V
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Sorry mate should be 'VJLumos II' and not 'vijaylumix 2.'
Looking forward to VJUzumakimix....only kidding VJ. When is VJUzumaki due?
Respect & seasonal greets.
umm, if I recal you can remove the magnet from inside the casing, that makes the screen auto rotate
I'm working on bells and whistles (ie features!) for VJUzumaki, so hopefully shortly into the new year.
V
what is the status of VJUzumaki, or has there been an alternate fix found for this problem?
Thanks
hey guys with my wizard I like using it most of the time horizontally even when closed i'll use the screen view switch so I dont have the vertical view is it possible to have my mda horizontally all the time besides it switching to vertical using a program or a tool or something..
bump anyone?
tMan
I'm using tMan (http://pda.jasnapaka.com/tman) because it gives me posiblity to close applications instead of just sending them to the background.
However this program has an option to rotate the screen, and it works.
Enjoy
inclose mobile - You can have i.e. close/minimise apps menu + screen off, suspend, rotate, SR and 5 GESTURES in one useful app at once. its just awesome app. Quite small, very fast and responsive.
Freeware.
i set rotate on horizontal stylus move from "close" button to inner part of screen. it works like charm.
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do not be scared by screens. Its simple app, imo.
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hey guys with my wizard I like using it most of the time horizontally even when closed i'll use the screen view switch so I dont have the vertical view is it possible to have my mda horizontally all the time besides it switching to vertical using a program or a tool or something..
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I cant find any reg keys that you can chnage to keep it like that, I think it is hard coded somewhere!!!
Thanks guys those apps did rotate my screen but it wasnt permant like i was looking for..still on the hunt
Try this:
This will change your screen orientation to landscape or portrait by registry changes:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\GDI\ROTATION]
Change the Value of "Angle" to the
dword:00000000 or dword:00000360 -> Portrait Mode
dword:00000090 -> Landscape(Right-Handed)
dword:00000180 -> Portrait Up-side Down
dword:00000270 -> Landscape (Left-Handed)
Hope it works!!
Is that registry change permanent?
V
calouro said:
Try this:
This will change your screen orientation to landscape or portrait by registry changes:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\GDI\ROTATION]
Change the Value of "Angle" to the
dword:00000000 or dword:00000360 -> Portrait Mode
dword:00000090 -> Landscape(Right-Handed)
dword:00000180 -> Portrait Up-side Down
dword:00000270 -> Landscape (Left-Handed)
Hope it works!!
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This does not stay, when you take the keyboard out and put it back, it chnages back!!1 Like i said above, i think it is hard coded somewhere!
funman said:
This does not stay, when you take the keyboard out and put it back, it chnages back!!1 Like i said above, i think it is hard coded somewhere!
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Sorry about that, I have not tried it, I found it on the web.
damn I still had no luck..bump this maybe someone else could se this and help
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damn I still had no luck..bump this maybe someone else could se this and help
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Any progress?
Regards.
jcespi2005 said:
Any progress?
Regards.
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nope..I may try doing the reg hack but cook it into one of my roms maybe it could do the trick..
ANTC said:
nope..I may try doing the reg hack but cook it into one of my roms maybe it could do the trick..
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Thanks, man.
I come from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=308084&highlight=landscape cause Wizard and Hermes have same keyboard and same effect when open and close.
Regards.
BUMP bring this back
kbd driver....no chance imo.
Just posted this in another thread, got lost in the forums...anyway i was able to figure this out in the registry.
HKLM\System\GDI\Rotation\CamAppActive - 0 is off, 1 is on. When this is 1 it keeps the screen from rotating. This seems to be why the camera workaround worked.
Set CamAppActive to 1, then go to settings/system/screen and switch the landscape lefthanded mode. Now the phone is in landscape and theres no laggy switching between portrait and landscape every time you open the keyboard ! To cancel it out just open and close the camera or soft-reset.
This could also be used to keep the screen in portrait whenever the keyboard is open....but i have no idea why anyone would want to do that.
Still, this isn't permanant, as its gone after soft reset. Is it possible to run a script to do this on startup/wake? I'm new to the OS so not 100% sure of whats possible.
Maybe a brake though........
my friend has the tilt with a HTC Item homescreen plug in stock and theres a siwtch disply option on it you it and it sets the type of disply u want for the Vertical and horizontal setting
so you can have your phone verital set it for the left view and open your phone put and close it id go back to the left view
anyhow anyone got this??
hardware hack
You could remove the magnet that tells it the keyboard has opened.
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You could remove the magnet that tells it the keyboard has opened.
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uh not worth it lol
Hello
Is it possible somehow to turn the screen upside down? I get better reception on my HD2 when I hold it upside down. I sometimes use AE Button plus to rotate the screen but it cannot rotate the Manila screens. Is there another application that can rotate EVERYTHING 180 degrees?
Maybe you could try to avoid keeping your hand on the antenna which is at thew lower part of the phone? (page 10 of user manual)
http://member.america.htc.com/download/web_materials/Manual/HTC_HD2/091020_Leo_HTC_WWE_UM.pdf
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Maybe you could try to avoid keeping your hand on the antenna which is at thew lower part of the phone? (page 10 of user manual)
http://member.america.htc.com/download/web_materials/Manual/HTC_HD2/091020_Leo_HTC_WWE_UM.pdf
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That's extremely hard to do in normal use though. IMO it's a ridiculous place to put the antenna. When touching the antenna you reduce the effectiveness, so the power goes up....and thus the SAR level....
Even if you could turn the screen upside down (with Gyrator 2, for example), the microphone and loudspeaker would still remain in their positions, so it would be pointless
Well I don't use my HD2 much for phone calls. It's mostly other applications which use Internet and holding the HD2 upside down really makes a difference. Of course you don't think about it until you're at a location with poor coverage.
Another reason is that I often put my HD2 in the iPhone dock of my portable speakers and I need to put it upside down to be able to connect the audio. I think everyone can see the need now
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I see your point. Again, I would try Gyrator 2.
100% weird/fail design by HTC engineers again... The built-in antenna at the bottom of the device? The manual on page 10 "advice" us not to touch the antenna zone. Unless you're using bluetooth, how to hold the phone without touching the antenna zone? Silly design.
Is this the first phone in the world ever have antenna at the bottom of the device?
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Is this the first phone in the world ever have antenna at the bottom of the device?
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No. Almost every phone out there has it at the bottom.
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I see your point. Again, I would try Gyrator 2.
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I just tried Gyrator 2 and it doesn't rotate the Manila Today screen.
EDIT: I just edited and added Reverse_Portrait to the "Disable Manila" event in the Gyrator settings and now it works perfectly
Thanks Pedmond
Brgds... /TubGirl
Glad your problem is solved
Found a program which is better than Gyrator... ChangeScreen v2.78.
It's not as heavy as Gyrator and doesn't show up in the task manager.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=466858
Brgds... /Zmurphen
And why do you consider it to be better?
Tubgirl said:
I just tried Gyrator 2 and it doesn't rotate the Manila Today screen.
EDIT: I just edited and added Reverse_Portrait to the "Disable Manila" event in the Gyrator settings and now it works perfectly
Thanks Pedmond
Brgds... /TubGirl
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Tubgirl do you have and problem with the music tab? its all messed up when I use it with gyrator, I mean, if I rotate it, it looks all wrong.(hard to explain, you'll know my problem if you have it)
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Tubgirl do you have and problem with the music tab? its all messed up when I use it with gyrator, I mean, if I rotate it, it looks all wrong.(hard to explain, you'll know my problem if you have it)
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Actually if I untick the landscape boxes in the manila event editor, it sorts itself out
BTW, this is on stock 4.2.2 on a D801 with no root.
I had been having a problem where my notification drawer would not pull down. At first, it wouldn't pull down at all. Then it would only pull down when I pulled from the very far left side of the notification bar. Then it would work if I was on the left half of the notification bar. Then only the left 25%. I tried rebooting several times, no luck. I switched to the marshmallow theme and all of a sudden it started working. I switched back to the standard theme, and it went back to the broken behavior.
I searched and searched and didn't find anyone else with these exact symptoms. I thought I'd have to factory reset to get this working again.
Fortunately, I was able to resolve the problem. Open system settings/general/apps, select the all apps tab, and scroll down to Home. Select it, and press the clear cache button. Now my notification bar can be pulled down from anywhere across the top of the screen.
I'm posting here in case anyone else ever runs into this problem in the future. I'm not sure what caused it. The touchscreen on that part of the screen was definitely working, because if I pulled down the drawer from the left side, then dragged my thumb down, right, and up, the screen was definitely responding to my finger moving around the very top of the screen on the right side. Something was causing the display not to pull down the notification drawer when I started from the right side.
I just started having this problem on my LG G2 (Resurrection Remix LPv.5.4.6). At first I could drag down just by pulling from the top of the screen. Then, over time, it started to only work in the upper left corner. Now I can't pull the quick-settings area down in Portrait mode. It does work in Landscape view. It also works on the lock screen in Portrait mode: just drag down from the top-middle of the screen and the quick-setting area comes down.
I enabled the show touch feature in developers options and took these pictures showing that (A) the status/notification area is: (A) not receiving input in Portrait mode during normal use; and (B) is receiving input in Portrait mode on the lockscreen.
A:
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I am using the Nova launcher, but I tried Trebuchet, Google, and KK -- none fixed it. I also tried to remove my wallpaper.
The suggestion in the first post does not work as there is no "Home" in Settings>General>Apps>All Apps:
Fortunately, I was able to resolve the problem. Open system settings/general/apps, select the all apps tab, and scroll down to Home. Select it, and press the clear cache button. Now my notification bar can be pulled down from anywhere across the top of the screen.
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UPDATE: I did a factory reset and reinstalled my ROM. The problem persists. It is definitely NOT the hardware sensors, because that section of the screen DOES WORK on the lock screen.
My best guess right now is that it is something in the stock Gapps (I used micro). I had thought that it might be the Nova Launcher, but I tried other launchers and the problem remained.
Also, this issue seems to creep up around the internet, independent of the phone (see here, here, here, and here).
I am hoping a developer on these pages sees this and can deduce from the symptoms what is causing the status bar (i.e., that top 1/4 inch of the screen) to not receive any input. It seems like something (wallpaper?; launcher?; status bar modification?) is causing the input to not compute.
Please . . . help.....
This problem just hit me too. XPeria T, CM12, also used "show touch" option and it stops respondingon identical part as yours.
I've read somewhere the problem was fixed by installing brand new digitizer, even though I have no intention of replacing it as the phone itself is ****ty...
This is my third or fourth disappointment in android devices and also my last. I'm moving back to button phones as I'm not expecting iPhones to be even near androids.
It was fun using CM12 while it lasted though...
Also, let me bring your attention to one things please:
You said your drawer can be pulled while in the lock screen, but while in the lock screen, my notification drawer can actually be pulled from anywhere on the screen, all I have to do is double swipe down. So I think your digitizer is damaged aswell, but the lock screen function probably fooled you.
I don't have enough the home app on the rom I'm running so that fix won't work. Had anyone found a fix for this?