Has anyone ever experienced this problem before? The backlight isn't turning on when the phone is in portrait mode (even when the phone is booting), but will turn on when the keyboard is slightly pulled out (before technically flipping the screen) and works fine in landscape mode. I'm not sure if something is loose inside, but might have to open it up and see if no one has any ideas.
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I have a HTC wizard, with the latest ROM upgrade, but I have a problem. I dont know if this is related to the latest iMate ROM, but when I put my screen in landscape mode it rotates the screen correctly.
Only when I open and close the phone again, the screen is rotated back again. I want to keep the screen on landscape mode.
Is there a way to keep it on landscape and avoid this 'bug'?
it's not a bug, it's a feature
And no - nobody has any ready solution. Would probably require hacking the keyboard driver to stop the call to change the screen orientation. Either that, or have a TSR running which continually monitors the screen orientation and switches to Landscape if Portrait is detected. That would be a lot easier, but such battery more
Weird, because when you select that option "Settings->System->Screen->orientation" you would think it would be a permanent thing .
it would be if it weren't for the fancy slide-out keyboard and the fancy people behind it who thought it would be a good idea to automatically change the orientation to Landscape when slid out (which probably IS a good idea) and back to Portrait when slid back in ( which is a good idea if the device was in Portrait when it was first slid out, but not a very good idea if it was in Landscape to begin with %) )
its just lazy design.
That is really too bad. I found a hint which file to pach : keybddr.dll, but I dont think I can do that
Hi all,
My phone has been acting weird recently. Whenever i access the phone app, the screen goes into landscape mode without me tilting the phone. It doesn't seem like it is able to escape the landscape mode. This is also true for the sms app. Does anyone else have the same problem, and does anyone know how to fix this. Any help would be highly appreciated.
Alex
Have you tried recalibrating the G-Sensor?
If that doesn't work you can try violently shaking the phone or give a slight knock on the sides.
Worked for my wife's iPhone. Never had the problem again after that.
I just got a hold of a mytouch 3g with a defective accelerometer (due to water damage) and wont adjust orientation according to the way im holding the phone. its stuck in portrait view all the time and was wondering if there's a means to:
A. Toggle between landscape and portrait mode (with an app)
B. Emulate the accelerometer to report the necessary values to keep the phone in landscape mode, so i can simply toggle rotate to switch between the modes
C. Re-calibrate the accelerometer in such a manner to keep the phone in landscape mode and toggle rotate setting when needed.
Iv done some searching in regards to the matter. I have not come across any (usefull) apps that will manually rotate modes, nor have i found any workarounds. I have CM 6.1 rc1 installed on the phone. Id be grateful for any help. Thanks.
EDIT:
the phone is out of warranty, and iv trouble shot the accelerometer fully (cleared settings via recovery bla bla)
Hi
i have the same problem - have you found anything to solve it.
Thanks
Hi
I've just enabled the Daydream function but even though it works in both portrait & lanscape when previewing the various options, when I've actually chosen one and plugged it into my charger, it will only function in portrait mode. Is this a bug on my phone or what?
Thx
**Bump** .....No-one else got this problem then??
After more searching on this, I see I'm not the only one with this problem, and it is in fact, a bit of a bug(ger)....
On my Nexus 7 it rotates in landscape mode too...but not on my S4
I have to start Daydream first and put it into landscape mode before plugging in my power connector...it then works OK.
It's been moaned about on various forums etc since last year....but it still hasn't been rectified!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy_Qny0mjuc
The screen is rotating sometimes with the phone flat on table or sometimes holding it in my hand in portrait mode
It doesn't happen all the time but sometimes it does
D3VI0US said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy_Qny0mjuc
The screen is rotating sometimes with the phone flat on table or sometimes holding it in my hand in portrait mode
It doesn't happen all the time but sometimes it does
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It's pretty normal for a phone to switch to landscape mode while on a table, tables are virtually never perfectly flat. So that's that. But if the device gets stuck in landscape mode while you're holding it out I portrait mode, and you need to switch auto-rotation off and on in order to fix it, that's a bug that a few people have noticed worth this device (including new). The only fix so far is to toggle the auto-rotation.
You need to calibrate it.
anglerstock said:
You need to calibrate it.
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how would you do that?
D3VI0US said:
how would you do that?
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I am not sure yet. On other devices I knew how to, on this one I have only seen it on the maps. You have to tilt it doing the 8 shape until it says calibrated.
Rma
D3VI0US said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy_Qny0mjuc
The screen is rotating sometimes with the phone flat on table or sometimes holding it in my hand in portrait mode
It doesn't happen all the time but sometimes it does
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This happen because your phone was on landscape mode before you lay it flat on the table. And because launcher doesn't rotate to landscape, you thought that your phone is in portrait mode until you got into the settings.