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.
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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.
Hello everyone,
I have searched far an nigh - - , but it seems my question has only been addressed once and there the answer had to do with unlocking or rooting the phone. I don't want do that just yet. I can still send it in for repair, so I'd rather try to exhaust the available legal options first.
So, here goes my problem: Autorotation doesn't work properly. It hardly switches to landscape mode and cannot be bothered to return to portrait mode, if I don't close and reopen the app. The level and the accelerometer app confirm this problem. I'm on a T-Mobile (in German, that's Telekom) branded Omnia 7 running 7.10.8773. It seems the accelerometer is off or broken and there is no way to calibrate it. In the level app, when putting the phone flat on its back the white dot indicating the position is in the bottom right. I'd have to pick it up and hold it in front of me in a tilted position to center the white dot. Calibrating it within the app is only possible in said tilted position and in diagnosis mode, there is no "cal" button, only an exit button. The accelerometer app allows for calibration with the phone flat on the table; however, the calibration is not applied to the phone's sensor or the app: when I close it and then reopen it, the calibration is gone. - What can I do about this? I.e. can I do anything about this? I'd like to avoid an RMA.
Please help!
Thanks in advance,
Thomas
Hi,
I've got a problem with the accelerometer of my nexus 10, when I'm in automatic rotation mode the devise doesn't rotate automatiquely when I rotate it. And when an application force the portrait mode I have to desactivate the automatic rotation mode to go back in landscape mode.
Thanks in advance
Cyril
I believe GPS Status & Toolbox can re-calibrate the accelerometer (along with Compass, and get AGPS data), might be worth looking into
Fixed my screen orientation problem.
I spent a good four hours or so trying to figure out why my screen orientation wasn't working properly even after a reboot and boot into safe mode. I could only get one portrait with buttons on bottom and had to rotate an extra 30 degrees or less than 1 degree to cause it to flip between landscape orientations. Loaded up Google Skymaps and the Horizon was off by about 30 degrees in landscape, but fine in portrait. First went and downloaded Android Sensor Box and found the X-axis would run up to +15.5 and only -3.7. Anyways the calibration reset in GPS Status & Tool Box 4.0.1 fixed it immediately.
Awesome call on that program espionage724 would have never found it if I didn't find this thread and your post.
Edit it came back although a combination of running the program and hitting the lock button seemed to fix it. This time the axis offset was reversed though. Probably an operating system bug and only seemed to come back after I attached an OTG USB cable so =/ ?
Same problem here
I have the same problem with a new Nexus 10. The rotation did not work in any application at any time. With the Sensor Toolbox, I see that the sensor is working to some extend. Recalibrating with the GPS Status did not change anything.
Is this a hardware defect, so that I should send mine back to Google?
If you happen to get the orientation working, I'd be happy if you share it with me.
Hi all,
after the upgrade to KitKat 4.4.2 I'm having some problem such as application root permission loss (AdAware) and, the most boring, screen rotation malfunction.
Some weeks ago, it started blocking the screen in portrait and the accelerometer stop working. It was possible to rotate to landscape the screen only with specific screen rotation apps or via games that set the rotation by their self. Any reboot didn't solve the issue but "magically" every malfunction disappeared after some days of sickness ! LOL
Some days ago the problem back on my Nexus but with some variations. I turn on the tablet and the screen keep in portrait and after some minutes it turn to landscape automatically. No way to restore it to portrait except with a reboot, any other third part application can only turn the screen to reverse portrait or landscape or reverse landscape!
Any ideas about this pain in the back?
Thanx
Sig. Gargiulo said:
Hi all,
after the upgrade to KitKat 4.4.2 I'm having some problem such as application root permission loss (AdAware) and, the most boring, screen rotation malfunction.
Some weeks ago, it started blocking the screen in portrait and the accelerometer stop working. It was possible to rotate to landscape the screen only with specific screen rotation apps or via games that set the rotation by their self. Any reboot didn't solve the issue but "magically" every malfunction disappeared after some days of sickness ! LOL
Some days ago the problem back on my Nexus but with some variations. I turn on the tablet and the screen keep in portrait and after some minutes it turn to landscape automatically. No way to restore it to portrait except with a reboot, any other third part application can only turn the screen to reverse portrait or landscape or reverse landscape!
Any ideas about this pain in the back?
Thanx
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Try this app to recalibrate accelerometer and compass it fixes mine problems https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2
Hello my dearest friends, instead of auto rotation not working, I'm having a different issue on this S4, everytime I put the phone in landscape mode, it turns upside down from the angle I turned (eg. I turn the phone 270º and it turns the screen 90º). When I rotate to landscape mode, the only way to return to 0º is turning the phone upside down (like if 0º is on the top of the earphone speaker, not on the bottom)
I thinks this is related to Gyroscope sensor with problem, but since it's still working, but just can't rotate correctly, I was thinking, SINCE I'M ROOTED on LOLLIPOP, if isn't there a workaround for this issue by inverting the Gyroscopic sensors using xposed module or some other software (I even tried to edit build.prop but the line supposed to be there wasn't found)
Thanks in advance!