Speeding Up Screen Rotation - Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General

Compared to the iPhone, the Diamond's screen rotation in a browser is VERY slow....almost not worth it. Any tweaks found to speed this up to be closer to the speed of the iPhone?

I can see that part of the problem is Opera's need to relayout the entire page whenever the screen rotates or you ZOOM IN with the thumb wheel. It gets really irritating with the zooms cause you loose the content which you're zooming in on.
On a side note I just want to rant about all these auto rotating devices,
"Damn all you guys!! Don't you know that some of use would like to have landscape mode while lying in bed? So until you can make a tilt sensor that can read my mind and determine wheter or not I WANT to rotate the device, give us a MANUAL SWITCH!"

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Phone Orientation in Photo Album

Has anyone else noticed that when viewing pictures in the Album application in TF3D2, that the Gsensor appears to have no effect? Landscape pics appear in Landscape mode, no matter how you hold the phone, upright or sideways, and portrait pics appear in Portrait mode even if you've tilted your phone sideways.
Or is it just me? It's a bit of a pain if you're holding your phone in one hand and want to see all your pics the right way up!
(I'm not referring to slideshows, by the way)
This is strange, I've noticed it to. I'd like the photo album to auto rotate - any tweaks that anyone can suggest?
And even Gyrator doesn't rotate when viewing a picture. When i'm viewing the whole set of pictures, it works, but as soon as i select one, it doesn't. Strange...
Just wondering, how is the device to know what the bottom of the picture is? The picture could have been taken landscape or portrait, depending on how you held the device when you made it. IMO it's the best solution to just display the picture best fit on the screen...
deechte said:
Just wondering, how is the device to know what the bottom of the picture is? The picture could have been taken landscape or portrait, depending on how you held the device when you made it. IMO it's the best solution to just display the picture best fit on the screen...
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The device does know. In the tab for pictures, it displays all pictures in their right aspects. As it also does in the gallery. Just not when you click on the picture to bring it up.
mrmckeb said:
The device does know.
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You're right, it does! I never noticed that. Clever..
deechte said:
You're right, it does! I never noticed that. Clever..
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It must be stored in the file somewhere...
...anyway, getting back to the point. The Gsensor has absolutely no effect when viewing pictures. I cannot hold my phone upright and view a landscape image. This seems wrong to me - I'm 100% sure my old Touch Pro used the Gsensor to determine which way to display your pics - this seems like a big step backwards!
Mind you, it'll all be moot in September when Winmo 6.5 comes out - TF3D will be pretty much redundant :O)
any program that can help on photos rotation? thanks.
i get the same problem
i have used gyrator2 but it just can rotate the interface and 180 deg
ssseii said:
i get the same problem
i have used gyrator2 but it just can rotate the interface and 180 deg
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i tried gyrator as well and it doesn't work maybe i dont know how to set it
Dosen't the Photoalbum rotate itself?I think it rotates but lets the pictures in their original position/rotation.
The buttons rotate, right? The old photoalbum did a better job^^
I found it to be a very annoying feature on the diamond1.
Sometimes you just want to see a pictuer from another angel, and the autorotation made that impossible.
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It must be stored in the file somewhere...
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Yes. The Exif information of the pictures contains generally the Focal length, shutter speed, iso, date & time, sometimes GPS coordinates (can be added later with software, and some new camera include GPS), and of course orientation of the picture : landscape or portrait. It stores even if it was 180° rotated in portrait or landscape.
Regards,
Olivier.

Touch Diamond/Pro camera tip: Increase the responsiveness

I have to say my Diamond camera pictures are superb. I really do like the quality of pictures it takes and I use it a lot. Low light, macro, daylight, it's all good. However, controlling it can be very frustrating at times.
Sometimes I can't get it to respond or take a picture at all. I've used many ROMs and have had the same experience across the board. I'm sure many other Diamond or Touch Pro users have as well. I've found the problem to be that dang circle smart touch ring. It sounds useful to use with the camera but IMHO it only causes more problems than good. Initially I had my camera shoot option set to "Touch and press". I thought I would like to be able to focus first then click the action button after. Like my regular point and shoot. Well, it works some of the time. A lot of times it hangs up or freezes OR... It starts zooming in or out because I accidentally touch the ring.
So with that said, I have since forced my camera to work like the old days. Click of the action button only. I set my shooting option to "Full Press". It still will auto focus on it's own before the shot and then take the picture automatically. I've had no problems with this. It works great even with macro shots. But there is a second step I had to do which is actually more important I think. That is disabling the ring within the camera. To do that go into the the Registry Key: HKLM\Software\HTC\SmartTouch\Camera
Back this key up then proceed to delete everything in it. That will disable the smart touch ring from working within the camera. It still works everywhere else though. I don't see the need to zoom when taking the pic since it's digital zoom anyway. I can zoom on it in the Album afterward. You can still zoom if you want just by pressing the screen and touching it though.
Now my camera has been working like a charm without any hang ups, freezes or accidental zooming. Also when I press the screen to bring up the menu or hit the X it opens up every time too. Now when I reach for my Diamond camera to take a picture I'm much more confident that it will work on demand every time.
Much better for me and maybe you.
Thanks for the tip! I haven't taken the plunge on registry editing yet, but I'll definitely keep this in mind if I decide to. Any chance of releasing the edits as a CAB?
Really shame on HTC for not including this as an option. The combo zoom and shoot button is ridiculous.
I removed the entries from HKLM\Software\HTC\SmartTouch\Camera as you recommended also set the shoot option to Full Press and now i'm pretty pleased with my HTC Touch Diamond's camera. Thanks for sharing this info with us!

Screen Rotation Sensitivity

Is there any way to adjust the threshold for when to rotate to landscape?
It is quite annoying to have it switch to landscape on some small rotations...
i would LOVE to know this, too. my damn phone is way too sensitive. it constantly switches when i don't want it to
I would love to limit screen rotation to certain programs.
Makes sense in the browser but nowhere else.
Or show an icon for a couple of seconds after a rotate that will disable rotation in the current program until you close it.
Suggestions on screen auto-rotate
Sensitivity should be adjustable, at its least sensitive setting, the phone would require a full 1g of acceleration PURELY in the direction of the new screen bottom.
Where "PURE" means the acceleration vector lies in the plane of the screen, and the phone is held perfectly orthogonal with g.
It would also be nice to have gesture for manual screen rotate that works in any app without otherwise disrupting the app.

My experience with landscape vs portrait mode use

I've just realized how much easier to use my tablet is, in portrait mode. Easier to hold, easier to type, easier to touch stuff on the screen, easier to scroll pages up and down.
I never realized this before, so that's why I bought a 8.9 instead of a 10.1 I know now what my next tablet will be.
Aside from the browsing experience, which forces you to either read small fonts or turn off Open pages in overview and scroll the page horizontally (but only on certain pages where the text doesn't reformat properly), everything is awesome. Even this will eventually be fixed and screens will have higher DPI so I guess it won't be a problem anymore.
My next tablet will definitelly have higher DPI and a bigger screen, possibly even 4:3 if some quality devices like this show up and manufacturers figure out this format has its advantages.
How is your experience with 16:9 or 4:3 tablets and landscape vs portrait use?
I actually moved down from a 10.1 to an 8.9
Personally, I find that the 8.9 size hits a happy medium of portability and usability.
It's the right size to hold one handed in portrait, and not too small when in landscape to type out lengthy emails and documents.
As for aspect ratio, I prefer the widescreen of my tab 8.9 over the 4:3 of an iPad. It's just better for watching movies, and seems ideal for digital magazines and ebooks.
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Except for the movies part, obviously, I just feel that doing stuff in portrait is more comfortable. Reading is the most basic thing you have to do in order to get other things done, so if reading is more comfortable in portrait, everything seems easier.
From time to time, when I turn my tablet to landscape something suddenly seems un-natural and it's almost like I start to get a headache moving my eyes from left to right and scrolling down all the time...
I'm just trying to figure out if it's just me or if there are others that feels the same way. I remember reading somewhere about website design and the optimal width of a text column and being surprised to find out how small it was, but now I get it
When I got my wonderful 8.9 I used to hold it in landscape positions, but after a few weeks I felt portrait is the perfect position to hold it, I realized that in portrait I could handle it with just one hand and I had no ache in my fists, in landscape I need to hold it with two hands and is no good to touch screen, it is so said that 8.9 appears to be the unique Sammy tablet (now and ever).
Landscape mode for browsing and film viewing, portrait mode for ebook reading and most apps. The good thing about 8.9 is I can hold both portrait and landscape in one hand (in landscape I cradle it with my thumb and support it with index). I can type the same in either mode with one finger since I use swype. Yhe best of all worlds in my opinion!
It is great in portrait, particularly considering very few Android apps are built with wide screens in mind, like you say it's just the low horizontal resolution when web browsing that lets it down. I find it easier to type horizontally too. The iPad 3 fixes the portrait resolution issue but I've used one and to be honest it's more the size of the text on websites in portrait that's the problem. Smaller devices boost font sizes for this reson; you'll find sites in portrait easier to read on some phones for that reason!
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Screen auto-rotate only in gallery when viewing pictures/videos?

I had this phone for a couple of weeks and I can swear I had it on portrait mode all the time so my phone did not rotate except for two instances: when viewing youtube videos if I tilted the phone it would rotate and when viewing picture I have taken in gallery. It auto rotated only in those two cases.
Today for some reason it stopped and now I can either have it all (auto-rotation everywhere) or nowhere.
I have really not messed with any settings. Did I miss anything? How can I make it back to the way it was?
I never use the gallery so can't speak to that, but what you describe for YouTube is not normal behaviour in my experience. if I don't have auto rotation on I have to manually select landscape.
maybe do a hardware test for the accelerometer
*#0*# then select sensor.
Sensor is working nicely.
Sorry I might have been wrong. Youtube didn't act like that. it turned sideways when I fullscreened it. That should be normal behavior.
But what pertains to the gallery - it always autorotated independently of the setting because it was always set on portrait mode.
if the accelerometer works I have to ask if your hitting the right icon for screen rotation ?
it's pretty close to sync and smartview

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