My friend has an app on his HTC Touch Pro 2 that lets him rotate the phone and the screen will flip to that orientation (depending on the apps hes in), for instance, he flips the phone upside down and the screen rotates to that position. I'm curious if we may have such an app or function for the HTC Hero?
If it helps, I'm rooted and currently running the Android 1.56
Ask darch. He currently has that feature enabled on darchdroid.
Google sky does it. Just an app though.
Helix Launcher does a landscape home screen, but not 360.
I was always kind of surprised that the phones doesn't do this natively.
Kcarpenter said:
I was always kind of surprised that the phones doesn't do this natively.
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Seriously. You'd think it would. you know it could.
I'd love this feature. Because of the headphone port being at the top, every time I pull the phone out of my pocket to skip a track it's upside down in my hand. Would be so convenient if it flipped the screen for me.
I think darch got it in darchdroid because of a CyanogenMod framework that allows you to do it....
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I know there are screen shot apps that use hot keys however I'm looking for one that uses the camera key like Dxtop does. However I'm going to use ahome and stay with that one since I'm on my 7th screen and need them so dx is otu of the question. Thank You.
I was wondering if there is a way to get it to Auto Rotate to the right, where the scroll ball is on the left side. Would be nice for NESroid to use as a dpad vs the one screen touch.
Im sure thers a setting to flip the games screen upside down ... buttons will not change so it will read upside down but u will have hte trakball as a d-pad lol
Im not 100% on that so yanoo dont quote me on it lol
EDIT: just cheked n yeh it does hav it ... aslong as u r on about Nesoid lol not Nesroid
haha yeah I noticed the Flip screen option but the problem is the phone auto rotate doesnt trigger when you rotate to the right.
I think this is a very valid request in general. For the G1 it made sense to have auto rotate only to the left, as that was the keyboard orientation, but since then we'd have plenty of touch-only Android devices, and it doesn't really make sense for a touch device to have landscape orientation only to one side and not the other. At the same time the dpad/trackball could be remapped as well which should allow users to use the trackball on whichever side they like.
I know the Moto MB200(Cliq/Dext) had this functionality. So if any devs what to look into it.
some early G1 ROMs supported this, so I'm sure its possible. I'm thinking it was only in a few early cupcake based ROMs, maybe even pre-cupcake back in the days when it was just JesusFreke, Haykuro, and TheDude developing & releasing.
Its done now... try CMs ROM
For a phone that ships with a dock that is specifically designed for the phone to slide in horizontally, you would think they would take a few hours and design a lockscreen that can be used while docked. I mean they did it for the launcher and pretty much the whole OS (not while in landcape mind you, but specifically for use in dock mode), and that must be much harder both programmatically and design-wise. So why is there no dock-mode lockscreen? Honestly this truly baffles me.
Xperia Z did the same, and that also shipped with a dock. When are they going to learn that we do not want to look at our lockscreens sideways when docked?
For the record CyanogenMod doesn't do this, it has a dock-mode for both launcher and lockscreen.
amen!
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For a phone that ships with a dock that is specifically designed for the phone to slide in horizontally, you would think they would take a few hours and design a lockscreen that can be used while docked. I mean they did it for the launcher and pretty much the whole OS (not while in landcape mind you, but specifically for use in dock mode), and that must be much harder both programmatically and design-wise. So why is there no dock-mode lockscreen? Honestly this truly baffles me.
Xperia Z did the same, and that also shipped with a dock. When are they going to learn that we do not want to look at our lockscreens sideways when docked?
For the record CyanogenMod doesn't do this, it has a dock-mode for both launcher and lockscreen.
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i agree since i use the MHL link on my Z1 w/my 24" LCD and hate how the main home screen is portrait even when connected via MHL. however as a workaround, i bought the app called "Rotate" for about $2 and well worth it! lets me rotate homescreen adn lockscreen and do per app if wanted. just trying to figure out how to get the TV Launcher to flip since i have my MHL plugged in and in turn phone is upside down even though output to TV is fine.
Actually, there is a lock screen in landscape mode. It is just not used for some reason.
To see it briefly, you can start the camera without unlocking the phone (from the lock screen or with the hardware button). Then, touch the small image of existing picture to go to the gallery mode. Now, the phone is locked and will display the lock screen before going to the image gallery. Since it is on the landscape mode, you will briefly see the lock screen and can even manage to type a digit or two if you are fast enough. Unfortunately, then it changes to the usual portrait mode no matter what.
So they actually implemented the screen but are not using it. Can't see the logic of that, really.
Okay so I'm in the market for a Moto X and was messing with it at the store. Seems like a nice little package. I did run into one thing that bothered me.
When in the camera app in portrait view after taking a picture to preview the picture I just took is a simple swipe from the right side in to open the gallery. All good and dandy. Unfortunately most of the pictures I take are from the landscape orientation and for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to bring up the gallery from that position without having to go back to portrait orientation. Am I doing something wrong?
It seems silly to me why they would move the buttons for settings and gallery when you rotate the phone. They should of kept the position the same no matter which way you hold it. Seems inconvenient to have to keep rotating the phone every time you want to preview your pic. As well as this phone is designed if there is no way to bring up the gallery from landscape mode I got to think they missed one there.
It works in both landscape and portrait for me, but I am running a leaked version of android 4.4. So more then likely if the current version doesn't support it 4.4 will when it is released.
you just swipe when in landscape also. i do it daily as i rarely take portrait pics. i dunno why you werent able to. you do need to swipe from the edge of the camera. not the edge of the screen. as the edge of the screen is the navbar and not the camera. hope that makes sense.
Thanks bud. I just watched a YouTube review of the phone and saw how to do it.
It is still a swipe from the right. Problem was I was doing it from the bezel and it kept pulling up some google feature. You still do it from the right only the swipe should start from just to the left of the home button. I swear I did that at the store but I must of been too close to the home button. Oh well, I still think they should of left it in the same place whether it is in portrait or landscape but I guess I'm no engineer.
I was in the tutorial mode though and in portrait it had a preview where it said settings on the left and gallery on the right. When in landscape though settings was still on the left but the gallery was NOT on the right and that threw me off.
Thanks.
Anytime. And that Google feature is Google now. If you buy android, or a new android if you currently use old android, you will want to use it. Its really cool.
With such a huge screen, why didn't Google allow the home screen to display in landscape orientation? While I have never wanted this functionality before, it seems like it would be great here. I'm assuming there's no way to do this without root?
You can... download a third-party launcher such as Apex Launcher or Nova Launcher. You can find them on the play store and then make the launcher to be landscape mode or portrait based on the orientation of the phone.
If you want this feature with google now launcher then there is no way to achieve this, not until Xposed is made to work using ART
They had to follow Apple this time. The iPhone 6 plus has this feature due to larger screen.
nyijedi said:
With such a huge screen, why didn't Google allow the home screen to display in landscape orientation? While I have never wanted this functionality before, it seems like it would be great here. I'm assuming there's no way to do this without root?
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You can try forcing the homescreen rotation with Ultimate Rotation Control:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.fameit.rotate
Let us know whether it helps.
nyijedi said:
With such a huge screen, why didn't Google allow the home screen to display in landscape orientation? While I have never wanted this functionality before, it seems like it would be great here. I'm assuming there's no way to do this without root?
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yep huge annoyance, especially since 1) iphone (!!!) now allows this and 2) google themselves allow it on android tablets
The launchers rotate, but the navigation and notification bars don't. Or at lease I have not been able to figure out how to make them do so. I know a custom ROM will fix this at some point, but part of the reason I bought this phone was to use as a micro tablet.
springer.music said:
You can try forcing the homescreen rotation with Ultimate Rotation Control:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.fameit.rotate
Let us know whether it helps.
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Son of a gun....this works! I just installed it and haven't used it yet to see if it keeps on working consistently, but so far, so good. Thanks!