I purchased a Khomo "deluxe leather case with stand" from Buy.com for $10. Although I own a couple other cases for the NC, I wanted this one because it has a stand built in (just a picture-frame-type flap on the inside of the cover) and also because it does not add a lot of width or length and unlike my other two cases, this one will fit in a big pants pocket - if only barely. It is not leather despite its name - it is plastic. And the stand flap is pretty flimsy, but it does work. To prop the NC vertically, it was necessary for me to trim the flap on one side so it would stand straight up.
However, when the stand is in horizontal position, it is upside down for all the video players I have tried. The NC will work in either horizontal position for most apps and on the homescreens, and even for choosing files inside a video player and for YouTube. But, when you play use a video player or a full-screen landscape mode game, it will only do this in the position with the N button facing right which is upside down for the case. Since one of the things I wanted was to be able to watch movies with the NC in this stand, it is a dealbreaker.
Is the inability of the NC to play landscape games and videos with the N button on the left side a function of the rom? I did not play around with the NC much before loading CM7 so don't know. Or is there some setting I am boneheadedly missing that would allow it?
I could blame the stand since if the flap was mounted 90 deg CCW from where it is, it would work correctly for both horizontal and vertical modes.
I just tried this out for fun but in Cyanogenmod settings, display, tickets the rotate 180 degrees and obviously keep auto rotate active. I just played a video and youtube all 4 ways.
Edit. As for games, no go :/
I noticed this on most apps running stock 1.1. I'll retest on CM7
I'm using the Roocase Easy View landscape - and it works because it has the N button facing right.
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A couple of apps so far (angry birds & rock player) are not the orientation I would like. Basically, I want to flip their orientation in landscape as it's not comfortable holding my nook while in it's case.
Is there an app or a means of doing that?
My birds are always flipped ohohoooo that sounds bad
Heh, I guess there's no way to do this. I don't understand why landscape apps wouldn't read the orientation of the device and change the display accordingly.
I thought I came across a way to force screen orientation, but I can't find it. Maybe I was hallucinating - wouldn't be the first time.
I'm so used to reading books on my Touch Pro2 in landscape that it was downright uncomfortable reading in portrait on the NC. The Kindle app recognizes the orientation of the tablet, but the Nook reader doesn't and I could find a way last night to force it.
Maybe that'll be my first app.
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I thought I came across a way to force screen orientation, but I can't find it. Maybe I was hallucinating - wouldn't be the first time.
I'm so used to reading books on my Touch Pro2 in landscape that it was downright uncomfortable reading in portrait on the NC. The Kindle app recognizes the orientation of the tablet, but the Nook reader doesn't and I could find a way last night to force it.
Maybe that'll be my first app.
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Beautiful Widgets has rotate one..
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I installed beautiful widgets, I couldn't even get the clock to appear on my desktop. Not sure if this will help with apps like angry birds etc.
edison make it your first app!
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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I just got the B&N HDMI out adapter for Nook HD+
I'm seeing the output on my panasonic plasma as just a little wider than 4x3.
It's also cropping off the top and bottom a bit.
My phone has HDMI out and it has settings to adjust the output to fit my plasma.
Does the Nook HD+ not do full screen or am I missing something?
I see no customization controls for the HDMI out.
Also if I play a movie, it too does not fit the screen fully on the tv.
Running verygreen CM 10.1 6/30 build on internal (not sdcard)
I can't do anything to change main screen for running apps, but for videos with mx player if I change setting to stretch (vertical) then change my plasma to stretch horizontal (horizontal fill) it looks proper and fills the screen,
though it does cut off just a little bit on the sides.
I guess that's how everybody uses it??
The few times I have used HDMI it has fit my screen. I have been thinking of trying to switch it to VGA to use an old monitor and was wondering if I would have issues like what you described.
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thanks for replying.
so when you ran it, it filled your 16x9 flat screen fully edge to edge on all sides?
What build of CM are you running?
I'm thinking it might be something in the build of CM 10.1 I'm running.
You might be ok doing that (VGA) if you run the resolution changer app.
Yes it filled my flat screen edge to edge but I used Carbon and Stock never CM. That could be the difference.
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I can't do anything to change main screen for running apps, but for videos with mx player if I change setting to stretch (vertical) then change my plasma to stretch horizontal (horizontal fill) it looks proper and fills the screen,
though it does cut off just a little bit on the sides.
I guess that's how everybody uses it??
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I also use the TV settings to adjust the picture to fill the screen.
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After a week of using the 6T, I noticed that my typing wasn't as accurate as it was on my Moto Z Play. My thumbs also were a little uncomfortable when typing for a while. I realized that because of the screen extending further down the screen on the 6T vs the MZP, I had to move my thumbs much more down the phone than before. After playing around with the floating function of the Google Keyboard, I found a position that is more comfortable (image attached), and my accuracy has improved as well. The keys are now in a more natural position, lining up right next to where my thumbs fall when holding the phone.
The other option is also holding the phone lower, thereby placing thumbs where the keyboard lies on this phone. The downside of that for me is that I have to shift my hands up and down the phone to get my thumbs to the top of the screen. Time will tell which solution I prefer.
Out of curiosity, I wanted to see if anyone else who is coming from a phone that had a much larger chin than the 6T has had the same challenges. It may be also that I'm just getting old, and my hands are less flexible.
how do you make the gboard float like that? I can't seem to find it in settings.
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how do you make the gboard float like that? I can't seem to find it in settings.
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Tap the g in the upper left, then the triple dots top right, look in the lower right?
This will be a necessity for me if I ever talk myself into upgrading my MZP to a 6T as well. My stubby, clumsy thumbs will have nothing to do with a keyboard all the way at the bottom of the device.
Actually recently got rid of nav bar for gesture nav on the MZP, and this helps in that scenario too.
I just got my OP6T today and I'm pleasantly surprised by the phone. Maybe the screen is not as sharp as my previous U11 but the difference is quite small so I think I can live with that for now. The secondary thing is like the OP mentioned typing on the keyboard. I tried using the phone with gestures and even though its really easy to navigate around the UI, writing is just horrible. Space bar is so low that I have to hold the phone really low in order to right properly. With standard navigation bar everything is ok. Tried floating keyboard but its so weird to type and look down to see what you are writing.
Also it's so funny that everyone is chasing the 99% front display ratio but at the same time interaction with the phone suffers a lot and we have to find ways to go around obstacles created but those almost full front display phones.
I use Minuum keyboard with adjustable spacebar height independent of the adjustable keyboard height.
Hi, my phone has a bigger punch hole than other phones I saw in YouTube, and only when I change the position of the phone from vertical to horizontal, the hole becomes small for a moment, but it returns to the same size as before. Even in the movie player, it is not small. I changed the region of the phone, but the hole did not change
Is there a way to make this hole look small everywhere?
Is it the same for you or not?
update: I want it to be like photo 2, but it is always like photo 1
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Hi, my phone has a bigger punch hole than other phones I saw in YouTube, and only when I change the position of the phone from vertical to horizontal, the hole becomes small for a moment, but it returns to the same size as before. Even in the movie player, it is not small. I changed the region of the phone, but the hole did not change
Is there a way to make this hole look small everywhere?
Is it the same for you or not?
update: I want it to be like photo 2, but it is always like photo 1
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Strange issue
I understood the solution
You have to go into the camera app, then change the mode from 4: 3 to full screen, then the hole will be small
change camera permissions and change it to use when the app is in use , change mode to full screen on camera settings and disable MIUI optimizations