Since many apps have not yet been optimized for tablets, they may rotate incorrectly.
WatchESPN, Loseit, Venmo, Scottrade, MLS, etc force portrait, but i prefer Landscape.
Are there any patches I can install to force rotate or prevent rotate?
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4D rotation can be enabled in most custom ROMs, but not all apps rotate. For the applications that don't rotate, is there any way to enable flip rotation? Either by changing something in their manifest or a ROM tweak?
Examples: androidVNC and Abduction
Here is what I mean:
When using portrait and launching an app that forces landscape (most games, for example), it always defaults to 90 degree rotation (ie. Turning the phone counterclockwise). With the SGS in a lot of games this is uncomfortable when plugged in because of the USB port's location. If the other landscape orientation (270 degrees I guess, or turning the phone clockwise from portrait) were used the cable would be on top and you could rest your hand beneath it. It would also have the advantage of your hand not covering the light sensor and causing brightness changes.
So my question is, is there an app that can force this globally, or maybe a configuration change I've missed?
I dont think thats possible
but i guess a software can be built cosidering the fact that our captivate supports landscape in both directions in other apps and while reading and browsing on net
I've seen posts about orientation settings in build.prop but they were all froyo. I've also read that since gb there is a screenOrientation= reverseLandscape option for individual apps' AndroidManifest.xml file, so editing them individually should work. Just makes me think there must be a value somewhere that defines what the default landscape orientation is, just don't know if it's compiled or easy to modify.
If anyone is interested, there's an app on market called Orientation Control that can force orientation, even has a tasker plugin. I created a tasker profile for apps that force landscape and used the plugin to force reverse
landscape instead, then an exit task to set it back to portrait. Works perfectly
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Problem:
Application Settings Screen flickers in certain Apps when first entering the Application's Settings. THIS ONLY HAPPENS IN PORTRAIT Mode. It does not happen in Landscape.
Cause:
The device may have non-standard fonts or font sizes that are not properly utilized by some applications.
I am using default fonts with an application called Big Font to enlarge font-size to 120%. When I reduce font-size to normal size (100%), the problem no longer occurs.
Temporary Solution:
1) Tilt the device to Landscape mode and flickering should stop. Then you can return to Portrait mode.
2) Reset your fonts to normal fonts and/or normal font-size.
3) Enter the application's Settings screen in Landscape first, then rotate device to Portrait if necessary.
To date I have encountered this issue with stock Samsung Internet Browser v.2.3.3 (Gingerbread-KG3), HDR Camera+ 2.16, and PowerAMP (multiple versions).
I hope this is helpful to others that may encounter this issue.
Ok so I originally posted this question here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2556217
but I was told it was probably the wrong place and I should ask it in this section.
When I play some games, for example Paper Monsters, or Cordy 2, the game orients itself to landscape but upside down, and when I flip it the other way, the game keeps changing to upside down. I have no idea what the heck is going on!? The orientation and rotation settings work great for pretty much every other app, which means so far I haven't found any other apps doing this. Could it be a problem with the ROM I'm on? This is the ROM I'm using:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2482192
There are some apps I can download from the PLAY store to help compensate for this issue somewhat, one I'm using called "Set Orientation" and it works ok but it sets the global rotation for everything, even some apps that shouldn't rotate. It's a decent bandaid I just have to set it to disabled when I'm using the apps that I don't want to rotate, for example, gravity / physics apps where you rotate and move your device all around to get maybe balls or particles moving in different directions. I would like a permanent fix however. Any help is greatly appreciated!!! :good::good::good::laugh::laugh:
I want to be fixed this problem.
Kindle 8.9 display is should rotate left-to-top, right-to-bottom. Official case is designed like that.
This seems in CM11.0 and CM12.0. Is there no plans to fix it?
I have the Note 4 and love the mult-window floating app, once I got used to the changes from the Note 3 and used Multi Window Manager to enable support for most of my applications. My question is... is it possible to scale or change the aspect ratio of applications that are in floating windowed mode? The Note 4 lets me make them bigger but has a limited size it can shrink apps to. Are there any hacks or apps that anyone knows of to allow multiple floating windows to be in landscape mode while the phone is in portrait mode and floating windows be in portrait mode while the phone is in landscape mode? It would get rid of overlap and allow multiple floating windows to be fully visible at the same time. I mean, we have resolution and real-estate; it just seems like we should be able to take advantage of it.
I feel it was a major design flaw on Samsung's behalf since the apps already mostly support both modes and even if they don't apps like rotation locker, still make them usable when not windowed and forced to a certain mode.
Are there any hacks that remove the minimal application scale or aspect ration?