Default side/horizontal orientation as we know for the Bionic is capacitive buttons on the right (when forced to use Bionic in horizontal mode).
As we know the Micro-USB and HDMI ports are on the bottom if you are in horizontal mode. Which makes it impossible to use a phone stand while charging.
How do we change the default horizontal orientation to have the buttons facing the left of the screen?
This has obviously been done either because engineers were dumb or intentionally to force us to use the the official Motorola dock.
Bump. No one?
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My Search-Fu has failed me on this, so I am hoping to get some guidance from here.
I have a friend who just got a Droid. Coming from a Blackberry one thing he is missing is the ability to set the phone to wakeup when he takes it out of the holster.
I know the magnets can do this to a point but they put it into car mode or media mode. He just wants it to wake up to the lock screen.
Seems simple to me with the various seniors on the Droid but for the life of me I cannot find an app to do this. The few threads i find about this ether have arguing about how this is a bad idea or point to ways to keep the screen alive and/or bypass the lock screen. Neither of these are what my friend is looking for.
So, does such an app or setting exist to just wake up the device when removed from a holster? It can be a special holster if it is needed.
Have him download dock nothingness from the market so that when the magnets put him into dock mode, it instead opens up his home screen.
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Hmmm, that is not a bad idea. It woul,d require a custom case with a magnet that only triggered when the phone is removed.
So should I assume there is no pre made solution that makes use of the sencers that turn off the display when it is held to your ear??
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I haven't heard of anything yet, but maybe there is. If he downgraded to 1.5 then there is no lock screen, you just press the power/lock button and the screen turns on with no slider.
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Thanks for the suggestion but it is not what he is looking for. He is looking for the opposite, keeping the lock screen but having the phone wake up when removed from the holster.
Oh well...next step is to see how hard it is to code an android app
Is there a way to change the default screen orientation? By that, I mean when you boot up and Moboot comes on, it always defaults to being readable with the speaker ports facing down. Similarly, in certain apps and times, it defaults that same way. Because of the HP case I have, the flap gets in the way and I'd much prefer to be able to have Moboot and the "default" screen orientation to be the other way around.
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Is there a way to change the default screen orientation? By that, I mean when you boot up and Moboot comes on, it always defaults to being readable with the speaker ports facing down. Similarly, in certain apps and times, it defaults that same way. Because of the HP case I have, the flap gets in the way and I'd much prefer to be able to have Moboot and the "default" screen orientation to be the other way around.
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I don't think you can change the screen orientation at boot up because the way you wish to use it is upside down. However there is an app called Set Orientation that will do what you want after the Touchpad has booted.
I hope this helps.
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I don't think you can change the screen orientation at boot up because the way you wish to use it is upside down. However there is an app called Set Orientation that will do what you want after the Touchpad has booted.
I hope this helps.
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Hmm, I appreciate the response... but sure if that app is gonna solve the issue. I know at minimum that Moboot is landscape with the speakers facing down. I want to flip that upside down (with the speakers facing up). I also noticed that in certain applications (one I used last night, but can't remember name off top of my head) opened up and immediately went to that same orientation with speakers facing down. Not til I turned my Touchpad did it flip the way I wanted it.
There definitely is a "default" landscape orientation that the Touchpad has, and was wondering if I could change that. I don't want to force the Touchpad to any one orientation, I like it able to rotate, but for things like Moboot and CWM.
Get multitouch visualizer from play store. the touchscreen is poor, especially with multitouch (only seems to support 2 touch points, the 2nd finger often is not detected, or causes the first to no longer be detected.) The caapacative buttons are hard to press sometimes, or do not respond. very annoying.
Enable the show touches option in the settings of the developer options, it works much better.
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Get multitouch visualizer from play store. the touchscreen is poor, especially with multitouch (only seems to support 2 touch points, the 2nd finger often is not detected, or causes the first to no longer be detected.) The caapacative buttons are hard to press sometimes, or do not respond. very annoying.
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Probably need to disable the HTC Gesture option in Settings->Display. After that it'll recognize 10 touch points.
What's HTC gesture?
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What's HTC gesture?
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Its for the media link HD. 3 swipes up and it sends the phones screen to the media link HD.
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Its for the media link HD. 3 swipes up and it sends the phones screen to the media link HD.
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Just tried it with the HTC gestures turned off, multitouch visualizer 2 recognized 10 touches.
Indeed, turning HTC gestures off gives more touch points, but I still have the problem of the capacitative buttons not being as sensitive as the rest of the screen. They FREQUENTLY do not seem to register touches. Very annoying.
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Indeed, turning HTC gestures off gives more touch points, but I still have the problem of the capacitative buttons not being as sensitive as the rest of the screen. They FREQUENTLY do not seem to register touches. Very annoying.
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are you using the official screen protector from htc?
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Indeed, turning HTC gestures off gives more touch points, but I still have the problem of the capacitative buttons not being as sensitive as the rest of the screen. They FREQUENTLY do not seem to register touches. Very annoying.
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This seems to work for some people:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2231832
It should bring up the sensitivity for both the touchscreen and the capacitive keys which are, I presume, less sensitive than the touchscreen itself by design.
I'm not using any screen protector.
I tried the sense keyboard calibration and it had no effect.
The problem seems to be related to how FIRMLY I press the buttons. A light touch often does not register, but a firm touch always does. Never had this problem on my Evo 3D or Evo OG.
so this problem with capacitive home/back buttons is REALLY pissing me off.
went to sprint store, asked to see their display unit, told them the problem i had. guy said "I NOTICED THAT TOO". used their demo unit, EXACT same problem. Talked to some people on IRC who also noticed it.
*really* hope its software-fixable because I love the phone otherwise
I've used adb shell # getevents to see that FREQUENTLY tehre is just no event generated when pressing the home and back buttons. It *is* a hardware problem. I've never been so annoyed, displeased, or disappoined with a phone. I'll be returning it. Even tho the model I saw in the store had the exact same problem. If my next one has same problem I'll give the ol F**K YOU to HTC and not look back.
Also, havent found a way to get software keys on it...which MAY be an acceptable alternative to broken hardware buttons
I had noticed the same problem with a demo unit in one store and so went to check it out in another store where it was fine. I assumed it was specific to the first demo unit. I hope I get a decent phone.
Is anyone experiencing touches being registered slightly off from where you are actually touching the screen? I enabled show touches in dev options, just to make sure, and saw that touches were being registered just slightly lower than where the tip of my fingers were touching.
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There is definitely something going on here with the capacitative buttons, as we all see.
However I'm going to give HTC a few weeks and see if they sort it out. Once enough complaints roll in they've got to do something right?
http://www.pocketables.com/2013/04/...-issues-with-capacitive-hardware-buttons.html
My screen flickers sometimes in the power saver mode n also when my brightness is set to about less than 40%. Should I be worried or it can be fixed in the software update? Anyone else with the same problem?
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Can you check for me if changing to another keyboard solves this flicker? I too noticed this ever so slight flicker but only when using stock keyboard if I change over to Swiftkey then it doesn't happen for me. It looks like its the screen flickering but in actual fact it seems to be just the keyboard area of the screen.
Report back if it fixes the issue for you. If it does then obviously this is software and we needn't worry.
sprint htc one user here. stock not rooted.
ive seen this obvious abrupt dimming since day one (had since launch). i use swiftkey only and no other keyboard.
when the screen is not in use i still see the screen dim. it dims abruptly as opposed to a gradual dim. i chalked it up to software that may be included in an update.
does NOT do it ALL the time though....
Well I tried with SwiftKey it didn't work. It's not just the keyboard are that flickers. It's the whole screen like trying to adjust to a particular brightness. If the brightness is set to about 70% there is no flicker
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i guess this screens use PWM:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one/272432-htc-one-screen-issue.html
Hi, I recently purchased this phone and yesterday I noticed that the screen cannot be rotated 180 degrees. I've browsed the forum a bit but I haven't found anything specific and at least it doesn't want to work with Android 12 and One UI 4.1. Is there any way to do it, a hidden menu, a command to type in adb...?
you can't have the phone upside down in portrait mode no, but you have landscape rotating to the left or right. nobody should have a use case for turning their phone upside down so that it's displaying the same as it started out.
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you can't have the phone upside down in portrait mode no, but you have landscape rotating to the left or right. nobody should have a use case for turning their phone upside down so that it's displaying the same as it started out.
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You ignore the fact that some of us are constantly taking chin selfies
Lol, as far as I know there's no Samsung for those that have their mouths where their ears should be. The extraterrestrial Samsung users are outraged.
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You ignore the fact that some of us are constantly taking chin selfies
Lol, as far as I know there's no Samsung for those that have their mouths where their ears should be. The extraterrestrial Samsung users are outraged.
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Hi, I recently purchased this phone and yesterday I noticed that the screen cannot be rotated 180 degrees. I've browsed the forum a bit but I haven't found anything specific and at least it doesn't want to work with Android 12 and One UI 4.1. Is there any way to do it, a hidden menu, a command to type in adb...?
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Download System UI Tuner from playstore. Developer Zacharee Wander. There is option to "lock screen rotation custom value". And it doesn't mean the lock screen either. It means you can rotate the screen to any way 360° and lock it in that position. Hope that helps.
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Download System UI Tuner from playstore. Developer Zacharee Wander. There is option to "lock screen rotation custom value". And it doesn't mean the lock screen either. It means you can rotate the screen to any way 360° and lock it in that position. Hope that helps.
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Those screenshots don't do it justice.. they allself corrected but I took them while the screen was rotated to all 4 sides.. it definitely works
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you can't have the phone upside down in portrait mode no, but you have landscape rotating to the left or right. nobody should have a use case for turning their phone upside down so that it's displaying the same as it started out.
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I have a use case. If my phone is plugged into a long charging cable it is more comfortable to hold upside down so the charge cable is coming out of the top instead of the bottom.
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I have a use case. If my phone is plugged into a long charging cable it is more comfortable to hold upside down so the charge cable is coming out of the top instead of the bottom.
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One of the reasons I liked the 3.5mm jack. The C port has lousy placement for wired headphones, etc. It's a menace...
It's counterproductive to charge with the display on if that's why the cable is being used. The mobo power controller will significantly ramp down the charge so there's little or no charging taking place. It also needlessly stresses the battery ie prolonged higher temperatures.
You can use low energy apps like bt and Poweramp as long as the display is off, it will still fast charge.
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you can't have the phone upside down in portrait mode no, but you have landscape rotating to the left or right. nobody should have a use case for turning their phone upside down so that it's displaying the same as it started out.
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180 rotation does change the location of audio port, charge port, volume button, power button, camera, flash ......
Not a perfect solution, but a quick one: Rotation Control (A52 with OneUI 5)
I wanted to use the phone as a radio today and the cable should go behind the desk, and not always bend 180° from the underside of the phone. I had to activate "Guard mode".
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.crape.rotationcontrol