This problem has annoyed me for way to long, so i'll pay $50 USD to anyone who can help me.
No matter what i do, i cannot get screen/auto rotation to work properly on any ICS rom. It will stay portrait mode no matter what. Auto-rotation works fine on any Froyo/Gingerbread rom i use. Flashed every ICS rom available. I've tried the following:
1. Turning on auto-rotation in Settings>Display
2. Toggling auto-rotate in Settings>Display while the phone is turned landscape
3. Toggling notification widget orientation icon
4. Reflashing/Wiping everything/flashing and wiping (don't get me started)
The only app that actually rotates for me is Camera.
Accelerometer Values app from market tells me everything is fine.
wow dude i don't really know what to say. I did try team icssgs's RC3.1 a while back and everything worked great. Actually, i can even say i was rather impressed on how ICS handled screen rotation. Had that turning iphone-like effect and worked every single time perfectly, no matter what i was running, as long as it was enabled on settings.
Any chance you might have some app interfering with screen rotation? like some toggle widget or something?
Wish you good luck mate
kaynpayn said:
Any chance you might have some app interfering with screen rotation? like some toggle widget or something?
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nope happens on any newly flashed fresh ICS rom
Lol, I'm very doubtful that my solution will work, but if you're desperate enough you can try and who knows, I might win 50 bucks
First answer me this: On your last Gingerbread Rom, you had the ability to turn off all animations in the Settings -> Display menu.
Did you turn off all animations?? If yes, read my solution. If no, stop reading here
So, you answered yes. Here's my proposal:
1. Flash a Gingerbread ROM again. Turn ON all animations.
2. Flash your desired ICS ROM
NielsGoetschalckx said:
Lol, I'm very doubtful that my solution will work, but if you're desperate enough you can try and who knows, I might win 50 bucks
First answer me this: On your last Gingerbread Rom, you had the ability to turn off all animations in the Settings -> Display menu.
Did you turn off all animations?? If yes, read my solution. If no, stop reading here
So, you answered yes. Here's my proposal:
1. Flash a Gingerbread ROM again. Turn ON all animations.
2. Flash your desired ICS ROM
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on gingerbread, i would always turn on all animations
but that wouldnt do anything since flashing a new rom wipes everything
What launcher are u using?
Howdy!
On ICSSGS 4.2 and Semaphore 9.0 the turning works fine for me. That is in apps that support it. The launcher for instance doesnt - the clock does.
You could try installing the ES Task Manager and check whether the turning is on there. Also you could check appropriate apps for your Kernel/Rom -- sometimes you can turn stuff on and off there, as well.
calvinbui said:
This problem has annoyed me for way to long, so i'll pay $50 USD to anyone who can help me.
No matter what i do, i cannot get screen/auto rotation to work properly on any ICS rom. It will stay portrait mode no matter what. Auto-rotation works fine on any Froyo/Gingerbread rom i use. Flashed every ICS rom available. I've tried the following:
1. Turning on auto-rotation in Settings>Display
2. Toggling auto-rotate in Settings>Display while the phone is turned landscape
3. Toggling notification widget orientation icon
4. Reflashing/Wiping everything/flashing and wiping (don't get me started)
The only app that actually rotates for me is Camera.
Accelerometer Values app from market tells me everything is fine.
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I'm on THS Experimental Build, but Build 16 should be the same.
1. You didn't mention this, but Settings > Launcher > General > Auto-Rotate Screen
This is using Trebuchet Launcher, but it should be similar on any other ICS Launcher, under the Settings "Interface" list.
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calvinbui said:
This problem has annoyed me for way to long, so i'll pay $50 USD to anyone who can help me.
No matter what i do, i cannot get screen/auto rotation to work properly on any ICS rom. It will stay portrait mode no matter what. Auto-rotation works fine on any Froyo/Gingerbread rom i use. Flashed every ICS rom available. I've tried the following:
1. Turning on auto-rotation in Settings>Display
2. Toggling auto-rotate in Settings>Display while the phone is turned landscape
3. Toggling notification widget orientation icon
4. Reflashing/Wiping everything/flashing and wiping (don't get me started)
The only app that actually rotates for me is Camera.
Accelerometer Values app from market tells me everything is fine.
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Likely its because of the changes in windoworientationlistener.Java its been changed to absolute values so now you have rotation_angles instead of rotation_mode where sensor libs would return 2 3 4 5 depending on degrees 0 90 180 270 now it looks for actual degrees rotationinstead of numbered modes
try ics slim. Settings -ASS - General UI - set rotation delay. and ofcourse set on the rotation.
chambejp said:
Likely its because of the changes in windoworientationlistener.Java its been changed to absolute values so now you have rotation_angles instead of rotation_mode where sensor libs would return 2 3 4 5 depending on degrees 0 90 180 270 now it looks for actual degrees rotationinstead of numbered modes
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I have the exact same problem. I have tried everything I found on these forums and still no resolve. I use semaphore kernel 1.0.0 and ICS Slim rom on a samsung galaxy s phone. I can see the explination for our problem but what is the solution ? How can we correct those variables ? Thank you in advance !
instinctual said:
I have the exact same problem. I have tried everything I found on these forums and still no resolve. I use semaphore kernel 1.0.0 and ICS Slim rom on a samsung galaxy s phone. I can see the explination for our problem but what is the solution ? How can we correct those variables ? Thank you in advance !
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Has anyone managed to fix this problem for the affected phones yet?
I'm willing to help test / add to the bounty if any dev out there can try to fix this...
Does your accelerometer work in any games on ics?
ilabs said:
Does your accelerometer work in any games on ics?
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I wish I had tried some games... all I can say for certain is that it works in the camera app and sensor test apps like GPS Status. So it seems like it comes down to the system UI not interpreting the sensor readings correctly.
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I wish I had tried some games... all I can say for certain is that it works in the camera app and sensor test apps like GPS Status. So it seems like it comes down to the system UI not interpreting the sensor readings correctly.
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I suggest you try it out with some games too.. coz if it's a rom issue, it can't be with every rom..
Even the games don't directly access the accelerometer.. Goes through the kernel which controls the hardware.. If it works in games, should work in the roms which have accelerometer working fine..
This annoyed me for a while... It worked fine on THS ROM with Trebuchet launcher. I switched to AOKP, and couldn't get it to work, tried a few others that all failed. After a couple of months, I'm back to CM9 on nightlies (with Semaphore 1.2.0) and rotation works perfectly, couldn't be happier.
Maybe try CM9?
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ilabs said:
I suggest you try it out with some games too.. coz if it's a rom issue, it can't be with every rom..
Even the games don't directly access the accelerometer.. Goes through the kernel which controls the hardware.. If it works in games, should work in the roms which have accelerometer working fine..
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Confirmed the accelerometer DOES work in games.
So it works in the camera and 3rd party apps like sensor tests and games. Does not work in any launcher, the stock browser, gallery, or other system apps.
Also tried the the latest Team Nyx release - not working there either. I've tried the latest CM9, ICS333, AOKP... it doesn't work in any of them.
I'm currently using the "[ROM][KANG] CherryKANG 0.9.4 1512max 384min [CM9] ." Overall, the rom is quite good. However, multitasking function ( or so-called recent apps which is located on the bottom left corner) pops up too big compared with CM9 alpha 1.1 I've used before. It takes up the whole screen. Does anybody know how to make is smaller like previous CM9 versions? I appreciate for any help.
What's your resolution settings in CherryKANG ? I haven't used it, but if your DPI is set to big, it might cause that.
It is 120 dpi.
Its not the dpi, its cherry kang. The rom was built that way for some reason
Hi, I'm currently using ICS Stunner 1.4.19
I feel much comfortable using AOKP roms compared to touchwiz roms, but one thing that annoys me is the S-Pen functions.
I dont mind not having S-Memo or the S-Pen screenshot function. But I'm a lefty so, the S-Pen is not calibrated for left handed people and the alignment is off when i try to write on other note taking apps.
IS there any way or methods to calibrate the S-Pen so that i can use the S-Pen on my left hand just like how it is in Touchwiz rom?
It's a good question. I've got problem with custom rom (Rocket v11) - setting offset for left hand is not working. For right-handed stylus works great, for me it's very bad.
Looking for some help from my fellow XDA folks.
I've been running my SGT7 in the dash of my car for just over a year, loving the hell out of it. Upgraded to CM9 and it runs so much better, so smooth, but I've got a few issues.
For anyone interested in what it looked like in my dash on Gingerbread, here's a video I took the day I installed it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC5c6OZLnzg
I'm having a hard time reading a lot of the text because of the small size on CM9, and the icons are so much smaller than on Gingerbread, making it hard to select icons while driving.
I installed DPI changer and tried several different DPI settings. The ones that turned it into "phone mode" really looked about perfect, but gave me no more ICS navigation buttons. I need those, as the metal frame that holds the device in my dashboard covers the hardware buttons. I REALLY do not want to go back to using Button Savior either.
Suggestions?
Any one?
I'm basically looking at running the phone UI but keeping navigation buttons I guess.
Perhaps a different launcher, with the dpi changed?
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I recently installed a Pioneer Appradio 3 in my car, and the mirroring only works correctly if the phone is in landscape mode. If the screen is in portrait mode, the touch functions don't work properly. The problem is the home and apps screens force portrait mode, which makes it incredibly difficult to use the radio.
Is there any way to get landscape mode for these screens? I'm using the stock ROM at the moment, but OK with flashing a new ROM if necessary.
Bumping this.
Would it just be a manner of changing the launcher, or will I need to flash a new ROM? If I need to flash, which ROMs support landscape mode for these screens?
Hesster said:
Bumping this.
Would it just be a manner of changing the launcher, or will I need to flash a new ROM? If I need to flash, which ROMs support landscape mode for these screens?
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The stock ROM, or even a launcher on the stock rom doesnt support horizontal home screen. You can check the features list of the roms 2 identify which one supports it. Ive tested Insertcoin 8.1.3 nd ViperOne 5.8.0 and it works properly. I havent tested other ROMs, but these two should be fine....
Thanks so much. I switched to ViperOne and everything works great.