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Portrait or Landscape?

Hi all, I've had this tablet for about 2 weeks now. Before I received it, I assumed that I would set up my home screens for landscape mode and go Tablet UI right away. But as time goes by I find myself using portrait mode a lot more, whether or not it be setting up my launcher or using apps (with the exception of watching videos, of course).
What do you prefer?

mjs2011 said:
Hi all, I've had this tablet for about 2 weeks now. Before I received it, I assumed that I would set up my home screens for landscape mode and go Tablet UI right away. But as time goes by I find myself using portrait mode a lot more, whether or not it be setting up my launcher or using apps (with the exception of watching videos, of course).
What do you prefer?
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I use portrait mode for most thing but web browsing and videos. Its real nice having the option
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Portrait is so much easier to type and see text with since there's more text listed than landscape. I also find it LOADS easier to type with my thumbs in portrait mode.

I'm finding the typing a lot easier as well with two thumbs and the ability to swipe as well.

I use landscape for videos, portrait for everything else

Portrait for almost everything except YouTube.

I am 50-50 so far. I like landscape for web surfing and videos, portrait for reading and replying to messages. I should find an alternative keyboard to make thumb typing a little easier.

cjacks9 said:
I am 50-50 so far. I like landscape for web surfing and videos, portrait for reading and replying to messages. I should find an alternative keyboard to make thumb typing a little easier.
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Get on the SwiftKey Flow beta. It's great on this device in either mode. Just change it to separate thumb mode while in landscape.

I'm about 50 50. I like using landscape and with the 4.2 keyboard it's pretty easy to type... for me
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD

With my iPad I use portrait all the time probably because its big and heavy but with my nexus 7 I use landscape for almost every thing. I think because its pretty small and I feel I get more on the screen that way, plus I get to see all of the wallpaper on my home screen too
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Landscape 99% of the time here... I could never find any advantages of using it in portrait - folks say that it's easier to type, but the keyboard is much smaller in portrait mode, which makes it harder to type in my opinion (much easier to hit the wrong key by accident).
Very interesting that it seems most folks prefer portrait.
Of course my case caters to landscape mode too, so that may play a big part as to why I use landscape mode most of the time...
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the problem in landscape mode is the navigation bar that the bar is always on front.
That reduces the screen and make it too small.
I would like to have the choice to put the navigation bar at the side in landscape mode.
Does it possible ?

I find in landscape you can't see much, when the keyboard pops up it takes most of the screen and is so hard to view and type at the same time.

Watchaa said:
the problem in landscape mode is the navigation bar that the bar is always on front.
That reduces the screen and make it too small.
I would like to have the choice to put the navigation bar at the side in landscape mode.
Does it possible ?
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I usually use apex (sometimes nova) launcher, when you keep it in landscape (or portrait) only, you can maximize the area available. But then youre not able to use the other way ...

michalurban said:
I usually use apex (sometimes nova) launcher, when you keep it in landscape (or portrait) only, you can maximize the area available. But then youre not able to use the other way ...
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the problem with apex is the portrait / lanscape compatibily.
you can have a big desktop on landscape but the icons will disappears when switching to the portrait mode.
That's very annoyoing and this fix should be a basic feature !!

Watchaa said:
the problem with apex is the portrait / lanscape compatibily.
you can have a big desktop on landscape but the icons will disappears when switching to the portrait mode.
That's very annoyoing and this fix should be a basic feature !!
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Is there any launcher capable of having icons arranged differently in portrait and landscape modes?

90% portrait

Both

jtrosky;36533214...folks say that it's easier to type said:
True, but N7 screen width in portrait mode is same size as ~4" phone landscape.
In landscape, I can't type comfortably, because I guess I have quite short fingers and my thumbs can't reach the keys in the middle of the screen.
I use it mostly in portrait (my homescreen is arranged for portrait), I also browse in portrait mostly, because of exact thing Apple was bashing N7 on their iPad mini release (those extra pixels on iPad mini) - there's too much stuff on top and bottom, making visual area small (in chrome you can't hide address bar, like on stock phone ICS browser (it hides automatically when you scroll down the web site).
I find it more comfortable to hold in portrait, and it's easier to read stuff too (books are portrait after all).
I use landscape for videos and games (and stupid new skype).
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Both ways but I guess its in Portrait most often.

[Q] portrait mode lag

I'm using the latest jcsullins ROM for jelly bean. Do you guys notice lag when scrolling through home screens in portrait mode? It isn't anywhere as smooth as landscape mode. I tried this on nova prime and treb launchers.

Bump. Does anyone have this problem or just me?

i do, and since the honeycomb it remains as an unsolvable problem

kalestar said:
I'm using the latest jcsullins ROM for jelly bean. Do you guys notice lag when scrolling through home screens in portrait mode? It isn't anywhere as smooth as landscape mode. I tried this on nova prime and treb launchers.
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I'm on the same rom, but I never use portrait mode. I just tried it, and no lag. I'm using Apex launcher, maybe that's it?

chicle_11 said:
I'm on the same rom, but I never use portrait mode. I just tried it, and no lag. I'm using Apex launcher, maybe that's it?
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Try scrolling in the browser, you'll notice a difference on heavier pages for sure. It is harder to tell on less intensive apps like the launcher.

I installed the FPS meter app to see the difference on the homescreen. When scrolling through homescreens on portrait mode i get around 30-40 fps, but in landscape mode it is a solid 60. I tried acme uninstalling and webos doctoring, reinstalling multiple roms. I have this problem using every type of launcher except GO launcher EX, for some reason it is smooth around 60 in both landscape and portrait, but only in CM9 nightly, not cm10 roms. So weird... I wish a developer for some of the roms could look into this.

CM 10.1 lock screen rotation?

I'm currently on CM 10.1 M2 but using CM 10.1 since first experimental release. Is there any way to enable lock screen rotation or it's by design to have it portrait only? Is this even an option in CM? I think I've looked through all the options but to no avail... Thanks!

Hi. I have a Galaxy Nexus, and the ability isn't present in our CM 10.1 M2 either. Apparently it was in earlier builds in the display settings as a specific option, but is no longer there.
I notice that my Xoom doesn't have the option either, but the lockscreen still rotates.
Maybe all the actual phone builds don't have this then... I just replied because I've been seeking the same answers as you, but for the GNex.

SilentException said:
I'm currently on CM 10.1 M2 but using CM 10.1 since first experimental release. Is there any way to enable lock screen rotation or it's by design to have it portrait only? Is this even an option in CM? I think I've looked through all the options but to no avail... Thanks!
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As you can see you can try Screen Orientation on the Play Store. It rotates the screen and the lockscreen as you like. Check it out. I don't think that feature is available in the SGS but in 4.2 Moto Atrix they have it.
Sent from my GT-I9001 using xda premium

Landscape mode for the home and apps screens?

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.

Homescreen Orientation

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!