there's a problem with orentation suddenly on my phone after doing the verizon 4.4 update.unless it's a coincidence because I did drop my phone earlier today. Now when I take a photo the orientation is stuck in the vertical view. Also using the youtube app after I start playing a video when I put the phone sideways the video should automatically switch to full screen right? it doesn't do that anymore. When typing and i put the phone sideways the keyboard is stuck in vertical mode. But when i open google earth the phone correctly oriantates correctly no matter which way i hold the phone. When using chrome browser orientation is also now locked to vertical mode no matter how i flip phone. Help!
leif2 said:
there's a problem with orentation suddenly on my phone after doing the verizon 4.4 update.unless it's a coincidence because I did drop my phone earlier today. Now when I take a photo the orientation is stuck in the vertical view. Also using the youtube app after I start playing a video when I put the phone sideways the video should automatically switch to full screen right? it doesn't do that anymore. When typing and i put the phone sideways the keyboard is stuck in vertical mode. But when i open google earth the phone correctly oriantates correctly no matter which way i hold the phone. When using chrome browser orientation is also now locked to vertical mode no matter how i flip phone. Help!
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Sir..have you tried this >> Settings/Display/Auto-Rotate screen
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Auto rotate screen
Try this, go to settings select display then tick auto rotate screen.
Hope it works.
QUOTE=leif2;54518189]there's a problem with orentation suddenly on my phone after doing the verizon 4.4 update.unless it's a coincidence because I did drop my phone earlier today. Now when I take a photo the orientation is stuck in the vertical view. Also using the youtube app after I start playing a video when I put the phone sideways the video should automatically switch to full screen right? it doesn't do that anymore. When typing and i put the phone sideways the keyboard is stuck in vertical mode. But when i open google earth the phone correctly oriantates correctly no matter which way i hold the phone. When using chrome browser orientation is also now locked to vertical mode no matter how i flip phone. Help![/QUOTE]
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I looked through the threads and I couldn't really find anything on this. Basically I'm looking for an app that automatically switches the screen to horizontal orientation when you go into an app like messaging or whatever it might be. But that goes back to vertical when you hit the home screen. I know I can just turn the screen, but there is some lag when I do that so I figured it would be easy if it just automatically did it whether I turned the phone or not. Also, the accelerometer must be super sensitive because I barely move the device sometimes and it switches back to vertical. And yes I have calibrated
I have a Sprint CDMA Hero running Fresh 2.4.0
You can probably make Tasker do that.
Perhaps this is just a useability thing but I often have my phone sat flat on my desk. From the home page I launch an app (Messaging, Market etc.) without picking the phone up and the app opens in Landscape mode.
I think I worked out what makes this happen:
If I have the phone in my hand (portrait) showing the home screen (which does not rotate) with nothing running in the background and put it down on my desk as I put it down I have actually tilted it so if an auto-rotate app was running it would have gone to landscape. It is as if the accelerometer has sensed the phone in landscape mode and remembered this so next time I launch an app without picking the phone up it starts in landscape. I proved this by holding the phone (portrait) on the home page and putting it down on my desk carefully so it was only tilting in a portrait orientation, then stated a program and it started in portrait.
OK, this is probably considered normal operation but the way I use my phone it's really annoying.
I don't know about anyone else but when I put my phone on the desk I nearly always lay it down long edge first - which puts the accelerometer into landscape mode, causing the "problem".
What would be nice is an app that let you choose the default orientation programs/apps start up in but ONLY if the phone is flat. Hmmm I'd buy it!
EDIT: Or just an app that resets the accelerometer to your preference of landscape or portrait after the screen locks or unlocks and the phone is horizontal
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so for the past month my screen has been dead when it is in portrait mode. it would only turn on if i open my keyboard in landscape mode. if i close the keyboard the screen will freeze. the screen is still responsive in portrait mode though, for example, i can still slide to unlock even though the screen is off. i also can't turn on the phone unless it's the keyboard is on til i get to the lock screen.
also my phone has been restarting itself a lot this past month. usually i notice it does it when i walk and it's in my pocket. but it also happens even when i'm just using the phone, it'll randomly restart itself.
is there any solution to my problems or is it a lost cause?
This sounds like a ROM/overclocking issue. If you're overclocking, turn your levels down a little bit. Flash a different ROM if that's not the case. And if neither of those work, rip her open and check and make sure everything is in their proper place. There are guides online that you can google.
Can anybody suggest what is going on here?
I have found that if I install the Skyscanner flight app (which is very good for flight searches), then the screen starts to flicker and jitter. Once the flickering starts, then it happens everywhere, and only stops after a full reboot (it seems that a software reboot isn't enough to clear it).
The flickering starts as slight jittering, often jumping to the right a little - it's as though the screen loses sync. Then, there is colour flicker, and sometimes coloured pixels are left behind at the bottom of the screen.
I have tried this on two different stock ROM Droid 4s, and both exhibit the behaviour.
Does anybody know what's going on, and if there is a fix/solution?
I noticed this after opening snap chat once, running cm 10.2
Reboot was all that worked here but it has stopped since an update to the app came out. Not sure if that is really what did it though.
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I was lying down on my back. Hands up looking at phone. I watched some video. I viewed some pictures. I turned it off and shortly after I got up to plug it into the charger.
When I turned the screen on to verify my alarm was set, the screen is normally portrait in orientation was landscape. It would not rotate. So, I unlocked it in landscape mode, which is a tad awkward just because I'm not used to it.
The screen would only rotate into landscape, or portrait, but portrait was upside down! The buttons for back or home were away from me. Turn off screen and back on. Same thing. Lock screen landscape.
So, I figure I'll go do that calibration where you put your phone on a level surface. It pops up in landscape and all I could see was a letter G and rest was black screen.
Rebooting fixed the problem, but does anyone know if I might have hit something or if there's a fix without rebooting?
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I was lying down on my back. Hands up looking at phone. I watched some video. I viewed some pictures. I turned it off and shortly after I got up to plug it into the charger.
When I turned the screen on to verify my alarm was set, the screen is normally portrait in orientation was landscape. It would not rotate. So, I unlocked it in landscape mode, which is a tad awkward just because I'm not used to it.
The screen would only rotate into landscape, or portrait, but portrait was upside down! The buttons for back or home were away from me. Turn off screen and back on. Same thing. Lock screen landscape.
So, I figure I'll go do that calibration where you put your phone on a level surface. It pops up in landscape and all I could see was a letter G and rest was black screen.
Rebooting fixed the problem, but does anyone know if I might have hit something or if there's a fix without rebooting?
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Personally this hasn't happened to me but I have heard of it happening. From what i have read and heard is that the proximity sensor for some reason gets stuck. i have heard of people using the old flashlight trick that was used on the M7 to fix it but a reboot fixes it every time. So I don't think you bumped anything. hope this helped .