I'm coming from a Nexus 5 running SlimRom where the first thing I did with every flash was to disable the ability to rotate 270 degrees. This is a useful rotation angle on a tablet, but I find it extremely irritating on a phone because every time I take the phone out of my left pocket and look at it at an angle, the screen rotates. I have been looking for a while now and I haven't found anything that will let me pick only the rotation angles I want--does anyone know of an Xposed module or an app that will accomplish this? Thanks in advance
redandblack1287 said:
I'm coming from a Nexus 5 running SlimRom where the first thing I did with every flash was to disable the ability to rotate 270 degrees. This is a useful rotation angle on a tablet, but I find it extremely irritating on a phone because every time I take the phone out of my left pocket and look at it at an angle, the screen rotates. I have been looking for a while now and I haven't found anything that will let me pick only the rotation angles I want--does anyone know of an Xposed module or an app that will accomplish this? Thanks in advance
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Not sure if there's a module to do what you're asking or not, but I always just lock my rotation with the quick settings toggle until I actually want it to rotate.
What do you mean with 270°?
90°left? Or a 180°?
In any case is not possible out of the box you have tu use xposed and a module like gravitybox or gelxposed.
270° is rotating the phone clockwise into landscape. I know it isn't possible out of the box, but gravitybox doesn't have any settings to fix it and I don't use google launcher, so gel doesn't help me.
I don't want to toggle auto-rotate because I use the rotation feature a lot, just only in the 90° position
Bump, I really need help with this if anyone has any additional suggestions. Thanks
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Is there any way to adjust the threshold for when to rotate to landscape?
It is quite annoying to have it switch to landscape on some small rotations...
i would LOVE to know this, too. my damn phone is way too sensitive. it constantly switches when i don't want it to
I would love to limit screen rotation to certain programs.
Makes sense in the browser but nowhere else.
Or show an icon for a couple of seconds after a rotate that will disable rotation in the current program until you close it.
Suggestions on screen auto-rotate
Sensitivity should be adjustable, at its least sensitive setting, the phone would require a full 1g of acceleration PURELY in the direction of the new screen bottom.
Where "PURE" means the acceleration vector lies in the plane of the screen, and the phone is held perfectly orthogonal with g.
It would also be nice to have gesture for manual screen rotate that works in any app without otherwise disrupting the app.
I thought this was originally a product if poor sensors. But it wasn't. Then I thought it was a bug. Updates went by, then I saw that wasn't the case either. It just seems to be a "feature".
This feature is really beginning to annoy me! Can anyone tell me why it takes about two seconds before the screen rotates in stock Android. My G.Nex takes about the same time. I'm guessing any remedy involves rooting, which is annoying. I'm rooted, I just don't think this should be necessary for people to do (IF it's necessary).
Can anyone shed light on this?
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Actually if it rotates in less than a second it'll be more annoying trust me. Like if you are typing and just tilt your device a little bit, it'll be a disaster right? I don't know however if you can modify this.
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Aokp and others allow you to change this. Many roms have a shorter rotation speed. They actually did quicken it, 4.0 was really slow. Yes its a feature.
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Quite fast considering what it has to do.
marsyeti said:
Actually if it rotates in less than a second it'll be more annoying trust me. Like if you are typing and just tilt your device a little bit, it'll be a disaster right? I don't know however if you can modify this.
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I agree with this.. The feature is there to prevent you from rotating the screen by accident. Say using the cam in video chat while holding the device in your hand.. While typing and walking around..
Not sure why this is such a bother to you Not everything should be Instant.If it were instant you would also see the screen refresh as its turning the icons..
the ui . would have to turn resize screen background re position the icons and the notification/ now settings menu all in a fraction of a second. The delay helps with my first sentence as well as gives the Interface to make necessary changes for the new orientation.. Good things come to those who wait..
The rotation pause time is perfect for me.
erica_renee said:
I agree with this.. The feature is there to prevent you from rotating the screen by accident. Say using the cam in video chat while holding the device in your hand.. While typing and walking around..
Not sure why this is such a bother to you Not everything should be Instant.If it were instant you would also see the screen refresh as its turning the icons..
the ui . would have to turn resize screen background re position the icons and the notification/ now settings menu all in a fraction of a second. The delay helps with my first sentence as well as gives the Interface to make necessary changes for the new orientation.. Good things come to those who wait..
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If anyone has used the iPad, other iDevice or some other non-stock Android devices, the rotation delay is only about half a second and smooth. There is no confusion or constant accidental rotations, it's responsive rather than intentionally slow. Plus, I really don't think too many people accidentally rotate their devices too many times.
Another example is that with my N7, JB 4.2, rooted but stock, It can take up to 4 seconds to rotate on the PIN secured lock screen. In what way is this useful?
Its less than one second on my stock 4.2...
The rotation speed seems much longer on 4.2 than it did on 4.1.2. I noticed the difference immediately after updating.
You can play with the 3 screen animation parameters - they are located in setup under the developers section about half way down the page.
-Window animation scale
-Transition animation scale
-Animation duration scale
These parameters affect the speed at which the display dims and brightens, rotates and transitions..
If you set the 3 parameters to zero, you get a binary effect on all animations - in other words, a single step from one position/brightness/orientation to the next.
I found that you may have to reboot the device (or restart the window manager?) for any changes to take effect.
Hope this helps.
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?
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!
So I can select "auto" brightness by the slider on the notification panel. When I move the slider, auto is unchecked. BUT, I know since I've had the S5 over the past few weeks, I've had the slider show a +/- option that allowed auto to remained checked while you could move the slider between like +3 and -3 for the relative level of auto you want.
I know this type of option can be achieved through various 3rd party apps, but is there any way to enable it from stock? I'm just confused because I know I've had this option, but I haven't used any type of brightness app, and now the option is gone. I did have wanam Xposed installed before...does that add the option?
Hmm, looks like this is an option in wanam Xposed and probably a default option so I was seeing it when I had that installed... Wanam says:
Use Auto-Brightness Detail*- Enables a +/- 5 slider for auto-brightness
was the auto brightness fine adjustment ever working for you? i havw wanam on my s4 and my s5, auto brightness adjustment doesn't work on either. maybe im doing something wrong
I believe it was working when I had wanam installed, but I honestly didn't really test it out...and I took off Xposed framework for the time being.
netter123 said:
I believe it was working when I had wanam installed, but I honestly didn't really test it out...and I took off Xposed framework for the time being.
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man. i really wish i knew why mine doesnt work on 2 different devices. i spent hours searching and reading forum posts and found no answers. i know it works on TW because i had some TW rom that had it and it worked great, but i ditched the rom casue there were things it was missing and some things i didnt like.
I did see that Lux Auto Brightness and Velix Auto Brightness might provide good 3rd party solutions to better personalized brightness control fwiw.
Ive tried lux and some others. They either worked great and killed my battery. Or didnt work woth. ****
Good to know those are battery killers, I hadn't tried them our yet myself.
Lux user here, paying user actually, works great for me, no significant drop in battery unless im in an area where the screen is staying super bright.
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Good to know this as well, was thinking of trying lux or velix one of these days. Have you tried velix?
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Good to know this as well, was thinking of trying lux or velix one of these days. Have you tried velix?
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Ive tried lux and twilight, i used twilight for a while cause i wanted somethjng like redshift/f.lux, but i found lux which had auto brightness and screen temp adjustment so i stu k with that. You could also try cf.lumen, personally i havent even heard of velix though.
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