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So far JF's cupcake build has been awesome. The only issue I have come across is the home-screen and contacts/dialer app not auto-rotating. Are they not supposed to rotate? Is anyone else having this problem? I tried searching for an answer but found nothing.
Thanks in advance.
They are not supposed to auto-rotate, no.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512807
damienallen said:
So far JF's cupcake build has been awesome. The only issue I have come across is the home-screen and contacts/dialer app not auto-rotating. Are they not supposed to rotate? Is anyone else having this problem? I tried searching for an answer but found nothing.
Thanks in advance.
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Apps can be written not to respond to automatic orientation. The home screen and dialer are two such apps. Among the built-in apps the ones that respond to automatic orientation tend to be text-centric apps.
I have searched a lot for this, but have been unable to find much info. Does anyone know what it would take to enable Auto rotate for the lock screen? I have tried several builds and themes and many auto rotate the home screen, but none that I have found auto rotate the lock screen. My issue with this is I keep my g1 on my desk with the screen up, and I like to keep it in landscape because it fits better when I plug it in. The problem is that every time the screen locks it goes back to portrait when I wake it up again. Then I have to pick it up so that it will go back to landscape. If anyone has any insight on a solution please share. I hope the reason I haven't found any threads about isn't because it is just a check box in the settings somewhere. Well actually I hope it is, but I would still feel dumb.
If this thread isn't appropriate for this section let me know and I will delete it. Just on a side note, is there anyway we could get more appropriate post icons for the forum? Maybe an icon for a post that contains a rom, one that contains a theme, one for a general development question, etc. It just seems kind of silly to use a smiley face or a thumbs up/down here.
how bout using one of them home apps in the market.. i remember either open home or ahome kept gettin on my nerves about what u are talkin about
Dxtop is my fave and did what ask on every but the. Ion build . God I hated it cause when u take it out of your pocket the phone would be in the the process of flipping oriantation and on some of the buggyer builds this would lag horribly (yes my spelling sucks)
anddep said:
how bout using one of them home apps in the market.. i remember either open home or ahome kept gettin on my nerves about what u are talkin about
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I use aHome on the Ion Rom right now. aHome seems to have no effect on the lock screen though. If my G1 wasn't lying on its back it wouldn't be a big deal, but for some reason every time it locks it reverts to portrait. I just wish there was a way to make it not default like that. Its not a big deal, I wouldn't go back to RC33 to get the feature back, but it is a little annoying.
painrage said:
Dxtop is my fave and did what ask on every but the. Ion build . God I hated it cause when u take it out of your pocket the phone would be in the the process of flipping oriantation and on some of the buggyer builds this would lag horribly (yes my spelling sucks)
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Are you saying that dxTop will auto rotate the lock screen on non Ion builds? I would definitely switch to cyanogen's rom if that's the case.
trmacdonal said:
Are you saying that dxTop will auto rotate the lock screen on non Ion builds? I would definitely switch to cyanogen's rom if that's the case.
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To my knowledge None auto rotate the "lock screen". I believe that the above posts are not reading your post correctly seeing how they are talking about Ahome and OpenHome home replacements.
custom374 said:
To my knowledge None auto rotate the "lock screen". I believe that the above posts are not reading your post correctly seeing how they are talking about Ahome and OpenHome home replacements.
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i agree, ive used every home replacement out there, none of them do anything to the lock screen, the lock screen is completely seperate. Maybe a dev could make lock screen (hopefully not like a iphone like some devs have) that would accomplish this for you. Maybe ask in the application section to see if anyone is working on such a app, and if not, you may be giving a developer who is looking to develop an app something to work on.
wootroot said:
i agree, ive used every home replacement out there, none of them do anything to the lock screen, the lock screen is completely seperate. Maybe a dev could make lock screen (hopefully not like a iphone like some devs have) that would accomplish this for you. Maybe ask in the application section to see if anyone is working on such a app, and if not, you may be giving a developer who is looking to develop an app something to work on.
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That's too bad. I am just surprised that this doesn't seem to bug anyone else. I just don't know enough about the inner workings of the G1 to figure this out. Is the lock screen an app or is it controlled by the launcher? I just wish I could figure out why it worked on the pre cupcake JFs, but doesn't work on any post 1.5. I don't want to cross post, but if you guys think this would be better in the Apps and Themes feel free to move it.
As a workaround, you could enable the setting that prevents it from sleeping while plugged in which will also prevent it from locking.
Well... I figured that if you had the launcher and lock screen rotate, the phone might waste battery power while you're not using just rotating on every movement... This would probably also prevent it from going into sleep mode.
Not that that's the real cause, it's just my own reasoning. (It made more sense in my head. lol)
I know that it USED to autorotate the lock screen on the earlier haykuro G builds. Or was that the early non-cupcake jf builds.... I can't remember...
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That's too bad. I am just surprised that this doesn't seem to bug anyone else. I just don't know enough about the inner workings of the G1 to figure this out. Is the lock screen an app or is it controlled by the launcher? I just wish I could figure out why it worked on the pre cupcake JFs, but doesn't work on any post 1.5. I don't want to cross post, but if you guys think this would be better in the Apps and Themes feel free to move it.
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well my g1 spends alot of its time either in my pocket, or in a dock, both of those are in portraite mode, thats why it hasnt bothered me, but i see why it would bother you
I suggest using Droidsans Tweak Tools from the market and checking system wide auto rotate. That is the only thing I have ever seen rotate the lock screen. That's what you're looking for.
chrisrj28 said:
I suggest using Droidsans Tweak Tools from the market and checking system wide auto rotate. That is the only thing I have ever seen rotate the lock screen. That's what you're looking for.
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wow didnt think about that, i havnt used droidsans since early jf builds lol, good looking out man
Yeah I know, auto rotate was the only thing I used droidsans for but since the newer builds already have that option I dropped it lol
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Yeah I know, auto rotate was the only thing I used droidsans for but since the newer builds already have that option I dropped it lol
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i like your sig "rosie is its own theme"
chrisrj28 said:
I suggest using Droidsans Tweak Tools from the market and checking system wide auto rotate. That is the only thing I have ever seen rotate the lock screen. That's what you're looking for.
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That is what I used to use pre-cupcake on the JF builds. After cupcake that tool stopped working. Anyone know if there are any cupcake builds it works on. I tried it last week on Ion and it didn't work.
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DroidSans Tweak Tools v0.87
"Auto Rotation Status: Bad Version"
DroidSans doesn't seem to work with JF1.51
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looking into droidsans... also want this ability
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In the past two weeks I did some reflashing (JF1.51, Hero, Ion, and back to JF1.51) and have noticed the lock screen not auto-rotating while the keyboard is closed. I was sure this used to happen prior to two weeks ago (while I was on RC33 and JF1.5) but really can't be sure. You might want to ditch these newer builds for a while and go get RC33, maybe that ROM does it.
To paraphrase: I thought this was supported and over the last couple of weeks, flashing several newer ROMs, I cannot be sure anymore that auto-rotate of lock screen ever existed. Maybe RC33 has it.
I'm also interesting in having this lock-screen-rotation enabled.
FIrst off! Everyone is simply awesome!!!!! The threads get a bit overwhelming since i cannot watch all day long. I have tried to search and start to find things but this topic just kinda falls off without me finding a fix, if there is one.....
I removed the htclockscreen.apk and the attached image is what i get. is there a way to fix without a wipe and reflash as i have just about everything i want working. I know others have the same problem with this lockscreen which used to work fine in DCv1.0 .. I appreciate everyones hard work!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks in advance.
Bret
beerock said:
FIrst off! Everyone is simply awesome!!!!! The threads get a bit overwhelming since i cannot watch all day long. I have tried to search and start to find things but this topic just kinda falls off without me finding a fix, if there is one.....
I removed the htclockscreen.apk and the attached image is what i get. is there a way to fix without a wipe and reflash as i have just about everything i want working. I know others have the same problem with this lockscreen which used to work fine in DCv1.0 .. I appreciate everyones hard work!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks in advance.
Bret
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Same thing I did...and I would assume you didn't make a NAND backup...just like me. Only solution you have is to reflash...sucks. Grab titanium backup from the market. It will put most of your stuff back. Only messes up a few widgets for me, and taking the off and putting them back on is easy.
Good luck!
beerock said:
FIrst off! Everyone is simply awesome!!!!! The threads get a bit overwhelming since i cannot watch all day long. I have tried to search and start to find things but this topic just kinda falls off without me finding a fix, if there is one.....
I removed the htclockscreen.apk and the attached image is what i get. is there a way to fix without a wipe and reflash as i have just about everything i want working. I know others have the same problem with this lockscreen which used to work fine in DCv1.0 .. I appreciate everyones hard work!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks in advance.
Bret
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I wonder if the lockscreen layout is setup for a higher resolution device (HVGA) instead of the Hero (QVGA). If that's so, then you could theoretically replace the XML layout files related to the lockscreen from a ROM where the lockscreen is displaying correctly into this ROM.
-Daryel
have you tried pushing HtcLockscreen.apk back to /system/app and rebooting ? or if you go to one of the modded DC roms regawmod (sp?) there are several customizations including the espresso rosie which if they did it correctly should include the espresso lockscreen so you can just flash it and get the stock lockscreen back. as far as how to get the vanilla android lockscreen going I can help with that.
wtphoto said:
have you tried pushing HtcLockscreen.apk back to /system/app and rebooting ? or if you go to one of the modded DC roms regawmod (sp?) there are several customizations including the espresso rosie which if they did it correctly should include the espresso lockscreen so you can just flash it and get the stock lockscreen back. as far as how to get the vanilla android lockscreen going I can help with that.
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this is the lockscreen i want........ I copied the htclockscreen.apk so i can get that back, but i dont want to..lol i really just want to try and fix this one, although i know about enough to be dangerous any help would be awesome!!!
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I wonder if the lockscreen layout is setup for a higher resolution device (HVGA) instead of the Hero (QVGA). If that's so, then you could theoretically replace the XML layout files related to the lockscreen from a ROM where the lockscreen is displaying correctly into this ROM.
-Daryel
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I think I understand wht you are describing ....this lockscreen worked fine on DCv1.0 after removing the htclockscreen.apk and i was wondering if we could remove the correct file from there and port it over to this rom it would be fixed .......but i am just guessing, and would not know where to start
Just trying to not get this post buried....... I hope someone is willing to help see if there is a fix for this lockscreen.....I think I officially diagnosed myself with OCD....LOL
And do really appreciate any help.
Bret
I guess either too much going on....... or no fix........ I know this must be an issue for other people... has anyone got a suggestion or a "It cannot be fixed "
Thanks again for all the hard work and dedication!!!!!!!!!! Please help
Bret
I have yet to use the lockscreen that everyone wants simply because a. I had no idea it existed and b. I have no idea how to get it. if someone figures this out I am all over it lol. Wish i knew how to help.
the stock android lockscreen will not display right on new sprint 2.1 roms this has been stated in many forums already there is no fix
Guys, just use Android Commander. It does all the ADB commands in a GUI. Useful stuff, it is. If you know where to push/pull stuff and know to backup things before you delete them, you should really only need Nandroid to save you from being unable to boot (stuck on HTC screen, not bootloop).
DanWalker said:
I have yet to use the lockscreen that everyone wants simply because a. I had no idea it existed and b. I have no idea how to get it. if someone figures this out I am all over it lol. Wish i knew how to help.
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I f you remove the htclockscreen.apk in this rom you will have this lockscreen with the same problem as it seems that it is setup for landscape or widescreen mode...... forgive me if i am wrong but i have a hard time think this cannot be fixed with all the awesome things that are being accomplished.. I will do whatever i can to help!
thanks a bunch!
I'm interested in this as well. I haven't messed with Android too much but I develop for a living. Does anyone know if the stock 2.1 lock screen is controlled at the source code level or via a configuration file such as an xml? If someone could point me in the right direction, I'll see if I could come up with a solution...
I am living with my deformed lock screen untill someone has a fix.. i hate that htc lock screen.
maxium01 said:
I'm interested in this as well. I haven't messed with Android too much but I develop for a living. Does anyone know if the stock 2.1 lock screen is controlled at the source code level or via a configuration file such as an xml? If someone could point me in the right direction, I'll see if I could come up with a solution...
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I was told xml from a senior member but do not know what to do with the info..... thanks for your interest in helping...
lgevo said:
I am living with my deformed lock screen untill someone has a fix.. i hate that htc lock screen.
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I second that notion...... did find lockbot on the market that will replace it but have not got to play with it much seems you must buy the pro to really be right butt yet another option....
I was wondering if talented themers or someone with the knowledge could update this method to work with current roms such as CM6.1?
Original post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=610013
I know there are apps such as lockbot that can change the lockscreen background, but I dont want to replace my lockscreen, I like the default one that comes with CM. I just need a method to change only the background wallpaper. Anyone up for this?
edit: ignore the "*rate" I dont know why that is there
it's impossible. others and myself have asked god knows how many times and always the same answer. it's impossible to do on the stock lockscreen, which sucks.
neok44 said:
it's impossible. others and myself have asked god knows how many times and always the same answer. it's impossible to do on the stock lockscreen, which sucks.
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But I thought that CM uses stericson's lock screen? I think I remember seeing it in the changelog a while back, I could be wrong
Why not, should be possible in CM...
probably not exactly the old way, but one could add the background to the proper xml, compile framework and then you just morph the background what u want.
If I'm not mistaken, the Sense ROMs have this capability, which sucks for anybody using Stock / AOSP.
I would think CM had a built in method of doing this by now....
Well, I guess no one knows how to do this? =(
Zephyron said:
Well, I guess no one knows how to do this? =(
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Good news for you
Just did some testing...got my custom lockscreen background!
Edit: Done
-> [Custom] Lockscreen Background CM 6.1
[REQ] (since settings>privacy is gone) Mod so txts don't show/scroll on lock screen
Sorry for the long-winded title, but for whatever reason I no longer have the "Privacy" screen that used to be in Settings>Privacy under "Lockscreen" and "Display message text":
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15544620&postcount=10
Why would that now be missing and can someone possibly find a way to get that setting back? I don't need it on a toggle setting like in that screenshot, would rather it just always be that way. Thanks in advance for any input.
Have you asked/looked in the Themes and Mods section?
I did and found nothing except a mod to move the scroll from the notification bar to the bottom of the lock screen. There is nothing regarding not showing the text on the lock screen whatsoever. That Settings>Privacy setting did just that but now it is gone for whatever reason.
What ROM are you on? What sense version is the rom? What mods/themes have you tried or already on?
I'm running Fresh Evo 4.2 (gb 2.3.3) and just running ADW launcher. Only mods are the Super Circle battery mod and clock delete from the notification bar.
EindhovenOne said:
I'm running Fresh Evo 4.2 (gb 2.3.3) and just running ADW launcher. Only mods are the Super Circle battery mod and clock delete from the notification bar.
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Your question belongs in the thread for the ROM you're running.
I have the setting to which you're referring in the ROM I'm running.
Please PM a mod to delete this thread, and ask the question in the correct thread.
There are other Evo users who are running STOCK gb who also lost that setting so it doesn't seem to be specific to my ROM whatsoever:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16007415&postcount=5
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There are other Evo users who are running STOCK gb who also lost that setting so it doesn't seem to be specific to my ROM whatsoever.
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MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE . I hate being able to read the whole message before i open it. also, people use my phone, i dont want them seeing my stuff like that
EindhovenOne said:
There are other Evo users who are running STOCK gb who also lost that setting so it doesn't seem to be specific to my ROM whatsoever.
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Either way, your post belongs in Q&A, or General, as it's not Development.
To troubleshoot any type of issue like this, the first step is always to see if it's like that before you make any mods. I would advise you to do a nandroid backup of your current setup, and then wipe everything and re-flash the ROM. If the Setting is there on a fresh flash, then one of your mods is causing the issue. If it's not, then it would have to be a ROM (or device) issue.
Have you tried that?
You could also full wipe and try flashing the ROM linked in my signature, since I've confirmed that the setting exists. If it doesn't exist for you, on a fresh flash, full/complete wipe (everything except SD card), then the issue lies elsewhere (i.e. not the ROM)
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Either way, your post belongs in Q&A, or General, as it's not Development.
To troubleshoot any type of issue like this, the first step is always to see if it's like that before you make any mods. I would advise you to do a nandroid backup of your current setup, and then wipe everything and re-flash the ROM. If the Setting is there on a fresh flash, then one of your mods is causing the issue. If it's not, then it would have to be a ROM (or device) issue.
Have you tried that?
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Not being rude, obscene but this kinda of sounds just like the sprint reps stuff like a computerized generated responce, also it is there getting no talk because nobody truly reads the Q&A section. I have the issue also.
once again NOT being rude or obscene just stating a thought about stuff
Regardless if anyone reads Q&A or not, that is where this post belongs... well at least there or Themes/Mod. It looks like there already is a post about this in Q&A too.
Also, I beg to differ. If you look at General and Q&A, both are very frequently traveled. Almost every question asked has a reply of some sort.
As to OP, it seems to be 2.3.3 specific, so you would have to ask someone to mod this or ask HTC to fix it.
+1 github and leo...Throwback, I wasn't meaning any disrespect or back-talk, but i also think this belongs right here. It isn't a theme or an app, it is a feature that disappeared in the latest update for whatever reason. Github, thank you for the input. I don't know why that page went away and I guess I'll just wait to see if someone can mod it but in the meantime I'll contact HTC and see if I can make any headway.
I think there is a mod for this by steelh himself...you can get to it from the lock screen mod thread pinned in the themes and apps section...might be the one you need.
Lockscreen privacy
theidlemonk said:
I think there is a mod for this by steelh himself...you can get to it from the lock screen mod thread pinned in the themes and apps section...might be the one you need.
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That's correct. There's a mod from JsChiSurf for Froyo and I ported it over to GB.