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Can't get auto rotate to lock in landscape

I like to use my Samsung Vibrant in landscape mode while lying on the couch, so the phone is physically upright, so it stays in portrait mode. How do I lock so it stays in landscape, no matter what the orientation is? All the apps I've tried so far disables auto rotate, but defaults in portrait.
Help!!

keep portrait start screen when landscape docked?

I have been using my the docking station for my titan and am loving it however when docked the start screen remains "sideways" as well as hubs and index search.
rather than a question about landscape mode because maybe that functionality isn't programmed or possible. Is there a way to rotate the start screen to portrait facing me while the phone is docked landscaped? I can picture a huge black bar or empty space off to the right which is fine.
are there any registry edits maybe out there or?

I don't believe anybody has found a way to force the Start screen into landscape mode. This is true even with those Windows phones that have landscape slide-out keyboard (which normally force the phone into Landscape mode while the keyboard is out). I see no evidence of support for a landscape start screen in anything that I've yet seen of WP7.

upgraded to JB, lost screen rotation

really strange. this is not "slow" it's just not happening.
home screen
web browser
pulse
other apps
funny thing was i actually like this for most of my use. but then i started to notice it. the strange thing is sometimes i'll pick it up in portrait mode and unlock and i will get the vertical lock screen.
anyone notice this? am i missing a setting somewhere?

It happened to me the same thing, set with a reboot.

Do you have Auto rotate enabled or disabled? (The block with two arrows around it in the quick settings.)
With auto rotate off it doesn't rotate when unlocked. Picking it up (and unlocking) in portrait mode rotates the screen to portrait mode. The lock screen does rotate.

ShadowLea said:
Do you have Auto rotate enabled or disabled? (The block with two arrows around it in the quick settings.)
With auto rotate off it doesn't rotate when unlocked. Picking it up (and unlocking) in portrait mode rotates the screen to portrait mode. The lock screen does rotate.
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i am a complete freakin' idiot. thanks for reminding me about this!

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Camera question

Please get me out of my misery. I’m probably doing something wrong but whenever I take a photo or video facing down towards the floor or ceiling, holding the phone landscape, viewing the result shows portrait and I have to edit to flip it landscape. Any tips for me?
Best regaeds,

g0tch said:
Please get me out of my misery. I’m probably doing something wrong but whenever I take a photo or video facing down towards the floor or ceiling, holding the phone landscape, viewing the result shows portrait and I have to edit to flip it landscape. Any tips for me?
Best regaeds,
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Do you have your phone screen rotation locked to portait?
If not, you have to rotate your phone landscape facing straight on forward until the camera UI rotates.
If you're shooting weird angles, consider locking the auto rotate to landscape because the camera UI will rotate to the accelerometers readings.

coilbio said:
Do you have your phone screen rotation locked to portait?
If not, you have to rotate your phone landscape facing straight on forward until the camera UI rotates.
If you're shooting weird angles, consider locking the auto rotate to landscape because the camera UI will rotate to the accelerometers readings.
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Thanks for your reply. Auto rotate is enabled in the dropdown menu (blue) so I assume it's not locked to portrate. All pictures taken landscape facing forward are fine when viewed in gallery holding the phone landscape. It only happens holding the phone landscape downward, like taking photo of something on the ground or table. When such photos are taken, they appear in portrate when viewed holding phone in landscape.
Regards,

Question DEX with external monitor. Any way to force into portrait mode?

DEX seems to have no option for portrait. With screen mirroring, I noticed rotating the phone puts it into portrait mode. However, the USB C monitor does not get a true portrait. (It is just as it would be on a TV with the orientation in landscape but a small window in the middle when the phone is in portrait mode). I know that some USB C monitors also have a gravity sensor but mine does not. In windows, it is easily done in the display settings.
I tried a few apps like SecondScreen but they all just end up doing the same thing. Portrait mode is displayed in landscape orientation in the middle of the screen. There seems to be no way to get a true lengthwise portrait mode. I want this for reading PDFs on the go. Does anyone know of a way to do this??

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m0b1liz3 said:
DEX seems to have no option for portrait. With screen mirroring, I noticed rotating the phone puts it into portrait mode. However, the USB C monitor does not get a true portrait. (It is just as it would be on a TV with the orientation in landscape but a small window in the middle when the phone is in portrait mode). I know that some USB C monitors also have a gravity sensor but mine does not. In windows, it is easily done in the display settings.
I tried a few apps like SecondScreen but they all just end up doing the same thing. Portrait mode is displayed in landscape orientation in the middle of the screen. There seems to be no way to get a true lengthwise portrait mode. I want this for reading PDFs on the go. Does anyone know of a way to do this??
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Not that I know of. DeX was not designed to work in portrait mode. If you want to read PDFs in portrait mode on the go, you can't do it in DeX; you have to be in normal tablet mode.