I am looking for a way to use the rotate option for ALL screens on my EVO.. the rotate option only works in certain apps and i would like to be able to rotate my Home Screen along with My Phone Dialer, is there anyway to do this?
I am running a Rooted Stock Rom on my HTC EVO with a netarchy custom kernal ... what are my options to achieve this effect?
PS: Just to be more clear, by rotate i mean: When you turn the phone horizontally, i would like the picture on the screen to also turn horizontally rather than like the home screen stays vertical even when i turn the phone horizontal
stock rom won't do landscape homescreen. You'll need to flash to a custom rom to unlock that. even still, I've never seen a landscape dialer.
Or run a custom launcher, I know ADW has a landscape options. But some of the widgets/icons are not optimized for it and look funny
there's absolutely no way to flash a mod that will allow the stock rom to do this? Are there sense roms out there that allow for landscape home screens or only AOSP roms that allow for the landsape of the home screen, and if there are sense roms that allow landscape homscreen why couldn't it be done on the stock rom ?
It's not necessarily the "ROM". It's the launcher (home screen). If you're rooted, you can use these on the stock ROM, or any other Sense/AOSP based ROMs.
LauncherPro, ADW, ADW.EX and GO Launcher are some of the popular ones that allow landscape home screens.
pulazki said:
there's absolutely no way to flash a mod that will allow the stock rom to do this? Are there sense roms out there that allow for landscape home screens or only AOSP roms that allow for the landsape of the home screen, and if there are sense roms that allow landscape homscreen why couldn't it be done on the stock rom ?
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i hate all the home launchers on the market, i like to use the regular stock sense is there anyway i can make this customization happen without changing the appearence of my phone? dont wanna change roms nor do i wanna have to use a home launcher like adw..
i just want my stock rooted sense rom with the ability to landscape my home screen...
The HTC Sense home launcher does not support landscape rotation and there is no modification available to do so.
pulazki said:
i hate all the home launchers on the market, i like to use the regular stock sense is there anyway i can make this customization happen without changing the appearence of my phone? dont wanna change roms nor do i wanna have to use a home launcher like adw..
i just want my stock rooted sense rom with the ability to landscape my home screen...
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I run Warm Z 2.2 its sense 2.0 based and offers full landscape support.
my dad has the HTC EVO Shift, and his phone is able to do the home screen landscape, and that is also running sense 2.0 -- so technically... it is possible
does Warm Z offer landscape for the dialer?
I'm looking to be able to stand my EVO up with the kickstand on my desk at work and be able to dial on the phone with it horizontal sittin up on the kickstand
pulazki said:
does Warm Z offer landscape for the dialer?
I'm looking to be able to stand my EVO up with the kickstand on my desk at work and be able to dial on the phone with it horizontal sittin up on the kickstand
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no. i dont know of any rom that has a landscape dialer
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my dad has the HTC EVO Shift, and his phone is able to do the home screen landscape, and that is also running sense 2.0 -- so technically... it is possible
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Your 100% right on the fact that your dads Shift is running Sence 2.0 and yes the launcher dose landscape. The problem is that your eVo, even though its rooted its running a "stock" rom and it still has only Sence 1.0. So it's not possible on your rom.
I would think that there's alot of coding that would have to be done to make it happen. And with all of the custom roms being ported to the eVo from devices that already have Sence 2.0(and Froyo) there's not that much of a demand to port just the Sence 2.0.
Heck, it may just not even be possible at all!?!?
Your best bet may be to find a rom that has been ported and is running stock Sence 2.0. There are a few of them out there... just have to look.
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Phone and contacts that will rotate to landscape are out for cyanogenmod since nightly #78, you just have to enable it in the Call settings and Contact settings.
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Just curious which ROMS support rotated home screen.
I know Darky, and Perception did, but just installed serendipity and it doesn't seem to support that feature.
This is a ROM feature or a module or app I can install to enable it.
If so, names of ROMS or apps would be appreciated it.
Thanks
All roms have screen rotate, if it was not working, bad flash
I don't mean ability rotate the screen. I mean a rotated home screen.
Some ROMS, will have a verticle HOME screen, and some ROMS will when rotated will display the HOME screen in Landscape mode, with the launcher on the side.
Got you, not rom specific, launcher specific. I use adw, has that feature, not all do. I am not sure which launcher serendipity uses
Have you tried a market launcher such as launcher pro or adw? Their home screens can be set to rotate in their settings no matter which rom you are using.
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Thanks guys, much appreciate the help.
Adw launcher is perfect.
It has absolutely nothing to do with your ROM, just what launcher you use.
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Does anyone have a modded stock GB2.3 launcher2.apk that does landscape/rotation from the home screen and app drawer? I'm running CM7 stable with ADW removed and things run alot smoother IMO but I'd like to get the rotation back without going to a different launcher.
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Does anyone have a modded stock GB2.3 launcher2.apk that does landscape/rotation from the home screen and app drawer? I'm running CM7 stable with ADW removed and things run alot smoother IMO but I'd like to get the rotation back without going to a different launcher.
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Check out my thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1025264&highlight=landscape+launcher
r2Doesinc created a ROM with a stock Gingerbread landscape launcher and I put it in a flashable zip. After you download the file flash it in recovery. It replaces your launcher with a stock Gingerbread landscape capable launcher. It allows the home screen and the app drawer to rotate into landscape. You can use the power control widget in CM 7 to lock portrait orientation. I'm currently using it with CM 7.0.3.1 without any problems.
Thanks, exactly what I was looking for.
i really like the pop ups which come after you press menu in stock gingerbread (cuz they are black) now heres the question, can we have those in desire S without rooting it ? maybe adw launcher themes can do that as well ?
thx
You can have these with root, but without it I think we could have it as a part of theme from Sense 2.1...it depends how deep the theme goes... I'd ask that in the original desire forum where they managed to port sense 2.1 and are actively creating themes
You can install launcher pro or adw launcher to have it back again.
Coming to Android from WM6.5 on the HD2, I was wondering if on any of the custom roms whether Sense had been customised in the same way Cookie's Home Tab did on WM. Based on the screenshots of custom roms, it doesnt seem to be the case, its only I love Sense but I have that due to the grid, you can only have so many icons on the screen and you cannot resize any widgets. Ideally I would love to have Sense with the customisation options of Launcher Pro which I am using now. Is that possible?
Thanks
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Coming to Android from WM6.5 on the HD2, I was wondering if on any of the custom roms whether Sense had been customised in the same way Cookie's Home Tab did on WM. Based on the screenshots of custom roms, it doesnt seem to be the case, its only I love Sense but I have that due to the grid, you can only have so many icons on the screen and you cannot resize any widgets. Ideally I would love to have Sense with the customisation options of Launcher Pro which I am using now. Is that possible?
Thanks
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Hi,
I use an app called ELIXIR.
It has a series of widgets which can show up 49 apps at a time.
Easy to customize.
Check it out.
It's free.
I dont like using rom sense removers as i like being able to go back if i wanted.
What i wanted to know is if when i am using go launcher in preference to the sense ui if the sense ui will still run the background and infact be using up my phones resources or if it directly disables it?
many thanks as always all
Yes it will still be on the background, as to how much it uses in the way of resources though I don't know
The UI always runs. It's what you see...the launcher will close while using another launcher, but you can switch back with ease.
Don't worry too much about resources. Sense uses more than AOSP obviously, but the launcher itself used about the same as ADW EX for me.
cheers guys