[Q] Screen Rotation P6810 - Galaxy Tab 7.7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I've a possible problem with the P6810. When rotating the screen from portrait to landscape or vice versa while in an application such as youtube or web browsing, what ever is being presented on the screen is reset.
What I mean is this; say you are streaming something from youtube, as soon as you rotate the screen, the video restarts from the beginning. Same with audio or websites. If I'm browsing, a rotation in screen orientation will cause the web page to refresh. It becomes quite annoying.
This is not behavior I'm familiar with on other devices so I need to know from others with the Tab 7.7 whether or not this is normal as I don't think it is. I've reset the tablet and I've used several different launchers with no change. I'm starting to believe I may have a hardware problem.

I too have this screen rotation problem when browsing
I too am having this screen rotation problem and have not yet found a solution. In all broswers that I have used (stock, Firefox beta, Dolphin HD, Opera Mobile), when I rotate the screen while browsing, it resets. The page I was browsing goes away (actually all pages loaded up on the tabs go away as well) and it returns me to home screen.
Any insights into fixing this are appreciated.

I too have noticed this with YouTube and also noticed it with wallpapers. It is very annoying when the wallpaper has to be refreshed everytime the screen rotates
Fogot to mention that my tab is the P6800 not the wifi version
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So three not working properly... anyone have one which doesn't exhibit this behavior?
I have not seen this occur on several phones including my current galaxy nexus or on previous ASUS tablets. I see it as a potential defect unless anyone can show otherwise.
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+1 for "not working"
I haven't seen this as a defect as much as a bug. I'm guessing we're all on the same build and Samsung just need to fix it (hopefully with ICS and soon plz!)
I'm on the LA2 build myself, imported from Panamoz, built in Taiwan.
I like my homescreen to stay in portrait, and so this bug also immediately crashes some full screen games that are landscape only when I load them from my homescreen. I have to load an auto-rotate app (like the browser), switch to landscape, then multi-task into the game...its a pain.

I hope it's something in their implementation of HC but since I've not seen a device act like this on any previous incarnations of Android on multiple hardware platforms it has me a bit worried. Wonder if someone with a legit device can put a call into Samsung to see what's up or even if US support knows what the device is since Verizon is now selling them.
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Turn off animation and it will be ok.
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ysabxe said:
Turn off animation and it will be ok.
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Thanks. Seemed to help with the browser behavior but not YouTube.....
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didn't help for me, Animations turned off, if I change orientation in Opera during page load it just crashes opera completely.... very annoyed by this

Very strange thing, I turn on animation, and everithing is work fine :-| I update Youtube and Opera (new versions was on market ), may be you should do that to, plus reboot your device.
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ysabxe said:
Very strange thing, I turn on animation, and everithing is work fine :-| I update Youtube and Opera (new versions was on market ), may be you should do that to, plus reboot your device.
Youtube in a browser works as expected now that the browser is not refreshing, however what I'm talking about is video streaming from within the youtube app. Everything is up to date and I did a reboot after changing the setting.
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My Youtube app work well and streaming dont stops anymore, try to go Manage aplications - Youtube- Restore defoult setings, clear cash (some thing like that)
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Screen not rotating on SGT7.7
I work at verizon and today this issue was driving me crazy for 22mins. After power cycling the device (twice) and checking the rotate box then unchecking it several times to no avail, I was left with two options: 1.Hard Reset, which i wasn't going to do, or 2. Calling samsung, the sammy rep instructed me to hard reset. Man she was really no help at all so i tried one last thing I horizontally re-calibrated the device and it worked just fine so far only resolution.

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[Q] Help! Wallpaper blackout

I'm having with my brand new transformer where like half the screen appears black when I set up a background for it. It works perfectly fine when I'm using a live wallpaper but any other wallpaper even one of the ones that came with it doesn't work. I just started having this problem today. I've done a couple regular resets and they didn't do anything. Would prefer not to do a hard reset as I just set everything up the way that I wanted it. Any and all help is appreciated.
p.s I'm not rooted or anything. This is a completely stock Transformer running android 3.2. I've only had it for like 3 days.
I had that same issue when I used Perfect Viewer (comics app) and told it to set my background from a screen capture in the program. After that all new backgrounds I tried were cut off.
Solution for me was to uninstall perfect viewer but found out later that there is a scaling and cropping check box in the app that causes this to happen when checked. Maybe that's your issue?
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Acer A510 help

Hi All,
I recently got the acer A510 overall i am happy with it except i have a few problems and wanted to know if anyone else is having the same.
I noticed a fair few apps are unstable. The store shows the apps are compatable etc but they crash a fair bit.
While i am not too fussed by it 1 does really annoy me.
It happens in both the built in web browser and on chrome.
Basically i can be on 1 tab and go back to another tab, but then it can't remember and starts to reload the tab (this is all in a matter of minutes)
Then after doing this a few times it stops loading. if i exit out and go back in all i get is a messed up black screen with bits of the app showing.
I have to reboot to resolve.
I have tried factory resetting and it's the same issue, all i did was sign up gmail and only download chrome. They both do the same thing.
Any comments on being a common issue or what i should try would be great.
Other than that the tab runs great plays movies great and is smooth very smooth.
I have the AUS version updated and theres only the 1 firmware. BTW acer are pretty useless in tech support area lol
Hi malos1984,
I have also issues with Chrome. Sometimes Chrome just freezes from time to time and the tab reboots. More often the page gets white and blinks (seems it tries to refresh but i gets white again). In this case I am able the restart Chrome.
It was so annoying – so now I am using Dolphin and I am quite happy. No freeze no reboots. Everything works fine.
It seems that more people have the same issue with Chrome on the A510. At least if you go through some of the play store comments…
Perhaps there will be a fix coming. Not sure if this needs to be fixed on the Acer side or on the Chrome side.
Cheers,
Elendiir
I tried Chrome, didn't like it and just switched back to stock. That browser has all my needs in it.
But I totally agree with the OP, Acer doesn't have the sharpest tech support. lol.
salisbury_steak said:
I tried Chrome, didn't like it and just switched back to stock. That browser has all my needs in it.
But I totally agree with the OP, Acer doesn't have the sharpest tech support. lol.
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Lol no they do not they don't even have an email contact here in aus pretty bad for a tech company.
Back on topic.
The strange thing is the default one is buggy too very similar issue.
On top of that embedded YouTube videos on sites and forums show the videos overlapping each other in the top left hand of page in both orientations and a black box where they should be displaying on the page.
I hope we get 4.0.4 and jelly bean later on as a update.
Another question I had is why doesn't shadow gun work I stupidly paid for it but its delayed in responsiveness.
I.e. i press a menu button and about a minute later the menu opens, then in game I tell it to do something and it takes about 3 secs to do that.
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Lol no they do not they don't even have an email contact here in aus pretty bad for a tech company.
Back on topic.
The strange thing is the default one is buggy too very similar issue.
On top of that embedded YouTube videos on sites and forums show the videos overlapping each other in the top left hand of page in both orientations and a black box where they should be displaying on the page.
I hope we get 4.0.4 and jelly bean later on as a update.
Another question I had is why doesn't shadow gun work I stupidly paid for it but its delayed in responsiveness.
I.e. i press a menu button and about a minute later the menu opens, then in game I tell it to do something and it takes about 3 secs to do that.
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Ya I hope we get JB soon. I could use with the tab being a little slicker. Overall things are very smooth compared to HC but pale in comparison to the iPad.
Btw, SHadowgun on the A510 sucks. See a threa here in Madfinger's forum. Lotsa people facing it yet they're not gonna do anything about it. That sucks! Link: http://www.madfingergames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=525
hmm
I agree with the stock browser stability.. It seems to refresh whenever I change tab n back to the previous tab.. and sometimes when I am multi tasking, switching back to browser gives me a white blank page. I have to scroll back to the top then the page shows back.. WEIRD.
himmatsj said:
Ya I hope we get JB soon. I could use with the tab being a little slicker. Overall things are very smooth compared to HC but pale in comparison to the iPad.
Btw, SHadowgun on the A510 sucks. See a threa here in Madfinger's forum. Lotsa people facing it yet they're not gonna do anything about it. That sucks! Link: http://www.madfingergames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=525
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I faced the same issue on my tab playing shadowgun. however, after switching from 1.044 to 1.073, the problem have disappeared, but now I'm facing with problem of screen responsiveness while putting it on a table. they said its grounding issue and can be fixed from the settings, which have to be done every restart.(which I did not face it on 1.044).
azreen91 said:
I faced the same issue on my tab playing shadowgun. however, after switching from 1.044 to 1.073, the problem have disappeared, but now I'm facing with problem of screen responsiveness while putting it on a table. they said its grounding issue and can be fixed from the settings, which have to be done every restart.(which I did not face it on 1.044).
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Ok, I'm a noob at this but what's 1.044 and 1.073? I'm unrooted btw. Anyways, yeah the tab has got pretty bad responsiveness all around and you're right, when you put it on a table (flat surface) its totally unusable. Why is this so?
Chrome Problem
elendiir said:
Hi malos1984,
I have also issues with Chrome. Sometimes Chrome just freezes from time to time and the tab reboots. More often the page gets white and blinks (seems it tries to refresh but i gets white again). In this case I am able the restart Chrome.
It was so annoying – so now I am using Dolphin and I am quite happy. No freeze no reboots. Everything works fine.
It seems that more people have the same issue with Chrome on the A510. At least if you go through some of the play store comments…
Perhaps there will be a fix coming. Not sure if this needs to be fixed on the Acer side or on the Chrome side.
Cheers,
Elendiir
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I do have problems with Chrome on the A510....I will probably try dolphin to see how it goes.. I hope acer releases an update soon cause I hate having that bloatware, including the AcerNidus app, which is supposed to collect information about bugs....well what for if they don't release updates to fix them?
himmatsj said:
Ok, I'm a noob at this but what's 1.044 and 1.073? I'm unrooted btw. Anyways, yeah the tab has got pretty bad responsiveness all around and you're right, when you put it on a table (flat surface) its totally unusable. Why is this so?
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If you go to about tablet, you should see a "software version" field. 1.073 is the latest.
I actually have my tablet sent back to warranty service since the gyroscope is miscalibrated. I'm supposed to get it back after a week.
As for the non-responsiveness, it is a bug that was introduced in the latest firmware updated. To fix it, you'll need to go to display >> screen responsiveness >> toggle it to low/medium, then high again. You need to do this right after every restart.

While watching online video (flash) display off...

After upgrade on JB, when i watch online full screen video (flash) after 30 sec display turns off,,,,
On 4.0 when i use it.... the screen was never turn off while i use online video....
Any idea?
Thanks!
On firefox - OK
On built in browser - display turns off
((((
Sounds like a bug. Could try factory reset to be sure.
Or get tasker and set a profile to disable screen timeout when running browser
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Sounds like a bug to me as well. Stock browser is wonky like that. I only use Chrome.
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[Q] Galaxy tab 7.7 screen temporarily goes black

Hi,
I have the Galaxy Tab 7.7 wifi-only version (P6810) running ICS and when I read my manga in bed (using Mangawatcher)
the screen sometimes goes black for a few seconds and then comes back.
I also use gesturecontrol for fullscreen reading and a screen dimming app called "screen filter".
So maybe it is the screen dimming app that causes it? Has anyone else had a similar problem or a solution?
It just started doing this a few weeks ago. It is not a big deal but maybe someone has a solution?
Thanks in advance
Uh unheard of, I use Voodoo display filter and komik and no screen issues, only issue I have is display filter gets restarted by android after some hours.. might be a restart of screen filter, have you tried using one at a time, to isolate wich app might do this ?
Get a catlog app to se what android is doing behind the scenes..
biopsin said:
Uh unheard of, I use Voodoo display filter and komik and no screen issues, only issue I have is display filter gets restarted by android after some hours.. might be a restart of screen filter, have you tried using one at a time, to isolate wich app might do this ?
Get a catlog app to se what android is doing behind the scenes..
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Thanks for answering :highfive:
I will try to find the one app that is causing it by using one at a time and see if I find out more. It just seems a bit strange since it didn't happen before. Thanks

[Q] cm 12 5.02 nexus 5 freaks out on full screen video

I'm having a weird issue, mostly with twitch, some times with MX players, and some times with games, where if im watching something landscape, and switch to portrait, i suddenly lose notification bar/homebackmulti etc. If I put the phone to sleep it comes back to a black screen where some times the app will come back up somes times not. Any ideas whats wrong? its like fullscreen stuff causes the launcher to crash I guess?
Bump? Seems my system setting and ui crash on full screen video/games
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