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I'm trying to display a Galaxy S4 (GT-i9500) on this computer monitor that I'm turning in to a "smart mirror".
I want the monitor in portrait mode. I need a way to have the phone output portrait mode sideways so that it fills the screen. Landscape fills the screen fine.
There are no settings in the monitor.
No rotation control apps will have any effect on this. They seem unrelated. Example, landscape/reverse landscape are the same exact thing on the TV. Same story on portrait.
Thanks for reading!
Did you ever find a solution. I'm having a similar dilemma with a computer setup I'm building. Looks like a cool project.
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I'm wondering if there are any apps that adjusts or replaces the auto rotate feature in android. I often find myself in situations where the orientation switches on me when I'm laying on my side or when I'm trying to see the screen because of an unexpecting notification, phone call or I'm just trying to get the phone out of my pocket.
I like to see an app where the orientation will only change if the specifide angle, tilt and time conditions are met. For example, if you want to switch from landscape to portrait. you hold it at a very exact angle of orientation (ie 90°+/-1°) at a specifide tilt (ie between 15° and 90°) for a specifide time (ie 500 ms) and then it will change from landscape to portrait mode.
I also like to see a setting were it will turn off auto rotate when the tilt goes beyond 90°, like when you lay down on your back.
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I agree.
I find if I put the phone horizontally on a table it often will go into landscape mode. It is quite a pain to worry about the angle I put my phone on a table.
Customizing the tilt variables would be awesome.
I am still looking around the internet for a solution. If you find one let me know.
My TF101 (running Prime 2.1.1) has been acting strange since yesterday (when I first noticed it). The screen orientation will not auto adjust if I move the tablet, e.g. from holding landscape in two hands to holding it on it's side, it stays in landscape. If I run an app that lacks orientation support or fakes it, I may end up with my tablet locked into portrait mode! Rebooting doesn't impact anything.
Toggling the Screen->Auto Rotate setting in the settings app (NOT the quick controls) will give me the correct orientation most of the time. Docking will (so far) always get my back to landscape. So for the most part, I have no auto-rotate and running a protrait apps can lock my screen rotation to portrait. Docking is the only reliable thing so far...
Possible abuses:
-> I usually put my dock and tablet in my backpack but "Undocked", and stow the pack on my cars floor board, it doesn't get bounced around but maybe payback for leaving it undocked?
-> For the past couple weeks I've been using the quick control to lock the screen so I can display stuff upside down; e.g. to use landscape in bed, while charging.
but other wise it's pretty well taken care of, better than most peoples PC's. When I boot, it is usually laying flat on a desk or docked.
Personally, I use my tablet i landscape whenever an app doesn't force me to do otherwise....but I'm concerned about hardware failure in the sensor. Being root+Prime, I'd rather not RMA if possible.
Does anyone have any advice or ideas about this?
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I found this app can do all orientations.
Orientation Control
Unsure what is causing your problem, however.
Good luck!
settings
In settings/screen is auto-rotate screen ticked.
Colin
I will have to test that app as a manual fix, and yes the auto rotate is checked; i believe the locking when apps force portrait still occurs when it is unchecked though.
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Hi I have the Xperia Z1 and I'm wondering if There's any way (app, xposed module, etc) of make the reverse landscape mode the reverse mode by default. Let me explain myself, when im playing Games like NFSMW I use headphones and it's uncomfortable to hold the device while the headphone jack it's connected, the problem it's that in some games the rotation it's locked so i can't play with the device rotated. I tried apps like rotation locker and Ultimate rotation control but the problem is that with these apps when the screen it's forced to rotate the gyroscope stays intact making the car (NFSMW) turn the opposite way. So I realized that the only way of play this correctly is either using an app that swap the gyroscope (which I didn't find) or better a trick to make the device think that the reverse landscape mode is the default landscape mode.
Thanks in advance.
Just got the box (with 2GB RAM and bluetooth) and so far happy with it.
I used to use UHost 1 which is one of the best Android TV stick at that time; but feel too slow now.
On Uhost, all Android apps which have tablet optimized UI will display on my TV as if my TV is a tablet in landscape mode. For example, Twitter app will display two panes (left and right), instead of one as shown on mobile phone display.
On CS918, it does not dislay the tablet UI landscape mode as I mentioned above; it displays more like a big wide mobile phone. How could I tweak CS918 to display like a tablet wth tablet UI on landscape mode?
Thanks.
I recently bought a touchscreen monitor but it does not have a gravity sensor. When you do screen mirroring, it just puts portrait mode in the centre of the screen but still in landscape orientation like it would with a TV. I downloaded an app called SecondScreen and gave it permissions but it still just does the same thing. I read that someone managed to make it work part way but the touchscreen aspect was still in landscape while the image was true portrait.
It seems insane that you can't make screen mirroring do true mirroring. (ie. Portrait mode longitudinal on external screen). DEX has no option for portrait so I am kind of feeling like I might need to return my external monitor. Has anyone found a solution to allow proper portrait mode on an external monitor with android?
Return the monitor.
Found any solution? Even with my rooted device and these settings it won't work.
The monitor cannot be returned.