True portrait mode in external monitor with screen mirroring?? - General Questions and Answers

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.

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[Q] external display resoluton

Is there any way (via app/driver) to increase the display resolution for a docked g-tablet?
It looks like the hardware can drive much higher resolutons: tegradeveloper.nvidia.com/tegra/forum/does-tegra-250-support-2-deferent-video-output-hdmi-and-vga-same-time
I see the Motorola Atrix has an app that does this trick when docked in their "laptop" dock. It would be real slick to do this with my docking unit - I would probably never go back to a laptop or desktop again, except for remote control from my tablet.
TIA
It wouldn't make sense for a device to push more pixels than the actual LCD is capable of.
I don't care about the display on the tablet when it is docked and hooked to an external monitor - that could be turned off. What matters is the external display and how crappy 1024x600 looks on a 19" 16:9 monitor made to display 1440x900.
Our HDMI out is 1080p. 1080x1920
What are you hooked up to when getting higher resolution? Does the tablet display just turn off and external takes over?
Everything I have hooked my dock up to (4:3 and 16:9 19" monitors and 720p TV) gets the same resolution as my tablet display. So the bigger the display the more jagged the experience.
Thanks
i havent tested my hdmi output (waiting for straight cable) but the specs are there.
since max resolution on the gtab is 1024x600, thats what youl see, but through the cord the (720p, 1080p) resolution should show on the HD TV.
Hi Resolution when you use the YouTube.apk
stumppc said:
Is there any way (via app/driver) to increase the display resolution for a docked g-tablet?
It looks like the hardware can drive much higher resolutons: tegradeveloper.nvidia.com/tegra/forum/does-tegra-250-support-2-deferent-video-output-hdmi-and-vga-same-time
I see the Motorola Atrix has an app that does this trick when docked in their "laptop" dock. It would be real slick to do this with my docking unit - I would probably never go back to a laptop or desktop again, except for remote control from my tablet.
TIA
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I was able to get HD (1080p) using the YouTube.APK by selecting HD mode in the application setting. Both the Tablet and the external screen played 1080p videos quite nicely. If you turned off the Tablet display, the external screen also went blank. When I quit out of the APK and set the Tablet to sleep, the HDMI setting appeared to stick in the main Tablet settings. There is no easy way to set the Gtablet resolution using the standard stock settings.
After a few days and trying different TV streaming APKs from the Market. The HDMI Out stopped working altogether. I did a reboot as well as Flash the ROM but the HDMI OUT still does not display. It does recognize the HDMI signal (the LCD shows 1080P) from the dock HDMI port. I am not sure what happened but some how one or more default settings are stuck in the user data configuration file. One of those settings makes my SHARP external display go blank (can't display the set mode). The GTablet continues to display in both 420P and HD (probably 720P) modes.
I will try a data wipe and Flash again to see if it clears the HDMI setting back to the default mode (I believe that is 420p).
If this is the case, then we need some type of HDMI.apk that allows one to set the screen mode to Tablet only, Tablet & External or External only AND set the resolution mode for each. When watching using the dock and an external LCD, I want the default to be 1080p.
So, far when tricking the Gtablet to display 1080p I have some how broken the dock and have not been able to reset back to factory settings.
Any suggestions and/or configuration apk's to resolve this problem?
EKS
Hi Resolution when you use the YouTube.apk
stumppc said:
Is there any way (via app/driver) to increase the display resolution for a docked g-tablet?
It looks like the hardware can drive much higher resolutons: tegradeveloper.nvidia.com/tegra/forum/does-tegra-250-support-2-deferent-video-output-hdmi-and-vga-same-time
I see the Motorola Atrix has an app that does this trick when docked in their "laptop" dock. It would be real slick to do this with my docking unit - I would probably never go back to a laptop or desktop again, except for remote control from my tablet.
TIA
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I was able to get HD (1080p) using the YouTube.APK by selecting HD mode in the application setting. Both the Tablet and the external screen played 1080p videos quite nicely. If you turned off the Tablet display, the external screen also went blank. When I quit out of the APK and set the Tablet to sleep, the HDMI setting appeared to stick in the main Tablet settings. There is no easy way to tell in the standard GTablet setting function.
After a few days and trying different TV streaming APKs from the Market. The HDMI Out stopped working. I did a reboot as well as Flash the ROM but the HDMI OUT still does not display. It does recognize the HDMI signal (the LCD shows 1080P) from the dock HDMI port. I am not sure what happened but some how one or more default settings are stick in the configuration file. I will try a data wipe and Flash again to see if it clears the HDMI setting back to the default mode (I believe that is 420p).
If this is the case, then we need some type of HDMI.apk that allows one to set the screen mode to Tablet only, Tablet & External or External only AND set the resolution mode for each. When watching using the dock and an external LCD, I want the default to be 1080p.
So, far when tricking the Gtablet to display 1080p I have some how broken the dock and have not been able to reset back to factory settings.
Any suggestions and/or configuration apk's to resolve this problem?
EDIT: Fixed the HDMI Display by using new cable. I get really nice HD output using the YouTube.APK with the settings set to HD.
EKS

Auto rotate screen not working; ideas?

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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Apps that don't allow portrait mode

Have you noticed the windows store only views in landscape, even if you rotate your Surface and auto rotate is on(and works for other apps). I have noticed some other apps that don't work in portrait mode (Primetube). I understand that landscape mode is kind of the surface, but we should be able to use the orientation we want.
Annoying.
It's a lot of extra work for the developer to handle different aspect ratios. Some apps do it well, to be sure, but it's not a small thing that you're asking for. Often it means pretty much re-writing the layout code. This is especially true if they want to support different screen widths in different ways (at 768px, a Surface RT in portrait mode is going to have a very different amount of horizontal screen real estate than the 1080px of a Surface Pro).

[Q] Swap default landscape mode

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.

[Q] How to Rotate HDMI Output?

Image for starters: http://i.imgur.com/B7yeVcP.jpg
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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