Hello all. Im Looby.
Im new to this forum but have been a "low tech" android user for several years.
I have an LG Optimus G Pro stock rom not rooted or anything.
What i am trying to do is hook my phone up to an external display in my kitchen to display recipe webpages while cooking. Hookup is physically managed by a slimport adapter running to the display via HDMI. External display is hung in portrait orientation.
Problem is I cant for the life of me get the monitor to display correctly. When the phone is in portrait mode I get the massive black bars on the side of the image. I guess that is because i need the phone screen to stay in portrait mode but display in landscape mode on the external display. Not really sure if that makes sense or not. No amount or changing of the phone screen orientation fixes it as I think I need two different orientations one on the phone and a different one on the external display. If i leave the phone on auto rotate and go from portrait to landscape for a second it is correct and switches to a full screen portrait orientation on the external but then goes into the landscape mode and everything is wrong again.
Anyone know if there is any type of solution that might work? I have tried 4 different screen rotate apps and all just do the same thing and dont help. I know that if I were to hook up my windows netbook i could change the orientation of the displays independently and was really hoping this is possible in android.
I appreciate any help or direction anyone can provide.
Looby
Im new to this forum but have been a "low tech" android user for several years.
I have an LG Optimus G Pro stock rom not rooted or anything.
What i am trying to do is hook my phone up to an external display in my kitchen to display recipe webpages while cooking. Hookup is physically managed by a slimport adapter running to the display via HDMI. External display is hung in portrait orientation.
Problem is I cant for the life of me get the monitor to display correctly. When the phone is in portrait mode I get the massive black bars on the side of the image. I guess that is because i need the phone screen to stay in portrait mode but display in landscape mode on the external display. Not really sure if that makes sense or not. No amount or changing of the phone screen orientation fixes it as I think I need two different orientations one on the phone and a different one on the external display. If i leave the phone on auto rotate and go from portrait to landscape for a second it is correct and switches to a full screen portrait orientation on the external but then goes into the landscape mode and everything is wrong again.
Anyone know if there is any type of solution that might work? I have tried 4 different screen rotate apps and all just do the same thing and dont help. I know that if I were to hook up my windows netbook i could change the orientation of the displays independently and was really hoping this is possible in android.
I appreciate any help or direction anyone can provide.
Looby
