I thought the new Sense was supposed to allow the homescreen and widgets to work in landscape?
If it does, sure does not do so automaticly. How do I get the home screen and desk clock to display in landscape?
Oh man!!Auto Rotate is turned on by default. Mine is on and the home screen does not rotate to landscape.
I haven't seen this on any of the phone reviews VIA youtube. Maybe vanilla Gingerbread can do this but not Gingerbread with Sense 3.0. Sorry.
The amount of time it takes to go into landscape is maddening when you have it on, because if you tilt it enough to activate it, it takes 4 seconds (roughly) to go. That and it's just an erroneous feature that really never needs to be on. I can only think of af few rare and seldom situations that it would be handy to have this with, and those would be sitting somewhere reading things off the home screen or while in bed, and in both situations it woukd most likely be eaiser to open the application the widgets you're reading are pulling information from.
Not one android phone in the candy bar format, to this date, has done this. If you use an alternate launcher, then you can force it to follow orientation. This is literally a question that is asked in EVERY forum for EVERY phone. Trust me on this, having it go into landscape really isn't worth it unless you have a keyboard. The amount of time it takes to go into landscape is maddening when you have it on, because if you tilt it enough to activate it, it takes 4 seconds (roughly) to go. That and it's just an erroneous feature that really never needs to be on. I can only think of af few rare and seldom situations that it would be handy to have this with, and those would be sitting somewhere reading things off the home screen or while in bed, and in both situations it woukd most likely be eaiser to open the application the widgets you're reading are pulling information from.
Is this normal ? Every other screen that I have found rotates from portrait to landscape just fine. Just not any of the home screens or the apps screen.
I think that it may rotated at first but after I installed the update it doesn't now. I wonder whats wrong ?
I agree. I want to be able to sit my phone in the car dock and have it turn sideways! The simplest thing would be to include an option in the phone for *particularly* homescreen orientation. Just have an option for *lock or *auto homescreen rotation, and an option for *Lock or Auto on everything else....I don't want to have to run launcher pro to get my homescreen to landscape. It's not that big of a deal, but annoying since we know they CAN do it.
Unfortunately I have to do this. I have my Tasker setup so that when I get in my car, it launches launcherpro with homescreen rotation. The upside is that it also allows me to use a custom icon set specifically for in-car use. The downside is that they are pretty much exactly what I have on my homescreen anyways, and it's just one more thing to bog down my phone.Use launcherPro and you will most likely be able to auto rotate on the home screen, but you loose sense functions
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