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Using dialer in landscape mode

Hi, I'm fighting with my 3rd mobile now with the same problems.
In the moment I'm using a Samsung J5.
I wanted a A5 but I ordered through mistake a wrong model and it's not really bad and so I use it further.
But the dialer .....
I saw (and had for myself) a few mobiles where the dialers change in landscape mode if I lay my mobile in the mobile holder on the side.
But after a Update from Android 6 to 7 (and a lot of other updates included) the dialer is not anymore moving in landscape mode.
Now I have to lay my head always on my left shoulder to make a phonecall.
Not funny ......
I installed a few dialers and the worked ..... 1 time.
After this always the old dialer started again if I have done a phone call over the new dialer.
I "stopped" the old dialer and changed the "default applications" to the new dialer and still the old dialer starts.
I changed also the launcher to Nova and Google and all apps are now running in landscape mode .... but not the dialer.
And I can install whatever I want on new dialer and either the old dialer starts direct or after one time using of the new dialer.
I can't get rid of the old dialer.
I changed also back to a Android 6 Version with the help of a hacker but still my "old" dialer wins the rulership over every new installed dialer and still the "old" dialer is not working in landscape mode (and the "old" dialer has done it at the beginning .... to this one update).
I'm really enoyd and I had a look a few time to another mobiles because of that.
The caterpillar for example has a dialer that works in landscape.
My girlfriend has a Samsung A5 and her dialer is not working in landscape either.
That starts so slowly to be a real knockout decision for buying my next mobile because it's soooooo enoying.

Is there anything somebody can tell me what I can do?
 
FWIW I've got two phones with 8.x Oreo, and their stock diallers work in landscape mode when phone is held horizontal, Samsung Galaxy S7 and Huawei Mate 10.
 
FWIW I've got two phones with 8.x Oreo, and their stock diallers work in landscape mode when phone is held horizontal, Samsung Galaxy S7 and Huawei Mate 10.

My mobile has done it at the beginning too.
But then I got a update from Android 6 to 7 from Samsung (with a few other updates) and afterwards the fun was gone.
Afterwards the dialer started to be a problem.
I installed also other dialers but the the original Dialer is so massiv ...... "the boss".
I tried to stop it, to change the "default applications", to install other dialers, and always the old dialer starts again and after the update it wont' work anymore in landscape.
I'm sitting here so often at my desk with my head on my left shoulder .... all the people are laughing.
I can't laugh anymore about it ........

My girlfriends Samsung A5 has a dialer too who won't work in landscape mode.
It's annoying too ........
 
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Some dialers are baked in to the OS and cannot be changed unless you root your phone.
Either that or buy a new phone as stated above...
 
My mobile has done it at the beginning too.
But then I got a update from Android 6 to 7 from Samsung (with a few other updates) and afterwards the fun was gone.
Afterwards the dialer started to be a problem.

I installed also other dialers but the the original Dialer is so massiv ...... "the boss".
I tried to stop it, to change the "default applications", to install other dialers, and always the old dialer starts again and after the update it wont' work anymore in landscape.
I'm sitting here so often at my desk with my head on my left shoulder .... all the people are laughing.
I can't laugh anymore about it ........

My girlfriends Samsung A5 has a dialer too who won't work in landscape mode.
It's annoying too ........

I do have a Samsung with 8.x Oreo and the stock Samsung dialler does support horizontal landscape no problem. So could be Samsung removed the feature with Android 7.x Nougat, and then subsequently reinstated it with 8.x Oreo on their phones?
 
I don't have a Samsung phone to test with, but it does rotate in Android 9 on my Pixel, so it's not that Android per se is preventing this.

Why do you have to turn your head on your side to dial though? Isn't it easier to turn the phone? I mean, even if you have it standing on your desk in landscape, isn't it easier to just turn it when you want to use it as a phone?
 
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