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Help Why doesn't the Droid X rotate home screen?

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r3dlined

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I noticed the Droid 1 and 2 can rotate the home screen. Is this a hidden feature or possible update for droid x? Its kinda annoying to have to rotate the phone when backing out the the home screen.
 
Now that I put a magnet up to the back of my X I'm double pissed as I see the home screens and dialer can rotate just fine, but its not enabled!!! :mad:

I find that a completely lame feature! If you X out of the multimedia dock you;ll see that the X if full ready to rotate the rest of the screens.
 
Why on Earth they came out with a phone and it wouldn't rotate when in landscape is beyond me!

But as soon as I got my phone, Launcher Pro went on it, So I don't even know what the phone is like 'out of the box' :)
 
Yup but you lose the phone dialer in landscape. What pisses me off is the landscape mode is already built in and seems just completely turned off without the dock. I almost always have my X sideways and backing out to the home screen and having to turn it drives me bonkers. I hope someone comes out with something to leave the dock mode on for Froyo! :mad:

Launcher Pro is cool, but still some bugs that bug me about it.
 
I use LP and had the home screen set to landscape mode but I turned it off because it's quite annoying. Every time I turned the phone sideways the screen rotated and I didn't care for it.

Why on earth do people need to have the homescreen rotate to landscape mode?
 
The better question is why on earth wouldn't it or at least have the option to? LP obviously thought it would be a good idea. I like to hold my phone sideways as I like widescreen monitors/TVs opposed to flipped up to be taller. Now that would be silly.
 
For me the phone is easier to hold in landscape.......PLUS look at that wonderful BIG keyboard in landscape. I use the whole phone in landscape except to make a phone call and whatever programs work in friggen portrait only.
Landscape is where it's at :)
 
There is an app called dock simulator that I never tried when i was on 2.1. Guess that will be the next best bet once there is a 2.2. version (I hope).
 
nipatel1 said:
A heads up that LP would completely remove all your home + 7 screen widgets and icons.
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No, no it does not.
Not unless you remove all the stuff yourself, which I did. But otherwise, everything set up on your stock launcher will be there when you switch back to from launcher pro. It's just a good idea to remove everything from the stock screens so the apps and widgets aren't running in the background while you use LP.
 
I swear mine would rotate but I had to turn it on, and it would only rotate one direction (buttons to the right).

But I don't even have the stock launcher Blur anymore since I'm running tranquility.
 
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