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'All Rotations' is dropped without an active user application
Issue #307
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The 'All Rotations' feature is a nice expansion of the standard limited one. To me it mostly is handy to be able to choose the orientation depending of the connected USB cable.
The feature works, including the icons on top and bottom of the screen. But as soon as there is no more active user application, the alternative orientation is dropped. This usually comes down to the screen being upside down.
I consider this a bug. I would expect the last orientation to stay effective, regardless whether there is an active foreground application or not.
By the way. Opening the about page of Sense Toolbox itself also drops the orientation.
HTC M8s, Android 5.0.2, Sense 6.0, Sense Toolbox 2.2.3.
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reporter
You are only addressing a side issue in your response. But even then, if the application has orientation control, then it is a flaw if a part of your own application does not adhere to the orientation that is set within that very same application.
The MAIN issue is that the orientation is lost when the last application is closed. That is pretty inconvenient. I wish you would improve that, if possible.
Thanks.
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It's not lost, apps just have no idea that 180 rotation exists, so the only available portrait orientation for them is 0. I can certainly fix the about window, but other apps - not sure, and of course if app forces portrait mode it will be either 0 or 180, overriding this will lead to broken layouts that were not designed for landscape (like Sense launcher).
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I am not talking applications, I am talking NO applications, so I am talking HOME SCREENS...
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Sense Home launcher doesn't support landscape, I can only add reverse portrait support (actually I already did it today for any app including launcher).
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Well, that what I am talking about. It DOES work (reverse portrait) AS LONG as there are user applications in the launcher (home screens). But as soon as the last one is terminated, it FLIPS.
Try it, and maybe it really comes across what I mean.
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It's not only in launcher, any app that forces portrait orientation has this problem too. I fixed it already anyway)
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Application has a control over the orientations, if it forces portrait orientation (like About in Toolbox) then it doesn't matter if 180 degrees rotation is available or not.
Default portrait is 0 degrees rotation and it will be used.