topic Re: Xperia Tablet Z screen orientation in Tablets

Xperia Tablet Z screen orientation

Igorest — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 21:05:19 GMT

After upgrading to Lollipop can't fix vertical screen orientation. When I fix the screen, it's always making horizontal orientation.

Re: Xperia Tablet Z screen orientation

Uliwooly — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 22:28:26 GMT

@Igorest

Are you trying to turn off the screen orientation?

Re: Xperia Tablet Z screen orientation

Experia_Tablet_ — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 21:47:12 GMT

Since the last update, I experience the same phenomenon.

While in the previous android version it was possible to keep the screen locked in portrait orientation, in this update this option is now gone.

It seems like there is only an option to auto rotate or keep it in landscape orientation, but not lock it like it used to be.

I hope Sony will release an update and allow this again because right now this is very annoying and disappointing!

Re: Xperia Tablet Z screen orientation

Igorest — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 06:37:29 GMT

When I lock the rotation it is always keeping landscape orientation, cant lock vertical orientation.

Re: Xperia Tablet Z screen orientation

Experia_Tablet_ — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 09:16:56 GMT

Yes this is what I meant but you wrote this shortly..

Re: Xperia Tablet Z screen orientation

Uliwooly — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 02:57:01 GMT

@Igorest

you need a third party app, check the play store.

Re: Xperia Tablet Z screen orientation

Experia_Tablet_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 19:56:48 GMT

I've tried third party apps but even those weren't capable of locking the screen on portrait.

The two I've downloaded returned the screen to landscape when I selected portrait...

Re: Xperia Tablet Z screen orientation

Uliwooly — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 23:14:11 GMT

trial and error

Re: Xperia Tablet Z screen orientation

Experia_Tablet_ — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 23:56:58 GMT

Igorest, did that "solution" helped you? I've tried a numerous number of apps and all of them couldn't fix the problem.

It's the OS thats keeping the screen in landscape, no matter what happens..

Re: Xperia Tablet Z screen orientation

Uliwooly — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 01:44:33 GMT

@Experia_Tablet_Z

what if you use a third party home launcher?

Re: Xperia Tablet Z screen orientation

Experia_Tablet_ — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 08:22:37 GMT

Didn't try that yet. Any recommendations?

Re: Xperia Tablet Z screen orientation

Uliwooly — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 16:45:06 GMT

Nothing that I can think of, but I'll let you know if I find something

Re: Xperia Tablet Z screen orientation

Experia_Tablet_ — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 22:41:33 GMT

Just wanted to update that I finally found something that really works:

http://coimobile.com/ultimate-rotation-control/

But.. It's a trial version then it costs around 2$

Another thing is that it needs high permissions.

At least I can use my device again...

Re: Xperia Tablet Z screen orientation

firehand10k — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 21:24:51 GMT

There is an app in the play store simple called Rotation Control made by CrapeMyrtle. It is free and even better requires NO permissions to install. It is working good for me.

Also I asked the live chat support about the problem and they told me the developer (being Google) dropped the function but its still in all my other lollipop equiped devices.

Re: Xperia Tablet Z screen orientation

drlmiles1 — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 19:42:00 GMT

There is no need for any third party app. Drag down the quicksettings menu. Is the orientation setting showing "landscape"? Assuming it is, click it to turn on "autorotate". Turn the tablet into Portrait orientation (i.e. the power button is at the top of the screen)

Now click the orientation setting again, changing it from "autorotate" to "portrait". Your XZ tablet will now stay in Portrait orientation.

I only found this great new feature out by accident

Re: Xperia Tablet Z screen orientation

drlmiles1 — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 19:56:01 GMT

@drlmiles wrote:
There is no need for any third party app. Drag down the quicksettings menu. Is the orientation setting showing "landscape"? Assuming it is, click it to turn on "autorotate". Turn the tablet into Portrait orientation (i.e. the power button is at the top of the screen)
Now click the orientation setting again, changing it from "autorotate" to "portrait". Your XZ tablet will now stay in Portrait orientation.
I only found this great new feature out by accident

Sorry, have to post an addendum to my previous message, contradicting myself. If you do what I said above, the icon will change to "portrait" for a second, then the orientation and icon will change to landscape. The exception to this is if you have an app open that locks orientation in Portrait mode, such as Kindle. The orientation icon in quicksettings will then stay as "portrait". However, as soon as you leave that app, it changes back to the "landscape" setting. Very disappointing, Sony, I don't think it would have taken much to sort this out - in fact, it looks like someone has done half the work to enable this functionality, then forgotten to finish it, and testing obviously failed to show this bug.

Screen Orientation Lock after Lollipop update not functional

bananarama — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 18:02:19 GMT

All the posts I see on this suggest 3rd party apps as a solution. I do not want to use a 3rd party app.

Why has the fuctionality to lock the screen in a certain orientation been removed? The options (Settings->Display->When the device is rotated->Stay in current orientation) suggest that the ability to lock to a given orientation (portrait, "upside-down" landscape etc) should be possible, but when this option is selected, it simply forces the screen back into the standard landscape orientation.

Why is this feature broken and will it be fixed?