How to get the Wizard to stay in Landscape mode...

Thanatos's picture
Submitted by Thanatos on Sun, 26/11/2006 - 03:28. General

Hey all you smart wizard owners...som1 answer me this 1:
i often switch my 8125 into landscape mode for various reasons (i.e watching a movie) using the settings (without actually opening up the keyboard) and i admit its nice being able to just pull out the keyboard and then close it again to switch back to portrait (so that i don't have to go back into settings). However, the other day i didn't switch it back to portrait mode out of pure laziness and so i just continued to just use it in landscape mode, and then it hit me: wow...this is friggin awesome. Don't believe me, try it; there are a million upsides to using it in landscape mode - the least of which is the increased one hand usability.

Anyways, this brings me to my question: how do u get it to stay in landscape mode?
every time i slide out my keyboard to type something it moves back to portrait mode and ihave to go back into settings to fix it, its really annoying...

as i said b4 im quite lazy. For this reason, I haven't taken the time to figure out how to do registry hacks on the wizard so if thats the only way to do what I'm wanting id be very greatful if some1 would make if for me...

P.S. if u need it my email addy is thanatos12@gmail.com

Thanks,
-Thanatos (Thanatos/Nation Networks)

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Thanatos's picture
Submitted by Thanatos on Sun, 10/12/2006 - 01:25.

Well, since no one seems to be coming forward with any good solution I guess I'll give you guys the best way I can find to do it:

1) open up regedit*
2) go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>System>GDI>Rotation>
3) click on CamAppActive in the values window
4) slide out your keyboard
5) change the value data to 1
6) click okay

congratulations, now your phone will stay in landscape mode until you use the camera**

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*you will need to download and install PHM Registry Editor
rededit can be downloaded here.
**if you open up the camera the screen will switch back to portrait mode when u exit and you must repeat the process [which is easy to do as long as you dont use RegEdit too often because whenever you use it (even if you restart your phone) it will stay in the System>GDI>Rotation folder ]

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thedeadknight's picture
Submitted by thedeadknight on Sat, 30/06/2007 - 06:23.

oh thats soo much better...thanks a lot:)
however the camera issue sucks cause I use my cam a lot...blah

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abaris's picture
Submitted by abaris on Sun, 24/08/2008 - 20:28.

works NOT on xv6700.

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