Glitch / bug causes phone to be stuck in portrait mode
 

My N900 Has Gone Into Portrait Mode Again!!



status menu works great, conversations needs work!

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how did it happen? :)
it looks good though, apparently progress is being made.. hopefully for across the platform or at least some of the apps that make sense in portrait mode..

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we need to figure out how you do this!

Conversations wouldn't be so hard to tweak, its only some css I think

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this happened and didnt have opportunity to film or take more screenshots....



the items is status bar scrolled fine as not all would show

i think if i zoomed out in conversations screen text would have fit..
pressing - and + keys zooms text in conversations!

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mine goes usually when i talk on the phone and call app goes portrait and then i do something too fast.

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it's easy to do it ;) install braek from extras-devel repository, but you should know that i is unsafe for you lol !!!

so once braek is installed, run it, then go into your phone app. If you want the bug to work, you'll need to configure the phone app to run in portrait mode and not in auto rotate screen ;)
so while still having the braek on your screen ( i mean the false broken screen ) run phone app and then just hit the button to go to dashboard and...

YOU ARE IN PORTRAIT MODE !!!

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also pygtkeditor (3.0.2-3) goes to portrait mode

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Wonder why we have to wait so much (maemo6) for portrait?
It seems so close, only the desktop needs more tinkering with.

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Just for those who don't know yet, with the last firmware update, the browser is available in portrait mode, you just have to push ctrl+shift+o once and then the browser goes to portrait mode automaticaly when you turn the device.
You can switch it off by pushing the same key's again

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this happened to me once, after playing "color code" (mastermind clone). i wasn't able to get it back to landscape, rendering the device near useless until a reboot :)

maybe you can reproduce it using this game, i can't test it right now.

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Yeah, I was pretty disappointed when I saw "Milestone: Harmattan" on portrait input in brainstorm...

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my device got into this state once also. I was in "phone" applet (portrait mode) and portrait mode got stuck after that. The only way to go back was to reboot the device...

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i was able to reprodue the protrait mode several time. after the latest upgrade i held the phone in protrait mode position and clicked on the phone. it opened up in protrait mode and then i clicked on the more app and i got the phone to be in protrait mode. close the app screen and your desktop should be in protrait more.

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How did you do that? the battery and network icons are colorful!!

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i just made the glitch for Portrait Mode and found the easiest way to do it :)
posting video in a couple of minutes...100% working :)

(u'll need to have the USSD pad app installed first)

update: the video will take about an hour or more to upload :(
300MB :D

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQbubyj3C84

here :)

N900 will be getting Portrait Mode - take a look
 

Hey guys i got some Screen shots of my phone in portrait mode.
One day after a phone call it would not leave this mode until I restarted the phone. It was cool at the time. Everything worked but i was not able to leave this mode on the desktop but i could use landscape in the browser.

One question though is how are the backgrounds going to work when they do enable portrait mode?????? Know what I mean???. You will need two lots of backgrounds. One for landscape and one for portrait. look Bellow.

Just to let you guys know I was able to move icons on the desktop to the bottom of the screen in portrait mode. I pretty much had full Control.

Found on of the post here is also two swipe backgrounds in the n900. LockSliderThumb.png", and the second one is "LockSliderThumbPortrait.png

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maybe someone could take advantage of this and write something up if nokia decide to change their mind and not enable portraite mode. This phone is Open Source right ;).......... lol

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this is old, but always nice to see more photos and hear about portrait experience

with the bg i see yours hasnt rotated, o.O

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Happened to me also this week. a couple of times.

I think it has to do with some applications I installed, but not sure which.

It starts with the phone getting stuck in portrait and then all the other applications stay in portrait as well.

It's cute but it is a bug and not supposed to happen. You can't really use it because the rendering is still in landscape, so half the items are missing. Hope it works it self out.

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But wasn’t the OS designed for Landscape mode like the previous tablets??????? Some apps like the call app switch over to portrait mode through resolution switching or something. Just saying that I thought the desktop would of been hard set to landscape so its funny to see it switch to portrait.

Eg: the iphone. Have you even seen the iphone desktop in landscape mode?????

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Well that's why he said it's a bug becase it's not suppose to happen.. :)

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lol lol. i think its the only bug no one will log. its a sense of hope lol

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If they do enable portrait mode I'd personally like to scroll between screens vertically! Try swiping on your own phone! The side-to-side swipe in (simulated) portrait mode feels kinda awkward but swiping from top to bottom and vice versa feels great :D This way the looped wallpaper would still work, even tho if it's a wallpaper with distinct orientation it would unfortunately be tilted. However abstract looped wallpapers would still look really cool :) What do you think about this?

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ggooodd idea. that solves the wallpaper issue. hope nokia read that

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It would be a challenge to switch between landscape and portrait without messing up the desktop, might be it has to store 2 different sets of layout?

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No offence, but your post title is misleading: a bug in the firmware (and a much-discussed one at that) doesn't imply that Nokia is going to officially support portrait mode, as the OP suggests. For that matter, I wouldn't get too excited about it. I'd like it as much as the next guy, but doing it properly isn't as easy as you might think.

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Most of the icons, widgets and shortcuts and so on are fairly square, so if you were to define a centerpoint for lets say a contact the phone could just rotate the contact icon 90 degrees when the phone turns into portrait mode!

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If you guys get stuck in portrait mode. There is a way to fix it. Just close all apps apart from phone. Then lock the phone (double press power button or use side lock slider) then when the phone is locked press the power button once and the "Slide to Unlock" screen appear. Make sure your phone is in landscape while u slide it and it will go back into landscape mode :D

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lol i experienced this today
http://i47.tinypic.com/k896t.png
http://i48.tinypic.com/amn0k.png

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Is portrait mode ever going to be available via update for text and normal functions? I have the portrait re the browser

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more evidence

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and more...

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i guess landscape and portrait-mode will have their own icon/widget-placement settings?

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when meego comes, n900 will support portrait interface
maemo will not

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If anything. They were going to implement portrait mode and most likely abandoned it

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why abandon?

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who knows. they only say its coming to meego.

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There is a way to save the desktop arrangement.. So maybe it's just a matter of making two separate settings for both landscape and portrait and just having it load them up whenever you switch.

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I seriously hope they at least get Portrait if not just for texting this is all i care about. with a, im not sure of the term, alphanumeric keypad. like an old school phone. call me old fashioned but i can text on them without needing to look at the phone it is so much faster than a keyboard for quick texts.

More importantly felbutss what in the world is in your last screenshot. i can see a topless man with what can only be described as a green balaclava over his head. Then some flesh coloured ...... well i dont no what, next to a sleeping head :)