Force landscape mode
 

Is there a registry fix or something to force the 6800 into landscape mode always? I know you can go to screen and change it to landscape, but once you pull out the keyboard and slide it back, it automatically adjusts to portrait. Not only do I have to manually return it, but it takes a good 15 second or so to switch views, as I have the Vista wisbar desktop running. I don't want to map it to a button, I just want to know if there's any way to keep it in landscape even when the keyboard is slid back in. I've searched the web for this with no luck. Thanks for any help.

Re: Force landscape mode
 

here ya go man.....

Landscaper724
The app must be launched manually and left to run in the background. Normally, when the phone wakes, it checks the keyboard position and will set the screen orientation state accordingly. This app has to wait for the system to redraw the screen after the phone wakes. It has a slider to let you set how long it will wait for the redraw. If the redraw hasn't finished after that time, the app will retry for up to another 4 seconds before giving up. What that means is, if you have a today screen with lots of complex plugins, you should set the delay slider to the high side, because all that stuff will take longer to redraw.

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Thanks for helping, but the file causes an error when I try to run it on my computer. Looks like another dead end...

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since its only an .exe file you probably have to run it from your phone

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Never mind, I'm an idiot. You just put it straight on the phone. Sorry about that. I'll mess around with it and see if I like it. Thanks.

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yup run it from your phone.... hope it works 4 ya.

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Well, it's not quite doing it for me. I want it to not even register that I closed the keyboard and thus not switch to portrait at all. It is going to portrait, then switching back to landscape sometimes and I think I'm really just looking for the unattainable by asking for this. I read somewhere that it may be coded into the keyboard's driver and there's not much we can do about it. Thanks for trying, but it takes just as long to switch back and isn't really what I'm looking for.

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sorry man i never had a mogul....id make a cab to force landscape but i dont know the registry for that phone.....

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I'm pretty sure that it is not possible with the mogul. I had the mogul for a year and searched the whole time for something to keep it in landscape mode and never found one. I'm sure that if it were possible someone would have figured it out by now

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very tru, but im sure there is a regedit that could be done......it would look like this...

landscape 0x00000001 (1)
portrait 0x00000000 (0)
but....settings in the device prompt it to reverse it once you open close the keybard....all i have to do is either disable that registry so it will not revert back to portrait or delete the value of portrait mode all together.....but that wouldn't be the best idea because some programs are not supported in landscape.....it is very possible to do, i and i know if i could take a look at the registry i could make it happen.....but again it's not the best thing to do......mappin the hard buttons would be the ideal way....

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hmmm...that would be great if you could figure somethin out, I know it would of been great to have a reg edit when I had a mogul, I hope you can figure somethin out

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lol....ill have to get someone with a mogul to provide some info on the registry....i have the diamond so the drivers for the keyboard are not in my registry......but i can almost say for sure i could figure it out, but i need the registry info....ill look into it for you all.

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what do u need out of the registry, cause my sister is still using the mogul and I can snag hers for some testing if you need :-)

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i would need the registry location for the keyboard hook.....and all the entries.......and there may be anywhere....most likely in HKLM....but again if i can see it i most likely wouldnt be able to pin down the right registry settings....but find what you can and let me know and ill see what i can do.

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i'll report back and see what I find

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why not just try to find the area in the registry and use something like mymobiler to have it on screen while going through the registry and than if needed taylor could keep checking back to that video of you going throguh the registry to get the tweaks worked out....

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lol....thats a great idea......if someone wants to do that an send me the video....ill jump on it.

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that is a great idea....here is the first vid, this just has all the folders in HKLM, disregard the folder i opened that was an accident. and I do realize i spelled registry wrong:connie_mykilroy:

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thats was fast....but i need alot more details than just that.....ima get nine'6 to send me a bunch of stuff and test it...his mogul is crappin out anyway.....i need to see a few keys and alot of strings and dword values....like...hklm/software/keyboard?/?/?/? ect....i need to see what is inside all of that good stuff....but again that was quick response an dont worrie ima hook you up.

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aight bro, sorry bout the vid...i've done reg edits before but just what other people have found, I never really learned reg stuff, just was gonna post that and have you tell me which one to open but its all good that nine'6 is hookin u up. definitely lookin forward to this