I purchased a car dock for my Galaxy Nexus and it's great, except that the home screen does not rotate into landscape mode. Is there a way to make the phone rotate the home screen to landscape mode?
I doubt it if the phone is stock. Only Android phones that have slider keyboards have rotating homescreens.
go to settings->display and make sure auto rotate screen is checked.....if it is, then it might be another app influencing
Thanks for the help. The option is selected and I've unselected and reselected several times. How would I know which app is influencing this, any suggestions?
One of the things I've noticed is when my phone is acting stupid,....I usually act stupid too and forget I should probably shut the phone down and pop the battery, wait 30 seconds then replace the battery for a hard reboot. If that doesn't fix it, then possibly one of the programmers can read your logs and look for an answer there......hopefully you haven't had your phone long if that's not possible, then reset your phone to factory setting. Frankly I'd rather hang myself than do that...but I'd be motivated to do that if I couldn't get landscape for videos If you do.......back up your pics and SMS, and other important data you are storing on your phone first.
On second thought, will it go into landscape while in gallery....watching a video or looking at a pic? If it does, then there might be a setting in what ever program you are trying to view in landscape mode in your car.
ppb13 is asking specifically about home screen rotation. Android doesn't do this unless it is a phone with a slider keyboard. The code has to be rewritten for those phones, which is why the updates usually take longer for phones with sliding keyboards over similar models that are touchscreen only.
ppb13, you can head to XDA to see if you can find answers there, but that level of phone modification can't be discussed on VZW's forums.
Thanks again for the information. I was specifically asking about the home screen. I did try a few launchers and like Nova the best. Seems to fix the home screen rotation problem.
I'm glad that you found a solution that works well for you! :smileyhappy:
