How to avoid incidental orientation (landscape/portrait) switching?
asked 2015-03-31 22:23:05 +0200
One thing that annoyed me with my Android phone, and that continues annoying me with my new Jolla is ... accidental orientation switch. I may incidentally hold the telephone a bit "wrong" - or maybe leave it "horizontally" in a boat through the waves, or temporary lower the arm that is holding the phone - and the phone will switch between landscape and portrait mode. It is annoying because it's a time-consuming and CPU-consuming process (and power-consuming if the phone repeatedly does it "by itself") and because some apps may not get back to the same state when the phone is turned the right way again. I'd like the phone to change orientation only when I'm explicitly requesting it, though it's too much hazzle to go into the settings menu every time I'd like to switch.
(Is it only me being annoyed with incidental orientation switching?)
Interesting idea... must give this a thought and maybe a vote tomorrow. This has been annoying me sometimes as well, but would your suggestion be the best solution, that's worth sleeping on for one night. While thinking about it, how about if you write your suggestion as an answer instead (removing it from the question part)?
simo ( 2015-03-31 22:27:26 +0200 )editLike this?
tobixen ( 2015-03-31 22:57:07 +0200 )edityep :) +1 for your question, thanks for fixing
simo ( 2015-03-31 23:08:32 +0200 )edit