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Incidental orientation (landscape/portrait) switching
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.
According to the menu, I can keep the orientation by holding a finger on the screen while I'm rotating the phone. I'd like to configure it the other way, switch the orientation by holding a finger on the screen while rotating the phone.
(Is it only me being annoyed with incidental orientation switching?)
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Incidental How to avoid incidental orientation (landscape/portrait) switchingswitching?
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.
According to the menu, I can keep the orientation by holding a finger on the screen while I'm rotating the phone. I'd like to configure it the other way, switch the orientation by holding a finger on the screen while rotating the phone.
(Is it only me being annoyed with incidental orientation switching?)