[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Mr. Chen! I feel honored to have so much conversation with you in such a brief amount of time. This must be my lucky day. :)

Yes I have some answers for you. We have a devoted developer who I can ask such things on short notice. Very nice pictures by the way, are you a photographer Mr. Chen? Such quality! Please, allow me to look at what you've brought to the table...

Oh, you are using Miracast to get these pictures. Hmm, very intelligent solution, Mr. Chen, very good. :good:

Alright you list 3 independent technologies here, we must restrain this conversation to just one for this discussion, but I do send my sincere thanks for the valuable information on all three methods. You are very good at observation and reporting, Mr. Chen. :victory:

My Samsung does not have a nice USB OR HDMI port. I only have that big fat plug that looks like an iPhone charger plug and one earphone jack. I will look for a proper USB cord as I do love this GT-P5130 tablet so much. And I would be overjoyed to get HDMI out of it if I can. I am so enthusiastic about this, I threw the HDMI idea away at first implementation of it in our devices when I saw the huge pixels in the first generation of this technology. Now that you have brought me up to date and I see the technology is true and good, you have me energized, my friend.

You information is very good and appreciated enough for me to preserve in my notes, I do keep archived significant posts for future reference. Yours will be one of them, thank you again, Mr. Chen.

Here is what I have found out. This is from Nuremberg, Germany, so the technology may differ slightly, but SFAIK, the difference is the radio:

As I thought, the phone is supposed to rotate the screen to portrait mode in order to take advantage of the screen area. Although the full screen portrait is comforting and looks very good, the black bars waste 60% of your screen real estate and that is simply not acceptable to developers and manufacturers. I agree with you that free choice should always be an option, I live in the US and take it for granted. Michael states that with the Trebuchet launcher, he does get the full portrait mode but the icons are all squeezed together to "force fit" this irregular image to the actual 16:9 aspect ratio of HDTV. That is why the image auto rotates to landscape. This is not considered "a problem" thus it will not likely be "fixed".

However, there is a work around for it, if you really do not like this behavior. You can try it, you may not like it, but it is easy to undo. If you like, you can see on Github where the Michael performed the update to rotate the screen in the URL on Github. Once you perform this simple modification, this may/will make the phone interface awkward to use. Allow me a moment to read and interpret the instructions for you, Mr. Chen.

You will have to edit a file in the /system directory, requires root, and you can edit the file, /system/build.prop, and remove one line or comment it out with a # character to make the system ignore it. The line to be removed or commented is:

"persist.demo.hdmirotationlock=true"

You can use the built in File Manager in cm11 to do this. Find the file, tap the tiny lock in the top left of the screen to unlock the file for editing as root. Open with editor, find the line, make the change, save the file, and reboot.

This is "the fix" that you want.

It will not be implemented into the build because the "side affects" of an awkward phone interface is just not acceptable. The file to edit is not very small, the line you want is about 3/4 or 4/5 of the way down the screen. You can change true to false, put a # in front of the line, or delete that line altogether, save file, reboot, and you have your fix. I recommend just putting a # at the beginning of the line to just comment it out without really removing it but either method will work.

I have not tried this, to me, it is not worth it, but you did ask and I am giving you what you asked for. It is safe to experiment with if done properly. Make a safe strap backup first if you want, or, just re-flash your current build again (Or update), wipe dalvik and cache then reboot. Gone!

I have one request. If you decide to do this, please take a screenshot of the modified phone screen so I can see how bad it is and post it. Can you do that Mr. Chen? If this is above your ability to do this with confidence or safely, then give me your file or build date so I can modify it for you. We do have a member, bkhughes or someone that is good at making flash zip files to do things exactly like this. Perhaps he can make the flash zip for you.

May your days be golden Mr. Chen and do please honor us with a screen shot of the results so we can all see how bad or not this affects the phone interface. :cowboy: