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[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] demonizator:
Another thing - where does your app keep the exceptions list? I briefly searched for a file or registry key with no luck. May be it's a good idea to have an option to export/import exceptions. My list is already kind of long and would be happy not to have to check app names and manually enter them on a clean installation or whatever.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
Sorry to hear that! - it doesn't happen for me but I'll see if I can have it startup in a different manner, or maybe catch itself "taking forever" and restart the app...

What is it rotating? It shouldn't rotate your exceptions with the keyboard open but the app WILL rotate everything else when the keyboard is open OR closed...

The file is called "changeScreen.config" located in the windows directory... Simple line by line text file!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] grahamkdt:
Awesome!

Just popped over from the Diamond forum as someone mentioned this app over there... just my personal opinion, but this application beats GSen and Gyrator hands-down! Really simple and easy to use. No 'over-the-top' settings to implement, just tell it what you do / don't want rotating, and away you go.

600GOL, you're the man! Keep up the great work, it's much appreciated, thanks.

Update... just popped back accross and noticed it was you (600GOL) who posted this in the Diamond forum. Cheers mate!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] demonizator:
Sorry, I misunderstood then. I thought it is supposed to not rotate ANY app when keyboard is open.

Great!

;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
Thanks man, i'm glad to hear that

I can't find a reliable way to detect whether the hardware keyboard is open or closed, only if its available. As soon as I do tho I'll add an option for that. For me tho it makes sense to rotate always regardless of the keyboard status...
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] martyramos:
Just wanted to say thanks!

Wanted to wait a few days before commenting, but just wanted to say great program...love the 180 option! Simple, no issues, it just does what you say it does. I've added it to my list of "must install" programs.

Only comment would be the title...now that you're gaining wide acceptance, you may want to change the name to...AutoOrient or something that describes it better...or not...

Thanks again!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Captain_Throwback:
new landscape rotation issue

Thanks again for all your hard work.

Now I have a different issue with the rotation in landscape when my keyboard is open. If I open an application (for example, File Explorer) while in Portrait mode, and rotate the phone, the screen rotates. Then, I open the keyboard, and the screen correctly stays rotated in landscape mode. However, if I close the application with the keyboard still out, I get the landscape TouchFLO menu in Portrait mode. Of course, if I close the keyboard, then its fine, but it should take me back to the landscape TouchFLO menu. I'm not sure what's wrong. I don't have Manila or TouchFLO in my Exceptions list, and when I did, I still had the same issue. I downloaded the most recent version and installed it to verfiy that it didn't correct the issue. Help!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] jok3sta:
Great App man.. very usefull. I have one question. I use pocket shied, and when its locked i can rotate the screen and it will rotate and unlock.. any way to stop this. Ive tried pshield, pocketshield, pocket shield and lock in the exception list and none seems to work.. any ideas?? Thanks in advance
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
Yeah, I see the issue. I will look into this sometime this weekend and hopefully have an update for you.

Use the "Show app names" button and then navigate to the pocketshield app. In the middle of your screen it will display the name that you need to type in! Let me know if that works for you...

** If your version doesn't include this button download the latest version.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
I really appreciate the support bro, thanks alot for the generosity! I'm glad it works for you. Keep checking back... - I wont stop 'til its perfect! (or as close to perfect as possible).

I'll think about the title but I doubt i'm going to end up changing it... don't think my OCD can deal with it!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] jok3sta:
Thanks for the reply.. when i click show app names all i get is "CHANGESCREEN CONFIG" in big red letters and nothing else happens
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
Yes that is because the current window you are on is called "changescreen config".

If you then navigate to another window, say the Home screen, it will show "start". What i'm saying is that as you switch applications it will show you what you would need to type in to exclude that application from rotating. So navigate to the screen that you want to exclude and it will show you what you need to add to the exceptions list...
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] jok3sta:
Doh!! Thanks man. I didnt realize that. works perfect now. Thanks
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] demonizator:
Yes, I'm having the same issue as Captain Throwback. Besides that often when holding it with two hands and using the hardware keyboard my Touch Pro constantly try to rotate from landscape to portrait. It seems it's because of the low angle and the shaking of the device while typing because when I hold it really steady and almost vertical I don't have this issue. But it's completely uncomfortable. So I really will appreciate option for not rotating anything when keyboard is open.

Other than that really great app, thank you. Lite, clean, simple and does exactly and only what is meant to do.

Thumbs up!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] ronjr1973:
The link is v1.51 and you say you have v1.52. Just wondering which version I get If I click link>
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
Hah, damn I f'ed that up over in the diamond forums now. Its 5.2 just forgot to change the lettering... Working on 1.53 tho now which will include the "Dont rotate when keyboard is out" option... 1.53 should be ready for download either later tonight or tomorrow...
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] blablum:
Nice application. But I think it's a little bit too sensitive. Sometimes when I'm driving and turn a curve the screen rotates for a couple of seconds.

I think it needs to be less sensitive.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] rjmjr69:
Great news can not wait for the release
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
Version 1.53 ready for download

Done

And Done!

Check the latest version (v1.53) on the 1st page. Try to follow me on this. If you install version 1.53 it will not rotate IF it detects that a DIFFERENT program already rotated the screen to landscape mode. That means that if you have the device in landscape mode with the keyboard in and then open the keyboard, it will still rotate. If you heve the device in any other position BUT landscape with the keyboard in and pop the keyboard open, it will remain in landscape mode until the keyboard is put back in. Also if you flip the keyboard out while turning the device from portrait to landscape like I do, it will not rotate out of landscape until the keyboard is put back in.

Again the reason for this is because there is no way to detect if the keyboard is open or closed (or atleast I cannot find a way). changeScreen just checks to see if the screen was rotated by an application other than changeScreen...

Dont know if I explained that corectly. Let me know if you don't follow...

In version 1.53 the application starts up in a different way. I hope this will resolve the issue you were having. Let me know otherwise!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] demonizator:
Thanks man, I got you perfectly clear. And it's working perfectly that way.

Thanks again for your hard work. Definitely goes on my must-have list. And get you son a beer for now.

;)

Ducho
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] rjmjr69:
Ok I installed and still same thing I have to open the app first. I checked the running processes before I opened it and its definatly starting with the phone but for some reason does not activate and actually rotate any screens now until I run the app and save.?

This is really a nice app just hope to work out the start issues.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] halloj:
Concerning the shortcut, I still have the same problem and I figured, could it be because you have hardcoded the path for startup according to an English rom, while I'm using an International rom and the path might differ.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] igal_f:
very nice application. i tried on my htc diamond and it's working nice and fast.

one exception, i can't disable touchflo from rotating. i have tried "touchflo" "touchflo3d" and "manila". nothing help, it continue rotating.

thank's and keep the good work.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] demonizator:
Try "start"..

;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] the guitarist:
hello there 600GOL,

i really like the app and i would like to suggest something ..well it's kind of a new function:

i was thinking about using the stylus to rotate...What i mean is.. for example i don't want the program to rotate every screen I'm using because sometimes the phone rotates in your hand by mistake or accidentally so..

instead, when I'm using an application or whatever screen I'm having and i would like to rotate that screen all i have to do is to take out the stylus and rotate the screen to landscape and then the screen rotates and after that I'll insert the stylus back in and the screen will be fixed on landscape view .. if you want to rotate back to portrait you'll just have to take the stylus out rotate the phone to portrait and insert it back in.

What do you think?

i really would like to know your opinion with the idea and everyone else contributing to the project
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Zaiaku:
So far I have to say this is great. Much faster thenthe others and much better configuration screen. THX
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
That could very well be the problem! good catch. ill fix this and post an update so you guys could test! thanks

is it rotating to landscape?? or just "reverse portrait" (180 degrees)? if its just the 180 all you have to do is uncheck the box in the configuration that says to Always allow 180 rotations.... let me know.

haha thanks man. hes a little too young to drink but i really appreciate the support! glad it work for you. it actually is better for me too with that feature, which is why i didnt even make it an option and just hard coded it...
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
I dunno... Personally I would never use this... When I first started with this app I was thinking about mapping the stupid PTT button to do this, but I figured a lot of people may have it set up already to do something else.

Lets see what other people think about this...

If enough people want it then sure i'll give it a go!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
Sorry to hear that... I'll keep looking into this. Out of curiosity, how much stuff do you have starting up with the phone?

Can you check this? f you were to make a startup shortcut manually and name it "changescreen.lnk", is the "Run on Startup" box checked when you go into the configuration?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] igal_f:
it is rotating only landscape and i don't see the any application name also i set "Show App Names".
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] the guitarist:
OK Guys You Heard 600GOL,

please read my Previous post and if you find my idea worth Implementing please vote ;)

i say an extra function and having more control over the rotations won't hurt ;)

Thanks
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] -MyHTC-:
In my opinion this is how an app goes from sweet and simple to bloat.

When you add to many functions it starts to become to complicated and overburdened.

This is just my opinion and I mean no offence.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
Version 1.54 for download

Okay so I tried something else... Try version 1.54 and see if it helps... crossing my fingers...

Latest version should fix this issue... Let me know otherwise
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
Try latest version... let me know results...
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
rjmjr69 - you have any luck with 1.54?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] ronjr1973:
Thanks. I do like the simplicity of this over gyratoe and gsen. I'll be donatin for sure.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
Thanks man. I'm glad it works for you. It's awesome that its gotten such a positive response!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] rjmjr69:
Awesome work. Loads and runs very quickly BUT! lol

Start "manilla" still rotates with DO NOT ROTATE clicked and Seeing START already entered.

Work around Remover check mark. Which removes START that was auto there,

Restart phone. Open change again and enter manually START restart phone.

Although the rotation seems slower than with the defaults checked START screen HOME was distorted when rotated to landscape or else I would leave it rotating.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
Whoa...

Anyone else have this issue with manila rotating... All the program does is save your exceptions to a text file so there shouldn't be any need to restart the device... but maybe this isnt the case for everyone... Anyway so long as "start" is in the list and you make sure you click save, it shouldn't rotate the manila.

If anyone else has this issue please let me know and i'll dive into the code again (works perfectly on my device tho...)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] rjmjr69:
Its a minor inconvenience for such a great application I'm not complaining just reporting my findings thank you for the awesome work.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
No no. I wasn't trying to imply that.

And thank YOU for your support! I'm glad at least it starts for you correctly now!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] halloj:
Yes, it does. Thanks a lot.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] noellenchris:
Same here, followed your suggestion above without reboot just save and restart and it works great now. Thanks. This is faster than the others, but switching back to portrait is slower than going to Landscape. Is this normal?

Chris
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
Great! Good catch btw...
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
I didn't notice anything until you mentioned it. It does seem to be faster rotating to landscape than protrait mode. Let me look into it... probably something minor.

I hate to have you guys update all the time. Hopefully soon we can get it stable enough that you wont have to!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] halloj:
My pleasure, Sir.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] StevePritchard:
If you are referring to the List on the home page top right corner button, then you can remove any apps that show up by using the "Exclusive" function. Having said that, it looks as though your app might be worth a spin anyway...

Cheers,

Steve.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Radimus:
Could you register this app with ApptoDate?

This seems to be just fine :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Radimus:
I have used the HTC Task Manager for a year and never noticed that... thanks
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] cparkhorn:
Sensor in Phone

My biggest, and only issue with my Fuze/Touch Pro is the phone turning off while calling voicemail. The only thing that works is the nosleepraphael, and it turns the rotation sensor (you can view number in Advanced Config) to 10,000, which makes rotation while viewing pictures impossible.

I see that you can turn off rotation during certain programs, does this application completely turn off GSensor during those programs? If yes, then that would eliminate the problem of the GSensor causing the screen to shut off, which appears to be the big problem, not the light sensor. I don't even put it to my ear and just by turning the phone at arms length the screen goes off.

I'm going to download and see, but I was curious if anyone has seen this possible positive side effect?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] grahamkdt:
Simple....

600GOL - awesme my friend!

My philosophy is K.I.S.S. (keep it simple, stupid)... that's not aimed at you, it's just a saying. Please don't overload this superb app with tons of options and commands and customisations. It doesn't need it. It does exactly what it says on the tin!

GSen and Gyrator are perfect examples of 'going overboard'! Your app is simple, easy to set up and does the job... what more can I say. Keep up the great work :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
Let us know what you think!

Same here. Still would have ended up making this tho just to avoid the complexity...
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
Nah man... It doesn't turn off the Gsensor from use by other applications. All it will do is prevent my app from rotating... Sorry. This app doesn;t touch any settings that have to do with the Gsensor. If your settings are screwed up or edited by another app, you wont see changeScreen fix them...
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
Someone mentioned this before and I never got around to it. I'll try to look into this sometime soon... I'll update you guys when I do.

Nah man I know exactly what that is... It was my 9th grade shop teachers "philosophy" too, only he was aiming DIRECTLY at us!

I agree man. The simpler the better and I'll do my best to keep changeScreen as simple, discrete and hassle free as possible.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] cparkhorn:
Rotation Works Well

Works well on my Fuze. Thanks for the response.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] rjmjr69:
I absolutely LOVE this app.

Although I can not figure out why it runs FAST when its first installed but after the first save slows down? Other than that Its working flawlessly. The speed is bearable its not slow like the other rotators but there is a slow down that is very noticeable after the first launch.

As a note I have ocd as well and since I've gotten this Sprint TP I have l done a hard reset and redid the whole phone at least ONCE a day. lol One day I will get it the way I like it. lol

Great work

OPS this needs a STICKY at the TOP please
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
And I LOVE that you LOVE it! Although I haven't noticed the slow down that ure referring to... Maybe its because I havent looked... I'll play around with it and see what I find.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] martyramos:
Yes, it's a fix for NoSleepRaphael...positive side effect!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] FOSA:
RE

Hi!

Just installed the v1.54

Noticed that photo rotation improves after intallation of NoSleep(raphael) cab for NOT turning off screen during phone calls. This is just great

One question

When go to 'Start' -> 'Settings' (and 'Personal', 'System' & 'Connections' too) it doesn't rotate screen. Is this right?

Thanks
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] StevePritchard:
I tried it out, and I like what you are trying to achieve, and would use it over Gyrator if:

1. The 180 degree rotation thing worked. For some reason, regardless of which setting I had it on (ticked or not ticked) I could always get the screen to be upside down compared to the device. If I could prevent anything other than 0, and 90 degree (clockwise) rotation then that would be great.

2. The "Settings" screen rotated. As reported by FOSA, it appears that the Settings screen(s) don't rotate.

Cheers,

Steve.

PS. I know it's going against the principle of not over-bloating the software, but I've been wondering (in another thread) whether an app like this could switch on the display while in-call? At the moment, if you make a call the G-sensor notices you put the phone to your ear, and switches off the screen, however removing the phone from your ear doesn't switch it back on again, but presumably an app like this could easily notice that happening and switch on the screen as an option?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
Yes, it shouldn't rotate because the "Settings" windows returns nothing as its name. If you use the "Show App Names" it'll just show an empty white box. I dont know why the OS is set up that way. Maybe its to purposely avoid people messing with the settings windows, who knows... If I find a way around this i'll definately post it here.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
Really?! it rotates regardless of the checkbox?! Are you sure you are pressing "Save"? That sounds weird. Either you exited without pressing Save or changeScreen isn't updating the config file correctly...

What happens when you uncheck the box, press Save and then restart the configuration program? Is the box still unchecked?

Nothing I can do about the settings screen for now. One of the reasons that this program rotates as fast as it does is the way in which I retreive the active program names, changing this so that it'll rotate the Settings screen or some other screens that don't return a correct name would slow down the rotations... If I find a compromise tho I'll definately let all you guys know. For now tho Steve I guess you'll have to stick with gyrator until I think up something to get around this that wont affect performance...

About the in call feature. If enough people want or need it then sure I can add something like that in... So long as it doesn't take away from performance (which I doubt it would). Lets hear what everyone else thinks...
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] FOSA:
RE

Quote

"....If you use the "Show App Names" it'll just show an empty white box..."

I went into 'Settings' windows and tried that and it just show "changescreen config" without returning any result i.e no empty white box whatsoever. I think it just hang there. How long do I need to wait to see the result i.e the white box? Am I suppose to press the 'Stop' icon?

Thanks
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
I should have explained that button better. When you press the button it will begin to show that names of all the windows. So once the button is pressed it will show "changeScreen config". If you then go to any other window for example the home screen, it will show "start", etc. It will continue to do this until you go abck into changeScreen and press "Stop".

Let me know if you follow and how it works...
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] FOSA:
RE

Hi!

Thanks. Got it now :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] StevePritchard:
OK, I've re-installed just to check this out. The 180 degree option definitely has no visible effect that I can see. It definitely seems to be saving the entry, i.e. it's as I left it when I open the config screen again. I tried enabling and disabling (in case it only read the setting at start up) but that made no difference. Odd.

With regard to the Settings rotation, can't you allow it to rotate even if the returned window name is empty?

Comparing the speed of rotation, I can't see any difference between your app and Gyrator. Both seem to rotate from portrait to landscape much quicker than from landscape to portrait.

I think you would be heralded as a demi-god if you could switch the backlight back on during a call - I think a few people would appreciate this functionality.

Cheers,

Steve.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] 600GOL:
I'm going to check the call feature out when I get the chance. I actually only use the Fuze for the 3G data and don't even make calls on it! So that never bothered me...

The reason that I don't rotate the empty window names is because all notifications, popup windows messages, etc are all empty as well. So if you were to get a notification even if the current window was an exception, the window would rotate because the notification is on top of it. I could use the process name that the current screen belongs to but that takes longer to receive than the window names and would definately slow down the rotation time.

I don't know about the speed. It definately is faster than the other apps were on my device but I do notice tha slight lag when rotating back to portrait mode which I definately will fix.