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IPhone auto-rotation: out of control

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Re: IPhone auto-rotation: out of control

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Post by aerique »

bensummers wrote: post #15
akirk wrote: post #12

I haven't jailbroken my iPhone yet, but SBSettings has a solution for autorotation, and brightness, and almost anything that annoys me with my iPhone on a daily basis. Now that I have seen SBSettings, I am considering jailbreaking. Apple should do something like SBSettings. http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/22/sbsettings-why-i-still-ja...

You're right, it's almost enough to push one into jailbreaking. But I think I'd prefer to run a supported configuration. Computers shouldn't be unnecessarily exciting.

Jailbreaking made my iPhone twice as useful. I wouldn't be as enthousiastic about it as I am now if I wasn't able to install a lot of useful software that's only available outside of the Appstore.

I buy most of my software in the Appstore but I've also paid for software on Cydia.

Lookup SBSettings (has a button for quickly toggling WiFi on and off, awesome for battery life and my initial reason to jailbreak), RotationInhibitor, Lock Calendar and iDitDahText (brilliant!).

Re: IPhone auto-rotation: out of control

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Post by bensummers »

marbletiles wrote: post #28

Surely this solution is still going to fail the walking/train test -- the icon will be on the screen permanently in those situations. The phone will detect movement, the icon will appear, it'll fade after a few seconds, the movement will be interpreted as the "shake to bring it back", it'll reappear, then fade, and repeat ad nauseum.

To solve this very problem, the idea of the "cross out" delete-like gesture is to disable it until it's really sure that it's been rotated back.

Re: IPhone auto-rotation: out of control

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Post by ja2ke »

bensummers wrote: post #4
chrismear wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might actually reduce clutter, since plenty of apps are now individually adding rotation options to their settings. Having a system-wide setting would simply consolidate all of these in one place.

It was Tweetie 2's auto-rotation which pushed me over the edge and into writing 800 words about a telephone.

Tweetie 2 is one of the few apps with reasonably robust settings exposed to turn off or selectively use auto rotation.
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