Android/Linux for CDMA Touch Pro 2 Rhodium Updated 5-20-2010

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Originally Posted by jose325i

Not sure if this has been mentioned somewhere or if this is common knowledge, but I was playing around on android the other day and I found a way to make the screen switch over from landscape to portrait without having to open and close the phone every time you boot. I hate having to open and close it because it eventually wears out the slider mechanism.

-hold anywhere on your homescreen until the "add to home screen" menu appears.
-click "shortcuts"
-click "settings"
-click "wifi settings"
This makes a shortcut to the wifi settings menu.

Now, when you first boot into android and your screen is in landscape with the phone closed, click on this shortcut, and then hit the back button (the arrow beside the hang up button). Your screen should flip back to portrait mode.

It has worked for me on the 4-19-10 and 5-11-10 builds so far.

I'll check it again when I boot back into Android, but I'm almost certain all I do is hit the Windows key a couple of times and it switches the screen back to portrait mode. No trickery needed.