Manually configure Program Rotation via Registry?
 

I'm currently using stock WM6.1 ROM. For reasons I can't comprehend, HTC/VZW didn't think we would want the Home and other primary TF3D Tab Screens to auto-rotate, which I find annoying.

I have tried change_screen, and while it worked OK, I found it a bit flakey at times, ending up with a screen half horizontal, half vertical, etc.

I've been poking around the registry and found these keys:

HKCU\Software\HTC\HTCSENSOR\GSensor\ModuleName

and

HKCU\Software\HTC\HTCSENSOR\GSensor\WhiteList

These seem to define which Apps will take advantage of the GSensor. If so, what would be the correct entries for both of these items in order to get the Home Screen, Weather Tab, Email Tab, Settings Tab, etc. - all the basic TF3D Tabs, to auto-rotate according to the GSensor?

I imagine that's what Gyrate, change_screen, etc. are changing (likely among other things), but I prefer to just manually make the changes I want directly.

Anybody?

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This is an easy edit, under the white list key, create a new string value, start/manila are the two value to enter, typed this in a rush walking into interview, let me know if u dont understand this, you can also do youtube and skfire, and just about any program you want under white list

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Thanks!

I am a little unclear on the exact syntax, though. For example, in the WhiteList key, there are currently the following:

"Album" with the value "HTCAlbumClass"
"tmail" with the value "Inbox.MainWnd
"Opera" with the value "Opera_MainWndClass"

In addition to those 3, there are other entries there for Calculator, Composer (?), Skyfire TestHTCSensorDemoAP

What is the correct Name(s) and Value(s) to enter? I'm not clear what you advise entering when you say "start/manila."

P.S. Hope things go well in your interview!!

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Those are just the programs by default to auto rotate, 80 percent of time, this works: 1st entry is shortcut, 2nd is exexutable, if that doesnt work than i look through all the files of that package in my kitchen, as it faster than looking thru the windows dir on phone, and try different combos, i am free later on so if u need a list for the few i have done and work, let me know and i will post later on, exactly how it would look in the registry

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Yup - those programs already in there auto-rotate just fine.

And if you can, when you have time, please post the correct registry names and values for the tabs I mentioned in my first post, along with whatever ones you've found to work correctly.

Thanks!

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What is the one for the phones stock slide to answer screen? This is one I would really love to know. It changes orientation on me in the middle of trying to answer and really pisses me off.

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I'm still interested in this list of Registry settings, when you have the time:wink:

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Hey there, i am going to export this part of the registry later on directly from the phone, but i need to get to a computer to do it, was going to post it yesterday, but got off real late, didnt even go home, lol. but you will see exactly how the registry should look, at the moment, the programs I have added in properly are: you tube, sprint navigation, adobe reader, skyfire, manila, but dont add in the manila one if you have sense 2.5, it screws up the music tab, tf3d and sense 2.1 will rotate fine in every tab. as for the slide to answer, not sure, i use to rotate the dialer on the tp1, but that gets annoying, reg up in a few, right now catching more zzzzz.

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Remember that these are not entered as a dword entry, if you are using phm registry editor, click on edit, then click new string value. I personally prefer this as i dont like loading a bunch of apps, let alone something just to rotate an app.

Any program rotation request, just make them here, but be very patient for request, I get very busy, and tired.

Another registry edit to increase speed of rotation polling is:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\GSensor]
"PollingInterval"=dword:(default value=23 hex) i set it to 2b hex

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This is much appreciated! I'll play with these later on today, and hopefully they'll not only work, but survive a soft reset (which I find is often a problem with some registry edits).

Now go get some sleep!

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If you have issues with them sticking, wait 10 secs. before exiting your reg editor, turn off the phone and wait like 30 sec., then turn it back on. Also for some reason ce reg editor missed a entry when I exported it, for you tube rotation:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\HTCSensor\WhiteLis t
"YouTube"="HTCYOUTUBE"

I will look at the dialer later tonight, I can't remeber how I entered it on the tp1, or did you mean just and only the slide to answer?

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Just the slide to answer screen. I really appreciate you looking into this for me. I just want it to stay in portriat mode when I go to answer the phone, or when I dial some one. I fixed the actual dialer problem, it is just the answer problem that I'm having an issue with. Again thank you so much.

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Don't break your head so much with doing the entries manually.

Just use this

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=487991

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I actually use that, but I have disabled rotation for everything in that, that I can think of being the S2A(stock, not S2U2) and it still does it. So I'm at a loss.

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I'm confused by your posts. Can you detail exactly what you want?

Going by what I read, I think you don't want the phone dialer (including the Answering Slider) to rotate automatically.

If that's the case, then goto

and look for entires with the word cprog in it and delete it.

Also, if you use S2U2, there is an option under S2U2 settings to ensure that it ignores the G-Sensor. Just look for it. It's there.

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Sorry, I try to be as specific as possible. And I just use the stock dialer. under the BgB rotate I cancel the rotate of everything having to do with manilla. But for some reason the dialer still rotates. I'm looking for the reg edits as we speak, and thanks.

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Also do I delete just the Value data, or the Value name too?

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Delete the Value Descriptor and the Value itself.

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I tried it and it worked, Thanks so much. You really don't know how many headaches you saved me. If there is anything I can do for you just let me know.

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Anytime buddy. We're all here to help and be helped when needed. Glad your problem was sorted out. The dialer rotating really is highly irritating.

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[QUOTE=leepriestenator;1489605]

Going by what I read, I think you don't want the phone dialer (including the Answering Slider) to rotate automatically.

If that's the case, then goto

and look for entires with the word cprog in it and delete it.
[QUOTE]

I don't have any entries that contain cprog yet my dialer still rotates, which pisses me off. Any ideas why it still rotates?

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That's weird. cprog is your phone dialer program.

Are you absolutely positive that you don't have any other program like ChangeScreen or Gyrator installed?

It would be helpful if you could post the entries that you find under both "Whitelist" and "ModuleName"

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It has the word Cprog in the middle of the value data. It was under the modulelist reg for me. It was a value name of "Phone/lock/screen" or something to that effect.

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I have looked at the stock rom dumped and und under that reg setting, the entry to make the dialer (phone canvas) rotate is not there in white list or modulelist, not there by default, do have rotation app installed? or custom rom? there are many file names that can be used, that I see, besides just cprog.

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Update:

I added insomniac's registry edits for Start/Manila and it works great!

I would like to add this for "YomoMedia" which is a great RSS reader. Do I need an entry in both the "ModuleName" and "WhiteList" Keys, or would the "ModuleName" alone suffice? The "ModuleName" seems straightforward - just the name of the App, and then the path to its executable.

Since the various WhiteList Values are not intuitive, I'm not sure what I would put for YomoMedia.

Any suggestions?

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I dont use that program. post the cab so i can take a look at its files, and i will get back to when possible

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You can download it with this link:

http://m.yomomedia.com/yomocabs/YomoMedia.cab

It is free, although they do ask for registration to use it, so I wasn't sure if it was 'kosher' for me to post the cab file directly.

It's actually a pretty cool RSS program; I like it better than RSS Hub, Viigo, etc.

Thanks!

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I downloaded the cab will check it out later tonight.

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It took me 4 tries, but I got it.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\HTCSensor\GSensor\W hitelist
"YomoMedia"="NETCF_AGL_BASE_"

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=D>=D>

How did you come up with this?? (you know...give someone a fish, you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime, and all that!!:mrgreen:)

Why do some apps need entires in the "Modules" Key, others will do fine with just the "WhiteList" Key?

(I would much prefer to do my tweaks directly via the Registry, when possible, instead of installing Cabs where I really don't know what they are/aren't doing to my phone, and often have unwelcome consequences and side effects.)

Again, many thanks! I'll boot up my phone and give it a whirl later this morning.

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Unfortunately, and surprisingly, this didn't work for me. I added the String with the exact syntax you provided, reset my phone, but YomoMedia doesn't respond to rotation.

I'm running Verizon's Stock 6.1 ROM.

??

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Bump - also, fwiw, Adobe Reader LE doesn't auto-rotate either, unfortunately.

This really shouldn't be so hard. HTC and/or VZW should really have provided a simple, built-in way of allowing the user to control which apps do and don't rotate using the phone's G-sensor. Pretty irresponsible not to...

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Hmm, maybe because you are on the Stock rom, maybe vzw has something confilcting, works fine for me, yomo flipped, adobe reader, which i use all thime flips for me. double check the registry to the text I posted the other day and double check you have spelling and ebtries correct, plus they are case sensitive as well.

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i also fogot to mention that to get yomo to flip, you need net cf 3.5, sorry bout that. stock rom's have 2.0, there should be threads here or at xda with 3.5 cab for youb to install, or you can download from ms site as well, and install via computer connection, hope this helps, then yomo should flip

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Thanks for the reply, insomniac.

I'm pretty careful about this stuff, but double-checked my entries, and they are precisely as you have posted. To confirm, for YomoMedia, the value should be "NETCF_AGL_BASE_" with the extra underscore at the very end? I have it entered exactly this way, cases correct as well.

And I had installed net cf 3.5 long ago, within a week or two of getting my phone, so that's not the problem.

How did you come up with the entry "NETCF_AGL_BASE_" to begin with, or the other possibilities you tried out? If I knew more about where this stuff comes from, I might be able to try out some options on my own. What other entries had you tried before stumbling on this one? Maybe one of those would work for me??

In any case, I really do appreciate your taking the time to get this going, and am frustrated that it doesn't seem to be working on my device for some odd reason.

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[QUOTE=DLCPhoto;1511125]Thanks for the reply, insomniac.

I'm pretty careful about this stuff, but double-checked my entries, and they are precisely as you have posted. To confirm, for YomoMedia, the value should be "NETCF_AGL_BASE_" with the extra underscore at the very end? I have it entered exactly this way, [Quote]

My bad, i checked the post,forgot to type the symbol:
Its #NET_CF_AGL_BASE_

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lol, I am telling you to double chek, when i needed to

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:grin:

I'm afraid I've got some more bad news for you - the correction to your correction was incorrect!!:error:

I first tried:

#NET_CF_AGL_BASE_

as you have written in your final post, did a soft reset, but no joy.

But then tried:

#NETCF_AGL_BASE_

did another soft reset, and lo and behold, YomoMedia now rotates correctly!!! :headbang:

So I'm good to go, and appreciate your sticking with me through all of this. Still wonder why Adobe Reader LE doesn't work (maybe we both should recheck our entries!!:toothy10:) but that's not a biggie for me, as I don't need to use it that often.

Thanks again!!

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Weird, the way I have it is the way I told you and it works on my phone, Kept the program, only thing I don't like about is not being able to do a search right from the phone for a specific podcast, but the best for winmo, if had that feature.

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 8.12; MSIEMobile6.0) Sprint T7380)

i added the edits to make tf3d auto rotate, now i want more apps like windows media player, mp3 trimmer, microsoft word etc to autorotate.