Odd Screen Rotation Problems with Keyboard

[cornellian]

Originally Posted by horndoctor

Wirelessly posted (htc Pocket PC: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11) Sprint MP6950SP)
I would guess the ribbon cable is making an intermittent connection.

Has anyone ever tried fixing their ribbon cable before? And recalibrating the gsensor doesn't help.

[kroewe]

Originally Posted by cornellian

Has anyone ever tried fixing their ribbon cable before? And recalibrating the gsensor doesn't help.

i have replaced the ribbon cables on a tp, but not a tp2
i imagine it would not be a whole lot different.
i might give it a shot eventually, i will probably move on to a new phone, just cuz i am a tech junky going thru withdrawals with all the new phones coming out, but no sense letting this one go to waste if that is the only thing wrong with it, i could always kick it down to the wifey and get her away from that horrible lg rumor she loves so much.

[cornellian]

I just ordered a new touch pro2 from Sprint. In addition to the screen rotation issue, my sound has stopped working on phone calls with the headphone earpiece (I think a pin is messed up in the headphone jack) and the charging lights only work randomly. The phone is failing even though it is only 14 months old and has no damage what so ever. I am at the point where I can't answer the phone unless I am willing to use the speakerphone (which doesn't go over so well in the cubes).

I took advantage of this situation to extend my SERO 500 ($30/month) contract another 2 years. I got my first TP2 off eBay because it was cheaper than upgrading with Sprint. The TP2 now goes for around $200 on eBay so no difference in price than getting a guaranteed to work/new phone from Sprint.

I will let everyone know if the new phone fixes the issues.

[4wheelfurry]

This may or may not help you in any way but you can disable the keyboard rotation sensor and it will ignore rotation when sliding the keyboard.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\GDI\Rotation]
"CamAppActive"=dword:00000001

Default is "0"

Then you can use keyboard config and set button of your choice on the keyboard to rotate. That is what I do because I don't like the auto rotation...