Garmin Mobile XT in landscape

[abdeviation]

Anyone know how to get the Garmin Mobile XT app to go to landscape? Right now, the only way i can get it to switch is if i slide open the keyboard. It does not sense tilting the phone to the side

[leetsauce]

Try using an app called Gyrator 2 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=427805).

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by abdeviation

Anyone know how to get the Garmin Mobile XT app to go to landscape? Right now, the only way i can get it to switch is if i slide open the keyboard. It does not sense tilting the phone to the side

I was thinking that mine worked just fine in landscape, but then I remembered it's because I have the video out hooked to my 7" NAV screen.

In my old Titan, I used to manually put the phone in landscape mode before opening XT & that worked fine.

~John

[SOHKis]

long press talk, flip IT, gyrator, etc...

[cenatix]

Waku Task Manager also has the landscape feature.

[Zero_Shadow]

What I do is just do it manually I got this registry hack from xda

Enable Manual Screen Rotation (Portrait/Landscape):

HKLM - System - GDI - Rotation - HideOrientationUI (change from 1 to 0)

Change is immeditate effectively. No Reboot is required.

The you can assign a button to do the manual rotation by going into Settings - Buttons - Program Buttons and then Select a Button then scoll under the Assign a Program until you find Rotate Screen.

Thats a option.

[bkrodgers]

+1 for gyrator. works great for me with garmin.

[Deimoss]

Originally Posted by Zero_Shadow

What I do is just do it manually I got this registry hack from xda

Enable Manual Screen Rotation (Portrait/Landscape):

HKLM - System - GDI - Rotation - HideOrientationUI (change from 1 to 0)

Change is immeditate effectively. No Reboot is required.

The you can assign a button to do the manual rotation by going into Settings - Buttons - Program Buttons and then Select a Button then scoll under the Assign a Program until you find Rotate Screen.

Thats a option.

+1 this works and it reduces the number of installed cabs on your phone. I personally don't have Garmin Mobile XT (i might give it a try) but setting your send key to Screen Rotate after the reg edit, works on every program even .. TF3D

[dc]

I found an easy way to rotate the screen from the Diamond forum. See http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...=rotate+screen posted by TMZ where a zip file (called RotateScreen.zip) contains an executable file called RotateScreen.exe. As suggested in the post, I put this file in \Windows\Start Menu. RotateScreen will now be a selectable item in Settings-Menus. I added it there and now when I click Start, I can always select RotateScreen. After I start Garmin MobileXT, I just click on Start, then RotateScreen and it's in landscape mode.

Note that RotateScreen will work with other programs, but I was happy to find this for use with Garmin MobileXT.

[lexluthor]

I'd think Gyrator2 would also work to do this.

Garmin seems to be an app that would lend itself more to portrait though. What's the advantage you see in running it landscape?