Bringing Manual Screen Rotation Back to the Touch Diamond

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By: Adam Z Lein | Date: 24-Jun-08 | Comments

As you may have heard, the Touch Diamond has removed the Screen Orientation options from the Screen control panel. This means that you cannot switch to landscape mode except in the programs that support the accelerometer screen orientation switching (Album and Opera).

This can easily be fixed with a registry hack.
Using a Registry editor, go to:
HKeyLocalMachine/System/GDI/Rotation
Change the "HideOrientationUI" from 1 to 0

Then if you want to expand the rotation options further, within that same Rotation key above, change "LandscapeFixed" from 1 to 0.

This will give you the 3 rotation options you're used to seeing in Windows Mobile:
Portrait
Landscape (right-handed)
Landscape (left-handed)

However, since the TouchFLO 3D user interface is not designed to work in Landscape mode, as soon as you press the Home key, the screen will rotate back into Portrait mode. So be sure to use that Start menu instead when switching applications.

Source: xda-developers

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