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2012 Nexus 7 Discussion Forums (1st Generation) => Nexus 7 Audio/Video => Topic started by: blaqkout on July 18, 2012, 07:54:10 AM
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I loaded some MP4 and AVI files into my Movies folder from my PC and all of them play in portrait (vertical) orientation. They won't rotate to landscape (horizontal) orientation when I turn the Nexus on it's side. Any suggestions?
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Open the notification bar and there's an icon with two circular arrows and either a rectangle or lock between the settings icon and date. If its a lock then your orientation is locked in Portrait... tap it and it should turn into a tilted rectangle which will allow the screen to go into landscape. The home screen won't rotate though without some work (http://www.droid-life.com/2012/07/05/how-to-force-landscape-tablet-ui-on-the-nexus-7-tablet/) but most everything else should.
Mine was locked in Portrait when I got it which threw me too :) Let me know if this doesn't work.
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Yeah, that did it.
Google's been taking lessons from Apple, I guess. At least you can unlock it.
Next big change?
http://www.droid-life.com/2012/05/17/chameleon-for-android-tablets-isnt-new-but-you-can-back-it-on-kickstarter-and-get-it-early/ (http://www.droid-life.com/2012/05/17/chameleon-for-android-tablets-isnt-new-but-you-can-back-it-on-kickstarter-and-get-it-early/)
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Open the notification bar and there's an icon with two circular arrows and either a rectangle or lock between the settings icon and date. If its a lock then your orientation is locked in Portrait... tap it and it should turn into a tilted rectangle which will allow the screen to go into landscape. The home screen won't rotate though without some work ([url]http://www.droid-life.com/2012/07/05/how-to-force-landscape-tablet-ui-on-the-nexus-7-tablet/[/url]) but most everything else should.
Mine was locked in Portrait when I got it which threw me too :) Let me know if this doesn't work.
Here is a fix for the home screen. http://nexus7forum.com/index.php?topic=230.0 (http://nexus7forum.com/index.php?topic=230.0)