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Rotation of screen upside down not working

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amitk
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Rotation of screen upside down not working

My xperia z2 phone does not rotate the screen when held in upside down position. In other words, it does not rotate the screen 180 degrees from a normal up position. 90 degrees either side rotation is okay. This happens in the safe mode as well.
Is that a bug or a feature? Is there a remedy?
Thanks
Amit
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Hampus
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The display cannot be rotated 180 degrees, it can only rotate 90 degrees to either side. 

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Hampus
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Hi and welcome to the community! Since you're new please be sure that you have checked out our Discussion guidelines.

The display cannot be rotated 180 degrees, it can only rotate 90 degrees to either side. 

amitk
Visitor

Okay, is there a logic behind this? Because most of the other android devices do support a 360 rotation. As there are no physical buttons on the device I can hardly understand a logic behind it.

bruteoutlawz
Visitor

Why would you want it to rotate upside down? There are some reasons why it does not. I.e - if your laying down on your right side and have the device in landscape with the top of the device on the right (If your on your left hand side then keep the top of the device on the left)  it doesnt rotate and that gets rid of the need of a rotate lock button and stops it going into portrait mode when you dont want it to.

amitk
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What happens if I turn to left? Doesn't the screen rotate? That I don't find as an acceptable reason. I can understand if there is a technical reason in implementing behind it. It is not a big deal and does not affect me, I just wanted to know if this was some hardware/software fault in my specific phone. As it is by design, I am not too bothered.

Try holding the phone in a landscape in dark, most likely you would have covered the Sony logo with your thumb, and try going back to potrait, it would have been so much simpler to not care to hold the phone in upright position ( given the relatively bigger frame of the phone).

wolf_man666
Visitor

My Z1 rotates 360 but only once ive charged with usb and says still its still charging when ive unplugged it, sometimes with the dock also. Its a pain with 360 rotate glitch especially when you are walking. And the battery discharges with usb connected 😞
RBarci
Visitor

I also really don't know why the reason for it. When connected to a magnetic cable it rotates 360.

Why this kind of restriction? Ether it should rotate 360 or not.

Ruker
Visitor

Hi,

you can use some external application from Google Play, for example Set Orientation.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.googlecode.eyesfree.setorientation&rdid=com.google...

Pavel