New Idea About Screen Auto Rotate

Posted by paranoyang on Sunday October 30, 2011 @02:32PM
from the parano.heroku.com dept.

http://parano.heroku.com/blog/2011/10/31/new-idea-about-screen-auto-rotate/

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Re:New Idea About Screen Auto Rotate by cleverjake on Sunday October 30, 2011 @02:47PM (#3175063)

The battery drain from polling the camera so often would not e worth the occasional issue.

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Re:New Idea About Screen Auto Rotate by paranoyang on Sunday October 30, 2011 @02:54PM (#3175089)

If you used to turn this feature on, then this program just runs right after the accelerometer senses the changes and confirm whether to rotate the screen. if it rotate in the wrong way, it may just cost much more battery

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Re:New Idea About Screen Auto Rotate by cleverjake on Sunday October 30, 2011 @05:07PM (#3175427)

you would have to check the accelerometer several dozen times before it would equal the processing drain of a single photo.

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Re:New Idea About Screen Auto Rotate by stevewillows on Sunday October 30, 2011 @11:39PM (#3176266)

Why not just have an option to lock orientation? No added drain.

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Re:New Idea About Screen Auto Rotate by numbdemon on Sunday October 30, 2011 @11:59PM (#3176316)

Then why not just have an option to rotate? Don't you think it will be much better if it can do it itself, that you never need to lock this feature again ?

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