Comments on: How to Force Landscape Tablet UI on the Nexus 7 Tablet

By: My 2 cents

My 2 cents — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:58:00 +0000

to paraphrase Dianne’s last response: “We don’t like it that way, so you shouldn’t either.” My response is: Why not make this a choice? If users don’t like it, they’ll pick your way. Having just bought an N7 after using a 10 inch tablet for over a year, I guarantee you that I want the tablet UI regardless of what Dianne thinks up in her ivory tower.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:17:00 +0000

How to force auto rotation even on desktop on samsung galaxy tab 2 running AOKP rom

By: Like

Like — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:39:00 +0000

I love it this way!

By: JLam

JLam — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:46:00 +0000

why can’t you just use the rotation locker app? it stays in the notification bar and you can force landscape when you need it to

By: Nerdrow

Nerdrow — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:48:00 +0000

The play store issue is the only real drawback, some apps appear incompatible and you lose the movies & books sections altogether, but if you have a rooted phone and Google Drive its not the end of the world. I set density to 177 (high as you can go to force tablet layout) and used an app called BigFont to set the base systemwide font-size to 110%, its just about perfect size for this screen IMO. I just prefer the tablet layout for apps where its significantly different (YouTube for example). Apex is still better than the stock launcher on Jelly Bean if the auto-rotate is an issue for you.

By: jeesung

jeesung — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:47:00 +0000

didn’t realize the dead space (sides in landscape (like to the left of the widgets in the picture) and bottom in portrait).

you’ll need another launcher to make the most of the home screens with this mod

By: jeesung

jeesung — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:43:00 +0000

i used Wug Fresh’s toolkit
http://www.wugfresh.com/dev/nexus-root-toolkit/

By: Raven

Raven — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:16:00 +0000

I disagree. I run my 7″ Acer A100 in landscape 99% of the time and after spending yesterday playing with my new Nexus 7 I am already annoyed by the enforced portrait mode.

By: Fomdoo

Fomdoo — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:09:00 +0000

How is it that you were able to enable root access for ES file manager? As far as I know the tablet doesn’t come rooted.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:52:00 +0000

it’s right next to the settings icon. you will not find it in settings

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:51:00 +0000

you don’t have to do anything. When you pull down on the top drawer tab there is an icon that you can touch to unlock the orientation. that is it. some people should not mess with things they don’t know about..

By: HTC1

HTC1 — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:37:00 +0000

He just wants it. I understand completely. He can rant if he wants!!!!!!!! Not all of us have patience like you must have. I want my stuff NOW also.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:30:00 +0000

I think the way you wrote the article is confusing people. The reason people wanted the density change to tablet ui doesn’t have anything to do with using the tablet in landscape, the reason was because the phone ui uses a bottom nav bar and top status bar which wastes a lot of screen space, the tablet ui uses only the bottom system bar for everything and places all the controls on the bottom of the screen, which allows for more screen real estate for apps.

By: EC8CH

EC8CH — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:04:00 +0000

I’m preordered…. can’t wait!

By: PC_Tool

PC_Tool — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:56:00 +0000

Yep. I think I’ll just use “CM” from now on to avoid confusion….