FP4 -unable to lock screen in landscape orientation

Help Fairphone 4
1

I am new to Fair phone. Overall the FP4 seems to work ok.
I want to use mapping as a satnav when cycling so want to lock the screen in landscape view. With the phone in landscape view if I turn off auto rotate, the display reverts to portrait!

I have seen previous posts about auto rotate not working and others about it being too sensitive, but not about this issue.

2

Do you have the phone fixed to the bike. I’m just thinking if it is then why would it not stay in landscape. If you are holding it then again I don’t see the problem you may be having.

But yes it’s feature I haven’t found

3

Have you tried the following:

  • turn auto-rotate off
  • turn the phone to portrait position
  • a small icon (rectangular) should appear (I think at bottom right)
  • tap on the icon. The screen should rotate to landscape and be fixed in that orientation
4

Is it different on the FP4? :: On my FP3: A11 it’s

  • turning auto-rotate off you get portrait mode
  • rotate the phone to landscape mode
  • a small icon will appear
    • top right if using 3 button navigation
    • bottom right if using gesture navigation
  • tap the icon and landscape will be activated and locked until the screen goes off
  • Whichever orientation you use then, when you rotate the phone the icon will appear so you can change to the new orientation.

:slight_smile:

5

That does not work, when you lock and unlock the screen its back to portrait mode.

Thats btw the same on may FP3 with Iode.

6

As mentioned in the post above :slight_smile:

7

Excellent :slightly_smiling_face:. Thank you @Volker for your prompt response. What you described works for me.
It seems to be application specific.