RotationService - Version 1.7.4

[Guest qbus]

With RotationService running in background I can't enable Omnia auto rotation, RotationService automatically disable it.

P.s. I use the new 1.7.2 version

What about EnableAutoRotationProcesses, DisableAutoRotationProcesses and FixedRotationProcesses sections?

[Guest HOLLIDAY1183]

Hey guys

This is the program I've been looking for,and I couldn't believe how I kinda stumbled onto finding it! One problem... I just can't seem to configure it right. What would I need to do to the XML file so that ONLY Coreplayer & the today screen stays in portrait, and EVERYTHING ELSE auto rotates like normal?!?!?! I don't want anything else to launch or anything at all, just want the today screen to stay in portrait, and Coreplayer. the process for Coreplayer is "player.exe".... I attached the XML here, can someone do this for me, if it's no trouble!?! Or at least just point me in the right direction (Sorry if it's blatantly obvious!)

RotationService.xml

Edited February 27, 2009 by HOLLIDAY1183

[Guest qbus]

Update - new version 1.7.3.

[Guest dwallersv]

Hey qbus, sorry for not giving feedback sooner -- I tried 1.7.2 quickly right after you posted it, and couldn't get it to work (errors with the fixed-rotation section). Been busy, so didn't have a chance until today to really work on it and figure out what was wrong.

You put in stricter case-sensitive parsing, rascal! After fixing the angle parms to be Angle in the fixed rotation section, it's all working.

What's more, after configuring all four orientations for today, it works almost perfectly! I can now show 4 different today views, including what I really wanted -- WeatherPanel in the 180 orientation. Very nice, and now I can actually use this awesome weather "widget".

I found one bug that really needs to be fixed, though, to make it fully usable: When changing directly from the 0 to 180 orientation, the service senses the change in orientation, but doesn't change the plugins... it just flips the 0deg configured today setup over to the 180 orientation. All other transitions work as expected, including going directly from 90 to 270 -- if both a Landscape and Landscape270 section are configured, it reliably flips and changes the plugins.

Of course, I really need the 0->180 flip to work -- right now to change from TouchFLO to WeatherPanel I have to first rotate to one of the Landscape orientations, wait for it to reconfigure, then rotate to 180; then reconfig occurs as expected, and I get the Portrait180 config.

Flipping directly from 180 to 0 works as expected -- WeatherPanel unloads and TouchFLO reloads.

Second, I have an enhancement request: The current implementation seems to require Landscape configs if you are using the Today configuration stuff at all. No doubt this is because originally there was no distinction between 0 and 180 for portrait. Now that there is, the service needs to be updated to allow for any combination of 2, 3, or 4 of the possible orientations, and ignore rotation events for any orientation that isn't configured.

For example, if I configure Portrait and Portrait180, RotationService will manage plugin changes for today between those two orientations, and simply ignore landscape orientations (leaving today in whatever configuration it currently is in). Configure Portrait, Portrait180, and Lanscape, and you have different plugins for 0, 180, and then the same for both 90 and 270. Add Landscape270 and now you have different Today screens on all 4 orientations.

Right now to use this I have to have something configured for Landscape in order to have it work. If I config just the two Portrait orientations the service stops functioning if I go to landscape at all, and has to be restarted.

BTW, this is a really great app. I judged it to be worth $25US and sent you your beer money as a bribe B) :(

Anyway, if you could fix/make changes to solve the above it would be perfect.

[Guest dwallersv]

One more bug in 1.7.2 and 1.7.3 -- Fixed Rotation apps leave autorotation off, and it needs to be manually turned back on from the rotation settings control panel app.

Can someone else confirm that this happens on their device too, so I know it's a bug, and not something funky with my setup and/or RotationService.xml configuration?

EDIT: Okay, still maybe a bug, but only happens with PocketPlayer. So, this may be some sort of incompatability with PP. Interesting that S2P, also a media player, isn't compatible. So qbus, hold off on this one as a bug -- I need to investigate more.

Edited March 6, 2009 by dwallersv

[Guest dwallersv]

UPDATE: It's a real bug. Confirmed that it happens with any app except Camera.exe, Qbus, guess that what you do internally with this feature is rotate the screen to the configured orientation for the FixedRotation app, then turn off autorotation, correct? Your two last versions no longer turn it back on when an app that is not FixedRotation comes back in to the foreground.

I'm guessing that Camera manages this stuff itself, turn auto back on when it exits (if it was on when Camera starts up), and that's why it works for the Camera. Note that you have to put Camera.exe in the FixedRotation section because RotationService tries to manage rotation while it's running, and the two fight with each other, resulting in a frozen display, and a required reboot.

QBus, I know you're really busy, but if there is any way you could address just this one bug about FixedRotation apps as soon as possible it would be much appreciated. Right now, after using any fixed rotation app we have to go into settings and turn autorotation back on.

[Guest qbus]

UPDATE: It's a real bug. Confirmed that it happens with any app except Camera.exe, Qbus, guess that what you do internally with this feature is rotate the screen to the configured orientation for the FixedRotation app, then turn off autorotation, correct? Your two last versions no longer turn it back on when an app that is not FixedRotation comes back in to the foreground.

I'm guessing that Camera manages this stuff itself, turn auto back on when it exits (if it was on when Camera starts up), and that's why it works for the Camera. Note that you have to put Camera.exe in the FixedRotation section because RotationService tries to manage rotation while it's running, and the two fight with each other, resulting in a frozen display, and a required reboot.

QBus, I know you're really busy, but if there is any way you could address just this one bug about FixedRotation apps as soon as possible it would be much appreciated. Right now, after using any fixed rotation app we have to go into settings and turn autorotation back on.

1. I've sent you private message about portrait 180 mode.

2. Are you sure you are using latest 1.73? It does not touch rotation when Camera.exe is launched. On my Omnia camera has been always working correctly.

3. It can't enable autorotation feature after leaving application with fixed rotation - RS doesn't know which application will in front when the application with fixed rotation feature exits. You need to use EnableAutoRotationProcesses or DisableAutoRotationProcesses to control it (today screen is shell32.exe).

EDIT: RS enables auto rotation by default when there the section EnableAutoRotationProcesses is removed and DisableAutoRotationProcesses is present. Just add some fake processes there.

Edited March 7, 2009 by qbus

[Guest dwallersv]

1. I've sent you private message about portrait 180 mode.

2. Are you sure you are using latest 1.73? It does not touch rotation when Camera.exe is launched. On my Omnia camera has been always working correctly.

3. It can't enable autorotation feature after leaving application with fixed rotation - RS doesn't know which application will in front when the application with fixed rotation feature exits. You need to use EnableAutoRotationProcesses or DisableAutoRotationProcesses to control it (today screen is shell32.exe).

EDIT: RS enables auto rotation by default when there the section EnableAutoRotationProcesses is removed and DisableAutoRotationProcesses is present. Just add some fake processes there.

Thanks man, I'll check PM right after this.

The rest of the explanation above explains why things are working differently now -- I moved some stuff from DisableRotationProcess to FixedRotationProcess, and don't have anything in the DRP section any more. I'll monkey with it and figure out what combination of configs get it to work right.

Thanks again, man!

[Guest zymmer]

Hi,

Just a comment to add a new feature that i think would be nice to have. Sometimes i want to use the "disable all except some applications" and some others "enable all except some applications"...Right now i have two XML files, each of them with a different section commented, and right now i have to stop rotationservice, change XML to use, and start again, but i think would be easy to have a button on rotationservice application to change from one mode to the other....

Thanks!!!!!

Regards,

Zymmer

[Guest AYAMY]

I would have sp2 rotated in landscape mode..

What I have to do ?

[Guest dwallersv]

Qbus: Really simple, probably 5 minutes of work enhancement request: When managing the today screen through rotations, check to see if there is no change in the plugins, and if not, don't do any processing, but just let the device rotate the screen.

Would speed up transitions from one orientation to another while in Today if the same setup is configured for different orientations.

Whenever you have time to get to it... thanks!

[Guest qbus]

Qbus: Really simple, probably 5 minutes of work enhancement request: When managing the today screen through rotations, check to see if there is no change in the plugins, and if not, don't do any processing, but just let the device rotate the screen.

Would speed up transitions from one orientation to another while in Today if the same setup is configured for different orientations.

Whenever you have time to get to it... thanks!

I'll do that in free time B).

[Guest ignatzmax]

all this technical stuff and files being thrown around.... too much and too hard... i just enabled the backlight again and the screen flips every time i rotate the phone... works perfectly... wish i had known this earlier and saved my time wading through forums that suggest "altering" the programs ans setup of the phone.

meh... each to their own i guess...

[Guest Benzenith]

hi,

What a nice work B)

But i don't really understand how to configure XML. my english is average :(

I have Homescreen ++ on my today and i'd like that it can't rotate and only stay on portrait. For other processes i understand how to set XML.

So someone have a few minutes to create a XML for me, please ? Thx

[Guest bmn4711]

hi, first-sorry for my poor english

will be rotation servis working if i have instaled spb mobile shell + s2u ?

i try this RS ,but maybe im stupid -it doesnt work correctly

thanks 4 answer

[Guest Benzenith]

hi, first-sorry for my poor english

will be rotation servis working if i have instaled spb mobile shell + s2u ?

i try this RS ,but maybe im stupid -it doesnt work correctly

thanks 4 answer

I don't know if SPB mobile shell and S2u are compatibles but if you speak french there are some answers HERE

For me finally i just put processes which i want to don't rotate, others rotate automaticaly (i set automatic rotate after i have editing the new xml and soft reset).

Edited March 20, 2009 by Benzenith

[Guest antkuchiki]

hi

noob here..just wanna know how to edit the .xml file?

can it be done through omnia itself, or through desktop pc?

can I know what's the .exe for messaging in omnia, is it tmail.exe..?

thanks

[Guest jonmck]

Sorry - I still don';t have a clue how to make this excellent program work!

I cannot find config.xml anywhere - where do I find it?

Thanks

[Guest Bigix1]

Hi qbus, one question:

Can rotationservice.exe run with parameters?

I use a script for camera.exe because i have freeze problems with RS (i didn't find any working configuration for xml); so i can run RotationService.exe to close, start camera and after closing camera restart RS. But there are the msgbox. There is a way to run with parameters like , for esample, -Start, -Stop, - NoMessage or similar?

[Guest dwallersv]

Hi qbus, one question:

Can rotationservice.exe run with parameters?

I use a script for camera.exe because i have freeze problems with RS (i didn't find any working configuration for xml); so i can run RotationService.exe to close, start camera and after closing camera restart RS. But there are the msgbox. There is a way to run with parameters like , for esample, -Start, -Stop, - NoMessage or similar?

I had the same problem.

Put camera.exe in both the DisableAutoRotation section and the FixedRotationProcesses section with Angle=270, and it will stop crashing the display with a frozen camera image, requiring reboot.

[Guest Wildman3064132]

Keep up the good work. I believe you are on the right track

Post Removed: Found link and all good

Edited April 26, 2009 by Wildman3064132

[Guest Riotman]

i downloaded the new version and its working fine, but ive got a problem : i dont get resco today plugin activated. doesnt matter if i write "Resco Today Plugin" or without " .

Did i miss something ? wireless , messaging etc is working fine

[Guest bga7x]

Very cool app Love it!! It took me a minute to figure out but now pretty much all my .exe file have there own setting to a sense!! Thanks for this great app!!!

[Guest Jackson_X]

Hi QBUS!

Just installed latest build on your manilla rom.

Very good idea!

But I faced with one issue..

After service start - all works correct - today screen is rotated with button press only (Rotate action on Camera hardware button single (short) press) = Manilla is disabled & Today Plugins are displayed in the Landscape mode.

Press the rotate hardware button again - manilla is restored.

Then I start book reader (ALreader) - autorotate works fine - exit in the Portrait mode - all correct.

Start it again, autorotate & exit in the Landscape mode - Manilla became Horizontal & autorotate was enabled for Manilla too (looks like your service was disabled (??) ).

To restore correct work I need to restart Rotate Service via Console.

It works fine until new "landscape exit" was performed.

Also RotationService.exe took 2800 KB from the Memory - its normal ?

My config in attach.

Thanx for info in advance!

PS Autorotation Screen mode is enabled in the System Settings \ Motion Sensor (absolutely the same with Manual mode selected)

RotationService.xml

Edited May 7, 2009 by Jackson_X

[Guest g_flash]

sorry, I don´t understand the config :D

I would like to have my process GPSProxy.exe in Landscape when I start it.

What must I configure.

Can someone helps me,

thanks