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Rotatedaemon allows 360 degree screen rotation on Nokia N900

 

One of the few complaints with the Nokia N900, is that most things on it are done in landscape mode. Ofcourse, this is by design (according to Nokia atleast), and in the last couple firmware updates they have managed to sneak in portrait mode for a select few apps, like the web browser and dialing screen yada yada.

However, released today on the Extras-Dev catalog, there’s a new app called “Rotatedaemon” that weighs in at just 9kb, and allows complete 360 degree screen rotation on the N900.

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The app uses the built-in accelerometer, hence the screen orientation depends on how you’re holding your N900.

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And there’s nothing like using your N900 upside down to completely confuzzle you.

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Transitions are really quick and dont have any fancy effects to them, which is how we prefer it to be honest.

All you have to do is install rotatedaemon and it immediately activates. The only way to deactivate it, is to uninstall it unfortch. It’ll try to rotate anything, so the result isnt always too pretty. And rotating some applications, especially those that rotate themselves, might cause your phone to reboot.

More info over on the MaemoTalk Thread.

   

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Comments (15)

  1. daniel Saturday - 19 / 06 / 2010 Reply
    Very nice tool! Have missed sth. like this for a very long time! Thanks
  2. NSK Monday - 21 / 06 / 2010 Reply
    cant find in application manager of n900. pls help.
  3. NSK Monday - 21 / 06 / 2010 Reply
    and also tell me what theme is this?
  4. Clinton Jeff Monday - 21 / 06 / 2010 Reply
    Heya Nishkarsh. Have you activated the Dev- Extra Catalog ? It's listed under there :)
  5. Clinton Jeff Monday - 21 / 06 / 2010 Reply
    It's the "D-Theme Aero Black" theme :)
  6. NSK Monday - 21 / 06 / 2010 Reply
    how do we activate that?
    and also will i get 'hide user agent' from there?
  7. NSK Monday - 21 / 06 / 2010 Reply
    thnx.
  8. Clinton Jeff Tuesday - 22 / 06 / 2010 Reply
    Yup, you can get that from there too. There's a good thread on the Maemo Forums on how to activate the Dev-Extras Catalog: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35737
  9. Daniel Tuesday - 22 / 06 / 2010 Reply
    Unfortunately I had to remove it :( The rotatedaemon made my N900 reboot every time an application like "symphony" was running in full screen mode.
  10. Clinton Jeff Wednesday - 23 / 06 / 2010 Reply
    Heh yeah I uninstalled it on my N900 too. The novelty was fun enough but not exactly loving my phone being restarted randomly lol.
  11. NSK Saturday - 26 / 06 / 2010 Reply
    thnx a lot.
    since u both have uninstalled it.
    i guess i will wait till it becoms stable and is out on the app manage.
  12. NSK Saturday - 26 / 06 / 2010 Reply
    thnx a lot.
    since u both have uninstalled it.
    i guess i will wait till it becoms stable and is out on the app manage.
  13. Darshan Bv Wednesday - 11 / 08 / 2010 Reply
    i am not able to locate the application can anyone help

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