Tips & Tricks: Landscape View for Standard Displays
If you’ve ever been slightly jealous of your friend’s E61 because of the landscape display then you can stop living in envy! Landscape displays certainly come in handy when using the S60 3rd browser, viewing emails or sms, and in plenty of other instances. Well now your S60 3rd device can have landscape mode too - for free!
Start by downloading the trial version of ImageExpo by SysOpen Digia - a great and complex PC-based presentation and demonstration tool for Symbian devices. The trial does have limitations including a maximum connection time of two minutes, but that’s more than enough time to take care of your display aspect.
Once ImageExpo is installed on your PC, you’ll see a new shortcut folder on your desktop containing five Symbian installer files. Use Nokia PC Suite to install ImageExpo_S60_30_3.4.2.sisx to your device. This is the app that will allow you to connect your device to the ImageExpo PC app. Once you’ve done that, the rest is simple.
Open ImageExpo on your PC and you will see the connection screen. Now open the Connect app on your device and connect your phone to your PC using the USB cable (other connection methods supported). ImageExpo will quickly recognize your phone.
Now in the ImageExpo Menu at the top of the screen, go to “View” -> “Orientation” -> “Rotate Counter-Clockwise”. It’s as easy as that. Disconnect your phone and you’ve got a landscape mode device! To restore your standard display aspect, just restart your phone or reconnect to ImageExpo and change the orientation again.
One thing to note is that on some devices such as my N80IE, you may see a Multimedia Error constantly pop up on your screen. No worries, just use Best Taskman or another task manager capable of seeing hidden apps to close “Multimedia List”. Now you can go ahead and enjoy your new landscape display.
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UPDATE: This option is no longer available in updated versions of ImageExpo. I suggest you have a look at Rotate Me - an app that allows you to rotate your screen orientation right on your device!
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For one thing, I'd rather not link it until it's signed because the "how do I sign it" question has been covered so many times it would be a waste to cover it here.
Also, the author is currently working on version 1.2 which will work with more models than the current version.
Lastly, in landscape mode the app uses almost 3MB of RAM! Hopefully this will be addressed in the upcoming release.
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ImageExpo Info
This page contains the user guide and some other info. Also in the very bottom left corner you will find a link to contact the developer.
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The "Orientation" is not active.
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Search google for "rotateMe" and you'll find a great freeware app that you can use to rotate your screen right on your device!
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Please stop posting your email address and IMEI number here.
If you look at the post that I link to above about the updated version of Rotate Me, you will find a guide that will show you how to sign the app yourself. Please visit the guide and follow the instructions:
http://www.mobile9.com/invboard/index.php?showt...
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thanks a lot.
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Unfortunately I only know of the S60 3rd app. Not sure about 3230 version.
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No problem. :)
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I SIGNED ROTATEME APP, BUT WHILE INSTALLING ROTATEME_SIGNED, MY N73 SHOWS "Required application access not granted", please tell me what to do.
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ok thanks
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please i'll be wating for your reply
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Are you sure that you signed it with the proper IMEI? And when you were generating the cert request are you sure you added ALL capabilities to the column on the right (step 7). Try to generate a new cert request and see how it goes.
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There's some freeware on Handango and listed in the various Application Reviews here on my blog.
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thanks
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when i browse in my n73 in web app, my phone shows "st.sis" which is downloaded automatically. what is this? what's the solution? and why does this automatically download?
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apart from this i encountered that something when i browse using the web software which is inbuilt in n73, my phone shows "st.sis" downloaded. it is downloaded automatically.
ex: i was browsing yahoo.com site, "st.sis" is downloaded automatically. i asked you what is this? is this virus?
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i have two problems..
1) whenever i browse 'st.sis' is automatically downloaded.
2) sometimes when i send service commands, phone will show 'request not completed' and sometimes phone will restart.
please give me the solutions for these problems
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Thank you for your comments but this is not a good place to post these matters. This post is about rotating the orientation of your device's display.
You should head over to series60.howardforums.com and search/post there.
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ok,
i'll check it out there. thankyou.
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