When i try to switch the orientation of my emulator, the emulator window rotates and the orientation of the emulator screen stays as it were. Can anyone tell me what is the reason for this?I have tried all the answers from StackOverflow and nothing seem to help
Some of the emulator targets like 4.4 (API level 19) and 2.3 have a bug. Change your emulator to target version 4.2 or 4.3 and try to change the orientation.
See the history of this bug:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13189
Related question: Impossible to rotate the emulator with android 4.4
If everything else fails (it did for me), as a workaround you can use application for screen orientation.
In the other question (Impossible to rotate the emulator with android 4.4), user vldmrrr wrote that:
Until it is fixed I use this free application "Set Orientation".
Install the apk into emulator using adb install.
The application displays a shortcut in the notification status bar.
(I know it's an old question, but it's pretty high in google).
With the android L emulator you can go into landscape by opening your app, then opening the camera app (you will need to set an emulated camera in AVD) record a video. Then press ctr-f12 of 11. In the camera app click the video thumbnail and play it back. The video should go to landscape. Then press the multitasking button and multitask into your app. DO NOT GO TO THE HOME SCREEN OR YOU WILL HAVE TO GO INTO THE CAMERA APP, GO TO LANDSCAPE AND REPLAY THE VIDEO! please let me know if this works for any other android emulator versions.
My solution was to enable the accelerometer in the device profile.
These answers help me to do this.. Please try these and you can see what u wanted to do
https://stackoverflow.com/a/4057309/1063861
https://stackoverflow.com/a/4535315/1063861
This is a bug in android emulator. Add Keyboard Support - yes in emulator properties to fix this problem. You can track this bug : http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=34237
Other answers cover this pretty well, but there seem to be some restrictions on using the Ctrl key bindings (at least in Linux).
Summary: Key bindings for changing emulator orientation
Note that there are relevant bugs for emulator targets v2.3 and v4.4. See the bug reports for more info and workarounds.
Emulator shortcuts are listed here.
Prev Layout: KEYPAD_7 or Ctrl-F11
Next Layout: KEYPAD_9 or Ctrl-F12
Notes on Ctrl key bindings (in Linux)
Although the docs claim Ctrl-F11/12 work, I've found that these bindings only work using the left control key (LeftCtrl-F11/12). Someone mentioned this happening in Windows, so it's not just Linux.
LeftCtrl-F11/12 using a key remapped to LeftCtrl doesn't work for me. I need to use the physical LeftCtrl key. I don't know whether this affects non-X11 systems as well.
Note on KP_n key bindings
Keep in mind that a few numeric keypads actually emit scancodes for the number-row digits, rather than the proper keypad digits. Such keypads won't work for any keypad-specific bindings.
you can try in two ways.
1.left ctrl+F11
2.enable num lock then press 9.
Is only your application is not rotating or other applications in the emulator also not rotating?
If only your application is not rotating, then there must be android:screenOrientation parameter set somewhere in the manifest file.
If all other apps on the emulator are also not rotating, no problem with your application, delete and create a new emulator..
Check in your manifest if there is android:screenOrientation
<activity
android:name="com.your.activity"
android:screenOrientation="sensorPortrait" >
</activity>
If this is the case, delete the lines.
try pressing numpad 7 ... it will rotate your emulator screen.
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I created a brand new emulator today but it is behaving weird today. Here is my setting:
When i start it up, it loads fine. Until it gets to the lock screen. I keep on dragging/swiping from bottom to top to unlock, but it wont! This is the first time I encountered such behaviour. I tried with target Android 6.0 - API Level 23 but was able to unlock. I want to test my app on Google API 23. Please help to figure out the proper setting values.
Happened to me as well.
Another solution in addition to what #TTRansmit suggested is as below:
Close emulator.
Go to AVD manager screen, edit your Emulator and go to Advanced Settings.
Select Cold boot as Boot option located in Emulated Performance section. This way you will be able to restart your emulator and get it unlocked without loosing data.
Power off (via holding power) on the device buttons and wipe data (from Android Virtual Device Manager) worked for me. It was turning off the Device Frame from the edit/Virtual Device Configuration screen of AVD that seemed to cause the problem.
I still did not solve this problem, somewhat. To get thru, what I did was I activated the Camera emulation then relaunched the emulator. On the lock screen, I dragged the Camera icon. The camera would crash and emulator would notify you about it thru a pop up dialog. Once you exit the dialog, it will go back to your homepage UNLOCKED! I know, it was weird but it worked.
I made android emulator for Nexus 10 using latest ADT(21) and SDK tools.
I know that in Android JellyBean 4.2 there's a new feature called DayDream. I want to access it in my Nexus10 Emulator I have. but don't know how.
i am not getting option Daydream inside Settings -> Display.
How can i enable and use it Inside Emulator?
Here's what i need to do:
1st Step: Launch the Settings app, scroll to the bottom, and tap About Phone.
2nd Step: In the middle of the screen is the listing for Android Version. Tap this item until you see a jelly bean appear on your screen. You can then tap and hold the giant jelly bean until your device vibrates. You should then see interactive beans floating all over your screen. And yes, you can fling them. Go ahead, try it.
3rd Step : After doing, this the BeanFlinger Daydream will be unlocked. You can find the Daydream option by going to Settings > Display > Daydream.
Hope it Will Help to all of the Users Facing this Same kind of Problem.
I too had the same problem, what I did was, previously, I had an emulator with 4.2.1 version. I changed it to 4.3, now its working for me.
I am running android 3.2 RC2 eeepc on Virtual Box.
The OS assumes it a tablet and sets the orientation to landscape by delfault.
How can I manually change the orientation between landscape and portrait?
Is there a way to do this through the commandline in the android OS?
Is there a shortcut key like the emulator from AVD Manager?
I tried Numlock off 7 and Ctrl F11. No use. Kindly help
I use the VM to run an app that I am currently building.
My app has many views and most are set to work in both portrait and landscape.
One view is strictly set to portrait. When I launch this, the entire OS turns to portrait.
How to revert to landscape mode?
download apps like "Set Orientation" so u can set it as potrait, lanscape or automatic
Sadly, VBox is really bad at handling screen orientation. There is no shortcut to change screen orientation on the go I'm afraid. However, there are ways to force the screen into one orientation always. This is however probably not what you were looking for.
You could however try going with BuilDroid - which is a type of addon for VBox to try and support Android as best as possible. It makes sure that screens are "managed". I have no experience with BuilDroid myself, but it could have what you're looking for.
Try it out! You can find it here: http://www.buildroid.org/blog/?page_id=121
Alternatively, there's a blog post giving information on how to change the orientation permanently, as I mentioned before, here: http://davematthew.blogspot.com/2011/09/app-development-with-android-x86-on.html
I have no idea if that helps you either though! But I hope one of these answers your question.
EDIT: The problem seems to have been solved by apps such as the one user2835272 referred to. I have not tried the app personally, but trying "Set Orientation" might be a proper solution for the problem now. Even better, if F9 - F12 works now, that is the functionality that should be used. Again, I haven't played around with VM Android for a while, so I cannot confirm this.
Try just using F9 or F11. It worked for me.
I encountered this problem when trying to run QQ on Android 4.4 running in VirtualBox. F9-F12 were ineffective as soon as QQ started. The app "Ultimate Rotation Control" does the trick but does not resize the QQ window. So part of it gets to lie out of the virtual screen. Finally, I ended up redefining the screen size of the virtual Android to 360x640 (portrait) as described here. It seems that QQ detects which side of the screen is longer and rotates according to this. So if you start with a portrait aspect ratio it will not rotate sideways. I do not about other apps, but guess they operate the same way.
If you are trying to set the display to a portrait resolution. There is one way to set the resolution manually in VBox
I set it to 600x800 successfully in Android x86 4.4.
So basically do the following:
VBoxManage setextradata "Android" "CustomVideoMode1" "360x640x16"
Start Android in VBox in Debug mode
At the Linux prompt, enter the following commands:
mkdir /boot
mount /dev/sda1 /boot
vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
Find the line with tile like "Android-x86 4.4", add "UVESA_MODE=360x640" (replace 360x640 with your resolution) at the end of the line
Save the file.
Clean up and then restart the VM.
umount /boot
rmdir /boot
reboot –f
For those who want to change the screen orientation on Windows.
To run VB on the full-screen mode on a vertical screen, select different sizes and scales from view>>virtual screen x>>resize to ../scale to xx%. After trying different combinations you will find the right settings for you.
I just downloaded the Android 3.0 SDK and booted up an emulator with it. I rotated the emulator to portrait mode with Ctrl-F12 and then opened and the activity that was build with 2.2 and the whole emulator is upside down ( as in the emulator is upside down, home buttons are on the top and screen is upside down) . Is there a way to rotate it the other way or am I missing something entirely? ( I have already tried doing Ctrl-F11 or the Num pad, same result)
open your androidmanifest file. In the application tab select an activity. Then scroll down to screen orientation and select sensorPortait in the drop-down menu. It's only available from api-level 9 (2.3.1) and higher.
Well , there can be one of the 2 cases ,
1 - I misinterpreted your question , in which case i am extremely sorry
2 - The problem has been solved in the latest download of the android 3.0 Sdk(i just downloaded 1 right now )
Here , i am posting the screen shot of my AVD running 3.0 and a 2.2 Hello World Activity .
I had this same issue when I was forcing portrait by setting screen orientation to "portrait" in the manifest file. When I made my app support rotation, and switched screen orientation back to "unspecified" the issue went away.
If you don't want to support rotation, just change the manifest while you test, and before you open the app, rotate the emulator so it opens in portrait.
I encountered this problem on running the Android SDK (Eclipse) on an Intel (Core i5) Mac. I was able to fix it by disabling the "Use Host GPU" option for the AVD.
I had the same problem, in my case when I rotated the emulator to portrait, the "desktop" would show correct. However the app would run upside down.
(This worked for v4 Ice Cream)
So, in portrait mode, in the bottom right corner of the emulator, select the settings and set "Auto-rotate screen" to OFF.
Run the app now and it will show correct.
Some of the emulator targets like 4.4 (API level 19) and 2.3 have a bug. Change your emulator to target version 4.2 or 4.3 and try to change the orientation or try to disable hardware keyboard.
The same thing just happened to me with a KitKat emulator whenever I setup the AVD with a default orientation of Landscape. Switching the default to Portrait fixed the problem.
The easiest way to tackle that problem is to just flip the display of your host system.
On the Mac you can do this in System Preferences > Display on Windows there is a keyboard shortcut: ctrl + alt + arrow key. (see here: https://superuser.com/questions/554589/how-can-i-horizontally-flip-invert-my-monitor-not-rotate and here: http://osxdaily.com/2010/12/28/rotate-mac-screen-orientation/)
And if you have a standalone trackpad you can just turn it around physically to have your mouse pointer move naturally.
At first I thought this was a problem with my app, but it seems to be happening in any app (though interestingly, not the home screen) in the gingerbread emulator.
To replicate my issue, open eclipse and fire up the android emulator for gingerbread (I'm using the "Google APIs - API Level 9" as my target)
So the procedure to duplicate once the emulator loads is
press LCtrl-F11 to shift orientation to landscape, then again to switch to portrait
Result:
In the homescreen:
The view rotates to landscape, and then back to portrait, as expected
In any app (i've tried browser, calculator, maps, and the app i'm currently working on):
the view rotates to landscape, and then nothing, it stays in landscape even the emulator is displaying the phone in landscape mode (see below)
Has anyone else had this issue, or have I installed the emulator in some incorrect way - this hasn't been an issue with any of the previous emulators
This is a bug with the Android emulator running 2.3.x. Bug is already acknowledged here
Actually, I have run into that problem occasionally before, though it does seem to get progressively worse with each passing tools release. There is nothing wrong with your installation or how you are using the program, AFAIK. You might try using Ctrl-F12 to switch back rather than Ctrl-F11 and see if that improves matters. I think the problem may stem from the emulator trying to emulate four-way orientation, but that is just a guess.
I just got stuck with the same problem in my own application. The app always stays in lanscape mode after using the camera. The only workaround I found is to click on the home button (emulator changes to portrait mode) and then click again on my application to get back to it also in portrait mode.
Did anybody report that bug already?
(Gingerbread emulator, Eclipse 3.5.x, Android Development Tools 8.0.1.v201012062107-82219)