Autorotation and onscreen keyboard

[Florent Largo]

Hi,

I have the same problem.
Auto-rotate will not work.
I have to manually force the landscape or portrait mode display parameters…
Any ideas?
Thanks

[Nicholas]

same problem here, any news about it?

[Windave]

Add me to the list! My book screen won’t auto-rotate when the keyboard is attached which is a real nuisance when you want to switch to tent or other position. I have searched for a solution but can’t find anyway to enable the auto-rotation while the keyboard is attached. There should be some way, maybe with a registry setting change, to prevent the rotation from being disabled. Hope for some ideas!

[Luigi]

Open regedit from command prompt or Cortana dialog. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/AutoRotation and make sure that SensorPresent is set at 1 and Enable is set at 1 as well. If one or both are at 0 change them and reboot the machine. Now auto rotation should work, and the charm button of rotation lock in the sidebar should appear as well.

[Windave]

Luigi, have been there already! What happens is that you change the ENABLE key to “1”, but after reboot the “1” gets automatically changed back to “0”. So the question is, what mechanism is overriding the registry setting each time you boot? Any ideas?

What we need to know is how to stop the attachment of the keyboard to the tablet from forcing the autorotation ENABLE key setting to “0”?

[Katagiri]

Did you try to run regedit ad an administrator?

[Windave]

Katagiri, yup tried that, but no good, the ENABLE key value still gets reset to “0”.

[Jay]

You can try this, see if it works:

– Navigate to the AutoRotation key under the location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AutoRotation
– If SlateEnable is available, delete it

And restart your computer.

If that doesn’t work, create the entry again in your registry and instead you can use something like iRotate (google & duckduckgo are your friends here) which will allow you to change orientation using hotkeys (used to be an option in the Intel HD display drivers… I’ll never understand why they nerf things that work).

[Katagiri]

I was searching a little, the only solution I found was the same Jay posted, but also some workaround. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-start/screen-auto-rotate-not-working-with-windows-10-on/6c2db9a1-cce0-41c4-8e43-a35d4e1fbda9

It’s a Windows 10 bug, a lot of tablets are the same.

[Jay]

I think it’s “expected device behaviour”, not a bug, that the screen doesn’t rotate with the keyboard docked. There’s, apparently, no distinction in HOW it’s docked (which is kind of weird considering everything still works, which means there must be some bit of SW somewhere that recognises the POGO pins are reversed) so basically it’s a laptop, and laptop screens don’t (afaik) rotate with orientation.

[Windave]

Jay, except that latest tablet/keyboard combos can be set in tent or other orientations which need the screen inverting!

[Wylver]

Don’t you get the the same viewing angle if you just rotate the screen to face away from the keyboard, or how they call it: “stand mode”? It should even be better planted to the ground this way if you want to touch the screen or write on it.

That also might be a reason why nobody at microsoft thought about enabling autorotation with a docked keyboard…

[Raoul]

I switch from laptop to tent mode a lot and my solution is simple:
unplug the tablet from the keyboard,then enable autorotation in the charm bar(swipe from right to left on the right edge). turn updown the tablet and disable autorotation. plug the tablet in tent mode and thats all!

to have automatic onscreen keyboard, enable tablet mode on the charm bar, it’s working for me.

[Wylver]

Can anyone explain to me what the tent mode is used for and why the stand mode is not good enough for the same purpose?

[Windave]

Raoul, yes indeed there are work-arounds. However, I don’t see why, for example, the CTRL-ALT-arrow key combo shouldn’t work while you have a keyboard attached to the tablet? It doesn’t work on mine at present.

Wylver, the best example I can give for “tent” is when you are in a cramped space. Flying in economy is one which comes to mind!

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