So I have Tasker and I’m a total novice with it.
I’d like to create a simple task that shows the auto-rotate icon in my status bar when auto-rotate is on. Then when it’s turned back off, make the icon disappear.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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I had a quick look, and cant find a way to detect the auto rotate state.
What is your end goal out of curiosity? Do you juat want to have a visual notification of autorotate so you can turn it off? Because an alternative would be to automatically turn it on and off.
I use this:
When in YouTube, Netflix, etc, it enables autorotate, and when you switch out it disables it again.
I’m just looking for a visual cue that auto rotate is toggled on or off. Sometimes I lay down sideways and I forget that my auto rotate is on so I have to physically turn my phone around to get back to portrait mode. I know it’s silly really but my Samsung phone doesn’t have an option to display the rotation lock status in the status bar.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Maybe try the state->custom setting thing? For some reason I cant find the autorotate setting on my phone :/
There are apps for screen rotation: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.crape.rotationcontrol
Perhaps that will do what you want?
I found a way to get/set autorotation: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25864385/changing-android-device-orientation-with-adb
Change “put” to “get” to query.
I don’t know about adding icons. Perhaps it would be acceptable to just always set autorotate off at a certain time, or when you get home?
Personally, I almost always just keep it off, and on the rare occasion I have it on and forget, I just turn it off while my phone is rotated, and it goes back to portrait mode.
I’ve used something called “System UI Tuner” in the past. It does what you ask, in that you can modify which status car icons are shown, amongst other things.
Haven’t tried it recently, not sure it still exists or works with newer versions of Android.