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December 24

core i7 or amd razen

which cpu is faster and better? --Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 01:40, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That depends. Faster for what kind of workloads? Better in what way? Elizium23 (talk) 05:00, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Locking in Portrait Style

I have a Galaxy J7, which says that it is running Android 8.1.0. Sometimes the phone gets into a mode where it rotates between portrait style and landscape style depending on how the phone is positioned, sensing gravity or something. Sometimes it is locked in portrait. How do I ensure that it stays locked in portrait? I find the rolling between landscape and portrait to be distracting. Is there a setting for the purpose? Robert McClenon (talk) 21:38, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know about Android 8 but on Android 7 I can pull down the notifications menu and when I do the pull down motion again it shows a black menu with a bunch of icons for things like Wifi, mobile internet, airplane mode etc. One of these icons is portrait/auto-rotate. Another way of changing this setting is if I go to Settings > Phone > Display, gestures & buttons > Auto rotate screen. 89.172.16.124 (talk) 22:38, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah Samsung may have put in their own UI cruft but in general, locking portrait mode is easy, it's locking landscape mode that is difficult. If you want to do the latter, there is a somewhat flaky f-droid.org app called "Tap-n-turn" that can do it. 67.164.113.165 (talk) 07:12, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I understand about doing this via the Settings menu. How do I pull down the notifications menu? What pulldown is this? (Maybe it doesn't matter, since I can go to Settings.) Robert McClenon (talk) 20:13, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And why would I want to lock in landscape mode? Robert McClenon (talk) 20:13, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Notifications screen is by single finger swipe from the top of the screen in standard Android 8.1.0. You may have to enlarge the top section on the screen with a drag down or arrow press. And if this has more icons than can fit on a screen you can swipe left to see more. The icons on this screen can be edited, so if it is not there, you can click on the pencil to ad it in. You might want to lock in landscape if you are watching a movie on the phone while lying down. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:15, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Notifications menu is the one in the middle on this picture. You hold the black part on the top and pull down and get this where the portrait/autorotate is. @ Graeme & 67, apps like VLC Player can be set to lock themselves into landscape even if there's no Android option. 89.172.85.141 (talk) 17:49, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

User:Graeme Bartlett - You did something useful and unusual, which was to answer my question, by saying "single finger swipe from the top of the screen". That actually worked. Other editors: Please try to be as informative as GB just was. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:18, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I said "pull down motion". Isn't that what it is? I couldn't have known you didn't know what the notifications menu was. 89.172.85.141 (talk) 18:41, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]