Orientation with Kindle Fire

We just downloaded the Gospel Library to a new Kindle Fire. Everything seems normal except it seems locked in landscape orientation. My husband thinks it started happening after touching something in the "Manage Windows" tab but we don't see anything there to unlock. Other programs and downloaded books seem to have normal orientation...in other words, changing according to how you are holding it.

Any idea on how to unlock the orientation?

mhovley wrote:Any idea on how to unlock the orientation?

In the action bar at the very top, there is a gear icon in the upper right corner. Tap that, and one of the options will be "Locked" (or "Unlocked"). I'm guessing it will say "Locked"; tap it and it will change to "Unlocked" and then the screen will once again rotate as you rotate your Kindle.

Thank you, but the gear "settings" icon in the upper right corner has to do with general Kindle settings, not just the LDS library ones. The Kindle rotates properly in all the programs except LDS library. Plus, there is no option for Locked or Unlocked in that Settings area. I've looked through all the menus I can find in LDS library and can't find a solution. Maybe I will have to uninstall and reinstall. Hope not!

mhovley wrote:Thank you, but the gear "settings" icon in the upper right corner has to do with general Kindle settings, not just the LDS library ones. The Kindle rotates properly in all the programs except LDS library. Plus, there is no option for Locked or Unlocked in that Settings area. I've looked through all the menus I can find in LDS library and can't find a solution. Maybe I will have to uninstall and reinstall. Hope not!

I don't know of any setting that controls the orientation in Gospel Library itself. The only setting I could find anywhere on our Kindle was that general device setting I described.

But you're certainly right that it is odd that other apps change orientation when you rotate the device, but Gospel Library does not. I don't have any other ideas.

Thank you for helping me!

Do you have a Kindle Fire or a different version? I don't even see the Lock or Unlock that you have talked about. I see a gear icon marked Settings. Within that are Sync all content, my account, help, parental controls, device, wireless, applications, notifications, display and sounds, language and keyboard, accessibility, security, legal. I don't see Lock. Does it sound like I am in the same place you are talking about with the gear?

Go into the material (not just a menu). Tap the "AA" icon. It will bring up the Reading Options menu. That's where you can find the "View Orientation" controls.

Ahh! Thank you! Even though it seemed to have "no lock" already chosen, I touched that space and it now seems to work. THANK YOU.

russellhltn wrote:Go into the material (not just a menu). Tap the "AA" icon. It will bring up the Reading Options menu. That's where you can find the "View Orientation" controls.

Well, that's an exceedingly obscure place to put a setting that affects the menus as well! I was doing my research while still in the menus, so that's why I couldn't find it.

That's clearly an option that wasn't usability tested, but it's good to know where it is. Thanks.

And note that there might not be an "AA" icon, depending on the size of your device. It might just be the "Reading Options" menu on the overflow menu.

It is indeed a strange place to put it since it was affecting menus and so on, which seem a level higher than being inside the material itself. But I don't know what I'm talking about.

Thanks again.

Well, I think the designers are going to get another shot on this. Android is changing - the dedicated "menu" button is going away. So apps will have to provide a GUI method for getting into the settings. The new standard seems to be three horizontal lines in a title bar (you can see this in the current Play Store) or 3 dots stacked on top of each other on the right side. Currently GL is lacking that feature. That may be a problem on newer Android machines. I'll have to try it with my Nexus 7.

russellhltn wrote:The new standard seems to be three horizontal lines in a title bar (you can see this in the current Play Store) or 3 dots stacked on top of each other on the right side. Currently GL is lacking that feature. That may be a problem on newer Android machines. I'll have to try it with my Nexus 7.

OK, I think the new standard is the 3 bars on the left, but the newer Android will give the 3 dots on the right as a way to get into settings for older apps.

aebrown wrote:

russellhltn wrote:Go into the material (not just a menu). Tap the "AA" icon. It will bring up the Reading Options menu. That's where you can find the "View Orientation" controls.

Well, that's an exceedingly obscure place to put a setting that affects the menus as well! I was doing my research while still in the menus, so that's why I couldn't find it.

I don't have Gospel Library 2 installed on the device I have in front of me to check, but I know you can get to it from the menu in Gospel Library 3 beta.
Menu > Settings > Reading options (Theme, font, brightness, orientation lock)

scgallafent wrote:I don't have Gospel Library 2 installed on the device I have in front of me to check, but I know you can get to it from the menu in Gospel Library 3 beta.
Menu > Settings > Reading options (Theme, font, brightness, orientation lock)

That's good to hear that the developers have improved this for GL 3. For GL 2, the menu is different when you are on an actual content page, and you do have the Reading Options item there, but not when you are in any of the earlier screens browsing through the content hierarchy.