[richwhite]

I just found this, some of you probably already know about it.

Download ShortcutD  from the maemo repo, then go to settings and ShortcutD. In there you can use camera button or proximity sensor (i originally set caera button but found proximity sensor better), and from the list select 'ctrl+shift+r' (portrait). Doesn't work on desktop (thankfully) but it does elsewhere - conversations, images, app manager etc. Just cover the proximity sensor and it says 'rotation toggled' and you can tilt the phone to portrait. Very, very nice. Shame it doesn't affect the virtual keyboard for SMS though.

Enjoy! And if you like it, kudos!

[ceroberts75]

i think that rotatedaemon was the only program that allowed a qwerty kb in the portrait mode for sms.

[richwhite]

Yeah, i think so too. At least, i can't find any others. I'd like rotate daemon but i don't want everything to rotate, most notably desktops. Do you know if it's still being worked on to improve?

I just wish FastSMS or VertSMS would be updated to put messages in the conversations box and give T9 functionality from there rather than the isolated app