[MrPajala]

My N86 have a really strange problem, the photo album opens in landscape mode when I lay down the phone on the table. The accelerometer is deactivated.

Anyone else who have this problem?

[amblors]

same in mine,i dont consider it a problem though. at least when you click on a picture and turn the phone it shows it in potrait or landscape mode respectively.

[MrPajala]

Okey, but do you mean that your phone just changing from portrait to landscape? or also start/open the photo album?

Anyway I took the battery out & in and now the problem seems to be gone

[amblors]

yea the photo album open is landscape mode, wen i open a photo though i can view it in potriat mode by turning the fone.

[MrPajala]

Then I think you misunderstand me, we have not the same problem.

I wrote before that the problem disappeared after battery restart, but it came back after around  30min

Have anyone experienced this problem and solved it by reinstall symbian?

[amblors]

do you take most of your pictures in landscape mode?
when you rotate the phone do the pictures revert to potrait mode?

[MrPajala]

Nothing happends when I rotate the phone, it is when I lay down the phone on a table or anything else with a hard surface that the problem appears.

It is the impact that cause the problem.

[amblors]

that's strange, i have no idea what the link is between an accelerometer and a hard surface. are you placing it on a METAL surface?

[MrPajala]

Wood

[amblors]

wow, dat sholdnt happen then.

let me get this problem clearly? you say when you hold your fone on your hand the pictures are shown in potrait and when you place it on a hard surface its shown in landscape. is that the problem?

[MrPajala]

Please look at the video I made, you will see what I mean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk-A8OlsAgI

[amblors]

datz a real problem, does that happen only in the photo browser?

if it does then you should get a different software like RESCO VIEWER.

[MrPajala]

I think the problem should be able to solve without changing software.

[sockatume · Accepted solution]

There's an option to make the phone launch an application when you open the kickstand. I figure the switch that detects the kickstand position is getting jiggled when you put the phone down, and it's launching the applicaiton as though you'd actually opened the stand. Probably needs a hardware fix, I'm afraid.

OR

You could change the setting so it doesn't launch an application.

http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2009/05/nokia-n86-8mps-kickstand-is-active.html

[MrPajala]

You were right sockatume!

Didn´t know this switch existed, but it was causing the problem.

The link didn´t work when I tried, but I managed to change the settings anyway.

Thanks!

[sockatume]

Glad to hear you found it.