Does the iPhone 4 accelerometer keep screwing up for you?

[Elliot B.]

I'll hold my phone horizonally (and the menus turn the correct way) and start recording a video, and about a quarter of the time, the video on the PC comes out vertical (which looks ridiculous and very unusual).

Similar thing for photos, but even more often than that. About half the photos I take, when I e-mail them to myself, need rotating (which can't be done in mail applications, you have to save them then rotate them). VERY frustrating.

Didn't happen with photos taken on my 3G. It always knew whether they were vertical or horizontal.

Any ideas?

[StandingInAlley]

Use the portrait lock option from the multi-task menu at the bottom when you double press the Home button.

[Elliot B.]

Use the portrait lock option from the multi-task menu at the bottom when you double press the Home button.

It doesn't really have anything to do with that, and it shouldn't have to! Turning the phone 90? should, for example, record a video in landscape, but it doesn't always!

A quick search of the Apple discussion boards are showing I'm definitely not the only one with these problems.

I hope it's fixed soon :)

[earlcaulley]

Use the portrait lock option from the multi-task menu at the bottom when you double press the Home button.

Waiting for the landscape lock option...

[InterceptorX]

I haven't had that problem. Make sure it rotates before you hit record?

[Elliot B.]

I haven't had that problem. Make sure it rotates before you hit record?

I do.

[CPressland]

Always have this issue playing videos on a PC from my iPhone, but playing them on my Mac they work perfectly. I just put it down to QuickTime 9 vs QuickTime X

[Elliot B.]

Always have this issue playing videos on a PC from my iPhone, but playing them on my Mac they work perfectly. I just put it down to QuickTime 9 vs QuickTime X

It's not just the player. When you upload them to YouTube, they're still the wrong way around.

[maash]

Use the portrait lock option from the multi-task menu at the bottom when you double press the Home button.

i dont see any portrait lock open in the multitasking menu at the bottom? how do i access it

[Elliot B.]

i dont see any portrait lock open in the multitasking menu at the bottom? how do i access it

Double-tap the Home button then swipe to the right.

[maash]

Double-tap the Home button then swipe to the right.

so when I play videos it will lock the orientation then as well?

[Elliott]

I haven't had this happen to me. Sounds like a software bug though (like the OS isn't saving the orientation information properly).

[Elliot B.]

I haven't had this happen to me. Sounds like a software bug though (like the OS isn't saving the orientation information properly).

Yeh, it's very likely a software issue. It needs to be sorted! Until it is, QuickTime Pro can easily fix it.

[AJerman]

I haven't seen any issues, but I did want to add a little more info for places to look. I know that orientation is just a number thrown in the EXIF data. I know that OS X typically will read that data and apply that rotation to the picture when it previews it in it's OS, however, the picture itself is not actually rotated in the file. Some applications won't read the rotation data and the picture shows up sideways.

I think I said that all right, but if not, please correct me if I'm wrong. This doesn't seem like it's what you're running into, but I've noticed this a few times and thought I'd point it out.