[Lollipop] Turning Auto-rotate off forces portrait mode

[oliverblitz]

In various situations, I like to use my tablet in landscape mode, but turn auto-rotate off (watching movies/streams while lying down).

I do this using the pull-down quick menu. After the update to lollipop however, whenever I turn off "Auto-rotate", the button's name will switch to "Portrait" and my tablet (and app) will rotate into portrait mode, even if it was in landscape mode when I pressed the button. I reckon this is done with e-books in mind, but for my purposes this makes this feature useless.

Is there any way to restore the original behaviour (tablet stays in the orientation it was in when you decide to turn off Auto-rotate)? If there is not currently, I urge you to change it back to the old way (other lollipop tablets seem to have the old behaviour still from what I could gather from friends).

[Stonge]

I noticed that if you tap the auto-rotate quick setting button at just the right cadence (or sometimes just spamming it works), the button will actually show "landscape" instead of "portrait" before snapping back to portrait rotation. It seems like Sony needs to properly configure the functionality in a future update... I agree that there are many instances where I want to lock the screen in landscape while playing video and it's a bummer that I could do this pre-update, but the functionality is now broken.