Home screen of Xperia Z1 does not auto rotate.

[_akurnev]

Hello,

I have Sony Xperia Z1 and it's home screen does not rotate to horizontal mode.

This issue has been noticed on the home screen and during calls (Speaker / Sony SBH50 used)

There is no such issue when using Album, Movie, etc,. Auto rotation is enabled! 

I assume that this is software issue and should be fixed, because :

1. I have Sony Smartphone Car Holder SPA-CK20M, and it is supposed to have smartphone installed horizontally in it, right?
2. I'm thinking about purchasing of Sony DK31 to charge the battery. It is also supposed to have smartphone installed horizontally in it, isn't it?

So why horizontal home screen does not work?

Why screen does not rotate to horizontal mode when incoming call received? 

Build: 14.4.A.0.108 

Awaiting for your comments. 

P.S. Home screen rotation works well on Xperia Z2 Tablet...

Best regards, 

Anton. 

[MrcAcrl]

It is certainly not a feature, though. It is a limitation in the least and behaves more like incomplete (buggy) software. For example, if you go to the homescreen from an app in horizontal mode, it will briefly show the horizontal homescreen, then revert to vertical. That's a bug. If they don't fix this I'm pretty sure I'm going to ditch Sony on my coming upgrade or go for a Google Play/Nexus Edition, if they have one and the autorotate works like it should.

[Dannyjones]

On the home screen hold your finger on the screen for a few seconds the screen will change and it will show you in the bottom right corner a setting symbol press this and press the tab that says auto rotate home screen job done.

[SimranVirdiTuli]

You can rotate. Hard press on the home screen and on the bottom, you can see home screen settings or you can also go from settings. Just select "Auto-rotate home screen" and you are good to go.