Hi, I've been searching to a solution to my

[rarneson]

Hi,

I've been searching to a solution to my rotation problem for a few days now (this forum & a few tech support calls too), but so far no luck. Hopefully someone can chime in with some info ...

I'm having a problem using the rotation button on my M4. When I spin the tablet and hold the rotate button, it won't rotate anymore. It worked for a year+. I haven't used it in awhile, and the last time I tried here it wouldn't work.

I've uninstalled/reinstalled pretty much all Toshiba utilities. When I uninstall the Accelerometer Utility, I can use the rotate button, but it only goes 90 at a time. Reinstall the Acc. Utility, and it doesn't work again. It cancels just fine.

All other forms of rotating seem to work just fine also (systray tool, cross menu tool). Just this Accelerometer feature. I tried to get the Accelerometer Feature to work also (such as bring up start menu when you quick tilt), and that didn't work either. Maybe my accelerometer is busted?

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Reed

[wthor]

It may just be that the accelerometer is busted. I have the same problem. My M4 is over a year old, but I have a very recent ( 3mo ) motherboard replacement, and I can't use the tilt-rotate anymore. Which happens to be a nuisance when I want to use some other layout than the default portrait.

Since I'm taking mine in for overhaul in a couple of weeks, I'm going to have them check the accelerometer.

Worth noting: when I start the hard disk accelerometer utility, it claims in some places that everything is working fine, when running the accelerometer actually detects movement (and pauses the hard drive) but in other places it claims it isn't installed (havn't got the M4 in front of me, so I don't have the exact locations just now)..

[rarneson]

Yeah, same thing here with HDD Detection working. Last night I reimaged the machine and it still has the issue, so today I took it in to be repaired. Bummer ...