Rotate Always On Display 90° On WearOS?
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I've been playing with some ADB
settings put
commands on one of my WearOS watches (Galaxy Watch 7, WearOS 5, OneUI 6), to customize things a bit beyond what the settings app usually allows, and I've come across an odd issue:
I wear my watches on the inside of my wrist and prefer them oriented vertically (90° from stock setting, WearOS's "landscape" orientation internally).
I have been able to use ADB to rotate the whole system to this 90° angle, and it's great. However, when the ambient mode for Always On Display kicks in, while the rotation is preserved for a moment when the screen first dims, after about two seconds the AOD ambient screen returns to stock 0° ("portrait") orientation.
As soon as I tap the screen to wake the device from ambient mode, the rotation returns to 90°, and gestures (swipe up for app tray, down for QS, etc.) are all oriented to that 90° rotation even when the screen is in ambient mode.
I know it is not the watch face itself, because I have tried multiple and they all do this, but the issue is not present when using the stock 180° rotation mode (it will not flip back to 0° when ambient).
While reading about the issue I found some people discussing performing a similar trick on WearOS 3 and they stated the AOD/ambient mode *stayed* rotated at 90°...
I am not sure if this is something specific to Samsung OneUI versions of WearOS so I did a little digging with adb shell pm list packages
and it seems like Samsung's implementation of AOD/ambient is named com.samsung.android.watch.watchface.perpetual
.
Is anyone aware of what might be causing this glitch, or does anyone by chance know of a way (ADB or otherwise) to force an individual specific app to a particular orientation so I can try resolving this?
If native methods won't work, does anyone have any thoughts about the potential to mod this apk to change it's default orientation in it's properties?
Asked by Alison E.E.
(129 rep)
Aug 6, 2025, 06:46 AM
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