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Hi, we are looking into this and we will update this thread once we have an update. Thank you.

Hi qtoppler, Yes, this is intentional. The Kindle Fire HD has a default landscape orientation different than that of the Kindle Fire. From our "Kindle Fire Development Best Practices" page: "The default landscape orientation for the Kindle Fire (1st Generation) and Kindle Fire (2nd Generation) is ROTATION_90. The default landscape orientation for the Kindle Fire HD tablets is ROTATION_270." (In other words, in landscape, if the Kindle Fire HD is oriented with the camera at the top of the device, that is ROTATION_270). https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/fire/best-practices.html#SettingOrientation contains additional information on orientation, the accelerometer, and best practices. You may want to pay particular attention to "Specifying Orientation to Ensure Accelerometer Games Behave Correctly." Thank you.

I have 3 related apps in the Amazon store. They are landscape-only. I use corona. The 3 apps were built using the same version of corona. All 3 have the same setting for orientation. 2 have passed testing on all kindle fires, 1 failed on kindle fire HD because it starts upside down, according to support. Support has sent me the same info you posted here about the 270 default orientation/etc. Corona said my code to support landscape-only looks right and I shouldn't be having an issue with orientation. You can see the discussion thread here where Joshua responds to my (Luciane) posts: http://developer.coronalabs.com/forum/2012/08/25/about-orientation-event#comment-131300 Something is not right as it doesn't make sense that 2 apps done in the same way passed on HD and one didn't. I am at a loss of what to do to fix..... Message was edited by: raindogresearch

Please raise a ContactUs ( https://developer.amazon.com/help/contactus.html) with your app details, so that we can help you fix the issue. Thank you for your patience.

> "The default landscape orientation for the Kindle > Fire (1st Generation) and Kindle Fire (2nd > Generation) is ROTATION_90. The default landscape > orientation for the Kindle Fire HD tablets is > ROTATION_270." (In other words, in landscape, if the > Kindle Fire HD is oriented with the camera at the top > of the device, that is ROTATION_270). And this is backwards (or upside-down, more specifically). If you have code that uses these ROTATION_90/270 values, and works on every other Android tablet out there, it'll be wrong on the Kindle HD. The same issue also affects accelerometer-based apps and games. You need the opposite rotation parameters to what works on every other tablet. I only have a 7" Fire HD; can anyone confirm that this is also true on the 8.9" HD+? Sterling

It is. XXXXX, XXXXXX, and XXXXXXX are all affected by this. XXXXX stays upside down in landscape mode. The other two display correctly, but the accelerometer data is reversed.

@ Sterling Kindle Fire HD 8.9" also supports front-facing cameras and thus the default landscape orientation for it is ROTATION_270. If your app is designed to work in landscape mode, then we recommend that you use sensor-based orientation rather than relying upon the rotation value, e.g. setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR_LANDSCAPE);