Re: Photos are always being rotated! Why!
I have been following this thread because it describes an issue I just recently started experiencing. Up until about a month ago if I held the camera portrait, the icons on the bottom were oriented properly, I took a picture and it displayed in the phone and on the pc as portrait. If I held it landscape, the icons stayed on the "bottom" of the phone but rotated in their respective spots to be right side up from my point of view. The pics showed up in the phone and on the pc landscape. But about a month ago, all of a sudden, pictures I took in portrait orientation (as I always had done, not changing my procedures in any way), are displaying in my phone as portrait, but sideways on the pc. All along the icons are still reacting to the change in orientation. So the phone knows I am flipping from portrait to landscape. So it's not my rotation settings or my camera settings. Somehow things are getting lost in translation from phone to PC. This also happens if I copy directly from the phone via explorer as well as importing through Picasa. I have used Picasa before and after this debacle. Even those imported through Picasa show in picasa with the right orientation but still sideways when viewed in the file itself.
Telling me to take a picture "properly" in landscape doesn't change the fact that up until a month ago things worked as intended THEN BROKE somehow. NOW, doing everything the same as I did before the kablooie garners different, broken results. I am pretty sure this is what the OP and others here are experiencing and asking for help.
If anyone knows why this is happening please help. It's becoming very annoying. It is also happening to video. Everything is showing on the phone as ready to take video as portrait (the way MOST users use their phone camera btw) yet playing the file on the pc outside of picasa still shows it sideways. And yes I try it with multiple video players, even my WD Live.