Cordova ignores screen orientation lock [duplicate]

Answer 1

Fixed in Cordova 3.4.1. Now preference orientation works!

<preference name="orientation" value="portrait" />

Answer 2

I just found an interesting answer after I posted the question (in the related widget right); It's a bug in Cordova and to fix it, you either edit the AndroidManifest.xml to something like;

<activity android:screenOrientation="portrait" android:configChanges=...

Or use a plugin.

FI prefer to edit the manifest as it is easy.

Answer 3

The solution is to edit the android manifest like this:

    <application
            android:icon="@drawable/icon"
            android:label="@string/app_name" >
            <activity
                android:name=".AppName"
                android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|screenSize"
                android:label="@string/app_name"
                android:launchMode="singleTask"
                android:screenOrientation="unspecified"
                android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar" >

with unspecified android select the proper orientation for device. es. smartphone is portrait only, but tablet is portrait and landscape