You can still bring up the menu on the Palm Pre while in landscape mode.  You may have noticed that when you put the Palm Pre into landscape mode in the browser or in email (after applying the Palm Pre Landscape mode email trick), the menubar on the top of the Pre disappears.  Good news: it’s still there, you just can’t see it.

Rdaex in our forums was amongst several PreCentral.net members to discover the trick. Just hit one of the volume buttons and the Pre will not only show the volume indicator at right, but at left the menubar will re-appear and you can tap the Menu to bring it up.

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Gennadiy sends in a tip that’s in the same vein as the now-famous Konami Code developer mode trick, but is much more useful to your average user: viewing email in Landscape mode!

Here’s how: when in your mailbox listing view (i.e. the top of the email app), type in RocknRollHax.  It helps if you hold down Shift+ the key for the capitalized letters instead of hitting them in sequence.  As Gennadiy writes, type as follows:

Hold Shift + R
ockn
Hold Shift + R
oll
Hold Shift + H
ax

Do that, and suddenly you can rotate your Pre in either the message listing mode or while looking at a specific email and view it in Landscape mode.  Very helpful for those HTML-coded messages.  Note however that the menu disappears when in landscape mode (just like it does in the browser). Update: As jhoff80 notes in the comments, unlike the landscape browser, scrolling the gesture area doesn’t work here. 

Unfortunately, this method doesn’t appear to ’stick’ after you’ve closed the email app.  If you want it to be permanent, jblebrun at the Pre Dev Wiki has the details for you Pre-rooters for keeping landscape mode permanent.  Kudos also to FXDemolisher for the RocknRollHax trick!

Thanks, Gennadiy!

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