Don't want activity to be destroyed/created when phone is rotated.

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Published on 2010-04-18T18:39:44Z Indexed on 2010/04/18 18:43 UTC
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I have tried to freeze orientation

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);

but thought screen stays in portrait orientation, the activity is still recreated. Any ideas how to solve this?

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