5800 has an auto-rotate bug

Hi
After only 7 days of ownership, the phone developed a problem with autorotate.
All apps were stuck in landscape mode & refused to budge back to portrait.
I had downloaded a few apps from Ovi last night, and upgraded the memory card to a Sandisk Class 2 16GB.
The spirit "Level" app works, so I guess it's more likely a 5800 software/firmware than sensor problem.
Tried advice given by others on this issue - turned autorotate off, restarted phone, then re-enabled. This didn't work on first attempt, but did the second time.
Called Nokia support - they talked me through a hardware reset, though not sure what good this did as I'd got it to work already by above method.
Most annoying, because I'm otherwise loving this phone (although coming from a Samsung Z510, that's not a big ask ... !).
Hope it doesn't happen again.

I've recently come up with a one-button, 1-click easy fix for this problem. If there was a widget that let us control display preferences like orientation, this problem would be solved. As it is, I hit the dashboard key every time I'm in fullscreen mode and I want to check the time or switch the skip to the next itunes song, so having a widget action to make this switch would be a decent stop-gap solution.
Can anyone point me in this direction?

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I have since been successful in updating the firmware build to A916_S1205_141013 which gives me Dual SIM/Dual Standby and is a lot less biased towards a Chinese user and is multi-lingual.
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