Lock portrait mode

Greetings,
Perhaps I'm missing something, I've looked for it anywhere I could think. How do you lock portrait mode on this phone? I disabling auto rotate doesn't keep your phone from going into landscape mode. It's a very basic functionality that I'm desperately missing.

There's no setting in the phone that allows you to force portrait mode. Even if you turn off auto rotation under Settings -> Display an app may switch to landscape. many games do this for example but if you place the phone in the docking station it will also rotate.
There are some 3:rd party apps that can force portrait like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.googlecode.eyesfree.setorientation but if you try to run an app that's designed for landscape it might not work properly.
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