Lumia 920 Screen will no longer rotate.

I've had my Lumia 920 for about a month now - it is a German Vodafone model. As of today while I was out at work I went to use it to send a text and they keyboard would no longer change orientation when I flipped the phone sideways. Nothing would rotate anymore, photos, web pages; its as if the rotation setting is not working. I looked to find one but I can't. I've heard a few issues on various forums like WPcentral about this and that it might be a software bug, and a search of this forum has another user whose rotation doesn't work, but I don't know why this would have just started, and I've tried hard resets and soft resets and nothing seems to fix it.
I would really like some information about this or a possible fix, as this is really killing the useability of the phone - that along with the random restarts which happen several times a day on average.

Wondering the same. I have seen this issue posted here and on Windows Phone Centrals website. It appear to be a recent issue. On December 24th  Windows 8 installed the latest update "Portico" on my Lumia. On December 26th my phone used wireless charging for the first time via the JBL PowerUp. Those are the only relevant changes I can think of that may have caused my screen orientation to stop working on December 28th. I did notice my Lumia was hotter than normal when using the wireless charging. This is probably expected due to the copper coil needed for the wireless charging. That said, I don't believe the phone should have gotten as hot as it did. I am wondering if somehow the gyroscope got fused. Orientation no longer works at all and has been confirmed on IE browser, Email, Text, Picture taking, Picture viewing, Google app and Facebook app. In an attempt to fix this I reset the phone which Nokia told me to do. After I clicked reset the phone rebooted showing gears turning. After 2 hours the gear where still turning. A volume down power button reboot of the device was performed 6 times before the phone came back up. Once the phone came back up I chose not to restore the phone with the backed up settings. The phone was completely wiped and no old data was used. The problem still exists. At this point I am really hoping this is not  a hardware problem. If anyone knows how to fix this problem please advise as this is a big issue for me and I would assume a lot of other users as well if it happens to them. I really like this phone and believe it is the best phone on the market. If this issue is in fact a hardware issue this could cause big problems for Nokia. I hope to resolve this soon otherwise I will have to return the phone and JBL PowerUp which is a very impressive audio piece.
FYI - I have had the phone since it was available in November without any issues up until December 28th..
Thanks,
N.

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