Programmatic device orientation changes

Is there a simple way to programmatically rotate the device's orientation?
I'd like to be able to transition from a landscape view to a portrait view upon pushing a new (portrait-only) viewcontroller to a navigationcontroller.
I have written some logic to manually set the orientation to portrait mode, which involves setting the transform of the root viewcontroller, setting the frame, changing the status bar location, etc. I then set a flag that tells me that the orientation is manually set to portrait mode.
shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation will always return true, and my "willRotate/didRotate" methods will do nothing if the flag is set and the physical/actual orientation is portrait.
The problem I am facing is that after this programmatic rotation, if the user physically rotates the device to portrait, the screen will briefly 'glitch' as if it were trying to animate a rotation from portrait back to portrait, and doesn't know that it doesn't have to do anything. I know that this animation is not due to my own logic because my "willRotate/didRotate" methods skipped the usual animation logic that I put there.
So, maybe there's a better way to do this, or there's a way to cover the glitch. Does anyone know how? I'll try to post sample code asap.
- Jae

yes you can force a programatc change to what ever orientation you like by adding the following code to the viewillAppear etc method of the parent or child view of the transition
[[UIDevice currentDevice] setOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait];
Of course this is an example of forcing Portrait. The other UIInterfaceOrientation parameter values work as well for other orientations. You get a compiler warning about UIDevice may not recognize the call but it does, at least for now. Not sure why the warning. Perhaps this method will be removed in the future. For now it works.

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