diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 51ca7225be..3b3ae3024b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@
   opening the request log. Long waits keep the first five and last twenty-five polls. The replay
   landmark-mismatch refusal carries the same poll evidence next to its mismatch details; `wait
   --stable` timeouts and a never-readable strict absence keep their existing diagnostics.
+- Fixed: Android `orientation` now returns once the display reports the requested rotation
+  (polling `dumpsys display`, up to 15s) instead of right after writing the settings. On a loaded
+  emulator the rotation takes seconds, during which accessibility reads hang, so the next command
+  paid for the transition; a `wait` issued right after `orientation` could spend its whole budget
+  there. A display that never reaches the requested rotation now fails the command with the
+  observed rotation instead of reporting success; a display that reports no rotation is left to
+  the setting as before.
 - Fixed: the iOS Simulator AX snapshot route bounds how long a capture waits for app discovery
   and stops starting a discovery per capture. Discovery (`simctl launchctl list` through xcrun)
   takes seconds on a loaded host; a capture now waits at most 1.5s for the one in-flight
diff --git a/packages/platform-android/src/__tests__/input-actions.test.ts b/packages/platform-android/src/__tests__/input-actions.test.ts
index 45abd28ddf..a6f55b214a 100644
--- a/packages/platform-android/src/__tests__/input-actions.test.ts
+++ b/packages/platform-android/src/__tests__/input-actions.test.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { test } from 'vitest';
+import { test, vi } from 'vitest';
 import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
 import {
   backAndroid,
@@ -175,15 +175,114 @@ test('pressAndroidEnter presses the ENTER keyevent', async () => {
   );
 });
 
-test('setAndroidOrientation locks auto-rotate and sets user rotation', async () => {
+// The orientation settle polls at its own interval; the clock is the assertion, not the wait.
+vi.mock('@agent-device/host-kit/retry', () => ({ sleep: async () => {} }));
+
+const ORIENTATION_CALLS = [
+  ['shell', 'settings', 'put', 'system', 'accelerometer_rotation', '0'],
+  ['shell', 'settings', 'put', 'system', 'user_rotation', '1'],
+];
+const DISPLAY_READ = ['shell', 'dumpsys', 'display'];
+
+function displayReporting(rotations: string[]): (args: string[]) => string | undefined {
+  let reads = 0;
+  return (args) => {
+    if (args[1] !== 'dumpsys') return undefined;
+    const rotation = rotations[Math.min(reads, rotations.length - 1)];
+    reads += 1;
+    return rotation === undefined ? '' : `  mCurrentOrientation=${rotation}\n`;
+  };
+}
+
+test('setAndroidOrientation locks auto-rotate, sets user rotation, and returns once the display rotated', async () => {
+  await withFakeAdb(displayReporting(['0', '0', '1']), async ({ calls, device }) => {
+    await setAndroidOrientation(device, 'landscape-left');
+    assert.deepEqual(calls, [...ORIENTATION_CALLS, DISPLAY_READ, DISPLAY_READ, DISPLAY_READ]);
+  });
+});
+
+test('setAndroidOrientation fails when the display never reports the requested rotation', async () => {
+  vi.useFakeTimers({ now: 0, toFake: ['Date'] });
+  const probeBudgets: number[] = [];
+  try {
+    await withFakeAdb(
+      (args, options) => {
+        // Every display read costs wall clock; the display stays where it was.
+        if (args[1] === 'dumpsys') {
+          probeBudgets.push(options?.timeoutMs ?? -1);
+          vi.setSystemTime(Date.now() + 4_000);
+        }
+        return displayReporting(['0'])(args);
+      },
+      async ({ calls, device }) => {
+        await assert.rejects(setAndroidOrientation(device, 'landscape-left'), (error: unknown) => {
+          assert.ok(error instanceof Error);
+          assert.match(error.message, /orientation landscape-left did not take effect/);
+          const details = (error as { details?: Record<string, unknown> }).details ?? {};
+          assert.equal(details.requestedRotation, 1);
+          assert.equal(details.observedRotation, 0);
+          return true;
+        });
+        assert.ok(calls.filter((call) => call[1] === 'dumpsys').length >= 4);
+        // Each probe may use only what is left of the 15s settle budget.
+        assert.equal(probeBudgets[0], 15_000);
+        for (let index = 1; index < probeBudgets.length; index += 1) {
+          assert.ok(probeBudgets[index]! > 0 && probeBudgets[index]! < probeBudgets[index - 1]!);
+        }
+      },
+    );
+  } finally {
+    vi.useRealTimers();
+  }
+});
+
+test('a display probe that hangs for the whole budget ends the settle as a failure', async () => {
+  vi.useFakeTimers({ now: 0, toFake: ['Date'] });
+  try {
+    await withFakeAdb(
+      (args, options) => {
+        if (args[1] !== 'dumpsys') return undefined;
+        // The probe blocks until its own timeout, which is the whole remaining budget.
+        vi.setSystemTime(Date.now() + (options?.timeoutMs ?? 0));
+        return new Error(`adb shell dumpsys display timed out after ${options?.timeoutMs}ms`);
+      },
+      async ({ calls, device }) => {
+        await assert.rejects(
+          setAndroidOrientation(device, 'landscape-left'),
+          /orientation landscape-left could not confirm the display rotation: adb shell dumpsys display timed out after 15000ms/,
+        );
+        assert.equal(calls.filter((call) => call[1] === 'dumpsys').length, 1);
+        assert.equal(Date.now(), 15_000);
+      },
+    );
+  } finally {
+    vi.useRealTimers();
+  }
+});
+
+test('a display probe that exits non-zero fails the settle instead of passing as no field', async () => {
   await withFakeAdb(
-    () => undefined,
+    (args) =>
+      args[1] === 'dumpsys'
+        ? { stdout: '', stderr: 'dumpsys: permission denied', exitCode: 1 }
+        : undefined,
     async ({ calls, device }) => {
-      await setAndroidOrientation(device, 'landscape-left');
-      assert.deepEqual(calls, [
-        ['shell', 'settings', 'put', 'system', 'accelerometer_rotation', '0'],
-        ['shell', 'settings', 'put', 'system', 'user_rotation', '1'],
-      ]);
+      await assert.rejects(
+        setAndroidOrientation(device, 'landscape-left'),
+        /orientation landscape-left could not confirm the display rotation: .*exited with code 1/,
+      );
+      assert.equal(calls.filter((call) => call[1] === 'dumpsys').length, 1);
     },
   );
 });
+
+test('setAndroidOrientation leaves a display that reports no rotation to the setting', async () => {
+  await withFakeAdb(displayReporting([]), async ({ calls, device }) => {
+    await setAndroidOrientation(device, 'portrait');
+    assert.deepEqual(calls, [
+      ['shell', 'settings', 'put', 'system', 'accelerometer_rotation', '0'],
+      ['shell', 'settings', 'put', 'system', 'user_rotation', '0'],
+      DISPLAY_READ,
+    ]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/platform-android/src/__tests__/test-utils/fake-adb.ts b/packages/platform-android/src/__tests__/test-utils/fake-adb.ts
index 4d24a4ac23..1c89a3461a 100644
--- a/packages/platform-android/src/__tests__/test-utils/fake-adb.ts
+++ b/packages/platform-android/src/__tests__/test-utils/fake-adb.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ import { ANDROID_EMULATOR } from './device-fixtures.ts';
 import { bindAndroidAdbTestHost } from './android-host-test-setup.ts';
 
 export type FakeAdbResponse = string | Partial<AndroidAdbExecutorResult> | Error;
-export type FakeAdbScript = (args: string[]) => FakeAdbResponse | undefined;
+export type FakeAdbScript = (
+  args: string[],
+  options?: AndroidAdbExecutorOptions,
+) => FakeAdbResponse | undefined;
 
 export type FakeAdbProviderExtras = AndroidAdbProvider extends infer P
   ? P extends AndroidAdbProvider
@@ -34,7 +37,7 @@ export async function withFakeAdb<T>(
     execOptions?: AndroidAdbExecutorOptions,
   ): Promise<AndroidAdbExecutorResult> => {
     calls.push([...args]);
-    const response = script(args);
+    const response = script(args, execOptions);
     if (response instanceof Error) throw response;
     const result: AndroidAdbExecutorResult =
       typeof response === 'string'
diff --git a/packages/platform-android/src/input-actions.ts b/packages/platform-android/src/input-actions.ts
index 5b1822c18a..607122ed4a 100644
--- a/packages/platform-android/src/input-actions.ts
+++ b/packages/platform-android/src/input-actions.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import {
 import { type TvRemoteButton, toAndroidTvRemoteKeyevent } from '@agent-device/contracts/tv-remote';
 import type { DeviceInfo } from '@agent-device/kernel/device';
 import { AppError } from '@agent-device/kernel/errors';
+import { sleep } from '@agent-device/host-kit/retry';
 import { runAndroidAdb } from './adb.ts';
 import { executeAndroidTouchPlan, readAndroidGestureViewport } from './touch-executor.ts';
 import type { AndroidHelperSessionOptions } from './snapshot-helper-types.ts';
@@ -64,6 +65,68 @@ export async function setAndroidOrientation(
     'user_rotation',
     userRotation,
   ]);
+  await settleAndroidOrientation(device, orientation, userRotation);
+}
+
+const ORIENTATION_SETTLE_TIMEOUT_MS = 15_000;
+const ORIENTATION_SETTLE_POLL_MS = 500;
+
+/**
+ * The display rotates some time after the setting lands; on a loaded emulator that takes
+ * seconds, during which accessibility reads hang. Returning once the display reports the
+ * requested rotation keeps the next command from paying for the transition. A display that never
+ * gets there is a fact the caller must see (a foreground app pinning its orientation, a device
+ * ignoring `user_rotation`); one that reports no rotation at all cannot be checked and is left to
+ * the setting.
+ */
+async function settleAndroidOrientation(
+  device: DeviceInfo,
+  orientation: DeviceRotation,
+  userRotation: string,
+): Promise<void> {
+  const deadline = Date.now() + ORIENTATION_SETTLE_TIMEOUT_MS;
+  let observed = await readAndroidDisplayRotation(device, orientation, deadline);
+  while (observed !== undefined && observed !== userRotation && Date.now() < deadline) {
+    await sleep(Math.min(ORIENTATION_SETTLE_POLL_MS, remainingMs(deadline)));
+    observed = await readAndroidDisplayRotation(device, orientation, deadline);
+  }
+  if (observed === undefined || observed === userRotation) return;
+  throw new AppError(
+    'COMMAND_FAILED',
+    `orientation ${orientation} did not take effect: the display still reports rotation ${observed} after ${ORIENTATION_SETTLE_TIMEOUT_MS}ms`,
+    {
+      requestedRotation: Number(userRotation),
+      observedRotation: Number(observed),
+      hint: 'The foreground app may pin its orientation, or the device may ignore user_rotation. Check `adb shell dumpsys display | grep mCurrentOrientation` and the app manifest.',
+    },
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * One display read, bounded by what is left of the settle budget so a stuck probe ends the
+ * settle. A probe that fails (non-zero exit, timeout) is a failed settle, never "no field".
+ */
+async function readAndroidDisplayRotation(
+  device: DeviceInfo,
+  orientation: DeviceRotation,
+  deadline: number,
+): Promise<string | undefined> {
+  try {
+    const result = await runAndroidAdb(device, ['shell', 'dumpsys', 'display'], {
+      timeoutMs: remainingMs(deadline),
+    });
+    return /mCurrentOrientation=(\d)/.exec(result.stdout)?.[1];
+  } catch (error) {
+    throw new AppError(
+      'COMMAND_FAILED',
+      `orientation ${orientation} could not confirm the display rotation: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}`,
+      { hint: 'The device did not answer `dumpsys display` within the orientation budget.' },
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+function remainingMs(deadline: number): number {
+  return Math.max(1, deadline - Date.now());
 }
 
 export async function appSwitcherAndroid(device: DeviceInfo): Promise<void> {
diff --git a/test/integration/provider-scenarios/android-ime-lifecycle-world.ts b/test/integration/provider-scenarios/android-ime-lifecycle-world.ts
index 98920c4890..be84c30752 100644
--- a/test/integration/provider-scenarios/android-ime-lifecycle-world.ts
+++ b/test/integration/provider-scenarios/android-ime-lifecycle-world.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ export type AndroidProviderShellState = {
   searchText: string;
   clipboardText: string;
   secureSettings: Map<string, string>;
+  /** The last `settings put system user_rotation`; the scripted display reports it back. */
+  userRotation: string;
 };
 
 const IME_INPUT_TEXT_ACTION = 'com.callstack.agentdevice.imehelper.ACTION_INPUT_TEXT_B64';
@@ -51,6 +53,7 @@ export function createAndroidProviderShellState(): AndroidProviderShellState {
     searchText: '',
     clipboardText: 'hello',
     secureSettings: new Map([['default_input_method', 'com.android.inputmethod.latin/.LatinIME']]),
+    userRotation: '0',
   };
 }
 
diff --git a/test/integration/provider-scenarios/android-world.ts b/test/integration/provider-scenarios/android-world.ts
index 0501c4d73c..d8ebf72b1a 100644
--- a/test/integration/provider-scenarios/android-world.ts
+++ b/test/integration/provider-scenarios/android-world.ts
@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ export function respondToAndroidSettingsAdbCommand(
 ): { stdout: string; stderr: string; exitCode: number; stdoutBuffer?: Buffer } {
   const key = args.join(' ');
   const result =
+    androidDisplayRotationAdbResult(key, options.ime) ??
     androidDeviceAvailabilityAdbResult(key, args, options.pidof) ??
     androidImeLifecycleAdbResult(key, args, options.ime) ??
     androidClipboardAdbResult(key, clipboardText) ??
@@ -254,6 +255,10 @@ type AndroidAdbResult = {
 const ANDROID_CLIPBOARD_SET_TEXT_PREFIX = ['shell', 'cmd', 'clipboard', 'set', 'text'];
 
 function updateAndroidProviderShellState(args: string[], state: AndroidProviderShellState): void {
+  if (argsStartWith(args, ['shell', 'settings', 'put', 'system', 'user_rotation'])) {
+    state.userRotation = String(args[5] ?? '0');
+    return;
+  }
   if (args[0] === 'shell' && args[1] === 'input' && args[2] === 'text') {
     state.searchText = String(args[3] ?? '').replaceAll('%s', ' ');
     return;
@@ -484,6 +489,19 @@ function androidPermissionMutationAdbResult(args: string[]): AndroidAdbResult |
   return undefined;
 }
 
+/** The scripted display rotates the moment `user_rotation` lands, the way the settle expects. */
+function androidDisplayRotationAdbResult(
+  key: string,
+  state: AndroidProviderShellState | undefined,
+): AndroidAdbResult | undefined {
+  if (key !== 'shell dumpsys display') return undefined;
+  return {
+    stdout: `    mCurrentOrientation=${state?.userRotation ?? '0'}\n`,
+    stderr: '',
+    exitCode: 0,
+  };
+}
+
 function androidSettingsPutAdbResult(args: string[]): AndroidAdbResult | undefined {
   if (
     args.length === 6 &&