iOS 6 UIInterfacePortrait ONLY viewcontroller being presented & stuck in landscape... when coming back from a landscape viewcontroller in nav stack

Question

So like many others, I ran into the problem of only having one or two viewcontrollers support both portrait and landscape interface orientations, in an otherwise portrait only app. Everything worked fine prior to iOS 6, but suddenly autorotating stopped working. Thanks to some great questions here, I was able to resolve that issue by having the initial navController return the individual topViewController's preference for shouldAutorotate via:

    - (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
    return  self.topViewController.shouldAutorotate;
}

-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}

However, I have stumbled onto a new problem. the root vc (viewController A) should NOT autorotate and should only support portrait. ViewController B in the nav stack supports portrait and landscape. If I am in viewController B, and am in landscape, and touch "back" to pop the view back to viewController A... vc A loads in landscape, which it is not supposed to even support, and wont rotate back to portrait because shouldAutorotate for vc A is set to NO...

Any ideas on how to deal with this would be greatly appreciated. My initial thought was to override vc B's "back" button with a manual method that first force rotates back to portrait if the view is in landscape... then pops the viewcontroller back to vc A... but I cant figure out how to force a rotation programatically. Any ideas?

here are the interface methods in vc A:

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
    return NO;
}

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
    return NO;
}

-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait;
}

- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait;
}

and here is what they are in vc B:

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
    return YES;
}

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
    return YES;
}

-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown;
}

- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait;
}

Answer 1

In vcA set

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
  return YES;
}

But keep

-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
  return UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait;
}

Then the view will rotate back to the (only) supported orientation when you return from vcB