No ideas? Has no one else experienced this?
On Oct 27, 10:06 am, Neilz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all. I wanted to get to grips with the orientation sensors (using
> HTC Hero) and have written a simple Spirit Level app which has two
> bars displayed, one showing the horizontal level, and the other
> showing the vertical. Just like a real spirit level :-)
>
> I've played around with the Sensor and SensorManager classes, but they
> just don't seem to work quite correctly. There are two issues:
>
> 1) I would expect the tilt reading to give Zero when it is level - a
> tip either way gives a positive or negative reading. But I can see
> from looking at my device that zero clearly isn't level - it's just
> off. About 5 is actually level!
>
> 2) For the vertical reading from the same sensor, the sensor readings
> seem to get stuck. They get as far as about 75 degrees, as you get
> near vertical, but then the readings seem to stick and eventually jump
> to somewhere over 100. You can imagine, my app needs a smooth
> transition of readings, and this is useless.
>
> So either the sensor doesn't work, or I'm missing something. The
> latter is the more likely! What could be going wrong? Here's some of
> the code:
>
> mSensorManager = (SensorManager) this.getSystemService
> (Context.SENSOR_SERVICE);
> sensors = mSensorManager.getSensorList(Sensor.TYPE_ORIENTATION);
> Sensor dirSensor = sensors.get(0);
> mSensorManager.registerListener(mySensorListener, dirSensor,
> SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_NORMAL);
>
> public void onSensorChanged(SensorEvent event) {
> // event.values[1] gives me my tilt reading
>
> }
>
>
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