Moving Ball app on N95

have you tried a different program that uses the accelerometer? Like light sabre? Does that work??

i have installed light sabre- it works but when you wave the handset about there is no difference- you have to press the keypad to get the noise etc?

Maybe a duff Acceltrometer?

Activate the camera and rotate the screen does the picture always remain upright or does it stay in the default location? ( i.e upside down when the wrong way up )

yeah, sounds like a dodgy accelerometer then... or an inactive use of it.

hi guys
thanks for the replies.

Ok i opened the camera, and pointed it at my PC. as i rotate the phone the image of the PC changes too...i.e. this website always remains the correct way even if the phone is held upside down?

What does this tell us then?

that tells us the camera is using the accelerometer fine... which just causes more questions! 😉

<< EDIT: Actually, now I'm not watching Ronin and commenting on here at the same time (oops), and if I understand things correctly, are you saying if you turn your camera on and look at the screen and then rotate the phone, the image you are looking at stays the same way, even if your holding your phone upside down?

Unplugged wrote:Activate the camera and rotate the screen does the picture always remain upright or does it stay in the default location? ( i.e upside down when the wrong way up )

I don&#8217;t understand how this identifies if the accelerometer is functional. If I open the camera shutter on the rear of the phone and look at the screen I see what the camera is pointing at. If I rotate the phone through 360 degrees with the middle of the lens as the point of rotation the image on the screen will remain correctly oriented, i.e. the right way up. This is what I would expect to happen on any camera, irrespective of an accelerometer or not.

Unless I have misunderstood your method of diagnosis, this is not going to tell him if the accelerometer is functional in his phone. I didn't even know the camera or gallery applications had accelerometer functionality in the first place (I am running the latest firmware). If the Camera on the N95 was using the accelerometer I would expect the image displaye on the screen when the shutter was open to rotate in relation with the phone and appear upside down after rotating 180 degrees. This doesn't happen on my N95 yet moving ball, rotate me, light sabre and all of the other motion sensitive applications function as expected.

However, I did some searching around for info on how the N95 uses the accelerometer in the that camera app and came up with this...

"One really easy way to test if there is a fault with your handset itself is by taking 2 photos - One with the handset held in landscape, the other taken with the phone held in portrait. Then go to the gallery... If the images have been automatically rotated (the landscape on is shown in landscape, the portrait on is shown in portrait) then there's nothing wrong with your phone."

... which is not the same as rotating the phone with the camera app running.

Here is my stab at a solution...

Wdv, did you install the N95 RD Accelerometer Plug-in package that feeds apps like moving ball with the raw data from the N95&#8217;s accelerometers so the ball translates in relation to the phones orientation? I may be incorrect, but I think that none of the accelerometer driven apps will work without it.

Download and install the package from Nokia > http://research.nokia.com/files/N95_RD_Accelerometer.zip

something is missing here coz when i shoot a pic in landscape,it stays in landscape and when shot in portrait....it stays in portrait as well and i have the plugin and nokmote installed and working normally!!......is my phone considered faulty just because it doesnt rotate the viewfinder camera image during shooting or what?:con?

I was under the impression the camera used the accelerometer to keep the phone picture in the correct orientation. I was correct it does but of course I completely forgot if you hold the camera upside down you will see an upside down view so it will appear the correct way 🙄

try taking a photo and then rotating the phone 180 degrees and taking a photo "upside down" the preview should show it being upside down when you return it to the correct way but when you view in the gallery the photo should have been saved the correct way up on both shots.

the accelerometer puts the picture in the correct position yes, but it doesnt rotate it whilst your actually taking the picture, its the view screen that is supposed to rotate it correctly for you...

ALTHOUGH,

I sometimes get upside down pics in the gallery if Ive done anything 'angled'?!!?

Yes I had a random moment where I thought it was triggered into the view finder and not just the photo orientation. Of course it doesn't need to be 😊

The easiest way of determining if the accelerometer is faulty or not is to determine if its working correctly with the camera application (the only native applicaion) hence the request for the check. If its not then it would explain why the other software is not working.