Motion sensor broken in cm7 roms? - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I like using the app screebl to keep the screen on while reading article. if you haven't heard of it, it uses the accelerometer sensor to detect the tilt of the phone in both landscape and portrait mode and keeps the screen on if it is within the range degree of tilt that is setup in the app. It is strange that I can reliably switch between portrait and landscape by turning the phone but screebl cannot detect the degree of tilt.
Can anyone point me to a solution or is this a bug in cm7 that has not been resolved?
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I am using Simply Honey which I think is based on CM7. None of the sensors work properly including:
Light sensor,
GPS,
accel
compass
They are all messed up one way or the other. Only proximity sensor works. I am missing my froyo with 3-4x of battery life..

Saint787 said:
I am using Simply Honey which I think is based on CM7
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Thats touchwiz bro...

I had the same issues when working with CM7. I'm not sure its CM7 though. Download the free app "Androsensor" and check it out. You will see CM7 runs all the sensors just fine. It may be a 2.3.* issue with the apps.

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[Q] CM7 sensors working?

Does the current CM7 build restore functionality to the Proximity and Orientation sensors to the point where they can be used with standard apps?
Does the NT have a proximity sensor? I did not think so.
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Just going by statistics from a couple of apps i.e. Android Assistant which purports to give Name, Vendor, Range Resolution and Power data for installed hardware as follows. (list not complete)
Proximity Sensor - SFH7741 By OSRAM
Rotation Vector Sensor - Google Inc
Temperature and Pressure Sensor - PMP085 by Bosh
Magnetic Field Sensor - HMC5843 Magnetometer By Honeywell
Linear Acceleration Sensor - Google Inc.
Light Sensor - BH1780gli By ROHM
Gravity Sensor - Google Inc.
Accelerometer Sensor - kxtf9_accel by kxtf9
No Gyroscope Sensor or Orientation Sensor listed
My error on the Orientation Sensor I should have said, and am most interested in, the Magnetic Field Sensor
Other apps report similar hardware available.
Besides the holy grail of Bluetooth, I was wondering if the CM7 versions have been able to natively find and activate them (if they in fact exist) or if each had to be detected and programing specially written.
Another possibility is that other necessary hardware was never included to utilize all the sensors.
In other words...
Has anyone with the latest CM7 root tried and successfully to run a compass program? I am happy with my simple Nook and Zergy root with BN access but would build a new SD card if I had a working compass for some astronomy apps.
Thanks for any additional info.
I tried a compass on CM9 and got a magnetic sensor error.
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Screebl Pro doesn't work on CM7 alpha final.
I think you need to wait for next update...
Odd thing that Screebl doesn't work. I would think that it would use the same sensor for angle identification that other programs do. For instance a nice little program called Skeye can show you the night sky when you and change the vertical angle and/or rotate from portrait to landscape but it does not recognize rotation to different compass points apparently because there is no driver for the magnetic field sensor.
It appears that in my list of sensors above that anything listed with a Google driver is functional. Those without are not. But given that the manufacture of the sensor is listed, there might be Google drivers available that can activate them.
Thanks to those that did some testing

Gyro/compass and photosphere

Does anyone know how photosphere can be fixed to recognize properly the gyro and compass sensors? I've tried several roms and 4.2 camera versions and on my phone the horizontal motion is not detected at all and the vertical motion is averaged badly (~15s). So I assume there is a setting somewhere or a device link that needs to be made so that photosphere recognizes the gyro and another setting somewhere else for the time averaging constant.
Panorama works ok and that [I think] it relies as well on the gyro.
Yes, I tried GPS Status calibration, letting the phone on a flat surface with photosphere turned on, extreme rotations around all axes.
The razr doesn't have drivers for a gyroscope, just compass and accelerometer so photosphere will never work.
osval. said:
The razr doesn't have drivers for a gyroscope, just compass and accelerometer so photosphere will never work.
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But opening GPS Sensor and Turbo GPS I see the absolute radial tracking is correct. Google sky works and so does panorama. I assume by this that the gyro (measuring speed of rotation) is not really needed since it can be determined from differentiating the magnetometer.
Maybe a custom device driver can be built that emulates this? Would be interested in doing this.

[Q] Xperia Active questions

So I've used the search bar and google
there are 4 circles at top
1. Ambient Light sensor
2. LED notification lights
3. ???
4. Proximity Sensor
so whats in between the earpiece and proximity sensor
also why dont apps recognize the ALS? I've used android sensor box, androsensors and my android sensors but still nothing. Though auto brightness works. I know, I move my finger over it and the screen gets dim
z50j said:
So I've used the search bar and google
there are 4 circles at top
1. Ambient Light sensor
2. LED notification lights
3. ???
4. Proximity Sensor
so whats in between the earpiece and proximity sensor
also why dont apps recognize the ALS? I've used android sensor box, androsensors and my android sensors but still nothing. Though auto brightness works. I know, I move my finger over it and the screen gets dim
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The last 2 sensors are for proximity i guess, cause even on my mini pro i have 2 circles for proximity. In the stock rom, it is never detected, its on by default. In roms like cm10, CM10.1 etc. you can choose whether to use it or not, change the different levels etc.
Well in mini pro its
Led, ambient sensor, camera, proximity.
Tbh, I think I have seen two dots instead of one for sensor. (Really hard to see)
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N
mnishamk said:
Well in mini pro its
Led, ambient sensor, camera, proximity.
Tbh, I think I have seen two dots instead of one for sensor. (Really hard to see)
Regards
N
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Yep there are two sensors for proximity.
why are there 2 sensors for proximity? using the sensor apps I've noticed that only that the right most works the 3rd one doesnt really do anything when i cover it. but it works so I'm fine with that
but how come the apps dont detect the ambient light sensor? that too is obviously working because the screen dims when i hover over it
Try using the service menu and see if it works there
Regards
N
mnishamk said:
Try using the service menu and see if it works there
Regards
N
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I did, it doesnt

Does auto rotation work in the latest update???

Can anyone let me know please?.
I think so. Before I tried to install, I was searching for some info's on youtube, and I saw a video ( brazillian channel, Tecmundo, Video link ) where they tested on a fiew notebooks, one has a gyroscope sensor, and it worked.
Okay, the video is about the Android 86x, not the Remix OS itself. But it might work... there are two options to enable/disable the rotating screen ( "Screen" and "Acessibility" settings). But your device need to have the sensor.
Anyway, its an alpha release. We need to test everything for them. Try it and tell us, including your device model!
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260202 build on surface pro 3. Rotation not working, or at least i didnt get it to work.
Surface pro 2 here no rotation on RemixOS. Worked x86 android lollipop
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Transformer Book T200TA, no rotation!
Using any APK in PlayStore does not assist in the task either... must me hard-coded to landscape?
PhoenixOS will allow it though as auto-detect (if Gyro detected) or even through software if not detected otherwise...
Thinkpad 8, no rotation!
But i install android-x86 6.0.1 r10 it working
Rotation will never work on laptop that does not support from windows it as it does not have a sensor built in.
Autorotation works in the Alpha and the Beta as long as your sensor is supported - download a sensor app like Z - device test and check the accelerometer.
The 'issue' is that by default landscape is forced as the typical device is expected to be a PC that a doesn't typically/easily rotate. As it is forced, rotation apps that try and change it won't work. There is a property in build.prop that can change this, so that RemixOS performs more touchscreen tablet like than PC/laptop, ro.remixos.box=true.
I've mentioned that and other prop in this thread.
I also have Tincore keymapper working I believe, but haven't too much experience in it's use so can't say much on it - I'll detail the procedure in due course...
No rotation on Asus VivoTab 8 M81C (or GPS or Bluetooth)
egren58 said:
Rotation will never work on laptop that does not support from windows it as it does not have a sensor built in.
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The above mentioned laptops do in fact have accelerometers to change screen orientation in windows.
I have a Surface Pro 3 that suffers from no rotation in Remix as well. Hopefully in future builds it's resolved, it would be a matter of including the hardware support for a few different accelerometers in the build.
Got rotation working on surface pro 2
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how did you got the rotation working ?
bigr1979 said:
Got rotation working on surface pro 2
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Hi friend, please tell me how you got?
I changed the build.prop as suggested but it didnt work, although it unlocked some additional settings. I downloaded the z-device test app and saw that the accelerometer was working but the gyroscope was not. Could it be that the os is looking for gyro data and not the accelerometer data, and if so, is there a way to point the os to the right sensor?
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I've set
ro.remixos.box=false
in build.prop
and turned off "always keep apps in landscape mode" in experimental settings.
After that autorotation started working on my Samsung XE700T.
Launcher doesn't seem to work correctly with this feature, app icons mess every time orientation is changed.
Still trying to get auto rotation working on the surface pro 2. I tried changing settings in build.prop, but no luck there. Anyone have a suggestion?
I had success on the latest marshmallow release using the Rotation Control app from the Play Store. The ro.remixos.box prop setting was already false so I just had to turn the setting to "Always keep apps in landscape mode" off to allow portrait before using Rotation Control. (At least I think I had to adjust that setting first. It's under Remix OS Options in the Settings menu if you're having trouble finding it). Rotation Control basically just allows me to force portrait mode, which is better than nothing I guess. I'm not sure how one would go about getting auto-rotation to work. I'm using a Surface Pro 3. While Z-Device Test does indicate that there is both an accelerometer and gyroscope, they don't register any activity; so I wonder if support for those sensors is just poor or something.
chaddesch said:
I had success on the latest marshmallow release using the Rotation Control app from the Play Store. The ro.remixos.box prop setting was already false so I just had to turn the setting to "Always keep apps in landscape mode" off to allow portrait before using Rotation Control. (At least I think I had to adjust that setting first. It's under Remix OS Options in the Settings menu if you're having trouble finding it). Rotation Control basically just allows me to force portrait mode, which is better than nothing I guess. I'm not sure how one would go about getting auto-rotation to work. I'm using a Surface Pro 3. While Z-Device Test does indicate that there is both an accelerometer and gyroscope, they don't register any activity; so I wonder if support for those sensors is just poor or something.
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thank you so much . I have been looking for solutions for many ddays to activate screen rotation on my dell 5378 with touch screen. That app is perfect:good:
Sine there are no accelerometers on a laptop, is there a way to do it manually?

5 plus pressure sensor

Hi!
Can anyone tell me how I get the pressure sensor to get recognized? All apps I tried so far say it's not there, but apparently the compass app from the stock ROM does display the pressure data. Does anyone have the stock pressure app? I'm running AEX.
Would a different kernel help for that?
Thanks!
Molvol said:
Hi!
Can anyone tell me how I get the pressure sensor to get recognized? All apps I tried so far say it's not there, but apparently the compass app from the stock ROM does display the pressure data. Does anyone have the stock pressure app? I'm running AEX.
Would a different kernel help for that?
Thanks!
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What u mn??? Pressure app ???
Almost every cell phone has a pressure sensor, and the Redmi 5 plus apparently too. But it doesn't seem to work like in all other phones. There are many apps that can read this sensor and display it - barometer apps namely and other sensor-display apps. I haven't found one that works with my 5 plus.
I have only seen mentioned that the built in compass app does display a pressure, all apps I have tried do not display a correct value, most just say "no sensor".
Sorry
No pressure sens. in RN5. Compass works with magnetic sensor which detects magnetic field of Earth. Not atmospheric pressure. Pressure sensor is only in more expensive phones included

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