Turn off accelerometer in N900?
 

Is there any way to turn off the accelerometer? It's really starting to bug me to distraction. Maep and the photo browser just keep randomly flipping themselves around for no apparent reason and no amount of twisting or shaking will make the damn thing correct itself.

The problem is that the accelerometer can only figure out its orientation in the vertical plane, from an experiment just now only if it's being held less than about 20 degrees from vertical. But I never ever hold the thing up in front of my face, that would be tiring. I hold it down around waist level or on the table. I might use that little kickstand. At which point it's too flat for the accelerometer to work, and if I happen to accidentally tilt it the accelerometer trips and starts flipping the screen around and moving buttons out from under my fingers to unpredictable places on the screen, always when I least expect it.

I've successfully turned off annoying flipping for the phone application, but I really just want to turn it off globally. Any ideas?

Re: Turn off accelerometer in N900?
 

Sounds more like your main problem is a stuck/broken sensor controlling one of the accelerometer's axes, you might want to get ahold of the Healthcheck application and check whether each accelerometer is actually giving an output.

Re: Turn off accelerometer in N900?
 

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Re: Turn off accelerometer in N900?
 

Removing the module seems to do the trick, thanks!

Re: Turn off accelerometer in N900?
 

Healthcheck doesn't seem very useful. I run it, it crashes. Physician, heal thyself ;-)

Re: Turn off accelerometer in N900?
 

pop over to the healthcheck thread, the last page or two will show you how to debug it, you can then let me know whats wrong :)