that sounds *extremely* unlikely. I bet it was just coincidence that the hardware broke while he was using your app.
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:53 PM, clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > I recently received a comment in the market by someone claiming that > my app has caused the accelerometer in their phone to stop > functioning. I'm taking this comment with a grain of salt, but I > thought I would post a message and see if this is possible in any way > shape or form, or if any other developers have heard of this from any > of their users. I am highly doubtful that this is the case as I have > used my own personal phone to test each of my applications and I've > probably abused it much more than some users, and it still works fine. > > I did receive an email from a user, on my first app, stating that the > application did not respond to any movements. The indivual ended up > getting a replacement phone as their accelerometer was deemed > defective. > > The code in all my applications only register the accelerometer and > orientation sensors. When the application is killed or paused, I > unregister them just to be sure. > > Anyways, no one has emailed me to say that their accelerometer has > been damaged so I'm not too worried, but I'd like to take the > neccessary steps if it is possible, or at least provide a warning to > the user. > > > Regards, > ~clark > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
