Re: N900 GPS Recalibration

2010-03-14 Thread Gary
"GPS was developed by the United States Department of Defence and was intended for military use. Civilian access was granted in 1983 by US President Ronald Regan with a downgraded accuracy of +/- 100 metres. However, consumer grade GPS access has benefited since the year 2000 from the lifti

Media Player in N900

2010-03-14 Thread fluke box
Hi All, Do we have something in Maemo File Browser, where we can add a file to current playlist ? Moreover, in N900 media player, there is nothing like add file to current playlist :-( (Or may be i am unaware). I would like to have nautilus like script based thing in maemo file browser for

Re: N900 GPS Recalibration

2010-03-14 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:03:51AM +, Tony Green wrote: > Can the internal GPS on an N900 be recalibrated? "Now please travel to the southermost point of Africa and press button A." No, I don't think so. > For some reason, mine always seems to show me as about 45 metres > higher than I actua

Re: N900: Calibrating the accelerometers?

2010-03-14 Thread Luis Listas
unter Ohrner wrote: > Is there any way to calibrate the N900's accelerometers? I would like to know it, too... > I need to signifiantly tilt the device such that the "Level Meter" > application shows "horizontal" positioning, and the same holds for > this nice XEyes

Re: N900: Calibrating the accelerometers?

2010-03-14 Thread Tuomo Tanskanen
Hi, On 14.3.2010 11:10, Gunter Ohrner wrote: > Hi! > Is there really noone who knows how to calibrate the sensors? > > If you put your device on a levelled surface, do the sensors correctly > reflect its position, or is there a significant deviation / error as > with my device? (A good indicato

N900 GPS Recalibration

2010-03-14 Thread Tony Green
Can the internal GPS on an N900 be recalibrated? For some reason, mine always seems to show me as about 45 metres higher than I actually am. That's not just in the Maemo Mapper application, but apparently in the raw data (as shown by the location test application). ...or is GPS just inherently

Re: N900: Calibrating the accelerometers?

2010-03-14 Thread Gunter Ohrner
Hi! Gunter Ohrner wrote: > Is there any way to calibrate the N900's accelerometers? > I need to signifiantly tilt the device such that the "Level Meter" > application shows "horizontal" positioning, and the same holds for > this nice XEyes widget and the labyrinth balls game. Is there really noo