Well, I was curious about my 5s, and tried it on several flat surfaces in my home.
It always gave a reading of minus 1 degree. Which didn’t make me any smarter. <grin> Crystal From: John Diakogeorgiou Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 9:37 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The iPhone 5S Motion Sensors Are Totally Screwed Up - gizmodo.com Just out of curiousity I tried using the level with my wife's 5 and my 5s which was received the Tuesday after they went on sale. Their is a difference of about 3 degrees between the two phones with hers showing 0 and mine -3 which is about a/4 inch off the table. I tried it on a couple of different surfaces in case one wasn't flat and got the same results. I did not try the compass part because I don't think the difference is as important. Although I hope Apple some how fixes this I don't think it will have too much effect since I don't use the phone for woodworking. On 10/14/13, Grant Hardy <grantha...@outlook.com> wrote: > Oh for sure, many navigation apps use the compass. I just meant that in my > experience usually navigation apps don't rely on it exclusively because > there's lots of information like your heading that can be derived from GPS. > > Please post tomorrow after you've taken your shiny new phone out of the box > and let us know whether your sensors seem to work properly. I agree with > you, everyone has at least one year of warranty (more if you buy Apple Care > Plus) so I don't think I'll sweat it too much at this point especially > considering that the majority of phones seem to exhibit this behaviour. Or > rather, the majority of people who have posted about this issue around the > internet can replicate it. > > Grant > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: October 14, 2013 3:17 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: The iPhone 5S Motion Sensors Are Totally Screwed Up - > gizmodo.com > > Hi Grant, > > Some apps do use the compass (Blindsquare is one) but I am not sure if the > variance described is enough to make a real difference. I am getting my 5S > tomorrow (HaHaHa, beat you) and I certainly appreciated Cara posting this > because at least one has a chance to specifically test for these issues. I > am a woodworker and I do build things and do my own > renovations/modifications to my home to a large degree, but it's not like > I'd ever use my iPhone as my authorative level, it's much to short to be > really precise. I have a dedicated audio level and even that is only 12 > inches and there is a reason why framers use 4 foot long levels. I can see > how this might affect hard-core gamers which I am not and I suspect it will > be an academic problem for me, certainly not enough to scare me off like > Pablo who cancelled his order, but if I wasn't in a big hurry and my iPhone > wasn't due to arrive tomorrow I might consider that. Anyhow, I have 1 year > of warranty and I bought Apple Care so I am quite convinced that if I could > replicate this issue and it was quite serious I could get a replacement in > a > couple of month when Apple has made the appropriate modifications. > > On a general note, I think it must be a real nightmare to discover all of > these bugs and get them fixed. There are so many functions and features > some > of which are very specific. I know it's easy to say "How can Apple release > a > phone which has such obvious bugs" or "How can they release iOS 7 when it > has such obvious bugs". But it's always easier to play Monday morning > Quarterback and to draw on what tens of millions users report in the first > few weeks of using a new iiOS or a new device. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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