I had a leveling app. It was free except, I can't remember the name. It did let you set the calibration. You started out placing your iPhone even if it was in a case on a flat surface and double tapping the calibrate button. Then you were prompted to place your iPhone on it's side with the up/down buttons on the top and again double tapping the calibrate button and then place your iPhone on standing up with the lock switch on the top right and double tapping the calibrate button. The iPhone was then calibrated and gave a containing tone to let you know it was level. They make note of the fact that although the app could come very close it should only be used for things like leveling pictures and non creditable jobs. It might even be in the apps in my apps folder. If I find it, I'll post it's name. As I recall, it was even free but I seem to think it was a part of a tools package. The other apps weren't accessible. -------
Regards, Alan Go Chicago Bears in 2013! Teenagers; Tired of being harassed by your stupid parents? Act now!!!!! Move out. Get a job. Pay your bills wile you still know everything. Please click on: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/ There, you'll find free files of my arrangements and performances played on the Yamaha Tyros 1 keyboard. The albums in Technics format formerly on my website are still available upon request. Thanks for listening! ----- Original Message ----- From: Crystal French To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 4:23 PM Subject: Re: The iPhone 5S Motion Sensors Are Totally Screwed Up - gizmodo.com 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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