6120 Navigator: compass access

[matbal]

Dear all,

Does anyone know how to access the built-in compass of the Nokia 6210 Navigator in a J2ME midlet? May it be used via the JSR179, the Location API?

Thanks in advance,
Mat

[westie]

It appears that it doesnt use the JSR 179, but I am wondering if it uses the JSR 256?

[nicholso]

According to JavaTM ME Developer's Library 3.0:
http://www.forum.nokia.com/document/...opers_Library/

Implementation notes > Changes between releases > says that Nokia J2ME SDK FP2 should allow Orientation.

Orientation
The Orientation implementation accesses the Tilt Compensation plug-in by using the native sensor framework to fetch the azimuth (horizontal pointing direction) data. Pitch and Roll data are not supported.

If the sensor framework is able to determine the azimuth data, getOrientation returns the orientation object with accurate azimuth value. If the azimuth data can not be determined, the call returns null.

The orientation implementation checks for the compass calibration, if the compass is not calibrated the method getOrientation returns null. For instructions on calibrating the compass, see Nokia 6210 Navigator support at Nokia web site.

Pitch and Roll data values default to Float.NaN.

I tried this with J2ME code example but get a LocationException with N6210 Navigator handset when trying to access inbuilt compass azimuth:
http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...d.php?t=147285

[hartti]

No, the documentation says that 5th Edition supports it, not 3rd Edition FP2
See the thread linked above for more complete answer

Hartti

[cyke64]

According to JavaTM ME Developer's Library 3.0:
http://www.forum.nokia.com/document/...opers_Library/

Implementation notes > Changes between releases > says that Nokia J2ME SDK FP2 should allow Orientation.

Orientation
The Orientation implementation accesses the Tilt Compensation plug-in by using the native sensor framework to fetch the azimuth (horizontal pointing direction) data. Pitch and Roll data are not supported.

If the sensor framework is able to determine the azimuth data, getOrientation returns the orientation object with accurate azimuth value. If the azimuth data can not be determined, the call returns null.

The orientation implementation checks for the compass calibration, if the compass is not calibrated the method getOrientation returns null. For instructions on calibrating the compass, see Nokia 6210 Navigator support at Nokia web site.

Pitch and Roll data values default to Float.NaN.

I tried this with J2ME code example but get a LocationException with N6210 Navigator handset when trying to access inbuilt compass azimuth:
http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...d.php?t=147285

Not supported with java but you can try the sensor FrameWork with C++

I hope that it can help you

BR
Cyke64