Orientation on nokia N95

[solidus121]

Hi guys,

Quick question is location based Orientation supported on the N95??, i have taken a look at some of the old threads but nothing too specific. i want to utilize the javax.microedition.location.Orientation; package but after testing i dont think it is supported i might have to use the tilt sensor on the N95 do you know which api uses it? if anyone can shed any light on this issue i will be grateful

[solidus121]

Note: Can someone explain how the compass function works on the N95 it must be using some sort of sensor or complex math to get the direction of the device

[symbianyucca]

Sensors with N95 have nothing really to do with location based services. The Compass on ti works with GPS. For articles & examples, check our Wiki..

[ltomuta]

Having two known consecutive positions you can use the APIs (look for Bearing in the SDK help) or your own math to calculate the direction of the movement.
A Google search for the same would return you entries such as http://gpsinformation.net/main/gpsbearing.htm

[solidus121]

Thanks for the quick replies guys, the lack of orientation implementation on the n95 is frustrating to say the least. I am going to look into some bearing calculations o and the lack of trigg functions such as asin acos and atan is no help either!

Thanks again

[ltomuta]

There's something missing from every phone and for N95 the compass sensor might be indeed suh a missing feature, although it doesn't seem to be missed by many developers/users.

As for trigonometry functions look for the Math class in e32math.h