Accelerometer and other sensors on Belle

[virne]

It seems that some of the sensors are not supported on Symbian Belle when used through QtMoblity Sensors API. Or am I just doing something wrong? I am testing on Nokia 700.

So... I was porting our QWidget-based apps for Symbian Belle and I got errors when launching:

Launch failed: Command answer [command error], 1 values(s) to request: 'C|87|Processes|start|""|"show_orientation.exe"|[""]|[]|true' 
#0 {"Code":-5,Format="Failed to create the process (verify that the executable and all required DLLs have been transferred) (functionality is not supported)"}
Error: 'Failed to create the process (verify that the executable and all required DLLs have been transferred) (functionality is not supported)' Code: -5

Now this was weird and unexcepted. But as I was adding orientation support to app that was already working on Belle, I found out that reason was use of QOrientationSensor. Further experimenting showed that neither did QtMobility examples work. QOrientationReading, QRotationReading etc. didn't cause that launch error, but they returned null values. However orientation change on a QML example did work.


But, our apps are OpenGL apps. Using some nasty hack to find out orientation from some invisible QML view doesn't sound good. But are there other options? Is it even possible?


- virne

[virne]

I am using Qt SDK 1.1.4 and I have tried Qt 4.7.4 for Symbian Belle (and for Anna just in case.)

[rahulvala]

To develop for Belle platform , you need to download Qt SDK1.1.4, using online installer only.

which SDK you are using ?

[virne]

And by not working QtMobility examples, I mean Sensors API examples. Other QtMobility stuff I am using, seems to work fine.

[virne]

I am using Qt SDK 1.1.4 and I have tried Qt 4.7.4 for Symbian Belle (and for Anna just in case.)

[virne]

And by not working QtMobility examples, I mean Sensors API examples. Other QtMobility stuff I am using, seems to work fine.

[Devnull]

Meanwhile some of the problems were known and QRotationSensor works on Belle unfortunately others does not even when connected to backend.

[Devnull]

Please check this example. Beside its UI issues, it works fine on Belle.

[vesao]

Please check this example. Beside its UI issues, it works fine on Belle.

Hi,

I tried this example on Belle (N8 & E7). Orientation example shows only angles 0, 15, 30.. and nothing in between. So, it is the same issue as mentioned in this thread.

Any ideas how to get it working?

[Devnull]

Selecting the generic.rotation sensor instead of the sym.rotation does make the sensor resolution better on C6-01.

[vesao]

It worked, thank you!

Solution was to add following lines before starting rotation sensor:
rotationSensor->setIdentifier("generic.rotation");
rotationSensor->connectToBackend();

[Devnull]

You are welcome!