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geekmaster · 01-02-2012, 08:27 AM

You can also shake the kindle firmly from side to side, or from top to bottom, to generate accelerometer events.

To generate rotation accelerometer events, hold it out in front of you and rotate it around an axis perpendicular to the screen. Rotation events occur at 45-degree angles (useful for controlling screen orientation).

Screen orientation controls are hidden in current touch firmware because it has problems with displaying some pages in landscape mode. Perhaps it will be added back when they fix all the landcape mode page rendering bugs.

What is your touch firmware version? Perhaps different versions have different accelerometer settings?

Somewhere in this forum, yifanlu posted a command that showed how to enable the accelerometer on a touch. I did not need that. Perhaps you need to enable your accelerometer.

01-02-2012, 08:27 AM	#8
geekmaster Carpe diem, c'est la vie. Posts: 6,433 Karma: 10773670 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Multiverse 6627A Device: K1 to PW3	You can also shake the kindle firmly from side to side, or from top to bottom, to generate accelerometer events. To generate rotation accelerometer events, hold it out in front of you and rotate it around an axis perpendicular to the screen. Rotation events occur at 45-degree angles (useful for controlling screen orientation). Screen orientation controls are hidden in current touch firmware because it has problems with displaying some pages in landscape mode. Perhaps it will be added back when they fix all the landcape mode page rendering bugs. What is your touch firmware version? Perhaps different versions have different accelerometer settings? Somewhere in this forum, yifanlu posted a command that showed how to enable the accelerometer on a touch. I did not need that. Perhaps you need to enable your accelerometer. Last edited by geekmaster; 01-02-2012 at 08:36 AM.