I just got a Nixon The Mission which has all these sensors but I guess Nixon didn't think to include an app that could make use of all of the data obtained from them.
I can see all the raw sensor data using Aida64, but it's pretty clunky and has a lot of sensor data I don't really care about.
Are there any sensor apps for Wear out there that can present all of this data in a reasonably nice fashion? Thinking of something along the lines of an outdoor app or something that will just show the barometric pressure, altitude, temperature, humidity, compass bearing, etc. all using the onboard sensors (not GPS or internet).
Thanks.
Hi, i've had to handle the same kind of questions when i got the Mission myself. I wish Nixon, for the high price tag of the watch, wouls have developed a fes apps which would take advantage of the sensors, unfortunately they didn't (suckers)!
For altitude i use Altimeter Wear
For Barometer ToolX
Haven't foumd any app that uses the thermoter
Speedometer wear app uses the phone's gps for some reason so u can't track speed without your phone around...
I guess nobody other than us cares as i'm the first to reply...
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Oh, BTW, super important, in order to get right measurments, MicLock should stay open otherwise the sensor is locked up and won't be able to work properly, i wish it was clearly explained in the user guide...
I use an app called wrist sensors (a russian app) it reads all sensors.
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Thanks for the suggestion, liked wrist sensors. I wish it has a better GUI it could be the best app on the market with a proper GUI that use the data recorded.
Just downloaded the app and seems to work well. It would be nice if it had a more user friendly interface but tbh I'm glad someone is finally letting me use the thermometer on my Nixon mission [emoji16]
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I just got a Nixon The Mission which has all these sensors but I guess Nixon didn't think to include an app that could make use of all of the data obtained from them.
I can see all the raw sensor data using Aida64, but it's pretty clunky and has a lot of sensor data I don't really care about.
Are there any sensor apps for Wear out there that can present all of this data in a reasonably nice fashion? Thinking of something along the lines of an outdoor app or something that will just show the barometric pressure, altitude, temperature, humidity, compass bearing, etc. all using the onboard sensors (not GPS or internet).
Thanks.
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Finally after a huge search I was able to find a decent application to take advantage of my Nixon Mission sensors.
The application is called "Sensors Master Military" and uses the Barometer, Thermometer and Altimeter of my Nixon, works with a third part application to be able to use the compass.
When Sensors Master Military it is used for the first time you will be invited to install the compass, it's freeware.
This application Sensors Master Military is paid but the amount is quite reduced and it is worth the investment.
The same developer also has the "Mission Temperature" application that only provides the Nixon Mission temperature, the application is freeware.
I hope I have helped!
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can anyone make such app - or - anyone any clue were to get a compass for our win mobiles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlKvW89Q7Z8
As a wm power user, you should know that a compass is hardware, not software
Fitz said:
As a wm power user, you should know that a compass is hardware, not software
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yea i thought about the gsensor aint that enough for te hardware part
Gsensors don't always point north...
well if u no of any compass's i can try via gps send me the site but would be beter if we got one like the assphone
Most higher end GPS units have "electronic" compasses. It is not just something that can be enabled through software, there needs to be a hardware component as well.
As a side note, my garmin vista Hcx has an electronic compass and it makes geocaching so nice
Like this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=524294
Go to the link in the first post.
you may like this
http://htcdriver.com/index.php?page=richesse-GPS
and i also have such feature on my mapking GPS app
Any GPS app for windows mobile has a "Compass" by seeing which way you are moving and comparing that to north. A real compass can be stationary and point north more accurately. This is a hardware feature that no WM phones have. Maybe the Touch Pro 3 will have it.
Yeah, buy a real compass buddy. Its more accurately and never run out of battery and you never fear of losing GPS signal.
Oh, btw, I do have a real compass. and never use it.
Tomtom, GPS cycle, any navigation software would have a compass.
If that doesn't satisfy can always use the good old, sun rises in the east and sets in the west strategy. or go watch a few eps of Man vs Wild or survivor man and they'll show you how to find the direction.
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Oh, btw, I do have a real compass. and never use it.
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Exactly my thoughts. Who needs yet ANOTHER gimmicky app that has no real purpose? In my time on this Earth I have never needed a compass or ever even thought '**** I wish I had a compass for X task'. So why would we need a digital one in our pockets ?
The sun sets in the west and rises in the east. There's your compass.
Don't you guys sleep facing the north? After the sun has set, how do you align your salt and pepper accurately? The hardware component is a magnetometer, pigeons have them, get a pigeon!
No sorry guys, a compass can be usefuill for a lot of Apps like navigation or Games, and the IPhone ist the most powerfull mobile divice ever build compared with a stabil and smooth operating system and a gigantic and cheap Appstore with 50.000 Apps.
And half of the Apps here are just wannabe iphone-Apps.
Thats fact, and sorry that i must tell you the truth : Windows Mobile is ulgy, slow and not state of the Art.
this is a littel preview to demonstrate you the Power of the "old" iPhone 3G (the brandnew 3Gs is getting much bette/faster and has a graphics chipset similar to xBox)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWDDPAmZd5k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3TeX4OCfLc
dickenz said:
Exactly my thoughts. Who needs yet ANOTHER gimmicky app that has no real purpose? In my time on this Earth I have never needed a compass or ever even thought '**** I wish I had a compass for X task'. So why would we need a digital one in our pockets ?
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I think lot's of people, of which you are probably one of them, don't have a clue to the purpose of the compass feature several new phones have. Apple clearly wouldn't emphasize on this feature if it were only useful to tell you where north and south are relatively to your location.
More and more apps are becoming available, which give you a view through the camera of your device, overlaying certain information, such as where the nearest ATM is, where you can find a particular shop, etc. (this technique is called Augmented Reality and it really doesn't work as good without a compass, as with a compass). There are a dozen apps available for Android at the moment using the build-in compass. That's where you need such a piece of hardware for.
Yes,
While going hunting I always take my compass, cell phone, gps, SUV, remington gun and a small atomic device...
You only need a compass if you are in the army. For night time LEARN the sky and if you get lost in the woods???during the day and need to go north??? for some reason than an application on a cellphone is the least of your problems
dickenz said:
Exactly my thoughts. Who needs yet ANOTHER gimmicky app that has no real purpose? In my time on this Earth I have never needed a compass or ever even thought '**** I wish I had a compass for X task'. So why would we need a digital one in our pockets ?
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Obviously you weren't geocaching yet . In the forest it can be quite difficult to say where the sun is (especially if the weather isn't that good), so a "real" compass could be really helpful. There are also a lot of other things a "real" compass is good for.
As far as I know the HTC Magic (running Android) has got one, hasn't it?
And please stop this "Iphone vs. WM" talk, I think it was covered so many times in so many threads already ...
I don't understand these people claiming that their Iphone is so much better, but actually they are using a WM device and using forums for WM devices. That's quite strange, isn't it?. My suggestion: Get an Iphone and let us enjoy our WM devices please!
I'm searching a developer who can build an app to read the sensor data oit of the galaxy tab. Cause I wanne know of there is an gyroscope sensor on bord or not, samsung site is a joke with its tec specs. In my mind btw its even not clear what kind of display is build in, s-lcd or more likely a ips, but what kind of ips?
May someone can help me out.
ps:are there any games or apps actually using a gyrocope sensor in android?
Thanks
The display is a first gen ips, aka super tft.
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The display is a first gen ips, aka super tft.
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yeah like I thought, because of the battery lifetime
you can find detailed specs here: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_p1000_galaxy_tab-3370.php
also, the tab has a three-axis gyro sensor
ftgg99 said:
you can find detailed specs here: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_p1000_galaxy_tab-3370.php
also, the tab has a three-axis gyro sensor
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I know that there are some spec out, first it said there would be a AMOLED but now its an ips, so I dont trust extern spec cheets, I wanne se it work!
i am holding it right now and its ips... there are lots of very detailed spec sheets out already - google is your friend!
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i am holding it right now and its ips... there are lots of very detailed spec sheets out already - google is your friend!
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Im holding it too right now, its not about the display I know that this is an IPS but befor I have not seen the gyro in action I wont trust those specs, whats is their source? Just want to confirm it
Ive used gsmarena for years. They are always correct. Also backed by Sotovik, a analytics company in Russia that belongs to a electronics retail group. They are trusted resources.
Also, online flash games at m.kongregate.com require a hardware sensor to function, you can test it yourself if already own the tab!
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Ive used gsmarena for years. They are always correct. Also backed by Sotovik, a analytics company in Russia that belongs to a electronics retail group. They are trusted resources.
Also, online flash games at m.kongregate.com require a hardware sensor to function, you can test it yourself if already own the tab!
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I dont think you actually know the difference between accelerometer and gyroscope, like mentioned before: use google!
And pls back to topic, anyone out there who can read the gyroscope data out?
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I dont think you actually know the difference between accelerometer and gyroscope, like mentioned before: use google!
And pls back to topic, anyone out there who can read the gyroscope data out?
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indeed youre right i did not... no need to be snippy however
Sorry if it reached you so, but when someone want to correct me and dont know about what I mean I could became somekind "snippy".
To tell u what a gyro does: it recognises the turning of the phone like when u look around in a n egoshooter with your mouse. The accelerometer can only recognise the g-force of the earth so as you know you have to turn your tab in so position that apps reg. the movement at all. So the compass is what you think of it. You can imagine that the gyro is a kombined compass and a accelerometer, buts its another thing, with all the things compass acc and gyro kombinated you cann do everything like in a pc ego
best to see this iphone video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=GkO_pGSNH-E
According to http://www.isuppli.com the galaxy tab uses the STMicroelectronics L3G4200D, essentially the same chip as in the iphone 4.
The difference between accelerometer and gyroscope is that the former detects translation and the latter rotations. Both are implemented by MEMS integrated circuits.
You can also get information about rotations from the digital compass...
Volker1 said:
According to http://www.isuppli.com the galaxy tab uses the STMicroelectronics L3G4200D, essentially the same chip as in the iphone 4.
The difference between accelerometer and gyroscope is that the former detects translation and the latter rotations. Both are implemented by MEMS integrated circuits.
You can also get information about rotations from the digital compass...
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Thanks for that, this was the info I want to hear! Many thanks
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I'm searching a developer who can build an app to read the sensor data oit of the galaxy tab.
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There are several apps in the Android Market for this: Sensor Test (ctsr.android.SensorTest) works fine and shows gyro, too.
I'm more wondering, where the proximity sensor is - on my tab, it never changes value...
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There are several apps in the Android Market for this: Sensor Test (ctsr.android.SensorTest) works fine and shows gyro, too.
I'm more wondering, where the proximity sensor is - on my tab, it never changes value...
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all I know taht there is no need of a proximity sensor, or do you want so hold it like a telephone to your ear that the screen has to hybernate? Dont think so ;-)
NightFire123 said:
I'm searching a developer who can build an app to read the sensor data oit of the galaxy tab. Cause I wanne know of there is an gyroscope sensor on bord or not, samsung site is a joke with its tec specs.
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I am the developer of "phone tester". This app allows you to test sensors, wifi, gps, battery, the multitouch screen and gives you information about the system. Currently doesn't support giroscope sensor, but yes in next update, probably in this weekend.
it has a gyro. I installed NOVA today, which recognized this ability and asked if I want to use it. I can confirm that I was able to operate the game on the horizontal axis.
Khisha said:
it has a gyro. I installed NOVA today, which recognized this ability and asked if I want to use it. I can confirm that I was able to operate the game on the horizontal axis.
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sorry for not posting it here, but already knowing that it got one :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=820006
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9210740&postcount=1
Is there an app that uses the G-Sensor accelerometer to measure acceleration due to fitness related activities.
I'd like to find something that would measure height and distance for stair climbing, or running up hills etc. or just stair climbing in a gym?
Is there anything like that?
Thanks,
Dan
appbrain
I did a search in appbrain and came up with this app:
sensorfit lite
Does that fit your bill? Probably not exactly. I think you need to write an app.
Sadly I noticed that the magnetometer of my SGS2 is rather imprecise...
In fact, even just after a lot of effort spent on calibrating it, I notice this:
- With the phone horizontal on a table, I point it to a direction that the compass indicates to be the "south" (exactly 180 degrees), but it appears to me that the phone is actually pointing something like 10 - 15 degrees SE.
- Then, I turn the phone exacly 180 degrees on the table, expecting at least the compass to show 0 degrees North. Well... it doesn't!!! It shows 12 degrees West...
Another thing: I noticed that if I turn the phone at constant angular speed, The compass indication does not! It speeds up next to the north and slows down considerably next to the south, indicating that there is an error the entity of which is related to the absolute orientation of the device.
And last, the indication is a bit unstable. It continuously jumps left and right by +/- 2 degrees.
It does all above with all the applications I was able to test that use the compass.
So in the end, my question is: is all this "normal"? Because really, I can't see any use of a compass with such a bad precision!
118 reads and not a single answer ... yes, ok... I may be a "little" paranoic...
But sure that no one except me cares about the precision of the magnetometer?
I can only share my personal experience and similar questions if this helps at all:
my compass seemed pretty accurate until I read your post and tried to compare with an analogue one. Well, it seems off to the West by about 10 degrees. But than again, I can neither trust the analogue one since it's just the first thing to have turned up, and no one's really verified it. I guess the only way to be sure is to compare GPS and compass direction data in compass app, which I'll attempt tomorrow. Plus, even within a meter from the analogue compass the digital one may start complaining for abnormal magnetic field. They seem to jam each other quite strongly, so there's no chance of visual comparison.
What worries me more, however, is that it never settles down. Like you said, it always trembles somewher in +-2 degrees, which is especially noticeable in Star Chart app (almost impossible to focus on a star long enough to tap it for information popup), and also visible when I disable filtering in compass app.
Hope someon more informed clarifies this for us.
I think you should just be happy that such a small MEMS chip is able to sense the magnetic field of the earth and give you a general idea where north is.....
If you read comments for star chart on the market, you'll notice how there are no complaints of picture trembling, which gives me all the reasons I need to worry about the quality of my particular unit. With the compass always moving around in a sector of 5 degrees it's virtually impossible to use any augmented reality apps, unless they have some filtering features (which they rarely do).
As a side note, after posting yesterday I took a second glance at the analogue compass I've been using as a reference and noticed that it's creator believed a circle to have around 400 degrees. Did another test, this time not relying on the numbers and now I'm pretty confident that the digital one is accurate.
But it still trembles all the time. In fact, if I look at sensor readings in *#0*# both gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer tremble a lot while the device lies on a steady surface. I should probably make a video when I get home, and also check the display units in a local mall to compare.
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Well, apparently, it seems to be normal for sensors on sgs2 to tremble this much -compared with a display model at media markt... Sad, but at least I won't have to exchange my unit
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Sighs... Go into settings, set the filter to high stop ur *****ing and nexttime do some research before posting.
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Please, enlighten me, oh, wise one, where is this system-wide filter setting, that will alter the data an app without it's own filter reads directly from sensor?
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Hi Artik. Yes there actually seem to be something wrong on how the galaxy s2 sensors are handled, and it looks like it is a firmware issue. Read this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1213138
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Wow, thanks, I should've found that one instead of hijacking this one =)
I have a Sony smartwatch an thinking about picking up a fitness band. Looking at the Garmin vivosmart because of its touch screen yet slim profile. Also does notifications. But main reason because android wear sucks at fitness stats. But I can't help but feel having both is a bit redundant. Anyone out there using both? Together? Separately for different occasions?
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What specifically are you looking for that you can't get out of programs like Endomoto, Runkeeper, and Ghostrunner?
So, i ask, because before my SW3, i had (and returned) a Garmin 920XT (same software line as the VivoSmart). While the 920XT was functional, i couldn't find anything it did that justified the price over the SW3. While its not a great program, Google Fit keeps track of steps, and the aforementioned programs track and record fitness activities just great (Ghostrunner can export to Runkeeper or Strava). Perhaps you are in need to the really serious stats that the Garmin RUN-HRM, but then i would point you to the 920XT, and not the Smart...
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What specifically are you looking for that you can't get out of programs like Endomoto, Runkeeper, and Ghostrunner?
So, i ask, because before my SW3, i had (and returned) a Garmin 920XT (same software line as the VivoSmart). While the 920XT was functional, i couldn't find anything it did that justified the price over the SW3. While its not a great program, Google Fit keeps track of steps, and the aforementioned programs track and record fitness activities just great (Ghostrunner can export to Runkeeper or Strava). Perhaps you are in need to the really serious stats that the Garmin RUN-HRM, but then i would point you to the 920XT, and not the Smart...
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It's not running activity that my Sony SW fails to take care of, it's the daily day to day fitness aspects such as steps taken, distance, inactivity, etc. And it's not a direct reflection on the Sony. It's android wear and it's terrible implementation of fitness tracking. The sony just actually benefits for running/biking because of the gps. But I wish it did the things I mentioned a second ago. It does steps but can't trust it at all.
For what its worth (again, having had the Garmin and going to the Sony), the Sony does no worse than the Garmin in terms of step accuracy (as in, its not). My 920 would count any bump (driving was particularly bad). Between google fit and runkeeper i get my same total information i did using garmin connect, so it works. But certainly, YMMV.
I'm using a Moto 360 and a Fitbit. The Fitbit is nice because you can use it to connect to MyFitnessPal to update and compensate for how much working out you've done. Currently Moto 360 has to be linked with the Jawbone UP app, which kinda blows.
I use a vivosmart to compliment my wear watch. In the end I didn't think the integration with my health ecosystem worked well enough and I am a heavy Garmin user as I am a keen cyclist
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I use a vivosmart to compliment my wear watch. In the end I didn't think the integration with my health ecosystem worked well enough and I am a heavy Garmin user as I am a keen cyclist
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I had bought that and returned as I thought it was redundant having two things that displayed notifications. But now I'm tempted to get it again. Just sick of android wear an its lack of fitness tracking. I was going to get the fitbit flex because its the most minimal at $100 but than the vivosmart is just as minimal an actually shows you your info. So I don't know what to do.
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I went for the vivosmart as I am already in their ecosystem as I use their cycle computers. Also I like the fact I can stick on an heart rate monitor with it when I go running
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