I just installed Ridiculous Fishing and noticed that my tilt sensor (gyro?) is not working properly. When my phone is flat the game thinks its tilted to the left. I have to tilt my phone to the right so much just to compensate and get the center point correct. Is there a fix for this?

 

It's an old Samsung Galaxy W. I remember my phone had that option way back when I had Gingerbread. Im running CM 10.2 at the moment and cant seem to find that option.

Will do. Thanks for the heads up!


By the way, it's not the gyro (just learned that my phone doesn't have one.) It's the accelerometer. I tried to install Ninja Fishing (which also uses tilt controls) to verify that its not an isolated case in that one game. Same problem.

 

I didn't notice if the sensor was off also for other phone functions as I don't use auto rotate (i'm always in portrait mode).

I did try several apps that offered sensor calibration. Unfortunately, nothing helped.

I was able to fix the issue by running a couple lines of code in Terminal Emulator. I found the instructions in a different forum. Just sharing it here in case someone bumps into the same problem.

These instructions are for CyanogenMod 9 but it worked on 10.2 (which is what i'm running). Here:

1. Place the phone on a flat horizontal surface (as you would also need to use the original calibration page in settings on the stock ROM).
2. Open the Terminal Emulator app (included with CM9).

Enter the following commands:
Code:
su
echo 1 > /sys/class/input/input4/calibration

The first command requests root privileges (depending on your settings, it might cause a Superuser prompt to allow root access), the second command requests the sensor driver to perform calibration.

Make sure that you do not press on the phone heavily when you touch Enter to execute the final command, so that the phone would not move during calibration.
4. When the “#” prompt appears again after the second command, the calibration process is completed (it needs just a couple of seconds).