iPhone 5S : The Sensors are Unreliable - After several reports of users, an expert has tested the sensors of the iPhone 5S, which are all inaccurate, especially the compass and accelerometer.
The line Apple iPhone is known for the high quality and reliability of construction, but a recent and thorough examination of an expert reveals that the sensors integrated in the new iPhone 5S1 are poorly calibrated. After numerous reports made by consumers in the Apple support forums, he has in fact decided to conduct a series of tests to investigate the matter and the results show numerous issues. It is still unclear, however, whether this is a hardware or software-related.
The tests were aimed at assessing the accuracy of the sensors, such as inclinometer, gyroscope, digital compass and accelerometer, all not able to provide exact measurements. The readings of the gyroscope and inclinometer appear to be misaligned, for example a couple of degrees with respect to measurements made with a classical level, and about 3 degrees compared to those made with iPhone 5.
The sensor of the iPhone 5S is more imprecise, however, the compass during tests conducted on its native application of IOS 72 - which is also blocked repeatedly - the results returned were very inaccurate, in particular the compass seems to have particular difficulties in report magnetic north compared to a conventional compass, but also than the iPhone 5. The new device showing in the latter case, an error of about 8-10 degrees.
Problems also the brand new iPhone by the accelerometer, which seems to suffer from a sort of latent inclination, although the effect is difficult to quantify. The one built into the iPhone 5S records, specifically, a slight tilt to the left, a problem that may be reflected in the numerous app but especially in car racing games that use precisely the screen tilt to steer the car to one side or the other.
It is however a number of applications not indifferent to use the sensors of the iPhone, therefore in this case the experience obtained might be distorted or very inaccurate. At present it is necessary to examine whether the causes are due to a hardware problem (probably poorly calibrated ) or sofware iOS 7: in the latter case, the situation could easily be resolved by a firmware update, while a hardware defect would be much more difficult to arrange for Apple.
The house of Cupertino has not yet released an official statement to comment on what has been shown by tests on the sensors, but in the meantime the reports on the official support forums are multiplying day after day.
The line Apple iPhone is known for the high quality and reliability of construction, but a recent and thorough examination of an expert reveals that the sensors integrated in the new iPhone 5S1 are poorly calibrated. After numerous reports made by consumers in the Apple support forums, he has in fact decided to conduct a series of tests to investigate the matter and the results show numerous issues. It is still unclear, however, whether this is a hardware or software-related.
The tests were aimed at assessing the accuracy of the sensors, such as inclinometer, gyroscope, digital compass and accelerometer, all not able to provide exact measurements. The readings of the gyroscope and inclinometer appear to be misaligned, for example a couple of degrees with respect to measurements made with a classical level, and about 3 degrees compared to those made with iPhone 5.
Problems also the brand new iPhone by the accelerometer, which seems to suffer from a sort of latent inclination, although the effect is difficult to quantify. The one built into the iPhone 5S records, specifically, a slight tilt to the left, a problem that may be reflected in the numerous app but especially in car racing games that use precisely the screen tilt to steer the car to one side or the other.
It is however a number of applications not indifferent to use the sensors of the iPhone, therefore in this case the experience obtained might be distorted or very inaccurate. At present it is necessary to examine whether the causes are due to a hardware problem (probably poorly calibrated ) or sofware iOS 7: in the latter case, the situation could easily be resolved by a firmware update, while a hardware defect would be much more difficult to arrange for Apple.
The house of Cupertino has not yet released an official statement to comment on what has been shown by tests on the sensors, but in the meantime the reports on the official support forums are multiplying day after day.