How to Calibrate Android Accelerometer & Reduce Noise, Eliminate Gravity

Question

So, I\'ve been struggling with this problem for some time, and haven\'t had any luck tapping the wisdom of the internets and related SO posts on the subject.

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Answer 1

To get a correct reading from the accelerometer you need to use the equation speed = SQRT(x*x + y*y + z*z). Using this, when the phone is at rest the speed will be that of gravity - 9.8m/s. So if you subtract that (SensorManager.GRAVITY_EARTH) then when the phone is at rest, you will have a reading of 0 m/s. As for noise, Blrfl might be right about cheap accelerometers, even when my phone is at rest, it continuously flickers a few fractions of a metre per second. You could just set a small threshold e.g 0.4m/s and if the speed doesn't go over that, then it is at rest.