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The Samsung Omnia 2 i8000 Digital Compass

2009-08-27
hey everyone Daniel Webster here from Paco calm and today I'm gonna show you a new thing that I discovered on my samsung omnia to which a lot of newer devices are actually coming out with but haven't really been implemented and we'll go into that right now and it's actually hidden inside the windows folder so I'm gonna go into file explorer and let's just go up real quick and I'm actually going to the windows folder we go all the way down to the l ok so before this you'll actually want you to select menu and click on the show all files so that this program will come up and the program is called LCD test so i'm going to go into that right now and it looks pretty basic i mean it just has a couple of little test you can do you can do that read and just put the cue button back the green and the blue so you can test all the pixels on your LCD and also check the melody so right now the device actually on silence if i click on melody I'll start playing the song go back select vibration will actually go into a vibrating mode so it will stay constant on I'm gonna skip dimming right now because the whole device will get really really dim and going to make am and what that's going to do is going to turn on the back camera so we go on here as you can see the the back camera is on and just go click back and click on the CIF cam and that's going to actually turn on the front camera so as you can see that the front cameras right there and there I am so just close that and we can also click on the touch and this is a neat little application that allows you to see that every access and every pixel on your touchscreen is actually active so once you've colored all these green just going to do a real quick it's going to say test okay there we go and it says a touch test passed so that's good you can also go on to the light sensor so it's going to show you how powerful the light is right now it's like a level 0 um can't really take up too much light right now but when you get more brighter set but when you get into a brighter setting it actually changes all the little I think 10 no change show you the lux level as well there we go to so click ok then also a sleep mode which just shows that the screen is off go back I'm going to skip this one for a second the accelerometer is actually pretty neat here it'll show you all accesses so if you want you can also change it so as you can see the windows icon actually changed positions with the x y&z axes so just go back proximity sensor so this will activate the proximity sensor on the device so click here and proximity sensors on the top of the device and this is actually pretty neat because you don't have to touch the device perhaps in later builds on mobile devices you won't even need to touch your device at all like the screen you can just wave your hand over and it will activate certain programs so click done and then Melanie melody received receiver so you can actually hear it inside the receiver just go back and the coolest feature that I've noticed on this device which I didn't know it actually had is the compass so it has a digital compass and as you can see because it is digital some sort of interference from devices you have to shake it a little bit kind of like on a new iphone but it's a digital compass so if you turn it it'll actually pick up on magnetic north through the digital compass inside of the device so that's a really great feature to have especially if your GPS isn't working too great you can always find your way and the last little thing on this LCD test is actually the dimming feature and when I go to that right now and that just dims the screen so the LCD test inside the samsung omnia to you is actually pretty cool to check out a lot of different features especially that compass it actually leads me to wonder how many other devices out there have a digital compass that isn't active inside the phones programs so I'm going to post a directory on how to get to that program in the samsung omnia two thanks for watching
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