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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

there is thresholding in the sensors... which is exactly the cause of
this "bug".

When shaking, you make the threshold switch to landscape and by putting
it flat down on the desk you keep it that way, not allowing the
threshold to be hit to switch back to landscape. You just don't see it,
because you're using an app that forces locked to portrait (the dash for
example). As soon as you allow unity to rotate (by launching the
settings app) it will catch up with what the sensors state is =>
landscape.


Now, one way to get around the situation would be to disable the sensors while unity is locked to some orientation. This however seems quite tricky, as on one hand that would need to be synced with what sensors tell apps, but also apps might still want to know the physical orientation even though locked to some orientation.

IMO this is working as expected, even though I agree it can cause some
oddities like unintentional shaking. But in the end it's really what you
tell the device to do. As an analogy, you're sort of asking for a
mechanism to distinguish accidental display taps from intentional ones.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1474225

Title:
  Screen rotates itself to landscape when the phone is laying on the
  desk

Status in qtubuntu-sensors:
  New
Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Screen rotates itself to landscape when the phone is laying on the
  desk.

  I might be mistaken but this bug seems to be a new issue that arrived
  with the full shell rotation feature in wily. Using a phone while it's
  laying flat on the desk it sometimes rotates itself to landscape.

  Seems like we might have some over-sensitive accelerometer logic.

  $ system-image-cli -i
  current build number: 255
  device name: mako
  channel: ubuntu-touch/devel-proposed/ubuntu
  last update: 2015-07-14 03:41:29
  version version: 255
  version ubuntu: 20150714
  version device: 20150708
  version custom: 20150714

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