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>>>>All now working smoothly (literally). I'm currently recalculating the average every time a new orientation event comes in. Processor seems to cope (g) and it makes for a very realistic damping effect.
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>>>>Had a few moments panic but it turned out the device compass needed recalibrating - was getting some *very* strange results beforehand tho.
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>>>Sure it wasn't on your way from the pub to home ?
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>>No. Just tried it coming back from the pub. Worked perfectly. Just led me into the ditch a couple of times :-}
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>Could have been the beer
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>>>>Thanks for the input and suggestions......
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>>>Anytime - refreshed a bit of math
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>Come to think of it
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>> I'm currently recalculating the average every time a new orientation event comes in
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>Isn't that a bit of an overkill - if you have to display it every second (or 5 seconds) ?

Just profiled the CPU usage on the Nexus. The whole averaging display cycle is only using about 2.5% of processing time - so I guess it's not likely to be a problem :-}