Orientation Sensor vs. Clock

[AiNick C]

Hello Inventors,

I'm working on a Maze game and was using an orientation sensor for movement of the ball on my Samsung 10.5 Tab S

 

and all was well. 

I went to download onto my S4 phone and discovered that the x Axis was very very jerky and not really movable.. 

anyway, I put a clock on the X Axis movement  and took out the roll movement from the sensor and all works well.

I'm a little curious as to why the sensor didn't work well with my phone.?

also curious as to how does the ball know to go left when I tilt the device when the X-Axis movement is on a timer?

[Taifun]

I'm a little curious as to why the sensor didn't work well with my phone.?

most probably the OrientationChanged event fired too often? using a clock as you did you can change the frequency using a slower timer interval

also curious as to how does the ball know to go left when I tilt the device when the X-Axis movement is on a timer?

isn't that not what you are doing in your blocks in the X_AxisClock.Timer event?

use Do it to debug your blocks, see tip 4 here

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