Accelerometer off kilter for anyone else?

[mudwub]

It feels like the phones accelerometer is a little too sensitive, or maybe I am just holding it with a tilt and just not noticing it? Has anyone else experienced something like this?

I noticed that it happens most when I unlock the phone after pulling it out of my pocket, or when bringing the phone down from my ear after a phone call.

It will rotate to landscape for a brief moment and then it must realize that it is not supposed to be in landscape orientation and switches back to portrait mode.

Edit: I did some digging and was able to find ONE other post where the user seemed to be experiencing the same problem and described it better than I did.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/5lw7hp/anyway_to_calibrate_the_accelerometer/

 

[Rukbat]

It's possible, although the normal failure mode is not seeing a rotational change at all. Possibly the accelerator module that HTC is using has a new failure mode.

 

[mudwub]

What does that mean exactly?

You'll have to forgive me, but I do not know a whole lot about mobile hardware.