I am definitely a beginner programmer but I thought that a file I read said that the accelerometer would start in power saving mode unless you wrote 0x08 to POWER_CTL (0x2D) and it would be unresponsive unless this was implemented
here's the file link:
http://usfirst.org/uploadedFiles/Rob...sor_Manual.pdf
sorry if im just imputting random info again I am really new to the coding world