I'm using Viper OS 3.1.1 on my phone for quite a while now, my compass was working completely fine until I installed ZUI's compass app on my phone ( on ViperOS ) and calibrated my compass. From then on my compass is consistantly off by around 20°.
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Even if I put the phone on the level surface, the compass is very unstable, value changes very quickly. This is very annoying using streets view (compass mode) in Google Maps or Google Sky Map - if the phone is horizontally, the map rotates both directions very fast. Any fix for this?
I'd think that the sensitivity is set too high, I don't think this is something you can change from within Google Maps.
Have you tried downloading a compass app from the Market and seeing if the results are them same? Most apps will have some settings you can change to see where the problem lies.
Yes, I've tried... Same problem in Ulysse Gizmos - pitch and roll are very unstable
Just downloaded that app, the compass works fine, but my pitch and roll are way off. Not quite fluctuating wildly, but very inaccurate.
Have you tried calibrating the compass by waving it in a figure of 8 horizontally.
Of course I did but is the same
I have exactly the same. But annoyingly I also have that it places me consistently 10 to 40 meters off.......
Really annoying! If anyone has a solution please let me know!
Just got my Galaxy Nexus yesterday and already love it
But the compass seem to have a mind of its own. I usually use GPS Essentials, but the compass there is almost not moving at all when I rotate the phone. Only little arbitrary movements. I opened up Google Sky Map which also utilizes compass for proper direction measuring, but it seemed to follow only loosely which direction I moved - just only at half the pace and then suddenly it reverses 180 degrees or jumps around. It seems that some signal does get from sensor to software, so my first thought is that it's software related.
Any ideas? Have anyone else had issues with this?
I'm having the same issue. I noticed horrible performance in google sky map -- the map barely moved as I rotated around. It might have moved a maximum of 45 degrees overall. I then downloaded Compass from the market and am also seeing poor performance, with the app always telling me "abnormal magnetic field" when I start it up.
On the plus side, google maps seems to do pretty well at showing my correct heading when stationary.
I was recommended to try the app "gps status " which has a calibration feature. After running the app and without actually doing the calibration the compass worked perfectly now when I try sky map it functions like it should. It seems that maybe some kind of initialization was needed - and is now done.
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Well GPS Status calibration improved my compass apps, and google maps compass behavior. Thanks for that. But sky view is still terrible, so is skeye which is a similar app. I hope this gets fixed. My mom's ipod touch 3 performs way better than this in its sky view app... just sayin...
I actually have an Ascend P1 (Which lacks its own forum). The compass is not working correctly in Google Maps or other compass-based apps (such as Ingress). It is usually off by about 90 degrees, and often has a pretty bad delay. I have tried GPS Status, but my crazy compass conundrum continues. Is there a way of calibrating it so I can use it properly?
I experienced the same symptoms on both stock Sense 6.0 and now on GPE 4.4.4.
My GPS markers on my runs when using RunKeeper are all zig-zaggy (see here). I was wondering if anyone knew if anything might be up with the GPS sensor + any motion sensors that might be impacting the readings (no idea, at this point).
Google Maps works perfectly fine when driving, so I'm not sure if it's the abrupt movements, or the lack of speed (I jog, not really a 'run' pace).
Any insight would be awesome. Otherwise, phone's been great.
Recently after upgrading to oos beta 11, i noticed that while using gps service (Waze, Google Maps) my device being heat up until 45 degree.
does anybody else facing this issue too? because several of my friend op3 user is having this issue too.