HTC Droid Eris :: Compass And Map
Mar 6, 2010
I noticed that when I am lookinh at google map (satellite or normal), when I turn the phone the map will not stay to point to the same direction. It turns with the phone. Is this the way it should be?
I also downloaded the Compass application. and it behaves kind of wierd: holding the phone horizonally, I turn around. The compass should keep pointing to the north regardless how I turn. Mine is all over the place. If I point the phone to NE, it does show the N direction but when I try to turn the phone to point to the North it goes all over the place.
This is regardless GPS on or off. I am still at 1.5...
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Dec 10, 2009
I see people talk about the compass in google map but i don't have the compass option anywhere. Am i missing something?....
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Nov 16, 2009
I'm just wondering if this is normal: I can go into an app like Google Maps and drop down into street view with the compass view enabled. I'll see that the view will really only point one way and jerk around that one direction as I move it around. I'll then calibrate the compass using the figure 8 method and then street view will work properly. If I then exit back to the home screen and load up say LAYER I'll have the same problem. The compass will point in one direction and jerk around it until it's recalibrate again. It's more of an annoyance really as I basically have to recalibrate it every time I open up an app that uses it. Just wondering if others are having this issue. I've talked to a few i phone friends and other than the occasional recalibration they don't seem to have this issue.
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Apr 6, 2010
I noticed when i first installed the app on my eris, it worked great. since then, I have to calibrate it every time, and it always points to the right of the phone until it does whatever it does.....
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Nov 12, 2009
The internal compass is acting sticky. Especially with Google stars. Anyone else? This is outside with no mag or metal sources close by.
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Sep 25, 2010
I have been rotating my D2 for 10+ minutes on all three axes and the compass never turns green. How long should it take? Am I doing something wrong?
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Dec 27, 2009
I've recently published a new release of my compass "DGT Compass" but unfortunately. I'm receiving some negative feedback from Droid owners. Not very useful those feedbacks just saying "it doesn't work on Droid!". I would appreciate more details from some Droid tester.
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Nov 18, 2009
I cannot find any tutorial on the web. How can I do it in a simple way?
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Nov 5, 2010
I've never been able to calibrate my compass since day one for some reason, but the easily rotating screens were driving me nuts and getting annoying. I was messing around yesterday, and tried hitting the Calibrate button like 50 times FAST AS HELL and I got the compass to appear! Doing it the normal way didn't do anything, as the phone would just repaint the screen with the fake phone showing you how to rotate it.After a few rotations, it turned green. I was like, wow, that was easy...until I tested it. My phone now refused to go to landscape at all!! So I tried it again. After another 50 taps, I went throught the same motions, got the red compass folks were complaining about in another thread and tried the solution that worked for some by deleting the market Compass app I got months ago. I went back to settings and...nope, still needs 50 taps and still got a red compass. I did a reboot and a battery pull, and same result. I can no longer get into landscape mode, EVER!!! The only way to get into landscape is if I am playing a game or something, but rotating the phone for web surfing or texting just doesn't work.
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Nov 22, 2009
Wondering how many of you have a compass that is accurate through its entire travel? Mine heads in the right direction for about 270 degrees (rotating the phone) and the other 90 it is off by about 30 degrees. I have checked out 4 or 5 others in stores since launch day and they behave exactly the same. I also see this behavior using street view.
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Jan 13, 2010
i've been a (mostly) happy user of the milestone, as it is called over here, but in the past few days i noticed a problem.the compass in the phone is not only off, but virtually broken. it detects a constant reading "to the upper left", which simply overrides the earth's magnetic field. so, no matter how i turn the phone, north is always between one and two o'clock. by using the amazin tricorder app, i was able to find out that the magnitude of the reading differs significantly depending on the orientation of the phone, reaching almost "100" in the max, and about "65" when the phone is 18o turned. so i cleverly deduced that the magnetic flux sensors are still somehow active; but still, they turn out to be useless to me if they show a constant reading no matter.
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Jul 18, 2010
I've tried to use calibrate compass. I get the round compass to appear. I rotate the Droid X on all 3 axis. The compass never turns green to indicate a successful calibration.
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Nov 10, 2009
I discovered an option in street view that is called "Compass View". Not sure what use it is but I thought it was cool. You have to hold the phone in portrait as opposed to landscape for the compass to work...check it out.
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Oct 16, 2010
My compass and any apps that use it are all off. I've tried calibrating it through the compass app, but it's still real jumpy.
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May 3, 2010
I tried to find compass app in my htc legend, but no success. Seems that I have to look for one. But i don't know which one will work for my phone.
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Sep 24, 2010
my wife wants a compass app on her phone (I think this is so she knows which way to walk to the most expensive shops, and becuase her friends with iPhones have them ).... as it appears that there is not one on the SGS, can anyone reccommend the best one to download? I presume that they are all as accurate as each other, but are there any that have any nice additional features?
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Jan 7, 2010
I have the HTC hero right now with the Android 1.5 and was wondering if there is a compass app that i can download which is similar to the iPhone 3GS?
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Nov 6, 2009
is there an app that makes use of the digital compass? also whats a good facebook app?
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Aug 12, 2009
I've modified the code a bit since the last time, and now it crashes at runtime. I've got the log-cat and code below. how to go about debugging.
CODE:..................
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Aug 21, 2009
I'm trying to make a map with showing my location with an arrow that point to the way we are facing. the arraw image is something like this:
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Always pointing north, so i rotate it with sensor orientation event ( image.rotate(values[0]) )
I would like to ask if google map's north is always on 12 o'clock? because i try sometimes the arrow point to wrong direction. how to accurately make this thing works?
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Jun 3, 2010
I am on T-Mob with my Desire and have just realised i have no Digital Compass.Or am i looking in wrong place ? ,have tried manage apps ,and its not listed ,compass mode works ok in Maps,so whats happening?.
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May 1, 2010
Is There A Built In Compass? Or do you have to buy an app for it?
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Jul 22, 2010
It's listed in all the specs I've seen on multiple sites, including on the official home page for the Legend: HTC - Products - HTC Legend - Specification
But for the life of me, I can't find it on my phone. It's definitely not listed under Programs. Does anyone have a clue? Where could it have gone if it's a default, built-in feature? Pardon my ignorance but this is the first smartphone that I've used and I was keen on using this feature to impress friends...
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Apr 25, 2010
Just got my legend this friday and very happy about it until now.
I have some trouble with apps using the compass though:
When the Legend lies flat on a table there is no problem in finding North and South. When I turn the phone the compass needle stays. (Using the Compass app from the Market). But when I pick up the phone and hold it vertical (this is required for most Augmented Reality applications) it only points at South. And it's very annoying.
This happens with Google Street View Compass mode, Layar, Google Sky Map and the Compass application. I haven't tried other programs.
So is there something wrong or does something need calibration?
What I have tried till now:
- Waved the phone in an 8 shape for a while.
- Calibrated the G-Sensors.
- Tried in different locations making sure nothing magnetic is near by.
- Tried tipping the back of the phone.
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Sep 18, 2010
I dont see any buit in compass app in HTC Wildfire. Which is the best compass app in the market.
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Jul 28, 2010
In the last few weeks my compass has needed constant recalibration. Whenever I open my compass app, it says 'abnormal field', I calibrate, and it lasts for about five minutes. Google Sky Map is pretty much useless as well as compass mode in Street View.
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Mar 6, 2012
i develop an map application. One feature from my map is, it can rotate.I already develop map that can rotate using orientation sensor. But now, i need to develop it without sensor.So, it's possible to get an angle from 2 coordinates (last position and current position )with atan2 and use it to rotate the map ?
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Nov 27, 2009
I just tried a bunch of compass applications, and they all seem to be off by about 45 to 90 degrees. It's the same on goggle sky. Does anyone else have this same problem?
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Nov 12, 2010
I tried the free compass from catch.com, plus some others, and I can't get any of them to calibrate correctly. Anyone else have these issues? I don't know if its the phone or the apps.
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Aug 22, 2010
First day or two Google Sky worked fine, but I realized yesterday Google Sky didn't want to move left/right from holding the phone sideways but would move up/down. I found if I gave is a good shake left/right it would work right as far as I could tell. I checked around for what it might be and saw it could be a problem with the magnetic sensor. I tried the compass app and I get a "abnormal magnetic field detected" message right away. Should I return this or maybe reset some sort of setting or is there another way to calibrate?
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