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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Is There A Built In Compass? Or do you have to buy an app for it?
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Always pointing north, so i rotate it with sensor orientation event ( image.rotate(values[0]) )
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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...
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...
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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Bitmap bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),R.drawable.user2);
Matrix matrix = new Matrix(); matrix.postTranslate(-25, -25);
matrix.postRotate(direction); matrix.postTranslate(pt.x, pt.y);
paint.setAntiAlias(true); paint.setFilterBitmap(true);
int width = bmp.getWidth(); int height = bmp.getHeight();
Bitmap changedBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(bmp, 0, 0, width, height, matrix, true);
BitmapDrawable icon = new BitmapDrawable(changedBitmap);
icon.setBounds(0, 0, icon.getIntrinsicWidth(), icon.getIntrinsicHeight());
userOverlay useroverlay = new userOverlay(icon); useroverlay.addItem(item);
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I used the value retrieved from the sensor on "direction" but it doesn't work.
Am researching a problem with compass and sensor values returned by the phone. I found this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa. Which seems related, but it's old so I'm starting a new one. I'm getting stuck values from both the compass and orientation sensors. It was fine yesterday, but today, I'm only getting values in a limited range (e.g. compass headings from 240 - 290), no matter how I orient the device. What's even more odd is that the radians returned from the call to Sensor Manager.get Orientation(), which returns radians, is giving consistently out of range values. Anyone see this same behavior, and if so, any fixes? Here's some sample sensor data. Format is heading, pitch, roll. The first set contains raw values, the second set contains values after I've applied the orientation matrix generated by the Sensor Manager. The third set contains values after I've smoothed the data with my own algorithm.
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When I point north or south it is correct but as I rotate the horizon says east when I point it west and west when I point it east.? I have recalibrated my compass.. When I run the compass app it works correctly.. even google maps in street view works correctly. It is only google sky map that seems to have reversed east and west. Has anyone else seen this? Is it just me being dumb?
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