Motorola Droid X :: Calibrating Compass Jacked My Phone
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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Sep 13, 2010
I'm new to the x and I'm trying to find the touch calibrating screen. Anyone help a newbie out!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sep 29, 2009
I got allot of problems after I updated my hero..No sound on alarm clock.On menu title says Problem loading widget.Internet search in landscape mode, the window jumping up and down then I type.Oh, and the animation when I go from normal to landscape don't work, never did, tried to turn it on, but stil the normal fade thing Solution? Do I just try to update one more time?Come from Denmark so is the Danish rom
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Apr 8, 2010
Is there a way to calibrate the touch screen? it seems to be slight out on mine when i go to the right hand edge of the screen
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Jul 1, 2010
There was a thread about htc telling us to charge the phone till green then turn it off and charge again till it hits green, i tried this method but the battery led would always go back to orange, i unplugged and repeated step two about 30 or 40 times
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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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Mar 4, 2014
I stupidly did the same mistake again by updating my S2 from GingerBread to IceCreamSandwitch without calibrating the horizontal accelerometere, and now unfortanatly i cannot find the official GB firmware for my S2 .
(if you have a better solution that will fix my accelerometer cause now when i play games like " Trial ", when the phone is in the "normal" position the rider is always going back so i have to rotate the phone about 15 degrees to the right in order to be "normal" )
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Dec 26, 2009
I've noticed that I get a slightly different reading from the compass depending on how I hold the phone. If I hold it vertically, its different than when I hold it horizontal (ie parallel to a table or floor). Does anyone know the most accurate way to hold the phone for the compass?
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Nov 1, 2009
I have been searching everywhere (except the right place maybe ) for some notes on the proper method of CALIBRATING the Hero compass. I have found much commentary about the compass, but no specific talk about how to actually calibrate it. I am trying to use the GPS Status application (recently updated), and it keeps giving me "Compass out of calibration - see FAQs" message. I have looked at every FAQ I can find and searched the forums and no joy. Could anyone please point me where I can find some instructions about calibrating the compass?
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Oct 8, 2010
Can any one please tell me how do I download compass on my xperia mini?
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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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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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Nov 18, 2009
I cannot find any tutorial on the web. How can I do it in a simple way?
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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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