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Originally Posted by Rastaman-FB
compass is good because?
man theres maps and sat nav lol
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If for nothing else: I paid well enough for it, so it had better work!
Seriously though, maps and sat nav are for moving around. When you're standing still, you need a compass. Also, the Sky Map and Street View apps rely on a compass reading.
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Originally Posted by Russ Dill
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It would be good to know how fast to move the phone around, because I notice the Compass application is pretty sluggish. It would be interesting to know if that sluggishness is a software "smoothing" feature or if it's due to the sensor itself.
In any case, following that advice (doing about 1 figure-of-eight per second) improved my compass from about 40 degrees off to about 10 degrees off. It might also have been coincidental, so I will retry this periodically.
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Originally Posted by Russ Dill
the "Barcode Scanner" application, it seems to do a white level calibration when it starts, but never again. Point the phone at what you want to scan (or something else bright), *then* start the barcode scanner application.
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This, on the other hand, I had zero luck with.