labeledbass

I just noticed Maps was a little off, as was my X axis after I wiped/updated my phone. Now it points true north and auto-rotation does flip out when barely twisted.

Just an FYI - hope it helps some!

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Gareee

Did anyone else notice that when the compass is calibrated now, it no longer turns green, but turns red instead?

ChiefHopper

My turned green this morning when I finally got the calibration completed. Seemed to take a loooong time.

ericsch333

Auto rotation was driving me crazy .....now it's smooth

irhxcbcziuzxs

my auto rotation has been putting me in landscape mode when i dont want it to, so im trying to calibrate the compass, its just turning red though, no green?

ChiefHopper

Did you do the 3-axis thing until you thought your hands/arms were going to fall off? Glad I wasn't in public...

As I stated earlier it took a long time -- matter of a minutes.

irhxcbcziuzxs

yeah, lonng time, i gave up, it just stayed red

jreed2560

try turning it slow and keep it centered (it the same place) it can take a while and it is annoying, but once you get it calibrated it certainly takes the auto rotate frustration level down a lot.

colchiro

I had trouble calibrating in the past, took a long time.

This time probably took only 40 seconds. I just laid it on my lap and rotated just one axis at a time about 10 rotations, landscape first (the easiest) while watching the compass needle. After the first axis it seemed to track better.

Previously I had read to do a bunch of figure 8's in the air, which didn't seem to work as quickly.

To calibrate, open settings... Location & security settings... Calibrate Compass.

Gareee

Tried it again here, and it still only turns red.

irhxcbcziuzxs

same, still red

colchiro

My mistake...

Do 360 rotation first (flat on table top), slowly about 10x, then do landscape on your lap or table top about 10x, then finish with end over end until it turns green.

Don't wait for each step to turn green, just the last one to turn green.

Gareee

Tried that exactly, and mine still turns red. I'm suspecting its just a simple odd wrong color issue, not anything significant.

irhxcbcziuzxs

I hope its not a bad color issue because my auto rotation is still ******. Mine still wont calibrate either.

jreed2560

I highly doubt thats the case. Honestly I think you guys are moving your phones around too much when you calibrate them.

bobomatic

i got mine. at one point while going end over end, it turned yellow, then i went the other way a few times and a calibration complete screen popped up..
if all else fails plug some head phones in and spin it above your head..

irhxcbcziuzxs

im moving mine very slowly, in fact it turns red before i can even finish doing all the rotations, ive tried speeding up too but to no avail

colchiro

If you're having trouble calibrating, try moving away from your computer where there are magnets in the speakers.

Third time calibrating took much longer until I realized where I was doing it, on my computer, inches from the speakers.

Gareee

I even went outside, and had the same issue.. it turns red. So does my wife's.

colchiro

Did you guys go both ways (forward - backward, clockwise - counter clockwise)?

Gareee

Yep.. we've done everything but stand out our heads while doing it. We had no calibaration issues at all before OTA. Thats why seeing it turn red now is odd.

If there was a message that calibration failed, it would make sense, but there is never a confirm that it's worked.

shiggins

I'm in the same boat.....I even tried duplicating the exact spin sequence it shows you on the calibration screen.

Seeks

Had the same problem trying to calibrate my phone. Turned red. Wife's phone turned green after calibration. What I did to mine was uninstall a compass app I had and reboot. After that I re-calibrated and it went green. Working much better with the landscape switching on both phones.

cygnusloop

THIS!!!
After more than a dozen tries, I uninstalled the compass app, rebooted, and got it first try.
thanks!!!!!!

irhxcbcziuzxs

uninstalling my compass ass.. i mean app as we speak

shiggins

You sir are a genius!!!!

Paycer

lol'ing my ass off.

Calibrated fine here. Didn't really have any, "compass," apps installed.

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colchiro

I successfully calibrated mine about 7 times today, but did have about 6 or 7 failed attempts toward the end as well. Can't say anything worked better except when I did both ways (slightly better), but I did calibrate it fine the first 4 times just doing one way. I think it's a bug.

Gareee

Oddly enough, uninstalling compass did NOT fix the issue on my wife's phone, though it worked for me.

Legato

Calibrated mine in under a minute an hour ago. Gotta do the wife's phone when i get home.

Martimus

When I calibrated mine, I simply turned it left to right about 3 times, up to down 3 times, right to left about 3 times, and down to up 3 times. I repeated this pattern a few more times till it went to "Calibration complete". It was a bit tedious but finally seemed to work for me...

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MasterLaz

Same problem here, spent maybe an hour with nothing but red. Powered the phone down, restarted it back up and it hit green the first time.

bigbadwulff

Google Sky was WAY off after the OTA. It fixed itself within a matter of a few minutes. I did nothing to it.

Trooper

I was going to say. Do we really have to do this? Have not noticed anything on mine yet.

Gareee

If you want your compass to be accurate, yes. Its even listed in the PDF manual as one of those things you should do when you first get your phone.

ChiefHopper

Anything about how often after the first time or after OTAs?

Gareee

I don't think so.. all I recall from reading it was just that its one of those after activation things to do.

I'm guessing once its calibrated properly, it remembers the settings even with updates, kind of like how it remembers your phone numbers and contacts.

I only clabrated mine once before OTA, and now once since OTA, and the GPS can sometimes get me within a few feet of a location, which is better then some standalone GPS units.

lakingslayer

I just do a slow figure 8 infront of me. It took about 30sec to calibrate.

mahers

Maybe I'm missing something, but when I go to do this, I see an image of a phone that "turns" by itsef. The back of the phone is green, the front is white. I can rotate that sucker for days and it never says it's done. Anyone have a screen shot or something so I know what the heck to look for?

Gareee

The market compass application installed uses that. The default compass settings do not.

Paycer

That's on the screen before the actual calibration process lol. That's just an animation giving you an example of what you need to do. Click on the, "Calibrate," button at the bottom right.

mahers

I did, like 10 times, and it just re-paints the same thing!?!?!? I didn't think that was what you all were seeing, which is why I asked. I just did a reboot earlier today, but I don't think that's going to solve it. I've been seeing this same thing since Day 1 with the phone.

cygnusloop

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Paycer

After tapping on, "Calibrate," you should be seeing a live, very bare-looking compass that moves as you move your phone.

mahers

Yeah, that's what I thought. I read a post that mentioned a compass, and I was like, hey, I don't see that. I tried it again after seeing your reply and it still doesn't work right. All I get is the "Calibrate" and "Cancel" buttons and hitting "Calibrate" does absolutely nothing. I just get the "fake" phone flipping around. I remember trying this when I first got the phone too, and nothing happened then either. I think I have a busted Compass Calibration setting

behemoth

I finally got my calibration to work.. I kept trying to rotate the phone from bottom over top vertically three times, laying it on a table and rotating it three times, and flipping it back and forth on the table again. My compass kept turning red.

I rebooted the phone and tried again, and after rotating the phone vertically from bottom to top a few times and trying the above on the table, it worked after a few attempts. The compass finally turned green.

I believe the trick is patience, and if all else fails, reboot and try again.

droblyer

Can't get it to work. We need a video of someone doing this,lol.

colchiro

This worked for me as well.

mxsjw

Those that are having problems with this...are you doing all 3 axis then reversing them, just like the animation shows? Works every time for me.

Hold phone straight up (power button to the sky)
Slowly (like take 2 seconds per 1 full revolution)
Back Flip it once
Spin it left once
Cartwheel it left once
Cartwheel it right once
Spin it right once
Front Flip it once
now start over...

Shouldn't take much more than 3 or 4 times through this procedure for it to turn green.

lennydude

Worked after only 2 times

Thanks VERY much!