Actually a Tab 7a but I didn't see that in the list.
So, I bought this tablet specifically to use with the SkEye app to help orient my telescope. Alas, it has north 15 or 20 degrees off true. I've done the 'calibration' dance in every variation with no luck. There's nothing wrong with the magnetic field here, my good ol' Silva compass works fine. Android (I'm told) considers my declination here to be about 15E and it's more like 17E but that's a minor problem because the app acts like it's 20W. Not SkEye's fault tho because compass apps are equally wrong. (Mind, some compass apps jitter badly but others are steady.) I suspect this is really a hardware error, *but* I know that Android can be persuaded to correct for various errors. How can I force the tablet to accept 17E as my declination rather than 20W?
So, I bought this tablet specifically to use with the SkEye app to help orient my telescope. Alas, it has north 15 or 20 degrees off true. I've done the 'calibration' dance in every variation with no luck. There's nothing wrong with the magnetic field here, my good ol' Silva compass works fine. Android (I'm told) considers my declination here to be about 15E and it's more like 17E but that's a minor problem because the app acts like it's 20W. Not SkEye's fault tho because compass apps are equally wrong. (Mind, some compass apps jitter badly but others are steady.) I suspect this is really a hardware error, *but* I know that Android can be persuaded to correct for various errors. How can I force the tablet to accept 17E as my declination rather than 20W?