I have a compass in my GMC truck and the same trick works with the vehicle. I had it go bonkers a few years ago and had to find a large enough parking lot where I could drive several figure 8's in order to straighten it out. The trick did work and the compass has been accurate ever since.
-John Coryat On Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:08:21 PM UTC-5, Nathan wrote: > > > > On Thursday, September 27, 2012 9:19:30 AM UTC-7, blake wrote: >> >> Strong work guys. The top 5 results in google search are this article. >> >> -blake >> > > I think that qualifies as circular logic. > > I do not know why moving your device in a figure eight pattern calibrates > the compass, but it does. It's a "hardware problem". > > And if I ask customers to do it, I am sure to add a "Yes Really." or "I > am not making this up" at the end. > > Nathan > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-discuss/-/hlRhalwF_7MJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
