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Support => Troubles & Questions => Topic started by: packham on December 13, 2011, 12:18:00

Title: Compass in Locus in Galaxy Nexus/ICS
Post by: packham on December 13, 2011, 12:18:00
Hi. I'm wondering if Locus is fully compatible with Galaxy Nexus/ICS? The compass in Locus seems to be off by about 90 degree counter-clockwise.

As you can see in the screenshot. I was standing still and facing exactly north (used compass in GPS Status to verify it), but Locus showed I was facing West (the map wasn't rotated and North is the top). When I opened Google Maps it showed correctly that I was facing North so I think the problem might be with Locus using hardware compass in Galaxy Nexus. Any idea?

Yes, I have calibrated the compass using Tools in GPS Status.

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Title: Re: Compass in Locus in Galaxy Nexus/ICS
Post by: Menion on December 15, 2011, 06:03:57
hi,
  seems like every phone has it's own orientation ... for this exist menu > settings > sensors > advanced settings and "Angle orientation modifiers ... where you can set for this 90° and this will fix this issue
Title: Re: Compass in Locus in Galaxy Nexus/ICS
Post by: packham on December 15, 2011, 10:40:41
Quote from: "menion"hi,
  seems like every phone has it's own orientation ... for this exist menu > settings > sensors > advanced settings and "Angle orientation modifiers ... where you can set for this 90° and this will fix this issue

Hi menion, Thanks! For some reason the value was set to 270 by default. When I set it back to zero the map orientates correctly now :)
Title: Re: Compass in Locus in Galaxy Nexus/ICS
Post by: Menion on December 15, 2011, 13:58:59
Ah thanks, my stupid mistake :). I detect if device is tablet just by "is device API 3.0 or higher? if so, it's tablet and set rotation to 270" ... :D ... fixed