iPhone 5 Magnetometer

sbrhwkp3 · Sep 27, 2012, 12:09 AM

Has anyone else noticed a huge improvement of the behavior of the magnetometer in the iPhone 5?

Did they mention an improvement there that I missed?

aleni · Sep 27, 2012, 08:04 AM

What the hell is magnetometer?

MrGimper · Sep 27, 2012, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by aleni

What the hell is magnetometer?

Wasn't he the baddie in the X-Men movies?

Chuck-Norris · Sep 27, 2012, 08:14 AM

maybe he means the gyroscope?

brand · Sep 27, 2012, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by aleni

What the hell is magnetometer?

Magnetometer is a word in the dictionary.

sbrhwkp3 · Sep 27, 2012, 09:45 AM

Are you guys ****ing serious? How do you think the compass works?

http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/07/m...o-next-iphone/

MrGimper · Sep 27, 2012, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by sbrhwkp3

Are you guys ****ing serious? How do you think the compass works?

http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/07/m...o-next-iphone/

You mean it's not the small person who lives in my phone that does it?

dfinecy · Sep 27, 2012, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by MrGimper

Wasn't he the baddie in the X-Men movies?

I thought it was the tool of destruction used in one of the batman movies

yaredna · 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by sbrhwkp3

Are you guys ****ing serious? How do you think the compass works?

Use technology similar to that used in Pigeon-guided missiles, or PGM for short. Check it out .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

Ice-Cube · Sep 27, 2012, 09:52 AM

Half the time I'm using the compass feature, I have to move the phone in a figure of 8 motion to calibrate it. Thanks for making me look like a retard, Apple.

sbrhwkp3 · Sep 27, 2012, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Ice-Cube

Half the time I'm using the compass feature, I have to move the phone in a figure of 8 motion to calibrate it. Thanks for making me look like a retard, Apple.

That's what I'm talking about. The 5 hasn't asked me to do that once. It's not jumpy, it works smooth, seems accurate.

That's why I'm asking what changed internally to make that happen.

randallking · Jan 23, 2013, 03:34 PM

"Sometimes certain devices or radio signals can interfere with the magnetometer requiring users to either move away from the interference or re-calibrate by moving the device in a figure 8 motion." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphone_3gs

I don't know much about this, but maybe the interference that's spoken of in this context would be reduced because of the iPhone 5's metal case. It's the first iPhone since the original iPhone to have so much metal in the case (at least that's the way I understand it).

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sbrhwkp3 Thread Starter macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Lake George, NY	Are you guys ****ing serious? How do you think the compass works? http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/07/m...o-next-iphone/
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randallking macrumors newbie Join Date: Sep 2009	"Sometimes certain devices or radio signals can interfere with the magnetometer requiring users to either move away from the interference or re-calibrate by moving the device in a figure 8 motion." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphone_3gs I don't know much about this, but maybe the interference that's spoken of in this context would be reduced because of the iPhone 5's metal case. It's the first iPhone since the original iPhone to have so much metal in the case (at least that's the way I understand it).
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