Please elaborate on a permanent fix for me, I would appreciate that.
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2nd page of the compass app.
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Calibration on iPhone 5s Compass and Level Appears Incorrect
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Please elaborate on a permanent fix for me, I would appreciate that.
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2nd page of the compass app.
Next person that uses the term gate unironically is getting virtually stabbed.
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Are you implying that I'm missing something?
If so I'd really love to know what.....I'm genuinely curious as to why this is an issue if one can simply set the level to 0 at whatever inclination they want?
I found this:
"Double tapping the screen resets the level to consider whatever angle the phone is currently at to be 0°. That design choice, expressed through a series of colored flashes."
Sounds like a calibration issue like with the compass.
"Double tapping the screen resets the level to consider whatever angle the phone is currently at to be 0°. That design choice, expressed through a series of colored flashes."
Sounds like a calibration issue like with the compass.
That's something totally different. That's a feature that allows you to mark an incline so you can match it with something else.
The problem here is that the factory calibration is incorrect.
This is a bug; the factory calibration is correct on other iPhone hardware (e.g. the iPhone 5, 4S and 4).
Sure, you can use this feature to work around the bug by correcting for the wrong calibration. That's analogous to having an incorrect clock - you can still use it to measure durations (e.g. +5 minutes from what it said when I started), but it's still showing you the incorrect absolute time.
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But I don't think this is a real problem. It's scraping the barrel as far as I'm concerned.
But I don't think this is a real problem. It's scraping the barrel as far as I'm concerned.
Did you really find the iPhone compass all that reliable even under iOS 6? I found myself waving the thing in a figure-eight all too often to try to get it to point to North when it was pointing West. I don't think this is news. The accuracy on these sensors has never been perfect.
The internal compass/level/gyro is flawed.
Do you use any games that require you to tilt the phone? Driving games, star gazing apps, panoramic pictures that require you to move your phone level horizontally. The phone does not know what level is! Your car will always pull to the right or left in racing games unless you unnaturally tilt the phone. The stars will not match up with the horizon in star gazin apps.. Its a MAJOR issue.
Please elaborate on a permanent fix for me, I would appreciate that.
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2nd page of the compass app.
Take a level, line it up to 0 degree inclination, put your iphone underneath it and up against it, tap the screen.
Voila. Now your level is calibrated.
Unless the problem is that it doesn't HOLD that calibration?
So if you can recalibrate it by double-tapping the screen, then you just deflected the whole compass-gate. Gizmodo is not going to be happy with you.
Inclinometer is not that important for me, but the compass is very essential. I use maps a lot, do geocaching and so on. I've never completely trusted electronic compasses (they are never as accurate as physical ones, at least in my experience), but I really wish one day we'll be able to confidently and precisely rely on the phone for that. How hard could it be?
That does not permanently calibrate the Sensor to zero at that angle, it only shows you the delta between where it was and where you move it, that is useful if for example you want to put something in an exact 90° angle. If you tap the screen again, it reverts back to the reading it gets from the gyro.
How do we know this though when the "evidence" is simply that someone tried to match it to a normal level and it came out a few degrees off.....because I can go in a make a 90 degree angle "0", what does this prove?
My comments are not whether or not this is a big deal if true. I'm saying I don't see the evidence that it is true.
I tested out Temple Run 2 (because RR3 wasn't downloaded and I'm on a cell network). When I set the phone on the table my character ran in a perfectly straight line.....again - show me some evidence of it affecting gameplay or another app and I'll believe it.
You are wrong, by tapping the level you are performing a differential calculation function, not a calibration.
Having to level the phone with a level kind of defeats the purpose of having a level on the phone does it not?
Nah, not iOS7 but nice try.
This is obviously the M7 chip being a beta product with some software component that may or may not be interfacing well with it.
Smart move to wait for the iPhone 6. The fingerprint hardware will also be optimized with a new design, seems like they crammed it into the iPhone5's home button.
