I do a lot of bike and walking navigation with Google maps and was wondering if it is normal for the Map to be rotated slightly diagonal even though I'm walking or biking facing the direction of the street. Seems like the compass is not working. These are some examples where I was facing the direction of the street:
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I do a lot of bike and walking navigation with Google maps and was wondering if it is normal for the Map to be rotated slightly diagonal even though I'm walking or biking facing the direction of the street. Seems like the compass is not working. These are some examples where I was facing the direction of the street:
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tap the red compass thing. does that fix it?
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tap the red compass thing. does that fix it?
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No, that just puts the Map in a fixed position
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Any suggestions? I don't want to rma this phone because it's perfect otherwise.
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anything with a magnetic field or an electrical field can throw off the compass from slightly to a lot.
It may be that that is the way the map is supposed to be, but Back in the earlier days of the mobile compass, they has to be calibrated, I had to do it all the time with my HTC wildfire, and once or twice with the N4 The easiest method for this is to hold the phone in your hand screen up with the application that you want to use the compass on screen, and turn your hand in a figure of 8 motion, moving only your wrist. There should be a video on youtube if you need. Hope this helps
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Maybe that's the way the Map is supposed to be. It's always slightly slanted. Can anyone confirm? Thanks
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I noticed the Nexus 4 will have a barometer. Do other phones have a barometer and I've just missed this? What can this be used for?
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I noticed the Nexus 4 will have a barometer. Do other phones have a barometer and I've just missed this? What can this be used for?
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Galaxy Nexus did......but the built-in barometer that's got so many of us scratching our heads has a much different purpose. Android engineer Dan Morrill took to the social pages of Google+ to clarify the confusion. Turns out, Sammy added the barometer to help the device more rapidly acquire a GPS lock by delivering altitude coordinates to the required latitude and longitude GPS equation. From Engadget article.
The Galaxy Nexus has a barometer. It is used for things like getting your altitude to improve GPS location determination.
That's nifty. It will also help me track my altitude during my next 30km+ jump.
Very good to know guys. Hmm i wonder what app opportunities there are here...
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Very good to know guys. Hmm i wonder what app opportunities there are here...
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It would be nice if GPS test supported it. I can also image a humorous "Highest Altitude" badge in Foursquare (but who uses Foursquare anymore?).
Wasnt the Xoom the first device with a barometer?
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Wasnt the Xoom the first device with a barometer?
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Indeed....same article stated as much.
Is anything known about the quality of the barometer readings? Are they accurate enough for altitude?
You can use your barometer to contribute to pressureNET! It's a free, open source barometer network for Android. I'm building it in hopes to create a weather network of unprecedented size and resolution in order to improve short-term, local weather prediction.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbus.barometernetwork
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You can use your barometer to contribute to pressureNET! It's a free, open source barometer network for Android. I'm building it in hopes to create a weather network of unprecedented size and resolution in order to improve short-term, local weather prediction.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbus.barometernetwork
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Great idea, cumulonimbus_ca. I will get it the day my nexus is delivered! Keep up the great work. I'll do some reading up about it in the mean time, i.e. Privacy policy.
121C4 said:
Great idea, cumulonimbus_ca. I will get it the day my nexus is delivered! Keep up the great work. I'll do some reading up about it in the mean time, i.e. Privacy policy.
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Agreed, I'll load it the day my Nexus is delivered also.
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Does anyone know its resolution ? The Barometer on my Galaxy S3 is pretty good, I'm a paraglider pilot and i use it as a Variometer, it works pretty well.
Since i'll get a Nexus 4, its time to get more info on that barometer.
How dare anyone collate the atmospheric pressure imposed on thee.......... How dare they?
Flouride in the water supply is bad enough!
barometer for calls/ mic
Actually the barometer is used for mic noise cancellation, it is used to calibrate the pressure on the mic to be nicelly centered for calls. :cyclops:
I thought the barometer was used with the Garmin car app, which plugs into my OBD II sensor in my car, in order to measure how much psi of boost is coming from my turbocharger.......
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I noticed a few days ago that the Nexus 4 came with a barometer sensor that is used to help the GPS accuracy. I decided to test this out using Barometer HD. It worked great and allowed me to save my pressure data.
However, the past two days it's been saying "No barometer sensor detected". Thinking this was GPS related I tried turning it on, but no luck. I ran Z - Device Test and it says I do not have the sensor either.
Anyone know what's going on?
So, I was playing with the photo sphere app, but I can't manage to get it to be a full sphere. There are 2 black parts on the floor and sky. I don't get an option to take a picture to cover those parts. Does anybody know how to? The ones I have seen on Google+ are a full sphere
Thanks
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When you move the camera up it shows blue circles where to shoot
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Just played around, in portrait mode you can do the full sphere, although in landscape mode you can't do a specific region on the top and bottom
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I'm having a hard time getting my spheres to stitch together properly. Am I just moving too much from my original position or what? How are you guys managing to spin around in a circle while not moving off of the fixed starting point? My best results have come from sitting in a spinning chair at home, but that is highly impractical when out and about.
Move YOURSELF around the phone, not the phone around you, as if you were to place it on a tripod to take better photospheres.
Thinking about the N4 as a secondary phone but I played with one in the T-Mobile store and noticed that pinch to zoom seemed to be pretty unresponsive and disappointing and that's putting it lightly. When pinching to zoom it felt as if I was moving my fingers through quick sand. It was as if my fingers had to literally transverse half of the entire screen before the phone started to react. Can anyone else confirm this? Like I said, this will be my secondary phone and my primary will be an iPhone 5 so I will going back and forth between the 2 phones often which will make the poor responsiveness even more noticeable and bloody annoying since the iPhone is very responsive and accurate in this department. So now I'm rethinking my purchase of this phone. Again can anyone confirm this??? Thanks
mine doesn't do this. it is very responsive.. are you talking about having to go out farther when zooming in? i think they designed the zoom in to occur after your fingers have spread over a certain distance so you don't accidentally zoom in when you don't mean to.
Its like people are just finding reason not to buy this phone cause it has real issues or they just like to complain....personal I think your all crazy . My coworker got his nexus 4 last week and its ****ing awesome the camera in HDR mode is amazing the data speeds are top notch and the screen is responsive. I don't know it everyone and there mama was playing with the display phone at T-Mobile ,but here a story I was playing with a Gs3 at T-Mobile and found pictures of a girls ***** on it .
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mine doesn't do this. it is very responsive.. are you talking about having to go out farther when zooming in? i think they designed the zoom in to occur after your fingers have spread over a certain distance so you don't accidentally zoom in when you don't mean to.
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There was another thread on this yesterday - this is actually Google almost certainly designing around someone else's patent on touchscreen usage. They probably figured that what was going on in older versions was too close to Apple's or someone else's precise method for interpreting multitouch input, so they designed something effective but different enough to avoid litigation. There's a reason why neither Apple nor Microsoft have sued Google directly over Android - Google designs around patents pretty well.
I wrote about this yday... Seriously. . try Firefox
Also , qickpix for gallery doesnt have the issue either
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mine doesn't do this. it is very responsive.. are you talking about having to go out farther when zooming in? i think they designed the zoom in to occur after your fingers have spread over a certain distance so you don't accidentally zoom in when you don't mean to.
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but why should you zoom in accidentally? you use two fingers to zoom..
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Falzar said:
I was playing with a Gs3 at T-Mobile and found pictures of a girls ***** on it .
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Epic
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italia0101 said:
I wrote about this yday... Seriously. . try Firefox
Also , qickpix for gallery doesnt have the issue either
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I hear ya, but even still it'd pretty annoying and making me think before I buy. Honestly I'm a stock app kinda guy. I like the stock apps, I actually want to use Chrome but I can't, I want to use the stock gallery since it would be more integrated but I can't without this bug/feature this will also make using Google maps bloody annoying more than anything as when using maps there is a lot of zooming in and out. I'm wondering if other ROMs have this issue with the N4 or not.... Hmmm... That would be an indicator if there was more of a real issue/hardware level issue or not. Wondering if Cyanogen, Paranoid, or AOKP would have the same issue...
this is such a moot issue based completely on software filtering/calibration of your touches. Capacitors are hyper sensitive to touches, so much so that you have to tone it down and filter out all the noise... You can easily go into the software and figure out where the pinch-zoom controls are and fix them...
I am running codefireX's build and my pinch to zoom works perfectly in gallery, chrome, maps, camera. Registers my touch input no mater what I try.
If this is a deal breaker for you, I would be more worried about thermal throttling issues tbh... Those are actually hardware related.
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this is such a moot issue based completely on software filtering/calibration of your touches. Capacitors are hyper sensitive to touches, so much so that you have to tone it down and filter out all the noise... You can easily go into the software and figure out where the pinch-zoom controls are and fix them...
I am running codefireX's build and my pinch to zoom works perfectly in gallery, chrome, maps, camera. Registers my touch input no mater what I try.
If this is a deal breaker for you, I would be more worried about thermal throttling issues tbh... Those are actually hardware related.
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So you're saying right out of the box you can go into settings and configure pin h to zoom to react immediately rather than after transversing half the screen before it starts reacting?
Well, this is xda developers where we hack software and improve it for our own uses. Its part of the fun. You would have to get into the kernel for that
pinch zoom on my ROM setup right now begins the second I place 2 fingers on the screeb
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Well, this is xda developers where we hack software and improve it for our own uses. Its part of the fun. You would have to get into the kernel for that
pinch zoom on my ROM setup right now begins the second I place 2 fingers on the screeb
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Awesome . hopefully Google will fix it for stock users
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Well, this is xda developers where we hack software and improve it for our own uses. Its part of the fun. You would have to get into the kernel for that
pinch zoom on my ROM setup right now begins the second I place 2 fingers on the screeb
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Which ROM and could you perhaps record a video for us?
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Well, this is xda developers where we hack software and improve it for our own uses. Its part of the fun. You would have to get into the kernel for that
pinch zoom on my ROM setup right now begins the second I place 2 fingers on the screeb
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I'd like to know wHich ROM that is as well. I ordered my N4 but I definitely want to fix this before I do anything as.
Hi guys, I just got a brand new S4 from Rogers and while playing around with the phone I noticed some of the features weren't working properly. One of them was the palm gestures settings. I tried some many times to get the Screen shot and Play/Pause features to work but it failed. And another problem that I encountered was the gyroscope sensor. As you can see in the screenshot, the ball doesn't move at all even when the phone is standing up. So do I have a defective S4?
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When I'm in that screen my ball stays in the center also
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Hi guys, I just got a brand new S4 from Rogers and while playing around with the phone I noticed some of the features weren't working properly. One of them was the palm gestures settings. I tried some many times to get the Screen shot and Play/Pause features to work but it failed. And another problem that I encountered was the gyroscope sensor. As you can see in the screenshot, the ball doesn't move at all even when the phone is standing up. So do I have a defective S4?
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That screen is supposed to "calibrate" the gyroscope so it make sense that it doesn't move. You are essentially teaching it where perfectly centered is. In order to do that, you have to lay it on a surface that is perfectly centered. If you lay it on a surface that is not perfectly centered and press it, it will be off. I haven't messed with mine yet, but it seems that is the way it would be.
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When I'm in that screen my ball stays in the center also
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That's weird because on my S1 the ball moves around. But what about the palm features? Do they work for you?
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That's weird because on my S1 the ball moves around. But what about the palm features? Do they work for you?
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Screen shot does. Not sure of the others
All work for me. Just have to get used to how to use the gesture. That calibrate screen doesn't move, it's only meant for Calibrating
When using maps or some other app which points in the direction I'm looking toward, its always pointing about 90* clockwise.
Anyone else have this bug?
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I have this same problem too.
Just tests it out on my D802. Google map seemed to be working fine. The arrows does point straight towards my direction. Turning the phone left and right seemed correct too.
-LG G2
Could your compass have gotten magnetized? Happens on the og RAZR sometimes. The fix was to touch a magnet to the upper right corner for a second to release it. Someone found it out after looking at a device teardown.
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The stock window case has a magnet in it, so if you have that on the phone it would explain your problem.
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Could your compass have gotten magnetized? Happens on the og RAZR sometimes. The fix was to touch a magnet to the upper right corner for a second to release it. Someone found it out after looking at a device teardown.
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Thank you! That seems to fix it for now. I was going to return it to ATT.