[Q] Compass not working (Motorola RAZR HD) topic

Motorola RAZR HD (XT925)
CM 11-20140104-SNAPSHOT-M2-xt925
SELinux Permissive

GPS is working fine. But compass isn't working at all. Three or four compass apps that I tried (and which I have successfully used in older phones) either crash or show a frozen needle pointing up as North. Tried for weeks to see compass working and nothing.

Researched and found no plausible solution.

To make things weirder, yesterday, only once, compass worked perfectly in SatStat app. I did nothing different and am now unable to reproduce it. Yes, trying it outdoors, but although one should be able to get compass from GPS, AFAIK it should be available directly from the phone sensors with no need for GPS. Then again, except for yesterday's fluke, it's working neither way.

Code:

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adb logcat

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for Nice compass shows this:

Code:

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W/dalvikvm(26147): threadid=11: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x419eec80)
E/AndroidRuntime(26147): FATAL EXCEPTION: Thread-1273
E/AndroidRuntime(26147): Process: com.digitallizard.nicecompass, PID: 26147
E/AndroidRuntime(26147): java.lang.IllegalStateException: Underflow in restore
E/AndroidRuntime(26147):        at android.graphics.Canvas.restore(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(26147):        at com.digitallizard.nicecompass.CompassSurface.onDraw(CompassSurface.java:366)
E/AndroidRuntime(26147):        at com.digitallizard.nicecompass.CompassSurface.triggerDraw(CompassSurface.java:289)
E/AndroidRuntime(26147):        at com.digitallizard.nicecompass.CompassSurface.run(CompassSurface.java:489)
E/AndroidRuntime(26147):        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:841)
W/ActivityManager(  853):  Force finishing activity com.digitallizard.nicecompass/.CompassActivity
W/InputMethodManagerService(  853): Focus gain on non-focused client com.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy@41f4f068 (uid=10007 pid=26147)
I/ActivityManager(26147): Timeline: Activity_idle id: android.os.BinderProxy@41c8ee18 time:169910140
I/WindowManager(  853): Screenshot max retries 4 of Token{42279828 ActivityRecord{420661c8 u0 com.digitallizard.nicecompass/.CompassActivity t117 f}} appWin=Window{420128b0 u0 Starting com.digitallizard.nicecompass} drawState=4
I/ActivityManager(  853): Process com.digitallizard.nicecompass (pid 26147) has died.

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What would you do to try to fix that?

Thank you!

Does the moto360 have Compass?? topic

Hi,
I really like the idea of having compass on my Moto360, and was quite happy to see that Watch maker for example, provide compass feature.
I actually installed few faces with compass, but most of them or does not work at all, or work one in ten times of use.
I open discussion in one of Google+ related groups, and someone said that actually, the moto360 does not have compass in the unit,
therefore, it is mostly software solution that works from time to time.

Can someone confirm this issue, and in case this should work, advise what is needed to do in order to have it running properly?

Thanks,
Tomer

Compass consistently off topic

I've got a stock, rooted D801 running 4.4.2 and I've been having problems with my phone's compass. The problem is that even after calibrating, the compass is always off by about 15°. This is the second G2 I've had with the problem, and with the first phone, I fixed it by deleting the akmd_set.txt file in /data/misc. However with this phone, I can't find the file anywhere. Does anyone know the name and location of the compass calibration files?

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