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few issues

Hey all, have a few issues I am hoping to get figured out.
First, I am wondering if there is a way to re-calibrate the screen/tablet? When I take a picture, the tablet needs to be at about a 5-10* angle for the picture to be level.
Next, I know there have been quite a few GPS issues, but are there any "fixes" yet? I have downloaded and installed GPS test and I can get a lock after about 3 or 4 minutes, but Maps has NEVER found my location. The little GPS icon on the top left corner shows it is on and "locked" (not flashing), yet Maps always says "waiting for location" It never finds me though. It has been this way since I bought it.
Brew

no one else is having gps problems? I know many posted about them when the tablet first came out, surprised no one else is still having the problem. Maps still doesn't ever work for me. Never does find my location.
Next, I think the camera itself is not set correctly. When I use the level feature of the camera, the table shows level, but the picture itself is way off. Like the camera itself is twisted in the opening.

Don't have any problems with the camera, works fine for me.
GPS isn't really working for anybody - for some it helped to go outside and let it get the first fix. after that it works much better - for example for me.
but compass is still not usable =)

Thanks, I did a complete wipe last night and now maps will at least acknowledge that I exist. The camera is definitely installed crooked.

The Tegra Note has eight magnets in it, I'm not sure the compass will ever work properly

Ouzo said:
The Tegra Note has eight magnets in it, I'm not sure the compass will ever work properly
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Been playing with my new toy, one of the reasons I picked this was the compass, I like the idea and one works well on my phone. Also have an interest in the night sky - but google sky map and sky safari type apps cannot figure out what direction to show, I was starting to think the magnets were a problem, quite good magnets - I can stick the tab to the fridge !! guess I will have to live without this function until my next tablet.
Magnets have anything to do with the speakers ? anybody know.

mickjack said:
Been playing with my new toy, one of the reasons I picked this was the compass, I like the idea and one works well on my phone. Also have an interest in the night sky - but google sky map and sky safari type apps cannot figure out what direction to show, I was starting to think the magnets were a problem, quite good magnets - I can stick the tab to the fridge !! guess I will have to live without this function until my next tablet.
Magnets have anything to do with the speakers ? anybody know.
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I'd noticed that the compass is problematic too. I guess it would be possible to open it up and pop them out, but I'm not brave enough to try.

Ouzo said:
I'd noticed that the compass is problematic too. I guess it would be possible to open it up and pop them out, but I'm not brave enough to try.
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Had those thoughts to........ may give it a go when the tab is old and not quite so loved, just popped the back off a semi bricked pipo m7pro, can see the edge of the screen now and the switches don't sit properly.
Google sky map not so bad last night, just a quick test but it seemed to find its way around the sky, big moon found easy etc, still jumpy if you know what I mean. And the compass sometimes works - but seems to be 15deg off from my smartphone, need to get a propper compass and check then out!

Camera too
I have the same camera issue on my son's TN7 and my brand-new TN7 I got this week. Rear camera is tilted by about 10 degrees (checked with a real spirit level). Messes up some apps that need the device to be straight and use the camera.
Anyone else got this problem? Front camera is fine.

[Q] How to calibrate barometer

Hello, I just bought samsung s5 which have updatet to lollipop, but whatever the barometric sensor is not working right it doesn't matter which application I install all are showing way off, I have atachet photo to compare my samsung with lg d-682.
On lg works fine, but my samsung is showing the pressure for 81Hpa less than it should be and that is huge.
Can someone help me with this, because thi future is kind of important for me, Thanks ,Luka

what nobody knows the problem?
Luka

Very interesting,
I don't have another phone to compare with as you, but my local weather conditions days that should read around 1019 hPa, but my phone reads 884 hPa, so it seems off on mine.

etraud.a said:
Very interesting,
I don't have another phone to compare with as you, but my local weather conditions days that should read around 1019 hPa, but my phone reads 884 hPa, so it seems off on mine.
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and what is you altitude?
I was in a store and there compared to note4 s5 and s4 and all were showing allmost the same hpa with abou 10-20hpa difference. so this should be like that.
exept if you type *#0*# and go to sensor and then to compass section and it says on compass that it need calibration, does anyone know how to do that?
Thanks,Luka

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and what is you altitude?
I was in a store and there compared to note4 s5 and s4 and all were showing allmost the same hpa with abou 10-20hpa difference. so this should be like that.
exept if you type *#0*# and go to sensor and then to compass section and it says on compass that it need calibration, does anyone know how to do that?
Thanks,Luka
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My altitude us 1110 m, screenshot added.

i have installed also lollipop and sudenly none of my sensors are working at all. no proximity, no light, no barometer nothing.. i reinstalled the rom. still not fixed. and i dont know what to do or how to fix it. i tried googling the problem, but it seems noone have anything like it. i am desperate for help

Gyroscope not properly calibrated

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could reproduce my problem as I'm pretty sure is a software issue and not a hardware one, I've find some other people in the same situation and I've notified Huawei but I'm still waiting for their response.
The gyroscope is not working properly, not in any VR app in the play store or in google camera when I try to make a photo sphere.
Just open any app that uses the gyroscope and see if it is working at all.
Hope your answer. Thanks in advance.

rekuen said:
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could reproduce my problem as I'm pretty sure is a software issue and not a hardware one, I've find some other people in the same situation and I've notified Huawei but I'm still waiting for their response.
The gyroscope is not working properly, not in any VR app in the play store or in google camera when I try to make a photo sphere.
Just open any app that uses the gyroscope and see if it is working at all.
Hope your answer. Thanks in advance.
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i'm having this problem since I UPDATED my phone but before the upgrade i could play any 360 video and i could use my VR Headset with my P8 Lite (L21) but after the update (B133) my gyroscope stopped working :/ i hope they fix it because now i can't watch any 360 video :/

There are many video on youtube showing how to calibrate gyroscope. While holding the phone in a certain manner, you must describe with your forearm a 3D 8 in the space slowly. After half a dozen of turns, your gyroscope is calibrate with gravity force.
Cheers

it didn't work

Same problem here, after upgrading the software for ALE-L21C75B0146
Before I was able to watch 360 videos on Youtube by moving the phone.
Now I can't. I have to touch screen.
I am pondering downgrading to V100R001C75B045.

arviit said:
There are many video on youtube showing how to calibrate gyroscope. While holding the phone in a certain manner, you must describe with your forearm a 3D 8 in the space slowly. After half a dozen of turns, your gyroscope is calibrate with gravity force.
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I already tried those apps to calibrate de gyroscope but it isn't working.
Huawei email me back with the usual factory reset crap. That's their brilliant solution.

No gyroscope on p8lite
Or either Huawei P8 lite does not have Gyroscope or they turned it off. I bought mine with the lollipop and does not seem to have gyroscope. Also Huawei p8 lite specification does not list Gyroscope as available sensors which it does in P8's

Around firmware B13X they shut off the the Gyro, though for me it returned with B170 albeit still a bit touchy

i know it does not have a gyro but ahh ... when i had the B130 update i could watch 360 video but with the B133 and B171 update ... i can't :/ my VR headset is useless because of this :/ and this is annoying :/

I bought my p8 lite six days ago and I also have this problem. I tried to make 3D shots with google maps, but it says I don't have gyroscope. This is really annoying. ?

Is there any solution for this problem already????

P8 lite doesn't have a real gyroscope

OK. Maybe it doesn't have a hardware gyroscope and it was solved by a virtual gyro / sensor fusion.
Will it come back with android 6.0?
Is anyone here who know this hardware in depth to check the real built-in sensors? Maybe it's just disabled to make P8 lite weaker in opposite of P8.
Or someone who can make a virtual gyro for it? There's detailed descriptions on the net how to calculate gyro data from accelerometer and magnetic sensor. (But it's a bit tough for me)
For example:
github.com/memsindustrygroup/Open-Source-Sensor-Fusion/wiki/Virtual%20Gyro

http://www.phonearena.com/phones/compare/Huawei-P8-lite,Huawei-P8/phones/9358,9127
Under other feuatures you will se that P8 Lite doesnt have gyroscope at all

Hey guys,
Good news. Even though the gyro is not present in P8 Lite, it can be virtualized using the Magnetic Sensor and the Accelerometer. (Senses movement + Direction = A function of a Gyro).
Guys on the HTC Mania managed to figure it out and fix it! So you can watch 360 youtube videos, etc.
http://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=1156322
(You will need to translate the page though)
Happy days!

great news man, thx for sharing

If you don't want to translate, or just to lazy to check out the site, i'll post the steps here:
You can only do the steps below, if you have a rooted phone, and downloaded THIS file.
Steps:
Download the file, I've linked up above.
Open up a file explorer with root permissions (I recommend Root Explorer)
Copy the downloaded file to this location: /system/etc/permissions
If done, set the permissions to rw-r--r-- (0644)
Click OK, and restart your phone
You're done. However, based on feedbacks on this, and the HTCMania forum, this will only work on Android 6.0.
I'm currently on 5.0.1, and after doing this, the Cardboard icon appeared in Youtube while playing a °360 video, but it wasn't working well. Rotating the phone with large motions made only a very small, and slow reaction on the phone's image itself.
So if somebody tried this with 6.0 please report back with the results, if it's working well, partially or not at all.
Edit:
In the meantime, a factory reset was on schedule, because my phone got very slow, and I updated to 6.0, and enabled the "VR support".
I can say, that it is working, the phone does respond to movement, somewhat like it should with the gyroscope. I think it's a bit delayed, and not as much accurate as the gyroscope would be, but yes, it definitely works, for sure.​
The tutorial in original language can be found HERE.

Its working perfect
I have ALE-L21. Currently on version ALE-L21C432B524 Android 6.0.
Just did what advised by @daviddosa in previous post. And now I can watch 360 movies on Youtube and can play VR Games on my mobile.
Thanks for this wonderful trick.
Best Regards!
yawarniazi

Hhi daviddosa
Can you explain what you mean by 'enable vr support' ?

@daviddosa ahogy látom te is magyar vagy meg tudnád mondani hogy miért van az hogy amikor belépek a youtuba akkor tudok nézni 360 fokos videót de nem jelenik meg jobb also sarokba a cardboard ikon (fent van a cardboard alkalmazás) szemüvegbe szeretném nézni a videókat de így egész képet ad és nem ketté osztottat :/

GPS Problems

Hi there my GPS was very quick under Kitkat with immediate fix and perfect compass. Under Stock Lollipop it still worked well enough. Since I use [5.0.2][D802] Google Edition 1.5 my compass doesn't work anymore and GPS doesn't fix at all or takes 10 minutes shows wrong location and looses signal again
I don't know whether the problem is the ROM or that my phone fell down hundreds of times.
Anyway I already tried the apps fasterGPS, gpsStatus and TopNTP without success and did the cardboard mod hardware wise.
Please help I want to play Pokemon Go

P9 lite Compass issue

Hi,
I have been using P9 lite (model L31) for the past few months and found that the compass has some issues. Even if I calibrate the compass using figure 8, it does not stick to one point. For example, if I use google maps walking navigation, the map keeps on rotating so much that its hard to find the actual direction. Though the same does not happen in car navigation mode.
I have experienced the same thing in other apps as well. The compass does not stick to one position and it keeps on rotating.
Does anyone experienced this issue?

WAQ28 said:
Hi,
I have been using P9 lite (model L31) for the past few months and found that the compass has some issues. Even if I calibrate the compass using figure 8, it does not stick to one point. For example, if I use google maps walking navigation, the map keeps on rotating so much that its hard to find the actual direction. Though the same does not happen in car navigation mode.
I have experienced the same thing in other apps as well. The compass does not stick to one position and it keeps on rotating.
Does anyone experienced this issue?
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Even granting location access to the default compass app of the phone does not help. Does anyone has any clue why is it behaving like this?

Same problem on a L21.
Compass used to work fine, but since a few weeks ago it does not point to magnetic N... not even to a point with a certain deviation (if I rotate the phone, the "north" also rotates with it).
My good old N8-00 compass still works fine...

After A LOT of 8 shaped calibrations (with and without GPS enabled), the compass seems to work again...