I’ve got LineageOS 20 on my Fairphone 4 and my compass is constantly broken.

After a calibration by doing the figure 8 motion, N/S works pretty okay but it’s very jittery; a few degrees which is quite a lot. This might still be acceptable since it’d be smoothed out.

When I point the needle north and rotate the device 90 degrees however, I’m almost 30 degrees off which is borderline unusable.

Google maps claims the compass has low accuracy, no matter how long I do the figure 8 motion.

What gives? How could I debug this?

  • AtemuOP
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Not 100% sure this device even has a chip. SatStat doesn’t show values for orientation; only for magnetic field which I heard Is used to emulate a compass but I’m really not sure.