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Help Compass wildly inaccurate

JamesDow
lotus49 said:
The compass on my S4 is wildly inaccurate.

First of all, if the phone isn't absolutely level, the compass reading is almost random and I can make the needle rotate through 360 degrees just by tilting the phone.

If the phone is level, the needle might eventually settle in approximately the right direction but if I then slowly rotate the phone 360 degrees, it can easily end up with the needle pointing more than 100 degrees out. I just tried it now and quickly rotating the phone 90 degrees resulted in the needle pointing due E rather than N.

I'm a keen walker and I sometimes use my phone for navigation. The GPS works really well but the compass is so inaccurate as to be completely worthless.

Is this just my phone?
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In the very near future, I will be introducing the world’s only correctable (compensated for residual [after calibration] azimuth deviation errors) smartphone compass app. With the introduction of my new smartphone (iPhone & Android) app, users will be able to evaluate the accuracy (or lack thereof) of any electronic compass, rangefinder compass, and/or smartphone compass app - with the results being made available to immediately correct residual azimuth deviation errors of the evaluated compass app or electronic compass.



I am offering you (vendors) the opportunity to correct residual azimuth deviation errors generated by your own smartphone compass app. The azimuth error correction process is quite simple; and you will not need to significantly modify your app. If you may be interested in taking me up on this offer, please contact me.



Also, please take a look at tru-path.org (and its various blog posts) to see actual test results of several iPhone compass apps (and rangefinders) demonstrating the magnitude and direction of real, significant residual azimuth deviation errors - along with the error correction results. Correcting smartphone residual azimuth deviation errors is fast, easy, and entirely practical using today’s smartphone technology. My next set of tests will be performed on Android compass apps; and, based on existing published user questions and comments, I expect to find results similar to those already posted.



Thanks for your time and consideration.
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FRP Bypass, Google Account, S20Fe Android 13, One UI 5.1, Security patch april 1 2023.

TheManWithTheGoldenGun
Hadron said:
I'm a little confused about what state the phone is in, because although you talk about FRP bypass in the thread title in your post you say you are in "Samsung Internet", which implies that you have the phone unlocked and the browser open, i.e. you are not locked out by FRP. So could you perhaps more clearly describe what state the phone is in and what you are trying to do?

For information, "one click" root apps haven't worked on any phone released since about the days of Android 6.
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The phone is locked on the google account, but i achived to the samsung internet browser via the Talkback turorial, on text editing option, i wrote some letters and sellect them, after that i select the three buttons options and clicked on tranlation, i select some option who left me in galaxy store wheres i openned the browser, after that i entered in some sites download soe apks and started a ios launcher, but now im stucked in there.
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Any way to sort notifications so the newest one is on top?

Mr. Lucky
MisterBill said:
Is there some setting or app that gets Android to always display the newest notification on top in chronological order? Thanks.
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Must be a Samsung thing, because my Motorola RAZR+ and the Pixel 5 before it both sort notifications by default in newest-first, descending order.

In any event, I'm sure there is an app available that does what you want... just a matter of finding it.
notifications - Android Apps on Google Play
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Help Black semi circle on screen edge

Mr. Lucky
androidmachine said:
Have you tried to swipe it? It just looks like a tab of some kind.
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I had the same thought. I'm not familiar with the OP's device, but many Motorola phones have a feature called "Sidebar." Its purpose is to have a quick-access slide-out container with apps of your choosing. If you have no apps in it, it will act as you describe (i.e., just sits there doing nothing). Try going into device Settings and search for "Sidebar" (w/o the quotes) in the "Search settings" bar. If you find it and it's ON, turn it off and see if the semi-circle goes away.
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Help How to stop camera auto filter flawless skin?

Hadron
You'd expect there to be an option in the camera's settings somewhere, but on my Samsung it's actually not in there that I can see, but rather hidden behind 3 layers of buttons or icons and only findable in selfie mode:

On my s21 if you open the camera and then change to the selfie camera (something I never do) and then touch the filter/touch-up tool icon at the top (little magic wand thing) you get 3 options along the top of the screen: filters, face and colour tone. If you select "Face" one of the options along the bottom is "smoothness", which is my guess as to where the problem lies. You can set the slider down to 0, or else there is an on/off toggle for all of these face modification features (little word "on" in the bottom right corner). This is with a different model (running Android 13, in case that's relevant) but I'm hoping the camera interface on your phone is similar.

And yes, I do find it worrying that the skin smoothing filter was on by default, especially given how many steps were required to even find it. Given the problems that edited photos cause for people's self image I'm rather unhappy about such editing being applied automatically even if people aren't aware of it.
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Files App Has Mystery Documents

K
The files you see are likely from Garmin Connect, a fitness app. They might be old backups from December 1979. You can delete them safely. To do this, open Files app, go to "Documents & Other," find the folder, and tap the trash can icon.

To prevent future backups, open Garmin Connect, tap three lines, choose "Settings," "Device Settings," "Backup & Restore," and turn off "Automatic Backup."
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Firestick storage

Dannydet
I really don't trust online videos to be 100% correct.
I've used a firestick for years but I never bothered with this type of setup because I have my PC setup as a media server, where I store my entire movie and music library that play on my TVs and mobile devices. You should look into that as an alternative. 4TB storage and I can always add more as needed.
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Unlocked Phone only works on Vodafone

R
Thank you for your detailed response Hadron. I did try a SIM from O2, and has the same problem. I also tried a SIM from Lebara, which uses the EE network, but their SIM could not even register on the network.

All the phone repair shops that I visited were completely baffled by this problem. The fact that my GiffGaff SIM worked in another phone leads me to believe that my S8 is slowly "dying". I went ahead and purchased a Pixel 6a, primarily because it had good reviews and I wanted a small screen size.
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Uris from the filepicker

D
Hi all, Newbie here. I am working on an app that involves picking a mp3 file , saving its Uri to a database, and then later selecting the file from the database and playing it with the mediaPlayer. This is all similar to creating a playlist from the music stored on the device. In this regard I have several questions.

I can only get the mediaPlayer to play the mp3 if the Uri is an audio based Uri. The filePicker seems to want to return a document based Uri. So, Is there a way to get the mediaPlayer to play the file based on the content/document based Uri?

Is there a simple way to convert the document Uri into an audio based Uri?

Is there a way to get the filePicker to return an audio based Uri?

Would all this be easier if I used the exoPlayer instead of the builtin mediaPlayer?

Thanks for any advice and/or code samples.
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