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• user1508928527225

  ✭✭✭  /  May 6

  petrus said:

  Compass works after upgrade to 5.150. 
  

  Yup, just checked the compass with PhotoPills and it works again properly.

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• Mick1965

  ✭✭✭  /  May 6

  Yes. I can also confirm Google skymaps works perfectly with this 5.150 update.
  

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• mr. nokia

  ✭✭  /  May 6 edited May 6

  Confirming, the compass works on my TA-1004 again with 5.150 update. 

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• fcfcfc

   /  May 6 edited May 6

  my compass seem work after upgraded to v5.150 (nokia 8 in hong kong). Calibration in google map is required.

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• martin.fd

  ✭✭✭✭  /  May 6

  Bad news: https://community.phones.nokia.com/discussion/comment/106392/#Comment_106392 ???
  
  

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• Jimmmy

   /  May 6

  Yep. It looks compass is now working again. Our pleas were heard after half a year.

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• petrus

  ✭✭✭✭  /  May 6

  martin.fd said:

  Bad news: https://community.phones.nokia.com/discussion/comment/106392/#Comment_106392 ???
  
  

  Hi martin.fd,
  I compared Nokia 8 with Nokia 6 and they show the same north.
  
  But it is best if you do a compass test yourself when your phone comes in.
  

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• kos

  ✭✭  /  May 6

  Compass is bypassed but eccelerometer... Yesterday I tested the compass and noticed that the central bubble (GPS-status has been used for testing) slowly flows out of center. Calibration and reset put it back but not for long... It flows away again and again.
  

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• user1536323754226

  ✭✭✭  /  May 6

  My compass works just fine, too (TA-1004), but geotagging is a mess. Photos I just took as I cycled through my small Danish town are all tagged at the previous location. Very odd. Having ridden through a forest, the locations were kind of ok, but by no means accurate. It has been suggested that the Nokia 8 compass has a breathing on geotagging...

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• user1536323754226

  ✭✭✭  /  May 6

  That was supposed to be a 'bearing' and not a 'breathing' ...

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• sualfons

  ✭✭  /  May 6 edited May 6

  Update V5.150 on TA1012  here. Compas does not show the correct heading.
  I happen to know where south, east and west are around my garden and the Nokia 8 will show "true" south for about 30 seconds after launching any compass app. After turning on my heels a few times, compass is off an 1/8th to West (showing +/- 211° where it showed 180° South a couple of seconds ago) everytime I try it.
  

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• wild50

  ✭✭  /  May 6

  TA1004
  Compass here its ok.

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• ignas

  ✭✭✭  /  May 6

  sualfons said:

  Update V5.150 on TA1012  here. Compas does not show the correct heading.
  I happen to know where south, east and west are around my garden and the Nokia 8 will show "true" south for about 30 seconds after launching any compass app. After turning on my heels a few times, compass is off an 1/8th to West (showing +/- 211° where it showed 180° South a couple of seconds ago) everytime I try it.
  

  For what it's worth I found it to work somewhat similarly on Oreo as well. Using navigation it always seemed to be off 30-90 degrees. I don't know if mobile compasses are just inaccurate like that or if some outside interference affects them by that much or if I had to calibrate it or what, but it didn't work flawlessly to my eyes.

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• webvan

  ✭✭  /  May 6

  Indeed, the compass is working again. However I had to recalibrate after a reboot so I hope recalibration is not needed randomly when the device is not rebooted...
  

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• user1536323754226

  ✭✭✭  /  May 7

  Phone calls are fine on my TA-1004, both incoming and outgoing.

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• user1529662512515

   /  May 7

  The 5.150 update is rolling out, I just go it and the compass is finally OK !!!! I had to recalibrate it by moving the phone several times around the three axes. The compass has been finally fixed !!!
  

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• JohnPC

  ✭✭  /  May 8 edited May 8

  I must admit that I haven't been too upset with the compass error on my 8. However I have updated to the April security release and the compass is working perfectly. I have tried holding the phone at different angles and the compass shows the correct direction at all times. Hopefully this is permanently fixed. Oops 🤭 just checked again and it is still broken. Ah well. We can live in hope 😳

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• Jivko Antonov

  ✭✭✭  /  May 8

  No, isn't broken. Just every time calibrate it by making figure 8 with the phone. Tested it many times since the April security patch and it works.

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• MrBelter

  ✭✭✭✭  /  May 8

  martin.fd said:

  Bad news: https://community.phones.nokia.com/discussion/comment/106392/#Comment_106392 ???
  
  

  But dont forget

  
  

  mrbelter said:

  Panic over, i gave the Nokia 8 a couple of reboots and the compass got better and better after each reboot to where it is now following the real compass very accurately, i am not sure what that was about but it was like my árse to start with.
  

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• webvan

  ✭✭  /  May 8

  What do you mean "calibrate every time"? Calibration should be done once and then be ok for a good length of time and/or travel distance. You can check the calibration status with Google Maps, blue dot and bottom menu. 

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• MrBelter

  ✭✭✭✭  /  May 8

  webvan said:

  What do you mean "calibrate every time"? Calibration should be done once and then be ok for a good length of time and/or travel distance. You can check the calibration status with Google Maps, blue dot and bottom menu. 

  Most apps that rely on the compass (or more accurately the Magnometer i guess) need calibration a lot more that once a while. When you are travelling your direction of travel in conjunction with the GPS signal can set your bearing, this is why Google Maps still worked even with a broken compass (providing you was going fast enough).
  

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• martin.fd

  ✭✭✭✭  /  May 8 edited May 8

  O.K. Guys, my Nokia 8 is back - not repaired, because they couldn't reproduce the error, but with the V5.150 I installed yesterday evening, the problem has been solved thank God: the compass works again ... as far as such a smartphone compass can do it at all.
  
  We just did a (scientifically based ) series of tests with my Nokia 8, a colleague's iPhone X and a high-precision Clar geologic compass as a reference. The result was "interesting": Depending on the direction, the deviations were between almost zero and up to 15° and sometimes one mobile phone was closer and sometimes the other ...
  
  Here is a picture of our test setup
  

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• madbilly

  ✭✭✭✭  /  May 9

  Hi @martin.fd that is very interesting. Can you eliminate the possibility of other magnetic disturbances in the vicinity? Are the results repeatable?

  Cheers
  

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• martin.fd

  ✭✭✭✭  /  May 9

  Hi @madbilly :
  

  1. To eliminate (or at least minimize) any magnetic disturbance we carried out the test on a wooden table in the middle of the room, with a book between each unit.

  2. The deviations were neither qualitatively nor quantitatively unambiguously reproducible. We performed a whole series of right and left turns in different circular sections, but I wouldn't want to evaluate the results statistically ...
  

  ... at least not the way I am used to as a geotechnical engineer

  
  

  
  

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• user1545639856013

   /  May 10

  April 2019 update kind of fixed the compass for me.
  It still makes weird 360 degree rotations every now and then, but it mostly rotates correctly. Seems to work fine in map applications.
  Again, kudos to HMD. It's lagging behind with the updates, but it is still delivering, when the 2 years are almost over.

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• madbilly

  ✭✭✭✭  /  May 10

  Good answer @martin.fd!
  

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• MrBelter

  ✭✭✭✭  /  May 10

  madbilly said:

  Hi @martin.fd that is very interesting. Can you eliminate the possibility of other magnetic disturbances in the vicinity? Are the results repeatable?

  Cheers
  

  I have just put a neodymium magnet near my 8.1 and you have to get very close for it to start to effect the phone compass (6 or 7 inches), the real compass was being deflected from around a foot away.

  
  

  To be honest though i don't know if that shows a lack of sensitivity by the phone or if the phone is using some of its brain power to filter the result so it is either great or crap depending on how you interpret it lol
  

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• Seryip

  ✭✭  /  May 21

  So it just broke again with may security patch. What a fool am I to update when everything did work fine.

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• martin.fd

  ✭✭✭✭  /  May 21

  Mine is still working after May Update!
  

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• user1508928527225

  ✭✭✭  /  May 21

  No issues with compass and the May security patch here either.

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