Compass not working since Pie - Page 8
about "compass issue" nokia's and HMD's attitude is weird.. actually same weirdness exist about camera autofocus issues.
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i think HMD is never interested in this issues.
It's not trivial to code the firmware for a compass when it has to work with augmented reality, and also has to work correctly for users located in both the northern and southern hemisphere.
Feel free to read my speculations on page 3, 4 etc.
Two possible scenarios:
1: Management requested changes to make the Nokia 8 augmented reality compliant, but failed to properly test the changes before release.
2: An employee at a subcontractor made unauthorized changes (and the firmware was still not thoroughly tested before release).
In any case, it seems the supporters at HMD are not allowed to / are unable to create trouble tickets and escalate issues that are reported by users, to any sort of quality management at HMD or elsewhere.
All I've seen so far are 'go fish' (wait and see) replies, sadly.
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Hans
Hope to hear from them soon, it's a shame
I have the same issue since Pie update and it's a very serious problem the GPS beeing a critical feature.
Such a problem is not acceptable from Nokia.
From old Nokia we, as users, have only brand's font and speculative talks about quality.
During last 4 month this "new" old Nokia doesn't public any press release concerning problem with compass
P.s. Nokia 8 is my first and last new Nokia's phone. Because I see only juho sarvikas barefaced lie and no any attempts to solve real problem with compass
Try compass Galaxy.
on maps this bug is driving me mad
but on waze it seems that the direction on the map is correct
I am the only one to see this ?
Now, as far as I am concerned, they don't actually need to fix this in the software. Just give me a flag in the developer options, which I can use to flip the compass. It'll be on me to know in which emisphere I am, and to check the flag as needed. Any way to make it work without rooting the device or using it in a weird position would be appreciated, even if it's just a workaround.
You can find the official update page of the system builds here:
https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/security-updates
The page was updated on March 11 - and yes it was to inform that Nokia 9 has received its first update. But that update is the February maintenance and security update which was released on Monday March 4.
As you can see on that page, there have been monthly updates for Nokia 8 so far including lots of maintenance releases.
That doesn't necessarily mean that everybody has received these updates, though.
Of course it doesn't mean that these updates result in a bug free phone.