Author: alan c Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] OT: Magnetic Fields
On 18/09/10 13:23, Samuel Penn wrote: >
> Completely off topic, but there's some clever people on this
> list, so I'm hoping someone might have some ideas.
>
> Playing around with my Android phone, I've noticed that
> according to its compass application, East doesn't exist
> around my house (near GU14 7AR). Whichever way I face,
> the compass ranges from SW to N.
>
> This isn't true all the time, but is most of the time. It's
> not just my house, but wandering along the street shows the
> same problem. It works normally outside this region, so I'm
> not convinced that it's a problem with the phone.
>
> It plays havoc with the Google Sky Map app (point the phone
> at the sky, and it tells you what you're looking at). I think
> it also breaks the PS3 Move controller (since that also uses
> the magnetic field to align itself).
>
> At some point I need to get a real compass to check things,
> but in the mean time, does anyone have any ideas what might
> be causing the issue?
>
not really however when I use my android compass app I also have the
3G data and GPS turned on so that the display is very much more that
just magnetic
