GalaxySI9000CompassCalibration » History » Version 2
Paul Kocialkowski, 07/01/2015 01:34 PM
| 1 | 2 | Paul Kocialkowski | h1. Galaxy S (I9000) compass calibration |
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| 3 | The compass sensor is calculated from both the accelerometer and magnetic field sensors, which needs calibration to be accurate. |
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| 4 | If the values reported by the compass sensor are not right, you can recalibrate the magnetic field sensor with the following steps: |
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| 6 | 2 | Paul Kocialkowski | Connect to the device via [[ADB]] with sufficient permissions and run: |
| 7 | <pre> |
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| 8 | 1 | Paul Kocialkowski | # adb shell stop geomagneticd |
| 9 | # adb shell rm /data/system/yas529.cfg |
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| 10 | # adb shell start geomagneticd |
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| 11 | 2 | Paul Kocialkowski | </pre> |
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| 13 | Then start an application using the compass sensor and move the device in every direction, with a rotation around each axis: the device should now be calibrated. |