android compass seems unreliable

Question

I have been working on a small compass app the past couple of days, and have gotten the code up and running, but it seems that the compass reading is not accurate. After cal

Answer 1

Your code looks fine to me, if there would be an error in your code I am pretty sure both devices would suffer from that. I think it's the hardware in the devices that's causing the differences. Have you "calibrated" both compasses by moving the phone in figure eight shapes? Many compass apps suggest that, including the map software that comes with symbian devices. That could work