Unless I hold my iPhone 4 horizontally with the home button toward my stomach and facing upwards,
it tells me locations are behind me, when they are in front, 3 oclock when they are 9 oclock.
In short opposite from where they really are.
I did have the phone in my front pocket wright side up and upside down. No difference. my screen is locked into portrait mode..
What do I need to do, that will allow me to carry my phone in any way except horizontally?
> Unless I hold my iPhone 4 horizontally with the home button toward my stomach and facing upwards,
> it tells me locations are behind me, when they are in front,
> 3 oclock when they are 9 oclock.
> In short opposite from where they really are.
> I did have the phone in my front pocket wright side up and upside down. No difference.
> my screen is locked into portrait mode..
> What do I need to do, that will allow me to carry my phone in any way except horizontally?
Exactly, it is the compass that is used to determine direction. The compass knows which way it is facing, not which you are facing. Some apps will take advantage of the GPS to determine direction of movement but clearly you need to be moving for this to work. I am not sure if Blind Square will use the GPS data for this.
Garth On 10/07/2012, at 7:22 AM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
> On 7/9/2012 4:35 PM, Mark Furness wrote:
>> Unless I hold my iPhone 4 horizontally with the home button toward my stomach and facing upwards,
>> it tells me locations are behind me, when they are in front,
>> 3 oclock when they are 9 oclock.
>> In short opposite from where they really are.
>> I did have the phone in my front pocket wright side up and upside down. No difference.
>> my screen is locked into portrait mode..
>> What do I need to do, that will allow me to carry my phone in any way except horizontally?
>> Mark
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True, and sufficiently far from iron or steel not to be side-tracked by random magnetic fields. I proved this using Ariadne on a bus, the one thing it couldn't tell me was direction.
On 7/9/2012 4:35 PM, Mark Furness wrote:
> Unless I hold my iPhone 4 horizontally with the home button toward my > stomach and facing upwards,
> it tells me locations are behind me, when they are in front,
> 3 oclock when they are 9 oclock.
> In short opposite from where they really are.
> I did have the phone in my front pocket wright side up and upside down. > No difference.
> my screen is locked into portrait mode..
> What do I need to do, that will allow me to carry my phone in any way > except horizontally?
> Mark
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Funny you should mention that about Ariadne. I find it works extremely well. It is in fact the app I was referring to when I mentioned that some apps wold take their direction from the GPS rather than the compass, at least when there is sufficient movement to do so. I have a feeling that there is a toggle in the settings for this.
I use the app to watch out for an approaching bus stop. Whilst the bus is stationary, the direction to the nearest favourite is correctly derived from the compass but as soon as the bus has sufficient movement, the direction to nearest fav is instead taken from the GPS. It is one of the really neat things about the app.
Our buses have huge glass windows so the GPS is picked up very easily and the compass is always more accurate then I expect. Garth
> True, and sufficiently far from iron or steel not to be side-tracked by > random magnetic fields. I proved this using Ariadne on a bus, the one thing > it couldn't tell me was direction.
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <r...@raulgallegos.com>
> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 10:22 PM
> Subject: Re: blind square location wrong
> Hi, I believe for the compass of the phone to work properly it has to be
> horizontal.
> On 7/9/2012 4:35 PM, Mark Furness wrote:
>> Unless I hold my iPhone 4 horizontally with the home button toward my >> stomach and facing upwards,
>> it tells me locations are behind me, when they are in front,
>> 3 oclock when they are 9 oclock.
>> In short opposite from where they really are.
>> I did have the phone in my front pocket wright side up and upside down. >> No difference.
>> my screen is locked into portrait mode..
>> What do I need to do, that will allow me to carry my phone in any way >> except horizontally?
>> Mark
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I presumed the compass was pointing me at the engine mounted right on the back and I was in one of those awful seats that face the back instead of the front. But the distance from the tracked favourite seemed right and it got me where I wanted on an otherwise unknown bus route. Considering the price and why I went that way, I reckon the app paid for itself on that one trip.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Garth Humphreys" <ghu...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 11:55 AM
Subject: Ariadne was: blind square location wrong
Funny you should mention that about Ariadne. I find it works extremely well. It is in fact the app I was referring to when I mentioned that some apps wold take their direction from the GPS rather than the compass, at least when there is sufficient movement to do so. I have a feeling that there is a toggle in the settings for this.
I use the app to watch out for an approaching bus stop. Whilst the bus is stationary, the direction to the nearest favourite is correctly derived from the compass but as soon as the bus has sufficient movement, the direction to nearest fav is instead taken from the GPS. It is one of the really neat things about the app.
Our buses have huge glass windows so the GPS is picked up very easily and the compass is always more accurate then I expect.
Garth
> True, and sufficiently far from iron or steel not to be side-tracked by
> random magnetic fields. I proved this using Ariadne on a bus, the one > thing
> it couldn't tell me was direction.
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <r...@raulgallegos.com>
> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 10:22 PM
> Subject: Re: blind square location wrong
> Hi, I believe for the compass of the phone to work properly it has to be
> horizontal.
> On 7/9/2012 4:35 PM, Mark Furness wrote:
>> Unless I hold my iPhone 4 horizontally with the home button toward my
>> stomach and facing upwards,
>> it tells me locations are behind me, when they are in front,
>> 3 oclock when they are 9 oclock.
>> In short opposite from where they really are.
>> I did have the phone in my front pocket wright side up and upside down.
>> No difference.
>> my screen is locked into portrait mode..
>> What do I need to do, that will allow me to carry my phone in any way
>> except horizontally?
>> Mark
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