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Tim Dawson - 9/5/2024 9:34:13 AM

Our iOS version has used the device compass to show your heading (when you're still) for a long time, and it works well. For v4 we tried to make our Android version match that behaviour, but it turns out that the accelerometer in lots of people's Android devices is garbage so we've had to reverse change. We released a minor update yesterday to the Play Store that you should already be able to get, that simply turns that off.

We'll try again in our next release using a better sensor, and see how that goes.

Good Lord - you mean I was on the right track?  I agree about Androids - this Samsung was an experiment for me and I'm going back to an iPhone at the next renewal.

Our iOS version has used the device compass to show your heading (when you're still) for a long time, and it works well. For v4 we tried to make our Android version match that behaviour, but it turns out that the accelerometer in lots of people's Android devices is garbage so we've had to reverse change. We released a minor update yesterday to the Play Store that you should already be able to get, that simply turns that off.

Little cosmetic issue I and a few others have noticed since the upgrade to version 4. In the old days, when you were not moving (eg on the apron) the plane symbol on the SD screen was still, and pointed in roughly the right direction. Since the upgrade it jiggles around like an Irish dancer on hot lava. Until you start moving when it settles down. It's of no significance except that it is a change in behaviour that at least three people have noticed. My amateur diagnosis is that version 3 took a feed from the device compass to use when there was no track data, and that somehow that no longer works. But I'm probably completely wrong.  I, and one other experiencing this issue, run SD on Samsung S22 phones.  I don't know about the others.

Anyone else noticed?