Compass calibration during activity

[surfboomerang]

@sartoric I have noticed that when my compass was misaligned during an activity, making the eight figure a couple of times corrected the alignment.

I didn’t select calibrate in the menu, but just made the eight figure a couple of times in a row.

[sartoric]

@surfboomerang
I’ll give it a try if it will happen again.
I usually never had such an issue or I was asked to calibrate it when starting the activity.

[Fiox89]

I had a discussion about the compass a few days ago, and I was told that the compass can easily be devalued when the watch is connected to the USB cable, due to the strong magnet on the connector. I now calibrate the compass after each recharge, maybe this info can help

[sartoric]

@Fiox89 said in Compass calibration during activity:

I had a discussion about the compass a few days ago, and I was told that the compass can easily be devalued when the watch is connected to the USB cable,

Yep, correct.
In fact I would expect to see the “calibrate compass” alert

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

You can calibrate the compass for any device (eg phone etc) just by doing the same movement the calibration mesage asks for. There is no need for the message for this to happen.

[sartoric]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
I didn’t know it, since I never had the need before

[subtleguru]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Is there any feedback that the calibration is successful? Even when forced to calibrate it is a bit hit and miss while contorting my wrist in an odd way

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@subtleguru if the compass is uncalibrated or calibrated without the watch asking it then a beep happens from my observations. This beep might not happen if not needed to be calibrated.

[sartoric]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
But , what if tones are disabled ?

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@sartoric nada nor if its calibrated. In general 10s of that movement is ok. If it was really $#@ in terms of reading it will force you to calibrate it with the notification.