Iffy HTC Magic Compass

[duncan1a]

My HTC Magic is a week old, but I've noticed in the last few days that the compass is not always working. I though it might me some of the junk I've installed so I factory rest it yesterday and it seemed fine.

Now it's doing it again. I found that shaking it makes it work again. Anyone else have this problem?

[keithhuk]

I've just experienced this problem on a three week old htc magic handset. Various apps reported compass was stuck (tricorder showed the mag vector stuck in the extreme SE). Uninstalling metal detector and rebooting made no difference. However a good brisk shaking and it's working again. Re-installed metal detector and ran it - compass still working fine. My feeling is that the hardware is prone to sticking, but if it only needs a shake to get it going again then I will live with it.

[dhole]

Same Happens with the Hero . In fact its a bit off ( true north / magnetic north ?) also its very sensetive to electromagetic fields. Its bit off a gimmik thou so I wouldnt expect it to work that well.