Today it went into live view on its own! Started the app and then wanted to move the view without moving phone...
Not happening!! Live view was On by its self!!
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Bill Tschumy By "live view" I assume you mean the compass was on? It can come on by itself when you tilt the device up to the sky. It will occasionally come on if the phone is jarred in a particular way that fools it into thinking it is pointed up at the sky. This behavior can be disabled in the Appearance & Behavior settings. Turn off "Tilt to use compass".
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Frantisek Nagy I was just going to submit an issue for this when I saw the suggestions and I clicked this thread.
Thanks for this, Bill. This was driving me absolutely nuts. However, in my opinion this behavior should be disabled by default, it seems to be completely bugged.
Once the compass enables itself I cannot seem to disable it. If I click the disable compass button and I hold the phone in the same position (+/- 1 cm), it just enables itself again. The time varies, but it does enable itself. I have taken a video before actually testing it (the not-moving, I mean) so it is not the best proof but even in the beginning of the video I was not really moving the phone too much and it just enabled itself https://youtu.be/h9n-lsqN9-Q
Also the zoom in / zoom out buttons should NOT disable the compass when it is enabled.
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Bill Tschumy Frantisek,
What device to you have? This sounds like your accelerometers are acting up and going the wrong readings. Do you have other apps (say a level app) that work correctly with the accelerometers.
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Frantisek Nagy I will just add: I am not able to turn it off once it begins acting up. I can close the app but upon reopening it just uses compass. The "solution" is when the app force closes on me, which happened a few minutes after (even with the latest update).
This is on a OnePlus 3. I have probably all the astro apps from the store. :)) They all work fine. I will test a level app and leave feedback.
The compass works fine on in SkySafari as well. I don't see any jumping whatsoever. The only problem is the auto-enabling and the impossibility to disable it.
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Bill Tschumy Well, that is a new one for us. I've never hear of this behavior.
You can edit the settings file to turn off "tilt-to-use" compass. You need to grab the file:
/sdcard/SkySafari 6 Plus/Saved Settings/[CurrentSettings].skyset
Note: "sdcard" is generally the top level of the internal storage on most devices, but it could be called something different on some.
Open in an editor and file the line:
TiltToUseCompass=1
Just change the 1 to a 0 and save the file. Then copy it back to the same place, replacing the original. That should let you start up.
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Frantisek Nagy Bill,
Sorry, I guess I didn't make myself clear.
What I meant was: I can enable and disable the "tilt-to-use compass" from the app without problems. The only problem is when it is enabled. In that case once it switches to compass mode, I cannot disable it (the compass mode). Even restarting the app enables the compass automatically just in a few seconds after the start and I don't even have to move the phone at all.
So on my OP3 the steps to reproduce it would be:
1. Have tilt-to-use compass enabled
2. Shake the phone (or do something) to enable the compass
3. Hold your phone steady, do not move it at all. Close the app completely.
4. Still hold steady. Launch the app. 1...2...3 secs later -> compass enabled. Phone didn't move at all (not counting the swaying of my hand).
5. Still hold steady. Click the "disable compass" button from the bar. Compass disables. 1...2...3 secs later -> compass enabled again. Phone didn't move at all (not counting the swaying of my hand).
The only way have to disable the compass then is to either go to the menu and uncheck the "tilt-to-use compass" or when the app FC on me.
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Bill Tschumy I think I understand. As I said, there is something unusual about the accelerometers in your device. My recommendation is to turn off tilt-to-use compass and leave it off. Only enable the compass using the Compass button in the toolbar.
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Luca Morandin I solved the same problem on skysafari 5 pro.
There was a double line with
TiltToUseCompass=1So removing one fix the problem.
Bye
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