Compass does not take into account watch orientation

When the watch face is upside down (e.g. you're on your back, looking at the watch) the compass is backwards e.g. if the watch says it's facing north it's actually facing south.

Using an accelerometer and gyroscope it's possible to determine the pose of the watch, and therefore to correct for this.

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Former Member over 5 years ago +1
tschoell

hi,

hope you will have better luck..
- submit your findings and how to resolve here....garmin ideas
- or find a CIQ developer to take this up
On April 27th 2015 I wrote my findings about the 180…

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0 Former Member over 5 years ago

tschoell

hi,

hope you will have better luck..

submit your findings and how to resolve here....garmin ideas
or find a CIQ developer to take this up

On April 27th 2015 I wrote my findings about the 180° degree turn while upside down to the forerunner beta team

Five year's later......?

happy & safe sporting

0 C.sco over 5 years ago

What's more annoying to me, is that it causes the map to be oriented wrong when your arm is down at your side, so when you left your wrist up to look at your watch, the map is usually oriented in completely the wrong direction for a few seconds. I think it's related to the same compass issue OP is talking about.

0 tess over 5 years ago in reply to C.sco

C.sco said:
is that it causes the map to be oriented wrong when your arm is down at your side, so when you left your wrist up to look at your watch, the map is usually oriented in completely the wrong direction for a few seconds.

Do you have orientation set to north up or track up?

0 tschoell over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

Ah, thanks for pointing this out. I searched the forums but didn't go back far enough!

0 C.sco over 5 years ago in reply to tess

tess said:
Do you have orientation set to north up or track up?

Track up. Setting it to North up doesn't have this issue, but I don't really like having it always facing north