Any means to enable magnetic field sensor?

[soulboogaloo73]

Hi there,
I just bought some Chinese knock-off called Star x18i (that looks like an SE Arc) based on Android 2.3.6. It works fine, except a few sensors, that don't seem to work properly : magnetic field and gyroscope.
I tried to install different compass apps, but it doesn't work.
I installed Data Monitor app.
For Magnetic Field, it indicates :

Sensor information:
Name : AMI304 3-axis Magnetic Field sensor
MaximumRange : 600.0
MinDelay : 0
Power : 0.25
Resolution : 0.0016667
Type:2
Vendor:Aichi Steel
Version:1

But when I launch "Monitor sensor" in the Data Monitor app, I get real-time figures for plenty of sensors (accelerometer, Proximity, gravity, linear_acceleration), but nothing for magnetic_field nor gyroscope...

Does it mean that Magnetic_field is disabled?Or that it doesn't simply exist on the device? Is there a way to enable it?

By the way, my device is not rooted so far, do you think that could help?

Thanks a lot for your answers guys!

 

[wjtk]

Did you figure it out? I've got same problem..

 

[profMAXIMVS]

Same on here.
I have an A9220, with *LOTZ* of sensors.
But the compass, the magnetic field and the gyroscope refuses to work
According to AndroSensor, they're "Waiting for event"
Waiting forever, I guess.

 

[charlieboy999]

Exact same problem

Hi guys,

I have precisely the same problem! Did anyone get a fix for this, in the end??

Cheers!

 

[nhomsan]

i have same problem to .. my device nexian A5000 .. compas etc canot work ..
how to enabled this feature ..???

 

[m0tyrider]

Anybody figure out how to enable this? My Chinese phone also says it has one, but isn't enabled?

 

[Strip19]

Same Prob

I've got the same prob here.

Does anyone have a solution??

 

[Kico.MMK]

I've got the same prob here.

Does anyone have a solution??

same problem , it's old thread but no answer , so maybe posting here is better thn new thread , magnitc sensor do not gives reading after rom flash , although i replaced files with *sensor* from stock to the new one rom how to fix?

 

[flexton]

On some devices like Htc One, your chineese tablets and my tablet Prestigio 7.0 hd i installed cpu z on them and there was nothing about a compas module, my s5830i has a compas module so i can use it and cpu z is showing it.

Are the aps you want to run on your devices saying that you dont have compas modules?

If they are you dont have it.
Some may not report it, but i dont thesee tablets of yours can do it.

About the rooting try kingo android root on your pc (nothing is sure)

Sent from my GT-S5830i using XDA Free mobile app

 

[Kico.MMK]

On some devices like Htc One, your chineese tablets and my tablet Prestigio 7.0 hd i installed cpu z on them and there was nothing about a compas module, my s5830i has a compas module so i can use it and cpu z is showing it.

Are the aps you want to run on your devices saying that you dont have compas modules?

If they are you dont have it.
Some may not report it, but i dont thesee tablets of yours can do it.

About the rooting try kingo android root on your pc (nothing is sure)

Sent from my GT-S5830i using XDA Free mobile app

for sensor issue bro the sensor sure was working on my stock rom , when tying new rom it's not working , althogh i replaced each file with *sensor* in its name from stock to port

 

[flexton]

I don't know it then, you nees a good developer to do it right if you done it on your own

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[cresch07]

I know that there are times when a company will use a similar firmware for their devices. On my old S2, it had an option for HDMI-Out in the settings, but that hardware was not available in my device. Perhaps a similar thing is happening here? Also when I pulled up specs for your device, I saw nothing about a compass.

 

[Kico.MMK]

On some devices like Htc One, your chineese tablets and my tablet Prestigio 7.0 hd i installed cpu z on them and there was nothing about a compas module, my s5830i has a compas module so i can use it and cpu z is showing it.

Are the aps you want to run on your devices saying that you dont have compas modules?

If they are you dont have it.
Some may not report it, but i dont thesee tablets of yours can do it.

About the rooting try kingo android root on your pc (nothing is sure)

Sent from my GT-S5830i using XDA Free mobile app

for sensor issue bro the sensor sure was working on my stock rom , when tying new rom it's not working , althogh i replaced each file with *sensor* in its name from stock to port