Compass direction not recorded or not exported in GPX file

[delexi]

Hello,

I have problems with getting OSMTracker to acquire the direction / compass heading. I first posted about this in the OSM forum, where someone suggested I try to open an issue in this repository.

(see https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=74974)

To make it easier, I quote the text below:

Hi everyone,

I am using the Android app OSMTracker on Fairphone 4 to help we during surveys. Recording GPS traces and taking fotos or recording audio works as expected.

The compass heading, however, does not seem to work properly: During track recording the upper left section of the display shows "Warte auf Richtung" which is german and roughly translates to "Waiting for direction/heading". This does not change for the duration of the recording. The final exported GPX track does not contain any compass heading information as far as I can see. The "Export compass heading" setting is set to "in der Erweiterung" which translates to "in extension". I also set it to "as comment", with the same results.

The compass seems to work in other apps like OSMAnd or Google Maps, where it correctly resembles the direction my phone is pointing.

Does any know how to fix this? Or did anyone see anything similar?

Best,
delexi

I am on Android 11.

[Noitarud]

Maybe indicate where you may be in next 30s/5m

[Binnette]

To test with current develop version. Maybe not reproducible anymore.