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• Changed: Removed 4 permissions the compass doesn’t need anymore
• Fixed: GPS battery draining bug
• Fixed: Android 4.4.3 bug that prevented the #compass arrow to be displayed correctly, when the ad banner was shown
• New Feature: Added location coordinates to the main screen
• New Feature: Replaced the GPS and NET icons with a magnetic field strength indication which is much more interesting for people using a compass
• Changed: Replaced the calibration tutorial with a better one

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• Fixed: The compass didn’t check for the existence of some new sensors introduce in version 1.3.00 before using them.
• Fixed: The compass now shows the label “OFF” on the magnetic field strength, when there is a problem while calculating it.
• Fixed: Ad’s caused an error when no banner could be loaded.
• Fixed: There was problem on unsupported devices. Usually a message will be shown, when the compass doesn’t support a device. But on some devices this message was not shown. Instead the social media window was shown. The user thought that this compass was fake, because the only window he saw was the social media window. This resulted in bad ratings.
• Improved: The bug reporting system and the bug dialog was improved so that a specific expected error (CompassNotSupportedException) can be analysed more easily.

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• Improved Free Version: I read your reviews and emails and i know you hate the permission “Read Phone Status and Identity”. Since my apps are my “babies” and i don’t want them to get rated badly, because of some stupid permission, i removed this permission from every of my free apps! The pro apps didn’t have it from the beginning.
  This is a big decision, because now i’m not longer able to use the tapfortap.com service anymore. This service permitted me to exchange ads with other developers to get more downloads. Downloads and ratings are absolutely crutial to keep my apps alive. Since i’m not able to exchange ads anymore, i need your help to get more downloads and ratings. So please share this app with your friends. If you do share it, it’s a win-win situation for me and you.
• Fixed: A NullPointerException occurred when closing the compass. This is a bug in the tapfortap.com service. Since i don’t use the tapfortap.com service anymore this bug is fixed.
• Probably Fixed: There was a problem with GPS. The compass requested GPS data, but didn’t stop the requests when an error occurred. This resulted in a massive battery drain in some situations. I changed a lot of things in the location management classes regarding GPS and network location and i think this bug should be fixed now.
• Fixed: Android 4.4.3 and higher has a bug that causes the compass arrow to be displayed corruptly or not shown at all, when rotating the arrow image and the AdMob banners are shown. I fixed this problem with a workarround.
• New Feature: I added location coordinates to the main screen. A lot of people asked for this feature.
• New Feature: I replaced the GPS and NET icons with a magnetic field strength indication which is much more interesting for people using a compass. The magnetic field strength helps you identify magnetic fields that interfere with the compass so you can avoid them.
• Changed: I replaced the calibration tutorial with a better one, since i got a LOT of support emails telling me that they don’t understand the calibration method. The new calibrations tutorial is easy and intuitive.
• Changed: In landscape mode the compass is not longer shown in the middle of the display, but aligned to the left. This was necessary to make some space for the location coordinates and it’s also a preparation for the upcoming features i have planned.

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• Small bug fix in the bug reporting system.

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• Replaced the raster graphic header labels on the compass with vectors. They are more easy readable now.
• Introduced support of promotion codes to unlock features.
• Improved a lot things all over the app. Too many to list them all.

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The most important change in this version is the heavily improved performance. The compass is now more efficient and uses less memory. This should result in a more fluent compass arrow.

• Probably Fixed: Registering a sensor resulted in an error on some devices. This problem should be solved now.
• Improved: The bug report dialog has been improved for a better usability.
• Changed: Switched to the new Android SDK 19

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