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S5 upgraded to 6.0.1 and now the Gyroscope is broken

Anonymous
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My S5 upgraded to 6.0.1 at the weekend and shortly afterwards realised my auto-rotate wasn't working.

 

After a bit of playing found that ALL gyroscope features had stopped working.

 

I rebooted and it was fine again, but some time later the same thing happened.. And now its doing the same thing over and over.. After a reboot I get normal gyroscope functionality, but only for a while.

 

Interestingly, when its in the "bad" state, when I go into the self test screen (*#0*#0) and test the Gryos, the temperature shows 9172 and the test fails.

 

But after a reboot its completetly normal.

 

I am sure O2/Samsung will say that this is hardware, but I don't buy it, as google shows countless other people reporting the same.. Many of these where able to fix it by "shocking" the phone (hitting it).. But not me.

 

Has anyone else seen this? Any idea of what to do? Is there any way to "roll back" to my old release?

 

Jon

 

 

 

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Samsung would do but they may not be the cheapest.
You could try a local phone repair shop or market stall as you are out of warranty anyway, there's nothing to lose?
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