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Something with compass is broken in sailfishos (or alternatively, both the compass apps in the store). Whenever the compass is enabled for the first time, it takes whatever orientation it was in as the north and stays stuck that way. You can see the result below (note that what I did was start the compass app on the phones when they were 90 degrees rotated with regards to each other). The compass used to re-orient after a minute or so to point in the actual north direction, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore (even then, it was pretty bad to wait for a minute to get north). In other words it works more like a gyroscope than like a compass. (There is no magnetic field other than Earth's around to explain this; of course, any magnetic field would affect both phones equally...).

Something with compass is broken in sailfishos (or alternatively, both the compass apps in the store). Whenever the compass is enabled for the first time, it takes whatever orientation it was in as the north and stays stuck that way. You can see the result below (note that what I did was start the compass app on the phones when they were 90 degrees rotated with regards to each other). The compass used to re-orient after a minute or so to point in the actual north direction, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore (even then, it was pretty bad to wait for a minute to get north). In other words it works more like a gyroscope than like a compass. (There is no magnetic field other than Earth's around to explain this; of course, any magnetic field would affect both phones equally...).

Something with compass is broken in sailfishos (or alternatively, both the compass apps in the store). Whenever the compass is enabled for the first time, it takes whatever orientation it was in as the north and stays stuck that way. You can see the result below (note that what I did was start the compass app on the phones when they were 90 degrees rotated with regards to each other). The compass used to re-orient after a minute or so to point in the actual north direction, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore (even then, it was pretty bad to wait for a minute to get north). In other words it works more like a gyroscope than like a compass. (There is no magnetic field other than Earth's around to explain this; of course, any magnetic field would affect both phones equally...).

update: the problem is still not fixed in SFOSv2.0.1.11