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Hi there,

 We are using the book 'Making Things Talk' as a guidance to get heading from the Spark Fun LSM303DLH digital compass.
 The Accelerometer seems to be ok, but the Magnetometer data we get is strange:

 North: around 275
 East: around 305
 South: around 275
 West: around 245

 So it's not useful at all. At least the values in between smoothly change.
 
 1) Has anyone made their Spark Fun LSM303DLH work properly?
 2) Does anyone know what might have gone wrong? How to solve this?

 We are pretty sure our cables are right.

 Our Code:
 

Code:

// include the necessary libraries:
#include <Wire.h>
#include <LSM303DLH.h>
#include <Button.h>

const int modeButton = 2; // pushbutton for calibration mode
const int buttonLed = 3; // LED for the button

// initialize the compass library
LSM303DLH compass;
// initialize a button on pin 2 :
Button button = Button(modeButton,BUTTON_PULLDOWN);
boolean calibrating = false; // keep track of calibration state

void setup() {
// initialize serial:
Serial.begin(9600);
// set up the button LED:
pinMode(buttonLed,OUTPUT);
// start the Wire library and enable the compass:
Wire.begin();
compass.enable();
}

void loop() {
// if the button changes state, change the calibration state
// and the state of the LED:
if(button.isPressed() && button.stateChanged()){
calibrating = !calibrating;
digitalWrite(buttonLed, calibrating);
}

// if you're in calibration mode, calibrate:
if (calibrating) {
compass.calibrate();
}
else { // if in normal mode, read the heading:
compass.read();
int heading = compass.heading();
Serial.println("Heading: " + String(heading) + " degrees");
}
delay(100);
}

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What are you supposed to do during calibration?