Where: UtilityScout, on the phone, the person icon, then Settings.
When you finish: you know the one settings screen to check before your first measurement of the day, and which settings to leave alone.
First of the day, for measurement crews: the person icon top-right, then Settings, then under Component Settings, Pole measurement settings. With the stick (High Accuracy): check the stick version matches the target bracket on your stick and Bottom Pole Length matches how you assembled it; see Set up your accuracy stick. Standard poles: check Tilt Zeroing, below. Each setting only changes measurements in the mode that uses it, and a wrong value gives no warning.
Seeing a setting does not mean your organization uses it. The list is the same for everyone, so you will see settings for equipment and features your company has not set up. If one seems to do nothing, that is the likely reason.
Zero tilt for Standard Accuracy
Standard poles use this setting: the two tilt readings you take against the pole are corrected by it. Standard midspans do not use it.
Open Settings, then Pole measurement settings, and scroll to Tilt Zeroing. Watch 0:12
Hold the back of the phone flat against a vertical wall.
Tap Calibrate Now. The button counts down from Calibrating in 5...; keep the phone still on the wall until it finishes, about six seconds.
Check Current Zero Value has changed. It is a correction, so it does not have to read 0.00°. With the phone still on the wall, Current Tilt should now read close to 0.00°.
How long it lasts: the zero is saved on this phone until you tap Reset Zero, calibrate again, or delete the app. It does not expire. Before you measure Standard poles, put the phone flat on a vertical wall and check that Current Tilt reads close to 0.00°. If it does not, or you have changed phones or cases, tap Calibrate Now again.
If this phone has never been zeroed, Tilt Calibration Required appears before your first Standard pole, with Go to Settings to do it then.
What is on the screen
Section | Worth your time? | What it does |
Pole measurement settings | Yes, before your first measurement each day | Stick version and Bottom Pole Length (High Accuracy), Tilt Zeroing (Standard poles) |
Performance (My Analytics) | Sometimes | Your measurements and daily activity, for checking your own day |
Appearance | Once | Light, dark, or match the phone. Dark at dawn, light in bright sun |
Storage | When the phone is short on space | What the app holds: database, files, map cache |
Privacy | Read once | Your organization's location policy, in its own words. Some share only while the app is open, some in the background during work hours, some not at all |
Advanced Settings | No | See below |
Log Out | Never to fix a problem | See below |
Leave the advanced settings alone
Behind the measurement settings is an advanced section of numbers the app uses to work out measurements. Changing one changes results with no warning and no error. The red Reset to Defaults button at the bottom also resets your stick version to Version 2 and Bottom Pole Length to 1, even though you set those on a different screen, with no confirmation. It does not change Tilt Zeroing. If you ever tap it, re-check both before your next measurement. If your measurements have gone strange and you have been in there, say so when you report it.
Logging out
Do not tap Log Out to fix a problem. Your captured work lives on the phone until it syncs, and logging out is the one action that risks it. Check the sync status first and ask. See When something goes wrong out in the field.
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