Thanks David! At least I know it's not just me! And that I'm not going crazy because of missing the south or something like that!
I am a very patient person as well, but since I just got the scope like a month ago, I still have some left
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However, I think I'll channel it toward some external way of polar alignment, because, after trying it myself, going through every option in the HC (many people say Celestron's HC's are quite complex, but by now I know pretty much every single menu, etc. there is and what it does) and your testimony, it would just be useless to keep losing time trying to find some magical fix.
Besides, I can only go out a couple of nights a week (Saturdays and maybe Fridays) since work takes up almost all my time during working days.
I think I'll stick to this iterative alignment technique in this Astroplanner software and see how it goes... But in the end it depends on the ability of the scope to do a precise sky align and if this is also glitched (which I hope it isn't) it still won't work...
By the way, I haven't received anything from Celestron yet. Just an acknowledgement.
I'll post something when I try in more depth the iterative alignment.
What else have you tried to align yours? Maybe the polar alignment scope? It is still no good for me since the celestial pole is blocked at my main viewing site...