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In this paper, we propose a novel framework that can effectively solve direction-of-arrival estimation tasks in the presence of sensor gain-and-phase errors. In contrast to existing approaches based on phase retrieval, our method eliminates gain errors by using the compensated covariance matrix. Meanwhile, we propose a data preprocessing method by taking only one column of the compensated covariance matrix without losing any magnitude information. Additionally, the phase retrieval problem is formed by the proposed data preprocessing method. Furthermore, the phase retrieval problem is solved by the recently proposed sparse feasible point pursuit algorithm, and DOA estimates are obtained. To prevent the model from ambiguities, we employ the known DOA to place reference sources. 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