sthughes wrote:All you gear freaks with more than 6 month old GPS units bedda get out and replace them
stepbystep wrote:I like the idea of decent maps, but I'd carry the paper version regardless, are you not worried about water/shock issues?
Son of a Beach wrote:I did a web search that indicated nearly 1% of battery per hour can be saved by removing or disabling the SIM. That's quite substantial.
Son of a Beach wrote:Some apps actually power up the GPS only periodically (ie, when actually ready to record a waypoint) even when running in the background. It is with these types of apps that it is worth running the GPS with the phone disabled. You can actually get a couple of days worth of continual tracking out of it this way. Several days if you power down the entire device when not actually walking.
sthughes wrote:Son of a Beach wrote:Some apps actually power up the GPS only periodically (ie, when actually ready to record a waypoint) even when running in the background. It is with these types of apps that it is worth running the GPS with the phone disabled. You can actually get a couple of days worth of continual tracking out of it this way. Several days if you power down the entire device when not actually walking.
Cool, which apps will do that?
LandSailor wrote:My fave use of the GPS is to mark significant waypoints that I can plug in the coords to Google Earth after a trip.
Nuts wrote:Are you guys accessing TASMAPS online or through a GPS app??
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