camping and Apps

[JayCizzo]

I picked up an external battery/battery charger. I think it was made by Duracell and was around $25. It has a USB port so you just plug in you normal charger. It got me through a 3 day camping trip.

[Cyrus6001]

Any suggestions,

I was thinkin of maybe gettin a solar powered charger, idk sounds cool

The solar chargers are bad ass!! my sister has one and it works great... Although i havenot tried ot on a Droid yet... But shes charging a Rouge and Envy 2 on it...

[Erron]

Ive taken trips to Alaska, South American Jungles, and Egypt for experience and photography. I used a solar powered backpack the whole time to recharge my laptop and camera batteries. At night I could then save my pics.

I am sure a solar charger could charge the droid. Any usb solar charger should work. But it will take a long amount of time, and some pretty decent sun.

I don't know what kind of camping you do or what your resources are or how long you normally camp for. I have an off grid plot of land(20 acres) in northern MI. I use a deep cycle battery for chargng my phone and laptop while up there. Then i recharge the DC batt with my car when needed. You need some equip to do this but there are plenty of options out there!

[dylanthecat]

I use the bubble app to level my trailer when camping.

[christim]

Try MapDroyd and download the maps for offline use later.

K will look into that

I've heard that the data connection is only used to get map data. The phone will talk to actual satellites to get your position super-imposed on that map. So this is true then? I can download the maps and use them with the GPS even if I'm out of 3G range?

Go into airplane mode. See what works with no cell tower, no gps, no wifi.

[slayda]

I have Viamici. It isn't free (or cheap) but it is quite interesting if there are posted maps of the trails where you hike that you can take a picture of with your Droid. With two input points it will show you on your trail map picture where you are. You can zoom & pan the picture. Of course it requires GPS be on to see that but you can turn it off while hiking and just turn it on when you need a location fix.

[SGTiger]

Get oruxmaps. It allows you to download topo maps (and a lot of other map types also) for your area before you leave so it will still work in airplane mode. You can also load up trail gpx files while in the TB Atlas Creator which will be superimposed on the topo map though many trails show up already on the topo maps. The advantage of oruxmaps over rmap is that oruxmaps allows you download only one zoom level from TB Atlas Creator, and it will still alllow you to zoom in and out. With RMAPS and other apps, you have to download additional zoom levels if you want to zoom in and out which means you use a ton more space on your sdcard. With Oruxmaps, you will have more storage space to download a much larger area.

http://oruxmaps.x10hosting.com/index_en.html

http://www.androlib.com/android.appl...maps-jttx.aspx

[drummerq]

hey guys,

just got back from my trip and it was great, weather was awesome.

On the gps. I had my droid fully charged, I turned it on at 9 and started hiking right away. I left everything on (didnt put it into airplane mode) and was using my tracks. I didnt call anybody or do anything other then use my tracks during the hike. The my tracks works great. I would post a .gpx file here but idk what im doin. (If youd like to see and have any ideas let me know). I hiked 10 miles. We finished at about 3. When i got of the trail my phone was dead. (5% left). I was able to end the tracking and that was it. I believe this was do to the gps being on and constantly searching for 3g service. THe actual quality of the gps was great. It was super acurate and worked as well if not better then a normal gps (couse of the maps).

Of anyone has any questions on anything let me know

P.S. I didnt really use any of the other apps i probobly could of

[jpetito]

you must not be camping in a legit campground...every time I go camping, absolutely no cell phone service. So, I can use apps that don't use the internet, but anything internet related is a no go.

[drummerq]

you must not be camping in a legit campground...every time I go camping, absolutely no cell phone service. So, I can use apps that don't use the internet, but anything internet related is a no go.

See to download the local maps its takes seconds of 3g. If it only gets it in one spot for a few minutes you'll be good for maps the whole trip.

Other things like internet your right, while camping is hard