Re: Loading 1000km GPX tracks

2017-07-07 Thread Poutnik
You can always temporarily switch the airplane mode off. It can be very quick. Aside of saving the battery, the mind may deserve a vacation away from incoming calls. One can usually manage at the provider the sms notification service about missed calls. On 7 July 2017 18:02:57 Terry Jones

Re: Loading 1000km GPX tracks

2017-07-07 Thread Terry Jones
Thanks Bart. Putting the phone into aeroplane mode is also supposed to be very helpful for battery life, but you obviously then can't make calls etc. Terry On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 8:26 PM, Bart Eisenberg wrote: > This is just anecdotal, but it seems to me that using a phone GPS drains > the bat

Re: Loading 1000km GPX tracks

2017-07-06 Thread Bart Eisenberg
This is just anecdotal, but it seems to me that using a phone GPS drains the battery, regardless of the app I sometimes put the phone into power-save mode. OsmAnd seems to work, but GPX recording is less precise--fewer samples taken. That, at least, on a Nexus 5X. (Like you, I also have an

Loading 1000km GPX tracks

2017-07-06 Thread Terry Jones
I'm planning to follow some ~1000km GPX tracks in August. Does anyone have experience using OsmAnd for tracks of that length? Are there known issues like consuming more battery or being slow etc? Also, are there any OsmAnd tricks for conserving battery power? Obviously I can turn off the screen an