Mobile phone GPS

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  • blade8
    blade8 Posts: 43
    must try areoplane mode on my wildfire s is the battery the same sort of power as a desire , about 4 hours seem to kill it on imapmyride..
  • Paul057
    Paul057 Posts: 167
    I'm not the greatest with technology; can i upload a route from say Bike route toaster to follow on Endomondo or will it just track where i've been?
  • davenice
    davenice Posts: 72
    The best way to follow a route with an android phone that I've found is this:

    1. Export the route from mapmyride (or, I guess, bike route toaster but I've not tried it) in KML or GPX format (I've found KML is more reliable)
    2. Log in to your google account on google maps
    3. Click on "my places" and "create new map"
    4. Import the GPX/KML file and save the map
    5. On your android phone, click on the overlays option (how you find traffic etc) and scroll down - under your maps you'll be able to bring up the maps you've saved.

    I tend to have the map up in google maps, and endomondo running, and flick between the two. Even with data turned off, they still seem to keep a GPS fix (and you can use the prefetch tiles beta option in google maps to use the maps without data).

    It doesn't give you turn by turn directions, but it's a map with your current position highlighted.

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