I would love to get the Polar Heart Rate monitor & GPS sensor… soo many really cool functions… can’t even think about it at nearly $600.00 for a toy~
yes! works wonderfully. I did get an armband to hold my iphone for that.
Cheaper alternative to overpriced Polar units
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You can achieve virtually identical functionality with a Garmin Forerunner 305 and purchase of a few add-on bits to run extension electrodes from the human chest strap. Takes about 10 minutes to do the mods. Total purchase price of around $220 max. Even cheaper if you use the older Garmin 301. Go play if you are so inclined! Lots of fun for techno-geeky human athletes, as well, of course.
I have to interrupt this thread with a silly thought…
I picture an Appaloosa sailing over a jump with this slogan under the photo:
Hunting? There’s an App for that.
I have MotionX on my iPhone, and I have problems with it. I start it recording at the beginning of a hunt and stick the phone in my pocket. At the end of the hunt when I look at it, I usually find that the app crashed at some point and didn’t record the whole hunt. Have any other MotionX users had this problem? Any suggestions for keeping it running?
Do you turn off the screen before sticking it in the pocket? (Not the whole phone, but the screen?) I do that to conserve battery, and turn off the ringer, and it’s working okay for me so far.
Yes, I turn off the screen, turn off email, turn off push notifications, turn off wifi, turn off 3G … anything I can turn off to save battery gets turned off. But the damn thing never runs long enough for battery life to be a problem.
No problems with MotionX on a 3GS
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Perhaps it would work better with 3G turned on, since the phone is constantly trying to download map data via the data connection as you move around. At a brisk pace perhaps it cannot download the maps fast enough to keep up with your movement and the slow connection contributes to the crash? Alternatively, download and cache the maps of the area you plan to hunt in beforehand and see if that helps you out.
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Is your phone a 3G or a 3GS? My friend has a 3G iPhone and none of the GPS apps work as well on it as they do on my 3GS. I have not researched the matter myself, so cannot attest to the accuracy of this statment, but when she looked into the issue she reported that GPS function was upgraded significantly in the 3GS units.
Yes, I think the phone needs the 3G for the mapping to work. FYI mine is the 3GS.
Hunting? There’s an App for that.
Made me laugh :):lol:
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Keep the 3G on. and even when it DOES crash, it’ll still map (if the 3G is on) even if you lose the statistics (miles, speed, etc).
It’s a 3G phone. I’ll try it with 3G on, but most of our hunt country doesn’t have 3G coverage. Maybe that’s why it crashes.
Before I got Motion X, I tried another app called InstaMapper that saved tracks and also uploaded to a website in real time. That was cool, because theoretically people could sit at home and see where the hunt was, but I don’t think anybody ever did. It worked great for a while, but after an OS upgrade (I forget which one), it started crashing, so I started playing with other apps without much luck.
Today I tried it with 3G turned on, in an area at least partly covered by 3G. It recorded the entire hunt. Now I need to study the Google Maps features to tweak the way it displays. Thanks for the tips!
