Using the SDK for android, you can easily connect to the phone: adb shell It is easy to find information on the web… and to save my data.
The good stuff about Android (well, and the reason why I got this phone) is that it is open source. So it is pretty frustrating, my precious data are here, the application doesn’t want to take them out, and everytime I launch the MyTracks application (trying to load the faulty track by default), the application hangs until the battery dies. It was indeed pretty long: 10h45 of continuous recording (if you wonder how the battery can last that long, think car trip with car charger). Even when just trying to display the track, it would just hog the CPU without end (well, until the battery dies which happens quite fast in those conditions).Īfter looking deeper into the problem it appears that it was the longest track of the trip. However, for one particular track, it didn’t work: when trying to backup the track, the phone would just go on for hours using 100% of the CPU.
Mostly for two reasons: sending the data to open street map and geotagging my photos.Įverything went well and I exported most of the tracks without any problem to the SD card (saving into gpx files). Now, you are ready to embed your map on your web site and have your GPS coordinates complemented with photos.During my last trip to Australia (the first trip for my Android phone), I have been using the ‘mytracks’ application from google to record all the places where I was going. Click “Save” and “Done” on Google My Maps.Also, click on marker’s icon, click “Add icon”, and insert the URL of your photo again so that it will be obvious that that marker is a photo. Find your way point marker, click it, click the “Upload Image” icon, and insert the URL of your photo.From a PC, laptop, or tablet: go to and click “My Maps”->Select a Map->Click “Edit”.However you see fit, upload your corresponding photo to a Google Picasa Web Album (or other photo sharing site) and copy the shareable URL for the photo.With your track pulled up, click the three dots in the bottom right of the screen and select “Send to Google…”->”Send to…Google My Maps”.
After you finish a trail, click “Stop recording”.