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Lake Contour Maps for Smartphones

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CaptainMusky Grand Master

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I have been a lakemaster guy to this point since I have those chips in my lowrance in the boat. I was able to compare a lakemaster chip to my newly installed navionics on a lake full of structure. Very similar but there were differences where one was right and other wrong both ways. Definitely going to be handy to have both on the lake this summer.

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Here's something those of us with the Garmin Oregon (and other Custom Map compatible units) might find useful.

You can take a screen shot of a lake in the Navionics app on your iphone or android phone (on the iphone hit the round button and the power button at the same time) and use that image containing the contours to make your own Custom Map to use on the Garmin GPS. This works great if you don't have a LakeMaster or Navionics chip for your Garmin or if the Navionics chip has a lake mapped that your LakeMaster doesn't. Just google Custom Maps to learn more.

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I have a HTC evo and it appears to work fine. It's a huge download it took me a good 25 minutes to get it installed. If you have a Android phone you should be able to find it in the marketplace. It has a 15 minute return policy but ironically it takes twice that just to install it.

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ttttedttt Apprentice

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Well here we go guys, after two failed installs, "IT WORKED." I don't believe I did anything different on this install then the other two; but for some reason it seems to have taken. The app as a whole looks pretty good. Thanks to all for the advice, now I hope it keeps on working.

Ya it took me a few times to try and install it... definitely something buggy there but it was def worth the effort and patience! Sweet app!

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fyi for the people having the yellow screen issue. I was having the same issue on my motorola droid and found that using the "back arrow" to exit the app rather than the "home" button seems to prevent the appearance of the yellow screen when i reopen. I think this is because the back arrow actually closes the app while the home screen keeps the app running in the background and this is resulting is some sort of glitch. Maybe others can chime in as to whether this works or not. Otherwise I love the app.

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fyi for the people having the yellow screen issue. I was having the same issue on my motorola droid and found that using the "back arrow" to exit the app rather than the "home" button seems to prevent the appearance of the yellow screen when i reopen. I think this is because the back arrow actually closes the app while the home screen keeps the app running in the background and this is resulting is some sort of glitch. Maybe others can chime in as to whether this works or not. Otherwise I love the app.
I still have the problem and that is how I usually close it. It usually works fine if I kill the app and then retry. It's annoying but I am sure it will resolved at some point.
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So I have a question?

Is it possible to navigate to a Favorite? What I mean is some sort of navigational aid letting you know which direction or how close you are to a destination (favorite) or when you are on top of it.

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So I have a question?

Is it possible to navigate to a Favorite? What I mean is some sort of navigational aid letting you know which direction or how close you are to a destination (favorite) or when you are on top of it.

the only thing I have seen is if you go into search and look at your favorites you can the view them. If you open a favorite you do do a "distance from gps" and this will put a line between the marker on the map and your position. It will also tell you distance.
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fyi for the people having the yellow screen issue. I was having the same issue on my motorola droid and found that using the "back arrow" to exit the app rather than the "home" button seems to prevent the appearance of the yellow screen when i reopen. I think this is because the back arrow actually closes the app while the home screen keeps the app running in the background and this is resulting is some sort of glitch. Maybe others can chime in as to whether this works or not. Otherwise I love the app.

This also fixed my problem on the HTC EVo.

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Actually you should be closing out the program like that anyways. If you just hit the "Home" button, the GPS stays on and will devour your battery.

I kind of wish there was an "Exit" or "Close Program" option. Not a big deal if only the app keeps running, but it is if the GPS keeps running.

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i somehow lost my color on the lake maps. Black and white is still pretty easy to read , but i would like to know how to turn it back on. Any ideas
I believe you changed your "safety depth" in settings.

Increase it to like 60 feet and it should reappear.

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Just be darn careful you don't get a speck of water in your iphone (or I suspect Droid), because my backlight will no longer illuminate the screen after getting a drop of beer on the side of the unit (has Otterbox cover).

Anybody had a backlight fixed? Or do I pan out $200 for a new phone (it's out of warrantee)?

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I went out today on lake winona and wasnt impressed at all by the app... I used it on Mille Lacs and loved it but it wasn't accurate. Must be an old map.

Its not the App or the Map. Its your phone...

Issues with data connectivity, GPS signal, cellular signal coverage. However you can get close results within several feet.

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My phones great. Just not around Winona. Up in the cities and back home in Chicago its the best phone you can get. The next opportunity that I have (the summer after next) I will be switching to Verizon version, assuming I haven't gone to an area with 3g coverage.

Winona and this area in general only has bad service because Verizon years ago bought up all of the space that can be used, and local ordinances do not allow the building of more cell towers on the bluffs so there can't be any major improvements. Winona State University has towers on top of its tallest building, Sheehan hall. The stadium is called Verizon Wireless field or something like that.

Att is trying to improve and add 3g between here and Lacrosse but they have to wait for approval from the cities themselves before they can move on it. Their Edge service has been much improved here even in the last two years. The best thing for this is to call ATT and complain about how bad their service is. I got them to drop the Unlimited Plan for my iPhone 4 down to 20 bucks because I only use edge the majority of the time and felt ripped off by paying so much for the 3g plan. They were completely fine with this as my family has had plans through them since the early 90s.

That being said the only issue I have ever had is water corroding my dock connector and causing it to have issues. Once that was replaced I was fine. That "grip of death" can be replicated on just about every cell phone, it just happened that bridging the gap caused dropped calls, something they should have caught but I think that they handled the situation well, with refunds for any cases purchased plus a free case.

I love my iPhone, I have had one since the first day. I don't have issue with droid phones, they have there ups and downs also. Droid is the most popular OS at the moment but thats over how many different phones? There have been 4 iPhones, and they are doing just fine.

Is the navionics app the same on Droid and iPhone?

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FYI...

Downloading this app through your phone can be a pain in the butt. Some reports of up to 25 minutes to download...

I downloaded this for my iphone on my computer through itunes and was done in three minutes. Just a heads up for those with downloading issues on iphone/ipads.

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If you have a decent dsl or cable internet provider and a wireless router you can actually download the program and maps in under 15 minutes. I was getting between 400-650kbs download speeds and I have Frontier dsl here and it took just over 12 minutes.

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