If you have Earthmate for the InReach on your Android phone, do you also use another navigation app like Backcountry Explorer, or Gaia on your phone? I don't have the InReach Explorer, just the SE
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Yes, I use Gaia, though I still haven't convinced myself that my Motorola Droid Mini can use the internal GPS when the phone is in airplane mode.
I bring traditional map & compass, so the only time I intend to power up Gaia is if I'm confused about my position and want to get a 2nd opinion from the GPS. In that situation, I'd rather not power up my phone AND the DeLorme Inreach SE just to get a satellite lock and have a peek at the topo map location.
FWIW, my Samsung S-III does just fine using the GPS when in airplane mode. I use Backcountry Navigator. Backcountry has two annoying things though:
1. I can’t seem to save the maps to the SD card; I can apparently on save to the phone itself.
2. Backcountry Navigator turns on Facebook every time I use it. Every time. I’ll manually unload Facebook from memory (no point draining the battery or utilizing memory when there’s no data connection in the woods, right?), but as soon as I turn on Backcountry Navigator, Facebook gets loaded into memory. Were I a cynical person, I suppose I’d suspect that Facebook gives some kind of kickback to app developers who include such a feature.
I don't have the InReach, but most current android smartphones can be used in airplane mode as a standalone gps. If you use the app, GPS status, it will give you a margin of error reading. This also works well with the app Oruxmaps, which is free.
I use this with maps from http://www.openandromaps.org/en which gives maps for most of the world including the US state by state. So you can download the state or states that you want maps for and save them on your computer. This saves space on your phone. You can then copy the map for a trip to your phone and use it.
If you are hiking a common trail, such as the PCT, you can get GPX data and load the track and waypoints as well. (here is the link for PCT gpx data http://www.pctmap.net/gps/)
Another feature that I use often is downloading the Google Terrain map for a hike and using it in Oruxmaps.
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