I better start my car. I've been sitting here with the phone plugged in and the radio going. Don't want to kill the battery
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Ya I think I must have just a bad battery because all that wwas plugged in was mmy phone charger. It's stock since 2000 haha
Getting real nervous and excited now.
Columbus found. Can't believe I couldn't find it.Lot of people turned up.
Ack that stinks...do you mind if I ask where it was hidden at the location?
The place was 20 minutes from where I was. I didn't get there in enough time. It was nowhere near the limits of the GPS coordinates.
It was over a balcony on the ceiling. You had to reach up and blindly feel for it
Hmm that sounds like a rather interesting spot to hide it...I'll have to watch the video.
It looked (from the video) like the one in Miami was taped to the bottom of two coasters or something?? VERY CLEVER VZW!!!
Hey thanks man, no worries, it's not your fault and Congratulations on winning, to your and your friend. Another guy (I think NYC Fire Museum) was in the same situation, so he gave his buddy the phone, but I guess he actually GOT the phone that day, whereas you and others didn't.. ??? (something about not being prepared to hand out working phones??)
Anyways, yes, hopefully the next one is in ATX. I would have skipped GPS coords too but A) they were always updated/correctly, and B) if I was local to SA I would have known Sunset Station and might have beat you there, but I don't, so you had local advantage, and you deserved to win it!
Hey thanks man, no worries, it's not your fault and Congratulations on winning, to your and your friend. Another guy (I think NYC Fire Museum) was in the same situation, so he gave his buddy the phone, but I guess he actually GOT the phone that day, whereas you and others didn't.. ??? (something about not being prepared to hand out working phones??)
Anyways, yes, hopefully the next one is in ATX. I would have skipped GPS coords too but A) they were always updated/correctly, and B) if I was local to SA I would have known Sunset Station and might have beat you there, but I don't, so you had local advantage, and you deserved to win it!
Your car must be running Android to use up the battery that quick!
j/k glad you got a jump and made it out OK!
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You gotta poach wireless to check google maps as well as ping a Garmin. I checked to make sure I had both locked in on the same place and gunned it. I was unaware that they even updated the GPS locations after they announced it.
When I saw the tweet that said "Sunset Station", I immediately checked the map and sure enough the coords had just changed. Mind you, I had been refreshing that map every couple of mins idling in my car with the AC on for the past hour or two.
I saw it was updated and without thinking, like I had practiced whilst sitting there in the car, I just simply clicked on the Google logo and chose Navigate to it - this was ON MY ANDROID PHONE MIND YOU!! So I had no real easier way to get there. I did what they wanted me to do. I started driving. EVERYTHING SINGLE UPDATED MAP TO DATE ON THIS CHARGELANDING WEBSITE has gone to the exact same named location when you zoom in far enough. I didn't even waste my time to second guess them. WHOOPS. On my laptop I googled Sunset Station and saw it over by the Alamo Dome. I thought for sure that was wrong (Google maps is sometimes wrong) but instead Google maps was RIGHT and instead the VZW chargelanding.com updated GPS coordinates were WRONG. There is no Sunset Station there. That is what I get for trusting PEOPLE over my technology. SHAME ON ME!! I WON'T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN VZW!!
Anyways, good game, I'm glad some folks on the forums here won!! No animosity, just will have to try harder next time. In fact, now I have an idea. I might set one up for Android HC - anyone going?? Speaking of, has anyone heard of The Go Game?? They do a lot in Palo Alto - awesome teambuilding events, if you ever get the oppty to arrange one!! (and yes, they use all Android phones for the Go Game!!)
I saw it was updated and without thinking, like I had practiced whilst sitting there in the car, I just simply clicked on the Google logo and chose Navigate to it - this was ON MY ANDROID PHONE MIND YOU!! So I had no real easier way to get there. I did what they wanted me to do. I started driving. EVERYTHING SINGLE UPDATED MAP TO DATE ON THIS CHARGELANDING WEBSITE has gone to the exact same named location when you zoom in far enough. I didn't even waste my time to second guess them. WHOOPS. On my laptop I googled Sunset Station and saw it over by the Alamo Dome. I thought for sure that was wrong (Google maps is sometimes wrong) but instead Google maps was RIGHT and instead the VZW chargelanding.com updated GPS coordinates were WRONG. There is no Sunset Station there. That is what I get for trusting PEOPLE over my technology. SHAME ON ME!! I WON'T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN VZW!!
Anyways, good game, I'm glad some folks on the forums here won!! No animosity, just will have to try harder next time. In fact, now I have an idea. I might set one up for Android HC - anyone going?? Speaking of, has anyone heard of The Go Game?? They do a lot in Palo Alto - awesome teambuilding events, if you ever get the oppty to arrange one!! (and yes, they use all Android phones for the Go Game!!)
Wade n I got the Rochester, NYvery happy !!
Congratulations. As I said I was there. How did you know that it was going to be around there or did you just guess right? I was for sure that it was going to be down at Dino BBQ. This other nice I Guy I met from UB Law School were going as fast as we could to get over there but we got there probably two minutes after you guys had found it. Fun experience all together just wish I could have searched for it a little before you found it haha.
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