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Droid Charge hunt

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Gskellig

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@droidlanding is back with some viral stuff about the droid charge. When verizon was using @droidlanding to give away droid X's, we had an IRC chat to help each other find them, which resulted in me getting my droidX (and a few other people got VERY close). So if anybody wants to help, post any info you have in this thread or hit us up on irc.slashnet.org #droidchargehunt or click SlashNET - Web Client

Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/DroidLanding
Website (contest/hunt): http://www.chargelanding.com/
Website (viral/info): Droid Charge by Samsung (morse code beeping?)
Image that flashes up on the screen for an instant at droiddoes.com/charge: http://gskellig.com/public/droid1.jpg


Found:
Anomaly1: Chicago 4/28 - The Music Box Theater!
Anomaly2: Seattle 4/28 - Pier 57!
Anomaly3: New York, NY 4/29 - Fire Museum (on wall of badges)
Anomaly4: Minneapolis, MN 4/29 - 7th St Entry (under stair case)
Anomaly5: Phoenix, AZ 4/29 - US Airways Center (in a trash can)

Confirmed:
Anomaly6: Philadelphia 4/30
Anomaly7: Houston 4/30

Anomaly8: San Jose, CA 5/1

Probable Cities/Areas:
San Diego, CA
San Antonio, TX
Atlanta, GA
Miami, FL
Columbus, OH
Detroit, MI
Upstate NY
Washington DC
 
So do you think it is coordinate related?

I started to plug the numbers iinto the alphabet as letters but came up with very little. The numbers seem very sporadic, so is there a system or are they useless right now?
 
As far as I can tell, when you scan you're entering yourself in a drawing. That is ONE way to win a phone. The other way is with the maps which I have no idea about. I've tried a lot of methods of working the random numbers into something understandable and got nothing. Even tried cross product/dot product because the "i" after the second number led me to believe it had to do with vectors. The numbers seem to be random but they increase the more times you scan.


The scans were updated a few minutes ago and it looks like some of the droid charges are getting close. Looks like New York, Detroit, Miami, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, DC area and somewhere in Ohio are for certain.

If you guys wanna chat about this, come to irc.slashnet.org #droidchargehunt or if you don't have an IRC client go here: SlashNET - Web Client


EDIT (7:47pm PST): HOLY SHIT. They just updated it with all 16 cities zoomed in a TON. Narrowed down to a few square miles for some too.
 
What are you even supposed to do with that map data? I live in NYC, but that Droid Charge looks like it could be anywhere within Queens, Manhattan, Long Island, or even somewhere in Jersey.

I agree though, that scanning data is something to do with vectors. It's probably not supposed to help you, to tell the truth. It's probably just supposed to look cool and futuristic. :P
 
it was the same, coords narrowed down to cities, then they pretty much gave the location of where it was, kinda ruined the fun of it, hope they don't do it with this phone too. but this time all you find is a flyer for the phone, i plugged in some coords it gave me and it put me over near africa, lol. so the coords are useless I'd say, but I wouldn't pay for this phone, maybe for free tho!
 
Sounds exciting! Mind sharing where your DX's flier was hidden? Was it in a park in a hollowed out tree trunk or something? Or somewhere more urban?
 
Update! Looks like the New York phone is going to be somewhere in Brooklyn. I'd have preferred my home turf of Queens, but hey, at least Brooklyn's pretty easy to get to. I'll be keeping my eye on this because it's close enough to me.
 
shadowdude777 said:
Sounds exciting! Mind sharing where your DX's flier was hidden? Was it in a park in a hollowed out tree trunk or something? Or somewhere more urban?
Click to expand...

This is a video of me and my gf (who actually did the finding). It shows where it was hidden.
YouTube - Droid X Designate #7 Recovered in Seattle

Edit: Others were in more urban areas. Like in a handrail at a restaurant or something. You can find all the info/videos on the old tweets by @droidlanding
 
Hey guys welcome back to round # 3 nice to see ya again Gskellig

http://www.droid-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/4g-lte-charge-commercial.png

video teaser # 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQEUgMJkrcU&feature=player_embedded

Written Translations of you tube:

Claims the coins actually levitated in his hands

That’s when the owners of this souvenir shop say every magnet in the store drop to the floor no longer magnetized

It was crazy all our gear, electronics, even the street lights I mean I never seen

Mystarics* flash in the skies witness by dozens of

Thousand of servers across the Midwest instantaneous over loaded with data of indeterminate

Darvolind Frobuirdge head of the

Official say entire truck loads of material have vanished with out a trace

Also report the events immediately to @droidlanding

*not sure about the words: Mystarics

Video teaser # 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4IV8UKCQF0

*note also 42 cents in hand hither hikers guide to the galaxy answer in life is 42
* # in windows not back words

*tweeted Darvolind Frobuirdge Holds Key to Finding Those Hidden Droid Charge Phones
*his first and last name Darvolind Frobuirdge? taking every other letter starting with the first letter you get = DROID Four G --> he also has a facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002285617822
*on his face book page he likes the following pages

Hide-and-seek
Scanners
Twilight Zone
Phillip Glass
Eddie Money
Charles in Charge
Charge!!

Flashman at the charge
Tales at the charge
Tales from Alpha station
The machineries of joy
Blimp prom
Speed
Kraftwerk
8-bit
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
The charge of the light brigade
The empire strikes back
Ghost dad
mr wizards
Nova

http://www.androidguys.com/2011/04/...holds-key-finding-hidden-droid-charge-phones/

Video teaser # 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz13Ecw9Fr4


http://www.droiddoes.com/#/level2
enter level 2 access code: 242743
for 1 of 4 documents

http://www.droid-life.com/2011/04/27/new-droid-charge-commercial-is-massive/

If you copy and paste your scan results from
https://www.chargelanding.com/tracker/
into a web site:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/

you get a complex number that makes a graph...
http://caseyfriday.com/2011/04/how-to-win-vzws-droid-charge-landing-contest/#more-605

Copy of Level 2 Shipment Incident Report transcript:

Quad-state Super–long–haul Transit

Get in
Guarantee It
Guard It
Go!

Indecent Report

Incident Type: Cargo Lost in Transit
File: ----------
Supervisor: -------

Noves-Cargo (below) departed secure location on 1.23.11 at 1625 with all
Materials as listed ??????, crew voluntarily deviated from planned course
With last recorded GPS signal placing route deviations at -- -- N
----W------ Truck recovered in --- ---S, ----- ----W-------No
evidence of shipment remains. Case remains under investigation Recent
--ex----------- Activity across conational US
suggest equipment has been assembled, activated and in use at what may
be an unauthorized ------- facility

Cargo Origin Destination

Contaminate Sphere (2)

Low-Level Synchronous
(2)

Sold Palladium (Pd)
(200 lbs)

Classified Velocity-
Enhancement technology

Classified device of
Unspecified Origin

Same

Same

-----------b
No.4

Quad-state Super–long–haul Transit * 1733 E --------------
***--------------------- el -------------------- Re: -----------

http://www.droid-life.com/2011/05/1...keover-incredible-2-and-charge-added-updated/
 
Gskellig said:
This is a video of me and my gf (who actually did the finding). It shows where it was hidden.

Edit: Others were in more urban areas. Like in a handrail at a restaurant or something. You can find all the info/videos on the old tweets by @droidlanding
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Oh wow, that's really cool! I'll join the IRC chat later tonight. Hopefully I'll be able to find it.
 
I hear this is the third Droid Hunt, I followed what I believe was the original for the Droid X. What was the 2nd?

Is anyone else from the Droid X hunt extremely disappointed by the new format? I like all the things they have added, a map that closes in, but what happened to all the cool clues.

I thought have the fun was figuring out the trivia to possibly have a head start. It made it more of a challenge and not just a race. I'm also sad there is no Boston location this time, how lame.
 
1stAndroid said:
I hear this is the third Droid Hunt, I followed what I believe was the original for the Droid X. What was the 2nd?

Is anyone else from the Droid X hunt extremely disappointed by the new format? I like all the things they have added, a map that closes in, but what happened to all the cool clues.

I thought have the fun was figuring out the trivia to possibly have a head start. It made it more of a challenge and not just a race. I'm also sad there is no Boston location this time, how lame.
Click to expand...

Droid2 had an online hunt thingy. I didn't really understand it and I just won a droidx so I didn't participate. AFAIK, this is the second real world hunt verizon has done with the droids.

I don't mind the new format. The clues were cool but were ultimately pointless because an hour before the coordinates went out it said the exact neighborhood it would be in.
 
The Droid phone give aways where:

1.) DroidX - hunt

2.) Droid R2D2 - all online had to figure out the codes to unlock them by searching all over the web

3.) Droid Charge - this one currently going on half hunt / half online
 
I think the Upstate NY is going be Rochester, NY only area around here with 4G also is where the main HQ for VZW is up here

twitter update ~
Its a lock!
#DroidChargeAnomaly6 is in Philadelphia
#DroidChargeAnomaly7 is in Houston
 
#1 found Congrads to Ryan W. who won Anomaly1: @ The Music Box Theater! (in a bag of popcorn) and congrads on also winning the Droidx Hunt #14 in Chicago on the first hunt must be nice
 
#2 found Pier 57 under seat in merry go round

What u are looking for phone cut out copy

First locations so far where in what is normally a
pay areas or pay for things so be on the look out
ask if u can go in areas or look

Good Luck All ~
 
I looked at the Carousel and thought "ITS THERE" then saw the sign that said it cost $1.50 and decided there is no way they would hide it in a spot that costs money to get to.
Kind of a shitty hiding spot but whatever. The lady recognized me from last time. =P
LOTS less people than last time, MANY more VZW reps, and they set up some kiosks (last time they just passed the phone around).

Edit: Oh yeah the guy was complaining at some point that the phone was scratched or something. The VZW lady said "why are you complaining dude you just got a free phone" I laughed.
 
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