Report after the 8 day hike

Guess to much other things came in the way of my reports of the hike, so here is finally the report:

During the hike I had the phone mostly turned off, but I drained the battery down to about half twice, and with the limited sun we had I managed to charge the phone the whole way up again.

What I had learned from my last time where:
* Only trying to charge the phone when there is decent amount of sunlight. The iPhone will turns itself on as soon as it recognize an USB connection even if the current isn't sufficient to charge the device.
* Leaving the phone in Airplan mode while charging and minimize the brightness, since the phone will turn itself on and also show the battery logo there is a good idea to turn off as much as the phones features as possible.
* Not draining the battery completely, when the iPhone has less than 10% left of the battery the phone will go into some kind of emergency charging mode disabling all the features when the charger is connected until it reaches about 20% of battery. At home this is probably not such a big problem but if you where planning to make that very important phone call you will not be to happy when you realize you have to wait for the sun to shine for half an hour or so before the phone will be usable again, especially as you where able to make the call before you connected the charger.

I know this probably is not what you are expected to do while 4 days out away from the closest settlement, but I couldn't resist to use the last reception to surf the web and send some pictures, I also enjoyed a movie in my sleeping bag, not really because I felt like watching a movie but simply because I had the battery left to use :-).

Conclusion, with a conscious usage of the iPhone a small solar panel can truly make your internet experience mobile, even in the deepest of the Swedish/Norwegian forest.