Reading iphone carrier's signal strength.

Question

Is this even possible? If not I'm really suprised this hasn't been open thru the API yet.

Answer 1

Hi there Apple doesn't allow the use of low level network/wifi/cellular api's. Interestinlgy during a previous period, there were apps in the app store that made use of private apis (a few WIFI-Scanners for example). They've all been banded from the appStore by now, as far as I know at least.

Also the newly available (since iOS 4) core telephony framework doesn't offer any methods or properties to serve you the information you're looking for.

So unless you're building a non-app-store-app I don't see a legitimate solution to your problem.

*sam

Answer 2

I am attempting to write an app for jailbroken phones to measure the signal strength of the iPhones. Which APIS should I use?