cellid

Public Cell ID databases

Hi. I'm building a location aware mobile application which uses GPS, but i'd like to be able to add cell location too. The best thing I have found so far is to use Google Gears, which has a location API available, but my application is not web based. Are there any good public cell id databases that can be accessed from any kind of app...

How to programmatically get cellID from IPAQ pocket PC

I'm trying to get CellID and Lac on HP IPAQ 614c. I've tried using RIL interface with no luck RIL_GetCellTowerInfo returns E_NOTIMPL. Any ideas? ...

J2ME, Reading Cell-ID from Nokia S40

Reading around Nokia forums, It seems that accessing Cell-ID and related info from Nokia S40 series phones is virtually impossible unless your Midlet is signed, and even this would work only for S40 3rd Edition FP1 and above. I tried the following on a Nokia S40 Dev Platform 2 phone , using Java ME: System.getProperty("com.nokia.mid.ce...

Cell ID info on iPhone

Is it possible to get Cell ID information on iPhone SDK 3.0? ...

google maps, cellid to location

According to this sample: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mobile/DeepCast.aspx It's possible to request a gps coordinate (longitude & latitude) including range when sending cellid information (MCC, MNC, towerid, etc) Can someone tell me the actual parameter to request/post to this address? http://www.google.com/glm/mmap It could be so...

How to get all 6 neighborhood cell ids on Android

Is there any API that will give me those 6 neighborhood cell ids on Android, or shall I try to send AT commands to the Android modem. If someone could explain that to me I would be very grateful. ...

How to read the gsm modem messages in objective c?

Hello, I need the the cell-id information to display in my iphone app, the app sends AT commands to the modem but...I do not know how to read the modem messages. Please help me. ...

Copying Cell ID information from the Field Test Mode

I'm looking to capture the Cell ID information and also the variable that is responsible for the signal strength bar on the iPhone for testing purposes. The information is accessible via the field test mode - is there any way to capture and store the data? ...

Android delivering different Cell IDs (Neighboring Cell Info)

Hello. Using an Android Dev Phone 2, I'm using the GsmCellLocation.getCid() method to get the Cell ID on my network. When I run the command and get all the CellIDs for the NeighboringCellInfo I get this values: 597195726 597185722 597195718 597110191 597101100 597175726 I'm running this using the SDK 1.6. The problem is that...

get location(lat/long) without gps just like my location feature of google maps

Get location(lat/long) without GPS, just like my location feature in Google maps. I have Google Maps in my mobile (Sony Ericsson G502 without GPS). It works fine without GPS in India. 1.How Google finds my position? 2. When i am searching cellid in opencellid database, it has less number of records for India. but Google Maps works fi...

get cellid in j2me

I am using this code to get cell id from my sony erricson p990 cellphone but it set cellID value to "no property". Blockquote String cellID = System.getProperty("com.sonyericsson.net.cellid"); if(cellID == null) cellID = System.getProperty("CellID"); if(cellID == null) cellID = "no p...

Cell-ID database for India

Is there any well defined CELLID database for India, Google have the CELL-ID database but they have not yet provided access. i have tried opencellid but they have limited database for india. ...

Getting Base Station Information in Android

Hello Everyone! Is there anyway to get the base station and/or cellId information of the subscriber in Android? ...

Question about tracking user in a map application using cellid

I am trying to understand the concept of cellid (http://www.opencellid.org/api) As per that, if we send a request http://www.opencellid.org/cell/get?key=myapikey&mnc=1&mcc=2&lac=200&cellid=234 it will respond with the latitude and longitude. I was wondering if this can be used from within a google map application for...

how does google map determine locations for phones without gps

http://www.google.com/mobile/maps/ Using this on phones without gps, the locatiosn can be obtained as well. I am currently using the html5 geocoder/gear for obtaining locations. However this only works for iphone and android. BUt how does google map get the information from phones without this capbility? ...

Cell (cell-id), BTS and BSS in GSM network

Hi, 1/ what is the relation between BTS and cell? I think one BTS harware can cover few cells and also some cells could be covered by more than one BTS isn't it? 2/ Is part of information, that mobile receives from GSM network identification of concrete BTS or mobile phone knows only cell-id? 3/ Is part of information, that mobile rec...

getCellLocation returns null

Hi, I am trying to access the current cell location information. When I try to call getCellLocation() it returns null. I am unable to reason out this.. the same code works on 1.5 but fails on 1.6 or 2.1.(Tested on G1 with 1.6 and HTC legend 2.1). Can some one help me in correcting this bug? My code is below. TelephonyManager...

CellID location with CDMA

Is there a way to determine location via CellID on a CDMA network? I can get a network ID, base station ID, and system ID programatically, but is there an api somewhere to convert these to lat, long coordinates? The CdmaCellLocation.getBaseStationLatitude() and CdmaCellLocation.getBaseStationLongitude() methods return some junk number. C...

Can not retrieve CellID and LAC for the current cell

I tried to retrieve Cid and Lac for currently connected cell, but using public void GetCid(){ int CID; int LAC; GsmCellLocation xXx = new GsmCellLocation(); CID = xXx.getCid(); LAC = xXx.getLac(); Toast output = Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Base station LAC is "+LAC+"\n" +"Base station CID is " +CID, Toast.LEN...

UMTS cell id of neighbor cells

The problem is that when I use source code below, i receive cell id's only in 2G mode, if i switch to 3G mode i sometimes receive -1 for HSDPA or nothing for UMTS. Source code is: for (int i = 0; i < neighCell.size(); i++) { try { NeighboringCellInfo thisCell = neighCell.get(i); int thisNeighCID = thisCell.getCid(); ...