I'm looking for an app that will show the direction in relation to where you are of nearby Wifi connections. Something like a radar circle that shows which direction to walk in to get a stronger signal. At my work, I'm frequently in areas where I get very weak signals, and something like this would be absolutely indispensable.
I've tried looking on the Market, but haven't seen one that does this. Does anyone know if such an app exists, possibly one that is not on the Market?
Wifi Analyzer is the closest thing that exist. It'll only tell you how strong the signals are not the direction but it may serve your purpose.
This is impossible to do. Your wifi chip can only measure signal strength.
To show the location of the accesspoints in relation to you you would need: a) insanely accurate gps reception and b) either a hightly accurate database with gps locations of all wifi accesspoints or to move around a lot and store/analyse all the data.
Which is infeasible at the very least.
The Samsung Behold II has an app that does this. You can walk around and it tells you where the wifi access points are and the broad casted names.
martijnve said:
This is impossible to do. Your wifi chip can only measure signal strength.
To show the location of the accesspoints in relation to you you would need: a) insanely accurate gps reception and b) either a hightly accurate database with gps locations of all wifi accesspoints or to move around a lot and store/analyse all the data.
Which is infeasible at the very least.
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Oh... Impossible eh?
Here's the app I used on my Windows Mobile phone 6 years ago:
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-wififofum-v2-2-8.html
http://www.pocketpcfreeware.com/en/index.php?soft=1020
It's even on the iPhone
http://www.aspecto-software.com/wififofum/
Paul22000 said:
Oh... Impossible eh?
Here's the app I used on my Windows Mobile phone 6 years ago:
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-wififofum-v2-2-8.html
http://www.pocketpcfreeware.com/en/index.php?soft=1020
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That is for wardriving and highly innacurate (it will place the network within, say , 30 meters of its actual location, and requires you to move a lot to produce usefull data.
If it suits your purpose then who am i to argue but i figured you wanted something practical while indoors and or on foot.
Paul22000 said:
I'm looking for an app that will show the direction in relation to where you are of nearby Wifi connections. Something like a radar circle that shows which direction to walk in to get a stronger signal. At my work, I'm frequently in areas where I get very weak signals, and something like this would be absolutely indispensable.
I've tried looking on the Market, but haven't seen one that does this. Does anyone know if such an app exists, possibly one that is not on the Market?
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It *is* possible. using your body as a signal blocker and spinning around like an idiot
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=girsas.wifiradar
if you need a heatmap
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slowchop.wifiheat.paid
Wifi locater
Paul22000 said:
I'm looking for an app that will show the direction in relation to where you are of nearby Wifi connections. Something like a radar circle that shows which direction to walk in to get a stronger signal. At my work, I'm frequently in areas where I get very weak signals, and something like this would be absolutely indispensable.
I've tried looking on the Market, but haven't seen one that does this. Does anyone know if such an app exists, possibly one that is not on the Market?
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Does anyone know of a (inexpensive) method of boosting the cellular reception in a fixed structure? I live in an area where the cell signal is rather weak, and fades in and out depending on where I happen to be in my house, yet is pretty good on my deck. Fine by me... except when it rains.
I was hoping there might be a device that would either boost the normal cell signal, or perhaps overcome the building materials to give me better signal inside the house. It would need to be wireless, rather than connected physically to the phone, though.
Would something like this work? CLICKY Couldn't one of those old-fashioned 'passive' mobile antennas work?
I have no idea if these things really work, and if they're worth the price.
Thanks!
I would also like to know of a good solution.
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The signal reception,sound quality, GPS etc..is related to the Radio ROM on your phone. You could try playing around with a couple of different radios and see which one works better for you.
Here's a thread that helps you determine which radio is the best for you..ummm yeah ...its called the ultimate radio thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=393182
I think this is the best (inexpensive) method that boosts reception IMHO..
The Reaper said:
The signal reception,sound quality, GPS etc..is related to the Radio ROM on your phone. You could try playing around with a couple of different radios and see which one works better for you.
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Yes, I understand, but a lack of signal is something that won't be significantly helped by any differences in flashed radios.
I'm presently on 1.65.16.25 and have been experiencing the same signal issues that I've had on every other cellphone I've owned, so I have to believe it's a signal issue more so than a radio issue. It's got to be a combination of location/terrain/building materials that are the problem. That's why I was asking about boosters or passive antennas - you know - something like this:
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solder the antenna wire to the cell radio lol
When I was using my phone as a modem in my flat (with very very poor reception) I found the only way to boost my signol was to line my bin with tin foil, plonk in the phone and point the bin in a direction. Worked for me lol
Is anyone else getting weird leaps in GPS? Mostly it's very reliable, but last week I was in South Kensington (London) but GoogleMaps, TrackMe and TomTom all placed me mid-English Channel. Looking at my trackme trips, I found that I spent a few moments in Tunisia the week before, and you will be very impressed by my 15 minute cycle this morning ....
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If you search this forum on GPS, you'll find some stuff, like here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2509292&postcount=3
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If you search this forum on GPS, you'll find some stuff, like here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2509292&postcount=3
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I'm not talking about a few metres or a couple of hundred metres - I'm getting anomalous gps readings that are hundreds or even thousands of kilometres from my actual location.
These seem to be happening more and more frequently ....
I have had something similar - on Saturday (and also in the London area), for a few minutes TomTom told me that I was travelling at over 300mph. Now I know that the white van that I had hired for the day is much faster than my 911, but not that much faster!
I have also had a much weaker signal than usual recently - normally TomTom shows 4 or 5 bars, but over the last few weeks it has often been at 1 or 2 bars.
I had assumed that there were some atmospheric causes at play, but would be interested in any other explanations.
I've noticed the GPS in my Cruise acts up when 3rd party media players are running, mainly Resco Radio (when it's streaming, I frequently drop all GPS connections--when I press the top button to blank the screen, Resco's audio mutes when the amber GPS LED blinks, then comes on when it goes out... on--off--on--off, I have to leave the screen on to make it work) and Conduits Pocket Player (the device spontaneously reboots when the Player & GPS are both active). Both the players work without issue if GPS isn't being used.
When WMP or the HTC media player are running with GPS active, everything seems to 'get along' better.
I'm hoping this, and other little annoyances with the device clear up when 6.1 is released -- probably a good idea, and less frustrating, to hold off on doing to much troubleshooting until then...
I experienced something similar. I had the phone with me on a boat to check the top speed of the boat. I showed the boat to be traveling at nearly 200 km/h which is far to fast. So I loaded google maps and it placed me in a whole different country. A soft reset solved the problem.
This has not happened before, but I have experienced TomTom getting a hiccup when driving a few times. Suddenly the whole map turns upside down and it starts screaming about me having to do a u-turn as soon as possible. But after a few seconds it resolves again. This does not happen when in a town and the signal is bad. It can just as well happen with good line of sight and a good signal.
Perhaps the US is tampering with the GPS signals because of the problems in Georgia?
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Perhaps the US is tampering with the GPS signals because of the problems in Georgia?
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Now that I call a conspiracy theory...
My GPS has acted strangely, but in far smaller proportions... some 100 m or about so. Mind you, I'm using iGO...
My colleague's Polaris has shown the same behaviour, sudden displacements. Most of the time between 10 and 100 km.
Mine does that too. I'm normally doing 250 mph in the irish sea!! Soft reset fixes it though.
Mod/Admin, if I've posted this in the wrong section, my apologies.
I've searched but can't seem to find if there's a fuel price application out there for Windows Mobile.
The Windows Mobile version of Garmin GPS has a nice feature where it uses your current GPS location and you can either list the closest stations, or choose premium/mid/reg/diesel and list the cheapest near by your current location.
Looks like www.gasbuddy.com offers an iPhone app that does something similar using Google Maps.
Perhaps there could be a project started to put together an app that could use the Gas Buddy info with Google Maps?
Just kind of brain storming here since I've been unable to find a solution so far.
Thoughts? Ideas?
Windows Live??
Why not use Window's Live Search? It has a gas price function.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Search_Mobile
Although Window's Live Search does have that feature, I was hoping there was more of a stand alone solution available as opposed to installing a more bundled type app.
I think something very similar to danielgary's Cinemo ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=516695 ) would be exceptional.
He already has a VERY clean and nice interface that is using web based data and GPS location.
I think something like his app, but for fuel prices would be great.
Sadly, I don't have the skill set to develop something on my own.
I *almost* agree
Coucher said:
Although Window's Live Search does have that feature, I was hoping there was more of a stand alone solution available as opposed to installing a more bundled type app.
I think something very similar to danielgary's Cinemo ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=516695 ) would be exceptional.
He already has a VERY clean and nice interface that is using web based data and GPS location.
I think something like his app, but for fuel prices would be great.
Sadly, I don't have the skill set to develop something on my own.
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I see what you mean by having standa lone apps, and in a way I agree with that for most things.
But I also like to be able to get to a lot of different features (gas, weather, movie times, traffic etc) under one app that is location (cell tower/gps) based.
This is something I was looking at doing - for the UK of course as it's where I live... but I was worried about the accuracy of the info. I was thinking of getting it from a site called http://www.petrolprices.com/ but I'm not sure how up to date/accurate they are.
There are a couple of apps around but they have a monthly fee whereas mine could of course be free as it's using freely available data...
Using this topic to ask something similar...
Any good software to control gas consumption like gasbuddy for iphone? (graphic and interactive)
Also looking for the same application as herpez
Though I love Live Search/Bing for the maps, GPS-activated traffic (when I have to drive downtown which fortunately isn't every day), etc., I've noticed the gas price applet in Bing isn't entirely accurate. The last time I used Bing to check local gas prices, I had them come up on the screen, and drove past the couple who were closest on my way, and the price at the pump was anywhere from 3 - 10c off of the price Bing was quoting.
But given how these apps get their data, I doubt that ANY such app for any platform can be entirely accurate all the time...
~ BereanPK
BereanPK said:
Though I love Live Search/Bing for the maps, GPS-activated traffic (when I have to drive downtown which fortunately isn't every day), etc., I've noticed the gas price applet in Bing isn't entirely accurate. The last time I used Bing to check local gas prices, I had them come up on the screen, and drove past the couple who were closest on my way, and the price at the pump was anywhere from 3 - 10c off of the price Bing was quoting.
But given how these apps get their data, I doubt that ANY such app for any platform can be entirely accurate all the time...
~ BereanPK
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When i said gasbuddy i meaned GAS CUBBY!
Thanks!
Try maspware automanager
Has anyone noticed the GPS signal strength is rather poor compared to other phones.
I have my 6yr old HTC incredible and it can keep a lock better.
As a hobby, I like to record GPS tracks when on an airplane as I travel alot. That is a good test environment as the signal is typically poor. When I have both phones on side by side, I will see that the satellite signal levels are about the same from both eventhough the Z5 is capable of seeing more satellites. However, the HTC is capable of holding a lock for nearly the entire flight whereas the Z5 will often lose a lock randomly.
Sometimes, I will notice the Z5 not getting a GPS lock even in my car (although this is rare)
I asked Sony support about this. They claim GPS wont work in a plane eventhough I've recorded hundreds of tracks. Then they said they'd forward this concern to the engineers to perhaps get improved in a future firmware.
eng3 said:
Has anyone noticed the GPS signal strength is rather poor compared to other phones.
I have my 6yr old HTC incredible and it can keep a lock better.
As a hobby, I like to record GPS tracks when on an airplane as I travel alot. That is a good test environment as the signal is typically poor. When I have both phones on side by side, I will see that the satellite signal levels are about the same from both eventhough the Z5 is capable of seeing more satellites. However, the HTC is capable of holding a lock for nearly the entire flight whereas the Z5 will often lose a lock randomly.
Sometimes, I will notice the Z5 not getting a GPS lock even in my car (although this is rare)
I asked Sony support about this. They claim GPS wont work in a plane eventhough I've recorded hundreds of tracks. Then they said they'd forward this concern to the engineers to perhaps get improved in a future firmware.
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Haven't got any issues with GPS lock outdoor, but you might need be on the window side on your next flight to get a better reception. =)
The thing that i noticed mostly with Z5, is they have quite weak receiver antenna's wherein even cellular signal is very weak compared to 1 year old phone.
redjge said:
Haven't got any issues with GPS lock outdoor, but you might need be on the window side on your next flight to get a better reception. =)
The thing that i noticed mostly with Z5, is they have quite weak receiver antenna's wherein even cellular signal is very weak compared to 1 year old phone.
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I always sit on the window side and it doesnt matter since I stated that I in comparison to another phone side by side by side, the Z5 is much worse. Unless you normally look at the signal levels you probably would notice just driving around outside.
Like you, I also noticed the cell antenna is worse too.
Made a quick research for the Z5 teardown, based on it only has a small antenna at the lower back of the unit.
Seems this might be the reason for very weak receptions we are experiencing with this unit.
Hope their engineers can make an improvement via software or radio drivers and release it sooner.
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The small "L" looking bar on the center, together with the board is the GPS antenna (most likely)
Just got one for a father's day gift and I've been using the watch for the past week. Love it, but can't stop feeling that I'm not using it to its full potential. Thought maybe if I got some questions answered here, I would feel better.
1. what's the GPS, Wifi options for on the watch? I don't have GPS on right now, but Wifi is enabled. Not sure what app uses it, but I thought everything was connected to the phone through BT, so didn't need additional connections on the watch. Can someone clarify?
2. The weather app that's pre-installed is slow to refresh...meaning when I travel from city to city, I want to know what the weather is like in the next city (current temp, etc.), but can't for the life of me figure out how to manually refresh current location?
3. I only can read the last message in a string of text messages....is there no way to look at all unread on the watch?
Thanks in advance for your help guys!
Gps: use for workout apps, tracking distance, Mapping, directions. Wifi in case you don't have phone nearby-can use Wi-Fi service where you are. The Gear S3 can operate on its own, without having to be connected to the phone.
Weather app- well you can manually refresh it and it should update when you so that. Also many weather apps available for it.
Messages - you should be able to scroll up once you click on the person, to see previous messages.
It can be a stand alone phone-if you left your phone at home and it's on, you can use the watch as a phone and receive and make calls on it, as long as it was Bluetooth connected to the cell phone before you left.
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Just got one for a father's day gift and I've been using the watch for the past week. Love it, but can't stop feeling that I'm not using it to its full potential. Thought maybe if I got some questions answered here, I would feel better.
1. what's the GPS, Wifi options for on the watch? I don't have GPS on right now, but Wifi is enabled. Not sure what app uses it, but I thought everything was connected to the phone through BT, so didn't need additional connections on the watch. Can someone clarify?
2. The weather app that's pre-installed is slow to refresh...meaning when I travel from city to city, I want to know what the weather is like in the next city (current temp, etc.), but can't for the life of me figure out how to manually refresh current location?
3. I only can read the last message in a string of text messages....is there no way to look at all unread on the watch?
Thanks in advance for your help guys!
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For multiple message...I always see the number of unread message in a Circular icon at the bottom of the notification...I click on it...and all the messages are scroll-able.