Hi,
I am a MSc Student, I have decided to implement a Mobile tracking system using GSM, not using GPS as a proof of concept. Since I am new to this subject, can some one point me to a right start point.
thanx
Ganesh
I think this has been done before:
http://www.navizon.com/
Thanx for the reply,
I forgot to tell one other othing. My project, not only find the location of the callee. If I receive a call from a person I should know where is he calling from. I know that I cannot pin point without a GPS, atleast if I can get a redias from the nearest cell tower.
If I can get a database of all the Cell ID and their GEO location, can I do something with that ?
ganesh
I think the operator will only tell your handset the caller's caller ID in the form of phone number instead of cell ID. It's kind of intrusion of privacy if an operator does that.
Frankly, if the operator really does that - you won't need to research it right now - someone must have exploited it long time ago
See also the POLS project on SourceForge:
http://pols.sourceforge.net/software
even if some sendt that info i doubt all do
as it's not an official part of the std.
Is'nt this illegal???
Thanx for everyone replied,
I got soem sort of a info.
ganesh
the only thing which could be illegal is that the cellphone operators send
that info to the call reciever which is why i say that for those very legal reasons i doubt all operators send it and it's not a native part of the gsm std
Hello, I hope someone can help!
We have an application running on a variety of Windows Mobile devices linking to an office program via UDP over the 02 GPRS network. This has been running fine on over 1000 devices for the past 3 years until 20/09/08 when the data reception has become intermittent/unreliable. 02 claim not to have changed anything at their end and we know of other companies still running on 02 so it must be possible!
What we need is for someone on a voluntary / one-off fee basis to look at our code and identify the issue so that we can make any necessary changes.
Hopefully someone out there can help us? Obviously time is really of the essence too
Matthew Bradford
[email protected]
All sorted now - thanks for looking!
Hi! Let me introduce a tiny app, available in English in the moment.
This program shows a small info window during incoming/outgoing call. It contents country, region, city (or mobile operator) and LOCAL TIME in that place (worldwide)!
See latest comments and screenshots on cyrket (I'm not allowed to insert links)
Detailed popup customization is supported
The phone base I collected and created (many errors there were fixed by hands) was only available in Russian, but today I released English base, made with help of Google Translate
I know, such translation is buggy (but still much better I expected). I hope you'll help me and other users to have a complete and accurate information about calls - just email me right from the program menu about any issues or comment here.
World time also changes (for example, Russia lost two time zones this March) and if you find any error - post here or email me
You don't need to download phone base. You may download its latest version from the app, but if you want to do it manually, unpack the zip to the sdcard's root
How accurate does it get? I don't get many international calls, but might be useful to know where a landline call from within the UK is coming from?
What happens with mobile calls from with the UK? I assume no detail at all then?
it covers both landline and mobile network all over the world, where it is possible to distinguish between numbers by area codes. just try =) there are more than 25000 records in the base
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Hi. How do you set this up?
I have placed my Country Code (00351) and set GMT to +1 and when I call from my desk to my phone, it says it's a call from India ...
afaik, country code cant starts with zeros. Please, provide full number (you may hide last four digits) and right country for you I'll check and write settings here
Erm, I think techinally it either starts with two zeros, or a + but you're asking for a single number?
For example, UK is either 0044 or +44
wow. That is new for me. I know that with one leading zero start local calls. And you say two zeros replace + . hmmm. try left country code blank, that may help, I think. and if not, please, type whole number without four last digits
Not sure if this is already obvious but as there seems some uncertainty. AIUI the correct way to state an international number is to prefix it with +. To make a call, the plus sign is replaced with the two (or sometimes three or four) digit international access code which depends on the country one is placing the call from. For Europe this is 00, for the States, 011 etc.
I'm in Portugal, and my number is +35193233xxxx. I have tried leaving it blank, but by default leaves a 7... tried with 00351, with 351 and when calls are incoming still stays it's from India.
I'll wait for further clarification and if nothing happens I'll un-install it.
By the way, it doesn't let me use the +.
Thanks
okay, and what was the incoming number? what it was looking like on the call screen? country code preset replaces leading zero or eight digit. so it doesn't interfere number detection in you case I think
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The incoming number was looking like this: 91811xxx
It's a mobile number from Vodafone.
Just got a call from Germany, and it identified the Country and city allright. Seems that it doesn't work for calls inside Portugal only...
i see eight digits and no country info in this number. if there are seven digits program says local call and do not provide any information (because there is no trusted information) in eight or more digits it tries to detect country code. it replaces leading 8 or 0 with country code from the settings - for example local russian mobile calls may look like 8916xxxyyzz - we replace 8 with country code 7 and identify it with MTS - the program even say region or city based on x or xx or xxx in the example above. but in your situation I have no idea how to detect that the call is local and country code needs to be put before the number =( I've never heard that income mobile number may be in the format you wrote - it should start with plus sign and country code or 8 or zero (Ukraine, Moldova). I'm whirled
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Any chance you can convert the database into something human-readable? I'll be glad to cross reference a bunch of Southern California area codes and prefixes so that you can get some more accurate data there.
Also, a program similar to yours got hit with a cease & desist a few months back by some patent trolls because they supposedly hold a patent on this very thing. You're in Russia though so I dunno if their reach extends to you. Just thought I'd give you an FYI.
XStylus said:
Any chance you can convert the database into something human-readable? I'll be glad to cross reference a bunch of Southern California area codes and prefixes so that you can get some more accurate data there.
Also, a program similar to yours got hit with a cease & desist a few months back by some patent trolls because they supposedly hold a patent on this very thing. You're in Russia though so I dunno if their reach extends to you. Just thought I'd give you an FYI.
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please, email me a t r a n t . s g @ g m a i l . c o m (or from the program menu) to discuss db elements, thanks in advance.
and yeah... i've read that stuff and even contacted the author...
But, my program is better now, I think =) And I will hit 10000 downloads, I hope. That will be enough, I think, for my efforts and hand-made db =))
Uninstallation
How do i uninstall de database, can't find it but i takes 3 mb of internal memory. Anyone has a suggestion!!
castor.troy said:
How do i uninstall de database, can't find it but i takes 3 mb of internal memory. Anyone has a suggestion!!
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Just remove the DB app. There is no way to leave DB app and remove the DB, android OS restriction (can't modify signed apk on the device)
uninstallation
So when i uninstall WorldCallPlaceAndTime.apk than de database will be removed from my internal memeory?
Castor
castor.troy said:
So when i uninstall WorldCallPlaceAndTime.apk than de database will be removed from my internal memeory?
Castor
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Sure, man! Do it right now!
Ok first off if this is the wrong place to post this I apologize but I tried searching and can't find anything about my phone.
I just purchased a Toshiba Regza phone from AU in Japan. I have changed the regional settings to English and all the menus and mostly everything is in English but the problem I am having is that the email program that everyone uses here to send instant email back and forth is still in Japanese. I have contacted AU KDDI about this and they say there is no way to change the language to English from within the email program itself. My wife is Japanese and she has looked at every setting within the email program itself and cannot find any language settings.
As far as I have found out, the "email" system here in Japan is actually a MMS messaging system on steroids that uses an email address instead of the other persons phone number like in the US. I think a very long time ago some of my friends in Japan had email addresses with there phone number(at)docomo.ne.jp
I have looked on the marketplace and I can't seem to find anything that will work with the AU system.
Does anyone know if there is an app that can replace the stock email program to send and recieve email with my xxxxxxxx(at)ezweb.ne.jp? If there is where can I find the settings for AU's email system? Do they use IMAP. POP or because it is MMS it is totally different?
I love this phone, the camera is awesome the screen rez is really great watching 1 seg TV and the video quality is great. I really don't want to have to do anything to it that will brick it because it's brand new and my wife would kill me LOL Only thing is I cannot use the email program to it's fullest extent.
thanks for taking the time to read this and for any help you might provide.
Unfortunately there is no fix or alternative, as carriers in Japan have their mobile mail services tightly locked down and you require their express authorisation to develop an application for it.
The mail application for the IS04 is as bad as it gets, as are various other software related aspects of the phone... which is a shame because otherwise it's quite a capable device.
Hopefully issues like this one will be addressed at the same time as the rather late 2.2 update, but I wouldn't keep your fingers crossed.
I've been trying to extract the carrier mail application from other the au android devices and modifying it so it can install/communicate with au's servers on the IS04, but I've gotten nowhere with the security.
In case you run into any other trouble, other problems people have had with the IS04 include battery charging issues (phone runs off battery once it reaches 100% and never starts charging again, even while plugged in), contact list problems (multiple and non interchangeable contact lists for different applications), various settings resetting themselves (aforementioned mail application mainly), lost emails/contacts and weird memory restrictions (for storage).
For the record, DoCoMo's version of the Regza phone (and their other Android devices) use a relatively decent universal phone mail application, while au has gone with letting the manufacturers put together their own. I'll let you work out which decision turned out better.
In the meantime, I suggest having your wife translate the settings so you can have it up and running the way you like, and then just memorising the basic navigation and functions.
Edit: To answer your question, correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the weird MMS system for all three major carriers in Japan is still using the I-mode transport protocol.
just FYI:
2013 is around the corner and with Android 2.2.2 now (still) on the Regza IS04 nothing has really changed much.
The mail app - and other default apps - are still in Japanese only and will not be changed.
The general feedback from their tech support is: Learn Japanese or get lost (though said very politely, with smiles and bows and not in such a direct manner )
Have a great 2013 all
Hi,
So I've recently got to enjoy the fruits of CM's latest stable release for my S4. However, there is one issue with the dialer that is really getting on my nerves. I humlbly accept any help in resolving this issue.
App Version: com.android.dialer 4.4.4-b2ebc9246e
When I enter phone numbers manually. The numbers are displayed with a grouping that isn't usually used in Sweden. I have tried changing the phones locale to everything imaginable, without any luck. Se below for an example:
Current grouping: "012 345 67 89"
Preffered grouping: "0123 456 789". OR "0123 45 67 89".
Even an option to disable the automatic insertions of spaces would be beneficial. e.g. "0123456789"
With stock, the number grouping would be correct if I used English UK. However, this new dialer doesn't seem to honor locale settings.
Last but not least: A humble answer to the sure to come question "why does it matter?".
I'm used to see numbers grouped in a certain way. Americans may be used to the "current" way of doing it. But alot of people aren't. And I'm really hoping that we can come to an understanding that options are ALWAYS good.
Thank you in advance!
Update:
So I've just determined that it's related to the automatic area code detector. e.g the number "0476- 22 22 22" shows correctly according to my wishes,. However, standard celnumbers are displayed as "070-322 22 22". With this in mind, I would very much like to disable this "feature"