Looking for an app to build a map (using gps) of towers, their locations, strengths, numbers, etc., for CDMA (Verizon).
About a month ago, we started having an issue with our local Verizon tower. We kept locking onto a tower about five miles away when we have a local tower less than a mile away.
After talking to Verizon about the issue, they decided to send me a Hybrid PRL to force us to lock onto the local tower. The local tower is an Alltel => Verizon tower.
After receiving the PRL, I've noticed several oddities... First of all, in FieldTrial.exe, regarldless of where I go, I always show my local tower number for SID - it never changes.
Regardless, I would like to map out area towers, their signal strength, GPS coorids, etc.
I've found a few programs that do this, but most either are for GSM phones or don't work on WM6.
Suggestions?
Thanks
The number you see for SID is not for a specific tower, its for your entire market, and will not change unless you go out of your city/town. You will not be able to access specific tower ID information with most CDMA phones, like you can with a GSM device.
earthtodigi said:
The number you see for SID is not for a specific tower, its for your entire market, and will not change unless you go out of your city/town. You will not be able to access specific tower ID information with most CDMA phones, like you can with a GSM device.
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Oh! I didn't know this... Obviously, I was mistaken in understanding SID's meaning. Back to the drawing board then...
Thanks
I've recently upgraded to WM 6.5 on my Sprint TP2 and I really liked the home screen with the weather. The fact that it automagically updated the weather city as I drove to work is very cool.
Did you notice the past tense in the above paragraph? Now it tells me the weather Beverly Hills and I can't get it to report on my home location.
From the weather application I've deleted all but my home location and turned off location services. Although I've deleted all locations except my home location, it still shows 2 weather locations from the forecast screen, one of them being Beverly Hills.
Do you have sense 2.1? I had the same problem, didn't know what town I was it kept telling me that I was in Espoo Finland lol. When I upgraded to 2.5 it solved my problem.
Hope it helps
How do I check what 'sense' I have?
I'll search the site for an update.
I'm sure this is my problem, I have a Sprint Airave at my house. This is from another forum.
I can answer this one! I'm a Sprint employee and am extremely familiar with the Airave.
The Airave broadcasts signal allowing your phone to have signal in an area where Sprint signal is not normally available. It does this by receiving a request from your phone, connecting to the Airave, and then then sending the request via your broadband internet connection rather than through a Sprint tower.
The problem you are experiencing is because of settings with your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Your location, often refered to geolocation, is set by your IP address (provided to you automatically by your ISP). ISPs often base IP addresses in a city where the company is basing operations. For example, I live in Indianapolis, Indiana, and use Comcast as my ISP. My IP address however is based out of Rockford, Illinois.
If you go to http://whatismyipaddress.com, you will see the city to which your IP address is set. The city listed at this site, I would assume, is the city you see on your phone as your current location.
As far as a fix, I don't have much in the way of an answer. If the weather application is the issue, you could always set a city, rather than using the automatic location setting.
I hope this gives you some insight as to why the problem exists.
For someone that works for Sprint, you are giving out a lot of bad information on their products. The Airave Geolocation is obviously NOT ISP based! The geolocation on my computers are all correct, well the location on my phone is not correct. That shows that it is not an ISP issue.
FYI, that Airave descriptions wasn't mine it was from an entry "Sense 2.5 My Location and Airave Issue" by jhworley under another topic.
In running some tests on my phone I'm getting more confused.
First of all WhatIsMYIPAddress shows my home computer being in Lansing, Michigan. Im on DLS and live in Okemos, a suburb of Lansing.
I went through all the combinations of Airave on and off, and the TP2 WiFi on and off, and WhatIsMYIPAddress on the phone always showed Wichita, KS. I did reload the page every time but maybe I should have done a hard reset to make sure it cleared everything.
Also, now the weather location the home screen of the phone is showing Okemos, not the previous display of Beverly Hills. I think what's going on here is that my phone is actually connecting through the local cell tower (which is usually marginal, hence the Airave) and Geolocating "Okemos".
It would be interesting to know when the phone (Sprint TP2) connects through the cell tower, Airave, or home WiFi. Can anyone tell me if the phone only does data connections thru the home WiFi, or will it do VoIP over the WiFi if available?
Thnx
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FYI, that Airave descriptions wasn't mine it was from an entry "Sense 2.5 My Location and Airave Issue" by jhworley under another topic.
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I knew that, but only because I was familiar with that (incorrect) post from another forum. They way you post it, without quoting or attribution, makes it look as if you're saying you wrote it. It's best to avoid that, because either other people's blunders are going to make you look dumb, or you'll be stealing other people's work.
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Can anyone tell me if the phone only does data connections thru the home WiFi, or will it do VoIP over the WiFi if available?
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VOIP uses a data connection. It doesn't care whether that's cellular data or WiFi. The phone does not come set up with VOIP, though. You have to install a VOIP application such as Skype.
Airave & Wrong Weather Time/Location
Maybe just coincedental, but when I started using my Airave this morning, my Homescreen on my TP2 now has the wrong city, about 10 miles away, and is frozen at US 8:07CST.
Maybe a coincedence.
mine does it randomly too, i just havce to input the location manually
Yeah, I called Airave and they said that in some cases it is a known bug and they are going to do an update at some point to correct it.
The moment I unplug my Airave I instantly get my updated local weather. Oddly, all the other major cities I keep on my Airave, such as Chicago, IL, don't have any update issues.
But, since I've got more bars on my phone than the Hershey Chocolate factory cranks out, I'll gladly put up with it. Sure beats 1 bar and dropped calls.
Hi all
I am having some weird problem with Google Map
when i use data plan provided by Maxis (my telco) the location that it shows is a few kilometers away from my actual position.
when i turn off the data usage and use my Wifi to open the google maps, it shows that i am off by 40m from my actual position
anyone got any idea what is causing the problem?
Sounds like your telco's not very good at finding your precise location.
I think wifi would always be more accurate. Wifi hotspots don't have much range, and there are a lot more of them than cell towers, so it's easier to know that you're within 40m of Starbucks WiFi #3828 than a particular cell tower.
In my home, with WiFi off and GPS off, the cell towers here usually report me a few blocks away from my house. With WiFi on, it puts me in my own backyard. With GPS on, it puts me in the correct room of the house.
Hello!
I am with gsm carrier who uses national roaming for his services. There are 4 carriers for calls but the internet services are availiable onle when the phone is connected to one of them. This internet services carrier has good signal in cities but almost no signal in the countryside. However, the other carriers have stronger signal usually. So the effect is that the phone connects usually to no-internet carriers, even in the cities. I have to change carrier manually to internet carrier but this is not a solution as I have to manually reconnect to calls carriers when outside of the city.
So my question is if there is a way (tool) to prioritize carriers or in other words to set rules for the phone on how to choose services carrier?
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The Google Now Weather card shows the wrong location most of the time. It looks like it is showing the location for the cell tower I'm connected to, not my WiFi. I have the location services set for battery saving which uses Wi-Fi and cellular networks. Even when I had it set for high accuracy which added GPS as a location source it still mostly thought my location was the cell tower I connect to. I have my home address set. How do I tell Google Now not to use the cell tower for my location since it is several cities away?
any luck with this? Mine recently began doing this as well. and strangely only for weather.
I live in Los Angeles, CA and it shows me weather for Sacramento, CA when i'm at home
No luck yet. It seems to be a little more accurate with lollipop but sometimes it still shows the city where the cell tower is.