How to force refresh intervall to connect on a new cell-id

[echelon75]

Hi,

I would like to know if there are any registry value to change or modify interval time to refresh the cell-id searching procedure more often.
I need to grab cell-id with my HTC and when I travel in a big town with a hight density of BTS antenna I can found some cell id but I think there are missing a lot of BTS because numbers of Cell-id is low.
For example in France on a highway, coverage is one BTS every 2-3 kilometers and in a big town I think it is more depending of the GSM traffic (maybe between 800meters and 2000meters)

Regards

Richard

[bo2k10]

Richard, your mobile checks a certain number of cells (towers not handset) in the millisecond internal range (GSM Standard); this is true for when your phone is idle as well as in dedicated mode (during call/data transfer). Number of cells it looks for it decided by the operator and depends on the cell plan. you cannot control how often this happens no matter what, you can however control what frequencies to check but you need special software and hardware for this.

I hope this explains it sufficiently as if tried to not be too technical in the details.