Cell id Command line

[wishme]

Hi All,
Is there a tool which can get Cell id and LAC from command line for it to be used by other apps

Say I have script (mortscript)
Then I can call <Cellid APP> and get Cellid location where the device is
Then take action based on the Cell id.

Idea is to track the phone and let the owner know where all the phone on a web page.

I go from HOME -> LOC1 -> LOC2 ->Office (everyday)
Incase phone shows a path HOME -> LOC1 -> LOCX -> <UNKNOWN> .. the send a TEXT(SMS)/update page etc ... to alert the users.

Kind of way to make your phone secure.

Any suggestion if it can be done with any exiting tools and mortscript etc ...

[wishme]

http://www.xs4all.nl/~itsme/projects/xda/tools.html
has something called riltest ...

riltest - dumps all kinds of info from the phone via ril

But the zip files does not have this file... Could any one let me know if this file is available any where else. :confused:

[wishme]

Ok Got a riltest from Another forum which does similar ... ALMOST....

what it can do is dump all to a LOG file ... I am using a Mortscript
1. Run the app
2. make app to dump logs
3. get the details from the file.
4. close the app.

Now loop this for with a sleep ...

But still looking for better way.. Attached is the file for anyone who is looking for similar stuff.

[onionfx]

Hi,
I too was looking for something in this line and ended up writing it myself.

Props to this chap for the code to get me started:
http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=241

Basically you call 'RilCmdLine.exe' with a parameter indicating what field you want. It returns the field as an int to MortScript (I think you need MortScript 4.3b1 or above?).

Supports LAC, Country Code and Cell Tower ID.

The zip includes a test mortscript - you may just need to edit the path to RilCmdLine.exe

(Source code on request. I may even support it :cool:)

Hope this helps!
onion

[wishme]

Hi
Thanks for the exe file. However I am unable to see any result when I run the exe/mscr on my mobile (HTC 3300 WM6). I did edit the path also executed from cmd line on mobile.

Also Mortscript RunWait and Run will not return any results as per the Mortscript doc. So the result has to be redirected to a file.

Could you please check and let me know if the exe is required to be executed with different parameters.

Thanks

[onionfx]

What version of Mortscript are you running?
I had to upgrade to 4.3b2 to get the return code from the exe.

Get it here
http://www.sto-helit.de/index.php?module=download&action=view&entry=125

In the notes for b1 mentioned the return code functionality being added.


Hope this sorts it for you

[wishme]

Perfect !! :) Thats works perfectly ... :) I updated to MortScript you have suggested.

Excellent Work !! ... Really good. Thanks man :)

Will it be possible that if I don't pass any Command line parameter ... Can I get all the values... Like CELL ID, LAC etc ..

[onionfx]

Glad you like it :)

Unfortunately you can get all the values at once (at the minute you can only return numbers from the exe, so there is no way to separate them).

My original idea is something along what you suggest - if I get that working I will post a new exe up here.

Thanks

[coyoteinventor]

Thanks onionfx! This is just what I was looking for as well. Trying to do something similar to what wishme said. ;-) The common profile switchers out there are not very useful to me because I'm more of in a rural area, and cell towers are farther apart, so my home and work cellid overlap sometimes, so I want to also take into account signal strength to see if I can fine tune it better. Will probably use Mortscript since it's the only thing I've learnt to code with for Windows Mobile.

I'm bookmarking this page to see if you eventually get the prog to output all in one line (and reduce the CPU churn of calling the same prog several times).

BTW, how about also returning nearby cells in order of signal strength? That would be awesome to fine-tune your location even more! :-P

Good work!

Cesar

[onionfx]

Doing some thinking about this :mad:

I can't see any way of returning all the values at once.
The C code can only return an int in the range -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647 and my CellID and LAC are 5 digits each so if they ever started with a digit greater than 2 I couldn't return it.

The 2 best options I think are writing another exe that dumps the data either to a file, or to the registry in a similar way as riltest above, but without the UI part.
Then write a script that could be included, and which has nice subs to access each parameter (or you are free to write your own script calls to do this).

I'm tending to the file as I imagine reading from the registry is a bit slower than reading the file (in one go and storing all the params as variables)?
Also I can do less damage if I use a dedicated file! :)

Anybody got any better ideas, or has a good reason to use the registry?


Goodnight ;)

[wishme]

Are we talking about GSM signal strength
REGISTRY entry: HKLM\System\State\Phone\Signal Strength (DWORD value)
More here: http://wiki.modaco.com/index.php/Windows_Mobile_5_Registry_Tweaks

Also is it possible to get all other the cellids at any point not the one phone is connected to ? I have not see any app providing this info.

Except for Google maps on mobile (without GPS) it uses triangulation technique to get the Latitude and longitude of a location with all cell id locations available. for this method to work we requires atleast 3 cell id.

Does RILCELLTOWERINFO gives details about other towers also ?

[howdykeith]

I wonder what the requirements are for the command line tool?

It locks up when I run it on my MotoQ smartphone.

[at45]

Supports LAC, Country Code and Cell Tower ID.

The zip includes a test mortscript - you may just need to edit the path to RilCmdLine.exe

(Source code on request. I may even support it :cool:)


I can't get this to work. I get "-1" for all 3 values. Anyone offer any reasoning as to why this may be? I believe my ROM includes .Net framwork, but I'm not sure how to check.

Thanks

[star5]

Basically you call 'RilCmdLine.exe' with a parameter indicating what field you want. It returns the field as an int to MortScript (I think you need MortScript 4.3b1 or above?).

Supports LAC, Country Code and Cell Tower ID.

The zip includes a test mortscript - you may just need to edit the path to RilCmdLine.exe

(Source code on request. I may even support it :cool:)

Hope this helps!
onion
Excellent work! Thank you! :)

[michoob]

Thanks onionfx for your contribution. I might need it for a use similar to the one described by wishme.